Blitz! Tournament - it's ON!!

Thurs 31 July 1:00pm (Aus UTC+10) = Thur 4am (UK UTC +1) , Wed 11pm (Canada/US UTC-4) and Wed 8pm (US UTC-7)

If you know anyone else who is interested - please let them know - as it is a one-off preliminary, people can elect to be involved right up until the start.
If you are competing - please make sure you are familiar with the rules and structure as outlined below.


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This is an individual tournament.

Room Parameters are as for Blitz – that is, the round stops once the word has been found. However, ‘time’ will be extended to 100 to allow more time to draw.

How it will work:
The tourny will consist of a preliminary round in which there is no limit to the number of players. The top 5 scorers from the preliminary round will contest the Final.

Preliminary Round:
4 games will be played in this round. Each player will play all 4 games and all players will play at the same time. The games will be played one after the other with a short break to calculate scores, and to allow players to ‘practice’ the next word list.

Wordlist:
The word list will be different for each of the four games:
Game 1: UK Easy
Game 2: UK Basic
Game 3: US Easy
Game 4: US Basic

Each player will draw once in each game. The total number of rounds in the game will equal the total number of players in the tournament.

Final:
The top 5 players will contest the Final.

The Final will consist of 4 games, one of each of the 4 word lists, played one after the other (with short breaks to tally scores etc).

Each player will draw twice in each game of the Final.

Scoring:

The actual scores from each game will be added together to form the final score for each player.

Where there is a tie

Where there is tie to get into the final - the person with the higher placing across the preliminary round will go through.

Eg: Players A and B tie for 5th place:

Player A UK Easy (1st) UK Basic (2nd) US Easy (2nd) US Basic (1st) - total rank = 6
Player B UK Easy (2nd) UK Basic (1st) US Easy (2nd) US Basic (2nd) - total rank = 7

Player A would go through as they have a better ranking overall.

If this does not break the tie, the person with the higher ranking in Game 1 (UK Easy) will go through. (continue to Game 2 etc until tie is broken).

Other rules:

No SKIPPING – you must attempt to draw your word. If you breach this rule, your final score for that game will be reduced by 10 points, and the total number of rounds in that game will be reduced by 1 so that no-one gets a second draw advantage.
No pressing DONE. (Edit: Heh - once the word is found, there is no DONE option in Blitz! anyway.... )
You may HINT.

So what do I do now?

Send me a PM to say you are interested in playing – either on this forum or on iSketch. Tell anyone you think might be interested and does not necessarily visit the forum to do the same. Once I have enough players, I can attempt to sort out the most convenient time for everyone involved.




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Original Post:

Tourny anyone?

I have some ideas, and am happy to run one, if enough people are interested



Edit/Update - I have been tossing around a few ideas for tournies since Dean ran the last one and have some that I think would be interesting…..I’ll give 3 options (just briefly described here to give you a general idea - I will post more detail on the chosen one once decided) and see which one generates the most interest.

1. Blitz! Tournament (individual) – 4 games, each with a different word list (UK Easy, US Easy, UK Basic and US Basic), but round ends after the word has been found, like in Blitz! Top 5 scorers play off in a final.


2. Surprise Tournament (individual) – 5 games, each with a different word list. Word List 1 is UK Easy, but the other 4 word lists will not be revealed until after each subsequent game.


3. Specialty Tournament (team) – Teams of 3 people with 2 team members representing their team in each game. 4 games with word lists taken from specialty rooms (eg phrases, movies – these would be decided prior to tourny and each team would nominate preferences). Can be played in heats and/or finals depending on amount of interest.

Let me know which one tickles your collective fancies

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I'm game

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I'm watching TF being game!

I probably won't be able to play. Too busy. But I know quite a few people have recently been asking if there was going to be another tourney.. so good job! :)

Oh! Maybe, baby - I'd like to hear your ideas!

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ready to help you out saff:P

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I'll arrange the mascots . . . . I have Cameron Ling and Frasier Gehrig lined up

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Genetically, paedophiles have more genes in common with crabs than they do with you and me. Now that is scientific fact. There's no real evidence for it, but it is scientific fact

I'm afraid I won't be able to make this one. Though all the best in organizing it!

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:O storm......I haven't even set a date!!
I know I know, its the thought of Cameron Ling and Fraser Gehrig that has scared you off, no?
How about if we invite Alistair Lynch instead

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the pink pig and the g train seem to be injured -retired, is that why they are available?

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Loool.

*thinks* Can you get this man too?

The thing is, I can't give you my word for any date/time until after September 20th. Presumably, the tourny will be over by then ;(

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What kind of tourney will it be??

Yeah, what sort of a tournament is it gonna be?

I was thinking of an admin vs best players tournament. We can play it in 'The Weakest Link' format. We must have an invisible admin who'll boot the weakest link after every game, one by one. Then the last man standing, admin or normal player, wins! Howzzat?

Can't wait... Hurry up Saffron!

All za best! :p

ILoveMaths07.

nice idea mathseh(:
but i'll still prefer playing by teams.
i've been waiting for this day as weeeeeeell :D

Yeah, but there must be this 'Weakest Link' thing to make it more exciting :P

Lol.. personally.. I think the weakest link thing would make it quite boring - if you're saying that the weakest player at the end of each round gets booted out. Because the other players wouldn't get to see the action in the room (that sounds terribly awful!).

That'll be boring when you get down to the last few left in the room :P

But.. if you changed your idea only slightly.. by having 10 rounds for example, and turning the 'weakest link' on 'away' mode at the end of each round.. then that could work. At least then everyone still gets to see what's going on :)

Hmm... Not a bad idea... Yeah, I think that's nicer... Booting would be fun too, but I totally agree with you. I'll be going 4 holiday on Aug 2, so it would be great if Saffron gets this done well b4 tht... HURRY UP SAFF!!!

weakest link? id like to see something like that, etc 10 players, bottom 2 drop out, and a new couple come in for the next round, more of a continuous thing though.

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That sounds more like a Royal Rumble than the Weakest Link

haha..yeh that crossed my mind too(being a royal rumble). but I stuck with weakest link..same sort of concept..

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(hi saff!)
i'm interested!

has anyone decided on a date? cause this is a tourny i so wanna see (even if i have to be quiet.)

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Geeze woman, give her a chance.

She only just suggested it!

lol fineeee XD sorry saff, didnt mean to rush you guys :P XD this will be a pretty amazing tourny anyways <3

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Illl watch(:
but...
(NH & Katie told me they want to be in the tourny) ;P

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lol you don't even know what the tournament(s) are/is about yet jenni!

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