Partners are fun if you get someone who's competent (read: does all the work).
But in all seriousness, I wouldn't mind going partnered and non amalgamed. I just thought of a three man combo I'd like to try out that works either way.
I'm still saving my 2-to-a-team Sub-Skyfather tourney for a special occasion.
Everything would be permissible. Time manip., matter manip, speed force, all of it. Auto-shields allowed pre-match but no prep. It would be insane, and awesome, because no one could complain about loopholes.
I'd host that sh*t though. I have no idea what I'd do if I entered. Probably draft The Doctor and get my ass whupped.
Yuck. Make it non-amalgams and/or partners. Too powerful otherwise...it would end up as a Skyfather-esque tourney and would lose the feel of high meta in a hurry with amalgams. Because off the top of my head I can think of 3-characters amalgams that could challenge high heralds, and that's not even with a lot of thought.
Thanks. I'd actually be willing to host it pretty much whenever. But it's always been kind of a niche thing, not something a ton of people have expressed interest in despite being something brand new in terms of power levels.
Kandy - As an add-on to my above post, you might also consider something like 4 total drafts, and have 2 amalgams of 2 characters. I still feel like you'd have to limit prep to almost nothing if you wanted to keep it below high herald, but it might be a good way to blend your desire for amalgams without getting too outlandish.
High Meta amalgams have never been that bad. I mean, what's the worst that ever came out of that combination... big foot in darth's, and king of hell spawn in delph's. Neither of those I see as being too dangerous, and the second one was really sketchy anyway.
I had a fair number of judges convinced I had Death's Head II turned into a High herald+. And I lost, so there was even more going on in that tourney. There's also some diabolically easy cheats to herald level like Reed Richards + Warlock (Technarchy). Again, this is before a ton of forethought. Besides the fact that if you take the right 3-4 strengths in particular characters, you have mid-to-high herald without any actual amping through the amalgam. Unless there's all kinds of restrictions placed on characters, herald-busting level is going to be a minimum to compete in such a tourney.
It would be fine either way. I just think amalgams are done to death. And you get the same level of characters without the insane risk I mentioned.
That's one of those things that seems like fun to an observer, but sucks for those competing. It was tried once, if memory serves, where partners were constantly changing. But then the championship had to be 1-on-1, so it had to switch formats mid-tourney in order to fairly determine a winner.
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