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4 x 10 tournament: You have to use 10 normal monsters, 10 effect monsters, 10 traps and 10 spell cards in your deck. We have tried it and it worked, but the "creature feature" has been more popular as it forced the players to be more creative.


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Oliver

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Oliver Gehrmann
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An option that might be interesting, is to select a number of the choices presented that you would be willing to run, have them posted with a  description of each and then have the winner of the game choose which game will be played next week (or whatever schedule you want). 

This can offer a variety of games and provide some extra incentive to win, in order to choose the next special game.

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1425175:

An option that might be interesting, is to select a number of the choices presented that you would be willing to run, have them posted with a  description of each and then have the winner of the game choose which game will be played next week (or whatever schedule you want). 

This can offer a variety of games and provide some extra incentive to win, in order to choose the next special game.

What I've settled on at the moment is a voting system - each week a list of different styles plus description is put up, and people can sign their names under what they personally want. Voting ends a week before the tournament will be held (so people have time to make appropriate decks). Odds are I'll change the options once in a while as well.

842510:

Ultimate Trinity - Every Card is Unrestricted (3 of even each of the banned cards)

"Blind Draw" - "Brown Paper Bag" except you select 40 cards without looking to see what you pull.

Ultimate Trinity sounds fun, but Exodia would need to be banned. If you don't have any restrictions, you can get extremely good odds indeed of drawing Exodia on your first turn with all the drawing/searching power such a game provides. Plus, there would be a big difference between rich Vs. Poor, in that a most people will only own at most 1 copy of powerful cards that are normally limited.

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Ultimate Trinity sounds fun, but Exodia would need to be banned. If you don't have any restrictions, you can get extremely good odds indeed of drawing Exodia on your first turn with all the drawing/searching power such a game provides. Plus, there would be a big difference between rich Vs. Poor, in that a most people will only own at most 1 copy of powerful cards that are normally limited.

Actually, most of the broken cards from formats past are now dirt cheap due to being banned - you could easily get ahold of, say, three Chaos Emperor Dragons for under $10.

1503087:

I don't like the idea of pushing unsanctioned events.  All tournaments should be sanctioned and uploaded.  You can still be creative and have a lot of fun in a sacntioned event. 

 

Do you have any particular recommendations for sanctionable alternate events?

you could always post it as a regular Advanced Tournament, but when duelists show up inform them of the type of changes that you're going to run ;-) that way you get around the "unsanctioned" event status.

Edit:

Another way to do "Booster Draft" is each player gets 5 boosters.
Players are seated around a table in groups of 4.
Each player opens one pack, take a card of your choice and pass the remainder to the right, they take 1 card, and pass it to the right, until those 4 packs are done
Rinse and Repeat with remaining 4 boosters.
Players can use as many copies of any card that they get to create their deck.
(DB2 Booster Draft had one guy with 10 Smashing Grounds in his deck)

"Sealed Deck" tournament
Players all get 1 Starter/Structure deck (all the same) + 1 Booster (Judge's choice, all same)
Players can add cards from the booster to the Starter/Structure, but cannot make a deck illegal.

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842510:

you could always post it as a regular Advanced Tournament, but when duelists show up inform them of the type of changes that you're going to run ;-) that way you get around the "unsanctioned" event status.

I would not recommend that for a couple reasons.

1. Players not aware that you plan to be making changes might bring ONLY a regular advanced deck, which might result in them not be able to play.

2. (and most important in my opinion) you are still RUNNING an event that should not be sanctioned!!!

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842510:

you could always post it as a regular Advanced Tournament, but when duelists show up inform them of the type of changes that you're going to run ;-) that way you get around the "unsanctioned" event status.

I would not recommend that for a couple reasons.

1. Players not aware that you plan to be making changes might bring ONLY a regular advanced deck, which might result in them not be able to play.

2. (and most important in my opinion) you are still RUNNING an event that should not be sanctioned!!!

I agree.  You should not change the tournament from what has already been advertised.  It will cause lots of confusion amongst the players and is unfair to most.

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What else might work is running a tournament like this as kind of a side-show to your regular hobby league.  Say starting toward the middle of that event so you can pick up people from it that are doing badly and are (by that time) probably out of prize contention.

If you go this route, I'd mix it up, every couple of weeks change up the format of the fun event, this way you not only get people to play in more stuff but you're still exposing them to the normal hobby league and you're still getting them into your store (for longer periods of time if they play in both)

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- Jon Lacey
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I'm sorry that this is so late in coming, but I couldn't get the info I needed until now. I also hope that it is okay to post an outside site here (from the guys who bring your RONIN and netrep) because this is probably the most clever change on the game I have ever seen. It is based on the YuGiOh! episodes where the gang was trapped inside Kaiba's computer and had to duel using Deck Masters. Well, one of the guys at City of Gamers has put together an entire game based on these Deck Masters. It is like having your Main Character in WOW, sort of. Here it is:

http://www.cogonline.net/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=796

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That's my work, I must say.  It started off as a stand-alone hobby, but recently I let it become affiliated with City of Gamers in the hopes that it would get more interest and inspire me to work on it some more.

There are Deck Master Abilities for 578 different monsters, which is nearly a third of all monsters around.

Will you be continuing your work on it?  I would love to see the new Synchro Monsters be added to the list.

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Eventually, I hope.  Motivation is slipping a bit at the moment, but I'll see what I can come up with.

I came up with a couple styles of play while acting as a mini-mod for another forum:

1) Deck-Builder Match: Side Decks are eliminated but instead each player chooses 3 of their decks and places them in a row in whatever order they wish.  For the first game, each player takes their first deck from their row and plays the game.  After the end of game 1 they put their 1st decks up and get their 2nd decks in their row and play a game.  If the match goes into game 3 then the 3rd deck is used

2) Split-Level Match: Kinda insipired by the Orichalcos arc in the anime, there are 3 rows of zones: normal S/T zone, normal Monster zone, and then another Monster zone on top of those. Each player is still only allowed a maximum of 5 monsters on the field, but in order to declare attacks on the monsters in the back row they must first clear the front row.  Monsters cannot freely move between the 2 monster zone rows without a card effect (like the Senet cards) and card effects which affect one player's entire monster zone (i.e.: Lightning Vortex) affects the row closest to the opponent with monsters that can be affected by the effect.

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In regard to the short discussion that came up. Is it possible for UDE to create another type of tournamet that could be sanctioned just to cover these alternte formats? One that wouldnt affect ratings but would also allow UDE to track the number of alternate formats happening as well. And since these tournaments already happen, theres no real disadvantages to sanctioning them.

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