Jubaris

Well it's hard to calculate such specific dates 2 months early, well done Dark Demon for such a planned schedule :D But from this perspective, they should be pretty good for me, and yeah, participating.

Here's the current setup of the tourney, unofficially named Equilibrium: ------------------------------ Sunfire vs Neno Veliki ----->quarter final pair Rophs --------------->semi-finals pair Ungod ----->quarter final pair Chewett vs No one ------------------------------>grand finale Wideberth ----->quarter final pair Clock Master vs Nimrodel --------------->semi-finals pair Mirus vs Mythrandir ----->quarter final pair Jubaris vs MRAlyon ------------------------------ Finalist of the previous statless tourney held by Miq (which had slightly different rules), Sunfire, and its champion Clock Master have a chance of meeting once again in the finals. Alliance which provided most contestants is Seal of Six, giving 3 seasoned warriors to try to battle for the title. Stay tuned, ladies and gentlemen!

Happy birthday Pip :)

Jubaris, id 62639, 2486 active days old, mind power 5, and I'm an alcoholic... Oh wait, I guess clicked on the wrong topic. Favorite fruit: strawberry, or at least it was in my childhood and I just decided to keep it officially favored. Why? Because it is red and it tastes nice. Strawberry juice always had a tough race for me with peach juice. Peach juice won the juice war eventually, but strawberry kept the favorite fruit legacy ever since.

Later half of January sounds pretty good to me too.

Happy birthday man, all the best! :)

Congratulations Queen Lintara, good luck with your endeavors :)

I would like to apply to be an interviewer or columnist :)

Applications over! Sorting out stuff time! :) Gonna consult with participants when to hold the tourney, I even have some suggestions for possible alternatives if we have a hard time all getting in the same time. And after that... Distribution at GoE! :) Also, the rules for scoring battles will be similar to Miq' previous tourney, one fight in attack and one fight in defense, you score 1 point if you win (regular win) + 1 point if you are victorious, + 1 point if the enemy gets a loss count.

Not too much time left for applications :) Tomorrow when I log in, it's over

Deadline for applications is on 10th of November, 4 more days peops! After that, I'll make a conversation with all applicants to agree on the date of the tourney.

Happy birthday Maeb and Rikstar! :)

I think rookie of the year should keep its name, (Dst called me a noob many times, so I'm afraid I'll be publicly shamed by getting nominated :P) maybe even loosening up the requirements a bit. Around a year and a bit more, case by case basis, depending on the public perception, after all it's all about the public recognition? Most improved player sounds nice and can be pondered upon as a new category.

I tend to agree with what Chewy said about the minimum amount of nominees, although I like the argumentative value of your explanation. :P Sometimes the award holds some traditional value that transcends the current circumstances of no competition in this year. For instance, Rookie of the year. Let's say this year there's only two nominated rookies. Fine, vote between them, don't cancel the award. Next year there will be more. Perhaps we should define the hardcore awards that must be present every year, and some optional ones depending on the competition, eh? Which ones make MD awards really the MD awards?

Updated rewards, now the amount of coins is determined! :P 2nd place gets 4 gc; 3rd place gets 2 gc

I pondered upon pimps, and I am closer to 'no' than 'yes', because they bring nothing new and are just 20-attack stronger grassans. And I prefer seeing grassans than pimps :D Losing the sanctity of black&white fights is a sacrifice of a sorts, but to gain variety and more options. I don't see pimp helping there.

Topic for applications and full rules posted here: http://magicduel.invisionzone.com/topic/16860-applications-for-the-statless-tourney/ You can comment here if you want or have something insightful to say.

Apply here! Post your player name and ID. Deadline for applications: 10th of November. Some rules: - Statless, tokenless, comboless, knockout tourney - Allowed creatures: Recruitables (NML, MB, NC, LR) + Imps, Sharptroopers, Soulweavers, jokers, Blood pacts and anniversary aramors. - Only mind power 5 this time. Rewards: - First place: WP, 100 water from King Nad, " " trophy (description and name to be made, you can play with the suggestions. With it, we will also probably give a name to this tourney) - Second place: 4 gc, 75 water from King Nad - Third place: 2 gc, 50 water from King Nad Distribution of players: There are two big branches to reach the finals. (For visualization purposes, check upper and bottom half of this representation: http://i.stack.imgur.com/UOMVI.png). People from same land will be spread in different branches as much as possible, priority is with people from same alliance though. I will use the dices in a public dice casting at GoE to determine who fights whom. Order of determining who goes where will be in order of applying here. Since I will play too, consider my application first :P First dice cast will determine in which of the two branches do you get (even number - you go to the upper branch, odd number - you go to the bottom branch). Second dice cast will determine in which pair should you join. There should be 2^x pairs. We probably won't be able to place everyone with a pair ideally, so some people will skip the first fight - those will be the players with youngest (highest) ID. Depending on the number of participants, certain rules will apply for the second cast. Example, there are 8 pairs in each branch. (16 pairs in total, 32 players... yes, that will never happen) I will use the 20-sided pair of dice. First number determines the first cast, second number the second. To have equal chances to get each pair, I will only use numbers gained from 1-16, if I get 17-20 I ignore those and cast the dice again. (if one number is legit and the other isn't, I keep the legit one and cast again for the other, and look only the place of its cast, example I get 15-20, I recast for the second number and get 5-10, I look only the second number 10, I'm not interested about the first one because I'm looking for the second number) To determine in which pair will the player play, I calculate the SECOND_NUMBER mod 8 = A, where A is in (0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7). 0 counts as the last (eight) pair. Anyhows, if after a while I start to determine against whom is player X playing, and I see that there is already someone from X's alliance in the upper branch, I automatically assign him to the bottom branch. Same goes with people from same land in general, but like I said, same alliance has priority. If the same alliance people meet eventually, one will have to drop the badge, and my default recommendation is for the one with lesser amount of loyalty points, but that can be agreed with the two participants. People with No Homeland are not considered to be from same land. When is it taking place: End of November probably, but prone to changes depending of any specific requests by the participants. ------ Sorry if I forgot something, I will update the post and make a separate post to let you know of any updates in that case, I spent too much typing-time on the distribution part :)) Post applications here, any suggestions/comments post on the other topic here please: http://magicduel.invisionzone.com/topic/16647-annual-statless-tokenless-tournament/

Sponsorship has been granted, WP and a trophy for the winner, coins for the 2nd (and probably 3rd) place(s). If the response is good - it will indeed be annual, or to be more precise, once per 6 months (nothing definitive, that's my view at the moment). Give me a few days and I'll make a new topic with the system, details, and to open applications.

Aeo's post #14 with screenshots and my 12 point ss before it are already counted by the system though. Just saying preemptively :))

Hmmm... I seem to hear something, coming from Aeoshattr...? But I can't see anything, he must be talking from nightmode... :P p.s. this test torch was a good idea and is doing its work, infos and exploits keep pilling up

Marind Bell defying the odds and travelling to the less-cool-side of Bob.

Here's something to get you started, amazing 1 point scored by me, beat that!

Yep, sorry, just remembered I could test it by making someone else apply it on me. Ungod helped out, and the item indeed works (just doesn't work on yourself, which doesn't need to get updated)