I had an idea that maybe Warlight could have an Olympics. Basically, there would be 10 maps, Medium Earth, Europe, and 8 others...Each country has trials to pick one person to represent their country on each map...The representatives of each country would then have some kind of tournament and then we would award a gold, silver, and bronze metal...There would also be 3 4v4 maps to represent the team events in the Olympics. What do you all think? Also, what maps should we use?

Wouldn't it be nice to use maps of the countries that are represented?
And I second Oliebol as the Dutch representative! That is if he agrees.

seems a lot like the nations cup and in the olympics there are more than 1 representive why just 1.

It is very different from the Nations Cup...The Nations Cup is more about teamwork while the Olympics is a way to show individual skills more.

I would like to limit it to 10 maps that way there are more good players competing against each compared to where if we did each individual country map, it would be at least 30, probably more and you would not see as many good games...and there would be a trial for each country to decide who makes it.

I dont know why i said one...i think it would be better to have two...I just want to see if there is much interest in it right now and we can work out the small details later on.

I would definitely play for my country...Macedonia!

i'll play for guyana.

i will play for nigeria

So, is anyone actually intrested in doing this?

Sounds cool Id represent central US, East Us or Great Lakes.

yeah, i'm actually interested. ya got a problem with guyana, buddy?

no, i just thought it was funny how you were playing for Great Britain in the Nations Cup but in the Olympics you wanted to play for Guyana.

you should allow more than one person to represent a country, I agree its individual. You cannot have one sole person represent america b/c who would you pick?

It is one fopr each map I believe. Also do we need to represent our actual nation??

There's a slight problem with representing nations and having a fixed number of contestants from each nation. A while ago I was a volunteer at a big international event. We had a team from Slovenia, one from Croatia, one from Serbia, one from Bosnia Herzegovina and one from Macedonia. You don't see the problem? There was also one team representing the entire United States. Of course, had this been organised 25 years ago, those participants would have had to fight for a place on a single Yugoslavian team (while the USA would have had the same amount of participants).

I'm perfectly okay with people representing countries of course, but having a fixed number of participants (which, in some cases, might even be higher than the total number of WL players in that country) just doesn't work. If we were to hold a marathon, we could say people have to qualify for the finals by showing they can run a marathon in x hours. You might additionally limit the number of participants from each country, but with such a qualification process you would prevent someone who can't beat level 1 from making it to the tournament simply on account of him having found the button which says "forum" (and being the only person in Liechtenstein, the Seychelles, Christmas Island or Belize who happens to play WarLight). Unfortunately, unlike for a marathon, I don't really know of a good way for people to proof a certain proficiency on WL (it has to be objective, non-fakeable and accurate...). If anyone has any ideas, please share!


Note: Not all those examples of tiny countries with "just one WL player" are equally brilliant; they are simply the smallest countries I could think of. No disrespect (or prejudice against local technological development) intended!

Good point, RvW. The problem is finding out what is a consistent judge on who makes it. I think the single player challenges are about the only way to do it unless someone else has a good idea. If we do the single player challenges, what Level should it be that they have to beat?

i think you could have a commitee of about 10 players judging players skill level, like happened in the manager league. The unknown players have to be judged by a stat based formula unfortunately.

You can have this first event with half of the intended number of players in each tournament (32 instaed of 64 for example). And you could have regionals for the next olympics.

I think you must do double elimination because it becomes clear 1st 2nd and 3rd place. Or with less fairness you can do it single elimination with a game for 3rd place.

I think you have to limit a Nations squad size possibility to about 15% or 20% of total spots (6 or 7 USA players in 32 competeing for example).

And, I will represent Brazil

The tournaments will definitely be double elimination i think but the trials are going to be the tough part.

I like your idea of having judges but i was thinking of making it more like the actual Olympic trials. I was thinking that we should randomly divide them into groups of 30 for the trials. In each group there will be 3 semifinals like the real trials and the top 3 from each group advance plus one wildcard. The finals would be another 10 player round robin and the top 4 players in it would advance to the Olympics. If we had 8 groups(240 players) that would be a 32 person double elimination tournament. And we would do this for each of the 10 maps and you could join whichever ones you wanted to.

The people who actually qualify for the Olympics would need to put their country on their tagline so everyone can see which country they are representing.

il play for hong kong/china if this olympics start in August

I play for the Ukraine. Because the Ukraine is not weak!! We are strong like bull!!

In for France !