I told you I wanted to help so here my suggestions. The choice is for the community but I started on working out some way to make this work. There are 2 ways to start en 3 ways to play this kind of tournament. Of course everything depends on the number of Teams that are going to be playing.
2 ways to Start1)
The first way to start is with 4 clans with 1 or more teams of every race. (Pros: it is really divide and no pre knowledge about the other races. Cons: you lose a view of how is online, training can only be done on preset times.)
2)
The second way is to play with 1 clan with 4 or more Race teams. (Pros: you can see everyone that is online of all races, Team commanders can create training match when they want with the people online. Cons: There will be now surprise how is playing against how it will be known.)
If you want the voting to be successful I think you need do 2 thinks, add a line to the 4 clan post. This is the line I suggest:
- Please stated clearly if you are a candidate by posting you candidacy with the line "I <in game name> am a candidate for the Human Clan" -And the second is on the day the voting start really use the Poll option in the forum.
3 ways to play1)
Like on the RU server first create pre round between race so the best Humans, Orcs, Elves and Dwarfs compete in a single elimination round.
2)
A double Elimination round for every team (my example is with 2 teams for every race)
3)
A Ribbon Round Elimination (Point system loser get 0 point winner 2 point) For every race, the one with the max point will finish with a double elimination. (again based on a 2 team start for every race.)
I hope this helps and if you have any question or something that needs to be organized you can ask and I'll see what I can do.