RP Haven - Hall of Fame - VGMusic RPG Heroes Tournament 2: The Tournament of Legends

The Tournament of Legends is the battle of the century! A tournament in which RP characters from different worlds compete to see who is the toughest! Many teams will enter; only one team will win. Started by Mavrickindigo on Saturday, August 21, 2004, on the VGMusic forums, and ended nearly twenty-nine weeks later on Friday, April 8th, 2005, this RP became the biggest thread, with the highest number of posts, the forums have seen.
Remnants of the Arena is the final chapter of the Tournament of Legends. The remaining teams battle in the finale to determine the winner of the entire tournament! Created by Mavrickindigo on Tuesday, April 12, 2005, and officially finished nineteen weeks later on Tuesday, August 23, 2005, this thread ended the year-old tournament and became the second RP to successfully survive the transition from VGMusic to VGRP!

For convenience, I have compiled both RPs into one document. Do you want to read it? Come on, you know you do! You can download it here, and read it at your own leisure.

Feel free to comment on the story, and tell us what you liked, didn't like, and your overall opinion of the story! To comment, simply send me a private message. You'll have to register at the RP Haven forums to do so, but is that really a bad thing? Didn't think so.
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Here we have comments from the people who wrote the story, as well as how much they wrote of it. They are listed in order of contribution percentage. Warning, there are spoilers here!

Name	Comment
Mavrickindigo	Regarding Tournament of Legends... This RP was in the works since the first one and I am happy of its overall success. I enjoyed it a lot and we succeeded with all plot changes (it changed a lot since the beginning) and we lived through GodMod disputes. I'm pleased that it made it as far as it went. Regarding Remnants of the Arena... This wasn't so good actually, I tried to make it a portal, but transferring it to a new site kinda killed that off alright. Well at least it provided some closure but some things will be answered...later. Mavrickindigo started Tournament of Legends, and was thus the first person to join. He wrote 16.94% of the story, doing so in one hundred and eighty-one posts.
Nerikuro Shino	I really dunno. I think the main trouble with tournament RPs is that they either get bland as the battles keep going and going, or trying to insert a storyline ends up doing the same. The RP was able to move all the way through though, so that's saying something. It's just not the kind of RP that I fit in, as I found out. (Too easy to get cheap while being competitive. ) That's about all I've got to say. NerikuroShino was the fifth person to join the role-play. He wrote 15.65% of the story with sixty-six posts.
Hwoarang	Battles such as these often take a degree of compromise, as no one really wants to lose. In the cases of characters like my own Marty, one either downgrades the accumulated abilities of said character or uses that character as a referee of sorts. In my case, I made a third option, creating a counter-balance to keep Marty busy and eventually just displaced him. Of course, this didn't stop things from getting out of hand towards the end, necessitating the usage of various deux ex machina to bring things back on track. Hwoarang was the twelfth person to join the role-play. He wrote 14.85% of the story with thirty-eight posts.
Elec	Hmmm...well, aside from the randomness that resembled some of the things Break Room Complex, it was an okay RP. I think my favorite moment was the duel between Saria and Anya. Elec was the third person to join Tournament of Legends. She wrote 9.67% of the story in one hundred and fifty-four posts.
Kagus	Kagus was unavailable for comment. He was the ninth person to join the role-play, and wrote 9.44% of the story, doing so in one hundred and eleven posts before disappearing.
Ricky	Well, I'm proud to say that I stuck with it to the end, but I'm disappointed with how it went. The fact that two people were managing it didn't seem to make much of a difference- the thing was mishandled, and poorly controlled. Battles were allowed to drag on, a few people had pride issues with their uber-powered characters (which I feel is the main reason "no GodMods or uber-powers" is now a common rule in RPs), and the thing just fell into chaos way too often. All in all, the RP wasn't bad... but it could have been so much better. Ricky was the fourth person to join the role-play. He wrote 8.72% of the story, doing so in ninety-one posts.
Escaflowne Adept	Escaflowne Adept was unavailable for comment. She was the seventh person to join the role-play, and wrote 5.10% of the story, doing so in fifty-two posts. She now goes by the username Atomic Toucan.
Lamur	Lamur was unavailable for comment. Lamur was the eleventh person to join the role-play, and wrote 4.71% of the story, doing so in thirty-six posts.
Heroman	This series of topics by Mav is definitely a series worth going into the Hall of Fame. Although the first topic is lost to forum pruning, deletion, and other sad events, at least the second topic is able to get special recognition, and hopefully there will be future topics in the series that can get the same recognition, as they share a unique quality in that they have organization, a fun storyline, and a dedicated team of RPers for a great length of time, which builds upon the core essences of what a real topic and storyline needs. Heroman was the fourteenth person to join Tournament of Legends. He wrote 4.22% of the story in twenty-two posts.
Dr. Gate	I found the tournament actually, to be completely honest, less thought out than I thought a tournament would be. In the second half of it, I found complete disarray often met me whenever I clicked it. The matches were also far too spread apart in the second half, and lacking ideas I resorted to bringing in my own Godmod to clash/cooperate, whichever actually happened, with Kagus. Overall, however, I didn't find it all too enjoyable. Tourneys just don't work too well as an RP. They create a lot of tension, rivalry, and seems to eliminate camaraderie that may have been formed in other RPs. I also found myself idea-less more often than not. Sorry Mavrick, Tourneys aren't for me, really. Dr. Gate was the sixth person to join the role-play. He wrote 3.28% of the story, doing so in thirty-one posts.
Maniacal Gruntling	Partially wickedly cool, partially... uh... chaotic (if memory serves, there was some sort of godmod-war (I think) that kind of wing-clipped the fun). And I had one hell of a time trying to keep up with it. And yes, I'm aware that I failed with that task 90% of the time. Maniacal Gruntling was the tenth person to join the role-play. He wrote 3.19% of the story, doing so in thirty-one posts. He now goes by the username MG.
Horn	Well, I remember I was thrilled when it began, but it went a little too fast for me to follow along. But it was a great time while it lasted; everything felt detailed and plotted out. I just wish I would've trailed along a little more... Horn was the second person to join the role-play. He wrote 1.97% of the story, doing so in twelve posts.
Omega_Boost	Omega_Boost was unavailable for comment. He was the eighth person to join the role-play, and wrote 1.88% of the story, making fourteen posts. He now goes by the name Master Toki.
Ingram	Ingram was unavailable for comment. He was the thirteenth person to join the role-play, and wrote 0.22% of the story, making only two posts.
Nick	Nick was unavailable for comment. He was the fifteenth person to join the role-play, and wrote wrote 0.08% of the story, making only four posts.

        · When the RP Board was moved from VGMusic to VGRP, several RPs were resumed on the new boards, while others were just abandoned. Most of the RPs that got resumed ultimately failed. Remnants of the Arena is the second RP to have successfully survived the move.
        · Because of the move from VGMusic to VGRP, some of the players changed their usernames. On VGMusic, Mavrickindigo was known as Mavrick, Nick was known as Nick8, Kagus was known as Zexys, NerikuroShino was known as NaokoYiran, and Hwoarang was known as Kaiba.
        · 595 posts were made in the first four months. This is over half of the RP's entire length in just a quarter of its total time.
        · This RP currently holds the record for longest RP ever, with over eight hundred posts to its name.
        · This RP used to hold the record for taking the longest amount of time- a little over a year from start to finish. However, on December 5th, 2005, Void of Illusions II: Shadows of the Heart broke this record.

Some general information regarding VGMusic RPG Heroes Tournament 2: The Tournament of Legends and Remnants of the Arena
This role-play was started by Mavrickindigo.	The story is a fantasy tournament.
This role-play was started on Saturday, August 21, 2004	This role-play was finished on Tuesday, August 23, 2005
This role-play was 845 posts long.	The story is 284,917 words long.
This story took 367 days to complete.	On average, this role-play received 2.1 posts per day.

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