Hello Voidlings, Voidians, Voidsters and Voidites
for a long while we the staff of enterVOID followed a policy of not revealing future known tournaments until the sign ups would start. The idea behind this was to avoid a culture of "tournaments only" planning with battles, by keeping things secret we hoped to promote more random regular battling, as well as giving artists more of a rest between tournaments so they could do as much as they can each month. Over time we found that this approach didn't really change the regular battle activity in any meaningful way, nor did it change the activity of tournament fiends (if anything, not being able to plan far ahead may have prevented some of these artists from participating in some tournaments)
Starting now, we will be trying a new approach:
1) we will be displaying a public yearly schedule of upcoming events of all kinds, official and unofficial,
2) we will be allowing multiple tournaments to happen at oncePolicy 1 will allow members to budget their time for future events, and see clearly which months are ripe to propose an unofficial tournament
Policy 2 has several potential benefits: it can let those who are ineligible for one tournament participate in another soon after and the extra choices will hopefully promote tournament makers to make sure they have a strong idea that others will want to participate in
And now for what you all scrolled down to see, the schedule
Things to Remember:-The full bar for an event shown includes voting time, so the last 7 days of most events shown here is not drawing related
-Events get smaller and smaller obviously as participants are eliminated; the latter half of tournament runtimes will usually only have 2-4 artists participating at that time
[X]<- click if image thumbnail doesn't enlarge
Now attached here is the new Tournament Proposal Form
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Tournament Name:Theme & Rules:Ideal Roster Size:Ideal Drawing Time:Date to Start:Petition List: <- this is a new request; ideally you've spoken about this tournament idea with other members and some are on board for it should it be approved. Write here the list of members who are likely ready to join the tournament when sign ups begin. As you'd assume, the more people on this list, the more confident we are of the idea's viability and hype, but even as few as 3 is enough to consider----
Send this form via DM or PM to me and the staff will review it. Whenever new additions to the schedule come up we will alert the community on this thread and on discord.This thread will remain open for comments; feel free to use this thread as the forum's one-stop shop for future tournament talk, tourney ideas and comments and proposing suggestions
Spilt Milk
King vs. Morrigan
@ 7:31 PM May 10th