FUN -- all in one day

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If the event was to occur all in one day, how could this happen?

First, everyone has to agree to meet at a certain time globally. Let's say 11PM sat 15th GMT. They intend to play for the next couple of hours, with a final sometime about 1am GMT. How could this happen on the day?

1. Players nominate one of their teams to meet with other nominated team-players, lets call them Exemplars since team-captain is a little too closely tied up with traditional ways of organising a team. 2. The exemplars meet in some kind of chat room at a specified time. They have 5 mins to find another team to play against and which server. Perhaps they have arranged this before the day, perhaps not... With teams matched, and servers allocated, the Exemplars return to their teams and mobilise them. 3. The match is played. A winner is determined. 4. The winners send their Exemplars to the same chatroom to notify results, and to organise to play against another winning team. 5. repeat step 3 and 4 until there is one winning team.

Of course, to make life more complicated, you could possibly arrange a round-robin if all the players can commit enough time to it. However, as it stands, it is just a simple little experiment, to see if we can organise ANYTHING in a couple of hours with minimal fuss. With let's say 8 teams, that means a first round of 4 servers, a second round of 2 servers, and a final server round. Three rounds, each taking about 1/2 hour: the winner to be determined after less than two hours.

Of course, losing teams can either follow how the competition is going, watch as spectators, but will probably want to play against other losing teams to regain some confidence, and while away the hours, or whatever takes their fancy.


One of the central points, is to glean enough from the experience to make the next competition, the Ladle a little more efficient, avoid some problems encountered, improve team-play potentially, and so on. At the heart of it, it has to be easy, which is the best way pf approaching FUN.