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8 years ago
Yes, ladies and gentlemen, one more big tournament for NSFW is over and done with, and after that, like always after a big tournament, it is high time we have an important announcement journal with all the future plans regarding NSFW to accommodate it.
I hope everyone is ready for some big reading, there are a lot of things that need to be addressed in this journal.
But before I go on with the important announcement, I would like to say some unrelated things.
First things first and one more time, Suki, congratulations on your tournament victory, for you to come to NSFW, establish yourself and then carve your own path to this big mountaintop was nothing sort of fantastic, you should feel proud of yourself and your accomplishment and your feat is an inspiration for every other one who wishes to join NSFW. For the final time on this journal, congratulations, Suki, you’ve earned all those and more….
And speaking of ‘more’, I have some really good news to bring forth to your attention! I have managed to get a *PARTIAL* access to Paypal again (through lots of hoops), therefore that means that prize support for future tournaments that are not demonstration events or meant to test a new tournament type will resume once more! That is nice, and it will begin case immediately, with prize support for the final round of this tournament.
And also, I would like to once more thank everyone who voted, helped, participated and otherwise, enjoyed this tournament and making it a success, could not have done it without you, guys.
Anyhow, with this out of the way, but still on the same topic, let me reiterate some a new thing that will be added on every future tournament (once more: not demonstration events or tournaments) henceforth.
There will be prize support for a person who voted consistently through the matches.
What I wanted to say was that, like in this tournament, in every subsequent tournament, all the names of every person who voted consistently in every round of it from start to finish will be put in a hat and the winner of the raffle will get a prize that will be either pic or story.
In any case, this event’s winner was
derian85 and he wins a solo pinup picture by 
dragonwaffle which he had already been notified about!
Now, with the minor changes out of the way, I would like to address (and hopefully, dismiss) a long-lingering notion regarding vote-based tournaments.
Yes, this title has to do with vote based tournaments, and hopes to once and for all put an end on the (quite) popular myth that those tournaments are nothing more than popularity contests, yes, popularity does play a role, and yes, it is a factor, but it is not a deciding factor in how those tournaments are played out.
And I would like to put some examples of vote-based tournaments and events and their winners and matchups to help me prove my point:
Now going from the oldest to newest tournament/event:
King of the Ring: Remember this event, we had two years ago, all of you? The event where we had to win not by orgasm, not by KO, but by casting our opponent out of the ring?
This is the journal with the participants: http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/6426726/
And this is the journal of the final round and the winner: http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/6467167/
The winner was Latin Dragon, a not new guy, but not old enough to establish himself or his OC and without enough art (which is true even today) for himself to turn attention to his person, yet, he won this event, while other popular person were close, but behind him.
Iron Man: Another event, (that maybe last a bit too much for everyone’s preference) the “Iron Man” event, two men enter one ring, one man falls and then said fallen man leaves the ring with another person taking his place, fighting the winner of the previous fight, the winner of the event was the one who accrued the most victories under his/her belt!
Those were the participants: http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/6580961/
The winner of the event:
http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/6811265/
Zila Xeros, the black kitten that had almost half of the pageviews of the other person with the least pageviews (and less than 1/11th of the pageviews of the person with the most) on the finale and yet, she managed to score a big victory based on her tactics.
Super Sexxx Cup: The KoF team 3-on-3 sexfight tournament similar to the one we had just now.
The participants: http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/7484141/
The winning team: http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/7628927/
Team “Brickhouse” a team were one of the forming members was not even a year in NSFW and one of the other members has one of the lowest pageview and watcher count in our Federation, yet they managed to win with their strategies who reigned preponderant over the other persons.
And last but not least:
NSFW’s 4th birthday tournament: Need to say more, we just finished it!
The participants: http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/8119007/
The winner: http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/8197361/
Suki Temples, a short and shortstacked kitty with no picture to her name in FA, and only three months in the Federation, yet….
So, to summarise, from all the previous tournaments and events in the past two years (that is 730 days) the most popular fighters haven’t won tournaments that have entered them!
The reason I have been thorough about this is that, I kept hearing this complain from a plethora of different people over the years (and I heard it from 9 different people from when this final tournament was about to launch till its conclusion), and truth be told, it is counter-productive, bothersome and it is not based on the available facts.
And I say it is counter-productive because if this is the only complain I get to hear as an excuse for everyone not wishing to vote/participate in tournaments/events, then this is the thing I am going to try to fix and accommodate to others, at the expense of not looking and not pointed to the flaws that the tournament(s) or event system(s) has, which in turn makes it not the most optimal of experiences for all of us.
There ARE issues with the tournaments, yes, some glaring, some less so, however, popularity does not rank high as an issue.
Now, some issues that exist in tournaments and I would like to improve are some of those:
Femdom sells: Yes, correct, I know I just spend some time above to decry that popularity is not a factor in tournaments, yes, it is true, but I would be lying if I said that while I was looking at the stats that FvM matches don’t tend to go to the lady 7 times out of 10.
An example of this one would be in the very last tournament, first round where my Jackie won against a newcomer male with 18 points difference the biggest difference in this tournament.
I fully believe it is not an accident that an easy in the eyes girl beat a less-than-easy in the eyes guy, and even if it was an accident, the massive vote difference while Benjamin’s strategy was good (if a bit, unpersonable for my tastes) tends to indicate that there is a problem for boys, they seem to not be able to beat gals because people of NSFW love their femdom. (F@ck yeah, we do!
aheart )
Another explanation I have heard for the voting is it is not based on popularity, it is based on how well you know each other, with the strategies being written in journal form, with word limit, it makes it harder to visualize the other person trying to win, therefore the explanation he offered it is that getting to know the other person, interact with him/her prior to those kind of events helps the voter put a whole picture in his head on how the given fight would go on, and familiarity is a strong factor playing on how the voting will play, that I will not dispute.
And a final complaint that has merit (IMHO) is that the tournament itself seems a bit OOC with the way the votes work, meaning that the fewer votes one fighter won his opponent for, the more arousal he gets, or vice-versa, the most votes one fighter won his opponent for, the less arousal he gains, meaning in both cases a close fight where he should dominate his opponent and an easy fight where the fight was hanging from a thread.
Now, for me, the tournament is fine as is, and I (want to) believe it is so for many others, it runs good, it has replayability and it is fair, it only needs minor tweaks here and there.
So the idea to combat the three aforementioned complaints/observations is the below:
We can think of the name later, but the basic premise is this one: like the previous tournaments, 2 brackets with (hopefully) 16 members each, one side all girls, one side all guys, the two sides and in the final, the two genres (herms and trans are going to be assigned to the gender their physicality resemble, females for dickgirls and males for cuntboys) collide in the battle of the sexes….which is a good title in retrospect.
Now, onto the second point, the point of OOC/IC in tournaments.
Or so the title is, I seem to suck at those, profoundly, in any case, the rules of this tournament are the same as the previous one (don’t fix what ain’t broken, especially if you didn’t built it in the first place), however, the difference is going to be in the way the votes are calculated; regularly, each vote you won your opponent against counts as 2,5% towards your arousal level maximum.
However, in this new style of tournament, a new way of calculating is going to be introduced, instead of adding a percentage for every vote, a flat 10% is awarded to the winner of the fight, and then ANOTHER 15% that gets SUBSTRACTED for every vote you won your opponent for.
Example:
Fighter A (30% Arousal Level): 5 votes
Fighter B (30% Arousal Level): 10 votes
Fighter B won Fighter A with 5 votes difference, that means that Fighter B’s arousal goes like this:
30% +10% +15% -5% (one for each vote) = 50%, and that is having a close much that is in-character!
While if the results would be like this:
Fighter A (30% Arousal Level): 5 votes
Fighter B (30% Arousal Level): 20 votes
Meaning Fighter B would won with 15 votes difference the end arousal would be this:
30% +10% +15% -15%= 40% making the fight much easier.
It would need testing, for sure, and I think that the starting, 30% mandatory arousal which every tournament starts with would need to be abolished, but at the same time, I think it is a solid change for something different, but keeps the good aspects of its roots.
And now to the final piece of this puzzle:
Like it was told previously, familiarity has a role in basing tournament decisions, and I believe part of why Suki won the tournament was that she had also become a part of the NSFW Skype RP Room (I will get there shortly), where she participated, joined in RPs, created RPs and generally, she put her name on the map, she made a bleep on the radar, people became familiar with her and her RP playstyle, people liked her and I think it influenced how far she reached, without taking away nothing from her strategy.
But I believe this combination of solid strategy + familiarity helped Suki reach where she did in such a short time frame.
And familiarity is not popularity, because you don’t have to spend multi-loads of cash getting supremely awesome art of your OC(s) to be familiar with the others, you just need to be active and put your name in the map here.
So here is this proposition of mine. Remember what I told you guys about a NSFW RP room hosted on Skype? Well, then, there is one, and everyone who is interested in the (somewhat) group/team RPing aspect of NSFW, is free to join.
Just send me a note with your Skype details and profile and I will continue the rest.
EXCEPTION TO THIS RULE: Every NSFW member must be at least one month old in this group and participate in one of the group activities (even by voting, participate in FNC, tournaments, and such) before he is eligible to enter the RP room, returning members that have been in NSFW for more than one month are excepted from this exception!
Now, having said of ways of trying to ameliorate the existing events (which hopefully will be the correct ones, but time will show us) it is time also to speak of new events. Because a group is a good as its last activity, correct?
In any case, let me introduce the two no-vote-based events.
Yes, yes, an RP event, I know, I know, I will be the first one to admit that RP tournaments really, REALLY are drama magnets and also the first one to admit that RP tournaments really tend to go south after a certain point in time where patience is wasted, but hey, if I was not trying to salvage every little thing I care about we would not be here discussing how NSFW would go on to its 5th year going forward, right?
At any rate, and in any case, there are two things that go wrong with RP tournaments in general:
1.They NEED to be heavily regulated and moderated because of how quickly the rules over powergaming and God-modding tend to get broken, or at least perceived to be broken.
2. They take a tremendous amount of time, especially if you have a two-digit number of participants and when not all of them are on the same timezone.
#1 is combatted (at a large part, I think) by the use of dices, there are lots of bots that use dice to put results, so it simplifies it, without the use of mods or person to regulate it! The rules (so far, they may change upon discussion, will keep you informed when the event is ready to launch) are simple, roll a dice for ‘initiative’ or who will get the first post and then both you roll a dice, the attacker for his attack, and the defender for defending of said attack; whoever has the biggest score manages to pass his attack/be successful in his defence.
A natural ‘20’ also is a critical hit, it means your attack/defence was greatly successful and it also had done more damage or caught your opponent off-guard putting him on a pinch there than you hoped to do.
By the same token, a natural ‘1’ is a critical miss, you botch your attack/defence, your opponent passes your guard or counters it masterfully ease and you are on disadvantageous position.
I think with a few minor twinks here and there this could be a great system for RP battles/tournaments/events.
That ends the first problem.
#2 For the second problem now, the problem of time and how can you make everyone with different schedule and/or timezone be together, I tried (twice at that) to make it work by making strick time schedules, and it did not worked, it just backfired on everyone. So this time, the time schedules are going to be lax, completely lax, here. I mean 1-2 weeks worth of lax, here. Yes, this means that when you sign up for this event you know and expect it will take its sweet-sweet time to finish itself, there is simply not another way of doing it, if you have a different offering I am all about to hear it.
Now, in any case, after moving on with this prospective RP tournament/event, I would like to get your attention to the second RP-using event.
It means “List of Prohibited Attacks” came up with it myself, I IS SMART!
In any case, you might understand what this event is going to be another RP event, but this time, a more short event, and with artificial barriers to allow for more creativity.
Here is where I got the idea from:
http://mangafox.me/manga/tough/v01/c001/3.html
http://mangafox.me/manga/tough/v01/c003/4.html
http://mangafox.me/manga/tough/v01/c005/3.html
So, yes, to summarize it, if everyone here is familiar with Friday Night Challenges and the way they are played might already feel familiar with the idea that this event is going to be something akin to those lines.
But before, that, before this event is ready to be launched, I will first set up a journal were we (the NSFW members) are going to VOTE on list of attacks, or techniques that we wish to see abolished from this event.
Examples:
"No orgasm" this means that the match cant be won via orgasm.
“No full contact" which means that the match must be semi-contact.
Even, "No contact besides pushing and sexual attack." this means a match must be won only with Irish-Whips and sexual attacks.
“Sexual attacks only” meaning the fight has to be only sexfight, no fight at all, meaning you can only hold or try to hold down your opponent while you make him/her cum.
“No kicks” meaning that you would have to rely on your fists, grabs and/or sexual attacks to defeat your opponent.
“No tails usage” meaning that those with big and heavy tails (kangaroo’s, snakes, etc.) can’t fall back in the use of their extra appendage for help.
“Wrestling only” Meaning that this match would be won only via wrestling rules, specifically speaking, only a pin and/or submission.
“Boxing only” Meaning that only a withdrawl (throwing in the towel) or Knock Out is going to put you to victory here.
The possibilities are endless, and like I said, before this event is ready to be launched, I will set up a journal where all the NSFW members (at least those interested in that event) are going to vote on things they wish to see out of this event and attacks that would be restricted in matches going forward.
And that is not the end of it, the rules can be added on one another (per user agreement, of course) meaning: that like Final Fantasy Tactics Advance, the rules can stack up on one another (up to a number of course, 3 is the optimal but it is up for discussion), so a match could be like: “No wrestling”, “No Tails,” “Cum in orifice only for victory”, which mean that this particular match would mean that no wrestling moves or holds (just pushes) could be used, no tails could be used at all and to score victory you would need to cum onto a person’s orifice (anus, pussy, mouth) to win, yes, inverted sexfighting.
And this event, WONT replace the Friday Night Challenge, event, rather, it would be an addition to it, an “Index Impetorum Prohibitorum” for two Friday Night Challenges, I think it is a good compromise.
And the event can be played two-styles.
One style is the aforementioned ‘FNC’ style where two members are engaging in an private RP session and their will regulate the rules and moderation, meaning they will get to chose which rules they wish to apply to their RP session.
The other style is going to be in the form of a ‘promo’ for lack of better word, in the NSFW RP room. I always wanted to do promos in NSFW, but alas and alack, I did not have the experience nor the know-how to do them, also, it would feel not right to “compromise the room” for an undefined amount of time to perform an event where not everyone would be willing to participate, thus limiting the room. However, if I compromise the room, presenting it with an option that is even more limiting yet, it is presented as something new and sparkling, it would feel less limiting! My rationale is peerless, indeed!
To return to the point at hand, yes, after we have gathered up a hefty list with “don’ts” in this event, then there will be scheduled days for scheduled fights in the RP room, under those rules, but this is the twist, this time, the rules are not going to be predetermined by the fighters, they are going to be predetermined by me, and they are going to be randomized, I think it is refreshing to fight your opponent without knowing if the advantate or disadvantage is going to be with you or not.
And that ends that from that font.
Now on a different font that I have not drawn from in some years.
And since I have not done this in a while, I will put up only those that got into NSFW the last 6 months or so, sorry to everyone else, but anyhow, with alphabetical order, say hello to the new guys, you old guys!
bennyskylar http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/8119441/ The big and ample pink bunny named “Bonecrusher” (weird name for a bunny) Benjamin Skylar!
choobynobyl http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/8035389/ Sawyer, the Cock….Rooster! A herm (by default) rooster with a mean hook and G-cups!
CloudTF458 http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/7995751/ Suki Temples, introduction is unnecessary, really. :P
ChristoMan http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/8066347/ The first Xenomorph and the third Alien (or rather, extraterrestrial) to brace NSFW with is precense, Rachel the hunter.
DaiPinGan-Go https://www.furaffinity.net/journal/8044944/ The painslutzila herm boxer with huge jugs and even huger dong ready to take you all on (and in), Kamui Jira (or Zila).
deniselemur http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/8126194/ The acrobatic, aerial and cruiserweight lemur, directly from Furry Wrestling Alliance, Denisse Konosso.
Grievousx25 https://www.furaffinity.net/journal/8159909/ The blue rattlesnake boxer here to take you all on (also he is straight, guys, don’t look) Griev Fosters!
Jackthesoul http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/8010414/ The brother/sister duo by oath, the red lizard fighter and the red kangaroo bombshell Jacob Shifly and Aussie Evans respectively.
Knife-Ears http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/8202972/ Newest member, really newest member, my Q&A with him was not done when I was typing this journal, say hello to the FF14 race warrior, Knife Ears!
musingfornoreason http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/8045999/ Returning to us, Teague, Teague O’Konnor, the fox with the wrestling and bareknuckle boxing capabilities.
nfb1114 http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/7981114/ Octavius Griffith, a wolf, born and raised fighter through and through, versed in the art of kickboxing and MMA!
NSFW.Fox http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/8129173/ Japanese IDOL (pop-star) turned kickboxer which seeks to rock the world with his singing and kickboxing, Zall Tama.
purgestar http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/8190276/ The newest trio of fighters, the hardass jackal, Ace Williams, the orphan forced to turn fighter survivalist kit fox Desmond Connors and the proud soldier Chinese deer, Kadah directly from UWL to NSFW.
reevah_snowpaw http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/6748313/ not new member but a new OC, the 8’ tall overtowering wolfess chieftain, Mistral Trenissan, ready to impose her will.
valnyr http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/6133581/ likewise, not new member but new person entering, the MILKkitty kajukenpo expert mother of five Jillian Ricchi, ready to show the youngsters how it is done!
barrybear10 http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/8203815/ joined one day AFTER this journal was posted, thusly making him the newest member, a big wrestling bear for all to bearhug with!
Please say hello and give a hearty welcome to all of them. ^^
And with that ending that, this final paragraph belongs to you.
Got an idea, a proposal, something you wish to see more/less in NSFW? Speak your proposal and we will take it into consideration, talk about it and see if we can work with it, eventually, not promising a timely manner, with how crowded the schedule seems to be, but we promise to look and try to make it work at some point.
Thanks for your understanding.
And that my friends, ends that, here is a TL:DR version of the journal for those who do not wish to bother reading 20 pages in MS Word!
NSFW Tournament: Congratulations, Suki, there will be more prize support for both tournament winners and those who voted consistently in each round.
The popularity of the vote contests[/u]: It is non-existent, there are problems with voting events but based off two years of data, popularity is not one of them, here is how we combat them:
[b]The issue of Male vs Female: There will be events that put all female fighters in one side of the bracket and all male fighters in the other side of the bracket and let them tussle out, the final will be a mixed gender fight.
OOC vs IC in Vote based Tournaments: New vote-based event with new rules, each fighter gets a flat 10% arousal for winning and then a 15% arousal increase that goes down according with how many votes he won his opponent against.
Familiarity: Suki made an impact on this tournament because she put her name on the map in the NSFW RP room, making herself known in the members, do you wish to acquire familiarity with the multitudes of NSFW members? There is an RP room on Skype, if you wish to enter, send me a note and I will guide you there.
Dice-based RP Tournament: What the title says, there will be RP tournaments and are going to be regulated with dice, not with judges or moderators, it is a bit more fair a system.
Index Impetorum Prohibitorum: New event, going to be both an alternative to Friday Night Challenge and its own event in the Skype RP Room, event where the rules are limited and some attacks or techiniques or even appendages are prohibited, a journal will be set up later for us to vote which things we would like to see being limited in those fights.
Say ‘Hello’ to the new guys: Fresh meat, fellas, with much more to come. ;)
Got Ideas or Proposals for NSFW?: We would like to hear your input here. Feel free to share your ideas with us.
And that, ladies and gentlemen, ends that. I hope all of you read this and contribute on this journal with your opinion. Thanks for your time and have a nice day.
I hope everyone is ready for some big reading, there are a lot of things that need to be addressed in this journal.
But before I go on with the important announcement, I would like to say some unrelated things.
First things first and one more time, Suki, congratulations on your tournament victory, for you to come to NSFW, establish yourself and then carve your own path to this big mountaintop was nothing sort of fantastic, you should feel proud of yourself and your accomplishment and your feat is an inspiration for every other one who wishes to join NSFW. For the final time on this journal, congratulations, Suki, you’ve earned all those and more….
And speaking of ‘more’, I have some really good news to bring forth to your attention! I have managed to get a *PARTIAL* access to Paypal again (through lots of hoops), therefore that means that prize support for future tournaments that are not demonstration events or meant to test a new tournament type will resume once more! That is nice, and it will begin case immediately, with prize support for the final round of this tournament.
And also, I would like to once more thank everyone who voted, helped, participated and otherwise, enjoyed this tournament and making it a success, could not have done it without you, guys.
Anyhow, with this out of the way, but still on the same topic, let me reiterate some a new thing that will be added on every future tournament (once more: not demonstration events or tournaments) henceforth.
There will be prize support for a person who voted consistently through the matches.
What I wanted to say was that, like in this tournament, in every subsequent tournament, all the names of every person who voted consistently in every round of it from start to finish will be put in a hat and the winner of the raffle will get a prize that will be either pic or story.
In any case, this event’s winner was
derian85 and he wins a solo pinup picture by 
dragonwaffle which he had already been notified about! Now, with the minor changes out of the way, I would like to address (and hopefully, dismiss) a long-lingering notion regarding vote-based tournaments.
Vote Tournaments and the Myth of the Popularity ContestYes, this title has to do with vote based tournaments, and hopes to once and for all put an end on the (quite) popular myth that those tournaments are nothing more than popularity contests, yes, popularity does play a role, and yes, it is a factor, but it is not a deciding factor in how those tournaments are played out.
And I would like to put some examples of vote-based tournaments and events and their winners and matchups to help me prove my point:
Now going from the oldest to newest tournament/event:
King of the Ring: Remember this event, we had two years ago, all of you? The event where we had to win not by orgasm, not by KO, but by casting our opponent out of the ring?
This is the journal with the participants: http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/6426726/
And this is the journal of the final round and the winner: http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/6467167/
The winner was Latin Dragon, a not new guy, but not old enough to establish himself or his OC and without enough art (which is true even today) for himself to turn attention to his person, yet, he won this event, while other popular person were close, but behind him.
Iron Man: Another event, (that maybe last a bit too much for everyone’s preference) the “Iron Man” event, two men enter one ring, one man falls and then said fallen man leaves the ring with another person taking his place, fighting the winner of the previous fight, the winner of the event was the one who accrued the most victories under his/her belt!
Those were the participants: http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/6580961/
The winner of the event:
http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/6811265/
Zila Xeros, the black kitten that had almost half of the pageviews of the other person with the least pageviews (and less than 1/11th of the pageviews of the person with the most) on the finale and yet, she managed to score a big victory based on her tactics.
Super Sexxx Cup: The KoF team 3-on-3 sexfight tournament similar to the one we had just now.
The participants: http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/7484141/
The winning team: http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/7628927/
Team “Brickhouse” a team were one of the forming members was not even a year in NSFW and one of the other members has one of the lowest pageview and watcher count in our Federation, yet they managed to win with their strategies who reigned preponderant over the other persons.
And last but not least:
NSFW’s 4th birthday tournament: Need to say more, we just finished it!
The participants: http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/8119007/
The winner: http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/8197361/
Suki Temples, a short and shortstacked kitty with no picture to her name in FA, and only three months in the Federation, yet….
So, to summarise, from all the previous tournaments and events in the past two years (that is 730 days) the most popular fighters haven’t won tournaments that have entered them!
The reason I have been thorough about this is that, I kept hearing this complain from a plethora of different people over the years (and I heard it from 9 different people from when this final tournament was about to launch till its conclusion), and truth be told, it is counter-productive, bothersome and it is not based on the available facts.
And I say it is counter-productive because if this is the only complain I get to hear as an excuse for everyone not wishing to vote/participate in tournaments/events, then this is the thing I am going to try to fix and accommodate to others, at the expense of not looking and not pointed to the flaws that the tournament(s) or event system(s) has, which in turn makes it not the most optimal of experiences for all of us.
There ARE issues with the tournaments, yes, some glaring, some less so, however, popularity does not rank high as an issue.
Now, some issues that exist in tournaments and I would like to improve are some of those:
Femdom sells: Yes, correct, I know I just spend some time above to decry that popularity is not a factor in tournaments, yes, it is true, but I would be lying if I said that while I was looking at the stats that FvM matches don’t tend to go to the lady 7 times out of 10.
An example of this one would be in the very last tournament, first round where my Jackie won against a newcomer male with 18 points difference the biggest difference in this tournament.
I fully believe it is not an accident that an easy in the eyes girl beat a less-than-easy in the eyes guy, and even if it was an accident, the massive vote difference while Benjamin’s strategy was good (if a bit, unpersonable for my tastes) tends to indicate that there is a problem for boys, they seem to not be able to beat gals because people of NSFW love their femdom. (F@ck yeah, we do!
aheart )Another explanation I have heard for the voting is it is not based on popularity, it is based on how well you know each other, with the strategies being written in journal form, with word limit, it makes it harder to visualize the other person trying to win, therefore the explanation he offered it is that getting to know the other person, interact with him/her prior to those kind of events helps the voter put a whole picture in his head on how the given fight would go on, and familiarity is a strong factor playing on how the voting will play, that I will not dispute.
And a final complaint that has merit (IMHO) is that the tournament itself seems a bit OOC with the way the votes work, meaning that the fewer votes one fighter won his opponent for, the more arousal he gets, or vice-versa, the most votes one fighter won his opponent for, the less arousal he gains, meaning in both cases a close fight where he should dominate his opponent and an easy fight where the fight was hanging from a thread.
Now, for me, the tournament is fine as is, and I (want to) believe it is so for many others, it runs good, it has replayability and it is fair, it only needs minor tweaks here and there.
So the idea to combat the three aforementioned complaints/observations is the below:
Mixed Gender TournamentWe can think of the name later, but the basic premise is this one: like the previous tournaments, 2 brackets with (hopefully) 16 members each, one side all girls, one side all guys, the two sides and in the final, the two genres (herms and trans are going to be assigned to the gender their physicality resemble, females for dickgirls and males for cuntboys) collide in the battle of the sexes….which is a good title in retrospect.
Now, onto the second point, the point of OOC/IC in tournaments.
Inverted Tournament rulesOr so the title is, I seem to suck at those, profoundly, in any case, the rules of this tournament are the same as the previous one (don’t fix what ain’t broken, especially if you didn’t built it in the first place), however, the difference is going to be in the way the votes are calculated; regularly, each vote you won your opponent against counts as 2,5% towards your arousal level maximum.
However, in this new style of tournament, a new way of calculating is going to be introduced, instead of adding a percentage for every vote, a flat 10% is awarded to the winner of the fight, and then ANOTHER 15% that gets SUBSTRACTED for every vote you won your opponent for.
Example:
Fighter A (30% Arousal Level): 5 votes
Fighter B (30% Arousal Level): 10 votes
Fighter B won Fighter A with 5 votes difference, that means that Fighter B’s arousal goes like this:
30% +10% +15% -5% (one for each vote) = 50%, and that is having a close much that is in-character!
While if the results would be like this:
Fighter A (30% Arousal Level): 5 votes
Fighter B (30% Arousal Level): 20 votes
Meaning Fighter B would won with 15 votes difference the end arousal would be this:
30% +10% +15% -15%= 40% making the fight much easier.
It would need testing, for sure, and I think that the starting, 30% mandatory arousal which every tournament starts with would need to be abolished, but at the same time, I think it is a solid change for something different, but keeps the good aspects of its roots.
And now to the final piece of this puzzle:
The issue of familiarityLike it was told previously, familiarity has a role in basing tournament decisions, and I believe part of why Suki won the tournament was that she had also become a part of the NSFW Skype RP Room (I will get there shortly), where she participated, joined in RPs, created RPs and generally, she put her name on the map, she made a bleep on the radar, people became familiar with her and her RP playstyle, people liked her and I think it influenced how far she reached, without taking away nothing from her strategy.
But I believe this combination of solid strategy + familiarity helped Suki reach where she did in such a short time frame.
And familiarity is not popularity, because you don’t have to spend multi-loads of cash getting supremely awesome art of your OC(s) to be familiar with the others, you just need to be active and put your name in the map here.
So here is this proposition of mine. Remember what I told you guys about a NSFW RP room hosted on Skype? Well, then, there is one, and everyone who is interested in the (somewhat) group/team RPing aspect of NSFW, is free to join.
Just send me a note with your Skype details and profile and I will continue the rest.
EXCEPTION TO THIS RULE: Every NSFW member must be at least one month old in this group and participate in one of the group activities (even by voting, participate in FNC, tournaments, and such) before he is eligible to enter the RP room, returning members that have been in NSFW for more than one month are excepted from this exception!
Now, having said of ways of trying to ameliorate the existing events (which hopefully will be the correct ones, but time will show us) it is time also to speak of new events. Because a group is a good as its last activity, correct?
In any case, let me introduce the two no-vote-based events.
Dice-Based RP EventYes, yes, an RP event, I know, I know, I will be the first one to admit that RP tournaments really, REALLY are drama magnets and also the first one to admit that RP tournaments really tend to go south after a certain point in time where patience is wasted, but hey, if I was not trying to salvage every little thing I care about we would not be here discussing how NSFW would go on to its 5th year going forward, right?
At any rate, and in any case, there are two things that go wrong with RP tournaments in general:
1.They NEED to be heavily regulated and moderated because of how quickly the rules over powergaming and God-modding tend to get broken, or at least perceived to be broken.
2. They take a tremendous amount of time, especially if you have a two-digit number of participants and when not all of them are on the same timezone.
#1 is combatted (at a large part, I think) by the use of dices, there are lots of bots that use dice to put results, so it simplifies it, without the use of mods or person to regulate it! The rules (so far, they may change upon discussion, will keep you informed when the event is ready to launch) are simple, roll a dice for ‘initiative’ or who will get the first post and then both you roll a dice, the attacker for his attack, and the defender for defending of said attack; whoever has the biggest score manages to pass his attack/be successful in his defence.
A natural ‘20’ also is a critical hit, it means your attack/defence was greatly successful and it also had done more damage or caught your opponent off-guard putting him on a pinch there than you hoped to do.
By the same token, a natural ‘1’ is a critical miss, you botch your attack/defence, your opponent passes your guard or counters it masterfully ease and you are on disadvantageous position.
I think with a few minor twinks here and there this could be a great system for RP battles/tournaments/events.
That ends the first problem.
#2 For the second problem now, the problem of time and how can you make everyone with different schedule and/or timezone be together, I tried (twice at that) to make it work by making strick time schedules, and it did not worked, it just backfired on everyone. So this time, the time schedules are going to be lax, completely lax, here. I mean 1-2 weeks worth of lax, here. Yes, this means that when you sign up for this event you know and expect it will take its sweet-sweet time to finish itself, there is simply not another way of doing it, if you have a different offering I am all about to hear it.
Now, in any case, after moving on with this prospective RP tournament/event, I would like to get your attention to the second RP-using event.
Index Impetorum ProhibitorumIt means “List of Prohibited Attacks” came up with it myself, I IS SMART!
In any case, you might understand what this event is going to be another RP event, but this time, a more short event, and with artificial barriers to allow for more creativity.
Here is where I got the idea from:
http://mangafox.me/manga/tough/v01/c001/3.html
http://mangafox.me/manga/tough/v01/c003/4.html
http://mangafox.me/manga/tough/v01/c005/3.html
So, yes, to summarize it, if everyone here is familiar with Friday Night Challenges and the way they are played might already feel familiar with the idea that this event is going to be something akin to those lines.
But before, that, before this event is ready to be launched, I will first set up a journal were we (the NSFW members) are going to VOTE on list of attacks, or techniques that we wish to see abolished from this event.
Examples:
"No orgasm" this means that the match cant be won via orgasm.
“No full contact" which means that the match must be semi-contact.
Even, "No contact besides pushing and sexual attack." this means a match must be won only with Irish-Whips and sexual attacks.
“Sexual attacks only” meaning the fight has to be only sexfight, no fight at all, meaning you can only hold or try to hold down your opponent while you make him/her cum.
“No kicks” meaning that you would have to rely on your fists, grabs and/or sexual attacks to defeat your opponent.
“No tails usage” meaning that those with big and heavy tails (kangaroo’s, snakes, etc.) can’t fall back in the use of their extra appendage for help.
“Wrestling only” Meaning that this match would be won only via wrestling rules, specifically speaking, only a pin and/or submission.
“Boxing only” Meaning that only a withdrawl (throwing in the towel) or Knock Out is going to put you to victory here.
The possibilities are endless, and like I said, before this event is ready to be launched, I will set up a journal where all the NSFW members (at least those interested in that event) are going to vote on things they wish to see out of this event and attacks that would be restricted in matches going forward.
And that is not the end of it, the rules can be added on one another (per user agreement, of course) meaning: that like Final Fantasy Tactics Advance, the rules can stack up on one another (up to a number of course, 3 is the optimal but it is up for discussion), so a match could be like: “No wrestling”, “No Tails,” “Cum in orifice only for victory”, which mean that this particular match would mean that no wrestling moves or holds (just pushes) could be used, no tails could be used at all and to score victory you would need to cum onto a person’s orifice (anus, pussy, mouth) to win, yes, inverted sexfighting.
And this event, WONT replace the Friday Night Challenge, event, rather, it would be an addition to it, an “Index Impetorum Prohibitorum” for two Friday Night Challenges, I think it is a good compromise.
And the event can be played two-styles.
One style is the aforementioned ‘FNC’ style where two members are engaging in an private RP session and their will regulate the rules and moderation, meaning they will get to chose which rules they wish to apply to their RP session.
The other style is going to be in the form of a ‘promo’ for lack of better word, in the NSFW RP room. I always wanted to do promos in NSFW, but alas and alack, I did not have the experience nor the know-how to do them, also, it would feel not right to “compromise the room” for an undefined amount of time to perform an event where not everyone would be willing to participate, thus limiting the room. However, if I compromise the room, presenting it with an option that is even more limiting yet, it is presented as something new and sparkling, it would feel less limiting! My rationale is peerless, indeed!
To return to the point at hand, yes, after we have gathered up a hefty list with “don’ts” in this event, then there will be scheduled days for scheduled fights in the RP room, under those rules, but this is the twist, this time, the rules are not going to be predetermined by the fighters, they are going to be predetermined by me, and they are going to be randomized, I think it is refreshing to fight your opponent without knowing if the advantate or disadvantage is going to be with you or not.
And that ends that from that font.
Now on a different font that I have not drawn from in some years.
Say Hello to the New GuysAnd since I have not done this in a while, I will put up only those that got into NSFW the last 6 months or so, sorry to everyone else, but anyhow, with alphabetical order, say hello to the new guys, you old guys!
bennyskylar http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/8119441/ The big and ample pink bunny named “Bonecrusher” (weird name for a bunny) Benjamin Skylar!
choobynobyl http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/8035389/ Sawyer, the Cock….Rooster! A herm (by default) rooster with a mean hook and G-cups!
CloudTF458 http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/7995751/ Suki Temples, introduction is unnecessary, really. :P
ChristoMan http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/8066347/ The first Xenomorph and the third Alien (or rather, extraterrestrial) to brace NSFW with is precense, Rachel the hunter.
DaiPinGan-Go https://www.furaffinity.net/journal/8044944/ The painslutzila herm boxer with huge jugs and even huger dong ready to take you all on (and in), Kamui Jira (or Zila).
deniselemur http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/8126194/ The acrobatic, aerial and cruiserweight lemur, directly from Furry Wrestling Alliance, Denisse Konosso.
Grievousx25 https://www.furaffinity.net/journal/8159909/ The blue rattlesnake boxer here to take you all on (also he is straight, guys, don’t look) Griev Fosters!
Jackthesoul http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/8010414/ The brother/sister duo by oath, the red lizard fighter and the red kangaroo bombshell Jacob Shifly and Aussie Evans respectively. 
Knife-Ears http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/8202972/ Newest member, really newest member, my Q&A with him was not done when I was typing this journal, say hello to the FF14 race warrior, Knife Ears!
musingfornoreason http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/8045999/ Returning to us, Teague, Teague O’Konnor, the fox with the wrestling and bareknuckle boxing capabilities.
nfb1114 http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/7981114/ Octavius Griffith, a wolf, born and raised fighter through and through, versed in the art of kickboxing and MMA!
NSFW.Fox http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/8129173/ Japanese IDOL (pop-star) turned kickboxer which seeks to rock the world with his singing and kickboxing, Zall Tama.
purgestar http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/8190276/ The newest trio of fighters, the hardass jackal, Ace Williams, the orphan forced to turn fighter survivalist kit fox Desmond Connors and the proud soldier Chinese deer, Kadah directly from UWL to NSFW.
reevah_snowpaw http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/6748313/ not new member but a new OC, the 8’ tall overtowering wolfess chieftain, Mistral Trenissan, ready to impose her will.
valnyr http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/6133581/ likewise, not new member but new person entering, the MILKkitty kajukenpo expert mother of five Jillian Ricchi, ready to show the youngsters how it is done!
barrybear10 http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/8203815/ joined one day AFTER this journal was posted, thusly making him the newest member, a big wrestling bear for all to bearhug with! Please say hello and give a hearty welcome to all of them. ^^
And with that ending that, this final paragraph belongs to you.
News? Ideas? Proposals for NSFW? We wish to hear yours!Got an idea, a proposal, something you wish to see more/less in NSFW? Speak your proposal and we will take it into consideration, talk about it and see if we can work with it, eventually, not promising a timely manner, with how crowded the schedule seems to be, but we promise to look and try to make it work at some point.
Thanks for your understanding.
And that my friends, ends that, here is a TL:DR version of the journal for those who do not wish to bother reading 20 pages in MS Word!
TL;DRNSFW Tournament: Congratulations, Suki, there will be more prize support for both tournament winners and those who voted consistently in each round.
The popularity of the vote contests[/u]: It is non-existent, there are problems with voting events but based off two years of data, popularity is not one of them, here is how we combat them:
[b]The issue of Male vs Female: There will be events that put all female fighters in one side of the bracket and all male fighters in the other side of the bracket and let them tussle out, the final will be a mixed gender fight.
OOC vs IC in Vote based Tournaments: New vote-based event with new rules, each fighter gets a flat 10% arousal for winning and then a 15% arousal increase that goes down according with how many votes he won his opponent against.
Familiarity: Suki made an impact on this tournament because she put her name on the map in the NSFW RP room, making herself known in the members, do you wish to acquire familiarity with the multitudes of NSFW members? There is an RP room on Skype, if you wish to enter, send me a note and I will guide you there.
Dice-based RP Tournament: What the title says, there will be RP tournaments and are going to be regulated with dice, not with judges or moderators, it is a bit more fair a system.
Index Impetorum Prohibitorum: New event, going to be both an alternative to Friday Night Challenge and its own event in the Skype RP Room, event where the rules are limited and some attacks or techiniques or even appendages are prohibited, a journal will be set up later for us to vote which things we would like to see being limited in those fights.
Say ‘Hello’ to the new guys: Fresh meat, fellas, with much more to come. ;)
Got Ideas or Proposals for NSFW?: We would like to hear your input here. Feel free to share your ideas with us.
And that, ladies and gentlemen, ends that. I hope all of you read this and contribute on this journal with your opinion. Thanks for your time and have a nice day.
Friday Night Challenge opens up this Friday once more, be prepared.
Looks like I joined at just the right time! XD
Oh, and Greetings new-bloods! Save the sexual stuff for the arena, if you would?
As for my personal match in the tournament, I honestly didn't even consider my loss being because of of popularity or the fact that my opponent was a beautiful fem. I just figured I did a rookie's mediocre job haha XD
Also, Benny's ring nickname is BoneRCrusher. With an R lol. Autocorrect may have excluded that when I typed it the first time.