So, since Tourney of Champions & Pokemon are both finishing up, and CK said he wouldn't be running a new tourney 'till after DLCon... two random thoughts intersected in my head recently.
A) Heavy is my favorite division, and I imagine that's true for a decent number of other people as well. (Lots of fun characters there, lots of power without there being too much total bullshit.) For similar reasons, I like a lot of Low Godlikes too, and always thought it was too bad that various cool characters who upgraded there are basically bait against some of the more impressive hax there they can meet in the first round.
B) Division boundaries are totally arbitrary. It's pretty easy to imagine an alternate DL that drew the dividing lines elsewhere, or that had only 3 divisions, or 5. A "bad Middle" could easily have been an excellent Light, had alternate-Light expanded to the bottom half of Middle (and possibly chopped out Puny?!).
So yeah, this'll largely be a bog-standard CKDL tourney for the most part, except that the divisions will be shifted by a half-step with the focus on Heavy. There'll be a division with High Middle + Low Heavy, a division with High Heavy + Low Godlike, and then a smaller tourney-of-champions esque division for High Godlikes. Basically just chop each division in half, so characters near the "middle" of the division are the new borderliners, and characters who were once on the edge upgrading & downgrading between 'em are in the center. To use a name better than "Alternate Middle," I'll use the invented terms
Heroes, Demigods, Divinities (Respectively: High Middles + Low Heavy, High Heavy + Low Godlike, High Godlike).
Rules:
1) Use the
CKDL Ranked List. Any nomination must have a stat topic entry, though, of course.
2) Nominate up to
4 characters in Heroes & Demigods. Nominate up to
2 characters in Divinities.
3) You may additionally nominate
1 unranked character*, total, as an extra to one of the 3 divisions. For example, it'd be legal to nominate 4 Heroes, 5 Demigods, & 2 Divinities if the unranked character was a Demigod. (But not 5/5/3.) Use common sense. Stat topic entry still required, of course.
4) If any character is nominated by more than 1 person, they automatically get in. I'll randomly roll the rest.
I'll try and get most of the nominated characters in; there'll be a 32 / 32 / 16 split, if the nomination amounts are as usual (it's not actually a larger tourney since we're just doing Heavy basically, 'cept for the Divinity bonus). If turnout is small it'll be 16/16/8.
* Usual disclaimer that I reserve the right to zot any nominations (matters more for unranked obscura characters) though hopefully that won't happen.
