I think there could be some difficulties in setting this up. However, I would definitely compete in such a tournament if one would exist. This could be really exciting.

Props for coming up with this stuff.

Edit: I do think this should be theme related, the FF section shouldn't be devided into two contests (being SotD or even getting in to FF and a Tournament).

A Tournament Style... first thought, nice idea

but...
1. to vote 32 shots ok, but after this round you have to vote the 16 winner shots again? Why should someone change his voting next round? The shot is the same as before. And i think its boring to vote the same shot several times. At least for the last final round, you have to vote 5 times the same shot (or if 64 or 128 at the Tournament 6/7 times vote the same shot)
2. what about for the people except the 32 uploader? voting just for fun? or something to win for people who only solve shots on WTM - many players have no shots uploaded. Solving shots is the main part of WTM or?

I think for me it would be not funny to make a Tournament in that way sorry.



But i like the idea. Tournament sounds really interesting. But maybe in a way like this:

Player make duel with other players (in solveing shots). Maybe add to the quiz list a new section. Called Duel Zone. Any time possible. Shots are randomly choosen of Archieve (FF is not good, because you don't can use solution button after the time out). If you solved the shot ealier in the FF, at the duel zone you have to solve it again.

maybe people can choose duel parameters before beginning:
- easy/medium/hard shots (its already coded for the random button)
- amount of shots available like 10, 20, 30, 40, 50 shots
- max. time to solve shots about 4 min. each 10 shots, also 20 minutes if you choose 50 shots

the player who solved more shots win the duel. If both got the same score, the player which solved the shots faster wins. Will be funny to duel your real life friends or your friends here.

Maybe there can be made a serious tournament 1 time each year like the vault contests. As your shot idea, the player fight against another player, the duels are choosen randomly. And at the end there is a winner. The winner of this contest should get an unique memorablia and some AU's. To make it serious, there should be not archieve shots taken. People have to upload shots only for this contest like at the vault contests for this unique yearly tournament.

i like both the tournament and duel ideas.
just imagine a shout from scruffy on your profile that says: "one of your fellows has challenged you to duel. scared?" or "your shot #123456 has reached the final round of the big asses tournament". that would be pretty cool IMO.

but i think in both cases you would need a screen that shows both of the competing shots at the same time so that you can compare them directly.

Personally.. I think a tournament is a bad idea and for one fairly simple reason. It's too limited. A 32 player tournament? We have over thousands of players here on WTM... with only 32 possible participants you leave a lot of people out, even if there are mostly only like.. 150 uploaders for vault quests, but I think everyone should be able to participate at all times. So if you would want to do tournaments and want everybody to participate.. you're going to need to set it up often. Like at least once a week. Which makes it redundant quite fast and then there is nothing special about it.

Not everyone may participate in the Vault quests, but everybody has the chance to. Not everyone is uploading shots or rating shots to get bucks for higher ranks, but everybody is able to do so if they wish. And I think that should always be the key, give everyone a chance to participate at any time.

Imagine wanting to play in a tournament, but always being too late to sign up because it's automatically coded to start at a time when you're always asleep due to time zone. Or if you assign the players randomly who may participate and you don't feel like uploading at all because it is not your thing and then you suddenly HAVE to. Which is not fun either.

could be fun, but impossible to realise without a coder

Thanks for your feedback so far guys. It's always nice to hear what other people think about it.

Yes, it is impossible to realize without a coder...at the moment. However I'm sure WTM will search for a new coder too in future...they searched before kinoute and will search after kinoute as well. (at least I hope so)

How fast there will be a new coder is another question of course... :)

@icemotion

The 32 players were just an example to visualise how the structure could be, the tournament wouldn't have to be limited necessarily to just 32 players. I also wrote that it can be a tournament with 64 or 128 players. And if we are honest to ourselves, WTM maybe has thousands of registered members yes,...but only around 200-300 hardcore players who are really contributing and are very active. At least I always see the same faces here every day and not thousands of different people. :) If we see how many people upload in the theme related vault contest it barely is more than 100 people too usually. So this tournament in my idea would be a reward for the active players who are putting their dedication into this site every day.
So if the tournament would be for 128 players and a time span of 1 week to upload (like in every other contest)...I think this would be enough time for everyone to participate who likes to.
And I also don't think anyone would be really angry if he doesn't get a seat in the tournament one time.
If I would be the 129th player and miss this tournament, I would say to myself bad luck, better luck next time... there is another tournament coming soon.
Most important would be that the majority of the community has fun with it in my eyes.

About your point with time zones...this could be easily solved by making one tournament for the European time zone and in next month the tournament is for the South American time zone (since we have many Brasilian Players in here). So it would be fair for everyone too, when the times always change a bit and are friendly for the different time zones.

However the current contests also start always at 8 pm Middle European Time and noone ever complained about that yet. (because there is 1 week time to upload, which could be done in the Tournament the same way)

So in my opinion none of your points is a K.O. criterium why such a Tournament shouldn't be started.

@efji
I think you are one of few who understood what potential this idea has...the question is just in what system it is executed. :)

I know what you mean with your idea, however I personally don't like it so much.
The fact that in your idea every shot competes vs every shot, is not what I have thought about. In my idea of a tournament I want to have a certain "luck factor" as well. You can compare it with the Football World Cup for example, the team who gets drawn a very easy group in the beginning is lucky...same it would be in my Tournament if you don't catch Destroyer in the first Round of the Tournament. I just want this luck factor that Users always would be excited which opponent do they get in 1st Round? Which opponent will I get in the next round? People would run to the other users profile and talk about it: "hey, we have to compete in the Tournament vs each other!" and so on. Even an average shot can make it far like that by catching easy opponents in the first rounds. I just would like a little luck factor in it and a surprise factor who will have to compete vs who, so that the excitement is bigger. :)

Good idea. I like!