Talcama Battle Royal

ArchMaster Poster Joined: Mar 10, 2008 Posts: 1999

The Talcama Battle Royal is back!

The Talcama Battle Royal has in the past had some of the biggest names in the game and I hope to see them all there again.

Next turn the BR starts!

These are the approved rules for the Battle Royals.

The Battle Royal is intended to be a play as you want, play what you want Delarquan style contest with very few rules. While I'd love to say, "NO AVOIDING" is the only rule (and that wouldn't be too far off), I must spell out situations that can and have occurred and require additional clarification.

The advantages of this format:
1) Simple.
2) No penalty for DA's.
3) No restrictions on warriors entered into the contest (baggers, TC mods, etc all welcome)
4) No penalty for not fighting.
5) It isn't a race where 21 wit and favorite learn determine the victor.
6) Losing a warrior (or even your whole team) doesn't eliminate you from contention.
7) It is possible to overcome almost any deficit. And this has been proven, with managers making huge point swings in short periods of time!
8 It is a contest designed to show manager skill rather than warrior ability.

There are a few disadvantages:
1) There is no set end. It is possible for this contest to go on indefinitely. In practice, this format has worked very nicely in the past and I expect it will continue to work well.
2) You cannot avoid (But that is part of the fun and the head to head nature of this contest requires this rule.)
3) It encourages bloodshed.
4) Baggers and experienced warriors have an advantage over new warriors.

Battle Royal Rules:

- Any team in Talcama is eligible to participate. There are no restrictions on warriors (baggers, TC prize modified, etc). However, any warrior that fights for your team is considered in the BR.

- Teams may not avoid any other team within the contest. (Note that you may avoid teams outside the contest but you do so at your own risk) Avoiding a team on the turn they enter the Battle Royal is not considered against the rules (since you couldn't know the team wasn't part of the BR). The suggestion is not to avoid at all. Tripwire (the contest moderator) gets an avoid report every turn and will catch people avoiding!

- Managers may only enter a single team in the contest.

- Any manager with more than one team in Talcama may not challenge any other contest warrior with their non contest team(s). The intention is that no advantage can be gained by having multiple teams in the arena.

****Failure to comply with the above rules***
1st offense: Disqualification from the prize, but you may still participate.
2nd offense: Warning.
3rd offense: Removal from Battle Royal.

- If a manager decides to switch teams, his score will start back at 0. This is to prevent a manager from sweeping the contest with several teams of sandbaggers. Can a manager use this clause to go from a negative score to zero? Yes. I realize this is sort of cheating, but I'd rather have a manager start over with a new team than drop out of the contest. Even so, they have to start at 0 and must gain 25 points.

- If your warrior loses a contest fight because of an input error and this error is verified by RSI, you will have a point added to your score. The head to head records will remain the same and any points gained by another manager will remain on that manager's record.

- As soon as you are announced in the newsletter, you are officially entered into the Battle Royal. Scoring begins on that turn! You are expected to follow the rules that turn and every turn following. Your team may enter any time they wish during the course of the Battle Royal.

- If you are exiting the Battle Royal, you are not removed until the turn after your intention is published. You are asked to follow the rules for that turn (either through not avoiding or not running your warriors)

Scoring:
- Scoring begins the turn your team declares participation.
- Scoring continues through the turn your team withdraws.
- Score is calculated by: Wins+Kills-Lossses.
- Only fights with other B.R. participannts count towards your score, but they count whether they are challenges or random match-ups.
- First Manager to 25 points wins!
- In event of tie, B.R. continues until one team that has reached 25 points is ahead of all other participants.

Disputes:
- The attempt has been made to make these rules as complete and bulletproof as possible, but Tripwire will resolve any disputes as fairly as he is capable.

The Prizes : http://www.reality.com/duel2/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=4155&sid=57b267c278c91e46fd5ee1f1f2c6d4da

ArchMaster Poster Joined: Mar 10, 2008 Posts: 1999

Spread the word folks! Try to get the big named teams from past contests involved.

Here is Assur's website so you can see some past scoring. Its still up and running. I doubt I will have anything as elaborate but I will try to be as accurate as possible.

http://www.geocities.com/assurnasir/br4/

ArchMaster Poster Joined: Apr 15, 2004 Posts: 2958

I'm in, of course.

Posted: Fri May 01, 2009 3:33 pm

i too am in.

my team "Krank" will crank back up on T-614.

looking forward to it...

ArchMaster Poster Joined: Mar 10, 2008 Posts: 1999

Looks like only 1 new team showed up and that was mine in DM 18. Maybe peoples teams were already prepped for the contest? Only 5 more turns to get warriors prepped for the summer face!

Advanced Expert Poster Joined: Apr 19, 2009 Posts: 108

im in as well..not sure what i have for a team.but i will get something together.

Posted: Mon May 18, 2009 10:12 pm

Might want to send another short all arena ad letting those non onliners the intended start time!

ArchMaster Poster Joined: Mar 10, 2008 Posts: 1999

Street_Legal wrote:

Might want to send another short all arena ad letting those non onliners the intended start time!

Will do, I sent a full all arena add. I will send another reminder add as well.

ArchMaster Poster Joined: Mar 10, 2008 Posts: 1999

1 Turn Left to prep for the Summer Face, the turn after Turn 619 the Battle Royal will begin!

Posted: Thu Jul 02, 2009 3:59 pm

I'm declaring myself officially "in" this contest. It's also my first contest ever, so I'm looking forward to it!

ArchMaster Poster Joined: Mar 10, 2008 Posts: 1999

Make sure you announce IN the DM 18 newsletter.

Posted: Sat Jul 04, 2009 8:32 pm

Totally missed the 47 turn, not gonna' do maintenance, my team here should run and I declared and somehow called it Royal Rumble so please forgive the mistake a properly named declaration should be made by email soon.

BLAH<BLAH I KNOW

The Grateful Undead have awoken and should be there next turn!

ArchMaster Poster Joined: Mar 10, 2008 Posts: 1999

5 days till the start! Post your personal add announcing your team!

Posted: Sun Jul 19, 2009 7:58 pm

I'm going to see if I can scrape up the funds to come join this (scrape up funds means beg the wife for an extra $20 per month for gaming).

Advanced Expert Poster Joined: Apr 19, 2009 Posts: 108

My team ski-bum 18 is in for the contest. I sent in personals with my turn sheets and via the ads link here on the site.. hopefuly i make it in from one source a least. best of luck all...except when you fight my guys..then die.
ski-bum