Grand Battle Planning and General Discussion Thread

As that one person who was tasked with starting S4, please discuss the following. This chiefly goes out to people who are already in Battles, because the existing agreement from people not in Battles is "when can we get in on one".

• S"4"G1 starting this summer.
  - Minimal links to the S1-3 canon (and less Grandmastery bullshit in general).
  - Six contestants.
  - Strong selection bias against anyone who already had enough writing to be getting on with in other battles. Strong preference for new players.
  - - The above criteria may change if I decide to host a second battle.
  
• S4 will not have a set host list.
  - S4 is not guaranteed an All-Stars battle.
  - S4 will have minimal metaplot, excepting that which arises in the course of the narrative and players/hosts' attitudes.
  - I probably end up choosing (in a consensus/consultation-heavy way as I'm inclined to do) which battles if any are my "Season".
  
• Making new battles is a free country.
  - This is done at the risk of more aborted battles (which honestly, we already have and are just too proud to admit), but let people innovate and not get stifled and actually maybe have fun dicking around again.
  

I've kept thinking about and been hearing from more friends of friends that they want to try out Battles, and it's quite plausible that whatever "S4G1" is it won't fix the existing tensions and frictions and oddities of the community.

Having said that (and speaking to the veterans right now), I got given this responsibility, and I want to get more newbies in on Battles. I think it'd be fun! I think (hope) that they'll have fun! But "start All Stars" isn't a metric new folks care about, it's a metric for the oldbies. Hence my compromise, where we can start starting Battles again but have some kind of incentive to get the old shit done (or agree that we won't. Maybe a discussion for another time?)