Trying to plan a Records of Ragnarok style of tournament for the wiki, only one problem

[Naito-desu]

How can I guarantee all participants get to fight? The anime has the benefit of pre-determined story telling, but if I made the same format here at random, there's no real guarantee that the fight will result in all participants being able to fight. Here are the rules I've drafted:

• 13v13 tournament decided by a series of 1v1 matches
• Maybe allow certain members to intervene in a match
• Takes place in the same arena

 

[Peppersalt43]

How can I guarantee all participants get to fight? The anime has the benefit of pre-determined story telling, but if I made the same format here at random, there's no real guarantee that the fight will result in all participants being able to fight. Here are the rules I've drafted:

• 13v13 tournament decided by a series of 1v1 matches
• Maybe allow certain members to intervene in a match
• Takes place in the same arena

Equalize stats. Didn't they essentially give the human champions an item to allow them to take on the Gods? Do the same thing, it'll just be a fun and games thing. It also means that the matches will be determined by skills and abilities

 

[StekFence]

Equalize stats. Didn't they essentially give the human champions an item to allow them to take on the Gods? Do the same thing, it'll just be a fun and games thing. It also means that the matches will be determined by skills and abilities

Hax lords arise

 

[Peppersalt43]

Hax lords arise

Yes, why not. Though to be fair, would it mean that resistance and hax layers also be equalized?

 

[StekFence]

Yes, why not. Though to be fair, would it mean that resistance and hax layers also be equalized?

then it’s just who has a hax the other guy doesn’t have any resistance too. So it would still be hax lord central

 

[Naito-desu]

Equalizing stats still doesn't guarantee everyone gets to fight because random chance can possibly make it such that the the better fighters go first against the worst

 

[Peppersalt43]

then it’s just who has a hax the other guy doesn’t have any resistance too. So it would still be hax lord central

Then characters who specifically exist to adapt to hax like Doomsday and SCP-682 would end up reigning supreme

 

[Peppersalt43]

Equalizing stats still doesn't guarantee everyone gets to fight because random chance can possibly make it such that the the better fighters go first against the worst

If a character is so much better that they stomp a character to the point that a fight doesn't exist, one of those fighters shouldn't be in the tournament

 

[Naito-desu]

That's such a vague description of what isn't allowed in a tournament and absolutely not what I'm worried about. I'm worried about one team winning too prematurely and which won't allow the latter parts of the team to fight and participate

 

[Peppersalt43]

That's such a vague description of what isn't allowed in a tournament and absolutely not what I'm worried about. I'm worried about one team winning too prematurely and which won't allow the latter parts of the team to fight and participate

Oh that's what you're worried about, alright

What if you split the contestants to 2 teams at random. At every round a random fighter from either team would be selected for the match, preferably in turns (So for example, team 1 gets a randomized pick and the next round, team 2 gets a randomized pick). The opposing team can then decide on which of their contestant fights said fighter at the cost that chosen fighter being unusable in a future fight.

 

[Naito-desu]

Hm, we can try that

 

[Peppersalt43]

Hm, we can try that

Can a single person nominate a contestant for both the Gods and Humans or can we only nominate for 1 side?

 

[Naito-desu]

I'd prefer there be teams between users, so I might reduce the number of participants

 

[Peppersalt43]

Also, are you gonna make the tournament thread here or are you gonna make a brand new separate thread?

 

[Naito-desu]

New thread, this is mostly just to iron out details