I think I'm going to make it a team event after all. After looking at the contestants and considering the amount of writing (and reading for you...
) it's the easier way still promising nice opportunities to come up with fun suprises and stuff like that. There's ample room for all kinds of teamplay and mayhem but it could be held together better than the anarchic three way fight.
Now I'm just asking for your opinions on the following line-ups eg. whether it should be a two-man teams or three-man -teams game.
My suggestions for the teams would be as follows.
Pair-game:
Eodwine 43
Thornden 25
*easy, the leaders*
Balvir 40+
Lithor 49
*elderly soldiers*
Aethelstan 23
Osmund 21
*soldiers, were already together in the wood-mission*
Garstan 35
Stigend 30
*the craftsman-duo*
Harreld 35
Erbrand 28
*both are craftsmen as well*
Dan 24
Crabannan 38
*the newcomers who are not craftsmen*
Three-man teams:
Eodwine
Thornden
Balvir
*leaders*
Lithor
Aethelstan
Osmund
*soldiers*
Garstan
Stigend
Harreld
*resident craftsmen*
Erbrand
Dan
Crabannan
*newcomers*
If you wish, we can make the winning team members fight it out in the end to find out the single champion... but I'm not sure how good an idea it would be.
Also, if you strongly protest against a team-game or the line-ups I've suggested * I'll promise to reconsider this.
* the line-ups could be made via lottery as well...
PS. A pair-game would be nice but it has some logistical problems as it leads to six games and thence for three winners... but using
lmp's suggestion of a "play-in" might solve that; but who should be the two pairs that could just relax the first round, the leaders and the elderly soldiers? That might be plausible.