Replacing the Duels section with King of the Hill

[kev]

The Duels section came into being a year ago and in that time less than 100 matches have taken place.  I think the whole Duels concept is sort of broad, confusing, unapproachable, and unrewarding.

I wouldn't mind seeing Koth replace it.  General feedback on the idea of replacing Duels is appreciated.

A rough Koth framework
- Lasts some period of time (~2 months)
- Koth season starts with a match between two players.  The player who wins becomes the King of the Hill.  Players challenge the King until one wins and becomes King.
- If you challenge and lose to the Koth you may not challenge him for another 20 hours.
- If you lose to the Koth three times you may not challenge again until the current Koth is beaten and replaced.
- If the Koth doesn't have a match during a 72 hour period, his reign is ended.  Any two players (including the former Koth) can then fight.  The winner becomes Koth with one win.
- At the end of the Koth season, whoever had the longest string of victories as Koth wins.  Tie goes to whoever had the win streak last.  Forum award icon and maybe in-game prizes to the victor.
- Deckbuilding rules can be whatever the Organizer decides.  An argument could be made for Koth picks the rules or challenger picks the rules but I think that's messy.  I, personally, wouldn't mind seeing a 0-up, 0-rare ruleset, as this would be an easy event for new players to jump into and we should encourage that.  Best-of-3, free to change decks between matches.

Feedback on the proposed structure is appreciated.

Note: I checked before posting here and Kaker already posted a KotH PvPE idea, but what I have here is very different.

[treebeard xiii]

sounds rather interesting 0 rares 0 upps sound perfect to get newer players involved it would certainly spark up the community and allows newr a taste of competitive pvp i'd be onboard if we can bring this into being, good idea i everyone likes a taste of success even if you are only koth for one match you have been at the top and allows you to improve deckbuilding abilities and grow as a player.

[TribalTrouble]

Sounds like something very fun. I kinda feel like interesting things could come out of this.

edit: Tree! YOUR BEARD! IT'S ON FIYA!!!

[Jen-i]

Oooo this sounds like loads of fun

[Marsu]

Funny how this pops up just when I'm bringing sexy duels back.
I like this koth idea very much, even though I would want some section of the forum where you can still just do your own PvP. BtH would never have existed without the duels section.

[Paddoo]

I like this koth idea very much, even though I would want some section of the forum where you can still just do your own PvP.

This. I really like the idea and would be very happy to participate in such an event, but I'd miss the Duels section, were it to be replaced by KotH.

[ZephyrPhantom]

Duels is kind of like the forum's PvP button - if you want a match, you can go there, though you also have the option of making your own rules like a PvPE.

I think Duels should be converted to a 'Casual PvP' section; individual duel threads and events like KotH could both go under this section. Making this section open to more than just duels and PvP also allows for other events like unofficial tournaments to be made if players are interested.

[treebeard xiii]

unofficial events are good i owe my first ten posts to an unofficial event and i have wanted more since which is why i took up marsu's BTH an unofficial event that was fun

[blarp]

I'll just say: Why replace anything? Is it hard to make a new forum thread with this in addition to duels? Sure duels probably need some changes, but I see no reason to get rid of them entirely.

It also seems like you'd have to be pretty active to be the koth or whatever.

Gives me an idea for an interesting tower defense type game...

[Rutarete]

I'll just say: Why replace anything? Is it hard to make a new forum thread with this in addition to duels? Sure duels probably need some changes, but I see no reason to get rid of them entirely.

This is my view entirely.