Thanks GE/jonts.
I honestly doubt that you need a 512 player tournament. I think that would be madness. My suggestion would be:
240 open registration spots, first come first serve
16 spots for late entrants > level 40, or QF+ in last year's event. If not all filled, then the next people who signed up, a bit late.
I do want to run the Kingdom Design Challenge again, which honestly was just as cool. I'll put up a copy of Dominion or any expansion for both winners.
A Google Form would be best for populating all this stuff. I would like to force all people to register on f.ds. My plan is to make a post on the main blog with a link to a non-guest-viewable topic in this forum, containing the embedded form.
The form would ask:
f.ds username
Iso username
Time zone
After we collect all that data, rrenaud (if he loves us!) can run a script to scrape everyone's level from a random day for seeding, and then we'll put that into challonge. Does that sound good?
What I can do is do all of the above, make posts, etc. Where I am less interested in getting involved is:
* Coming up with a ruleset that will satisfy everyone
* Dealing with no-shows, logistics, and collection of results