Exciting Tournaments

[Dwayne Hope]

James Crouchet wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> Savein
I like it :)  Sounds like a wonderful way to make it more exiting. 
Wouldn't hurt my feelings any to see this done.

			Brendan