A while back a few of us, from a few previous "Author Showdowns" had the idea to have a battle Royale for American writers from the South, North, Midwest, West, etc., wherein we would choose a team of writers from one region to go up against another.
So I' opening that up--and I mean REALLY opening it up.
A 32-nation/region bracket!
A 5-round competition!
A boost from 4 to 5 writers per nation/region!
It's the International Literary League Tournament!
RULES:
-Again, there will be 32 nations/regions represented. Now, due to the large number of worthy authors in some areas that just FAR exceed the limit of 5 per team, nations like America will be broken down into regions and THOSE will compete, ie, "American South" for, say, a team headed by Poe and other classically-Southern American writers, whereas Hawthorne might lead "America North." (This is NOT a US-centric policy here, I just don't know other nations well enough to break them into regions if they have so many or what those regions should be...for example, I'd imagine the United Kingdom qill need a few regional teams to get adequate representation, but aside from being the first to nominate Shakespeare for whichever team he qualifies for, I defer to the knowlege of the Literary Network's populace.)
-5 authors may occupy a team, consisting of:
*1 poet
*1 playwright
*1 novelist/epic poet (see below for details on that grouping)
And the other 2 slots are open to any combination of those fields.
-IF we allow "Nations of Antiquity" into the tournament--and I'll see how everyone feels about that first, I'm for it, plenty of deserving writers--we would then face the issue of there not being novels in such times, hence the epic poet caveat for such an arrangement; if it is said that "ALL poets of Nation X were epic poets!" then so be it, an allowance may be made and two poets may fill the slot, owing to the lack of novelists and the popularity of the epic form in that time.
-Nominations run from now until we fill our first 32 teams
-Once we have them, we'll hold a 1 day "seeding poll" where everyone will assign "points" to each of the 32 teams, 32 for those most favored, 1 for the least favored, etc., and these will be tallied and used for seeding.
-3-day polls will then proceed for each of the seeded matchups in the Round of 32, then 4 days for the Sweet 16, 5 for the Elite 8, etc.
-Last team last standing wins trhe ever-lasting glory of...a LitNet-poll victory!
Nominations open, put together those teams! (And if 32's too many or too few, let me know, I think we have enough good writers to fill 32 teams, but it's not set in stone, I just thought that was a nice, easy number four a tournament like this.)
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Originally Posted by prendrelemick
