Stepfile Marathon Tournament! (Now accepting stepfiles!) (SIGNUPS OPEN!)

[Netjet!]

SEND ALL FILES TO NETJET20@HOTMAIL.COM.

1st Unofficial Stepfile Marathon

Hey guys, I came up with a good idea. How would you like a tournament, that has YOUR stepfiles in it? Pretty great, huh? Well this is my tournament's idea.

Stepmania Mod Restrictions:

Deleted mod restrictions.

Also, for noteskins, you may use whichever.

How it works:

I will open submissions for possible stepfiles in the tournament. You can make a stepfile by scratch, or submit a stepfile that you've previously made. I will be having 2-4 divisions for this tournament (beginner, intermediate, master, guru, etc). so I'll need 2-4 songs for each round. There will be 8 rounds, and the 8th is the final round between the top 2 of each division. This is kind of like the Official FFR Tournament, but YOUR stepfiles are in it! It's going to be great!

Stepfile Judging:

I will be personally judging stepfiles for this tournament, so no "bad" stepfiles will be in it. I want a variety of different types, so don't hesitate to step rock, pop, techno, you name it. I just want a good quality, and good music that the FFR users will like.

If your stepfile has been accepted, I will email you saying so. If it is rejected, sadly, there will be no email included. I'm hoping to do more of these tournaments, so hopefully you guys will have awesome stepfiles again for them. If yours is accepted, please allow 2-5 days before receiving an email, due to the fact that I am usually busy, but I have time to test, play, and judge your files.

Divisions:

Depending on the number of entrants, there will be 2-4 divisions, as shown:

Beginner

Tricky (possibly)

Advanced (possibly)

Guru

The two in the middle are put as "possibly", depending on the number of entrants, as stated above.


Rounds:

Rounds will have to be played VIA Stepmania, because I cannot get the files onto FFR for my tournament. I'm not important enough, and this is an unofficial tournament.

There will be 8 rounds in total. The 8th round is the Final round, in which the top 2 battle it out on the Final Song.


Choosing divisions:

The way I will be choosing divisions is by looking at AAA count, FC count, levelranks, partly average rank, and what songs you have AAA'd/FC'd. (In FFR).

DONATIONS:

I'm asking for some donations for this tournament, although I have 35k that I'll be using. Still donate though!

NOTE:

Submissions are until August 9th, 2008.

Signups:

Signups will close on August 13th, 2008. They are open currently.

SONGS:

I WILL PROVIDE A LINK TO THE SONG ON THIS POST. It will be in a .ZIP folder, so make sure you have winzip.

Sign up!



Round:



Round Ends:



Songs:



Players:

[Netjet!]

SIGNUP LIST:
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Netjet!
hi_top
who_cares973
LupineDreamer
RB_Killer
R3v0lut10nm4st3r11
FrozenAngel91
SpammyMcSquirrel
Infinity.
EDEdDNEdDYFaN
kjwkjw

[Netjet!]

Donations:
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Netjet (35,000)


PRIZES
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1st place- An FFR T-Shirt of your own choosing and 20,000 credits
2nd place- An FFR Sticker of your choosing and 10,000 credits
3rd place- 5,000 credits.

[hi_top]

I'm so in, I don't have any good stepfiles but I'm in

[Netjet!]

Added you.

[who_cares973]

i gots stepfiles :O

also in

[LupineDreamer]

I'm in. Man this is like the 4th tournament I'm in currently. Oh well. Don't have any stepfiles, but it'll be nice to play some custom stuff out on SM for a while.

Also, Netjet, it would be good to put in your initial post, restrictions on mods for SM for songs.

[Netjet!]

Also, if you guys want, I can make a little judge panel for which songs get into the tourney. Would that be good?

[Netjet!]

I'm in. Man this is like the 4th tournament I'm in currently. Oh well. Don't have any stepfiles, but it'll be nice to play some custom stuff out on SM for a while.

Also, Netjet, it would be good to put in your initial post, restrictions on mods for SM for songs.

What, things like mirror, dark, and stuff like that?

[Xx{Midday}xX]

How will you know whether people played on J1 or not?

[who_cares973]

that would be good


go play my better days sim :D

its easy :O

[Netjet!]

How will you know whether people played on J1 or not?

Probably means speedmods.

Good point. I'll probably make them submit the part of their ini file with the marv,perf, etc timings.

And speedmod doesn't really matter, just like in FFR. They can use whichever.

[Azafreak]

Why .rar? We have already an option for .zip in Windows( and almost all person have window) I have a simfile, i post the link?

[LupineDreamer]

What, things like mirror, dark, and stuff like that?

Yeah I meant those kinds of things...more specifically though Cxxx mods that can completely take away any difficulty a song previously had on SM.

[Netjet!]

Send all files to netjet20@hotmail.com

Also I put rar because most zips always convert to .rar's to me. zip's work too.

[RB_Killer]

Ill join

[Netjet!]

Yeah I meant those kinds of things...more specifically though Cxxx mods that can completely take away any difficulty a song previously had on SM.

Hmm.. I don't know if people can play on a specific mod well though.

[Xx{Midday}xX]

Hmm.. I don't know if people can play on a specific mod well though.

He means restricting the tourney to xmods to incorporate bpm changes. For instance, Mellann in the RF Pack is all about xmods. Cmod ruins the entire point of Mellann's stepchart.

[Netjet!]

Edited.

[who_cares973]

mellan was a crappy xmod file imo


submitting filez


EDIT:Question

do the files have to come with a banner and bg?

[Netjet!]

mellan was a crappy xmod file imo


submitting filez


EDIT:Question

do the files have to come with a banner and bg?

A banner would be nice, to tell what song it is.

[Xx{Midday}xX]

mellan was a crappy xmod file imo

tbh, idk any others. i dont play sm.

hence, im not joining. =(

[Netjet!]

;_;

Any more signups?

[R3v0lut10nm4st3r11]

I have a lot of stepfiles, i am in.

[gnr61]

i'll send you some files later but idk if i'll play because i'd win pretty easily lol

[TC_Halogen]

INNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN :D

Seriously, a GREAT idea for a tourney. And I will definitely be making charts for this.

[R3v0lut10nm4st3r11]

My only problem is that i dont know if i can make .winrar files. You know that those are for ITG and this is a STEPMANIA tourney. Shouldn't we submit zipped files.

[TC_Halogen]

My only problem is that i dont know if i can make .winrar files. You know that those are for ITG and this is a STEPMANIA tourney. Shouldn't we submit zipped files.

Erm, most files are preferred in .zip. So, send it as a zip.

EDIT: Can we make charts for this tourney, but not perform in it? I think an SM tourney is a bit harder to tell who's being fair or not with judging, and I personally don't want to get angry over someone who I -think- might be using a lower judge. If so, count me out for the tourney, but in for the chart making.

[EnR]

you can submit zip or rar, like he already said.

[R3v0lut10nm4st3r11]

he specifically said .winrar tho, o well submitted buzzards by orange dust

[gnr61]

why the hell wouldn't you use .rar's -.-

anyway just a tip for the tournament,
dont bother making everyone post their .ini as it proves nothing lol. it should be fairly obvious if a score is cheated, and i dont think anyone would try anyway.

[LoneW0lf]

ill try :P

[TC_Halogen]

I just want in for making the charts, I really don't want to play in an SM tourney where you have to take screenies.

[Netjet!]

Yeah, you can do that.

[Netjet!]

By the way guys, we need easy and hard files. There's going to be an easy division too so..

[who_cares973]

My only problem is that i dont know if i can make .winrar files. You know that those are for ITG and this is a STEPMANIA tourney. Shouldn't we submit zipped files.



you know that he is talking about the compression types and not the files types right?

[R3v0lut10nm4st3r11]

Ok, and if my file makes it just pm me please dont email me. And yes who cares, i cleared it all up it was a dumb question. For easy files i might submit matador, but i have a lot of hard files. I have already submitted Buzzards by orange dust(it has friekin awesome jacks!!) and i might submit As do I.

O and are we allowed to send in long songs? If so i will submit AS by the Pondermatic for easy.

[FrozenAngel91]

Erm, most files are preferred in .zip. So, send it as a zip.

EDIT: Can we make charts for this tourney, but not perform in it? I think an SM tourney is a bit harder to tell who's being fair or not with judging, and I personally don't want to get angry over someone who I -think- might be using a lower judge. If so, count me out for the tourney, but in for the chart making.

Speaking of this, can you do this the other way? Join the tournament to play the songs but not put in files? I mean I can but I don't know if they would be any good. If so I am definitely in for this

[Netjet!]

Yeah, you can join without submitting files. I just want everyone to submit files so they can play ones that are their own.

[FrozenAngel91]

Alright, I'll join then, if you want I can upload one of my files to youtube so you can see if the quality of the files I make are good enough

[TC_Halogen]

By the way guys, we need easy and hard files. There's going to be an easy division too so..

I can do these easy files too.

[Netjet!]

Alright, I'll join then, if you want I can upload one of my files to youtube so you can see if the quality of the files I make are good enough

You can submit it anyways. It doesn't matter if it doesn't get in.

[SpammyMcSquirrel]

I'm in.
I've got a simfile I wanna submit, too. :3
Sending atm.

[Netjet!]

Viennacore lol

[infinity.]

tbh, idk any others. i dont play sm.

hence, im not joining. =(

i thought you had 26gigs of files lmao

Good point. I'll probably make them submit the part of their ini file with the marv,perf, etc timings.

uh, you can just edit it after you finish playing..




anyways, in for giggles

[Netjet!]

Updated. Also nice file spammy.

[gnr61]

sent a hard file

edit: wait are you going to upload the tournament songs onto ffr or bms or something? because if so you can't use sin because its gotta stay unreleased for rf2 pack >_>

[TC_Halogen]

Question: can we give you the links of files that we've created and sent to the DB, and PM you the link?

[SpammyMcSquirrel]

Updated. Also nice file spammy.
Thanks. =)
Also, can we submit more than one file? I wasn't planning to, just curious.

[Tasselfoot]

i can't believe sprite approved this. *shrugs*. lol.

[Netjet!]

Spammy: Yes you can submit more than one

GNR: Uhh I'm not gonna upload it to the db or anything, just megaupload it and link it on the first post for the round that it's up? Not sure if that's alright with you..

Halogen: Sure, why not.

EDIT: lol tass

[TC_Halogen]

Ok, sending you four links of charts that I made on my alt. They didn't get much attention, but if you like them, they should be pretty good "hard" level material.

[gnr61]

yes thats fine

[Netjet!]

k. got sin btw. i'll play it soon. played all files except sin so far. they're really really good guys. awesome work!

[TC_Halogen]

I sent the links for them. Hopefully you like them.

[R3v0lut10nm4st3r11]

wow you reviewed spammy's file quckly, have you received mine yet just wondering.

[Netjet!]

Yeah i got it. I haven't reviewed them, but just tested them. They're all great and fun plays.

[MrMagic5239]

Im not using 1 or 2 times speed, or any other x mod, and btw,

Mirror mode only helps playes who cant do things with there bad hand, some players are more dominant with their left hand, so files like hardkore atomic would be a sinch to do, thats why mirror mode is there

I think mirror mode makes it more fair for players who dont have a good chance with there bad hand

[R3v0lut10nm4st3r11]

Thanks lol, i just have a crappy email and sometimes they just dont send lmao.

[Netjet!]

Deleted the mod restrictions.

[TC_Halogen]

Deleted the mod restrictions.

Any thoughts on my files? :?

[SpammyMcSquirrel]

Actually, I think I will submit another file. A short, easy file.

[TC_Halogen]

Wolf, ya spam posts on KC, now you're spamming charts for this. :P

[TC_llama499]

I'm in :)

[MrMagic5239]

I just thought of the worst thing ever, everyone is going to cheat on this and go judge 1 or marv ini .99999999999

Ok maybe not everyone but players who dont stand a chance, will... Just figured id throw that factor out there for ya lol

[SpammyMcSquirrel]

Wolf, ya spam posts on KC, now you're spamming charts for this. :P
That was only one day and I didn't know when to stop DX
Lol. I didn't know about this tourney before I made the ViennaCore file, but I did make the Yoshi's Cookie file for this. :P
And I'm still thinking about adding my Bat Country file.

[gnr61]

I just thought of the worst thing ever, everyone is going to cheat on this and go judge 1 or marv ini .99999999999

Ok maybe not everyone but players who dont stand a chance, will... Just figured id throw that factor out there for ya lol

i doubt anyone signed up for this tournament is stepmania-smart enough to cheat and not make it fairly obvious

i also doubt anyone will take this tournament seriously enough to cheat

[MrMagic5239]

Just to be safe, I would say enforce stepmania anti cheat, but thats just my own opinion, im not joining this tournament anyway, but its just a suggestion

[TC_Halogen]

This is why I said that I was not gonna play because of cheating reasons. This is why I want to see my charts IN the tourney. :P

[gnr61]

why do you non-sm players assume everyone is going to cheat lmao. sm tournaments have always run just fine.
btw sm anticheat doesn't prove much either as it is possible to circumvent

[FrozenAngel91]

Alright I have my file ready. Can I send it in smzip format? Also is it okay if I have a background movie in it?

[who_cares973]

i always cheat on sm :D

[MrMagic5239]

Thats funny, I geuss I dont play sm when I have over 4000 sm files

[SpammyMcSquirrel]

Rofl, Submitting another file ._.
I'll stop with this one.

[TC_Halogen]

why do you non-sm players assume everyone is going to cheat lmao. sm tournaments have always run just fine.
btw sm anticheat doesn't prove much either as it is possible to circumvent

Who ever said I didn't play SMO? I get on SMO every once in a while, and I play SOME of the main packs, I mean--it's hard for me to get all of the packs with the connection I have, I get some here and there when I go to a friend's...if I had a larger library, I'd be on SMO all the time. :)

[Nu0n]

This tourney looks great, i just don't have the time to make all these simfiles atm, good luck to everybody that plays.

[Redorigami]

Sending in my dumpfile yay.

Seems dumb that there'll be no email if files don't get in though.

[iluswirl]

So how long are the rounds going to be? If they're too short, I can't play because of the fact that I can't put SM on my dad's computer..

But i'll gladly contribute at least 1 file. I'm not exactly pro at making them, but I think the song is epic and the file goes pretty well.

[TC_Halogen]

I'll work on some fresh material if I don't have anything to do in the upcoming days.

[cry4eternity]

Might as well put me in... I've never really played SM since I switched to spread on FFR, but it's worth a shot.

Also, a few questions about file submissions:
1) Can we have multiple difficulties on a single song?
2) Should we make FFR-like files, or regular SM hold-crazy files, or does it matter?
3) Can you make a chart of what files have made it in, and how many more you need for each difficulty?
4) Tiebreakers?

thanks

[TC_llama499]

I'll work on some fresh material if I don't have anything to do in the upcoming days.

step the song i sent u a while back :) lol



Ps im not smart enough in SM terms to know how to cheat besides judge 1 lol

[R3v0lut10nm4st3r11]

Ps im not smart enough in SM terms to know how to cheat besides judge 1 lol


Lmao nice one llama. I'm gona submit so more files.

[kjwkjw]

I'm in! I may submit some stepfiles too.

[EDEdDNEdDYFaN]

I'll join to play the files, I probably won't make any of my own.

[R3v0lut10nm4st3r11]

hey can u make a list of all songs that have been accepted

[Netjet!]

I won't post a list until it closes.

[Netjet!]

Updated with prizes!

[TC_Halogen]

Started working on another stepchart. ;)

[Netjet!]

Cool.

Remember, first place is a t-shirt and 20k credits!

[Xx{Midnight}xX]

I'm in though stepmania is just insane.

[iluswirl]

How long are rounds going to be? Cause i've got an issue if they're too short, rendering me unable to play.

[cyrx900]

Better say it now than never. I'm in.

[dandandamdandan1111]

wow good idea net, hopefully this isnt your last good idea lol.

aaand i'm in

[Commandersa1]

I guess I will join.

[Gun92]

Guess Ill be in for the tournament.

[gnr61]

i'll play if tc halogen plays :X

[trumaestro]

In, though I might not be able to play that much because work. I'll try to get scores in.

If I'm quick about it, I might send a file, too.

[R3v0lut10nm4st3r11]

I'm sending in a few more files.

[operationstrawbarry]

I dont get it. Is this a tourny of people seneding in files and another set of people playing the files?

If you want diversity, I can send in a Gabba/Speedcore song (Not J-core), but I wont play because I sux PA and SM wise. Reply back if this is possible.

[rauchster]

If it's not necessary to create a stepfile to enter, I'd like to join.

[Gun92]

This thing really has seemed to slow down quite a bit

[morbidangelsuta666]

im in

[LupineDreamer]

With the way the participation for this tourny is looking, there will not be an obscene amount of people for each division which is always nice, but competition is always good :)

[Myattboy]

Im in :)

[[TeRa]]

Signing myself up.
How many files do you have so far, and how many do you need total?

[Netjet!]

I'll update in a bit, and Tera I have like, I think like 8-10 files so far. Probably will need like 20-25 for the whole thing.


Also guys, I'm gonna have to postpone it, cause I'm really busy. So the tournament will start on August 20th. That alright?

[Redorigami]

Might as well sign up

[customstuff]

Ah, I would've made some marathons for you if I had a bit more time :(

[Plan_Bsk81127]

I know I will lose, but i guess Ill try. Put me in!

[alexdestructions]

I got a 6 (By D-Vor, or either Dr1010) file. Try it out?

This means I should get permission from song artist? (:() After the postpone is out of the way?

[Netjet!]

You don't need permission guys.

Also you all have until the 20th of August to sign up and submit files.

[alexdestructions]

You don't need permission guys.

Also you all have until the 20th of August to sign up and submit files.

Well download my simfile in the simfile database then.

[trumaestro]

If I send a file, do I need to get decent graphics or will 10 seconds in ms paint do?

[Kunta Kinte]

Yeah i want to try put me into the tournament http://www.flashflashrevolution.com/profile/newsiggy/Kunta+Kinte/stardust/0/0-1-2-3-4-5.png (http://flashflashrevolution.com/profile/Kunta+Kinte/)

[[TeRa]]

What happened to this :(

[Netjet!]

Sorry guys, I lost all my stepmania songs etc. so I can't test all the files. :C I don't know when I'll get stepmania back so the tournament will have to be postponed for now.