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Since the end of Who Yall Like, I've wanted to get another weekly competitive Skullgirls stream going, given that there seems to be a demand for it. However, because keninblack wanted WYL to end, I don't want to do something that had the same format of that show. I've got a few different ideas, and I wanted to get some feedback from the community. Which of these would you be the most interested in?
1. Kumites
One person plays a series of long sets against multiple opponents. People seem to like watching these and/or playing in them. There's some issues with this format: getting someone every week to go through one of these gauntlets could be difficult, and a lot of the more prominent members of the community have already done a kumite (and presumably wouldn't want to do another).
2. Topanga-style league
The basic idea behind this* is having some number of players (let's say 8 players) in a round robin tournament where every round of the tournament is a first to 7 set. Each weekly stream would have maybe 4 of the first to 7 sets. This could be cool, however, a lot of people had complaints about WYL having the same set of players on every week... given that this tournament is limited to the same 8 players, people who had that complaint would probably not like this format.
*This is my understanding of how this works; I tried to look up the exact rules that the real Topanga league uses but they're in Japanese =|
3. Division/playoff based league
The Tekken community had a weekly stream like this which I thought was pretty cool to watch. One example of how this could work is having 5 divisions of 5 players, organized by region (such as, Northeastern USA/Southeastern USA/Midwest/Pacific Northwest/California). One season would be 8 games long. At the end of the season, the player with the best record in their division, plus the 3 players with the best records who did not win their division, would enter an 8 person single elim tournament. The winner of that would be the winner for that season.
These numbers are all just placeholders btw. If you like the basic idea here but don't like 5 divisions or 8 games in a season or whatever, that could all be tweaked.
4. Single elim tournament with conditions
Pretty self explanatory I think, each week would have a different condition like "solos only" or "your team has to include both Valentine and Painwheel" or something. I guess an issue with this is that some conditions would benefit some players while penalizing others ("solos only" isn't much of a restriction for people who already play solo). I'm also not sure how many different restrictions we could think up, we might run out.
5. A fifth thing
If you have a good idea that I didn't think of, post it in this thread. If there's a suggestion that a lot of people like I will add it to the poll (unless it turns out you can't edit polls, I don't honestly know if the forum software lets you do that).
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6: Queen of the hill lobby (ty Skarmand)
First to X held wins.
Pick 3-5 players before hand and then just start the lobby.
1. Kumites
One person plays a series of long sets against multiple opponents. People seem to like watching these and/or playing in them. There's some issues with this format: getting someone every week to go through one of these gauntlets could be difficult, and a lot of the more prominent members of the community have already done a kumite (and presumably wouldn't want to do another).
2. Topanga-style league
The basic idea behind this* is having some number of players (let's say 8 players) in a round robin tournament where every round of the tournament is a first to 7 set. Each weekly stream would have maybe 4 of the first to 7 sets. This could be cool, however, a lot of people had complaints about WYL having the same set of players on every week... given that this tournament is limited to the same 8 players, people who had that complaint would probably not like this format.
*This is my understanding of how this works; I tried to look up the exact rules that the real Topanga league uses but they're in Japanese =|
3. Division/playoff based league
The Tekken community had a weekly stream like this which I thought was pretty cool to watch. One example of how this could work is having 5 divisions of 5 players, organized by region (such as, Northeastern USA/Southeastern USA/Midwest/Pacific Northwest/California). One season would be 8 games long. At the end of the season, the player with the best record in their division, plus the 3 players with the best records who did not win their division, would enter an 8 person single elim tournament. The winner of that would be the winner for that season.
These numbers are all just placeholders btw. If you like the basic idea here but don't like 5 divisions or 8 games in a season or whatever, that could all be tweaked.
4. Single elim tournament with conditions
Pretty self explanatory I think, each week would have a different condition like "solos only" or "your team has to include both Valentine and Painwheel" or something. I guess an issue with this is that some conditions would benefit some players while penalizing others ("solos only" isn't much of a restriction for people who already play solo). I'm also not sure how many different restrictions we could think up, we might run out.
5. A fifth thing
If you have a good idea that I didn't think of, post it in this thread. If there's a suggestion that a lot of people like I will add it to the poll (unless it turns out you can't edit polls, I don't honestly know if the forum software lets you do that).
edit:
6: Queen of the hill lobby (ty Skarmand)
First to X held wins.
Pick 3-5 players before hand and then just start the lobby.
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