Some comment to Snook proposals:
About maps like Paradise and Swamp.
New Paradise is a very bad balanced map and therefore hard to use for a tournament. In any map setup can be playable or not by cause of random disposition but map can be balanced.
The Swamp is a "turttle" map and you need many turns for conquer a single country. I think that means very long games and tournaments must have more dinamics, if possible.
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About the use of not usual set of units (
Standard or MA style).
Can you imagine a game without anti-air units? MA style implies that, my friend
Extended set of units let players play in the same conditions and it is the used by all the players in the practice.
For create a tournament you can try be creative with format but it is not easy if you use maps or settings that community don't play usually. Simply take a look to the list of players of the last tournaments. We have a number of tournament's players around of 30-40 depending of format and time for play. It is work enough for manage it for a small number of players, but in my case I always thinked that tournaments give an extra interest to our wonderful game. I don't mind working for others to enjoy it.
Of course, I must to thank you for participating in the debate and continue to express what you think. My opinion is not better that yours!
For some years I am thinking in the option of create a "League" of MAN2 with different Divisions and promotions among them with a yearly format but it is not easy include it.
It would be something like this:
Honor Division: 8 first players by glicko-score in the inscription of first year. All vs. All format 2 sides (14 games in total that could be started in different packs!)
After the competition the last 2 scored players go down to lower Division for the next year.
First Division: 14 next players by glicko-score in the first year. All vs. All format 1 side (13 games in total)
After the competition the first 2 scored players go up to Honor Division and the last 4 scored players go down to lower Division for the next year.
Second Division: 14 last players by glicko-score in the first year. All vs. All format 1 side (13 games in total)
After the competition the 4 first scored players go up to First Division.
After the first year any new player (even the world champion if not participate in the previous League) must start on the Second Division. The seats in all the Divisions will be reserved for players who have won their right to participate. Only if some player don't want or can't participate his seat will be used for other player.
This is a little summary of how must run a tournament of that format
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