I don't know if you people know how much success the 10th dan 10k tourneys are having, but its going great.
There are always people playing it the room, is always filled with new people everyday sometimes I cant get it because its so full.
Filled all day
Calm down I know its filled, however something needs to be done with this.
Its only like this all the time, I think you need to open it up to the public instead of just having it be 10th dans and up, because obviously its not working
throwing more money at people is never a good solution, what's more it makes it even worse.
here comes mwah with the solution:
change the mods
if you are 10th dan+ that means you have played most of these mods hundreds of times and 10k isn't going to make you want to wait x amount of time to play them in a tournament again. more money is an easy fix, like insanity said but i'm pretty sure you guys wet your pants at the thought of not sinking enough tc so that wont happen
so what you can do that is practical, is set these tournaments to some mods most people haven't played, or mods that are objectively fun. for example, even though its used constantly, boxshu_mushu is always going to be played because its fun even if it has become a 'duel mod'. you can also try things like pendulumjump, msds, tilt_fix, etc.
i have a list of fun mods somewhere that may be beneficial to everyone if you guys take a look. just because we are supposedly elite players for having a high belt doesn't mean we only want strictly competitive shit all the time in our servers. you can continue to throw in some popular mods like abd and rk but i think i speak for must higher belts when i say 10k is not going to make me want to wait in a tournament server to play a mod like judofrac that takes forever and isn't very fun.
tl;dr, add a better incentive like insanity said (which you wont) or pick mods that we will actually wait to play and watch because its fun. 90% of a tournament is watching others and chatting, and as we know in our time here, play to win toribash is about as fun as watching paint dry. (if you have ever watched a 50k+ duel in boxshu_mushu then you probably know what i'm talking about)
there is your fix to the 10th dan+ empty server problem