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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rune" data-source="post: 1000601" data-attributes="member: 67">First of all, don't sell yourself short, cool hand luke.  It is true that you need to work on refinement before you'll ever have a real shot at the championship, but trust me when I say this--you've got what it takes.Second, about seeding.  That's actually more or less what happened in the first round of this game, although it wasn't specifically planned that way.  Seasong, Wulf, Nemmerle, and Greybar all had significant Iron DM backgrounds when coming into the tournament.In my first tournament, both contestants (Radiating Gnome and myself) who actually made it to round 3 were new players and had surprising upsets.  In Radiating gnome's case, he actually won round one with a weak entry (although that wasn't the surprisng upset).  In my case, I was up against Wicht in the second round!  I was sweating bullets, let me assure you.  I managed to put together my best entry, ever, and just barely beat him.  I doubt I could do it again (and, I actually lost to him in a rematch the next tournament).What's my point?  I guess it's that seeding isn't necessary in the first round; nor would it significantly change the outcome of the tournament.The second round, however, I did specifically determine who would go against whom, although I based it mostly upon smack-talk up to that point, and possible 3rd round combinations.That's the right attitude for Iron DM.  I'd also like to suggest that doing a league format would weaken the tendency for this attitude to prevail.In this case, we had already determined that we wanted a quarterly game, but other than that, it was more or less the second one.  I asked Nemm about it, he said he was too busy to run it and I said, I'd do it.  He said, "Okay."Now, I won't even try to pretend to be humble and say that it was all luck that the spots filled up so quickly.  I've played in enough of these things to have a pretty good feel for what works, and what kind of pacing is needed.I knew I had a decent reputation as a player, so I figured a few heavy-hitters would be willing to trust me.  I posted my intention to run the game a day before I accepted entries to make sure more people had a chance to see it, but I knew there would be a side-effect; the spots would fill up more rappidly.  In this case, the 8 primary spots filled up in slightly more than half an hour!.But that was just the beginning.  I knew that I had to keep the pace quick and scheduled as many of the first-round matches for the first day for that reason.  I was able to cut back a bit for the later matches.Less stress? But this is Iron DM!  It's supposed to be stressful.  It should be obvious why it should be stressful on the players, but perhaps I should say something about the judges.The more stress they have, the better; it helps people to have faith in the judge, if the judge is willing to (knowingly) take on the weighty responsibilities of judgement.Pie, if Nemmerle wants to defend his title, he's going to have to play.  That means you may well get your chance to run the next one (especially as I think someone else has plans to run a RBDM one at some point--with a panel of judges, no less).</blockquote>

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