Exciting Tournaments
Matthew R. Popalisky
mpopali at comp.uark.edu
Mon Nov 25 16:44:38 PST 1996
On Sat, 23 Nov 1996, James Crouchet wrote:
> 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.
>
Sounds like a plan to me!
Kateryn
Grimfells
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