Ok well I have returned home now and have the interweb again and have just read pages of the worms that inadvertantly spilled out on the Exiles thread.
I had said I would comment on how much an effect the loss of stuff had on my games but it seems superfluous and also it turns out Ogres with a chef are shit and do not work I could have been 120k up on everyone else and I still would have ended up in a spoon off - I did better at Chelmford Bunkerbowl in 2012 with a 16 snotling lineup.
armydave wrote:the number of RR's left at the end of the game doesn't tell the whole story.
No it doesn't Dave and I noticed in our game you lost all the 6's and 8's and my heart would have been bleeding for you if you hadn't killed all my players.
lunchmoney wrote:
Lets try to steer this to a positive thing
So to the idea of a way to prompt people to pay and register early.
The idea of an "on pitch" advantage is clearly causing a lot of people anguish. So what would you suggest?
So prompted by the excellent suggestion above these are my ideas none of which have game or financial penaltys :
(1) A raffle for BB related models and stuff - bigger tournament more prizes. The first person to pay gets say ten tickets the second nine tickets and so on with everyone getting a ticket except the last person. Then everyone who submits their Race and team name to the TO gets an additional ticket. Finally submit your roster in time for a further ticket. So the earlier you pay the more chance you have of winning cool stuff.
(2) Only really for the bigger tournaments but the cheap accommodation offer is an excellent idea if it can be wrangled - It worked very well at the GT's this year IMO.
(3) Food - Imagine Cakebowl but only the quick of the mark get to nom on the cakes. So the first person to pay gets to select the first cake from the tasty selection and so on. This would need to have some cakes which are better than others or bigger to be a proper incentive but I think you get the idea.
(4) Getting to choose your own team name. A popular trend in the west is to change coaches team names so maybe you only get to choose your own team's name if you are in the first 50% to pay or submit your roster. This probably would be a small incentive to pay but could be used for the rosters maybe alongside something else.
These are my ideas so far I'm sure that people with more imagination can come up with some more ideas.
On a seperate note the issue that is more key is the reason why the Early Bird idea has been birthed in the first place - running a tournament is very expensive and venues often require at least a deposit up front.
Now I don't know how it works but is there someway that the naf could assist TO's with this?
I realise that there would need to be rules about who and for what purpose when deciding who would be eligible for financial assistance but if the long running tournaments like Thrud for example could get a loan from the naf funds until the tournament has played out surely that would make the TO's life a lot easier.
In fact with a scheme like that available we could well see more tournaments on the calendar as more people may be prepared to organise a tournament. More tournaments would be beneficial to everyone IMO.