Colosseum Tournament

[Proto Man]

Bracket: <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://challonge.com/CamelotColosseum">http://challonge.com/CamelotColosseum</a><!-- m -->

Betting: <!-- l --><a class="postlink-local" href="http://omniverse-rpg.com/viewtopic.php?f=28&t=4163">viewtopic.php?f=28&t=4163</a><!-- l -->

The Tournament takes place at the Camelot Colosseum, a massive Ancient-world stadium not unlike the Roman Colosseum at its zenith, albeit with some more ‘modern’ amenities, like places selling Camelot cuisine and trinkets not unlike the souvenirs you would find at a baseball park or football stadium.

Given the scale of the Colosseum, eight matches will take place simultaneously. The floor/arena portion of the Colosseum is 300 feet long by 200 feet wide. So each fight zone for this and round two will be about 40 feet wide and 200 feet across.

During the entire duration of the tournament, the audience will be protected by an invisible magic shield. This same shield is used to divide up the interior of the Colosseum into eight portions to prevent fights from spilling out or interrupting anyone. This barrier has a ceiling at twenty feet.

Round 1 fights occur on an uneven dirt floor. Medieval weaponry, both melee and ranged, is available at both ends of each fighting area. Each fight area has various 3-foot by 5-foot stone barricades. A large jagged trench seven feet wide and eight feet deep zig-zags through the center of each fight area. The arena has been designed to emulate the minor historical battle fought eight years ago in southern Camelot, where an organized army of deserters attempted to march on Minas Tirith. The battle took place along a jagged fault line. One participant will play the role of Kingdom soldier while the other will play the role of a deserter. Make your own history.

There is a wait of thirty minutes between the first eight fights and the second eight fights (although for our OOC posts, all fights will happen simultaneously). Between rounds, there is a wait of two hours, allowing primes to either heal themselves or seek out medical attention. SP does not regenerate unless a Consumable item is used.

OOC Stuff

Purchases - Moves and other stuff may be purchased between fights. If you buy something during a fight, you may not use it during that fight.

The following are the rules for the first round of the tournament:

Judges: Gildarts/Caira and Thaal/BWNN
Alt Judge: Trixie
Backup Judges (More may be added): Dark Link, Proto Man/Shang Tsung

Word Limit: 750
Posts: 3
Time Limit: 48 hours
SP use in enabled. SP does not regenerate between rounds. Injuries may occur. Neither injuries or SP use are factored into judgment, only the quality of writing.

Note: There are no extensions for people who cannot make the posting deadline. If you miss a post, that will be factored into your score.

Judge Template

"Description and Clarity:
This section covers how effectively the writer created the world around the reader. Making sure that the reader can understand what is being described, using vivid or appropriate descriptions of items, events and people in the story and having good word choice all go into this section of the review. Note that using “purple prose” is not always effective, nor is consistently using flat, dry description. A writer that gets a good score in this section draws the reader into the world and allows them to see through the eyes of the character/narrator.

Voice:
No two writers write in the same style, nor should they. Even individual stories call for individual writing styles, a mood that creates a tinted lens through which the story is viewed. This is traditionally called the “voice” of the writer and it is a very important part of writing. A writer with a high score in this considers tone, pacing and including/disincluding detail throughout the entire story.

Character:
Character development, the actions and motivation of characters and dialogue are all important in this section. The goal is to create “round” characters as opposed to “flat” ones. Making the people in your writing seem real, not just archetypes following a plot progression is the goal here. The writer should consider who the people they are writing as are as individuals, why they take certain actions, their personal problems and boons, how they interact with the world around themselves and how they approach problems are all considerations for a writer in this section. Note that not all GOOD characters are LIKABLE characters. If you really hate a character that’s well written, this section deserves a good score!

Story:
Every body of creative writing, no matter how short or long, follows a storyline. How well the themes, events, messages and twists grab the reader is what makes the difference between a decent story and a great story. The writer must capture the reader’s attention hold it with the actions of characters and the world around them. This isn’t to say that a writing must be packed with action or intrigue, even something as simple as eating breakfast can be made into a great story. The presentation of events and how those events tie into the writer’s voice is what makes it good reading.

Grammar and Spelling:
This is the clerical work of the body of work. Spelling, punctuation, grammar and anything else that can be considered technical goes into this section. Generally every major grammatical error per 500 words moves this section down one grade."

"1: There is room for improvement. Generally the reviewer should highlight how the writer could improve this area as well as direct them to outside sources that can give more help.

2: This section was about average. The writer has room for improvement but about par with the rest of the site’s writing ability. Reviewer should highlight areas to improve and site specific errors or weak spots.

3: This section is above average. The writer has shown a competency higher than the average writer on the site, but can still notably improve. The reviewer can be vague with their ideas for improvement but still include specific details and weak spots.

4: This section was fantastic! The writer took the reins and really took the reader on a journey. Few errors or room for improvement can be found by the reviewer but anything that the reviewer feels could be cleaned up should be noted.

5: This section is one of the best the reviewer has ever seen. This level of writing is on par with professionals with very few errors and the reviewer should have a hard time finding room to improve. This grade should be handed out rarely, and only to the very best writing!"

[Ms. Marvel]

We can't bet on individual match ups? Just 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place? Awww man, please?! xD

[Proto Man]

You can bet on individual matches for fun, but it'd be far too much of a headache to do bets on every thing short of final top placements.

You are free to take the bracket - <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://challonge.com/CamelotColosseum">http://challonge.com/CamelotColosseum</a><!-- m --> - and then use paint to put in who you think will win and then post that up if you want to do it March Madness-style.

[Ms. Marvel]

You can bet on individual matches for fun, but it'd be far too much of a headache to do bets on every thing short of final top placements.

You are free to take the bracket - <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://challonge.com/CamelotColosseum">http://challonge.com/CamelotColosseum</a><!-- m --> - and then use paint to put in who you think will win and then post that up if you want to do it March Madness-style.

As an Angel, I would totally volunteer to be a bookie for individual fights, that way we could bet actual OM. Unless you are against the idea for some other reason other than the responsibilities for it. I'd totally handle it for ya, tho!

Edit: We could make it all done IC as well, with the story teller playing a bookie, that way if you wanted to bet, you'd have to create a post and do it IC.

Another Edit: If we did so, we'd just make another thread with the story teller as the bookie and we could move BWNN's last post over to that thread. He's already got it down. (It'd be better if it was all in its own thread instead of in the regular thread.

[Proto Man]

Edited into OP:

Round 1 fights occur on an uneven dirt floor. Medieval weaponry, both melee and ranged, is available at both ends of each fighting area. Each fight area has various 3-foot by 5-foot stone barricades. A large jagged trench seven feet wide and eight feet deep zig-zags through the center of each fight area. The arena has been designed to emulate the minor historical battle fought eight years ago in southern Camelot, where an organized army of deserters attempted to march on Minas Tirith. The battle took place along a jagged fault line. One participant will play the role of Kingdom soldier while the other will play the role of a deserter. Make your own history.

[Proto Man]

All Round 1 fights are posted. Group A and Group B fights are taking place simultaneously IC.

I added the dimensions of the arena floor to help provide everyone with the best idea of the space they are fighting in. As you can tell, the zones are very wide (the primes start on opposing ends)

[Black Mage]

Hey guys, wanted to say good luck to everybody out there, and I'm hoping for some great and interesting fights from everybody(especially you Ms. Dawnika Snow). May the best writer win.

[Red]

Wait, this isn't a Blitzball tournament?

[Magus]

Wait, this isn't a Blitzball tournament?

Arm-wrestling, actually.

[Black Mage]

Wait, this isn't a Blitzball tournament?

Arm-wrestling, actually.

[Kakashi Hatake]

I think I already know the answer to this, but just so I'm sure: the word limit is per post, right?

[Proto Man]

Yes. Per post

[Proto Man]

I've added the scoring card/template that all judges will be using throughout this tournament.

[Magus]

What word count tool will you be using?

MSword says I have 746 words currently, and online tools say I have anywhere from 747 - 767 words. I'd like not to be docked because your tool has a different count from mine.

[Proto Man]

Interesting. Is that due to hyphenated words?

[Magus]

I geniunely have no idea, but I don't think so. I only used two hyphenated words in this piece.

[Proto Man]

What's it say on - <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="https://wordcounter.net/">https://wordcounter.net/</a><!-- m -->

[Ururu Kyuuei]

The magical barrier around the fighting zone, is it semi-solid or is it unbreakably solid. I ask this because will sharp weapons cling to it as if they've penetrated it or will any and all weapons just simply bounce off of it and find no purchase?

And can things like wall walking techniques allow Ururu to cling to it or will it repel people as well.

[Bandit With No Name]

The magical barrier around the fighting zone, is it semi-solid or is it unbreakably solid. I ask this because will sharp weapons cling to it as if they've penetrated it or will any and all weapons just simply bounce off of it and find no purchase?

And can things like wall walking techniques allow Ururu to cling to it or will it repel people as well.

Completely, amazing super duper impervious to everything ever, physical, mental, emotional, metaphysical, pseudo-physical, nonphysical, hypothetical or anything other combination of anything. It's only purpose is to keep moves and stuff from entering or exiting the arena and can't really be used for anything else. The terrain inside the barrier is the stuff you can traverse, but the actual shield around the field isn't something you can climb on/use for much else.

[Strazio Rockwell]

The magical barrier around the fighting zone, is it semi-solid or is it unbreakably solid. I ask this because will sharp weapons cling to it as if they've penetrated it or will any and all weapons just simply bounce off of it and find no purchase?

And can things like wall walking techniques allow Ururu to cling to it or will it repel people as well.

Completely, amazing super duper impervious to everything ever, physical, mental, emotional, metaphysical, pseudo-physical, nonphysical, hypothetical or anything other combination of anything. It's only purpose is to keep moves and stuff from entering or exiting the arena and can't really be used for anything else. The terrain inside the barrier is the stuff you can traverse, but the actual shield around the field isn't something you can climb on/use for much else.

So if I for instance shot an energy beam at it will the shield deflect the beam or will the beam simply dissipate?