Well I was waiting for your response Merlin. And first things I will start off with is that this is not a battle between others in the direct sense that RPB are. The battle is of writing skill and roleplaying skill, you are working in a semi-competitive/cooperative manner. Sounds strange, but the idea is that you have two people or more working to an end goal. From those the winner is decide not from who won, but who was the better RPer.

I was originally thinking about doing all the same quest, but I decided that if I had 8 groups of people all doing the same quest the only differences would be in how they achieved those goals. And while that is one part of it, it also tends to make people inclined to look over at their other groups. So I decide to eliminate that factor, everyone would have an unique quest.

As I said, victory is not what is important in the quest, you seemed to have read over that fact. The winner is not determined by who got to the end and won, but who wrote better than the other. Even in the RPB Tournaments it is not about who got more hits in or who was just about to win. It was who wrote better, the better writer wins, not the combat victor. The same applies to the RP Tournament, it is just going to be using the RP standards of writing and not the RPB standards.

Judging I omited from this thread since it was me testing the waters. I wanted to get the idea out there and the basics. When things get finalized, the judging part will be added. I will be milling it over with other people as well, so that the judging perimeters are as unbias and complete as possible.

And yes it is based off the RPB Tournament TOA. The idea was to create something that easier to manage and simpler, that was more open and did not rely on a team. I love RPing, and it is a team effort that creates the RP as a whole. But lets face it, people are not always so prompt or relible. So I wanted to create something that did not penalize severely for the lack of someone. If someone does not show up for the round, well the other people gets a default. Their team is not dragged down by say "life" or absent mindedness or whatever the case is. I wanted to try to make something that was a little more singular focused to allow for individuals to stand out and not be pulled down but accidents or misfortunes. I liked the TRPT and RPJam ideas, but I wanted something that was a little more accessible to people.

In some ways the tournament goes against the nature of what RPing is. It is not a competitive activity. It is a cooperative, everyone working together. So it is hard to figure out a way to a competitive RPing. The obvious way is teams. Aside from teams what does that leave you with? It leaves you a singular approach, which is obviously going look like a normal tournament, which is what ToA is. But it needs to be done with the RP flair. This my approach to what is a possible parellel to the ToA for RPers. That was my goal in mind, I am not going to deny it. I wanted a ToA for the RPers, it is simple as that. But it had to be done in a way that is suited towards RPs. So it is going to be a little wierd and strange, feeling that you are competing against and working together with your group because you know that one of you is going to move on and the other is not. The end in mind though is that you are working together to the end and the better writer wins. So you can still work together, but whoever writes their parts better is going to be the winner. It is simply judged Roleplaying when you get down to it.

My belief is that there is nothing original anymore and it is only how we do things different that makes us unique from the next person. So saying that it is similar to ToA, yes we are. But that is also like saying that everyone other tournament is like ToA. ToA is in no means original, it is the basic tournament, its been done before. How they make themselves different is through different settings and that is it through writing as opposed to real physical contest. The RP Tournament is like ToA, but it is different from ToA in many ways. The execution is going to be vastly different, it will be treated like another RP, so it will have a world, history, background. It will feel like a RP and not a RPB.