For him and others, it might be that it sounds like committing to a HUGE volume of games...
I agree with you, Dukie, on a group stage adding to the fun.
But, above, I suggested we kick off with just two games per group. You took that as:
No, I meant the GM kicks off two games, one between A and B and one between C and D. ONE game per player. Yep, this stretches the total tournament to months or a year, as I advised earlier. No problem, IMHO.Duke wrote: I understand if not everyone wants to play four-five games at a time so I am guessing that two games per player will do just fine ...
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For the undecideds, or "not heard about it yet", I think you, Duke, ought to stress that a player is only ever playing ONE Duel at once; they are just structured as to who you play next, building to a final, Sure, if a player WANTS to start a second Full Duel, before his first ends, then the GM can make it happen. But the norm is one-game-before-another-starts, for the sanity of us all?
Plus, I don't want players' commitments to the Duel-Tourney to take up all their WOK-time! ... such that they don't have time for the real Standard WOK? It was never my intention, with Duel, to take away from the playings of Standard WOK, only to fill the gaps and have a version to play on the side if there were two of you.
Me, I only want ONE of these FULL DUEL TOURNEY games at a time, even if that stretches the tourney to a year before a Winner. I want to have some time off to play Standard, and Lite, and Trinity, and EWOK, and Q and S...even Teams...
So, Duke, maybe TELL everyone it will go slowly, usually you play only ONE game at a time.
Also, I'd reassure us all that there are effectively no deadlines-per-turn. Just like in Duel and in Duel-Lite. You would not be committing to some 3-day deadlines to get 3 sets of orders in at a rush just before a deadline ... I'm keen to preserve that Duels, being harder, NEVER make you rush orders for a deadline, never. Yep, even if that makes the tournament go at the pace of the slowest, and even if some get impatient.
One last point: this will not be the ONLY place/tournament in which to play Duels! If your game has finished, and C and D are stringing theirs out, feel free to fit in a challenge or practice game while you are waiting, no problem. Or even find a game now to get your eye in before it all kicks off; I see that Vinceismi and Jen are having a Full Duel game just started, getting ready for when the tournament starts. Great.
I hope y'all realise that this is SUPPORTING Duke's great initiative, suggesting tweaks, not criticising it. But Duke decides.
Han