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Good Evening Tycoon Managers! Back in 2018 I had a vision, a dream, a.... Ok it was merely an idea! And here I am, with the idea to run it back once again. With the end of the Island Season soon to come to a close, I would once again like to create the League of Leagues tourney!! It wont be easy, it may not be well received, we may need to adjust some of the rules to get the participation we require but if successful, it could make some managers filthy rich!! For this to happen I may need some help, I may have a need for a couple of volunteers, and like the previous incarnations, this will require an active, determined and committed group to pull this off. For those who remember, this is not an easy tourney, and its definitely very rewarding for the finalists, but can be very humbling for others. Depending on how I roll this out, this time around the plan is to run everything in 1 Org and run events 2 weeks apart, unless there is anyone out there willing to host an Org? As always any managers willing to step up with some bonus $$$, some entertaining awards ideas and maybe some sponsorship's will certainly not be turned away! Basic idea is to get 64 participants plus an additional 16 reserves, and don't worry a lot of reserves will find themselves in the thick of things before long because we always have guys who bail, its to be expected. Lets use this thread as a discussion/sign up thread and then once we know we are set to go we can create a new thread for the actual tourney. I would like to give props to the originator of this idea/format Shiv Hysteria. I am totally stealing his idea from him again however please know, I am not doing this for my own gain, I am doing it in an effort to spark some interest in the game, get people more active, hell maybe even draw some former managers back to participate. Do you know a manager who just left, maybe someone who participated in the last or even the original run of LoL? Get the word out, lets make this as much fun as we can. As of right now I will be following all the original rules set out by Shiv during the first running and followed in the Reboot version with the exception of looking at 2 weeks between fights to accommodate only 1 Org however that can be discussed. I am just doing a copy/paste of the rules below but feel free to discuss. I don't want a bitch session, and I don't want to drift too far from the original rules, but if need be I am open to looking at options. Original sign up thread for LoL Original Tourney/Smack talk Thread Reboot sign up/Smack Talk Thread Here's how it works. - This will be a creation tournament. All fighters must be 25 years old. If you have any opinions, feel free to post it in the thread. Fighters must be created during the timeframe that will decided on once we hit our participation number, the creation window will be one week. Any managers who have not created a fighter by the end date could be removed from the tournament (at my discretion). - All fights will take place in a city yet to be determined, leaning towards Sydney due to large arena availability. Fights will take place in the 265+ lbs division. You can make a fighter of any height and any weight, it's up to you but we will be fighting within the 265+ division. - Please come up with interesting names / backstories for your fighters. This is not a requirement but it would make the tournament a lot more fun. - Ideally there will be 64 fighters. If we enjoy more participation interest over the next few days we will look at increasing the size by increasing total fighters per league. On the flip side we can look at a smaller tourney if interest does not hit our 64 target however that would decrease the prize pool that will be available. - There will be 8 5 leagues (or groups) of 8 10 fighters each. Each group will have 2 "bye weeks" (entire group will not fight during 2 weeks during the overall 11 weeks of round one allowing the ability to train/recover throughout the tourney) Each fighter will fight the other fighters in their group once. A win gets a fighter 3 points, a draw 1 point and a loss none. A NC or not accepting your fight results in -3 points. Fights will be once every two weeks so I suggest you remember to tick that injury hidden. You will be expected to fight regardless of how bad your injury is. Still open to growing to 2 Orgs if a suitable second can be found allowing for weekly fights. - At the end of the group stage, the top two 3 fighters from each league will advance. This will be based on total points for all the fighters. In case of a tie, the winner will be decided on the bases of things (in the following order): Wins, Head-to-Head Record, Fastest Finish (in the tournament, thanks to the EPL for this tiebreak idea). In the off chance that they are magically even in all these categories, things will be decided on a toss of a coin to see who goes on, most probably after punching my computer screen in frustration. In total, we will have 16 15 fighters qualifying by this method. These fighters will get a one week break before the next round of the tournament. - 4 5 more fighters from the unqualified ones will be selected by me. This will be based on my own opinions and will be based in a variety of factors such as: performances, hype/pop, activity (on the forums), etc. So hell, if there is a fighter who constantly posts interviews and makes this tournament fun, I'd be likely to pick him. 4 other fighters will be picked from a poll on the forums. This poll will start being conducted a week before the final result of the tournament. These 8 fighters will fight each other for a spot in the final 20. - These remaining 20 fighters will then participate in the second group stage, which consists of two 10-person groups. They'll fight each other in the same format as before and the top 4 from each group will go on and fight in a knock-out format to ultimately decide the winner. - Do understand that this is not a short tournament. The first round will take 14 9 weeks with a week break in between (7 weeks if we add a second Org) and then another 9 weeks and knockout rounds a week each for the second stage. The total time for the running of this tournament would be 20 weeks. Only if you are interested despite knowing how long it'll last should you join. - Contracts will be for something like 24 fights at 1000/1000 3000/3000 to begin with (I may reconsider this, still need to mull it over. Some fighters will end up being out of the tournament way before their total fights. If this happens, we will happily release them or re-neg them to a regular contract whereby they can continue fighting for a little in the org. - The prize pool will drop by 30k for every fighter that drops out and be given to the person who agrees to make a replacement for that fighter. If no replacement can be found, 50k will be taken out of the prize pool. This is kept in effect so people think twice before signing up and then again before thinking of skipping out on the tournament. You will get a bad rep from a pool of 60 managers if you run out on the tournament. - PLEASE REMEMBER THAT YOU HAVE TO ACCEPT A FIGHT EVERY 2 WEEKS AND FIGHT EVERY 2 WEEKS. THIS TOURNAMENT IS NOT FOR PEOPLE WHO MAY/MAY NOT BE ABLE TO BE THAT ACTIVE. All that aside, the idea behind this whole tournament is to: - have frequent, interesting fights. - have a shot at winning a huge purse plus other prizes. - be on an "even" playing field with other managers. fighters will be new creations and thus, weekly matchups will be very interesting. i doubt many fighters will truly be able to dominate the entirety of the tournament. - most importantly, have a good time while doing all of this. Hell, ideally, I'd love to see people take interest in this and have an opportunity to do weekly smacktalk / interviews etc with their fighters in this. I treat this like a community project. If you like the idea and want to help organize, run, fund, hell whatever you want with it, message me and we'll make it happen. I'd love if people would like to sponsor more prizes. A weekly FOTN etc prize is one idea that I thought might be awesome. Frankly, if you like the idea of the tournament and are interested in helping with it but don't know how, message me and we'll work from there. All that said, if you're interested to sign up, post here. If you have thoughts, post here. If you want to do something with this tournament, message me. Hell, if you want to run the org that hosts this, message me. If, somehow, I am completely insane and there aren't enough people to go ahead with this then well, no loss right?

So recently I have a feeling and I am sure I am not alone, there is likely many many managers of this game who feel the same as I do. The game has gotten stale, boring, lacking imagination or energy. Long gone are the days of active smack talk, managers showing a creative side and truly enjoying the game for what it is, a text based fantasy game where we create identities, persona's and ultimately succesful legends! Based on all of this an idea came to me that I want to throw out there to the masses, most wont remember as this took place all the way back in 2012 but I would like to try and reboot one of the most enjoyed, successful and entertaining tournaments we have ever witnessed. Yes I agree it fizzled out alittle at the end, but overall it was amazing and if it wasnt for Ethan Downs cheating his way to victory....wait thats a story for another day. Anyways I would like to try and recreate the League of Leagues tourney!! It wont be easy, it may not be well received, we may need to adjust some of the rules to get the participation we require but if successful, it could make some managers filthy rich!! For this to happen I will need some help, I already have a couple volunteers but this will require an active, determined and committed group to pull this off. I will need one, possibly 2 Orgs, and some managers to step up with some bonus $$, some entertaining awards ideas and maybe some sponsorship's! My hope is to get 64 participants plus some reserves but we will have to see how we make out before finalizing the numbers. Lets use this thread as a discussion/sign up thread and then once we know we are set to go we can create a new thread for the actual tourney. Basically I would like to give props to the originator of this idea/format Shiv Hysteria. I am totally stealing his idea however please know, I am not doing this for my own gain, I am doing it in an effort to spark some interest in the game, get people more active, hell maybe even draw some former managers back to participate. Do you know a manager who just left, maybe someone who participated in the orginal run of LoL? get the word out, lets make this as much fun as we can. As of right now I will be following all the original rules set out by Shiv during the first running. I am just doing a copy/paste of the rules below but feel free to discuss. I dont want a bitch session, and I dont want to drift too far from the original rules, but if need be I am open to looking at options. Original sign up thread for LoL Original Tourney/Smack talk Thread Here's how it works. - This will be a creation tournament. All fighters must be 25 years old. If you have any opinions, feel free to post it in the thread. Fighters must be created during the timeframe that will decided on once we hit our participation number, the creation window will be one week. Any managers who have not created a fighter by the end date could be removed from the tournament (at my discretion). - All fights will take place in a city yet to be determined. This will be decided based on arena availablilty and centralized for easy access by all fighters. Fights will take place in the 265+ lbs division. You can make a fighter of any height and any weight, it's up to you but we will be fighting within the 265+ division. - Please come up with interesting names / backstories for your fighters. This is not a requirement but it would make the tournament a lot more fun. - Ideally there will be 64 fighters. If we enjoy more participation interest over the next few days we will look at increasing the size by increasing total fighters per league. On the flip side we can look at a smaller tourney if interest does not hit our 64 target however that would decrease the prize pool that will be available. - There will be 8 leagues (or groups) of 8 fighters each. Each fighter will fight the other fighter in their group once. A win gets a fighter 3 points, a draw 1 point and a loss none. A NC or not accepting your fight results in -3 points. Fights will be once a week so I suggest you remember to tick that injury hidden. You will be expected to fight regardless of how bad your injury is. - At the end of the group stage, the top two fighters from each league will advance. This will be based on total points for all the fighters. In case of a tie, the winner will be decided on the bases of things (in the following order): Wins, Head-to-Head Record, Fastest Finish (in the tournament, thanks to the EPL for this tiebreak idea). In the off chance that they are magically even in all these categories, things will be decided on a fight between the two of them. If somehow they end up drawing in that fight, I shall toss a coin to see who goes on, most probably after punching my computer screen in frustration. In total, we will have 16 fighters qualifying by this method. These fighters will get a one week break before the next round of the tournament. - 4 more fighters from the unqualified ones will be selected by me. This will be based on my own opinions and will factor in a variety of factors like: performances, hype/pop, activity (on the forums), etc. So hell, if there is a fighter who constantly posts interviews and makes this tournament fun, I'd be likely to pick him. 4 other fighters will be picked from a poll on the forums. This poll will start being conducted a week before the final result of the tournament. These 8 fighters will fight each other for a spot in the final 20. - The remaining 20 fighters will then participate in the second group stage, which consists of two 10-person groups. They'll fight each other in the same format as before and the top 4 from each group will go on and fight in a knock-out format to ultimately decide the winner. - Do understand that this is not a short tournament. The first round will take 7 weeks with a week break in between and then another 9 weeks and knockout rounds a week each. The total time for the running of this tournament would be 20 weeks. Only if you are interested despite knowing how long it'll last should you join. - Contracts will be for something like 24 fights at 1000/1000 to begin with (I may reconsider this, still need to mull it over. Some fighters will end up being out of the tournament way before their total fights. If this happens, we will happily release them or re-neg them to a regular contract whereby they can continue fighting for a little in the org. - The prize pool will drop by 30k for every fighter that drops out and be given to the person who agrees to make a replacement for that fighter. If no replacement can be found, 50k will be taken out of the prize pool. This is kept in effect so people think twice before signing up and then again before thinking of skipping out on the tournament. You will get a bad rep from a pool of 60 managers if you run out on the tournament. - PLEASE REMEMBER THAT YOU HAVE TO ACCEPT A FIGHT EACH WEEK AND FIGHT EACH WEEK. THIS TOURNAMENT IS NOT FOR PEOPLE WHO MAY/MAY NOT BE ABLE TO BE THAT ACTIVE. All that aside, the idea behind this whole tournament is to: - have frequent, interesting fights. - have a shot at winning a huge purse plus other prizes. - be on an "even" playing field with other managers. fighters will be new creations and thus, weekly matchups will be very interesting. i doubt many fighters will truly be able to dominate the entirety of the tournament. - most importantly, have a good time while doing all of this. Hell, ideally, I'd love to see people take interest in this and have an opportunity to do weekly smacktalk / interviews etc with their fighters in this. I treat this like a community project. If you like the idea and want to help organize, run, fund, hell whatever you want with it, message me and we'll make it happen. I'd love if people would like to sponsor more prizes. A weekly FOTN etc prize is one idea that I thought might be awesome. Frankly, if you like the idea of the tournament and are interested in helping with it but don't know how, message me and we'll work from there. All that said, if you're interested to sign up, post here. If you have thoughts, post here. If you want to do something with this tournament, message me. Hell, if you want to run the org that hosts this, message me. If, somehow, I am completely insane and there aren't enough people to go ahead with this then well, no loss right?