Board Thread:Site Discussions/@comment-3005395-20150613210206/@comment-27001444-20151014033323

Morpheus414 wrote: Journalistic wrote: Morpheus414 wrote: Years?I feel inclined to ask why? Wouldn't the downtime between Sonic games be a good opprotunity to put something like this together? Are we very,very busy right now? What out there would require so much work that it would take years(literally plural) of pushing this tournament back? If more games come out, then that would be an even heavier workload, and most people wouldn't want to be spoiled listening to the last few tracks or anything specific.

It's already been six months--if no one is interested in doing it right now, what's wrong with starting in January? Pushing the tournament back in years is beyond drastic. Starting on a tournament isn't easy. It requires a lot of work from all parties - some may need to go out of their original day schedule to contribute. This is a workload no one is interested into doing.

Side note: Considering I contributed to both Level and Game Tournament which was able to get from the ground with the help from me, I won't be contributing to any more tournaments for the foreseeable future.

I disagree--So far we have a handful of people interested, and with the exception of spammers and idiots, we're actually having a civil discussion about it.I'm not even the one who started this idea and I'm likely the most interested in it.

I'm glad you were able to assist with the two previous tournaments, and I appreicate it, as I'm sure the rest of the members do. With all due respect however, hosting an event like this doesn't absolutely depend on the same person each time.If you aren't interested in joining in, then we can always have volunteers--maybe even hire additional help. I'm not too knowledgeable on Wiki formatting, but I'm sure someone out there will be willing to teach.

You're too optimistic and idealistic. You have not worked on one of these tournaments yourself and therefore you do not know the exhausting amount of time and work that is required to be put into them. In the past, we have had a tournament completely flop mid-way due to the amount of work required. I am seeing a similar trend here. The idea of a tournament always sounds awesome and fun at first, but then when you realize how much work is required many quickly lose motivation. No one is getting any rewards and hardly any satisfaction from working on the tournament. And for what result? Why overwork ourselves for something that will probably fail?

If you really want this to happen, then you volunteer. Prove that this tournament can work. However, it cannot just be a disorganized mess. You need to keep up the high standards of quality that were put into the last two tournaments. You need someone to provide high-quality graphics (and it does not look like Journalistic will help out this time due to the workload), you need several volunteers to work out descriptions on a weekly basis. You need someone to organize the polls, you need an administrator working on this who will dedicate their time to updating all the pages that can only be edited by administrators. So that's at least one highly dedicated graphic designer, multiple volunteers to write out descriptions, at least two people (one of which has to be an administrator) to maintain the polls and format the pages, and someone to oversee the entire project and make sure it doesn't flop. It's a lot of work, and if you do not maintain the Sonic News Network's quality standards then this tournament can never happen.

If you can prove that this tournament can happen with our high standards of quality from the previous tournaments, then I will agree with you. However, we've already had one of those tournaments fail in the past, and much more people were working on that one than the number of people who have volunteered for this one. I will do everything in my power to make sure we do not have another tournament until I know for sure that this thing will actually work.