Alternate Tournament Ideas

[Ajones47 170]

In my bid to keep the game alive locally, I'm trying to plan at least one tournament a month (as well as a league). Does anyone have any interesting alternate formats that they've experimented with and found fun? Whether it be deck restrictions, format changes, or something else, I'd like to hear them.

[Amanal 2,557]

Multiplayer - you need some thick skin it you get knocked out but you also spend a lot of time laughing at how the game goes crazy with 4 players.

[Chakan99939 48]

Any king of tournaments that use a "best of 3" format rather than the usual 1...

Last saturday we ran an event, that wasn't announced enough, so only 6 player showed. We played acording to the official rules... 3 match... That's all. 90 mins and it was over, not even worth moving there (I always try to win, but I go there to play against more player than my usual friends). 

Chak

[Kyle Ren 6,817]

Drafts are doing pretty well! 

other than that, +1 for multiplayer! Also, FYI, Han/HiredGun/HiredGun is the ultimate meta list in multiplayer.

[Ajones47 170]

10 hours ago, Kieransi said:

Drafts are doing pretty well! 

other than that, +1 for multiplayer! Also, FYI, Han/HiredGun/HiredGun is the ultimate meta list in multiplayer.

I think we're too poor to draft.  I know I am!

15 hours ago, Chakan99939 said:

Any king of tournaments that use a "best of 3" format rather than the usual 1...

Last saturday we ran an event, that wasn't announced enough, so only 6 player showed. We played acording to the official rules... 3 match... That's all. 90 mins and it was over, not even worth moving there (I always try to win, but I go there to play against more player than my usual friends). 

Chak

We had something similar happen once, so we played Round Robin instead. Made for a longer day. I think if a tourney has less than eight players you should go straight to Swiss and go for broke.

[Ajones47 170]

So just to get the ball rolling, here's my idea for the first tournament:

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Mean Streets Of Coruscant

Down amongst the grimy streets of the planet-city, gangs of scoundrels, deserters, and rogue force-users fight for control of meagre resources.

Team restrictions: your team may not contain any characters with the 'Unique' symbol. You can not have more than two copies a character with the same title.

Deck restrictions: your deck may not contain any card with the 'Unique' symbol. You may not include more than three 'Legendary' cards in your deck.

Other rules: None.

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I think this is a good way to give those 'generic' characters that almost never see play a workout, while also opening space for underplayed Rare cards. Plus knowing your opponents team will always have three/four characters opens space for cards that deal damage to 'all' characters. I haven't playtested yet, so I'm sure it's terribly exploitable, but I think it's a fun twist on the usual game. Any other ideas or thoughts?

[Hujoe Bigs 2,071]

We do theme nights, some are villian, some are hero. Some are Restricted lists, some are meta nights. Then some days we use Facebook to coordinate a player choice for who plays what, one person nominates another and says what character they need to include and then a character they can't use. So you can do kylo 2p, but no FN Or Thrawn, no Unkar, Poe but no Maz.

[Parksy77 20]

I like non unique decks.

No legendary.

No 2 of the same card in a deck.

No elites.

Lots of fun ways to mix the game up.

[Ajones47 170]

22 hours ago, Hujoe Bigs said:

We do theme nights, some are villian, some are hero. Some are Restricted lists, some are meta nights. Then some days we use Facebook to coordinate a player choice for who plays what, one person nominates another and says what character they need to include and then a character they can't use. So you can do kylo 2p, but no FN Or Thrawn, no Unkar, Poe but no Maz.

Those are all good ideas, thanks. I especially like the banning of one character... I know a guy I'd like to ban from using Thrawn.