Jim Hunter
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Human. Don't mess.
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It might be (bear in mind I've not bothered to check past tourney set-ups), to give people more of a chance to write a fight, and perhaps a win. If your fighter is rubbish, then with a standard tournament a la the FA Cup, you could be going home with sod all to write about, especially if Pezzle/Taylor is your first round opponent. With seven matches and one to a day, the thing is streched out a lot more, but assuming people actually respond to write ups, that time could be needed. If K'Hare posts the results of round two just as I go to bed at 10pm GMT, and my opponent (lets say Clawson) posts part of a write up within a couple of hours whilst I'm sleeping, that'd be okay for them, but I wake and head straight to work, where even with a half day I don't get in till 1pm. By that time, round three's already been posted, and my next opponent might have posted the first part of my next round up as well. a 24hr schedule is the only way to make sure everyone's got the same amount of time to respond (during decent hours).
It's also worth noting that people such as Taylor/Pezhead/Bremer may subconciously see phase II simply as an obstacle that needs to be dealt with before the tournament proper can begin, so might take less interest in it and just wait for the final rounds where instead of a'noN they'll face up against people they know from within the fleet.
Whilst I intend to keep Hunter around IC till the end, people such as Patrick Gage or I, again may see Phase II as their only activity at the tourney, so will take more interest in it. There are a lot more and probably will be even more people in the future that get knocked out in Phase II than make it to Phase III, so in theory, it should be the bulk of the tournament activity OOC. To cut it down then, doesn't seem to make much sense even in an OOC sense whereby the seven rounds are posted more frequently. If I have a double shift at work, I could easily miss three, perhaps even four rounds if they're on a 12 hour schedule, and if I'm only having my character attend so I can improve my combat writing, that's a big loss.
It doesn't really matter who wins the tourney IC, but if you get knocked out early, you've got less to post about than the last 16, even if you involve yourself in bar chat. I think then, that this setup is a good thing, if ultimately designed for more responses than there have been.
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