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With the 30-card tourney wrapping up, I'm pleased to announce Culdcept Central's newest tournament: The Interchange tourney (also dubbed the "Not Your Deck tourney" by Beena).

The rules for this tournament are as follows:

Once a player is signed up he/she is to create a deck specifically for the tournament. When done, they will then post this deck on the forum. Seems straightforward right? Well here comes the twist: For every match you play you are allowed to pick ONLY the decks listed for this tourney - but wait, there's more! - you CANNOT use the deck that you listed yourself! In other words you will be using only the decks other people created. To make sure decks are viable, I will review every deck submitted before they are officially eligible to be entered into this tournament. The object here is NOT to create a bad deck, but a good deck that others will want to use!

The idea for this tourney came in the chat room while we were discussing how people play the same decks completely differently. The thing is, everyone has such a different playing style from everyone else that it'll be fun to watch people work with cards that they would normally overlook, try to use a deck built around a foreign strategy, or simply adjust their entire playing style every round of the tournament.

The basic rules:

50 card deck
TG = 7,000
Rounds = 95
Timer = 60 seconds
Land = Random
Map = assigned per round
E-Cards = Allowed
Format = 1 vs. 1 double elimination

In the event of a disconnect, players are allowed to play new decks (unless otherwise agreed upon prior to the match).

Please note, that if you drop out, you won't be allowed to participate in other leagues on this site. Some exceptions to this drop out rule are family emergencies, RROD, etc.

Once everyone is signed up I will put a bracket together through Random.org. From there, who you play depends on your path through the bracket.

If there are any questions about the rules, feel free to ask. The rules will be revised and clarified as needed.

p.s. - to add one final incentive to create a good deck, at tourney's end, the 2 players who had the most popular decks chosen will square off against each other -- only using the opposite decks.


PARTICIPANTS:
Andyman
MadMaxx
Derceto7
PezCat
djd51
Willben

I'm in... this sounds way too fun to miss.

I also wanted to add that if enough players sign up for this tourney, I'll throw in some cool Culdcept swag for the player who makes the most popular deck.

I am in!

I'd like to try this, but I'm curious as to how the map thing will work. Will we essentially be building Swiss army/multipurpose, "win on any map"-type decks because we won't know the maps ahead of time? Or will you tell us the map for each round and then we'll build the deck for it? Certain cards are, of course, super useful on some maps but next to useless on others.

Dirk the maps will be chosen at random so your "swiss army" deck style would be appropriate. Any other questions feel free to ask

Note to all:

For the time being I am going to delay this tournament. There are a few people who've shown interest but are too busy with summer activities to play. I'm going to re-open sign ups in the fall and hopefully will be able to catch more participants since vacations and the good weather will have subsided. Sorry for any inconvenience but I believe that the more players the more fun this tournament will be as there will be more and more decks to choose from.

Have a great summer all, and I'll re-open this thread at a later date.

Great news everyone -- The Interchange Tourney is back up and ready to roll! I'm gonna re-open sign ups and give it 3 weeks for more participants to join. With Summer coming to an end, what better to kick off the fall season than an inaugural Culdcept Tournament!? Hopefully we can get a good group to participate -- remember, the MORE people we get, the MORE decks to choose from and the more disparity we'll have when it comes to matches. So come one come all and don't be shy this will be much more laid back and 'friendly' than the Saga bowl and other intense tourneys. Great for beginners or those who are still new to deck building too!

Sign up, Have fun and good luck!

Alright, it looks like all we have is the crusty veterans, so let's get a rookie in this thing - I'm in!

EXCELLENT Pez! Welcome to the tourney it should be a blast . Hopefully we can get a few more to jump in here soon and get this thing rolling. Don't be shy peoples!

After much thought, I like to join. I'm still new to deck building but hopefully I learn a thing or two...

Djd51 you're in! welcome to the tourney. I'm gonna give it just a little longer to see if we can get a few more to step up to the plate. If not, I'm willing to run it with the amount of participants we have. Pretty stoked to see how this tourney turns out

Everyone I will close signups for this tourneament on Sunday and we will get this show on the road! Here's anyones last chance to sign up before we start this thing... Come on and join the fun!

I'm in, but my participation may be slightly delayed.
I'll build my deck later today after I get some studying done

Welcome to the fun Will! Don't worry about your deck just yet, I'll have everyone PM me their deck when the tourney signups are over then start a new thread for the pairings that will include every deck anonymously so nobody knows who's deck their choosing

Sign ups are now CLOSED. Thanks to all who joined I hope you have as much fun as I expect it to be!