Exciting Tournaments

[James Crouchet]

> The fact is that all tournaments, in all of our combat styles have
> the potential to be deadly dull.  It's one fight after another with
> little pomp and circumstance and an endless stream of fighters.  The

I have an idea: what if we split the fighting into two activities, the 
elimination (or qualification) portion and the finals. The qualification rounds 
could happen off to the side without the expectation that everyone would watch, 
and the final, say, 8 people could fight the finals in front of everyone. This 
makes all kinds of twists available, like having a noble sponsor each fighter 
in the finals, or doing the full heraldry thing, or presenting each fighter to 
the crown, etc. Those last few rounds are what folks who don't fight that style 
really want to see anyway. Watching 150 fighters work out their rankings gets 
dull no matter what the fighting style.

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