Ok, so I decided to post all my concerns and questions about this tournament here since the Skype conference that was created for the captains is flooded with useless posts and nobody replied with a proper answers and solutions: 1. As Bruce said, captains will challenge each other through Skype conference. However, I think there are several issues with it: a. Skype it not reliable since sometimes, for several hours, it is not sending/receiving messages in the conference. So somebody might challenge the team before me, even though I was the first one that actually did it. b. Many captains will not notice that they are being challenged since there is a lot of flood in the chat. Or they will ignore it and say that they didn't see it. Solution: I suggest to create a separate topic in the forum that will show who is challenging who. Also, the challenges should be sent to the country-team's topic in the forum, since it will show exactly the time that the message was posted and who was first that challenged that team. *The permission to challenge other teams should be given only to the captains, since some players might challenge some team that the captain didn't want to. 2. I think this final prize is too small. For all the time/effort/drugs that we will spend for this tournament the winner should get much more. At least extra supplies every day and not once a week since 10 sets of supplies for the whole week (that can consist of 3 battles) is a joke. Even if the team will make max 3 battles on the first week it will get only 40 sets on the week after. Here is some info from similar tournament from Russian section: -its called "TOF Dream Team" -Drugs are allowed ONLY in finals and semi-finals -battles are 40 mins long -The winners get 200,000 crystals for the team + paints that have 20% resists from all Now lets compare it to ours, we need to use a lot of drugs since they are allowed from the beginning + the length of the battle is 60 mins (33% longer). And still the winners will get twice less crystals and no paint. And the amount of given drugs will not cover even quarter of what we are going to spend. Correct me if I'm wrong, but it is a little bit unfair towards English community. Solution: There are two options. a. To double the final prize b. To allow drugs only in finals and semi-finals c. To combine both a+b (as it is in "TOF Dream Team") 3. There are no rules defined about the map selection. As it is right now, the teams can play on any map. However, what will happen in case that captains choose to play on Sandbox (4x4)? Or what to do in case that captains cannot agree on which map to play? Solution: There should be a list of approved maps. Also, a guide to captains that describes how both sides choose a map. -------------------------------- Many teams are already questioning if to participate or not in this tournament. They don't see any motivation, since the players will spend more than they are going to win. There is no any unique item that will show to everyone that this team won the World Cup. And the lower rank teams or those who didn't donate don't see any chance of winning here and they already start to withdraw their applications (see above). There are a lot of small questions that I will not mention for now. Please read and comment. I would appreciate if Bruce will comment on this as well.

Actually he is right. Vietnam is missing in the Map. There are 25 countries in the list.

Actually it will be never-ending tournament, as long as there will be at least 2 teams with equal strength... The rules that we see atm doesn't make sense to me. I hope with the time will get more explanation. Also, the final prise is pretty weak for such a long tournament (imho). Every person in the winner team will get only 10k crystals and 200 sets of drugs. I don't understand why there is no some special paint as the clan winners are getting.

I don't think its a good idea to allow drugs in tournament... the winner in such battle is the one that has more drugs and not the one that has better skills...

From all this list I see only two works that worth attention. The first one is from Ostrica and the other one is from dikbuster. Everything else is just fake or copied from the russian contest...

Bruce, Im really disappointed from you and your decisions. I sent you PM asking if my work is good for the contest, but didn't get any responce from you. Obviously I decided to put it here, and now I see that it was not included. Probably because it doesn't mach the required format. But my work 100% maches the dejavu concept (im sure that most of the people have seen the movie "Matrix"), and it is much better/original than those with a railroad. It is disappointing to see that people who just took a pic of typical railway are participating.