Worldwide miniature football broadcast gaming

[Coach Grim]

I think this is an awesome idea. I would love to be able to basically play games from the house. Im in the DFW league but sometimes depending on another coaches schedule i might have to wait a couple weeks to play, this idea would satisfy the EF appetite in between games. Don't know how he feels about it but Reggie's setup would be perfect for this. I for one would love to participate.

[artlax]

an amazingly cool idea!

[the french guy]

I'm glad you find the idea interesting

the biggest difficulty will be organization. Sedning teams, finding game operators, etc...

I believe some system rules (not speaking of the game itself) will be necessary, things like to engage a team, you have to accept to be game operator at least 1 time each time your team is playing, that sort of thing.

Here's a little scheme of possible organization. the key is to never make games between a game operator and the coaches games he managed (to preserve the secret of playbooks). BUT, a coach can operate a 2nd game and manage a team of a guy he played BEFORE. The idea is to keep the sport interest in all that, and keep it sane and fair.

Of course, we can imagine rows, when the teams can obtain new athletes, or new playbooks (or at least, new formations names). Playbooks are easier to share than teams, because we can send pdf files of it.


edit : Last thing, for people who don't know upside view, I saw a picture on mgallery wich perfectly illustrate that idea. See the 2d attached pic. The game situation is crystal clear to understand. Just imgine than on the video, the point of view will be wider to include the entire gamefield. Now with wide screen and fast internet, we can imagine the coaches using fullscreen 16/10 (or 16/9) view on the field, on their computer.

[the french guy]

Last thing for now

a little scheme to explain how the game could be view from the engaged coach point of view.

Upside camera angle, with complete field
messenger window, to call the formations

all on a wide screen computer

[eyeteeth]

Cool idea.

Why automatic kicks?

There was a kicking system RavannaAl wrote about in one of the early Tweaks using dice that I've been using, and then adapted a version for punting. It's worked fairly well still tweaking a few parts to my liking.

[the french guy]

Cool idea.

Why automatic kicks?

Automatic or not, no problem I spoke about automatic kicks to speed up the game.

With that system, I believe speed and timing is crucial. It's a kind of "passive" way of playing, so you need to keep it fast, in my opinion.

BUT as I said, if both 3 involved members (coaches and operator) agree for use that or that rule, why not ! Freedom

[RooMorgans]

Aren't there are also the kicking cards that I think Chris LeMay developed way back when?

I swore I had a deck of those lying around, but can't remember where I put them.

Memory ... the second thing to go.

The first?

I don't remember.

Ed

[the french guy]

More seriously, as I said, rulesets does not matter since the 3 members agree on it. Automatic kick, tdk, ttqb, cards, dices, or whatever.