The next Grand Tournament is coming up fast, and with it’s arrival comes the newest addition to our tournaments: Crews!
As we announced earlier, we will be having crew battles after each tournament. How will it work exactly? Well, read on for more info.
Forming a Crew:
A crew can consist of up to five members maximum, with one person being the Crew Leader. Some events, such as Balloon Battles or Smash Double Battles, may require one member or more to sit out, in which case the Crew Leader will make the call as to who goes into what matches.
Forming a crew is as easy as getting your team together, thinking up a name, and then posting your crew and it’s members in the Official Crew thread on our GameBoard.
The Crew Point Pool (CPP):
Every time someone from your crew earns points in any of our tournament events, those points will also be added to the Crew Point Pool. Also, any Crew Battles you enter, the points your crew earns will also be added to your CPP.
Let’s say one of your members finishes first in a Mario Kart tournament round. He or she earns 100 points for being in first. That 100 points is applied both to the player, and his or her Crew Point Pool. Later on, he or she joins in a Crew Battle and his or her crew wins. Those points are also added to the crew’s Point Pool, but NOT to the gamer’s personal points.
There’s one last way for crews to earn points. If a person brings in a new person to the gaming events, whether to Open Play or a Tournament, his or her crew will earn 100 points for the crew’s Point Pool. If that person continues to come to events, the crew earns another 100 points. There’s no limit to the number of new people you can bring in.
At the end of our Grand Tournament, the top crews will face off until only one crew is left standing. The final crew will get special titles on the GameBoard and will automatically have a spot in the finals for the following Crew Battle Finals. No other prizes are planned as of now, except for the prestige of being the reigning Crew Battle Champs.
Crew Battles:
The biggest thing about crews is the addition of the Crew Battles. Crew Battles will take place after tournaments, and will be specially designed events to test crews and pit them against one another. Each tournament will have several different Crew Battles, ranging from Shine Thief, Co-op and Balloon Battles in Mario Kart: Double Dash to Super Smash Crew Battles and Doubles tournaments. Only those with crews will be allowed into these events, and each event will give a certain amount of points that will go towards your CPP.
Crews outside of the Grand Tournament:
Fear not, those who are ineligible for the GT. You are still ok to form your own crews, and they’ll even be official, even if you can’t enter the Grand Tournament. Form your crew up, post it on the GameBoard, and meet up with the other crews on Open Plays to battle it out!
Crew Battles will start officially at our first Grand Tournament round, on September 16th. However, we’re going to hold a preliminary round August 29th, after our finals!
Start recruiting!
Haha, me, Jek, The Duelist, Aggro, and Brandon in a crew? Lol, that would be probably be too boring to watch.
How does the alternate work? Can an alternate only play for the crew when another crew member isn’t there that day? Is it just that the alternate can’t join any competitions if the other four crew members are already int that race or battle? I guess I just don’t understand what it means to be an alternate or what “when needed” means. Either “a crew may designate one alternate, who would fill in when needed” isn’t very complete, or I’m not catching on very well. Could you elaborate for me?
lol, that’d be mean, XSV. =P
Too bad I won’t be around during the academic year. College gets in the way too much.
It seems the alternate was confusing, and as such I’ve changed up how I said it, and took alternates out. It’s already altered up above, but here’s the revised for you.
“A crew can consist of up to five members maximum, with one person being the Crew Leader. Some events, such as Balloon Battles or Smash Double Battles, may require one member or more to sit out, in which case the Crew Leader will make the call as to who goes into what matches.
Forming a crew is as easy as getting your team together, thinking up a name, and then posting your crew and it’s members in the Official Crew thread on our GameBoard.”