Queen of The Ring Tournament

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This event will be a tournament to crown LAW's first-ever Queen of The Ring.

For those of you that are uninitiated, King/Queen of the ring is a tradition (I believe WWE started it forever ago) that sees a company hold a recurring tournament to crown a King or Queen of the Ring. The idea is that the achievement of winning the tournament is a crowning achievement. Sometimes the winners lean into it and do a short gimmick/run with a King or Queen gimmick to really run with it, but winning the tournament (or doing well in it in general) in and of itself is a big deal.

Rules

• Please read all the rules and requirements before trying to enter a character

• I have a process through which I usually run my tournaments. I've run at least 5 or 6 tournaments in the site's history successfully and to completion. Please be willing to bear with me and place your trust in me and follow my process outlined below if you would like to participate.
  
  • 1) Message me via site PM with the character or characters on your roster that you are considering entering. Make sure they're qualified to compete or will become qualified before the date the tourney begins (read the requirements section below to work out the details of qualifying). Once enough has passed or once I have a sizable list of entrants, I will send a group PM with a list of characters everyone intends to enter
  • 2) Once everyone has seen this list, you will have a chance to swap out your character if you wish. I will then have everyone lock in their final confirmations for tournament entrants
  • 3) I will then reach out to every tournament entrant individually. I will ask you for your preferences on booking, specific match-ups you want based on who else entered, and your general feedback on what you want out of the tournament. I will this feedback to the best of my ability to book the outcomes of the matches Most users are very understanding of the fact that tournaments can only have one winner, so the best way to go about these things is to focus on the stories you can tell using this event rather than banking on the possibility of winning the whole thing
  • 4) I will post the bracket publicly and I will post the opening round matches publicly. But I will also begin all other matches up until and including the final round, all in private threads. This will help ensure that the tournament doesn't run super duper long because we won't have to wait on earlier rounds to complete before starting the later rounds
  • 5) Everything works out. Everyone has a good time. Everyone, even people that didn't take part in the tournament, but followed along, gets to reference these events in their threads for neat story opportunities. Rivalries, stories, and other cool things branch off of the events that took place in the matches in this tourney

• You're encouraged to do threads/social media posts/articles prior to/leading into your character's participation in the tournament to build anticipation. You can do threads that take place between rounds. All information about this event is public knowledge in kayfabe/in canon

Requirements

• Queen of The Ring Tournament Entrants must meet one of the following criteria:1) have world title contender status/have qualified for the LAW Apex event (even if they didn't do/finish the final Apex Match), you can find a full list of these characters here or 2) win a qualifying match in the Qualifiers subforum (you're free to go there and post/play out a match at any time)

• Please be advised that if you have a match from an official LAW Event or PPV from a year ago or more that's still in progress, you may be asked to complete the match before you can enter a character into the tourney

• Please be advised that I'm going to try and cap this tourney off at 8 characters if at all possible. If demand is super high and if the entrants are active users/active in their qualifying matches if applicable, I may consider increasing this cap. But my initial target is 8 entrants

The tentative date for this event is March 18th

As always, if you have any questions or if you would like to request an exception or an amendment for any of the rules I've laid out, please talk to me and let me know. I hope users will find this event engaging, exciting, and fun

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Small Update: We currently have 5 people interested in entering. Please read the rules and reach out if you are interested in participating!

Edit: additional update: the number has now climbed to 10 entrants, with 6 entrants being fully qualified and 4 working to become qualified

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Update: Posting an update since I'm updating all the other events today.

The following users have entered characters that are fully qualified to compete in this tournament event: @Fairy Dragon, @Bare, @SRG, @deezcastforms (need confirmation from deez on which character he would like to enter, since the two he was trying to decide between are both qualified)

The following users have expressed interest in wanting to enter and have qualifier matches in progress to do so: @SuckerPunch, @Vc0m, @Weonna, @Misfit_Alien.

The following users have expressed interest in participating, but have not started qualifier matches and have not put forward qualified characters: @The Riders & @Devastated

The tournament will definitely be shaped/affected by the number of entrants, so if anyone else wants to or plans to enter, please do let me know/start your qualifier match within the next few days before I close sign-ups completely to avoid the entrant list getting too large (honestly, I think we can only take 1-2 more folks at most).

I'm currently of the mind that everyone that started a qualifier match will likely finish it and officially enter the tournament. There's no page limit or other requirement other than doing the match.

I'm also of the mind that everyone who enters will do their best to commit to seeing this tourney event through.

The tourney will begin next month. Thank you, everyone.