From the feedback given, it seems like most of us were thinking card vs. card going into the draft, so let's stick with that. Apologies to anyone whose draft may be affected, and like Eric said, I'll try to really hammer out the rules from the beginning next time I run a draft.
Also, where my mind was at: my original plan was indeed card vs. card, but I was asked a few days ago how the showdown portion would go and figured I would poll the room and see if a majority preferred a different method. I think card vs. card is both easier and more fair. An extreme example of my thought process, but with match vs. match, you could draft a banger of a match with your first ten picks, then shrug off the remaining twenty and still win with your one good match. Card vs. card gives a level of importance to all three matches.
From the feedback given, it seems like most of us were thinking card vs. card going into the draft, so let's stick with that. Apologies to anyone whose draft may be affected, and like Eric said, I'll try to really hammer out the rules from the beginning next time I run a draft.
Also, where my mind was at: my original plan was indeed card vs. card, but I was asked a few days ago how the showdown portion would go and figured I would poll the room and see if a majority preferred a different method. I think card vs. card is both easier and more fair. An extreme example of my thought process, but with match vs. match, you could draft a banger of a match with your first ten picks, then shrug off the remaining twenty and still win with your one good match. Card vs. card gives a level of importance to all three matches.
Regardless of how it’s run, I want to thank you for running it. You’re doing a good job, as always.
Also, a note on match types after thinking on it. You can add things to the match that don't alter the actual cage or ring themselves or change the overall stipulation. So if you want weapons tied to the inside of the cage or barbed wire wrapped around the top of the cage, that's fine. If you want to extend the cage an additional ten feet in height or add scaffolding to the top of the cage to allow fighting up top, that's not fine because it alters the structure. Making the match two-out-of-three falls or adding something on a pole is also not fine because it changes the stipulation.
Keep in mind that the same cage has to be used for all three matches. You can't have an open-top barbed wire WarGames followed by a standard roofed WarGames. You can have an open-top barbed wire WarGames followed by a standard open-top WarGames followed by an open-top WarGames with fluorescent light tubes hanging around the inside of the cage.
Keep in mind that the same cage has to be used for all three matches. You can't have an open-top barbed wire WarGames followed by a standard roofed WarGames. You can have an open-top barbed wire WarGames followed by a standard open-top WarGames followed by an open-top WarGames with fluorescent light tubes hanging around the inside of the cage.
Out of curiosity, why can't you change the roof aspect between matches? There would be a delay between matches for sure, but I don't see why that should be an issue.
Out of curiosity, why can't you change the roof aspect between matches? There would be a delay between matches for sure, but I don't see why that should be an issue.
Let's just say our budget only allows for one cage, and adding a roof onto a roofless cage would be altering the structure itself. My original plan was to keep things uniform and keeping the cage the same for all three matches does that. Even allowing weapons or whatever else is a stretch from what I was originally thinking.