Gonna Try Something

[The Sandmen]

I'm going to try something for a while that is VERY hard to explain, but none-the-less thoroughly thought out. So don't be frustrated if you get confused - I won't be explaining this well, but in execution, it will work out kinda neat.


Starting this up-coming event, I'm breaking down each division into brackets that will fight in small single-night tournaments to determine next number one contender for each weight class. 8 fighters will be chosen (based on when they last fought) to be in the 31 contender tournament for that event. Everyone else in that weight class will also fight on that card, but not in the tournament. So ManMMA 124 will look like this.

ManMMA 124

Main Event: Middleweight Championship

Single Night tournament featuring 8 MW fighters (4 fights, then 2, then 1)

Remaining middleweight singles fights.


We have more heavyweights than other weight classes, so HW singles fights will appear on women's cards, and LW cards.

This should balance out to 17 fights per card now. 7 tournament fights, 9 singles fights, and 1 championship fight). So if ManMMA 124 is, for example, the MW card, 125 might be women, then 126 might be LW, 127 HW, and so on, etc, etc.

No one would be in 2 consecutive #1 contender tournaments, and so on. There are probably a few small things we'd need to iron out as we go, but I am gonna try this for a few events and see how it gels. If it works out well and we like it, we might keep it. If it takes longer than I think it will, or creates problems, it might be scrapped. But yeah, it's kind of a hybrid of the tournament contender format HammerFists suggested, and the whole keeping everyone fighting on a cycle thing I want. Plus, it ensures winners fight more too.


Thoughts? Questions? Comments? Concerns? Confusions?

[xx - Camp Cannon]

I dunno man don't like it if every contender has to win a tournament rather then regular fights and earning it the ufc rather then bellator 1 or 2 tournaments a season isn't bad tho but if it constant tournaments that will suck..

[The Sandmen]

half tournaments, half "regular fights" as you call them. the regular fights will be what make up the rest of each card after the title fight and the tournament.

[The Rocketmen]

I like it, now let's see if it works

[xx - Former Phoenix Fight Club]

Not meaning to diminish the experience for others cuz I know that some of you are excited by the tournaments, but the tournaments don't affect me nor do they excite me all that much since I never win them anyways; my team's just not built for tourneys, yet. I'm more interested in the "regular fights" and looking forward to 1) getting my girls back into the rotation; 2) now waiting til Brock returns and 3) Building my fighters up. That's where I get the fun out of the site.

Some of the fights will likely be interesting in the sense that it's good to see where my fighters are at within the league, but the way I've been losing to start the season already, it's just hard to get excited about something that you know for a fact that you won't even have a chance at winning. Sorry.

[The Sandmen]

Well, whether a fighter wins a "regular fight" or a tournament fight, a win is still a win and a loss is still a loss. This is just a much quicker way to get number 1 contenders, without me having to pick and choose And there is some luck too, since if Cruz draws a relatively weak tournament bracket, he could earn a title shot sooner than he may have otherwise.

[The Sandmen]

this being said, I already have to change the structure outlined above due to a medium-sized oversight. Might need tournaments to NOT be single-night affairs. We'll see. Gonna work with a few different things and see what we like As the thread says, we're just trying something is all. No permanent or definite changes or anything.

[xx - Former Phoenix Fight Club]

In the sense that we really don't have a ranking system exactly, it's fine. But you're not going to convince me that I'll get a weak bracket... We've already seen in this HW one that's not likely.

[The Sandmen]

The heavyweight one is different from what I was planning here. These have no huge prelims, and only involve 8 fighters per mini-tournament, and there would be several per season, with different pools, basically.

[The Rocketmen]

Let's just see what happens and go from there.

[Ferocity]

I think some divisions will see surprises with this set up and some won't. It's worth a try, and it's only for a season if it sucks.

[The Sandmen]

And as with all evolving processes, it's been modified a bit from what I posted in the first post now.

Update: Fights won't be one-night tournaments now.

[xx - Former Phoenix Fight Club]

Mar 21, 2013 18:00:26 GMT -5 The Sandmen said:

And as with all evolving processes, it's been modified a bit from what I posted in the first post now.

Update: Fights won't be one-night tournaments now.

Translation: "The Paul Daley Clause" lol

[The Sandmen]

What would Paul Daley have to do with it?

[xx - Former Phoenix Fight Club]

Mar 21, 2013 21:42:25 GMT -5 The Sandmen said:

What would Paul Daley have to do with it?

It was a joke since he's a newb and he beat out the big veterans in the one night tourney... Can't have that, right?! lol (Yes, I'm kidding... hence it being a joke. : )