Arena Description and Judges Points Criteria

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The Arena:

Right, basically, this is an area in which anyone can challenge anyone as they so choose. This will either be a yes, or a no with an 'explanation' of why not. I know we've got the training area and the wilds.

This is an area that runs out of line of anything happening on Blackstar. It has no bearing on roleplay or training, although, if your character does develop, go ahead and roleplay those developments realistically.

But this area, essentially, is a place to challenge someone, purely if you just want to challenge someone out of interest, out of a grudge, to test yourself against someone, or whatever. The bonus if this area, is that whatever happens here has no affect elsewhere, so even death isn’t all that bad. Also, if your character and someone else’s character have never met, or will never technically meet for whatever reason, then this is again useful.

It requires no explanation other than a challenge arena, no plausible explanation required.

The combatants, however many there are, sort out their own rules for the match up. Whether they each have a post limit, whether you win by quality of posts, length of posts, knockout, death, or give up/tap out.

Tap out runs on two basis, IC and OOC. If you give up IC, goodbye win goodbye credibility. An OOC give in, requires a suitable explanation, such as not enough time to get online, lack of access, holiday, uni, whatever.

Combatants can also choose if they want to be judged on their performances. This, will require before hand, volunteer judges. Only those deemed worthy by both combatants to be a Judge can be, no matter what colour belt they possess. 'Worthy' meaning to have a high standard of roleplaying in the challengers estimate.
The moderator of the section is also a judge, since they are modding the area.

When it comes to having a judge, a post limit or day limit will be required. A further agreed stipulation could be that of each post is individually judged should both combatants agree upon it. They can choose however many judges they'd like depending on how many volunteer.

This will be run independently of any Olympics, and benefits to others, would be the gambling den, obviously for bets. Street-cred (so to speak, and general respect from other rpers). Also, if you have a spirit rank, and you manage to defeat an opposing spirit rank or someone a belt or so higher than you, it could work in your favour for belt advancement. (This would require the belt Sensei's to be judging over the event if it's for advancement).

Anyways, it’s an outline.



Judges Points Criteria:

This is both to help anyone selected as a Judge and to help Challengers see what they will be looking for.

Believability: Self explanatory really, how believable you RPed your character/s (and taking into account this is Blackstar while you do so ). Scored out of 10, 10 being the best.

Powerplay: Again, pretty self explanatory, however your marks for this will be deducted from your total score, as this is given a - scoring (eg. -10/-10 is extreme powerplaying and -10 will be deducted from your score)

Personality/Flair: Does your char or your way of writing show individuality and an actual personality? Scored out of 10

Cleverness/Inventiveness: Did you use your head and think, use any disadvantages to your own advantage. Did you use your surrounding arena as a tool? Also, were you able to come up with a tactic to insure that you were able to win? Or use your powers in an imaginative and inventive way at all? Scored out of 20

Grammar/Spelling: Again, self-explanatory. Scored out of 10

Total Score is out of 50.



A Tie Break Situation:

In the case of myself vs. Goron40: Josh vs Guthux

There was in fact a tie breaker situation.

For future reference, the two main options for breaking the tie breaker are as follows:

Tie-Break One:

The judge can decide on exactly how many posts both challengers may make. These posts must be judged individually, and their scores only then can break the tie. In the case of adding these scores to a previous score, only one point will be added to the original score in that thread, thus determining that challenger the winner.

Tie-Break Two:

The challengers can request for a secondary judge to go over the entire thread, and post up their own scores. Should they judge differently, and decide that one challenger has in fact scored higher than the other, then this is the score that will break a tie.

In respects to adding this score to the previous scores, the highest score will be added to the ranking score.


In the unlikely event that both options deem to fail deciding who should win, further discussion will take place in order to find a solution to this problem.

[Swix]

The statement below has been revised (see above, the one quoted here is in it's original state):