Hey Let's Do An Original Character Tournament, Process Style

[Reido Cero]

Yeah, definitely not my thing, since my lack of skills would just be an annoyance.

[jolem]

Originally Posted by Nihtgenga

Eh, on second thoughts I can't be arsed. Will watch with interest though.

This is why that's an example, you can make up your own rules, story or no story, and even exclude the fighting in your own tournament, and only be about TFs if you choose to make one yourself.

[Dane]

I didn't see much point in the wall o text, just show me where i put my character in so we can do this thing. i mean the rules are fairly clear, if you wanna spice in some story do that post registration so people arent scared off by "joining something that looks set up or full already"

[Hooded_Miracle]

I guess I can try, then. Need to re-read those again. Kinda dense. ('_')/

[jolem]

It's an example you don't need to worry about it, yet. I think the only things you should look out for is the rules of that said tournament. As everyone is seemingly likes to go along.

Originally Posted by Dane

I didn't see much point in the wall o text, just show me where i put my character in so we can do this thing. i mean the rules are fairly clear, if you wanna spice in some story do that post registration so people arent scared off by "joining something that looks set up or full already"

I think that sounds like I've tricked people into doing that, even though they're basically tools that anyone can use to make their story much more interesting, but like any tool it could make a story less interesting if used not so well. Also to show how you registered in the tournament, I... oh, yeah, that's what I was supposed to talk about it in the last post. But this is basically why this thread was made in the first place like what vidgamer, we have to get all of the details hammered out before we begin. I guess when we're done with that, we'll actually make a new thread accepting the tournament.

Last thing to show you is how the profile is made and what it's is used for. The profiles give you and your opponent a quick look at your character's stats, powers, and personality. So they may be able to portrayed them right, a little bit, in their own submission to the match. Not only will your opponent be able to read it but the judges too so that way they may have a good idea on your character and his story about winning the tournament. That way people will be able to tell if your character is the type of person (or thing) that will transform people all willy-nilly or not. Well as an example annoyed Dane and other readers, I'll just give you definitions of those examples instead:

Profile of your character

Name: *Insert your character name here*
General things: *afterwards list or explain generally things about them like gender, age, and bodytype, etc.*
Powers: *Next you just explain their powers of the TF and how they work*
Profile: *Then you explain their pesonality and maybe a bit of their backstory. We don't need to know everything about your character, but just enough so we can portrayed him right*
Accersories, Prefer weapons, combat skills, clothes, favorite disguise, or etc: *Here you describe everything else that makes the character's powers work and fighting skills if they have any.*

Then here is the part where if your character has a team or other characters that tied him into this tournament, they can either assist him, hinder him, or people he keeps on thinking about it. (In my example profile it was to explain that this example character entered this tournament because his enemy capture his girlfriend and forced him to enter due to his nature of NOT wanting to transform people on a regular basis, his enemy interfere's with the main guy's transformations in the rounds though).

Tie-In Characters: *once again it's optional to have them or not*

Name:
Profile and/or powers: *We only need a short one from them unless they're really important to the main character and assist him in his TFing powers. If not and only important to them symbolically save for friendship or love or something like that than a short one is pretty much needed from them. But if they're part of his accesories and tools they should be explained up there and still be part of the Tie-In Characters.*

And that's basically the end of the profiling. As mentioned above, your opponent should use them (and previous matches if you're meeting them in Round 2 and higher) to get a good feel of your character. And then you make your audtion story/comic:

Audition Submission

Audition Story/Comic/Flash: *A story that is told in your best medium explaining how your character enter the tournament in the first place and give is a good first look at your character's personality at work. Think of it as a prologue of what's to come, and then afterwards you will wait until the judges get organized for your true first match of the tourney*


This is how you enter an original character tournament normally, but you can be inventive in your own ways, like excluding the audition in your own tournament that is meant for that specific process. Well, technically I don't really have that much interested in reading/watching entries that involved all of the other processes so I can't be a judge since I'm very much more lenient to TF into anthros than everything else and other processes that I don't really like. I think the last thing we need now for this tournament, IF we're going to make a tournament that involved all of the processes, is to have judges that are much more neutral and probably only hates one process rather than many and I for one can't really qualify to be a judge. As all I wanted to do is to show you examples of how to make your own tournaments in your favorite processes if you feel interested in making your own that deviates from these examples. BUT if we really want to do this we should also have at least 3 judges (not 7 because that'll be too big of a number with not that many people interested in it) and flesh out the rules even more, like getting rid of the "Making an Original Story in a Original Character Tournament" or "Banning the beat down of your opponents," once we do that we can actually get started on our tournaments.

I know I've should've done that in my first post, but I do have a cold this week so I can't really stand to stay up any longer than I used to and have to go to bed earlier to regain my health. I really don't mind if you don't believe me or not, but that's pratically the reason why the whole thing is separated as it is right now and what's really happening in real life at the moment, I am getting a little better though. Though I can still make small posts like the one I made at Niht. Another thing is I'm not trying to say "follow my rules or leave and make your own," I actually want users to be inspired to make their own tournaments elsewhere, which is the kind of the point of this thread. Another point of this, is that I originally want to do a tournament in the TF section, but why leave everyone else out of it when they can join in on the fun too. I just want everyone to have a little chance and fun in participating this as well. But as I said before, if we want to do one that involves all the process, then we should figure out on how to make the examples not examples anymore, or make an even better version of these examples and make a better charcter tournament. Which is the last purpose of this thread.

[Kojiro Highwind]

So..... first we make a character to put up in the roster of possible characters to use in your story/comic/flash. Then anyone make up a story of those characters fighting in a process based match?

If this is a go... should there be a thread to keep track of the fighters in the RP section or something?

[jolem]

Depending on who your opponent is, yes I think.

You don't actually have to do everyone at once. You basically make a story about how your character won against your opponent in the current round and your opponent does the same thing with his story. Does that answer your question sort of?

[Kojiro Highwind]

Originally Posted by jolem

Depending on who your opponent is, yes I think.

You don't actually have to do everyone at once. You basically make a story about how your character won against your opponent in the current round and your opponent does the same thing with his story. Does that answer your question sort of?

So.... what do we do to determine who's fighting?

[jolem]

Well first things first, we should probably have everyone who register have a number in order of registering. Then we could probably mix the numbers up in different ways. But the number of participants is really important at the moment as well as who's doing the judging. I think I might change my mind about not judging and will judge, but we still need an odd number (3, 5, or 7) of judges so the winner can be picked out by most vote than unamiously. :/ I need to ask who else will do the judging though.