Played Any Classic Battles Yet?

[Tomisama]

The extravaganza part will take longer to explain...will be home soon and give it a try.

Note: Contest Retainers (below) are not Shogun 2 game retainers, but are actual defeated competing Clan Teams.

Imagine a map of Japan, broken up into 32 provinces.

Each Province is the property of a real sengoku period Game Clan, noted by the Clan Moniker marker.

Contest Teams are assigned to these provinces, one each.

They assume Province ownership and the identity of the Game Clan.

Random Battle Assignments are set and fought.

The map is designed in such a way that every Province has sea access, so has access to every other Province, making the beginning random assignment and further developing assignments possible.

(No actual sea travel or battles necessary, this is just symbolic access)

The losers of the Battle take on the Game Clan identity of the winning Team; that is the Marker on their province changes, and the Contest continues.

Every time a Team wins a Battle, the province of their opponent comes under the banner of the winners Game Clan, the Team stays the same and in the same place.

Battle Assignments are actually being made on Swiss System format, but are being “displayed” on the map as changing territory ownership.

The Teams keep on competing until one Game Clan owns a majority of the property, even if this means only one more Province.

The essence of the display is that of the real situation. What everyone sees is that if you beat another Team, they then become Retainers of your Game Clan.

And in every Battle that they fight and win from then on, their winnings are added to that same Game Clan.

Of course if they loose, they come under the banner of the victors Game Clan, but all previous winnings (retainers gained) remain counted to their former Game Clan banner, and now under the control of their previous Retainers.

What is gained by displaying a Contest Map depiction of the Contest, (even though it is no different than a regular Swiss) is that all Teams are encouraged to continue, as they are then all part of something larger than them selves, even if they are not winning outright.



Ok, let’s just look at one of the situations above for explanation purposes.

We will just follow two Teams for simplicity.

Team 1 is Oda Clan.

Team 2 is Takeda Clan.

They are Battle and the following happens.

Team 1 wins and Team 2 becomes Oda also.

Four scenarios follow:

One: They go on and Team 1 loses the next Match and becomes a Retainer of the Hojo.
Team 2 is still Oda, and will continue to carry that banner to the end unless they loose to someone else.

Two: They go on and Team 2 looses the next Match and becomes a Retainer of the Usagui. Team 1 continues as Oda, and will carry that banner to the end unless they loose to someone else.

Three: They go on and neither one looses any more matches and the Contest ends in Round five. Team 1 will have five points, and team 2 will have 4 (having lost that first Battle). Team 1, the original Oda is the Champion Team, and with that glory is able to share their honors with other Teams that they have made Oda along the way.

Four: Both go on and are defeated, taking on the identity of their new Game Clan, and there is no more Oda.
The difference in thinking here is the difference between Clan Team, and Game Clan.

Clan Teams still win as usual, nothing has changed in that respect. The only thing different is that they change banners, as in the third case above, honoring the Clan Team that is the true Champion.

Loosing one battle more than any other Team makes you subordinate to them in score, even if you win the rest of your Matches, unless they loose to another Team and become equal to you in points. But then they would belong to the victorious Game Clan, and your Team would be head of the Game Clan that they were head of before.

The only thing that really changes is that no one is ever left out, all the way to the end. Being in the same Game Clan they can root for each other and achieve a sense of brotherhood, no matter what happens.

Below is the last of a few ideas on how to display the above, but not necessarily the final one

https://i85.photobucket.com/albums/k...unHeader17.jpg


Qualify as a Swiss Extravaganza?



Classic Battles of course