(01-27-2017, 12:16 PM)Maia Wrote: I don't have much experience with running tournament-style events, so I'll leave the OoC logistical advice to the experts.
However, this topic came up just the other day in my linkshell chat, so maybe I can offer a suggestion or two regarding the theme.
The general lamentation I saw was that there don't seem to be any major tournaments right now who encourage a mixture of fighting styles. For example, there's a non-magic tournament, a magic-specific tournament, and a fight-club-esque brawl tournament -- but those who use aether and melee in combination find themselves at a natural handicap when entering one of the above. (A solid example of this being IC dark knights, among other skillsets that combine magic and stabby-stab.)
With the inevitable popularity of ICly being a Red Mage on the horizon, there may be a real interest in a "Spellsword" tournament, or even just a "Mixed Arts" theme. The main challenge might be to try and pair participants up with those who use somewhat equivalent fighting styles due to the "anything goes" aspect, but I can vouch that there's a demand.
If not, there's always a Pokemon-style monster-battle tournament for consideration!
I was going to add this as well. It has always struck me as somewhat odd that things are so divided - is it because it's somehow too unfair to mix things? Why not go for it anyways? It's not like it's deeply unrealistic to meet a spellslinger that wants to sling their spells at you outside of tournaments. And they do need to be able to deal with close-range fighting.Â
There's no such thing as a fair fight at the end of the day, in a complete IC and not OOC manner I'd love to see something more mixed. Heck, how about having it in a challenging area/climate so that the environment can both give a hand and take a hand away, with the creativity of the players.Â
Something else which I'd never really recommend because people are so diverse with how they want to rp, but has kept me from participating (Beyond the timezone bleep) - is that there's sometimes some things that just don't seem like they really have a place in canon eorzea. At the risk of sounding like a grumpy lorenazi, I have a hard time submitting my character to an event which I risk they might not even be able to talk about afterwards because it'd completely wreck their understanding of eorzea. I'm not saying it's wrong to toss these concepts into a tourney, nor do I think it's a solvable thing, outside of some sort of roleplayer utopia. It's just a thought I had. So please don't eat me.Â
On another note, I'd love a pet fighting tournament. PETA might get angry though.
