Hello guys, Janitch here. Been playing aok actively on and off since zone-days. Decided to make an effort to help move the rm community in aok to voobly, since it offers so much more!

I do have a few ideas on how to get the players to voobly, and keep them there.
What I have in mind is small tournaments, going as often as every 2nd week and played on 1 day (hopefully). Hopefully they will be easier to schedule than the bigger ones, which have been a problem before.

I would announce the date of the tourney beforehand and take signups directly through the lobby at the tournament day. This way the players who sign up will actually be there when we kick it off. The tournament would take place during primetime, when most players are online. That'll be a bit later in EU but not too early for US.

1v1 RM tournament

Single Elimination 1v1 RM tournament. Spots will depend on the lobby activity, but everything from 8-16 spots. First come, first serve!

Date: To be announced.
Possible dates: 1st february-9th february (I'm sure friday or saturday is a great day)

Sign-ups: 1 hour before kick-off

Brackets: To be posted on the tournament day

Maps and info: A new popular RM map for each tournament, starting with arabia,bf, and so on.
The civilization will be different in each map.
All rounds are best of 1 in order to be possible to finish in 1 day.


Game Settings & Rules
Map: Arabia
Speed: Normal
Starting Age: Standard
Resources: Standard
Speed & teams: Locked
Victory: Conquest
Cheats and all techs: Disabled
Record game: You will need to post recorded game to advance to the next round
Civilization: Chinese

Prizes: I'm not sure what to put here, maybe you have some idea. If this is going to be regularerly then the prizes shouldn't be too high, also considering it's a small and short tournament!

What do you guys think?

Making the tournament an event split in 3 different tournaments. 1-2 weeks between each round.

The first tournament will be arabia as with the rules I already posted. A coule of things I forgot;
Game Type: Random Map
Reveal Map: Normal
Map Size: Tiny (2 player)
Difficulty: Easy
Population: 200


The 2nd tournament will be a BF tournament, still bo1 with a bo3 in the final.

Game Settings & Rules for 2nd round

Game Type: Random Map
Map: Black Forest
Map Size:Tiny (2 player)
Civilization: Britons
Difficulty: Easy
Population: 200
Starting Age: Standard
Resources: Standard
Speed & teams: Locked
Victory: Conquest
Cheats and all techs: Disabled
Record game: You will need to post recorded game to advance to the next round
Reveal Map: Explored
Speed: Normal



The 3rd and final round will be a RMRC tournament, still a bo1 with a bo3 final.

Game Settings & Rules for 3rd round

Game Type: Random Map
Map: Random
Map Size:Tiny (2 player)
Civilization: Random
Difficulty: Easy
Population: 200
Starting Age: Standard
Resources: Standard
Speed & teams: Locked
Victory: Conquest
Cheats and all techs: Disabled
Record game: You will need to post recorded game to advance to the next round
Reveal Map: Normal
Speed: Normal

If the tournament rounds turns out to be bigger than expected, the tournaments will go over 2 days.

The people participating in the tournament will be rewarded with ladder points for each round.
When all 3 tournament rounds are done, the top 3 people will be awarded premium memberships.

The ladder points system can be found here: Ladder points system

Home map could've worked if it was 2 games per round. The problem is that the majority of the core players these last 2-3 years have played as much as 90% BF. I think alot of players would miss it, and be mad that it's not in one of the rounds. We could try a water map like Baltic or Team Islands, but I'm not sure how they would react to it!

Sounds nice, get it up !

bump?

Mirror Civs would be more faire for the RMRC round btw.

so?

Janitch.......where are you Mr Janitch lol