Right, let's see here. I think the survival challenge should come first over the tourney, which has something of a split on how players want to handle it, so that way there's more time to actually work out how the tourney'll be done. But personally, I feel it should be arranged between each player how they want to go through with it. If someone doesn't want to prearrange it, well, they don't. If someone tries to have it prearranged and decides it's not working out, well, the other person'll have to deal with it.
I feel making Arena threads for each individual fight, which have to resolve and then have to be condensed into a likely annoying as crap to read megapost for each, will only serve to take away activity from the actual game to little real benefit. It's a route towards people losing interest and moving on to something else, I feel. On that subject, bringing in a panel of players to act as judges only serves to turn things into a popularity contest.
