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I can't really discuss that without revealing some incredibly broken picks. But suffice to say, there's some very powerful characters with tricks that are unique or hard to defend against in anime/manga. Some of them are one trick ponies, but the one trick is very good.
For an example; a few years ago during one of Delph's tournaments. I picked up someone named Jotaro Kujo. Look him up. I had to use some very sneaky reasoning and forfeit rights to use certain feats to get him in. I WILL be looking for people trying to do that. So if you want to try something like I did, you'll have to convince me.
And given that I am the forum champion of sneaking dubious picks into tournaments semi-legally, , you're welcome to try. I did try to get the Worlogog in prep, afterall. So I have a fair idea what to look for.
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Hank with rings is a good one though if you get it approved. GL powers for all! Suddenly, like, Batman becomes a valid pick. That kind of "he shouldn't belong here but I'm making him" stuff always amused me to no end.
Tech is your biggest worry in a high meta tourney though, inamilist. Reed + a technomorph and maybe a telepath, and you're about 30 seconds of prep away from universe-busting battles.
I remember using Joker briefly in delph's "change characters every round" high meta tourney. Everyone was like "**** it's the Joker. What's Digi doing with him?!" I assume they were prepping against some sort of Joker-insanity-to-empathic-attack route (which, admittedly, sounds quite awesome now that I think about it). Anyway, it was a complete bluff, entirely to mess with everyone. I had some hearty laughs though, and hopefully wasted a few opponents' time.
This independent analysis would disagree with you.
Anyway, on topic, I think adding in underused characters with "prizes" is an interesting play. I have a few characters in mind that might be useful, though I may just give that information out to anyone who PM's me wanting characters. I can be a resource for that at the least, just shoot me a PM.
Edit: Prep time can go up to 35 minutes with a theme/never used comic characters and 30 minutes theme/never used manga characters?
A spirit attack that a character has a reasonable chance to block against would be fine.
Some rare form of spirit energy that seems to really only exist in a manga universe would be banned anyways, same with unblockable spirit attacks. Chi or similar would be acceptable, as it is something you could reasonably expect to see in the fight.
I'm hoping to leave it open enough that we get some of those picks. It is the intent
the limit is mid-high herald
tech that would bust the universe would violate the spirit of the rules and would be banned already. That much power is clearly above the limits. No tech can be more powerful than the limits.
drafting will be done in public, though anonymously. All fourm members have the ability to raise concerns with each draft, and in the end, final say is mine.
but ya, if there is a draft that you see is clearly above the limit, PLEASE banhammer it!
Prep is 5 min regardless, unless a player is penalized for missing a draft, then they have no prep.
Drafting all three characters from the same theme earns and additional 15 min of prep
Drafting characters that have never been used gives you 5 min per character, and an additional 5 if all of your unused characters are from comics.
So, with a theme you have 20, with a theme and non-comic characters you can have between 25-35 if there are 1-3 unused characters, and with all comic characters that have never been used before, you can have and additional 5 min, maxing at 40. With no theme, it would be 10-20 min with non-comic characters, and a max of 25 with comic characters
I flipped it around, because the point of the tournament was to promote never used characters, which manga and other forms of non-comics fit. I removed the "all three unused" bonus if any characters are from a non-comic source, because it is much easier to find them than comic characters.
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not this time. digi and i had fun though. my utter disdain of anime and manga shall keep me from entering this. sounds interesting though. i'll be curious to see how many enter.
one tiny little word of advice if i may to inimal--open time limits on matches NEVER work. far better to set a limit of posts and a timeframe in which to post. 1 week or 7 posts, for example. it would also keep teams from overwhelming individuals with blitz posts, and it keeps the tourney moving along. delays in judging and long matches inevitably lead to the death of a tournament. judges should also be given a timelimit in which to post judgements. in my tourney, the judges were exceptional at getting judgements in and it kept the tourney rolling. i had about 15-20 individuals lined up to judge, so rotating them helped a lot and they didn't mind getting votes in promptly.