RSCRevolution has the best tournament system around and it has potential for something greater.
I am proposing daily automated tournaments 2x a day at peak times convenient for both NA and Euro players (check your demographics data for best time).
How it would work:
1) 2x a day an automated tournament is initiated
2) Maximum of 32 players (add more PK boxes), if not enough people the system just randomly selects people for a "Bye" - no point sitting them out
3) ::Tournament - consists of any build possible (flats, pures, pb, mages, etc) - mix it up for varieties
4) Prizes for 1st, 2nd, 3rd place -> rewards TBA, but I would like to see PK Tokens as event prizes
5) Pk tokens can be traded to other players to purchase items, they can be staked, or they can be used at "Pk store" to exchange for items
6) Pk store consists of all the PK amenities (double exp tokens, swordfish, r2hs, potions, rune items, cosmetics, etc)
7) Add a daily event schedule on the www.rscrevolution.com homepage so people will know when events are active
8) During the weekend you could add special prizes to the tournament system
9) Competitive leaderboard in-game/forum for top tournament winners
10) Tournament system will be separate from "donated" events
11) One hour prior to the tournament event, no events can be hosted (Staff or donated)
12) Global announcement in-game: "A Flats Tournament is about to take place in 30 minutes, type ::Tournament to enter"
13) Separate #event discord channel notifying people when a tournament is about to take place
14) Top 16 monthly tournament winners will be invited to a "hunger game" event to battle for a prize (e.g. sub set) once a month
Pros:
- Less burden on staff to host events so they can focus on other projects
- People like events and having a set schedule will encourage them to log in the game daily and play
- Tournaments are a gateway for people to be exposed to pking and more likely to train different chars builds to pk
- Brings the community together and make the game a more enjoyable experience than just edge sitting all day
- You reward people with pk tokens which they can buy pk gears so they can pk afterward
- Keeps the server active at all time, moving toward pk oriented than skilling based