SFB ROYAL RUMBLE

I ran this as a "one-shot" the weekend of the WWF Royal Rumble.

The "ring" is a large hex-shaped region (the Black Hole map from Terrain Maps might be good here).
The ring is surrounded by a tournament barrier.

Select 30 ships and place them in a pile (I took a bunch of WYN "Gladiator" like ships).
Each player in turn picks a ship from the pile.
Instead of a pile, you could alternatively set up a BPV amount for each ship or player.

# Players    # Ships per player
    2               15
    3               10
    4                7 *
    5                6
    6                5
    7                4 *

* In these cases, there will be 2 ships left over.
During the game, give an extra ship to the first two players who lose their other ships.

Each turn before Energy Allocation, one random ship enters the ring.
You can use counters numbered 1-30 in a cup or whatever to determine which ship enters, but the entire order of the Royal Rumble should not be known ahead of time.
The ship's starting position is always a corner and is determined by a 1d6 roll.

The goal is to eliminate all other ships except your own, by one of two methods:
1. Destruction/Capture.
2. Slam a ship into the tournament barrier using your Tractor Beams.  Roll 1d6 each impulse the enemy is forced against the barrier, if it's "1", the ship has been "thrown out of the ring".

Now, when I ran this, I added some humorous elements to it:
1. Each impulse, roll 2d6.  If both dice read "1", a random pod is placed in a random hex (anywhere in the ring).
   The pods were always 10 boxes of one useful system: APR, PH-1, ARMOR, etc.
   You "pick up" a pod by moving to it's hex and applying a 1 point Tractor Beam.
   Pods that are picked up may be used immediately (you may need to allocate power in the case of APR or whatever).
2. Before the Royal Rumble started, a stasis box was dragged into the ring.
   Released from the stasis box was a Black Space Dragon (see my SSD) with a Solid Neutronium Chain tied around it's neck.
   On the other end of the chain was a small Positionally Stabilized base which was immune to the Dragon's attacks.
   The chain was 5 hexes long, which dictated a small area which the Dragon could move around (the base was in a corner of the ring).
   The Dragon is very hungry, and anyone entering the Dragon's little region was subject to attack, of course.
   In the thing I ran, the Dragon got frustrated with the chain, and it caught a ship with it's claws and proceeded to physically beat the base with the ship's hull as a weapon.
   The base was destroyed and the Dragon flew around the arena free until killed.