To celebrate /follow returning to WoW PVP Arenas, let's have a contest!

[Shodokan]

Looks like I'm the only one interested

Woot free money!

[Fat Tire]

I would be interested in 3v3.

I would have to see the qualifiers,rules and regulations first though.

[Lax]

I would have to see the qualifiers,rules and regulations first though.

That's why I'm asking for input I'm no expert at this.

I want to make sure that anyone interested is encouraged to join in the fun and has a chance at some rewards.

Teams will have to register for the contest, either by adding the team and verifying in The Commons (noting that it will need some updates), or something like it specifically for the contest. There will not be an entrance fee, but there might be some requirements like provide a photo of your multiboxing battlestation (impress everyone by demolishing your enemies with your piece of crap) and/or write a few sentences about the way you play... The site will check records on a regular basis and the progress of teams will be tracked and displayed publicly. We'll disqualify teams for win trading and other unscrupulous behavior; so for example if you look at team records and think someone is cheating, you'll be able to appeal to get them disqualified from the contest.

I think that we'll probably have two brackets, 3v3 and 5v5.

If someone only wants to play 3, then they should probably be in the 3's bracket. Having half of a 5v5 team being non-multiboxers defeats the purpose of the multiboxing pvp contest, and besides it drastically changes the balance to have actually 3+ real people instead of 1 real person driving the team. This was obvious enough to me when I did 5v5 and I would run into teams of 4 whatevers (usually shamans) plus a healer. While I would have to personally try to keep my team healed as I move around and DPS, and try to keep the healer out of harm's way myself, the 4+1 team had a much easier time healing their DPS and/or having the healer run away while they unloaded on me. And that's just 1 extra real person. So to me there is a huge difference between playing 3 in a 5v5 and rating well, and playing 5 in a 5v5 and rating well. I don't think it would be incredibly fair to compare those teams directly in our contest.



And another thing. The people who would be competing for the top spots might be less willing to do some of these "sharing" things, as they want to prevent others from achieving the same feats, but that's sort of the opposite of what this contest is about. A contest like this can help multiboxers show some professionalism instead of the flame wars that dominate the game forums. This is why I think it's important to reward people for sharing screenshots, videos, streams, and even posting strategy guides or discussions.


So, what if we do something like this...

Prize Pool #1 - Season winners

Actual cash prize value should scale based on the number of active participants in the bracket; for example if only 10 active teams exist in each of them, the structure below does not really make any sense at all. However, if it's actually attractive to enough people, the numbers can also go up... I'm suggesting tiered rewards for the top 10 teams to encourage participation and competition.

So here's some numbers that I think would be attractive but otherwise I'm pulling out of my ass and are not necessarily the final numbers...

5v5 - play all 5

• #1 Team wins $500
• #2 and #3 win $250
• #4 and #5 win $125
• #6 through #10 win $50

3v3 - play all 3

• #1 Team wins $300
• #2 and #3 win $150
• #4 and #5 win $75
• #6 through #10 win $30

I am curious whether more people would sign up for the 3v3 or the 5v5, and which might end up more competitive. When/if we do it again the next season we can of course make adjustments based on our experiences with the first season.

Prize Pool #2 - Evangelism

That is, videos, streams, forum posts, strategy guides and discussion, etc -- pretty much anything that will show more people the contest and something cool about multiboxing.

We want to have a way to comparatively rate and reward the best evangelists, maybe every month. It's easy to say something like "most viewed video(s)" or "most favorited stream" or community ratings or something but some people might already start with an inherent advantage (e.g. someone who is already otherwise popular), and because the ease and incentive to cheat those kinds of systems.. Maybe the Dual-Boxing.com staff should vote on winners for this pool...

I'm not really sure how large the prizes should be for this, but I imagine something like $100 for one and $50 for another two people each month, with winners selected by the DB staff. At least 2 of the 3 each time should be someone who hasn't won before.

Prize Pool #3 - Participation

Meet minimum weekly wins for entry in weekly participation drawing(s) for a 30-day GTC or something.



Now are we interested? Thoughts?