Yavatol wrote:As far as the side-tourney discussion. I think it is best to concentrate on the team-based clash first. The side-tourney is a nice gesture but for the Eurobowl it failed to take off, as only 3 or 4 people (all from the UK) showed up that could play in it. I do not expect it to be very different for the World Cup.
Hmm, I have to say I totally disagree with this way of thinking. I think that as it is going to be a 4 day event then there is alot of room to make everything about the entire event attractive to players, regardless which games they are playing.
What I'd personally love to see happen is the first couple of days a huge get together of as many coaches as possible, all playing guys from a different country or at least opponents they do not normally play. You could have four games and then the NTO's should be able to nominate a number of players (8-10?) from there country to go forward to the last two days of World Cup play-offs.
This would hopefully leave a large group of gamers who can then vote on what format of competition
they want to play in;
A different type of BB each round (Dungeonbowl/BB7's/Junglebowl/whatever)
or
A more standard BB tourney with the end match a Death Match
or
A standard set of tourney rules
When this is sorted out they can play for 'The London Cup' (or whatever city the event is held in).
Obviously this is a less prestigious event but it is still a cool set of games that people will want to play for and win. The simple incentive of making the World Cup count as a Major and counting the London Cup as normal NAF rankings will be enough to distinguish the two events but they will still both be great fun.
Then, in four years time the secondary comp could be the 'Paris Cup' or where-ever and I know I would definately want to travel abroad knowing that, even if I don't do well enough to qualify for the World Cup, I still get to play in a fun tourney that
could be in a different format to the normal tourney. Just my two pennies worth...
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