User blog:QueenOfSwordsandStars/A Potential Tournament

Hey y'all, it's Liza aka QOS here and for about a year now, I've had an idea for a tournament of sorts that I have been procrastinating making and talking about. So, this blog is for my to gauge people's potential interest in a different sort of event which is less regulated as my "Magical Combat Arts Association" professional fighters and fights and even the Grand Magic Games between legal guilds.

So without further ado, this is the Ice Arena.

Overview
The Ice Arena would be a yearly event organized by the former MCAA Champion, hothead, Wizard Saint Nominee (my version), former guild master and current guild ace of Crashing Wave, Silver Kasumi. It would stem by her desire to find powerful mages and fighters alike and give them the opportunity to gather in one place to fight.

Unlike things like the MCAA and the Grand Magic Games, this event is not sponsored or technically even allowed by the Magic Council. It fits into a gray area rule where they can't exactly stop Silver from doing it, but it also isn't legal. Due to this, anyone can participate.

Wait what? Did she say, anyone?

Yes. I mean ANYONE. Dark, independent, legal, mage, non-mage. Anyone who shows up and pays the participant's fee can fight, so long as they comply with the rules.

I'll address the rules later, but moving on, it is somewhat tournament style. There will be either three or five days of fighting, depending on how many people want to join and how long we want it to go, and on each day, everyone can fight, but if you loose that day, you can no longer participate for the rest of the day. There also is no definite winner because of this. You can just keep fighting and keep fighting until the week done, and whoever had the most victories can deem themselves the "winner".

There is also no healing between rounds each day. In between days? Yes, your character can start out fully healed, max power the next day (though the unknown magic of earthland.. rip I'm not even gunna try to fill in that plot hole), but any wounds sustained in an early match on one day will carry on until the day is over.

Matchups and Judging
This event is different from most in the way that I will be running and determining the matchups and judging. Simply, I won't be.

The entire point of this tournament is to show up and pick someone, and fight. So that's exactly what it will be. Any character that has entered the tournament is fair game to challenge with your own character. From a user standpoint, whoever you challenge must accept, but the way it will look in rp, is that your character would walk into the arena, address the challenge, and they'd go until time ran out.

Due to the nature of how this is being set up, fights would last a half hour within the FT universe, and one week in our world, so you would have one week to fight with all you've got until time runs out. The timing is short, I know, but it's because there is the potential for your character to keep fighting that day, up until their the last one standing.

After time has run out, there will be 1 or two days for judging. Which can go either two ways depending on how the participants feel...
 * 1) The first is the participants can decide between themselves, who they thought had the advantage and fought better. This requires honesty from both parties and a unanimous decision to pass.
 * 2) You can ask to be judged by someone who is not participating. Hopefully, I will be putting together a potential judging panel, but if not, you'd be dealing with me. The judge's rule goes.

However, the most important thing about judging is that in this tournament there are no ties. It is either win or loose.

Rules
Alright, here are the participant rules User rules
 * 1) This should go without saying, but even if you're participating with your dark/evil/sketchy characters, there will be no killing. At all. Not even with the other person's permission. I will write your character out of the goddamn tournament. No killing.
 * 2) This is sorta similar to 1, but, there will be no maiming without the permission of the other participant. Accidents happen, people fuck up, go too hard while fighting. But, while this won't get you written out of the tournament, it will get your character disqualified.
 * 3) No Black Arts/Deadly Magics. Come on y'all, are you seeing the theme? If you use a magic that is absolute evil, unfairly destructive and murderer-y against other participants you will be written out.
 * 1) The matches will last as long as their time is set for or until one party is deemed unfit to fight. Parties can also forfeit.
 * 2) All combatants need to obey the laws of science and logic to the basic degree. I will have no roo jumps in this fucking tournament
 * 3) There will be no godmodding or metagaming.
 * 4) Autohits can be made on a case by case basis if the user of the character approves said autohit.
 * 5) All edits to participants in terms of Abilities, Supernatural Powers and Equipment cannot be made during the time of the tournament

Alright y'all, please comment on if you're interested in this event and perhaps when you'd like it to take place as well as any other questions, comments, and concerns. If I see enough interest, I'll post another update where you can submit up to three of your characters to participate in this crazy tournament!

~Liza (Queen of Swords and Stars)