(12-01-2015, 05:29 PM)Nataru Wrote:(12-01-2015, 05:23 PM)Unnamed Mercenary Wrote:A random draw could be good yeah. The best part of the Grindstone is there are no cliqs there and most interact with everyone . Hells I can't even count the amount of friends I've made from the US(12-01-2015, 05:13 PM)Nataru Wrote: Have you ever thought about splitting the locations? Say for example Judge takes half a group to the other side of blackbrush and the rest stay at fesca's? Then the finalists of the two groups meet back at fesca's for the final?
That's sorta what I was hinting for, but I can provide a counter-argument to it.
It's all fine until someone says "I want to be in ____'s section. Not ____2's." It's a pretty large event. And that also means there's a LOT of people. Some may not get along. Or worse, people will inevitably form clusters and only want to fight/talk within that cluster. I think part of the reason to go to Grindstone is for that massive group of people. ...or maybe Warren/Judge/sub-arbiter-42 would draw lots for groups and that could help?
Same! A good portion of contacts I'd made came from early Grindstone days! (Gonna call out Leanne and Hornet as examples).
And yeah! It's nice that while groups of members can come together as a FC, during the Grindstone, there are no FCs. Just people who really like beating each other up.