The 24 Hour Tournament

[Jordan F]

EDIT: Date has changed from 4th-5th to 8th-9th

Hi everyone,

I'd like to propose a 24 hour tournament. The logistics would be very simple, single elimination, 15 round standard format, with the catch being that all games must be completed within 24 hours.

Rules (I'll add additions and clarifications as well):
1. The tournament will be played using 15 round standard in a single elimination style bracket, with byes or extra rounds if necessary depending on how many people compete. One game per match. Match-ups will be determined completely at random.
2. The entire tournament must be completed within 24 hours, which will take place from midnight to midnight. Post the results of games on this topic All games uncompleted will count as a double forfeit unless clear evidence can be provided that one player was active and ready for their match and the other was not.
3. The bracket will be posted right before the start of the tournament on the topic, on both bracket form as well as a text equivalent listing who plays who. On the day of, I will attempt to keep this updated as regularly as possible, but when I'm unable to update it (such as when I'm asleep or something similar), you are also responsible for paying attention to the bracket and who has played and defeated whom.
4. The tournament will run from midnight UK time on January 8th to midnight UK time January 9th. Sign up on this topic. Because things happen and plans change, you also can withdraw yourself by posting in the topic.

Sign Ups:
Kai Laddiman
Ian Volante
Dinos Syfris
Nick Boldock
James Bradley

As said above, the rules are very subject to additions, clarifications and other things of that nature. Bring up things you think I should address. In addition, if there is a major demand for making the tournament a week or two later (I don't think I can ethically make it earlier), I will note that in the rule changes, make an extra post about it, and PM those who have signed up to let them know whether to keep their spots or withdraw.

Ask me questions if you have them, and go on and sign up.

[Kai Laddiman]

Provisionally in.

[JimBentley]

4. The tournament will run from midnight UK time on January 4th to midnight UK time January 5th.

Is this date definitely right, Jordan? That's the first Wednesday of the New Year, which seems a rather odd choice - loads of potential entrants will be back at work by then (me included) and unable to take part.

[Jordan F]

4. The tournament will run from midnight UK time on January 4th to midnight UK time January 5th.

Is this date definitely right, Jordan? That's the first Wednesday of the New Year, which seems a rather odd choice - loads of potential entrants will be back at work by then (me included) and unable to take part.

It's what I had originally wanted when I first posted it. That being said however, I'm fairly flexible with moving the date, and I could easily push the date to that Saturday or Sunday if people will be free on the weekends, or even a week later if there's enough demand.

[Kirk Bevins]

4. The tournament will run from midnight UK time on January 4th to midnight UK time January 5th.

Is this date definitely right, Jordan? That's the first Wednesday of the New Year, which seems a rather odd choice - loads of potential entrants will be back at work by then (me included) and unable to take part.

It's what I had originally wanted when I first posted it. That being said however, I'm fairly flexible with moving the date, and I could easily push the date to that Saturday or Sunday if people will be free on the weekends, or even a week later if there's enough demand.

Yeah, weekdays are out of the question for me as a worker and then in the evenings I'd be busy with stuff. On a weekend is better as, even though I may go out on a weekend night, I'd be in during the day to play. I think this goes for a lot of people on here.

[Eoin Monaghan]

I'm back to school on the 5th.

[Jordan F]

Very well. Taking all of that into account, I'll go ahead and change the date of this tournament, with it now taking place on Midnight on January 8th to Midnight January 9th. I'll change the original post as well to account for that change. Kai, if this change affects your availability, let me know.

[Ian Volante]

I'll go for it, I might well be around!

[Rhys Benjamin]

Very well. Taking all of that into account, I'll go ahead and change the date of this tournament, with it now taking place on Midnight on January 8th to Midnight January 9th. I'll change the original post as well to account for that change. Kai, if this change affects your availability, let me know.

shoot, I would have preferred the 4th - 5th as I'm uninterrupted then and still on Mes vaconces

[Dinos Sfyris]

Go on then I'll have a whack. I normally work Saturday nights but will slog through as much as I can in the day.

[Rhys Benjamin]

I'll be a shoo-in.

(IN)

[Nick Boldock]

Go on then. I'll be the whipping boy.

[James Bradley]

Count me in please

[Jordan F]

Giving this a bump, a week and a half or so to go with sign ups.

[Rhys Benjamin]

Sorry to be pecky, but I have now been deterred for that date.

I'm going to Fulham v Peterbrough in the FA Cup.

[Jordan F]

And we are at the day. (Apologies for not doing additional bumps, silly old real life and academia issues)

Small tournament of 5 people, but what appears to be a solid field.

The bracket is as follows, using Random.org as a guide.

Preliminary Round:
Game 1: Nick Boldock v. Kai Laddiman

Round of 4:
Game 2: Dinos Syfris v. Ian Volante
Game 3: James Bradley v. Game 1 Winner

Round of 2:
Game 4: Game 2 winner v. Game 3 winner

Good luck to all, you have 24 hours.

[Ian Volante]

For reference, I'm here now, awaiting Dinos

Now signing off for a wee while in case this goes down to minutes...

[Ian Volante]

And back, no obvious sign of Dinos as yet.

[Ian Volante]

So what happens if n0-one turns up? I'm putting in my claim for victory now

[Ryan Taylor]

EPIC FAIL

[Soph K]

EPIC FAIL

er thats kinda mean ryan

[Ryan Taylor]

EPIC FAIL

er thats kinda mean ryan

Gees I was joking. I would offer to play in this tournament to make it work but I don't think that's an option. I think the trouble is the amount of tournaments that are currently ongoing and January tends to be a very busy month.

[Kai Laddiman]

Sorry, it looks like every game depended on my appearance and I was at a sleepover.

[Joseph Krol]

This should probably be rescheduled for another day.

[Jordan F]

Yeah, I'll take the blame for this not working as well as I would have liked it to. Didn't bump it enough and I probably did put it in a bad time. I'd like to think it's a good idea, I just didn't run it very well. Another time, perhaps, but we'll still let this one run in case that there's a rush of people around in the next two hours.

[Michael Wallace]

I'll be honest, I never did really understand how this was supposed to work (or at least, how you were supposed to avoid the problem of someone not showing up and thus scuppering the entire thing). One thought I had was to have time brackets for each round of games, so for this one the preliminary could have been 0000-1200 then 1200-1800 for the semis and 1800-2359 for the final. The organiser would have to make themselves available for the entire day to adjudicate on no-shows (or if, say, P1 appears for 0000-0600 and P2 for 0601-1200), but you need some sort of mechanism to fix things if someone simply doesn't show up.

[Matthew Tassier]

Maybe a tournament like this would work if it was organised as a single league system, all-play-all during the day, with perhaps 2 points for a win, 1 point for a loss, 0 points for an unplayed match. No-shows wouldn't then cause a problem and players would be rewarded for participating fully.

[Kirk Bevins]

I had 24 hr tourney written on my calendar. Then I heard nothing about it on apterous or anything so didn't bother - I thought it had been suspended. I've now just seen it in the apterous forum, not at the top like most tourneys are (and I must say there's too many tourneys going on at the same time). Anyway I then realised I had to sign up and I wasn't! I'd even posted in this thread ages ago!

Maybe rethink about how you organise such a tourney - the previous 24 hr conundrum bash was really successful.

[Ryan Taylor]

I had 24 hr tourney written on my calendar.

lol

the previous 24 hr conundrum bash was really successful.

Only 'cos you won.

[Edward McCullagh]

I think it's a great idea and I would have been up for it but when you consider that a lot of the regular players are in up to four different tournaments at this time (Andrew's three tournaments and the Asian Cup) then it was just badly timed.

Hopefully it can be arranged some other time.

[Rhys Benjamin]

I think it's a great idea and I would have been up for it but when you consider that a lot of the regular players are in up to four different tournaments at this time (Andrew's three tournaments and the Asian Cup) then it was just badly timed.

Hopefully it can be arranged some other time.

Don't forget Spoilers 2010.

[Dinos Sfyris]

Totally forgot about this. Was working all day anyway. Sorry guys.

Jokes I was at a sleepover