Great idea, but the thing that sets typing games apart from most other games is that it is purely skill based. No luck is involved in it, so there is literally no chance that a slower typer can beat someone faster. Wouldn't it be pointless for people with sub 200 wpm typing speed to enter in the tournament?

Thanks for replying and you raise a HUGE point of discussion within our network. Our goal is to establish an esport for all typists. For that reason, I am inviting all minds to put our heads together to establishe mixed-games and some strategy, luck, and team-based play.

Along the way, we are developing an esport rating system so that certain games can only consist of players who have a reasonable chance of defeating each other across a variety of typing games. Moreover, our staff are figuring out ways to make typing fun to watch (to grow a possible cult fanbase) - so I invite you to at least watch and let us know what you think.

If you join our discord, you will notice we have a player esport rating system and achievements that recognize various facets of your typing skill. So, if you come in from Keyhero or Nitrotype your achievements are roughly balanced against those from other typing sites. That's just a start for the movement.

You are generally correct in a tournament like the Clicking Championship, but upsets can and do occur. Several things I have addressed are prize alotments up to 7th place, PLUS keyboards and rewards for the audience. The overall goal here is to engage as many people as possible in our first event.

So once again, everybody is invited to join the esport movement and post ideas/feedback. We have the greatest typists in the world alongside the upcoming typists and together we can figure something out for our sport.

I'll definitely be watching! I just have one more thought about the rating system that you mentioned. How do you guys plan on stopping advanced players from making new accounts and intentionally typing slower to get into beginner/intermediate level competitions?

Great question. We will use a combination of expert review, community review, and hard data. We are also considering holding live local tournaments only, or stream-only types of tournaments.

This is only the first attempt we are making to rejuvenate interest in the culture of typing. We are aware that it will not be perfect. We will need to rely on the community as a whole to watch out for and monitor any potential sandbaggers/cheaters.

For this tournament, we screened the applicants and had multiple experts review and replay races to consider seed and ranking. For future tournaments, we need people putting their collective ideas together to create better systems and competitions for all typists.

For now, we just want to get some excitement and hype generated for typing once again.