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This topic is meant for organizing and discussing the upcoming Tournament Season 3.
Have updated the proposal due to comments I got in this thread. All updated got marked coloured.
Ok, so far I got input that last tournament lacked low tech as well as people being interested in playing the bop mod. Additionally it seems to be a good idea to use the upcoming 1.0.3 patch from thunderchero as 'new' vanilla. After some discussion, it turned out that most people prefer a vanilla only tourney and bigger maps.
My idea of tournament 3 conditions currently is the following:
(with vanilla meaning no mod but 1.0.3 patch)
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having a plain tournament in which all people that lost in main tourney bracket will continue fighting, like JBL suggested
Questions: Shall winner of looser bracket get a second chance fighting winner of main bracket? Shall there be an additional special rank?
all games 1vs1, irregular, vanilla
1st: tech5, normal difficulty, many minors, random off, small map
2nd: tech4, hard, many minors, random off, small map
3rd: tech3, impossible, some minors, random on but BORG=OFF, small map
semi final: tech3, impossible, some minors, random on but BORG=OFF, medium map
final: tech3, impossible, no minors, random on but BORG=OFF, big map
matchup as well as first race choose by randomized bracket as last time (bracket will be created by thunderchero again if there's no complain
),time is one week for first three matches but with option to extend up to another week for 3rd round, one and a half weeks for semi final and up to two additional weeks for final. For extension, a defined time when both players will play must be made.
If a player has to forfeit, an already beatened player of same bracket can take his place and get another week for the fight if necessary. If still in plain tournament, you've the choise to advance back in main tournament bracket.
First game that loads has to be played, no restart allowed to simplify tournament.
The following got cancelled cause it would have been applied to one round only and for one single early round it just seem's to be unnecessarily complicating things:
normally the first map that loads up has to be played
But games with obviously very unfair conditions, except the first match (which is only meant as a fast knockout for adjusting the number of tournament participants), have to be restarted if the one with worse start condition is wanting so, no matter which turn.
Circumstances for this are:
-population difference of more than 120 on fully terraformed 2nd systems
To avoid restarting games on late turns, people have to tell each other how big their systems are on first turn (except first match of course).
This might be done either by telling the exact max population of the systems after terraforming or by using the following category: -- for [0-140), - for [140-200), o for [200-260), + for [260-320), ++ for [320-~)
[ is including the value, ) is excluding the value
if people are only one category apart, they normally can't difference by more than 120ppl
People can either tell me that they've lost (or gave up whyever), or send me the save of the turn when they've won and I'll assume it's true as long I don't hear any contrary.
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So, this is a discussion thread and I want to hear your opinion!
If you think there's something wrong, something to improve, or you're currently short in time (like me
) and would like to tell when you think tournament should take place, post it! 
(ok, just one day gone yet *g*)
I dont wish to sound rude but this was a bolt from the blue as prior to it being mentioned recently in the threads, i have never seen it being played in WZ before!! 
