I'm interested.

I'm interested.

How does a team solo? That's the special adjudication. None of the scenarios are oriented allowing an alliance to win that I am aware.

I'm open for ideas. Perhaps a 32 or 16 team limit. If we do 2v2v2 then 27 teams. We play either 2 or 3 games in a scenario per round. The question is which scenario or do we mix them up?

I'm thinking 27 teams play 9 game series. Losers are eliminated leaving 18.
Those 18 play 6 game series and only the winners progress so 12 eliminated and 6 remain.
Those 6 play 2 game series. Winners progress to a final 2v2 showdown for the championship.

Each of the rounds could be a different scenario.

Series could be three games where each team gets a pair of nations once only or 6 games where each team has the nation pair twice but never with the opponents in the same nation pairs and where the teammates swap which specific nation they have between the two games in that pair.

This sounds really neat. Count me in.

So lets figure it out...

"This sounds really neat" referred both to your OP and what you just proposed. I'm not sure what you mean by "scenario." Do you mean different game modes, different maps, or both?

Maps mostly. Variant specifically. They would all be full press WTA unrated so as to not mess with people's ratings. I'll tall to Oli and the mods and see if we can't get a prize sponsorship.

If that's how we're going to do it, it should probably be 2 vs. 2 vs. 2 vs. 2 vs. 2; there are many good 8-player maps, but not so many 6-player maps. Here are some potential variants:

Viking Diplomacy
Celtic Britain
Sengoku
Europe 1939

There are some other 8-player maps, but I think these would suit the tournament's purposes the best.

Oh, and I almost forgot Africa.

Greek Diplomacy is a 6-player variant and it is very good

And 2v2v2v2v2 is 10. :-)

But I want the six player because the combinations become to many for a fair outcome at 8.

The comment about spouting it is not real dip was aimed at me. I am sorry for coming across that way. True it is mot real dip but fir thecreason of fun..
Nothing wrong with playing a game you enjoy! I have no qualms with that in the least. Sorry to make you feel that way. Enjoy the game please. My only beef was that it was being passed off as a good training tool for standard dip and that is not the case. It being fun... wonderful. Who can argue with that. Sorry again!

Oops! Didn't notice I put 5 twos. Anyway, the tournament could easily work with six players, and there are a few good 6-player variants like Anarchy in the UK, American Conflict, as Kaner suggested, Greek Diplomacy. Ultimately, it's up to you.

"How does a team solo? That's the special adjudication."

That is to say what is the object of the game, how you achieve it and how you prevent the other team to achieve it, and eventually how you rate anything in between.

I got an idea about it, but it works for 2v2 games only. Frankly, I thought we were talking about a *pair* tournament, made of 2v2 matches.
If it has to be a multi-pairs (2v2v2 or more), then it would be basically a complicated collection of team games, very hard to rate and - mainly - very much long & committing.

Are teams fixed?

Also, I've seen them team games before, hope to be in one again.

Teams will be self chosen, so fixed, yes. The team will win, not the individual.

I like the multiple teams idea mainly because it requires diplomacy, not just communication.

I may be interested in this. How many games are we talking about?

Still working the details, but I'm leaning towards three for any given team at each tier except the last which would be a "best of three" so may only take two. We'd have to see how many teams join and the rest.

ill play if the phase length is >2 days

Hmmm I could see at exactly two days and no weekend turns. Is that good?

bump. Still interest in this?

yes

Still wanna be a TD on it. Just busy the last couple.of days.

I'm interested

I'm in