Hello Splinterlands Community! There is a community challenge about redesigning the Tournament Page of the game. The Tournament mode is one of the features of the game which I think is less popular compared to the different ranked battle modes and guild brawls. I have tried joining tournaments before and I can say that it is enjoyable especially if the prizes at stake are very high and valuable. I also think it is the right time to update the design and interface of the Tournament Page. It has been years since I have tried and join a tournament and when I visit the Tournament Page again today, I feel like it does not have any major changes in terms of the design and I think the recent changes applied might be on the filters. I will share more about the ideas, concepts and mock-ups I have that I think would improve the overall look of the Tournament Page and I hope that these ideas would be helpful to make the Tournament game mode great again in order to make it more appealing and interesting to the players in the game.
Currrently when a player clicks Play, it shows a different options to play with such as Ranked, Challenge, Practice, Campaign, Guild Brawls, Conflicts, Tournaments and Lands. Surpisingly the Tournament mode is found at the bottom of the choices and as I mentioned earlier the Ranked mode is probably the most popular choice for the players while the Campaign is also emphasized on the screen as it serves as the starting point for new players who needs to learn the primary fundamentals of the game.
For my perspective, the Tournament section should have a seperate button or menu on the top of the screen as the current situation feels that the Tournament mode is not much a priority and for me it serves as the last option that the players could play with. Being said that I have visualize a mock-up that demonstrates what the initial interface of the tournament should look like when the player presses tournament button on the menu.
I have this idea of bringing the feels of joining and being part of the tournament where the players should feel the high stakes and intense action vibes when they navigate to the tournament page. I feel like that the Tournament mode should have more impact to the Ranked mode since Tournaments are designed for the players to compete with one another and there could only be one player that stands all over the competitors while players who lost are eliminated from the tournament. This mock-up shows the stakes and intense competition that the Tournament can bring to the players and hopefully this could attract more players to test their skills and strength by joining the tournaments.
The current interface of the tournament details, standings and arena looks very outdated to me. I feel like this could be improved to modernize the looks and feels of the tournament details and standings since it is one of the important aspects of a tournament.
This is how I envision the new look of the Tournament Details and Standings where the players can easily see what is the current state of the standings and also shows their current ranking and the future match-ups which helps the players to plan their next matches accordingly. I also make sure that the details of the tournament are clearly visible to the players and the rewards and stakes of the tournament they joined are emphasized to give them the motivation and passion to give their best in winning the tournament.
I have also checked the current process on how the Tournament is being created and based from my experience the tournament creation is a bit tedious for me as it involves a lot of steps and items to fill-up and it could give an impression to the tournament creators that creating tournament is a bit complicated which should not be as the objective of tournament is to gather the players and compete for special prizes and glory.
This is how I envision on the brand new look of the Tournament Creation page, I've focused on summarizing the important details needed to be filled up by the tournamant creator ensuring that the filling up task is not very tedious and I also emphasize that all the details inputted can be easily look back by the creator without needing to navigate back on the previous sections of the form. I've also simplified the questions being asked on the tournament creation and exclude any unnecssary informations that would help the players easily understand the details and concept of the tournament.
Overall, the items that I have mentioned above are my ideas and concepts on how to make the Tournament Page Great Again. I believe that the tournament mode of the game has a lot of potentials and even though that game mode may not be as much as popular to ranked battles and guild brawls, I hope that once the Tournament Page has been updated or redesigned, there may be an optimistic chance that the players will notice this game mode and bring more excitement to the game which could perhaps attract more new players to play the game.
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