Basically, I have played a lot of games before with TTK_GeneralNoob although he almost lives on the opposite spot of the globe, so it can be done. At least someone not willing to join up himself should refrain from dropping remarks how few people are signing up.
And I have my ideas how to make the tourney progress successfully at decent speed. There is no need always to have only one scheduled opponent that you may play a tourney game against. Depending on the tourney mode (yet to be determined when I have the final list of participants) players may be allowed to play any opponent in their group, or if round-robin, any other participant, depending on when they happen to meet that particular member. The list of online times that I collected during signup helps to find players that you have not yet played.
It is also a matter of organization. Other tournaments failed because their creators thought: "Oh, I'll just open a thread in which I write that I am doing a tournament. I will not have/am not willing to invest much work though. Defined rules are unnecessary; I will invent them and surprise the players with my decisions when/after the games are being played, and somehow I will get to know the game results by players occasionally posting them as a reply to my thread."That such crappily organized tourneys are destined to fail is obvious. The same goes for many clans that are founded on such a basis. However, I hope I have shown that I am striving for a more professional approach, with clear, understandable and - most important - known general regulations that allow the players to follow the tournament. I will also be regularly posting result tables so that the tournament remains transparent to its participants and is fun to follow. I am not sure whether I will succeed, but as a matter of fact I am giving myself much better chances than many other tournaments that have been organized in the past.
And perhaps, when I complete a small tourney with success, word will spread and I will have more participants next time.
Darkness is a state of mind
Valor is the contempt of Death and Pain. (Tacitus)
Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by hitting back. (Piet Hein)