Proposal: Double Blind
Times out 3-1 with 1 unresolved DEF. Enacted by Brendan.
Adminned at 18 Aug 2022 22:30:08 UTC
In the rule ‘Winners at War’, add the following paragraph after “...continuing in the same pattern until the single Bout in the last round of the Tournament Bracket has concluded.”:
While the game is in Tournament Mode, any Operator whose Readiness is Workshop or Ready may privately message the Announcer with a list of Systems they wish to be added to their Bot for their upcoming tournament Bout. Once an Operator’s Readiness is set to Staging, the Announcer should remove all the Systems in their list from their Spare Parts Bin and add the Systems to their Bot, given their Bot has enough spare hardpoints to accommodate all the Systems in their list and all the Systems in the list exist in their Spare Parts Bin.
Before the Tournament the BlogBot league was little more than fun and games, all trash talk and teasing between Operators being for the show more than anything else. Now that glorious Victory looms over their heads, everything has become deadly serious; the Operators conduct modifications to their Bots in cold secrecy, hidden away where not a soul may see.
I still like this idea.
Habanero:
As it stands now, during the Tournament the player in a Bout who goes Ready first is at a massive disadvantage, since the other player will get a chance to respond to their Bot’s loadout and counter it. This might lead to some pretty undesirable ‘chicken’ behaviour where both players try to go Ready as close to the tournament deadline as possible, forcing people to be online at a very specific time if they want to have a good shot at winning the Tournament. This proposal attempts to fix this issue by giving both players the disadvantage of not knowing the other Bot’s loadout instead of only one.