New Ideas For Our Events

So with the announcement of beginner's going away, we started to receive a lot of advice, contructive criticism and general sadness from many members of our scene.

We want to make everyone happy. But that may very well be impossible. Actually, I will put money down saying that it IS impossible. We can't make everyone happy. But we can try our best.

Here are two ideas pitched to us that we really like. Please keep in mind, these are not final. We are still working out some potential issues with each,

Bounty Rule - Provided by C0w.

Each player pays $3 to compete (nothing new). But each person is given two raffle tickets. A red and a blue one. You write your name on each ticket. Those are now like money. The red one (winners side) is worth $2 and the blue one (losers side) is worth $1.
When you play a tournament set, you each are wagering your ticket with your name on it. Winner keeps the other persons ticket. Any tickets you have won are yours to keep. You only wager those two tickets through the tournament.

After you have lost both sets, you will turn in any tickets you have won. Red tickets are worth $2 and blue are worth $1. So if you win one round in winners and one round in losers, you break even. If you lose your first set and then win the next three, you break even, You have a chance to win some of your money back or make a profit, even if you don't place top 10 at the event!

Pros:
Everyone has a chance to make some money. Not just the top 3.
       
Cons:
Still not an amateurs tournament.
Top 3 make much much less than normal.



Qualifications Tournament - Provided by Cameron

We keep the beginners tournament as is! But All-Skills becomes an invite only event. The banned from beginners people are in their own tournament that has a few open slots.

To make it into that event, you must place in the top 4, 8 or 16 (pending what we decide prior to that day) to fill in the remaining slots available in the Pro bracket.

Top 3 in beginners still make money, but it will not be as high as in the past. Part of it will go to the Pro bracket to make up for the small amount of entrants.NOTE!!! As I said above. This is not final. ESPECIALLY THIS PART! We may very well leave the funds alone as is.

Pros:
We still have amateurs!
It's not 2 full tournaments and won't take as long. So we can manage this time wise.

Cons:
All skills is no closed to the majority who enter all skills currently :(
Potentially less money for top 3 in both events.


These are the ideas we are currently tossing around.
C0w's idea may be implemented in November's tournament just for the heck of it. It sounds like fun! And might as well test it out before December's Smash 4 event.

Also, Smash 4 will not have either of these rules. Smash 4 is a clean start. It will be a normal tournament.

Please give us your feedback guys.