@Morzone, @LKWayvern, @The Nonexistent Tazz, @Noblejanobii, @Death's Spook, @Chakramaster

Okay, after reading everything...

Welp.

I'll admit, I kind of rushed to make the schedule. It wasn't actually a part of the original plan and I think as a result, I probably didn't think things through entirely. Usually I give these things 24 hours to think over and as you saw with the whole RP's creation, I've done, redone, modified, and changed stuff constantly, so this is another one of "those things." So... I think I need to whip out my "oops" stamp for this and give it a nice big press.

Ordinarily, running from the Elimination Round wouldn't qualify you for the Final Round. Otherwise, hey, everyone run at the match start and you're good for the final! Yeah, it doesn't quite work. But what also doesn't work is how in a Final Round, you'd only have the surviving remnants of the earlier rounds fighting. It would be like a two on three battle, if even. Not really that exciting. Let's just say the Pokémon of Xia want huge battles and LOTS of carnage.

So on that note, I think things need to be changed...

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  • I'm doing away with Elimination/Final rounds. All Rounds are the same. If your team (or if you're by yourself) is the last team standing, you get a victory point. Team with the most victory points and the end of the Festival wins the whole thing and tons of loot while runner ups win some cash prizes and stuff like that. Even a single victory point for the whole Festival will net you pretty decent prizes considering how many sponsors are involved. That way, if you're an independent and you just happen to win a particular round and get that one victory point, you'd actually get prizes out of that. That's where the motivation would be. A poor independent competitor just has to win a single round and they would get money out of that which could set them for life and get them out of the slums. They wouldn't care if they didn't win the top grand prizes. With Final Rounds, hurr hurr, heck no. It's just raw suicide for every independent competitor, so this would realistically make WAY more sense.
  • Running from the stadium disqualifies you and you won't get any victory points, but you survive. You could just join the next round for another shot. It would make sense for a Pokémon that's in a rough situation to just bail and disqualify themselves, such as in Laura's case where her ally is badly wounded or in Dread Metal if someone's vehicle is in really bad shape. You could come back tomorrow with another car or teammate and try again.


Let me know what you guys think, I'm definitely open for discussing this a little further if you think it's needed.

OTHER NOTES

I know things have been moving along really slowly. I apologize for how sluggish it's been, but holy frick nuggets, I've been super busy lately and I just can't reply every day, unfortunately. Else I'd have to give up everything else I'm involved in for PXFIRE. Ouch. But overall, I'm extremely impressed and happy with how you guys are RPing, interacting, and doing stuff.

Points be darned, you're all doing a great job.

I think the only problem with the speed is we're still on Day 1 and it seems like we're not going to touch so many of the other events until long after PXFIRE is done. I'm open to suggestions such as cutting back on how long the Festival actually lasts so some of the other events can be experienced. It's entirely up to you and changing the schedule would honestly be pretty easy if that's something you guys would like to do. But if you guys have other neat ideas in mind, hey, I'm listening.