Exciting Tournaments

[Chris Walden]

On 23 Nov 96 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. 

But, Savien, that would mean that most people wouldn't get to show 
their stuff.  How can one progress in the fighting community without 
a captive audience?  :-)

Actually I like this idea.  It would make a drastic change in how we 
viewed our tournaments and the prize fighters.  It would also require 
those of us who often didn't make it into the winners circle to come 
up with some different motivations for our fighting.  But I can 
picture tournaments that are better enjoyed as a spectator sport with 
a more period point of view.  I can also picture people allowing 
their fighting skills to grow for personal improvement and skill more 
than purely for public display.

Do we have any local tournaments coming up where we could put this 
into playtest?

Antoine