I love the arena mode:
pros
- you have to adjust you play, coz you havent your top team to fight
- you can try cards at level 10, b4 you might upgrade your own ones
- great rewards
cons: - unfortunatly the list of available cards you can chosse from it very limited
- no chance to compare my results with other players
So here is my idea for a tournament mode:
preparation phase
- every player can register (for free or a spec. amount of gold)
- the tournament is alawys set in one kingdom, so the players know exactly, wich bonuses the player and the opponents will get
- at ther start of the tournament, every player have to choose 8 cards from a limited pool of cards … only these cards can be used (the hero cant be used!!!)
- while choosing your cards, you can watch a list a of cards you will be playing against
the tournament:
- each tournament have a set number of rounds/fights (eg 5-10)
- b4 each round/fight you see the 4 opponent cards and select your deck out of your 8
- for each round/fight, each play gets a rating (properly based an number to finish the fight and/or how much cards on your side survived etc)
post-tournement/prizes
- based on your overall-performance each player gets rewards (from gold/souls to specific cards), either compared to other players (Top10, top 50 etc) or specific set milestone-rating (95%, 80%,…)