Idea to boost activity

[Lord Raven]

I like that idea so far but I'd like to hear others' opinion on it.

I may not have much part in this as it is, but I am willing to help out with more Competitive aspects of the site, mainly Team Building of course.

I'd also be up for running a couple of tournaments (and I'm sure others would), including Random Battles / Ubers / RU, but we'll have to see who takes interest in it.

More importantly, keeping the current league up and running will be beneficial to activity.

I would take some interest and I'd love to help setup.  I have a few wrinkles to add because I don't like single elimination type things.

[the bread dragon]

im down with some tourneys, theyre always fun :D

[Spriter]

Well, group stages and then a knockout round in a tourney sounds like it could be great fun, and then there would need to be some form of prize possibly as a reward for victory?

Richard is now the Tournament equivalent of Germany in the world cup

Yes, I agree that Joeno's thread idea is a good one I'd be fine with that.

[Lord Raven]

I like the idea of a banner for victory.  I'm not trying to spend that much money anymore and w/ shipping costs it's even worse otherwise I'd advocate for actual tangible prizes.

[SirBlaziken]

I like all of these ideas, as long as they boost activity. Me against Rich will be the WC equivalent onf Brazil vs. Germany.

[Richard and Blaziken]

I'd be more than happy to clone things from my list as prizes for tournaments! I would even be okay with hosting weekly tournaments with prizes that match a specific gimmick for the tournament (I.E.: shiny competitive Eevee for an Eeveelution only tournament, or even anything from my list for a Random Battle tournament). If there's actual interest in this, I really wouldn't mind hosting tournaments weekly. I obviously wouldn't be taking part in them, given I'm the one doing the prizes, and wouldn't want to win my own prize.

What do you guys think? Would you be interested in this? What about long-term, do you think it's something that could stick around?

[Lord Raven]

I like all of these ideas, as long as they boost activity. Me against Rich will be the WC equivalent onf Brazil vs. Germany.

Whereas mine is America vs Germany

[Spriter]

with Rich against Blaze it'll be more like San Marino v Germany

Weekly tournaments sound great as well, to be honest. I was thinking one big one would be a fun idea, but weekly tournaments sound less messy to put together.

Yeah, by prize I meant a competitive bred Pokémon or something. Maybe a whole team for the winner of a big tournament like I mentioned above?

[Lord Raven]

I'd be fine with that.  I don't like the idea of weekly tournaments because it's too much commitment and for now it's hard to get everyone online at around the same time.  I'd say keep the rounds weekly or twice-a-week (what's the word for this?  It's not biweekly is it?) and go for larger tournaments.  It's not hard to do, I know, but if two people can't get their match done in 3-4 days that gives me the indication they shouldn't have signed up for a tournament.

I'd still like to talk to you on IRC sometime, my timezone is weird (GMT -8 these days) about organization.

[SirBlaziken]

with Rich against Blaze it'll be more like San Marino v Germany

That reminds me, I have a death march to go on.

Anyways, I'm willing to pitch in any way I can, I could help host or even compete in tournaments, provided they're on showdown.

[Sappy]

Way too much, we're talking complete rewrite here. See the earlier point about me just not having time for that - this would take me weeks at my currently available site time, and I don't think I could get the support for it from the other people involved with the feature

Fair enough, but the Name Rating service is still slow and it's our best feature. How about appointing more Name Raters for Sinnoh, Unova and Kalos? Obviously they'll have to keep up with the same "IHATEEVERYTHIN" style, but more people working on it would definitely improve the system.

While the forum doesn't need more moderators the Name Rater definitely needs more raters.

Also I like the change in Random Randomness where the topics were locked. Great job