Puzzle Game Tournament

[Piano Man]

Want to do a puzzle tourney
Think Intelligent Qube, Tetris Worlds, Bombastic (Several modes), Tetris Attack and such
Any takers? I do need a copy of IQ, but I have the rest...

[Piano Man]

K... Puzzle tourney has been severely thought out...
I'm thinking we have a month long tourney slash fundraiser.
The games would be Tetris, Bombastic (ps2) and IQ (ps1).
$5 dollar entry fee, which enables one play of each puzzle game at fixed settings. A high score would be on display at TGA. At the end of the month, the top two from each with two wild card spots have a ladder tourney of all three games on versus settings.
However, if you see you have been bumped down from the top you can pay $2 for another attempt at a single game. Hopefully, there will be some mini-competitions to get into the main tourney, thus increasing the pot.
Pot division would be 40% for TGA, the 30, 20 and 10% for 1st through third.
Comments?
I have the minor details sketched out, but I figured I'd just start with a general description for now

[CreemyNougat]

How are the wild cards decided? Just ranks 3 and 4?
And is a ladder tourny something I've never heard of, or is it just brackets?

I like the way the pre-competition is set up, though. Perhaps there could be a score penalty for a replay? Maybe replay scores could be chopped to 80/90 percent, to give the initial play more weight.

[Junior Asparagus]

I'm not even sure what Bombastic and IQ are, since I don't have a PS. But when I think of popular puzzle games aside from Tetris, I think Puyo Puyo, Puzzle Fighter, and Bust A Move/Puzzle Bobble. Any representation for those?

[CreemyNougat]

There should be special Dan vs. Dan exhibition round for Puzzle Fighter.

[Got Turkey?]

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The games would be Tetris, Bombastic (ps2) and IQ (ps1).



*DROOLS* I WILL ROXXOR THE BOXXORZ OFF IQ!

[Piano Man]

How are the wild cards decided? Just ranks 3 and 4?
And is a ladder tourny something I've never heard of, or is it just brackets?


Wildcards are the third place scores of each game. Those three face off against each other in 3 point matches, and not in the games they won ie the tetris person would face off in Bombastic and IQ against the IQ and Bombastic people respectively. 3 rounds per game, each win worth one point, top two point scores get the wild cards.
Yes, I meant brackets...

[Piano Man]

As for the other puzzle games, I dont see why not, especially Puzzle Fighter...
Perhaps we could just have top two from all four for an eight bracket final...
Thing is I was thinking with 8 people, that would 3 teirs, on game per teir in the bracket tourney...
Then again, we could just take top four from each game. However, that would allow a lot more people in, lowering the qualifying difficulty, which I want as that will inspire replays, and in turn a larger pot for the winner and for TGA

[CreemyNougat]

Shouldn't this be about fun?
Four to eight brackets makes the actual tournament aspect more appealing. And it gets more ACTUAL competition.