M57 wrote:

Mad Bomber wrote:

when i was a non prem member tournaments were huge in keeping my game count around 20 vs the standard 10.  I did not know that they didn't count twords the standard 10 for a long time...this should be written somewhere and everywhere

I see no great need to publicize the fact that there's unlimited tournament play.  The idea is to get people to become Premium members.  But I agree that information and current status needs to be easily accessed. How about killing two or three birds with one or two stones ..where it gets noticed when it counts?

On the My Games page, as well as the Join Game page, maybe something like..

As a Standard Member, you are currently playing in 6 of your allotted 10 free games. Check out the FAQ's to learn more about Standard Member features. Even better, support WarGear and become a Premium Member to start enjoying a bunch of cool features including access to unlimited play ..and to get rid of this annoying message.

 

I don't really see a difference between this and the pop-up growls that somebody mentioned before.

Creating in-your-face advertizing for Premium memberships will most likely annoy more people than it will benefit.

The Rope's point before about sanctioned/sponsored tournaments is a good idea.  The whole point is to create energy and enthusiasm around tournament play perhaps more than there is today with the T-score and trophies. Think of the viewers the World Cup gets around the world! 

AttilaTheHun wrote:

The Rope wrote:

3. Actual Bracket Visuals for the elimination tournaments

 

I really miss looking at the bracket break down of tourneys of single and double elimination.... I use to try to see patterns of teaming up and also who I might play.... Tons of Fun!

The Rope wrote:

I feel like I keep being overly negative, and I don't mean it to be that way.  I  feel like tournaments should be a bigger part of this site. 

No way man - we all love the site, but we don't hesitate to spout out our ideas, good and bad. These, however, are all great ideas with attention to detail. (Brackets! Top-x and Pro-Am tourneys!)

Around when this post began, the original poster started some larger than 12 player tournaments. One was a 32 player elimination tournament. After the players who know that it's a fun map joined, we were stuck at 18 players. It stayed that way for a few weeks. I think this is the gist of the original question/complaint.

Then I posted "Hey, should we spam some more people?" to the tournament board. Whether it was BD or Risky or someone else, the spamvite list went from about 20 to over 100. Suddenly we experienced steady growth and the tournament started today. 

I like the ideas presented in this thread, especially TheRope's, but it may just come down to being more actively viral than we currently are as a group of people.