Sam has closed his piano and gone to bed ... now we can talk about the real stuff of life ... love, liberty and games such as Janus, Capablanca Random, Embassy Chess & the odd mention of other 10x8 variants is welcome too
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I am thinking $50 to enter, with 8 player sections. The winner of each section gets $150, no matter what, paid immediately as the results are determined.
This way there is one payout for every 8 entrants, independent of the total number of players.
There would then be a payout to the finalist who wins this event, and this dollar amount would depend on how many sections we have.
My thoughts are that this payout should be very, very high. Like ridiculously high.
When the person plays me thereafter, it would be for a trophy and a title with the money depending only on how many are in the tournament.
Some examples:
8 sections of 8 players will produce 8 winners of $150. The person who wins the tournament would get an additional $1000 and gets to play me for the title of World Champion, but there is little money left over for this.
The more sections we have, the richer the payout is.
10 sections, $1250 to the winner
15 sections, $1875 to the winner
20 sections, $2500 to the winner