Originally posted by Scoobless
I see some teams have already started wearing tourney related sigs ... Digi seems to have opted for re-using and oldy rather than applying himself and aiming for a full team pic.
so, when are you gonna make US a team sig . . .? 😛
scratch that--i'm remembering that big foot sig . . . shock
Originally posted by Scoobless
I see some teams have already started wearing tourney related sigs ... Digi seems to have opted for re-using and oldy rather than applying himself and aiming for a full team pic.
I'm waiting for the right moment. In the meantime, good-looking old sigs >>> awful-looking new sigs. And I've seen the work you and leo do when I'm not around. It's not pretty.
K, so it's odds-making time:
Justification: History favors those with the most experience, and common sense favors those with the most past success. Those two, experience and past success, are good general indicators, mixed with a handful of "eyeball" judgments made about draft picks. As such, this tournament isn't hard to gauge in terms of favorites.
Blair/Smurph boast 4 tourney finals between the two of them (though had ill's last tourney finished, 1-2 more would've likely been added). Scoob/leo, psychotically enough, have 8 to their names. The rest of the tourney has 1 (myself), though between ill's and Evangel's last, I'd also like to think 1 more would've come out of it had the situations not gone foul for various reasons.
KFish is the newest member competing. Unknowns winning a tourney aren't unheard of (Blair, for example, achieved his first win amidst a much more decorated field), but will have the longest odds simply due to inexperience and historical precedent for newcomers.
The rest all have varying levels of experience and success (Charlotte, fangirl, Kandy/id). I'm humble enough to include myself far closer to this group in terms of success than the more decorated teams, but between hosting, judging, and participating, my experience with tourneys is matched perhaps only by Scoob, who is entering his 9th tourney, iirc.
General opinion leans slightly toward Scoob/leo's draft picks, but I take such opinions with a grain of salt, knowing that nearly all of our initial perceptions are proved wrong once battles start. Still, that will break any potential ties and make them our favorites. Starting odds will be 7/1, since that's how many teams there are. Improvements or subtractions will be made from that base.
Vegas Odds:
Scoob/leo - 5/1
Blair/Smurph - 6/1
Digi - 7/1
Kandy/id - 8/1
Charlotte - 8/1
Fangirl - 9/1
AlmightyKFish - 10/1
Personally, I think Digi at 7/1 is a steal. But that's me.
😉
It should be noted that free agency means that the current teams can and probably will change during the course of battles. This is a variable that cannot be easily accounted for in odds, since we cannot judge draft picks that have yet to be made, so a lot of this may change as battle progress.
Originally posted by Sin I AM
how do u join a tournament
Be around for signups. Most tourneys have a period of "interest gathering" and such (this tourney's lasted a few weeks, for example) prior to drafts when anyone can express an interest in joining.
KMC is to tourneys like Studio 54 is to backstage sex, so there'll be another one in probably 6 months or so, then periodically throughout the years. So you missed this one, but there will be plenty of opportunities in the future if you're interested.
I personally miss the time when we had less tourneys, and had a signup day like we do for drafts, with people eagerly waiting in line to post their entry, and we had to turn people away from 16-person fields. Interest is not quite so saturated anymore, so if you're interested you'll rarely, if ever, be turned away unless it's once drafts are over or battles have started (as is the case here).
In the meantime, reading through matches and such is a good way to acquaint yourself with tourneys. You've been here since '06, so I'd assume you're familiar with the respect thread and various past tourneys. Any of those are good resources, as will this one be.