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Hey there!
So someone suggested this idea to me a bit ago, and I thought I could do it, and it'd be a pretty damn good idea. The idea is basically a site where you have tournaments, yuo can buy-in, say there's a buy-in for 0.01BTC,16 people join so the pot is 0.16BTC. Then there will be a tournament (just 1 on 1 with brackets), and the winner gets the pot of 0.16BTC. This could be in CSS,CS 1.6,Minecraft,any game where's interest. I was wondering, is this a good idea? Would you play it? Please reply/vote, thanks! (max of 3 votes per person on the poll)

I think it'd be nice is there was stuff other than 1v1. I think some sort of team deathmatch/last man standing could work.

Hm, alright. This could possibly be voted on / depend per game. But how would team deathmatch work? would there just be a pot, winning team gets the pot and it gets divided on all players?

You don't need Bitcoins for this. Just code the site with some random "points" and add Bitcoins later.

Normal tournaments already exist, the point in this is that you play for BTC.

Build it.. and they will come.

What do you mean by this?

So, the general opinion is positive?

It's an old quote meaning "if you have a product/service/location, people will come and participate in it".

Ah, I see. Guess I'll try it out then! Not sure what game I'd do first.

Minecraft please.

Yeah, it's like bitterror, it has so much potential, with the right supervision and anti-cheat it can go well.

Yeah I was an admin on BitcoinTerror and it was a really fun project :)

The main problem was aimbots, which were extremely easily obtainable for the game they used.

I know we could develop a similar thing for CS:S because it has excellent plugin compatability. Something truly awesome though, would be to develop this for BF2, the best FPS ever in my opinion!

Edit: I just reached out to the developer to see if he'd be interest in creating this :)

If you think you have the know-how to make this happen, I will be happy to bring funding to the project, rent a server, domain etc.

I can do most of it myself, such as small needed plugins, site, etc. And no, I won't request funding. I'll use my own money, if this goes wrong, I don't want to have wasted anyone's time and money. Thanks for all the positive answers from everyone =). And yeah, aimbots are a problem. For the first MC tournament I'm probably going to use 1.5.2 and good anti-cheat protection.

Great. When would you have this ready by? I'll tip ya BTC0.25 if we can have a match tonight :D

o.o

That would be a very short-notice and unorganized and unofficial match. I can't buy hosting + domain, set a site up and host a game before tonight =P The tip is nice but that's near to impossible. (Note: It's 11PM here, I stay up late, but even then, I can't find people to play with and buy-in this quickly.) Also, the first match would probably be Minecraft, not a FPS.

Alright, no worries :P

So, the first match will be a Minecraft one. QUESTIONS.

How many players would you guys find preferable?
What timezone is most friendly for all? What time is most friendly?
Brackets and then one on one till the finals, or a massive FFA (the risk of this is teams)

Probably 4-10 players.

8:00 PM PST would probably be a good choice.

FFA would be very fun :)

Awesome idea! Definitely would play. If you want, I could help host a couple servers?

Id love to see some Quake 3(live) fighting for bitcoins.

Maybe someone should contact IDsoftware asking them to implement this on quakelive servers? And the spectators could bet on the winner as well.
Damn! Imagine that.

This kind of betting could also be easily managed off the servers, like in a forum thread or something, before the match.

Hehe, that would be great. The prize in BTC would probably be just be a pot formed from buy-ins. I could give out prizes myself and make the tournaments free but then I'd go poor pretty quickly =P

Eitherhow, seems like a very positive response! I'm up for making this, and I will. Probably Minecraft will be the first game, unless many people have objection. I'll also make the first match probably 8-10 players, and a free roll with a prize pot of 0.1BTC. (Again, I'm not rich, but hey, it's 10$.)

Alright, so, the first game will be in Minecraft, would you guys prefer Free For All or in brackets and then 1 on 1?

Right.


Thanks for the offer! I think I can do most hosting myself but I'll keep it in mind =).

Quake 3 FTW!! CTF tournaments would be awesome :)

Seems like Quake 3 will be the second tournament if this goes well =)

Please post here if you'd play it,
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=260816.new#new