This is a question that I ask myself on many of occasions, because me myself would be all for this type of an event. As a refresher sim means simulation, and when said in the madden world it means as close to what we see on Sundays. Now people that might make the trip to Anaheim for the Madden challenge or any madden tourney in general for the first time, you will not see what you see on Sundays. So this will catch the select few off guard and then in their minds believe to think that the opponent is cheating in some way, shape or form. This won’t be the case, but it won’t be what you will see in a typical NFL game. What you will see at a tourney is plenty of shotgun two back to a goal line formation running, nano blitzing and teams running the same play call again and again trying to manipulate the computers artificial intelligence to gain an advantage.

Now being from a sim community at first, adjusting to what is more commonly known as freestyle play has been a rough transition. I used to play madden with a group of people that will use the whole playbook, stay in the pocket with the quarterback, punt the football and no manual movement of any player besides the one that you controlled. Now that may be the way the game is suppose to be played but with a lot of set rules, this leaves plenty of inconsistencies that could occur at the tournament level and would cause somebody to view the game at all times to make sure no person could receive an unfair advantage at any point. There is too much that could go on which allows me to think that a simuatlation tournament could not happen.

Is there a way that I see that a sim tourney could happen, more in likely not because of limitations of the game. Now with patches and other fixes which are coming out to help aid the game there coming closer to trying to get a bug free game. But with patches come problems with the areas that they patch and the problems they missed. There are just too many variables that can occur in that process of creating a perfect game. There is no situation I see that every bug that can and will pop up in a game be fix and I see no way of getting around every bug in said game. But we can all dream, think about it a game that plays exactly like you see in any NFL game, players reacting the way they do in real life, no games no gimmicks just my football knowledge over yours who will when. That will be the day.