OK, this has something to do with cartoons, so I decided to make it the third poll. I'll get right to the point.
OK, last June, I had a tournament called Thunder Under the Water. Basicially, what it was was a tourney of various cartoon characters in underwater combat in fights to the death. It had various characters from different shows/universes, like Darkwing Duck, Yogi Bear, and several Sonic characters, fighting in a normally unknown element to them with the full scuba gear and everything. Last year, Knuckles won the tournament after besting Tails in the final. Towards the end, I expressed the possiblity of making it a yearly event. Now, I'm gonna see if that becomes reality.
What this is is to determine public interest in the idea this year, particularly among folks who wasn't here the last time out. The tourney would start in June. What changes would there be from last year? Here are the most important ones:
1. Two separate divisions. One would be a 32 person field comprised of adult characters, like Darkwing and Yogi, for example. However, there would also be a 16 person field of 'juniors' or younger people, like the Chipmunks and Boo Boo. The Junior tourney would begin after the first round of Standard has ended.
2. No Sonic characters involved. There's too much bias towards these characters in general. I mean, how can you explain the all-Sonic final of last year?
How this would work is that I show the matches on tap, which will be two in each division once it has started, and I would give the place a couple of days, which will probably expand to three once both divisions are active, to vote on the outcome of the match. Then we'd just move on untill the rounds of 16 were completed, then take a week for intermission, then finish the tourney off.
Questions may be put in response to this thread, or sent to me at reta.lake@ns.sympatico.ca
Otherwise, if you are interested in seeing this idea materialize, please respond to this to indicate interest. Without sufficient forum interest, this thing doesn't get off the ground...
could they use weapons? It sounds funny, too. Boo-Boo getting revenge on Yogi for all the times he's gotten in trouble bacause of him.
Neo: *thinks of a sledgehammer* He he. *thinks it'd be pretty hard to use that underwater* Aww, man. *thinks of a harpoon* HE HE HEEEEE!!!!!
but i don't know how many other people would be interested, it is a Sonic Forum, and no Sonic char. allowed, i see your point on no Sonic, but i don't know what others see
But...
I don't really know if there's enough interest in just underwater things alone. My suggestion, to get the whole thing to work out, is to make several batches of fights in groups of 8.
Sort of like this.
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However, this lowered amount of characters means that you can have more catagories of matches! You could have a sorcery match, a mech match, an underwater match an anime match, and of course, you could have a seperate subcatagory match for sonic characters for the underwater theme because it's now alot smaller!
That way everyone will probably see something they like and it's much more likely to fly! Ooooh neat catagory idea! AIRIAL!
And of course, we could always have a minor in-house competition by putting in everyone's player (if they want, that is) into catagories themselves.
This is getting pretty complex, so... if it's going to work this way, we'd probably need other people to help with the planning. If this idea goes out well, I'll volunteer to run the Sorcery and Mecha matches, if used.
Well these have been my 101 suggestions! Thanks for listening in on KatsuneRadio 107.3 FM!
I'll keep it with the one theme. Remember, there was a tourney like this last year, and it was successful enough. Whether it happens this year or not, I still think it's a good idea.
However, your ideas are very good, and I do believe I will be keeping them in mind, and perhaps getting in touch with you in the future about them. Thank you very much for your input. It's greatly appreciated.
My uh.... 'picture' of how that would work seems to have gotten messed up (I know... I should have checked first) so I'll try to fix it here.
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OK, Boo Boo and Yogi are in separate divisions, so they'll never fight.
This is more of a general forum than anything else. Sonic is just a common ground for those that come here. So I doubt the no Sonic clause will affect things too adversely.
You heard me
You know I'm all for it.
Those of you that weren't here the last time, it kicked!
Trevor's got a good thing going here, folks.
I'll admit, I know next to nothing about this kind of stuff, so it's hard for me to know exactly what's going on with it. But I credit Trevor with this unique idea, and ever since he began it, I've found myself trying it time and time again, giving it my best opinion every time.
I like to think of it as an exercise of the mind, and it's a very interesting one that you won't find anywhere else. And because it's toons, you get to think AND have fun with it, too. I mean, hey, who doesn't love wargames in the water, yes?
It'll be a lot of fun, guys, you just wait and see.
Stay Way Past Cool!
Brian Sapinski
The Sonic Whammy
...just haven't gotten to say so yet because this forum hates me... ><
But I'm sure you're tired of hearing about that by now. 😛
-Duo
