The Tournament philosophy can be boiled down to one overall statement: Design the tournament to select the best Warlord!

Based on this, we have five decision criteria to assess ideas:

1. Prevent the possibility of undiscoverable cheating.
2. Keep the game as much like traditional Warlords as possible.
3. Make the tournament as balanced and fair as possible.
4. Keep the rules/overhead as simple as possible.
5. Make the tournament as enjoyable as possible for as many people as possible, within the above constraints.