The Eighth "play for real money" WeBL tournament will begin soon!! (really) The current entry deadline is July 7th.

Official Rules

• To enter you have to put $10 in the pot. 70% of the pot will be distributed to the winners. Enter through paypal using the link below, and be sure to let me know what gym to apply the payment to!!!

• This will be a Super-Bantamweight division tournament with 105APs per fighter. Fighter ratings will be increased to 25 at the start (which affects the percentage of punches that land), but note that APs will not increase during the tournament, even though rating will.

  When your payment has been processed, you will have a line in your gym page like this:

  You have been invited to participate in the latest official tournament.

  and there will be a link you can use to create your fighter. It is your reponsibility to create a Super-Bantamweight fighter.

• The tournament starts out as double elimination. A fighter keeps fighting until he loses twice, then he's eliminated.

  When the number of fighters is down to 3 or 4, the remaining fighters will fight round robin (everybody fights everybody once). The fighter with the fewest number of total losses at the end of the round robin is declared the winner, the fighter with the second fewest is 2nd place, etc. Ties are possible.

• Prizes will be awarded as follows:
  • 1st Place $4/entrant
  • 2nd Place $2/entrant
  • 3rd Place $1/entrant

  For example if there are 25 entrants in the tournament, then 1st place wins $100, 2nd place $50, and 3rd place wins $25.

  In the event of a tie, money may be split. (For example, if two fighters are tied first place, they will split ($4+$2)/entrant and each receive $3/entrant).

• The normal WeBL scheduler is at work (with status and rating, etc.) But when there are an odd number of fighters, one fighter will have to sit out a week, which is a significant advantage. The fighter who gets this "bye" will be determined by the following procedure:
  1. Let "X" be the absolute value of the change in the Dow average for Monday of that week. (Example: If the dow declines by 56.32 points, then X is "56".)
  2. Let "Y" be the number of surviving fighters who have not received a bye so far in the tournament. (Suppose, for the sake of an example, this number is "21".)
  3. Let "R" be the remainder when dividing X by Y (With X=56 and Y=21, R is 14).
  4. The bye will go to the R'th fighter (among those who have not yet had a bye) on the rankings page.

• The standard WeBL simulator is used, but the no luck option (from the practice fights page) is set. This eliminates controversial judging, as well as randomness in punches landed and damage. As in all tournaments there are no draws. In the event of a draw, the referee awards the bout to the fighter who inflicted the most damage. In the extremely unlikely event that each fighter inflicted an identical amount of damage, the choice is random.

• Fighters will not gain APs for winning fights. (But could still lose them by accumulating injury points.)

• Please note that, as always, we are not responsible if the system becomes unavailable for any reason. Get your fight plans in as early as possible! Also, we are not responsible for any bugs in the software, though I don't think there are any. :)

Use the paypal link below to sign up. If possible, you use the same e-mail address you created your gym with. Identify your gym in the message.

Past Winners

Tournament #1 (Welterweight)

1. Spam I Am managed by The Hole ($168 Prize)
2. Konan and Texas Cowboys $66 each.

Tournament #2 (Light-Heavy)

1. Fist Fulla Dollars managed by Carnegie won $243.75
2. Bucket of Spit , The Hole , and Sanford's Pugilists. won $81.25 each.

   Groovsh8kr (Honorable Mention)

Tournament #3 (Featherweight)

1. Liposukcija Bezplatno's fighter Not My Property (undefeated at 8-0!) won $240.
2. The USA, Ashton Lane , and The Yeti, Inc $80 each

Tournament #4 (Heavy)

1. Rip Clinch managed by Panther Strikes $116
2. House of Trivi $58
3. Spirit Child $29
4. Hecate

Tournament #5 (Straw)

1. Cold Hard Bitch managed by Bucks won $144
2. Groovsh8ker $54
3. Unforgiven Gym $54
4. Naked

Tournament #6 (Light)

1. Because I need the money managed by Bixleys won $116
2. Wlad Tyson Pacman Mosley Corrales managed by Wilkie won $58
3. Hook's Money Machine managed by Flat Out won $29