Would such a thing even be possible?

Every round would maybe consist of ? games and it's triple elimination with each player being each civ three times... and maybe the same orientation of the civs as well (e.g. p1 japs, p2 byz). I guess certain civs would have to be excluded to make the tournament doable since you could only have 8 without it getting uber complicated.

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i like the idea, but my own sounds better, how about we have qualifiers, say 1v1 rambits a mix of civs.. maya mong jap celt... thats the 4 types... take the top 8 players, then put them in a ffa rcb same civ..... that could be cool and insane, and i can only guess me, fujative, myth flan, verystronglol, dopey, beast, chopin and final would be in it seeing as we're the only ones who plays same civ.. it's impossible to have a ffa random civ tourny, would suck and be unfair.. and what u said, diff civs even... gotta be same.

A better map just needs to be made to encourage more balance between civs. For instance, if you're next to mongols and you're celts you're pretty much screwed if you don't have someone near to keep the Mongol in line. Sure you'll probably win at the cross but soon enough he'll out pop you. So then you have to go Charlemagne vs Elite Mangudai and they can easily hit and run on you. In the version of RCB I'm making slowly, RCB Gold - Shadow, I'm almost positive I'm going to enable all techs, which should hopefully help balance it out a little bit (I need to think about this more...just no time lately...I do have the new base design completed though)

If you use 1v1 as qualifiers it'd exclude a lot of people like myself (well I'm not sure about this...maybe not A LOT of people) that don't play 1v1. A better way to do it would be via win ratio of RCB ffa.

It's not impossible to do it. Even based on the current system I'm sure you could think of a balanced combination of civs. If people are serious about a tourney I'd certainly help come up with something. Anywho, I g2g to work then class.

see i entirely disagree celts > mongol in ffa rcb..... not only can u make 20 raze in 7 min but u can spawn mong and martel before 17 ish so they have no chance, the civs are fair balanced, but for the fairest, best version of rcb, play 10th legion castle blood = =v= 10th legion cbv2 .... check that out.

How many castles would you buy at the beginning? (I normally don't buy any) I was p5 when this happened and p6 was byz and went imp (good luck taking those down) and p3 was Turks with towers full shooting at my woad raiders when I tried to get p4s towers in mid. maybe I could've rushed mid with a bigger group in an attempt to get up to 20 in one go but that attempt would've only gotten me to subo IMO. I was 5.5 kings when I decided to try a viillie against Mongols (should've done this in the beginning to try it anyways). Resigned shortly thereafter. Probably should've gone belisarius (have you played 2011? Beli is great and if people let you get pop it's pretty much gg IMO). Oh, people kind of hate me now and take out my bombard in beginning which didn't help.

How many castles would you buy at the beginning? (I normally don't buy any) I was p5 when this happened and p6 was byz and went imp (good luck taking those down) and p3 was Turks with towers full shooting at my woad raiders when I tried to get p4s towers in mid. maybe I could've rushed mid with a bigger group in an attempt to get up to 20 in one go but that attempt would've only gotten me to subo IMO. I was 5.5 kings when I decided to try a viillie against Mongols (should've done this in the beginning to try it anyways). Resigned shortly thereafter. Probably should've gone belisarius (have you played 2011? Beli is great and if people let you get pop it's pretty much gg IMO). Oh, people kind of hate me now and take out my bombard in beginning which didn't help.

Yep we should still make this happen.

it would be fun. but why have any qualifier? why not just let everyone enter? especailly not 1v1 as the qualifier, its quite different from ffa. and abviously dont use 10th map. it should be the one everyone knows and plays.
it could be ffa matches with 4 ppl each round if theres not enough entered, or 8 players 1st round then the final round with however many winners there are from round 1.

I think you'd need to do it with 8 players each round. Otherwise a player at the one of the ends (e.g. p1/p6 in a 6 player game) could get lucky... or unlucky (e.g. mongols, chinese kinda suck when you can't raze those towers at the cross). Out of civs that shouldn't be in the tournament I think goths and chinese shouldn't be. Chinese can kill the pyramid too fast so someone could potentially just be an asshole and kill you screwing himself (probably) and you over (definitely...you die). Goths I just think suck since they don't get thumb ring. Idk. Anyone else serious about this? If they are I'll think more about it soon for a possible layout of the civs for each mach.

Even if 8 people were in the tournament it'd be perfect.

unless everyone alternated player positions. with 4; 2 players on outside 1st game then on inside 2nd game to make 1 round
thats usually how it works but only after the person has bought something really threatening. but its all part of the strategy;
-to buy cheaper things sooner to build up defence and keep the target away from you
-hide the fact that u have lots of kings, are about to buy something, do buy something, or have bought something
-wait till someone else gets something threatening 1st, then when everyones distracted u buy something
-buy something people dont realize is threatening by using it a certain strategic way

No that can't happen. lol. It just makes too much sense. (sarcasm)

I get doubled and tripled frequently in RCB. Most of the time it doesn't work and if it does it's because I got greedy and probably wanted Harald instead of something cheaper. Plus with the advent of the genitour it's a lot easier to live. Here's a possible arrangement of civs:

1) Aztecs
2) Mayans
3) Saracens
4) Chinese
5) Celts
6) Mongols
7) Japs
Koreans

With 8 people: each person a color 2x and after 2 rounds of this (16 games) players with the top four wins go to the next round. Or sth similar. Depends on how many people sign up.

how about a tournament where each Rambit CB map is played. there are at least 7 versions in the map pack now. it would be all around Rambit CB skill.

One thing at a time I say. Not saying my idea wouldn't take awhile but playing 7 different maps, probably 1v1, which sounds much more elaborate imo. Playing all those different maps sounds fun though. What sounds better than best Rambit CB skill is best CS skill overall. Pick random maps from the map pack and have people go 1v1...be a little hard to keep secret what maps were being played though. What am I saying though? That sounds even more elaborate. lol. Silly me.

No matter what I'm guessing either tourney won't be official. Hell I don't even know if the interest is there to do a RCB Gold ffa tourney.

What do you think of those civ arrangements though?

I know above I said Chinese suck but lately I've been dominating with them by going the villager/imperial route.

rcb has the potential to be by far highest skilled map in cs, as it has already been,
that's why it's rarely played now, even the new 'good players' are noobs.. lol.
id like to see an ffa tourny like we take streams of say players, whoever signs up and do same civs, ffas,
a few rounds and whoever wins most, by pts, wins!