What is Forum Brawl?Forum Brawl is a forum event where up to 12 teams show their snazziness against each other in different tasks that happen all around the forums.
Teams will have between 3 and 6 members, each with a variety of skills and roles. Players go head-to-head against players from other teams by doing tasks related to these various roles. The community decides which players perform the best, and points are awarded accordingly. After 6 rounds of brawling, the team with the highest score will be the winner.
What makes Forum Brawl different from most other events is the fact that
there is no PvP in Forum Brawl. The event is all about creativity, artistic skills, and most importantly, forum awesomeness.
BrawlmasterWe will have two
Brawlmasters who are responsible for Forum Brawl event. They will have an active role in designing the tasks for each round, and will handle all the day-to-day actions like posting new topics or replying to questions about the event. Brawlmasters will be appointed by the Elements Council. This time around they are
Naesala and
CleanOnion.
How to Join Forum BrawlForum Brawl will usually happen right after War event ends. Once the sign-up topic is posted and the Bosses are made public, any community members may join the event.
Each player will create a short application in their own thread for the generals to later vote on. An example is given below. Players should list their top 3 favorite teams, their Favored Tasks, time zone, and availability. Team names will be made available before the application phase; these names will be chosen by the bosses and have some impact on the tasks. Additionally, members should, if able, create a short portfolio of their works via links to show their ability and should write a small paragraph on why they would be good members for Brawl. Important things to consider are dependability, availability, and skill. Once all applications are in, players will be divided, based on their Favoured Tasks, into the various groups so that the bosses can ensure they pick players who, together, will do every Task.
There a six types of Task, shown below, and an ideal team would include a number of members whose Favored Tasks meet all those categories. For example, in a team with 4 players:
- Boss: Master A
- Artist: Player B
- Card Design, Deckbuilding and Writer: Player C
- Forum Expert and Writer: Player D
This is a good team because, between all players, each task has someone doing it. If a Boss makes a team in which nobody wants to do one of the Tasks... well, that team's submissions for that Task won't be very good!
Building the TeamBosses will have 42 initial points to be spent on their team members. They will bet with these points and will start Brawl with the remaining ones. They can not go into negative points. Bidding will occur in Google Docs (or in application threads, if the bosses prefer) that any member can see at any time. Bosses will be refunded a point bid on a player if they are on that players top three bosses. Refunded points do not count as "not going negative" for the purposes of bidding.
If two Bosses bet equally for a player, the player decides the team they will be in. If a player has to be substituted in later to replace inactive team members, they will cost the boss the average cost of all players who were bid on.
Spoiler for application example:
Brawl ApplicationName: Clean0nion
Favoured Teams: Team Archangel, Team Humongous Crotch Cannon, Team Naesala's Beautiful Face
Favoured Roles: Artist, Writer, Forum Expert
Timezone (GMT): GMT+0
Usually Online: Afternoons and Evenings
Portfolio: Artist - here's mah portfolio
http://elementscommunity.org/forum/portfolio/clean0nion's-portfolio-10-cards/Writer: I won a competition once
Why I would make a good Brawl member: I would make a good Brawl member because if you don't vote for me, you are discriminating against onions. And that is illegal.
Roles1. BossEach team will have a
Boss whose main responsibility is to build the team. Boss will also participate in the event by duelling other Bosses in random tasks. Boss is different from other roles because you do not sign up to be a boss in the normal application phase.
Masters of each element will first be given the opportunity to become a Boss. If fewer than seven of the Masters are interested, there will be a public application thread for Bosses, and the Brawlmasters will select a number of applicants to bring the total number of bosses up to seven. The event is
not compulsory, so Masters should not be afraid to decline if they feel they do not have enough time or interest. Boss submissions will be standardized based on which type of role they are emulating each round.
2. Card DesignerCard Designers duel other Card Designers by producing a new card idea based on theme and restrictions posted each round.
3. DeckbuilderDeckbuilders duel other Deckbuilders by building unique decks based on theme and restrictions posted each round.
4. ArtistArtists produce unique Elements related art. This category includes many visual mediums, so photography, film and drawings are permissible or can be required besides digital art.
5. WriterWriters produce unique Elements related stories and poems.
6. Forum ExpertForum Experts work with many of the things that make the forums great that don't fit into above categories (Wiki, Tools,
Off-Topic Discussions, etc.). This role requires many well-rounded skills.
Submission rules for each category may be altered each round based on the task.
RoundsForum Brawl has a total of
6 rounds, each lasting
7 days. A new round will start as soon as the last one ends. Tasks will be relatively simple so 7 days should be more than enough time to perform them. Overall workload of Forum Brawl will be much less than in events like War and Trials. The event lasts 7-8 weeks in total.
ScoringScoring will be based on community vote, team vote and bonus points given by the Expert Panel. Any team not submitting a legitimate submission for a category will receive zero points. Note: legitimate means that it must meet all the requirements of the round and be relevant and should show some effort. For example, an image of a grey square would not be legitimate for a round in which you must redraw Lava Golem, or even moreso for writing an article about zanzarino. Voting for all three groups will use the following table:
1. Community Vote
Each round, there will be a public thread on all submissions with them mostly-randomly ordered within their sections. Each non-Brawler will post their top pick for each category in this thread, up to two per category, and be required to discuss why they voted as they did. In the event of a tie, tied submissions will add their points together and divide evenly. Any extra points will be dropped. After 6 days, a Brawlmaster will post in the thread to notify that voting is over, but discussion may continue.
Place ~>
Round v | 7th | 6th | 5th | 4th | 3rd | 2nd | 1st | | Round 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | | Round 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | | Round 3 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 8 | 10 | 12 | 14 | | Round 4 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 8 | 10 | 12 | 14 | | Round 5 | 3 | 6 | 9 | 12 | 15 | 18 | 21 | | Round 6 | 4 | 8 | 12 | 16 | 20 | 24 | 28 |
| 2. Team Vote
The team vote will occur much the same as the community votes, using the same table but posting within their secret sections. At least one vote per task must not be made on a fellow teammate (So, you can have a single vote for another team, or two votes, one for your team and one for another team). Each team has 6 Voting Power per role, and the team votes determine where this voting power is allocated eg 3 votes to one team, 2 to another, 1 to a third. These are added to the Community Votes.
Strategic voting (such as voting on the losing team to penalize the winning team) is discouraged, as is electing not to vote, but there is no penalty for not voting.
The submissions then receive points based on the table to the left.
| 3. Brawlmaster Panel
Both Brawlmasters pick their favorites in all 6 categories. Each submission that is picked by one of the members of the Expert Panel, scores an additional 2 points (not votes). One submission can receive bonus points from more than one Expert Panel member. |
Scoring will happen during rounds so that the scoring of round 1 will happens during round 2, scoring of round 2 happens during round 3, etc. Scoring will be shown in Google Docs to the public at any given time.
Challenges Each player may once, at any time, challenge another team to a contest they choose in any field of Brawl. They both have the remainder of the Round to complete the assignment. The community votes on the challenges the next voting phase. The winner gains 8 points and the loser loses 8 points. The challenged team may decline the challenge, in which case they forfeit 5 points. Teams may also issue combo challenges, in which they issue a single task that is appropriate for multiple team members (such as a challenge to make a card for an Artist-Card Design combo). For these, the gains
can be multiplied up to the number of participants. So, a two-combo task can award 16 to the winner and subtracts 16 from the loser. A forfeit would still subtract 5 points. The multiple is chosen by the challenging team, and can be no more than equal to the number of people on each side (A 3 vs 3 challenge may multiply up to 3).
Challenges are declared by PMing the Brawlmasters but not the challengee. Challengers will title the PM "BM-C [Challenge] [Challenging team]" before the Challenge timer ends in the current round. If the Brawlmasters approve the challenge, they will send the approval to the challenger and challengee. Both players must submit their finished work by the end of the round. Submissions will be voted on in the next voting round. If the challengee does not make a submission, they will have been considered as declining.
Each team may make up to 6 challenges in total.
If the challenge is sent to the Brawlmasters after the timer has ended, it will take place in the following round.
Wagers Each player can, up to 2 times, bet against another in the same role for any amount of points between 6 and 15. If the wager is accepted, the players bid the amount points decided by the wagerer. If it is declined, that player loses 5 points.
The wager consists of getting more votes than the other player in the current round.
Wagers are declared by PMing the Brawlmasters and the target of the wager with the title "BM-W [Wager] [Wagering Team]" before the Challenge timer ends. If there is no response by the end of the round, it is considered as a declined wager.
Event Cards Each round of Forum Brawl will be accompanied by an Event Card that alters the rules or adds additional options to the round. Rules for each of these will be explained on the card and by the Brawlmasters.
WinnerThe team that has the most points after all 6 rounds, wins the event. All members of the team will receive a cool forum award icon and tons of respect. In the event of a tie, there will be a sudden death challenge for the bosses to determine the winner.
If it is still a tie, there will be another challenge. If it is still a tie, there will be a dance-off. If it is still a tie, the boss that records themselves eating the most food will win. If it is still a tie, the boss who looks like they enjoyed it most will win. If it is still a tie, the boss that donates most to the forum wins. If both bosses bankrupt themselves, the last boss to die cold and alone wins.
We appreciate feedback! If you have any ideas on how to improve the rules, please post it in the Suggestions and Feedback topic. Thank you.
