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Post by Close Quarters Tactical on Oct 17, 2011 12:49:23 GMT -5
Close Quarters Tactical is looking at putting on a tournament before the end of the year. Looking for suggestions and ideas on what you all would like to see. If you have not checked out our facility yet stop on by. www.cqtusa.com
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Post by Knief on Oct 17, 2011 13:25:05 GMT -5
The best suggestion I have for you is don't have any sort of prizes with any kind of monetary value. As soon as you bring in winning something beyond bragging rights, you're going to get a lot of cheating. And even if by some miracle you don't have an increase in cheating (and that alone is a big if), you will see an increase in people who think the other team is cheating. It happens all the time in games with nothing at stake. If something is actually at stake, you'll end up with a bunch of pissed off players, none of whom understand that their gun can't actually hit targets at 200 feet or punch through dense brush with perfect accuracy.
Don't get me wrong, a tournament could be cool if you're guaranteed consolation games and the only thing you win is your team name at the middle of the bracket. But for the sake of your participants, leave it at that.
The only other suggestion I have is, drop your prices some. Your competitors charge $15-$20 for a full 6 or 8 hour day. At $5 an hour for your field, that's $30 or $40, depending. Most milsim games don't charge that much, and they offer a player a far more in depth playing experience. I'm not likely to come to CQT if I can play at Phoenix, Eastside or Farmington for half the price, you know?
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Post by Thor on Oct 17, 2011 18:31:58 GMT -5
If you're looking at doing a tournament, don't do it as force-on-force play, as that will inspire cheating like Knief already said. Set it up as more time trials, accuracy drills, and moving as a cohesive unit through a shoot house. Since the biggest aspect of cheating in airsoft is people not calling hits, just eliminate that possibility entirely. If the objective isn't eliminating the other team but rather beating their times, makes it much more of an equal footing for all involved. If you can set up multiple events in different areas so that people aren't spending a lot of time sitting around waiting, which often happens at CQB games regardless.
Otherwise, if your plan is to do a bracketed force-on-force type elimination tournament, you'll have to have to make sure you can supervise the contestants closely, because as soon as accusations of cheating or not calling hits start flying, it's just going to go down hill from there.
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