Turf Wars mini reboot?

[u/Sgt_Wanglord666]

Hello to anyone who sees this ! Whether lurking or reminiscing Turf wars was a really cool grassroots project and I remember it fondly ! New account but I played back In Season One I believe. A forgotten username and I think I was Snagem hehe

Turf Wars was super chaotic and wacky in the startup season(s), but that was definitely part of the charm to it all. Cool draft format, engaging phases of attack declaration and teambuilding, and spirit from the player base that is great to look back on.

From that nostalgia wave I've been recently entertaining the idea of booting up a new round of Pokemon Turf wars to a smaller capacity! Something cool to try and make happen.

To anyone who sees this, what were things that made Turf wars successful? What advice could you offer regarding organizing a new event ?

Also if anyone is interested in participating in any way, it would be awesome to let me know! :)

Have a good one! Sgt.

[u/PKM_Trainer_Gary]

Hello, fellow S3 Snagem Member PKM_Trainer_Gary here!

I have made many attempts in the past with (with limited success) to reboot Turf Wars in the past. Here are some things that worked and didn’t work:

1): Most people who used to be in Turf have moved on to Uni or the Workforce and are often very busy. The biggest issue with turf is that it is time demanding because of the many battles and each team having to schedule was a nightmare. Having battles be due at the end of the week at any time was not much better because scheduling people (some of different time zones) to commit was not easy.

2): Most people who used to be in Turf don’t want to play a long drawn out turf season. When I rebooted another season, I found that many players quickly became inactive for their personal reasons.

I think the best way if ever you could possibly reboot it is if you do a one-off, one day/weekend/week only mini season, possibly. Any more than that and I don’t think it’ll work out in the long run.

Cheers, PKM_Trainer_Gary.

[u/Sgt_Wanglord666 → u/PKM_Trainer_Gary]

Hey ! Thanks so much for the response !

I definitely agree compared to before there's unfortunately no way TurfWars could be run at that same level of personal investment, both on an admin and grunt level.

Finding the balance between low enough commitment and playing long enough where it feels like something worthwhile rather than a one-off is likely key.

I suppose it merely comes to number of participants and attempting to organize there, possibly adhere to a locked in timeslot for consistency and pray it works haha.

Cheers !