Forum Draft Touney construction

[holepercent]

Ready to challenge the elements and the restrictions? Then this custom tournament is for you! A draft would determine the towers that are removed and the elementals allowed for the match. You then have 7 days to play out the game, single player, as many attempts as you want and submit your best replay to the draft host. Try different builds and discover something you never knew about the game! Don't wait. Sign up now! Winner receives a custom Element TD mouspad from Karawasa.

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1. Prerequisites

1.1 Having a forum account at forums.eletd.com is a must. Registration for forum account is free and can be done immediately. All information, registration and the draft itself would be posted there.

2. About the draft format

2.1 The pool consists of arrow towers (and its upgrades), cannon towers (and its upgrades), the 6 single element towers (and their upgrades), the 15 dual-element towers (and their upgrades), the 20 triple-element towers (and their upgrades), periodic tower of the elements as well as all the elementals, extra investments and pure essences which can be summoned from the summoning centre.

2.2 The draft consists of 3 phases, the tower removal phase, element draft phase and the gameplay.

2.3 Tower removal phase: 5 dual-element towers and 7 triple-element towers are voted to be removed from the pool.

2.4 Element draft phase: The elementals that can be summoned are drafted.

2.5 Gameplay: The drafters would then play the game with the restrictions in place.

3. Tower removal phase

3.1 There is no order for this phase. Drafter may post their votes once they have decided on their removals.

3.2 Each drafter votes a dual-element tower of his choice for removal. You are allowed to vote for a dual-element tower that has been voted for removal by another drafter. 5 dual-element towers would be removed. If there are less than 5 drafters, draft host randomly removes dual-element towers to remove 5 in total. If there are more than 5 drafters, draft host randomly removes 5 from the dual-element towers voted.

3.3 Each drafter votes 3 unique triple-element towers to be removed from the pool. You are allowed to vote for a triple-element tower that has been voted for removal by another drafter. 7 triple-element towers with most votes are removed from the pool. Ties would be resolved through random removals by draft host.

3.4 Dual-element towers removed from the pool cannot be built, not even as intermediates to triple-element towers. Triple-element towers removed from the pool cannot be built.

4. Element Draft phase

4.1 The order for this phase would be posted by the draft host.

4.2 Each drafter, on his turn, picks an element / extra investment / pure essence to add to the pool. When you specify a pick, add some comments to it. Each element can be voted a maximun of three times. Extra investment and pure essence can be voted a maximum of three times.

4.3 At the end of the phrase, the picks are combined by the draft host. The number of votes for each element would be the maximum tier that element can be summoned.

4.4 The order is decided by the drafters in game but only those in the pool can be summoned.

5. Gameplay phase

5.1 The final rules and scoring would be posted by the draft host after the number of drafters is confirmed.

5.2 Drafters then proceed to play a single-player game with the restrictions. Game mode is: VH pick, non-chaos, non-(extra) short, non-extreme. No other modes to be added.

5.3 Once satisfied with replay, attach your replay via forum PM to the draft host and the draft host only. DO NOT POST YOUR REPLAYS ANYWHERE.

5.4 Drafters may submit their replay anytime and replace it with another replay until the draft closes and last call for replays has been made.

6. Scoring and winning replay

6.1 To be decided once the number of players is confirmed.

6.2 Building of removed towers/summoning of elementals not drafted will result in the replay being disqualified

6.3 Any instances of bug abuse, known or unknown beforehand and the use of cheats will result in replay being disqualified. Draft host's decision is final.

6.4 Replays would be judged on number of leaks, time taken up to wave 60 (ronalds not included), networth and ronalds killed. Draft host's decision is final.

6.5 The winner wins a custom Element TD mousepad ! (sponsored by Karawasa)

[Karawasa]

*Moved to Club Element for higher visibility*

Nice work holepercent, I am eager to see how this turns out. Please help him out with some feedback so that he can host this thing in the near future.

[Cisz]

Nice ruleset.

Good luck with the tourney, you'll probably find out why I demand outomated tourney all the time.

[holepercent]

Bump. Now left the publicity text.. before we start spamming this..

[holepercent]

Almost final version. Comments pls.

Only image, publicity text and link to rules posted on other sites.

The link would direct drafters to the ruleset.

Sign up link at bottom of ruleset.