Reward system discussion

The goal of this to-be-determined reward system is not only to encourage participation in V:EKN sanctioned tournaments but to increase the rate of archon and tournament winning deck submissions as well.

So here are some ideas about possible rewards based on different factors:

Continental Championship automatic qualification
The top X% players (rounded up) in each national ranking get automatic qualification for any Continental Championship (only for Day 1, if any).

A player's portrait on a VTES card
This prize is meant for players who have accomplished special feats, such as winning a Continental Championship.

Alternative Halls of Fame hosted on vekn.net
In addition to hosting Jeff Thompson's Hall of Fame on vekn.net, I suggest the creation of other kind of Halls of Fame for other extraordinary feats such as:
- Winning the most tournaments with a given clan: e.g., Clan Loyalty Hall of Fame
- Winning tournaments with the most different clans: Diversity Hall of Fame
- Winning a tournament with a given difficult-to-win-with clan: Strangers Among Us Hall of Fame
- Winning a tournament with an extremely difficult-to-win-with deck (e.g. Samedi vote deck): Blessing of Chaos Hall of Fame
- Winning the most tournaments with rush decks: Monsters Hall of Fame
- Winning the most tournaments with wall decks: Wall of Fame
- Winning the most tournaments with vote decks: Masters of Politics Hall of Fame
- Winning the most tournaments with bleed decks: Masters of Bleed Hall of Fame
- The player with the most VPs in a tournament (in the last 18 months): Capitalist Hall of Fame
- The player with the most GWs in a tournament (in the last 18 months): Play-to-Win Hall of Fame
- Etc...

Any comments, improvements, suggestions?

Hall of Fame of any sort sounds great.

Card art portrait is a very good option but should be used scarcely, for really big feats (i.e being most weeks number #1 in the ranking of a year).

extrala used to have a "deck of the month" on his blog which I found cool. Maybe we can recruit a TWDA maintainer who will also chose a "deck of the month".

ICL wrote:

The alternate Hall of Fames sound really bad. Small sample size, dilution of what it means to be a HoFer, increased arbitrariness are some problems I see.

We could use a different name instead of Hall of Fame.

ICL wrote:

Keep in mind that the TWDA criteria for what constitutes a deck of a particular clan are already easily "abused". Five copies of one vampire is not a deck of a clan. 5/5/x/y or 6/6 is not a clan deck. My "Toreador" deck with 7 of 21 being Toreador is not a clan deck. But, they all qualify because determining what it means to really be of a clan is subjective.

If deemed necessary, those criteria could be changed as well.

ICL wrote:

People already get credit for winning with unusual stuff. What the TWDA and HoF do is stay relatively objective, leaving the playerbase to recognize or not "secret achievements". And, while the difficulty of either winning tournaments or making it into the HoF changes over time independent of the requirements, the difficulty of what constitutes "hard to win with" and the like varies far more. Gangrel used to have tons of wins, not so much the case anymore. Kiasyd had a surprisingly low number of wins for the longest time given that Dominate + stealth works every once in a while. See Guruhi before Nana and after Nana.

Agreed. The special rewards should be awarded according to objective criteria (or, at least, according to criteria which are as objective as possible).