Good evening, gentlemen!
Right then, lots of good conversation going on, let's keep this thread as a brain storm session for ideas for this tournament before I (or traditionally O!nk) set up a proper thread with a first page post as reference.
I've finally got myself into the right mindset now and am fully up for organising this lovely shin-dig of ours again.
And this time I will be purely organising; it will be the first tournament since I started attending (from the 2nd one) that I won't be playing games in as well. I felt after the last one, with me not only adding in extra rules, upping the points limit but also losing organisational help on the day from a few key members it was just too much of a struggle to do all of it and I always feel gutted I don't get to wander around and watch the games anyway, so in all respects it will make the day run a lot smoother and I will also have just as much fun (and less stress!).
Things I'm going to lay the law down with:
It will be four games. Four games gives us a clear winner, three often does not.
1750 for all four is possible with me just organising but I'm flexible with variable points limits as it is a push.
I will try and do something about the scenery issue so don't think of this as a limiting factor as this point. It could be worth discussing if we add a pound or two to the entry cost this could help to cover additional scenery costs as a last resort. Scenery is on the club's agenda every time we meet so don't think it isn't something we aren't aware of.
With me just organising it gives a lot of room to make it more fun, and possibly more complicated if we are that way inclined -- bear in mind at the moment I currently organise the entire tournament in our 15 minute breaks between games, so having two and a half hours gives me a lot more time to do behind the scenes stuff.
The achievement system went down very well last time despite it was sprung on you all on the day. Expect me to spring some secret, fun and minor influencing scoring system on the day again.
With that new information available, continue discussion!