• Make improvements that would help provide clearer guidelines for the formats we allow to be played and when they are to be used, including a new format for less than seven players.
  
• Essentially eliminate the potential for an endless loop of win-percentage destroying tiebreakers at the end of the first stage of a tournament and provide clearer, standardized direction for the final stage of all events.
  
• Introduce a more fun and strategic way of playing for top bladers who reach the finals of our tournaments: Deck Format.
  
• Allow the option for each players BeyRank to mean something significant in a real competitive sense through the introduction of seeding, something which is standard among many other competitive games.
  
• Burst Format: Re-evaluate the status of Odin’s ban.
  

Quote:Format Guidelines
8–11 players - Round Robin
6–10 round first stage / Top 4 single elimination deck rotation finals (+3rd Place BeyBattle)

12–16 players - Block Round Robin
5–7 round first stage / Top 4 single elimination deck rotation finals (+3rd Place BeyBattle)

17+ players - Swiss
5+ rounds first stage / Top 8 single elimination deck rotation finals (+3rd Place BeyBattle)

Deck Format Final Stage
A special set of rules used in the final stages of WBO Beyblade tournaments that allows you to strategically switch between Beyblade combinations during the match.

Scoring
Matches are to 5 points. Out-spins are worth 1 point; knock-outs and bursts (for Burst Format only) are worth 2 points. If your Beyblade exits the stadium without making contact with the opposing Beyblade they’ll receive 1 point.

Deck Building
During deck building, you build up to 3 Beyblades with no repeated parts that will make up your deck. Once you’ve assembled your desired deck, you can declare that your deck is ready. The judge will inspect your deck. Before the match begins, both bladers will inspect each other’s decks. Then the Beyblade selection phase happens in secret as normal.

Replays
After each round, the loser is asked if they want a replay, which bars both bladers from switching their Beyblade in the next round. Replays do not alter the result of the previous round; a loss is still a loss, and you can’t replay once you’ve lost the match.

Switching
If a replay is declined, both bladers may switch Beyblades before the next round. The winner of the previous round must declare first if they will switch. If they will switch, they must make their selection and then show it to the opponent. The loser then has the option to switch their Beyblade for another Beyblade in their deck; however, they are not obligated to.

Seeding by BeyRank
Seeding is the initial placement of players in tournament brackets that determines who they face first. Organizers are encouraged to seed bladers based on their BeyRank, as is the standard for competitive games worldwide.

Order of Seeding
1. BeyRank of registered attendees, collected from the website the night of/morning before an event.
2. Existing WBO players with unknown ranks
3. New players

However, random seeding is permitted for tournaments with under 17 players.

Seeding can be easily controlled when using Challonge to run your tournament. Seeding of participants is controlled by the order of the list of participants from top to bottom. The first player on the list will be the top seed in the tournament, and the last player on the list will be the bottom seed.

Seeding in the Final Stage
In the final stage, players are seeded based on their rank in the standings of the first stage of the tournament.

Tiebreakers
Ties when advancing to the final stage are broken by the outcome of previous matches in the tournament between two tied players [winner moves on]. If players are still tied after this, proceed to the second tiebreak procedure:

Round Robin/Group Round Robin: Perform a tiebreak BeyBattle (or round robin in the case of three or more tied participants) to determine who will advance to the finals. Note these battles separately from Challonge. They will not count for BeyPoints when these rules are moved out of the experimental stage, but should be included when submitting results afterwards.

Swiss: Median-Buchholz score in Challonge. Whichever player has a higher score will advance to the finals.

Challonge
Challonge usage is optional, but heavily encouraged.

Challonge is a popular tournament management platform that can be accessed from any device with an internet connection. It streamlines the process of running tournaments by automatically generating brackets for any format, keep track of scores, seed players, determine tiebreakers, and more.

Organizers that use Challonge consistently run faster and more efficient tournaments, and all organizers are encouraged to use it. However, it is not mandatory and printable tournament materials are provided for organizers who would rather not use Challonge.

Burst Format: Odin Unbanned
The Odin Layer is now unbanned for Burst Format.

After becoming available throughout several different Experimental Format events in different communities, Odin proved itself to no longer be a centralizing piece of the game as it once did nearly a year ago when it was first banned. The metagame did not shift to revolve around it being available in the Experimental Format events, and its weakness to many Attack types was noticeable. It’s still a good Layer, but the game and our community has evolved beyond it now, making it a reasonable choice to move forward and revoke the ban.

Quote:This format allows for groups of 4-7 Bladers to play in free-to-enter, unranked tournaments. Prize reimbursement is not provided for these events, but the winners of each event have an opportunity to earn a Credit and a series of special Club Format Bits.

Rules

• No Entry Fee
  
• 2 Club Format events per region each month maximum
  
• 4-7 Participants Only
  
• Hosts must submit results spreadsheet and winning combinations like a regular tournament, and a mandatory group photo.
  
• Prize reimbursement not provided
  
• Winner: +1 Credit and Club Ace Bit (1 Club Format Win) OR if applicable Club Champion Bit (10 Club Format Wins) and Club Master Bit (25 Club Format Wins). Players cannot earn more than one of each Club Format Bit.
  

 

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Available Formats

• Unranked Winning Streak Format: Players line up and compete is single round BeyBattles (one at a time) for 20 minutes. After the first round (match up is determined by BeyRank as described below or randomly), the winner stays at the stadium, loser goes to the back of the line and the winner plays the next person in line. 30 seconds maximum for both players to choose combinations before each round. At the end of the 20 minutes, the player with the most round wins is the victor. OR
  
• Unranked Round Robin Deck Format
  
• Optional: Players seeded by BeyRank (top seeds play first in Winning Streak Format)
  

WBO Plastic Format Rulebook Wrote:Screw Zeus (Zeus)

• The combination of Screw Zeus with Attack Rings that visibly do not fit, cause the parts to bend from their original shape, or do not sit level with each other is forbidden. One example of this is Dragon Breaker.
  
• The combination of Screw Zeus on SG Free Wing Base with Weight Disks that visibly do not fit and cause the parts to bend from their original shape or do not sit level with each other is forbidden.
  

• Burst Format Rulebook
  
• Metal Fight (and Metal Fight Limited) Format Rulebook
  
• Zero-G Format Rulebook
  
• Plastics & HMS Formats Rulebook
  

(Dec. 14, 2016  8:47 PM)Ultra Wrote: Few questions:

-Did you even take into account not everyone might like/want the deck format final stage before you decided to make it manditory? What about those of us who don't frequently wreck tournaments with our beyblading skill who were happy with the way it was?
-What do we use if we don't own a deck box? Is it deck box or nothing?
-What was the logic behind 5 points per match because the idea of multiple 5 rounds matches when it's stamina vs stamina is not something i'm really looking forward to tbh?

(Dec. 14, 2016  11:31 PM)DECEPTICON Wrote: YES. YES. YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEES.
This whole reconstruction makes the WBO finally easy to navigate!!

Quote:Bey Brad

1. We've been running deck format for a few months now and the response has been positive. We were always clear that the goal was to eventually transform them into our standard ruleset.

However, nothing we do is set in stone; we'll continue to collect feedback from players and adjust our rules to suit. That said, finals in a tournament should be the ultimate test of skill within a tournament, and we wanted to increase the level of strategy involved in those high-stakes matches. It's important to note that these rules don't really affect your likelihood of progressing to the finals, since they only take effect after that.

2. You don't need any kind of container. Especially since you have to reveal your deck at the start anyway.

3. Deck format is designed to help avoid situations like this from happening. In the previous format, you'd really be locked into a Stamina battle; in deck format, the losing player can respond by switching to an advantageous combo. It's up to players to build decks that are flexible across multiple battle scenarios!

(Dec. 16, 2016  2:05 AM)DrPepsidew Wrote: I have absolutely no complaints other than the loser being able to LOOK at the switched Bey, THEN be able to choose a potential counter-pick. I understand that this is probably reasoned as okay due to the "deck" concept, just doesn't sit well with me

(Dec. 16, 2016  2:05 AM)DrPepsidew Wrote: I have absolutely no complaints other than the loser being able to LOOK at the switched Bey, THEN be able to choose a potential counter-pick. I understand that this is probably reasoned as okay due to the "deck" concept, just doesn't sit well with me

(Dec. 21, 2016  4:48 AM)Cake Wrote: While discussing Deck Format's impact on formats other than Burst with some other bladers, @[Wombat] pointed out that in their current state, the Deck Format's "no repeated parts" rule bans such Standard staples as Wyvang Wyvang and Genbull Genbull combos. Standard and Zero-G are substantially different from Burst or Limited thanks to the inclusion of Synchromes, since a single Beyblade may use two of the same part. I think that the rule should be amended to state something like "Bladers may not use the same part on more than one combo in their Deck", which would allow decks to use doubled Synchromes while still blocking Decks that attempt to use, say, three different Dragooon combos.

Quote:While I'm glad to see that the Experimental Format is finally ranked, I strongly disagree with making it mandatory for all events. It should have been incorporated as an optional, yet ranked format that can be applied to any of our current formats, similarly to Team Format. Whenever a new format has been introduced in the past, it has never been mandatory, nor has the existing format before become unavailable to tournament hosts (of course Team Format has the obvious size limitations that prevent it from being mandatory, but there have definitely been events large enough to accommodate teams where it was not used). If Experimental Format was intended to become mandatory and "replace" the current format, that was never clearly communicated, and frankly I was led to believe otherwise.

Quote:As the Organizer who has come the closest to hosting Deck Format finals in Metal Fight Beyblade tournaments this Saturday, I realised that it would have made the tournament last much longer and, in general, while we have a lot of parts to lend out to players, sometimes such a player may have reached the finals so it becomes impossible to lend them all the competitive parts while keeping other finalists' decks full and satisfying too.

1. Player A wins
   
2. Player B counterpicks, Player B wins
   
3. Player A counterpicks, Player A wins
   
4. Player B counterpicks, Player B wins
   
5. etc.