Here is the premise of my current and new idea. I work the line in the general aviation industry. I am what is also known as a ramp rat. However I don't work for airliners, I work for private and corporate jets. As well as turbine aircraft charter. Meaning that, unlike my colleagues who work minimum wage to toss hundreds of lbs of bags off an airliner, I can get tipped $20 just for bending over ...
I will volunteer for lavatory services. I will plan my workload so that I end up doing services that will tip more likely than not. I will cut in front my coworkers and tip whore them (well, within reason). I will be polite and friendly to asshole pilots whom I hate. All for tip money. I will whore myself for this prize pot.
Tournament format?
I'm not sure what the tournament format should be yet. I/we have time to think about it. I'm not sure if a one or two day weekend event is the way to go. I am leaning towards that. I'm not sure if we do some wonky mono-civ rules or if we do some wonky lot-of-civ rules. After thinking about it a bit, I will probably lean towards something competitive but requiring a wider, rather than deeper civ pool. This is oriented towards top players and not noob-friendly. As much as I love noobs and am a noob myself. Please let me know in this thread what you would like to see. An invitational is tempting, but I think I will opt for an open tournament.
As for when the tournament gets run, I guess we'll figure that out at a later date. I will either step in and run it myself or maybe I'll ask ESOC to help me out. I'm not sure yet. It depends on how they feel about it; they may want a break after running the Winter Championships. Running events online is a tough thing and the staff who run the events, well you're all great. In particular, @Cometk has always amazed me because he just puts in the work and makes it happen.
Let's see.. for prize money distribution, I'm thinking that the pot be split among only the top four. I think first place is also going get at least 50%+ of the prize pot. It'll probably be something like 4th and 3rd place get $10, 2nd gets $30, 1st gets the rest. If I end up not getting enough money, it might be winner takes all.
I looked at my wallet and there was $40 inside. It's not technically February money, but I will kick things off by putting that money in the pot.