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League of Leagues - Reboot

Editorial by Louie DePalma

 Are you bored with the game? Do you feel you need a spark to get your interest level back up? Do you like to be creative and outspoken? Do you like a challenge? What better way to challenge yourself then in a 64 man free for all! This is the tourney for you!! The League of Leagues - Reboot is in the sign up phase and there is plenty of room for your name! Currently we are almost halfway to our goal of 64 entries, and our Prize Pool continues to grow!!  We are closing in on $10M for the winner of this amazing Tourney!!  Please see below for more information on this tourney. If interested in joining please either contact Louie DePalma (17180) via in game mail or post your interest in the following forum thread!

http://www.mmatycoon.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=62544

Here's how it works.

- This will be a creation tournament. All fighters must be 25 years old. If you have any opinions, feel free to post it in the thread. Fighters must be created during the timeframe that will decided on once we hit our participation number, the creation window will be one week. Any managers who have not created a fighter by the end date could be removed from the tournament (at my discretion).

- All fights will take place in a city yet to be determined. This will be decided based on arena availablilty and centralized for easy access by all fighters. Fights will take place in the 265+ lbs division. You can make a fighter of any height and any weight, it's up to you but we will be fighting within the 265+ division.

- Please come up with interesting names / backstories for your fighters. This is not a requirement but it would make the tournament a lot more fun.

- Ideally there will be 64 fighters. If we enjoy more participation interest over the next few days we will look at increasing the size by increasing total fighters per league. On the flip side we can look at a smaller tourney if interest does not hit our 64 target however that would decrease the prize pool that will be available.

- There will be 8 leagues (or groups) of 8 fighters each. Each fighter will fight the other fighter in their group once. A win gets a fighter 3 points, a draw 1 point and a loss none. A NC or not accepting your fight results in -3 points. Fights will be once a week so I suggest you remember to tick that injury hidden. You will be expected to fight regardless of how bad your injury is.

- At the end of the group stage, the top two fighters from each league will advance. This will be based on total points for all the fighters. In case of a tie, the winner will be decided on the bases of things (in the following order): Wins, Head-to-Head Record, Fastest Finish (in the tournament, thanks to the EPL for this tiebreak idea). In the off chance that they are magically even in all these categories, things will be decided on a fight between the two of them. If somehow they end up drawing in that fight, I shall toss a coin to see who goes on, most probably after punching my computer screen in frustration. In total, we will have 16 fighters qualifying by this method. These fighters will get a one week break before the next round of the tournament. 

- 4 more fighters from the unqualified ones will be selected by me. This will be based on my own opinions and will factor in a variety of factors like: performances, hype/pop, activity (on the forums), etc. So hell, if there is a fighter who constantly posts interviews and makes this tournament fun, I'd be likely to pick him. 4 other fighters will be picked from a poll on the forums. This poll will start being conducted a week before the final result of the tournament. These 8 fighters will fight each other for a spot in the final 20.   - The remaining 20 fighters will then participate in the second group stage, which consists of two 10-person groups. They'll fight each other in the same format as before and the top 4 from each group will go on and fight in a knock-out format to ultimately decide the winner.   - Do understand that this is not a short tournament. The first round will take 7 weeks with a week break in between and then another 9 weeks and knockout rounds a week each. The total time for the running of this tournament would be 20 weeks. Only if you are interested despite knowing how long it'll last should you join.   - Contracts will be for something like 24 fights at 1000/1000 to begin with (I may reconsider this, still need to mull it over.  Some fighters will end up being out of the tournament way before their total fights. If this happens, we will happily release them or re-neg them to a regular contract whereby they can continue fighting for a little in the org.   - The prize pool will drop by 30k for every fighter that drops out and be given to the person who agrees to make a replacement for that fighter. If no replacement can be found, 50k will be taken out of the prize pool. This is kept in effect so people think twice before signing up and then again before thinking of skipping out on the tournament. You will get a bad rep from a pool of 60 managers if you run out on the tournament.   - PLEASE REMEMBER THAT YOU HAVE TO ACCEPT A FIGHT EACH WEEK AND FIGHT EACH WEEK. THIS TOURNAMENT IS NOT FOR PEOPLE WHO MAY/MAY NOT BE ABLE TO BE THAT ACTIVE.   All that aside, the idea behind this whole tournament is to:   - have frequent, interesting fights. - have a shot at winning a huge purse plus other prizes. - be on an "even" playing field with other managers. fighters will be new creations and thus, weekly matchups will be very interesting. i doubt many fighters will truly be able to dominate the entirety of the tournament. - most importantly, have a good time while doing all of this.   Hell, ideally, I'd love to see people take interest in this and have an opportunity to do weekly smacktalk / interviews etc with their fighters in this.  

 

I treat this like a community project. If you like the idea and want to help organize, run, fund, hell whatever you want with it, message me and we'll make it happen. I'd love if people would like to sponsor more prizes. A weekly FOTN etc prize is one idea that I thought might be awesome. Frankly, if you like the idea of the tournament and are interested in helping with it but don't know how, message me and we'll work from there.

 

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