[Seahawk]

Why not make it simpler.

On each person's profile settings, make a user option "Participate in challenges" and "Do not participate in challenges". That way only those who are interested in doing this can participate, and those who don't, don't have to.

Default it to "Do not participate in challenges" when accounts are created.

If a user is set to participate, a button appears on their profile page, labeled
"Challenge to a game" or something like that.

When you hit it, you are sent to a page where you fill in a game ID to challenge that person to. Then you finalize, and the user being challenged gets a PM with the challenge offer.

Here the challenged can either accept or decline.
If you decline, well that's that, nothing else happens.
If you accept, the game goes on for 48 hours, and the person with the highest score at the end of that time period wins. Once challenges are accepted, neither user can back out, no exceptions.

Winner gets 2 points, loser loses 2 points.

Setting up tiers is a bad idea.........anyone should be able to challenge anyone at any time.

This would also be open to any score enabled game, and not just what a select group thinks are competitive games.


This system solves any problems:
People who don't want to participate don't have to.
Both parties have to agree on a single game, preventing any accusations of "This isn't my type of game".
No messy management on a special thread - everything is automated.