Thoughts for a Top Gun Tournament

[Herr Straße Laufer]

Dug up an archived post:
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Jim Puff Memorial Top Gun Tournament Update

Due to our loss of Jim Puff some adjustments have been made.
Skyrider has graciously offered to withdraw from the tournament. He deserves much honor for this action. :tu:
Two matches have been changed to reflect the recent events;

Big Dawg [Allies] will face Don Fox [Axis].
Goodspeed [Allies] will face Hawk Kriegsman [Axis].

E-mail has been sent to all affected parties.

I will not presume to say that Jim Puff would have wanted to have the tournament continue. I just know that he would.
I do know he loved to play the Campaign Series and he enjoyed his membership in the club, along with the many friends he had here.

We all can honor him by playing on and naming our tournament after him so that future players will know him the way we all do.

He is our Top Gun.

Ed
Herr Straße Läufer
Assistant CS Ladder Custodian
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Re: Top Gun -First Scenario

KKR writes:

***Gevatter and I will be playing all optional rules ON. Is it necessary and/or desirable to standardise this across the tourney.***

Actually, the players can hammer out individual ROE's prior to starting their games.
If both players like 'armor facing off' that is up to them?
If they both play it that way then the match is even, player to player, for them? There will be a win, loss, or draw result across an even playing field between the two players.
It is round robin until the final two matches of the elimination round.

Unless you want a concensus of all the players in the tourney I have no problems with players working out individual ROE's amongst themselves?

If anyone would like it we can make a ruling on it? You all are the "best of the best" and we wanted you to be comfortable in not generating rules that you might not all agree to.
Most past rigid tourney rules were in place due to the number of relatively inexperienced players mixed with the more experienced ones.

If the other eighteen players would like to agree to the above KKR request, please let the tourneymeisters know?

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Re: Top Gun -First Scenario

Nah, round robin style is quite simple. The players who win play the winners of their matches in each round. The losers play the losers.
The pairings for the second match are based on the win/loss [ladder not tourney] so that the highest win/loss winners are matched against the highest win/loss winners and the highest win/loss losers are versus the highest win/loss losers.
Then the next winners face the winners and losers face the losers into the second round.

At the end of match number four the seeding to the final round will be the top four tourney players, in tourney points, face each other in final elimination. Ties will be broken by ladder highest win/loss.
Two of the four top players after the fifth match move on to the last match.

The winner of the sixth match is crowned the Top Gun.

The four matches of the first two rounds establish point totals. The last two matches of the third round eliminate players until a winner is crowned.
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Section I
Tournament Parameters

* The tournament is set up in three rounds of two scenarios each. The first two rounds will be in "round robin style". Players will be paired off based on their win/loss ratios. Winners of the first round play the winners of the comparable win/loss ratio from the first round. Losers play the losers in highest to lowest win/loss pairings.

* In the first two rounds points would be awarded for each game as follows;
Major win - 5 points
Minor win - 4 points
Draw - 3 points
Minor loss - 2 points
Major loss - 1 point

Note: In addition to the above points, the players will report the games as normal played games. So there will be winners and losers as well as points to gain for future placement.

* Players are expected to complete two to three turns per week. The selected scenarios have between ten and twenty turns each. Slow play and 'disappearances' will not be tolerated. If you have a problem during the tournament make sure that you contact the tourney meisters and your opponent. If a workable solution cannot be found to resolve the problem then your opponent will receive a victory of the highest order. [In the unlikely case of this happening the highest seeded loser will be selected to balance the tourney as it moves into the next round (unless it is the fourth match/game two of the second round.]

* The four players with the highest point total advance to the final round. They will be seeded by their point totals. Ties, in total points, will be broken by their win/loss percentage [ladder not tourney].

* The final round will be an 'elimination' round. In the final round the four top players will be paired by their tourney point totals, as listed above, highest to lowest. Winners move on to the final scenario. The winner of the final match will be crowned "Top Gun" and receive a badge and one hundred Ladder points.
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Section II
ROE's

* No units can be removed from the map.
* Non-combat transport units cannot be used to surround, block movement, block line of sight, or perform "recon" duties.
* ROE's not covered by the parameters and in the ROE rules section should be discussed with your opponent prior to play.
* Combat Ht ROE's should be discussed by the players prior to starting a game.
* Infractions, during the tournament, will be decided upon by the tourney meisters. Their word will be final.
* Tourney Meisters are Raven, T Mould, and Herr Straße Läufer.
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You may wish to contact your opponents to dicuss any ROE's that are not covered in the above ROE's?


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My thoughts on a new tourney.

2011 Ladder

Have:
10 or more reported games
500+ win/loss %
2k+ ELO
Played at least one game in the last 3 months.

Qualified players:

1) Jim von Krieg 1.00 2140
2) Theova .875 2168
3) FScout .850 2084
4) XLVIII Pz. Korp .809 2130
5) Tiger 88 .804 2216
6) Schwerpunkt75 .800 2119
7) Mike Abberton .791 2109
8) Oberst .777 2168
9) Big Dawg .736 2094
10) Larry Reese .735 2097
11) H .714 2057
12) Charlie-66 .702 2076
13) Ed .700 2105
14) Otto von Blotto .697 2088
15) Peiper .683 2162
16) Relayer .680 2096
17) RD_DeathDealer .677 2107
18) Rupert .656 2050
19) PawelM .625 2125
20) Fubar1 .625 2001

21) Hawk Kriegsman .622 2062
22) Tank Killer .616 2065
23) Deutscher Landser .615 2004
24) ernst .583 2031
25) Herr Straßen Läufer .575 2066
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Throwing out some thoughts. Anyone want to front this and host a linked sight to track the event? (There may yet be a link to Ravens old site. Not that we'd be able to do anything with it. But, it is a template for what could be done?)





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