[Official 2007 Game Design] Radical Tournament Ideas

[Tomasz Bania]

Originally Posted by Freddy Schurr

Well, I have an idea for the Championship Competition. I was thinking a field only for the Regional Winners/Finalists, that way the best of the best compete on one field and move to compete against the other divisions.

Also for the finals for regionals and championship, add an additional robot to a three team alliance. This would help bring more robots into play and create interesting matches.

Example

Quarterfinal Match 1

Red Alliance : 25, 195, 1114 ( Robot on the side: 204)
vs
Blue Alliance: 486, 365, 341 ( Robot on the side: 395)

Quarterfinal Match 2

Red Alliance: 25,204,195 (Robot on the side: 1114)
vs
Blue Alliance: 365, 341, 395 (Robot on the side: 486)

That sounds like a great way to do that 4 team alliance without making the field bigger, but could introduce some unfairness.

I Believe there should be three alliances of either two or three teams.
It would be an interesting twist as determining who's the winner could be harder depending on the game.

Tomasz Bania