2015 Text Tournaments

Originally Posted by remarK

I wasn't around for this scheme tourney. The Topical Championship is cool, too.

I just think if there's so many titles being thrown out every which way, you'll come to a point where every single active person will have a title. What makes it special then?

Also, if you say you won't be active UNLESS there's a tourney every month that's pretty ridiculous.

I was saying this for so long, but unfortunately for a lot of guys the damage was done. I even got quotes from Jason and UA saying they wouldn't enter another GC because the usertitles had been such a negative thing for the meaning of what they'd won. Yet it was only like 2 weeks ago that something was actually done about it, shocking.

For me, there are 8 core LB titles.

Grand Championship
Tag Team Championship
One Bar Championship
Scheme Schampionship
Topical Championship
Anonymous Topical Championship
LBT Championship
Rookie Championship

[remarK]

Originally Posted by EtH

I was saying this for so long, but unfortunately for a lot of guys the damage was done. I even got quotes from Jason and UA saying they wouldn't enter another GC because the usertitles had been such a negative thing for the meaning of what they'd won. Yet it was only like 2 weeks ago that something was actually done about it, shocking.

For me, there are 8 core LB titles.

Grand Championship
Tag Team Championship
One Bar Championship
Scheme Schampionship
Topical Championship
Anonymous Topical Championship
LBT Championship
Rookie Championship

^ I agree that you can't negate Tag-Team. That one had an interesting angle where you could team up with people you're not even crewed with and bounce lines off each other.
It was a dope concept.

@ILLoKWENT As for a theme championship, I feel like it'd just be corny, especially if others will be running around with the Scheme title... too similar.

Plus, what's the difference between a theme and a topical battle, really? Just keep Topical...

[ILLoKWENT]

Originally Posted by remarK

^ I agree that you can't negate Tag-Team. That one had an interesting angle where you could team up with people you're not even crewed with and bounce lines off each other.
It was a dope concept.

@ILLoKWENT As for a theme championship, I feel like it'd just be corny, especially if others will be running around with the Scheme title... too similar.

Plus, what's the difference between a theme and a topical battle, really? Just keep Topical...

Difference is the topical is a verse talkin about the topic.. theme is using the given concept and flippin on your opponent in a battle.. two similar but different approaches.. also concepts are an important element in battles.. and your competing on who can use the given theme better than the other... same shit wit the scheme tourney... ur given a multi to run with the entire verse..so it aint corny at all..

[ILLoKWENT]

Originally Posted by Bleu

it should be CONCEPT CHAMPION as i said tho.. theme champion looks corny / wack. just my opinion

Agree

[remarK]

Originally Posted by ILLoKWENT

Difference is the topical is a verse talkin about the topic.. theme is using the given concept and flippin on your opponent in a battle.. two similar but different approaches.. also concepts are an important element in battles.. and your competing on who can use the given theme better than the other... same shit wit the scheme tourney... ur given a multi to run with the entire verse..so it aint corny at all..

I just read some of the concept tourney verses... I can see what you mean now.

This would cover all bases:

Grand Champion

Rookie Champion

Scheme Champion

Concept King Champion

Beast Mode Champion

Tag-Team Champion

HorrorCore Champion

One-Bar Champion

Topical Champion

and if you wanted to do an Anonymous battle tournament, which could be interesting... the title could be:

Bragging Rights Champion

That's 10 tournaments. That's almost one every month.

(Colors added for no reason because I know you can't use red, yellow, or green)

[-GoRe-]

Sign me up..

@remarK is against all things Rant. Fact.


As a side note, #Rant4Mod.

[ILLoKWENT]

@remarK... the horrorcore would be feasible as a concept that could be used in the concept tourney as one of the given themes of a round... same wit the other suggested ones like jokes over bars..athletic.... etc.etc.. they all are concepts....and can be utilized during the tourney at any time in a round.. good suggestions tho

[Wonderbred]

@-James- This is kinda late, but I joined September of last year I think. Although to be fair I never got invited to the ROTY tourney last year and my only battles last year were with some irrelevant no-names and Macc.

As for the rest of it, I agree that too many tourneys makes titles less valuable, but I think it also boosts activity. I still like the old system of having a bunch of lesser "green" tourneys and then fewer, more prestigious "orange" tourneys. Or make custom titles for the big tourneys like Diss when he had the "Punchline God" thing. Hell, you could even make it so GC winners get a customizable title like the donors.

Personally, I think anon text tourneys would be hard for me due to excessive nameplay and horrorcore is just fucking lame IMO, but I'm sure they'd still generate activity, so go for it.

Anon Topical Tournament imo has proven itself to be a dope topical tournament twice now, and has got a lot of people excited about the site so I reckon it deserve's it's title.