Cities Next to Tounament Squares

Thexion wrote: Tournament happens on the tournament squares.

A proposition negated the moment someone posts a recon army within 4.5 squares of the tournament square.

Tournament happens on the tournament squares.

Scouting armies are valid tournament targets. Cities are what people are in doubt about. Armies=Tournament, cities=war. Simple logic. I know some of you like to argue and bring up non issues but the principle remains the same.

Arx wrote: Jejune wrote: The reason why this is an issue is that it is impossible for tournamanets in Illyriad to exist outside the scope of the metagame. These tournamanets are not fought solely on the battlefield; they are mostly negotiated through political horse trading alla the metagame. There seems to be a persistent rumour that tournament positions are primarily bought and sold, but I have yet to see any evidence of it. I'd like to see some from anyone who contends that.

i don't think i'd say "primarily", but there are certainly instances of the metagame influencing control of squares. i can say with certainty that in past tournaments the crow alliances had coordinated somewhat, primarily to prevent collisions but also to inflate a vCrow lead, where possible. it was regarded as common knowledge at one time that vCrow had hired BANE to assist it in a tournament. eCrow benefited greatly in two previous tournaments from the presence of DB players who felt that DB was too small to have the desired impact but still wanted to participate; that influenced the squares eCrow would contend for because the DB players were adamant that they not be attacking other members of the Dominion. i'm not sure how many of these arrangements were intended to be secret, but they're all the metagame working itself out within the tournament. the idea that you can separate the two is probably a fantasy, and i think the point that Jejune and others are making is that if the metagame can't be kept from influencing the tournament, then it's a bit naive to expect that anyone can keep the tournament from influencing the metagame.

Edited by Angrim - 12 Jun 2016 at 15:29

This has to be the one of the most useless discussions in the forum. One tournament in 2 years and suddenly city placement is an issue? Until tournaments become a regular thing you are arguing about nothing. Combining war and tournaments is great in my opinion but unless you are willing to do both you best leave the cities alone. I support anyone declaring war on an alliance if they want to raze cities. You want a tournament advantage you move your cities as well. Because someone had a great idea before you is your problem. Deal with it.