Saturday, March 27, 2021

Proposal: Best of the Best of Three, Mk. II

Reached quorum 5 votes to 1 with 1 unresolved DEF. Enacted by Kevan.

Adminned at 28 Mar 2021 16:32:35 UTC

Add a new sub-rule to the Victory rule, called The Crown Match:

When the second Player to reach 30 or more Magistrelli does so, the Dealer will immediately set every Player’s Readiness to “No”, and then set the Readiness of the first and second Players to reach 30 or more Magistrelli to “Yes”.
From this point onward, Players may no longer change their own Readiness, the first and second Players who reached 30 or more Magistrelli are the Contenders, and all other players are Spectators and may not become Contenders. The Contenders may not participate in Games other than the Crown Match. Spectators may at any time spend six of their own pegs to give a Contender a single peg as long as neither the Spectator nor the Contender is in an Active Game.
At any point at least 24 hours after the Contenders are decided, if there are no Active Games, the Dealer may start a special set of three Games called the Crown Match. The Contenders are the Participants of these Games. These Games will have at least 12 hours (but no more than 48 hours) between the ending of one and the starting of the next. For the second and third Games in the Crown Match, instead of the Dealer performing the default atomic action to start the Game, they perform an atomic action that is identical to it, except the step which is used to determine the Starting Player instead reads “Determine that the Starting Player is the Participant who was not the Starting Player of the previous Crown Match Game”.
The Contender who is the Campione of two or more Games in the Crown Match is the victor of the Twenty-Eighth Dynasty of Kevan.

now that wait for it and the magistrelli tweak are in effect and folks can’t game the system with a million micro-matchups, the crown match rules are back! the top players’ Magistrelli has increased slightly since i first passed this, but seeing as it would still take 4 max-stakes victories for the highest-ranked player to be a Contender and there’s a healthy catch-up mechanic, i’m leaving the peak at 30 (or more!).

Comments

Clucky: he/him

27-03-2021 20:41:04 UTC

what does giving pegs to the contenders actually accomplish? Was the intent to use them to get points in certain games? I like that, though 6:1 ratio might to be increased to something like maybe 10:1

also a thought, what if we made it so that for the Crown match you had to use a different mask in each game?

lemon: she/her

27-03-2021 20:53:29 UTC

@ clucky first, no clue! i figure someone will find a way to make pegs be useful in the finale, but i care more about the basics here than anything overly complex or ambitious :0
& that’s the same reason i haven’t given the crown match a mask-switching clause! it occurred to me, but it’s sort of difficult to word and i didn’t want to mess that up and have people throwing the baby out w/ the bathwater

lemon: she/her

27-03-2021 22:18:04 UTC

edit, just before the edit window closes: added a downtime-between-matches clause to give some breathing room!

Brendan: he/him

27-03-2021 22:41:49 UTC

imperial I’m interested in this, though"From this point onward” seems like a determined reader could take it as “from this point in the ruleset onward.” Also, assuming I don’t make it into the crown match, I’m not sure what I would do for the last potentially-several-days of the dynasty.

Lulu: she/her

28-03-2021 01:48:37 UTC

against Not convinced.

Clucky: he/him

28-03-2021 04:14:56 UTC

for

Josh: Observer he/they

28-03-2021 10:30:24 UTC

for

Darknight: he/him

28-03-2021 10:50:03 UTC

for

pokes:

28-03-2021 13:42:48 UTC

for