Duel tourneys are boring, slow, grindy, and painful to watch as a spectator.
I am one of the top North American Duelists and I have thousands of hours in the game. Yet even at a high level and extremely interested in the game, I cant even sit down and enjoy watching two players compete at the highest level in the old ruleset. I however think the players in this video should be praised at playing to the rules and getting to the top in spite of them. I know as someone who enjoys dueling the dedication, patience, and focus that is required to win in this ruleset. However like any sport like UFC rules change to make the game more engaging for spectators and to draw out different skillsets within players. Thus here are the simple ideas presented to make dueling once again more fun enjoyable and prestigious in warband.
Objectives: Making dueling Spectator friendly
Making dueling rely on aggressive fast paced spilt second mechanical ability
Rules: 30second rounds, 3 blocks in a row limit
If goes to draw player with more damage dealt wins
if draw with no damage done on either side both players suicide and restart
Ideas:
Right now I'm looking at finding a person to create scripts to have these ruleset automated.
Continuing to simplify ruleset and make it more effective to encourage the previously stated objectives.
Gather attention of community and streamers.
Future Concept: Make a NWWC style tourney with NWWC teams having livestream matches with proper hype go along with it. With winners of those tournaments battling it out on a finial grand stage to declare one nation victorious at creating the best duelist in Europe
Augment: Its normal for sports that involve 1 on 1 competition to change and develop rules with the interest of making it spectator friendly and also take a elite level of skill.
However in warband just like in early UFC's people would use tactics to slow down the fight to draw things out and make it defeat the point of fighting in the first place.
Example of Skeying, blocking, and holding in UFC
Example of New ruleset reducing the time of the fight and making it more entertaining and draws out skills of players more.
I am totally open to novel ideas on how to change the ruleset to achieve the goal of making it more spectator friendly and competitive for players. Let me know your thoughts and message me on fse or steam if your interested in helping me make this happen.
Atm I am looking for people interested in adming, scripting, streaming, and creating a fse thread.
Thanks! -Anthony