While interesting not everyone has the same access to comics as others. Getting picks you did not want would make everyone unhappy in the end. I wouldn't participate, personally speaking, because I take drafting choices a lot more serious than most.
This happened once before, but I think that partnering between all contestants for one match each is still an interesting idea - random selection as to who gets teamed up for one match and then winners get re-aligned again. Then your partner from the last match can be your enemy in the next match.
Forces you to use team-work and still keep secrets to yourself. Strategy, team-work, hidden tactics, and shrewdness all in one tournament.
A variation could be that you have no access to your high level character until the proverbial ding of the bell, while you get some prep time with your other characters.
My plan for a tourney was building random situations before hand, randomly select them among fighters and pit them against each other without previous knowledge of the situations. For example, you could have a combat in which powers are automatically off, others in which speed is capped at human reaction, where the weaker you are, the stronger you are etc.
It was a crazy, uneven and pushy idea, but it could lead to funny drafts.
I want to do that. I want to make a tourney where people go in completely blind when the date comes. Don't know what team their opponent has, where the battle takes place, or who they'll face.
That means they'll have to debate purely on the merits of their own strategy, and can't prep against the opponents, and it encourages solid rounded choices.
Obviously, the picks would be posted, but you wouldn't know who picked what until you were actually in a match.
Something similar to that was done in DGs tourney (where drafts were anonymous), but once everything was drafted the amalgams were revealed, and you knew who was facing who. In Leo's tourney, iirc, you didn't know who would face who, but you did know who had what pick. So I don't think there's been anything totally anonymized yet.
Yeah, one of the tourneys I hosted featured anonymous drafts. I'd post who was picked, but not who picked them or who else they were paired with. Potentially fun for participants. Awful for the host.
Not true at all. I can think of plenty of low metas who would make a high meta or low herald much more formidable with amalgamation.
Besides, I think all the fun would be in finding what low powered tweaks you can give your guy to maximize damage. Like normal tourney amalgams, but less potential for insanity, and closer competition.
The way I envision the tourney going is you have a choice between a certain amount of prep time or amalgamation but you can't have both. That way you can't do something crazy like amalgamate Batman with Marvel Ares and Classic Quicksilver and give the resulting amalgamation all of Bruce's standard gear and a half hour's prep time.
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Meh. Prep leads to insanity. I like the idea more of just giving a limited amount of prep, and then allowing for a three character amalgam consisting of one higher tier and two lowers. Maybe even two low metas, rather than one low meta and one street.
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