Forum:Tag Team Series 5 - Rules and Format

Hello chaps.

It's been about seven years since I hosted an official tournament, so this will be good fun.

Since my idea gained a surge of appreciation, I've jumped straight in and set up the rules since its Sunday and I work Monday-Friday. This will be the most I have to do, so it shouldn't be much of a chore. If I don't update on a 3-day turnaround, I'll take Jim up on his offer to help run the tournament.

Most updates will be around 7-8pm my time when I finish work, so around 10-11am UK time.  Toon Ganondorf    (t    c)  04:07, July 30, 2017 (UTC)

Format
The tournament will be using Series 4 Tag Team Terror format. Two pairings will make up the heat, followed by a playoff for 3rd/4th and a heat final. A total of four matches per heat, done two at a time.

As this is Series 5 in essence, we will follow the same format. Three pairings will take place in each semi-final, followed by a Loser's Melee (with six robots in the arena), and two more pairings. Ultimately we will end up with the top four teams, which will play off like the S4 Tag Team once again.

I will also be doing a pair of "Dud Finals" to determine the worst pairing in Series 5. Just as the ranked 1 team in each heat goes to the final, the 4th ranked team goes to the dud final. We'll do the same thing again, but instead of winner progressing, the loser will progress. With twelve dud teams, we'll have three semi-finals to determine the four weakest, plus a "winner's melee" to determine the weakest of the three winners. Then we'll progress to bottom eight, bottom four, bottom two and bottom one.

I've added the Dud Finals because I envisage Sumpthing/Widow's Revenge vs Axe-C-Dent/Destruct-A-Bubble being a really funny and analytical choice, and because the tournament will be rather short.

Rules

 * Tag Team Terror rules of tagging will not be enforced as there is no way of doing so.
 * Each bracket I will flip a coin to determine which robot starts in the arena for each team. As we've seen with fights like Pussycat/Bulldog Breed, this can have significant impact on the outcome of the battle.
 * Elimination of one robot does not mean automatic defeat of the team (Extreme 1 rules over Extreme 2 rules) but should be considered heavily in favour of a team's defeat.

Bracket

 * All robots are paired with their Series 5 first round opponent in real life (i.e. Chaos 2/Storm Force, Pussycat/The Executioner, Kat 3/Mini Morg, King B Powerworks/Kronic 2)
 * All robots will be drawn randomly into the actual heats. No seedings will be considered.

Comments
Any comments, requests for rule change, or discussion takes place here. Once everyone's had a day or two to weigh in, I'll upload the first bracket.