Used and Abused - A Short Story Tournament

[Shocker]

Just as a comment from the peanut gallery this is shaping up to be a battle royale.

[HistBuff]

All right. Count me in! I shall be known as "the Purgatory Knight".

[skuttrusk]

Since I haven't done this before, where do I follow progress? How do I know when it's started? Presumably I'll get a message or something, I just want to make sure I don't miss the start.

[Shocker]

Since I haven't done this before, where do I follow progress? How do I know when it's started? Presumably I'll get a message or something, I just want to make sure I don't miss the start.

Skuttrusk at the beginning of the contest there is going to be match ups created, you will be informed what your pen name and the prompt for your story. My understanding is that @claire was accepting participants till 7/6 before making the bracket.

[LaLia]

4th contest, with the goal of the 3rd victory....I'm in

And I suggest a werewolf

I withdraw my participation

[Corvid]

Sounds like a chance to practice regaining some focus. Count me in. I'll try not to stumble over the tagging requirements; some of this may be a bit new to me.

I suggest the pen name of "Marquise".

[LaLia]

4th contest, with the goal of the 3rd victory....I'm in

And I suggest a werewolf

I withdraw my participation

My schedule is a bit tight over the next few weeks, so I decided not to participate. If there's an odd number at the end (e.g., 15) and someone else is needed, I'd be there.

But here's a quick idea, if it doesn't quite work out: you could also have a group round instead of 1-on-1 matches. For example, with 18 participants, you could have 6 three-way matches, and then let the two second-place teams with the highest points advance to the quarterfinals.

[Blue]

@LaLia:
Die Idee mit Gruppenrunden finde ich top! Denn wenn man Pech hat, schreibt man eine wirklich gute Geschichte und trifft dann aufgerechnet in der Auftaktrunde auf den späteren Sieger.
Bei 18 Teilnehmern jeweils die ersten beiden Geschichten mit den meisten Stimmen weiterkommen zu lassen, wäre jedenfalls eine faire Chance. Auch wenn der Wettbewerb dann vielleicht die eine oder andere Runde zusätzlich benötigt. Aber wir sind ja nicht bei der Fußball-WM, wo feste Zeitpläne wichtig sind. Was hindert uns daran, den Wettbewerb in diesem Falle einfach ein wenig länger auszudehnen? In der Zwischenzeit gibt es dann bestimmt auch wieder einige neue Mitglieder, was der Sache ja auch gut tun würde.

[Lucius]

With 24 hours to go, we have 14 participants.

Who'd like to join in?

[Vela Nanashi]

If we get an odd number on some level I would certainly agree that we can make one of the matches have 3 members rather than not having a game at all for one random contestant.

We can do that on each level until we get to the final that can have 2 or 3 contestants in it

14 gives us 7 pairs and winners who then can be divided into two pairs and one triplet to give us three winners who can go into the final