User blog:Lady Komainu/Jigoku Games 2017 Updates

May The Odds Be Ever In Your Favor
Hello once again party people, I'm here to give you one of the last updates for the Jigoku Games before we announce the tournament bracket. So after going over everyone's answers on the first and second blog post, it is looking like this tournament will start in April, and so I am choosing April 1st at 12AM UTC as the start date. If you don't want to look up what UTC time is, it's basically a universal time, and it is what the timestamps in your page's history section use. So if you want to see how far off your timezone is from UTC, you can look at a page's history, or honestly, just google it haha.

Thank you to those who have given me their character description for the Jigoku Games participant table, but we are still missing 3 people who haven't sent over their descriptions. So please do so at your earliest convenience. It is looking like there is going to be 14 people, which will end up nicely for the first round, seeing as there is going to be a 2-on-2 match to knock out eight of the participants right off the bat. But don't worry if you lose! We will have a second bracket running for those who lost in the first round, just so you can still get some action in!

Now just to go over some of the rules of these fights, in case you haven't read over the games page, or participate in an event that I have helped put on before.

Rules
During the games participants are expected to follow a given set of rules. Their adherence to said rules will be monitored and regulated by the judges. These rules are meant to act as a means to maintain civility and veracity during the duration of the games and may be amended or revised as the judges see fit.
 * 1) All combatants must maintain a sense of logic in attacks and avoid scientific fallacies to a degree.
 * 2) There will be no autohits, godmodding, or metagaming unless their characters have met before.
 * 3) All character edits in regards to their magic, weaponry, and abilities can not be made during the duration of the games. Exceptions can be made during breaks between matches at the consent of the judges.
 * 4) Combatants will be given a time limit for each part of the games. At the end of that time limit their submission will be graded. An extension can be made with consent of the judges if special circumstances rendered the combatant unable to post during the given time period.
 * 5) Matches will be judged based on fairness, attack use, logic, and overall character usage. Victors will be determined via a consensus among the judges and announced via a review comment on the story.
 * 6) The killing of a character is allowed, however, the offensive party must have the consent of the character's owner in order to kill them.

So as it is stated above, the judges are looking for a fair and logical fight. This year's judges will be myself and the lovely Liza, so if you have any questions regarded the matches or what have you, please ask one of us. Now, although this is a fictional world, we like to see character's treated and used as "normal" people in their behavior and power. Not everyone here is an anime protagonist that could somehow come out of a point blank dragon roar unscathed; so please try and keep that in mind. Aside from this sense of realism and logic in your posts, we will be looking at creativity and overall character strength in terms of both power and tactics. There is more than just landing a successful hit on someone that qualifies a winner in our mind. Sometimes a person won't allow a single hit to touch them, but if the judges feel that the creative execution of an attack would have allowed the person to overpower their opponent's defense, we may just count it as a hit in our analysis.

So be sure to keep the rules in mind once the fights start up, and please do get to working out your characters so they are ready to take down their opponents in this tournament! The contestants we have here seem like they will put up some good fights, so I hope you guys are excited and ready!

I will be posting the tournament bracket, along with who your teammate will be for the first round on March 30th, so please keep your eyes out so you can coordinate with your teammate on how you will take out your opponent. Please let me know if you have any questions.