Announcing the NFL Tournament - 2008/2009 Season
Open for Freemiums
Requirements: 32 Teams of 2 players each. Freemiums MUST keep 1 game slot open / week.
WARNING - This tournament will last 6 months
Concept: You pick your favorite NFL team (thus 32 teams in this tournament). You get to choose your home map, cards, forts, and fog. This will be referred to as your "home" settings. When you play at home, you will play on your map with your settings. When you play away, you will use the other teams home map / settings.
All games are Doubles/ sequential play - you choose the rest. Seeing as football is a team sport - this will be a team tournament. This tournament is for Doubles only - HOWEVER - If you do not have a team, find a spot with "Partner Needed" and ask to join that team. Should there be no "partner needed" - find an empty NFL team and I will put you in that spot with Partner Needed. The next Single to come along will be your partner.
32 teams Divided into AFC and NFC
AFC divided into East/West/South/North
NFC divided into East/West/South/Noth
We will follow the NFL schedule - including preseason games. Just like the NFL - the preseason games have no bearing on the final standings. They are for warm ups / practise etc. First games start on:
August 7, 2008 (5 matches) (NYG @ DET / NYJ @ CLE / BAL @ NE / KC @ CHI / NO @ ARI)
August 8, 2008 (3 matches) (PHI @ PIT / SEA @ MIN / SF @ OAK)
August 9, 2008 (7 matches) (BUF @ WAS / TB @ MIA / IND @ CAR / ATL @ JAC / DEN @ HOU / STL @ TEN / DAL @ SD)
August 11, 2008 (1 match) (CIN @ GB)
There are 4 weeks of Preseason before regular season starts.
Regular season starts on Thursday, Sept 4, 2008 (WAS @ NYG), and all the sunday games on Sep 7, 2008, and of course 2 games on the monday nighter.
Scoring
Simple - You win - you get a point, you lose, you get nothing
The regular season will be 17 weeks (16 games played - each team will have 1 bye during the season) - Final week will be Dec 28, 2008.
Top 2 players in the NFC and the top 2 players in the AFC automatically advance to Semi Finals and have Home Map advantage.
Wild Card Spot
The 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th place players in both AFC and NFC will play a wild card matchup.
3rd place will play 6th place - (3rd place home map used) Winner to advance to semi finals.
4th place will play 5th place - (4th place home map used) Winner to advance to semi finals.
Semi Finals
Winner of the 4th/5th place game will play the 1st place team (1st place has home map advantage)
Winner of the 3rd/6th place game will play the 2nd place team (2nd place has home map advantage)
Winner Of each game to advance to finals.
Finals
The two remaining teams of the NFC will play head to head for the NFC championship - winner moves on to the superbowl
The two remaining teams of the AFC will play head to head for the AFC championship - winner moves on to the superbowl
Map setup:
Map: Classic
Type: Sequential
Cards: Flat
Forts: Chained
Fog: Yes
SUPERBOWL
The NFC Champ will play head to head against the AFC Champ
Winner of the superbowl will be crowned Winner of the 2008 NFL Tournament.
Map: World 2.1
Type: Sequential
Cards: None
Forts: Chained
Fog: Yes
DEALING WITH TIES:
Ties will be handled as Follows:
Two way tie :
Teams will battle each other in sudden death - very quick match
Classic, Unlimited, Escalating , Sunny
Three way tie:
Team 1 will play team 2
Team 1 will play team 3
Team 2 will play Team 3
Again Classic, Unlimited, Escalating, Sunny
If each team wins 1 game - then the team with the QUICKEST win (fewest number of rounds) will advance to the finals
Should we have a 4 or 5 way tie - I will use a similar format as outlined above to determine the winner
Signing up instructions
When signing up - please include the following information
NFL Team to represent
player names (2 players / team)
Home Map
Cards (Flat/None/Esc)
Fortifications (Adj/Chained/Unlimited)
Fog Of War (On/Off) (AKA: Foggy/Sunny)
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