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Very Grave Indeed
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![]() Hello folks, it's time for another Devonin-brand Critical Thinking FFR Tournament. I've learned from some things in the last tourney that could have been done better, and we've seen some things everybody liked that really worked, so I'm hoping this will be a much better tournament than last time.
The format is going to be a little different this time. Instead of puzzles leading to songs with typical score-on-song ranking, the focus of this tournament will be on thinking critically about the best way to achieve a non-specific goal. You won't be told what songs to play or even how to play them. You'll have a goal to aim for (Something like..."The largest number of averages on one song") and it will be up to you to decide the best song to use, and the best way to achieve the stated goal. Interspersed in the song rounds will be a number of puzzle rounds more similar to the style of question in my last tourney. I imagine I will have 2/1/2/1/2/1 song rounds/puzzle rounds, plus a round 10 grand finale. That means 6 song rounds, 3 puzzle rounds, and a final 10th round. I'll post a round every two days, over 20 days, trying to push the post time ahead by about 2 hours each time to be fair to people outside my time zone (IE, one round at 4:00pm, the next round would be in 50 hours, at 6:00pm, then another 50 hours at 8:00pm, slowly working the post time around the clock) Why would I need to worry about the time I posted my rounds? Well, like last time, any player can submit the answer to any round at any time from when it goes up until the end of the tournament, so time isn't a function there, but where time WILL factor in is a series of mental bonus rounds. Most rounds will be accompanied by a smaller-scale mental challenge, either a small puzzle, or a task to be done via some sort of flash game online. There will be a flat bonus of points for completion at any time by anybody, but there will be a bonus given to the first three people to correctly submit the solution to the mental bonus, thus the desire to move the start time across the time zones. So, to boil it down, what we're looking at is this: 10 rounds, 6 FFR-based, 3 Puzzle-based, 1 Grand finale. Most, all if I can manage it, rounds accompanied by a mental bonus with points for completion, and a bonus for speed. Scoring will be in the Rubix/Tass style, the person in first for a given round will recieve 1000 points. Each place below that will score 90% of the points scored by the person ahead of them: 1000, 900, 810, 729, 656 etc. Mental bonuses will usually be a flat 500 points, with a bonus probably 250/150/100 for the first three people to submit correct solutions. Since the song rounds are designed to involve a reasonable amount of strategy, people who don't wish to give away how they are tackling the problem of the round are absolutely able to submit their entries via private message rather than posting them in the thread. I'm going to post the first round of the tournament in three days on Wednesday, April 23rd at 4:00pm EST Since anyone can submit rounds at any time, there is no need for a formal signup, but anybody who posts here that they want in will recieve a private message notification at the start of round 1 and 2. Hopefully this works out to be an awesome and fun tournament that makes you really think. Signups - The following people will recieve PM notification about the start of round 1 and 2 smartdude1212 dandandamdandan1111 pmonibuv1 SoultakerNFH sullyman2007 |xDestinyx| blackjack2300 sk8it funmonkey54 Tasselfoot rzr susurrus jonathanasdf MrRubix Jerry DB rsr2 PlayTrumpet sumzup Mysticthehedgehog emerald000 Zythus Netjet! darkness3608 kilik0dagawa fractal_monkey Tophius Commandersa1 Infinity. dooey100 Prizes - Current Prize Pot: 110,000 credits Prizes will, like last time, try to cascade as far down the rankings as possible. I'll post a tentative payout here as I get a feel for how many people are going to be taking part. Donations are welcome. Donators to the Prize pot: Devonin - 100,000 Jerry DB - 10,000 Last edited by devonin; 05-6-2008 at 03:03 AM.. |
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Very Grave Indeed
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Total Obtainable Points Thus Far: 18650 Overall Standings Total Rounds Submitted Bonuses Solved Tasselfoot 16800 1234567890* 1*234567890 Fractal_Monkey 14539 1234567890* 1*2345678 0 Jonathanasdf 12265 123456789 1*2345678 0 Silvuh 12250 1234567890* 1*2345678 Smartdude1212 11080 12345 90 1*234567 0 EI_Tizzy 10004 12345 78 1*23 5678 MrRubix 6800 1234 7 1*234567 sc979 6762 123 789 1 23 0 PlayTrumpet 6056 1234 1*23456 Ravia 4737 1234 1*234 Emerald000 3544 1 3 1*23 Commandersa1 2600 3 1*23 jammer325 2489 3 1*23 RubiedCross 2000 1 1*2 EDEdDNEdDYFaN 1600 1 1* Jerry_DB 1530 12 * funmonkey54 1190 1 1* Tophius 987 4 *2 darkness3608 829 1 * Dooey100 600 1* sumzup 600 1* Last edited by devonin; 05-15-2008 at 11:38 PM.. |
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![]() You have until 11:59pm EST on Thursday the 15th to submit scores
Prize Pot 260,000 (I know it should have been more, but I put in 100k, and credit bug recalculations dumped me down to like...much less than that, so this is basically Ledwix's 240, Jerry's 10 and 10 more of my own) Code:
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2 is poo
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the baker man
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Location: merryland
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![]() I didn't get a chance to join the first one, so I'll join this time around.
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yes
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![]() at the end of the tourney, are there prizes or just bragging rights? havent seen your first one so not sure how you did it. btw, im in this.
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FMO AAA's (55): Rottel-Da-Station, Church Bells, Arrogant Cobbler, Grocery Escape Plan, Disconnected Hardkore, Minute Waltz v2, Battle Theme #37, Flight of the Bumblebee, Midnight Dragon, Jeanie and Caroline, Blue-Violet, Puzzle, Kyrie, 300, Largiloquent Dithyramb, Brandish Headless, Going On Spring Wind, Novo Mundo, Gacha Gacha Hertz Figu atto Radio, Starwolf, Melonman's OP, Summer Time Perfume, Perfect Cherry Storm, Hajnal, Epidermis, Strangeprogram, Thrash, Lawn Wake I (LW EP Edit), Choprite, AIM Anthem, Dance and Zeal, Kanon Medley ~Metal Wings~, Clockwork, JULIA, Heavenly Spores, Distorted God, Radio Heads, Epilogue, Spoils, Ripoff, Since 1983, A FLOWER GARDEN, The earth blew up, Phalanx, Chronograph, Black Key Etude, Trinity, super mario bros theme (original NES is awesome), Jack-The-Ripper, Poppin' Shower, cheerful forest, Trisection v2, Devilz Staircase, Colibri, Club
FGO AAA's (2): Time To Eye, The Bird's Concrete Nosedive |
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Very Grave Indeed
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![]() Well I put in 100,000 credits myself to start it off. Hopefully donations will be forthcoming and it will go up considerably. If a very large number of people are in and participating, I may be convinced to pony up some cash or other goodies as well.
I know Tass tends to get a lot of mileage out of bragging rights in this kind of tourney, so there's that as well. |
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yes
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![]() ok. wat i really want would be a subscription. any length of subscription would be nice but credits are number 2 in the things i want out of FFR.
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FMO AAA's (55): Rottel-Da-Station, Church Bells, Arrogant Cobbler, Grocery Escape Plan, Disconnected Hardkore, Minute Waltz v2, Battle Theme #37, Flight of the Bumblebee, Midnight Dragon, Jeanie and Caroline, Blue-Violet, Puzzle, Kyrie, 300, Largiloquent Dithyramb, Brandish Headless, Going On Spring Wind, Novo Mundo, Gacha Gacha Hertz Figu atto Radio, Starwolf, Melonman's OP, Summer Time Perfume, Perfect Cherry Storm, Hajnal, Epidermis, Strangeprogram, Thrash, Lawn Wake I (LW EP Edit), Choprite, AIM Anthem, Dance and Zeal, Kanon Medley ~Metal Wings~, Clockwork, JULIA, Heavenly Spores, Distorted God, Radio Heads, Epilogue, Spoils, Ripoff, Since 1983, A FLOWER GARDEN, The earth blew up, Phalanx, Chronograph, Black Key Etude, Trinity, super mario bros theme (original NES is awesome), Jack-The-Ripper, Poppin' Shower, cheerful forest, Trisection v2, Devilz Staircase, Colibri, Club
FGO AAA's (2): Time To Eye, The Bird's Concrete Nosedive |
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FFR Veteran
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Indeed...Etc. Best Non-AAA Ranks (Before AvMiss Was Fixed): Choprite, Rank 6 [3-0-0-0]; TGWP Part 1, Rank 11 [5-0-0-0]; Otaku Speedvibe Heavy, Rank 13 [1-0-0-0]; Blue Army, Rank 5 [1-0-0-0] |
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![]() Read through everything. Only question I have is when you go to do a a task involving flash games, do you have a list of sites because some of them you need to sign up for.
Also, notification please. |
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#12 |
Very Grave Indeed
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![]() Any game I use will either be playable with no need for signup, or at www.kongregate.com which you can all sign up for, and probably should anyway just because it's a great game site. I won't even pull a Tass and tell you all to sign up using my referrer link *grin*
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FFR Player
Join Date: Sep 2006
Age: 31
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![]() yea i might as well join
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FFR Player
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The Chill Keeper
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![]() I will join and hope to have a great time in this tournament.
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Retired BOSS
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![]() use my referral link instead? also... make sure to IM me when it starts. you know i'll be here.
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TWG Veteran
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![]() I'm in as long as I can gain access to a computer while it happens. It shouldn't be a problem though...
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FFR Player
Join Date: Oct 2007
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![]() I'll join
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FFR Player
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![]() finally. too bad i don't have enough creds to donate.
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FFR Veteran
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![]() Rubix is in, oh gawd.
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