Apterous Highlander Tournament
Posted: Fri Jun 22, 2012 5:20 pm
Well, the ticket- http://www.apterous.org/ticket_view.php?ticket=727 - got a lot of positive response and even got officially 'accepted' today by the powers that be. So, I am hereby making this a thing.
The way it works is simple. Each round, everybody plays Prune in a different randomly-chosen variant. The person who scores the lowest each round drops out, so as the tournament goes on, the field gets thinner until at the end, when- as the tournament name suggests- there can be only one. The final round will be a head-to-head in a marathon format.
Games will start at 12pm on Saturday, August 18th and will go on as long as it takes. This is very much an endurance event- I reckon a round should take on average no more than 20 minutes.
In a nice twist, I've decided that as there will be roughly as many players as there will be rounds, you get to pick your variant when you sign up. As long as it's at least 9 rounds long it can be any variant on apterous that has a high score table, with the exception of non-English conundrum attacks because, well, no one wants to play 50 tie-breakers against Prune in a language they don't understand.
If you're interested, sign up below!
The way it works is simple. Each round, everybody plays Prune in a different randomly-chosen variant. The person who scores the lowest each round drops out, so as the tournament goes on, the field gets thinner until at the end, when- as the tournament name suggests- there can be only one. The final round will be a head-to-head in a marathon format.
Games will start at 12pm on Saturday, August 18th and will go on as long as it takes. This is very much an endurance event- I reckon a round should take on average no more than 20 minutes.
In a nice twist, I've decided that as there will be roughly as many players as there will be rounds, you get to pick your variant when you sign up. As long as it's at least 9 rounds long it can be any variant on apterous that has a high score table, with the exception of non-English conundrum attacks because, well, no one wants to play 50 tie-breakers against Prune in a language they don't understand.
If you're interested, sign up below!
Might try and smuggle my laptop away with me. If I can make it, though, I'd like to reserve an Unlimited Letters Attack for everyone's [read: my] enjoyment 
