League of Leagues - Reboot Part Deux

[rjs2442]

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?

 

 

[rjs2442]

Winner/Runner up amount subject to change pending interest level and how much of my money I feel like giving away! Other prizes to be determined based on sponsorship's. Ideally would like to get managers/companies to sponsor individual awards of their naming

Prizes:

Winner: $10,000,000, 3 Months VIP & Shiny Custom Trophy
Runner Up: $2,000,000

Original LoL Winner - Djoser Rei (175231)
LoL Reboot Winner - Mark Hill (338379)

 

[rjs2442]

Managers Signed Up:

1.  Blaze King (135281) - Roder Control (377643)
2.  Butch Harris (60096) - Vinny "Violent" Cotroni (377640)
3.  Don Xyel (22998) - Sinun Blacktoe (377593)
4.  Optimal MMA Picks (124821) - Big Smoke (377560)
5.  Alfred Winterbottom II (118115) - Kwame Nti (377552)
6.  Kishion Matthew (35926) - Generic Jobber (378099)
7.  Pika Choo (118678) - Laughing Panda (377568)
8. Chuck W94 (4966) - James Gracie (377647)
9. Izzy Fisher (138404) - Barry Goldberg (378041)
10. Jimmy Normal (121872) - Terry Tungsten (377554)
11. Johnny Lee (18714) - Kyle Chapman (377729)
12. Master Tessin (124340) - Billy Bob Cooter (377659)
13. Thaddeus Banks (118623) - Joey Kebab (377574)
14. Callum McGregor (93705) - Marco Denton (377627)
15. Portman Wright (114934) - Adams Bricks (377630)
16. Unkwalker (135088) - Spiridon Theato (377728) 
17. Dakota Thibodeaux (111180) - Everest Frank (377748)
18. Ethan Downs (19034) - Ramesses Rei (377582)
19. Mike Hunt (39215) - Jake Jones (377565)
20. Cope T (119600) - Nikita Yashin (377584)
21. Joe River (13987) - Apollo Creed (377597)
22. G Wad (88365) - Sergeant Smash (377626)
23. Dollas Drew (102523) - Emelianenko Fedor (378045)
24. Alexander Melchiott (109182) - Xiong Guo (377605)
25. John Pezao (120491) - Aderbar Moura (377625)
26. Joe Outlier (39290) - Carlito Montenegro (377567)
27. Larry Hawk (118780) - Dominick Yonic (377587)
28. Rabid Wolf (87737) - Booger Magee (377745)
29. Kanis Lupis (97975) - Monty Milano (377655)
30. Marius Catalin (116348) - Trek Shek (377586)
31. Sam Fairtex (15607) - Humberto Chavez (377917)  Raichu Kong (117362) - Android "The Powerful" Drago (379188)
32. Adam Lim (119511) - Deruck Nganoo (377660)
33. Arcalimon the Coach (101071) - Liam Reem (377562)
34. Frank Abbott (49418) - Cai Chi (377632)
35. Lincoln Hawks (3061) - Rocken Takedown (377628)
36. Emily Chenet (109702) - Ladislas Galopin (377585)
37. Aydan The Wandering Spirit (121658) - Mister Tumnus (377589)
38. Judo Beau (87295) - Max Scherzer (377576)
39. Izzy Fisher (138404) - Phil Cosby (377701)
40. Billy Arseworth (74054) - Carlos Lopez (377602)
41. Glenn Rocket (105695) - Imka Herzog (377645)
42. Brian Gatz (131458) - Padraig Ahearn (377637)
43. Hector Bautista (138309) - Jay Gatsby (377704)
44. Louie DePalma (17180) - Abdullah Zaire (377581)
45.  Joe Outlier (39290) - Axel Montenegro (377566)
46.  Butch Harris (60096) - Ginny Cotroni (377588)
47.  Johnny Lee (18714) - Alphonse Creele (377648)
48.  Alfred Winterbottom II (118115) - Akwasi Nti (377551)
49.  Louie DePalma (17180) - Damien Sepultra (377694)
50.  Frank Abbott (49418) - Moose McKinley (377631)

 

Reserves
1.  El Jeffe Parker (102531) - Rick Rude (378026)
2.  Uncle Nasty (102659) - Vick Venom (377829) 
3.  Raichu Kong (117362) - If required
4.  Petro Farantini (8759) - Bruno Hakalugi (377674)  Inactive 
5.  
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8.

 

[rjs2442]

The day we have all been waiting for... Please see below for listing of the Fighter Groups (Brackets) for the First Round...

Group 1

Barry Goldberg (378041)
Ramesses Rei (377582)
Sergeant Smash (377626)
Emelianenko Fedor (378045)
Xiong Guo (377605)
Monty Milano (377655)
Jay Gatsby (377704)
Axel Montenegro (377566)
Alphonse Creele (377648)
Akwasi Nti (377551)

Group 2

Kyle Chapman (377729)
Marco Denton (377627)
Carlito Montenegro (377567)
Booger Magee (377745)
Trek Shek (377586)
Cai Chi (377632)
Imka Herzog (377645)
Padraig Ahearn (377637)
Ladislas Galopin (377585)
Max Scherzer (377576)

Group 3

Vinny "Violent" Cotroni (377640)
Sinun Blacktoe (377593)
Big Smoke (377560)
Kwame Nti (377552)
Generic Jobber (378099)
Joey Kebab (377574)
Aderbar Moura (377625)
Dominick Yonic (377587)
Humberto Chavez (377917) Android "The Powerful" Drago (379188)
Moose McKinley (377631)

Group 4

Roder Control (377643)
James Gracie (377647)
Billy Bob Cooter (377659)
Adams Bricks (377630)
Spiridon Theato (377728)
Apollo Creed (377597)
Ginny Cotroni (377588)
Damien Sepultra (377694)
Mister Tumnus (377589)
Carlos Lopez (377602)

Group 5

Laughing Panda (377568)
Terry Tungsten (377554)
Everest Frank (377748)
Jake Jones (377565)
Nikita Yashin (377584)
Deruck Nganoo (377660)
Liam Reem (377562)
Rocken Takedown (377628)
Phil Cosby (377701)
Abdullah Zaire (377581)

[rjs2442]

Group A                    
                    
Sergeant Smash (377626)    v    Phil Cosby (377701)        
Ladislas Galopin (377585)    v    Terry Tungsten (377554)        
Aderbar Moura (377625)    v    Laughing Panda (377568)        
Kwame Nti (377552)    v    Sinun Blacktoe (377593)        
Adams Bricks (377630)    v    Apollo Creed (377597)        
                    
Sergeant Smash (377626)    v    Kwame Nti (377552)        
Adams Bricks (377630)    v    Aderbar Moura (377625)        
Apollo Creed (377597)    v    Ladislas Galopin (377585)        
Sinun Blacktoe (377593)    v    Phil Cosby (377701)        
Laughing Panda (377568)    v    Terry Tungsten (377554)        
                    
Sergeant Smash (377626)    v    Apollo Creed (377597)        
Sinun Blacktoe (377593)    v    Adams Bricks (377630)        
Laughing Panda (377568)    v    Kwame Nti (377552)        
Terry Tungsten (377554)    v    Aderbar Moura (377625)        
Phil Cosby (377701)    v    Ladislas Galopin (377585)        
                    
Sergeant Smash (377626)    v    Adams Bricks (377630)        
Apollo Creed (377597)    v    Kwame Nti (377552)        
Sinun Blacktoe (377593)    v    Aderbar Moura (377625)        
Laughing Panda (377568)    v    Ladislas Galopin (377585)        
Terry Tungsten (377554)    v    Phil Cosby (377701)        
                    
Sergeant Smash (377626)    v    Ladislas Galopin (377585)        
Aderbar Moura (377625)    v    Phil Cosby (377701)        
Kwame Nti (377552)    v    Terry Tungsten (377554)        
Adams Bricks (377630)    v    Laughing Panda (377568)        
Apollo Creed (377597)    v    Sinun Blacktoe (377593)        
                    
Sergeant Smash (377626)    v    Aderbar Moura (377625)        
Kwame Nti (377552)    v    Ladislas Galopin (377585)        
Adams Bricks (377630)    v    Phil Cosby (377701)        
Apollo Creed (377597)    v    Terry Tungsten (377554)        
Sinun Blacktoe (377593)    v    Laughing Panda (377568)      

                    
Sergeant Smash (377626)    v    Laughing Panda (377568)        
Terry Tungsten (377554)    v    Sinun Blacktoe (377593)        
Phil Cosby (377701)    v    Apollo Creed (377597)        
Ladislas Galopin (377585)    v    Adams Bricks (377630)        
Aderbar Moura (377625)    v    Kwame Nti (377552)        
                    
Sergeant Smash (377626)    v    Sinun Blacktoe (377593)        
Laughing Panda (377568)    v    Apollo Creed (377597)        
Terry Tungsten (377554)    v    Adams Bricks (377630)        
Phil Cosby (377701)    v    Kwame Nti (377552)        
Ladislas Galopin (377585)    v    Aderbar Moura (377625)        
                    
Sergeant Smash (377626)    v    Terry Tungsten (377554)        
Ladislas Galopin (377585)    v    Sinun Blacktoe (377593)        
Phil Cosby (377701)    v    Laughing Panda (377568)    
Aderbar Moura (377625)    v    Apollo Creed (377597)        
Kwame Nti (377552)    v    Adams Bricks (377630)        

[rjs2442]

Group B                    
                    
Axel Montenegro (377566)    v    Carlos Lopez (377602)        
Akwasi Nti (377551)    v    Roder Control (377643)        
Padraig Ahearn (377637)    v    Everest Frank (377748)        
Kyle Chapman (377729)    v    Monty Milano (377655)        
Big Smoke (377560)    v    Max Scherzer (377576)        
                    
Axel Montenegro (377566)    v    Kyle Chapman (377729)        
Big Smoke (377560)    v    Padraig Ahearn (377637)        
Max Scherzer (377576)    v    Akwasi Nti (377551)        
Monty Milano (377655)    v    Carlos Lopez (377602)        
Everest Frank (377748)    v    Roder Control (377643)        
                    
Axel Montenegro (377566)    v    Akwasi Nti (377551)        
Padraig Ahearn (377637)    v    Carlos Lopez (377602)        
Kyle Chapman (377729)    v    Roder Control (377643)        
Big Smoke (377560)    v    Everest Frank (377748)        
Max Scherzer (377576)    v    Monty Milano (377655)        
                    
Axel Montenegro (377566)    v    Big Smoke (377560)        
Max Scherzer (377576)    v    Kyle Chapman (377729)        
Monty Milano (377655)    v    Padraig Ahearn (377637)        
Everest Frank (377748)    v    Akwasi Nti (377551)        
Roder Control (377643)    v    Carlos Lopez (377602)        
                    
Axel Montenegro (377566)    v    Everest Frank (377748)        
Roder Control (377643)    v    Monty Milano (377655)        
Carlos Lopez (377602)    v    Max Scherzer (377576)        
Akwasi Nti (377551)    v    Big Smoke (377560)        
Padraig Ahearn (377637)    v    Kyle Chapman (377729)        
                    
Axel Montenegro (377566)    v    Padraig Ahearn (377637)        
Kyle Chapman (377729)    v    Akwasi Nti (377551)        
Big Smoke (377560)    v    Carlos Lopez (377602)        
Max Scherzer (377576)    v    Roder Control (377643)        
Monty Milano (377655)    v    Everest Frank (377748)        
                    
Axel Montenegro (377566)    v    Roder Control (377643)        
Carlos Lopez (377602)    v    Everest Frank (377748)        
Akwasi Nti (377551)    v    Monty Milano (377655)        
Padraig Ahearn (377637)    v    Max Scherzer (377576)        
Kyle Chapman (377729)    v    Big Smoke (377560)        
                    
Axel Montenegro (377566)    v    Max Scherzer (377576)        
Monty Milano (377655)    v    Big Smoke (377560)        
Everest Frank (377748)    v    Kyle Chapman (377729)        
Roder Control (377643)    v    Padraig Ahearn (377637)        
Carlos Lopez (377602)    v    Akwasi Nti (377551)        
                    
Axel Montenegro (377566)    v    Monty Milano (377655)        
Everest Frank (377748)    v    Max Scherzer (377576)        
Roder Control (377643)    v    Big Smoke (377560)        
Carlos Lopez (377602)    v    Kyle Chapman (377729)        
Akwasi Nti (377551)    v    Padraig Ahearn (377637)        

 

 

 

 

[rjs2442]

Round 2 Standings

 

[saklain]

Im down. Also if you need another org to host, I'll be down for that as well.

[The1rstSaint]

Im up for this, but i must say i feel like your going to have to do a lot of reaching out for this one. #2 may be a little more realistic. 64 fighters though would be sweet!

Count me in.

[Xyel]

Sign me up

[OptimalMMAPicks]

I’m in

[Alfred]

I'm in 100%. This is going to be great like the last one!

I still have my guy from that and, in fact, he is my top fighter currently and doing quite well (Samuel Nti) To me he proves that 25 year olds can be viable and that not every damn fighter needs to be an 18 year old project that sits in a gym for the first year of his life. The last tournament was weekly fights too.

It was a long tournament so definitely not for the flakey ass whiney, whingey, cherry picking, cowardly sort of fellow who doesn't want to participate anymore when things don't go your way.

Saklain, I see you have signed up and that's worrying considering that you just flaked out of the alliance tournament after just three rounds (whole tournament was 8 rounds) If you can screw over your alliance for no reason then what's stopping you from screwing over Louie after getting your ass kicked for a couple of rounds?

[robin10]

I'm down.

[Icon73]

I'm in

[Pandachu]

I would like to join :)

[dein93]

[chuckw94]

I'm in, I also sent a mass mailer to my org showing this thread and letting the guys know about it.

[TheBuster]

I'd be down, sounds awesome

[saklain]

11 hours ago, Alfred said:

I'm in 100%. This is going to be great like the last one!

I still have my guy from that and, in fact, he is my top fighter currently and doing quite well (Samuel Nti) To me he proves that 25 year olds can be viable and that not every damn fighter needs to be an 18 year old project that sits in a gym for the first year of his life. The last tournament was weekly fights too.

It was a long tournament so definitely not for the flakey ass whiney, whingey, cherry picking, cowardly sort of fellow who doesn't want to participate anymore when things don't go your way.

Saklain, I see you have signed up and that's worrying considering that you just flaked out of the alliance tournament after just three rounds (whole tournament was 8 rounds) If you can screw over your alliance for no reason then what's stopping you from screwing over Louie after getting your ass kicked for a couple of rounds?

I apologize for leaving the alliance tournament early. There was a lot of private matters which led me to leave the tournament but I am sorry about that. I promise that it won't happen again.

[Carciofi]

Sounds fun, sign me up. 

[JLP]

ill join

[XxxtremeT13]

Sign me up for a slot! Also, I'm willing to open an org specifically for this if it helps. I can also do some sponsorships between both my companies. Little cash and some free 160q supps...Also, if someone were to create a top and bottom clothing combo, I'd order enough stock to outfit each 64 fighter with about 20pieces of each to start. Timing will be key on being able to provide more units. Also, I'll keep you posted on tossing in a few extra bucks for award money. Keep me in the loop..I'll do my best to stay up on the thread.

[clydebankblitz]

I'm in!

[TycoonHec]

 

- Open to creating unique clothing for this tournament through my brand - Contenders Clothing

- Open to writing occasional interviews and previews for this tournament if desired. 

[Ikkitakeda]

I'll fight.