8th Official FFR Tournament - Final Round!

[Charu]

EDIT: Ninja'd

How it works is that in the event that the next round is a prize round, which it indeed is! Then players that have tied right at the elimination line will play a tie breaker song, as well as the next round song.

Tiebreakers are given on the same day the new round starts. Assuming it's how it's been done before, the players in the tiebreaker have one day to submit a score. The person with the highest score on the tiebreaker stays above the elimination line while the person below will be eliminated, regardless on what score they get in the next round.

[rushyrulz]

*biting nails*

[psychoangel691]

Originally Posted by Charu

EDIT: Ninja'd

How it works is that in the event that the next round is a prize round, which it indeed is! Then players that have tied right at the elimination line will play a tie breaker song, as well as the next round song.

Tiebreakers are given on the same day the new round starts. Assuming it's how it's been done before, the players in the tiebreaker have one day to submit a score. The person with the highest score on the tiebreaker stays above the elimination line while the person below will be eliminated, regardless on what score they get in the next round.

We might not be issuing a different file for tiebreakers because we were very limited on files. What's likely going to happen is those involved in the tie will play the next round's song and whoever has the best score at the end of 24 hours will stay in. I think this actually works out for the better because it doesn't detract attention away from them playing their actual round song. But I'm still looking into potential tiebreakers and things right now so there's no definite yet.

[d4u7211]

Salitz, i know that was essentially directed at me

Basically what I'm saying is that people who DID wait deliberately to get their scores are the ones who i say "too bad so sad" to. Halogen and I mentioned it earlier that it was a risky tactic, and basically, this is the price you pay for waiting.

on the other hand, if you tried your hardest and lag/site issues kept you down (more the former than the latter would be a more acceptable excuse) then that's just unfortunate, and I'm sorry.

[xSonicBulletx]

Below is a summary of my feelings & probable performance for Round 6.

[Salitz]

Originally Posted by d4u7211

Salitz, i know that was essentially directed at me

Basically what I'm saying is that people who DID wait deliberately to get their scores are the ones who i say "too bad so sad" to. Halogen and I mentioned it earlier that it was a risky tactic, and basically, this is the price you pay for waiting.

on the other hand, if you tried your hardest and lag/site issues kept you down (more the former than the latter would be a more acceptable excuse) then that's just unfortunate, and I'm sorry.

It was actually directed at multiple people (you included :P)

Alright, I suppose that's more understandable... but I still have to disagree with you. It's a legitimate tactic (annoying as it may be), and just because they chose to wait and got screwed over doesn't make it justified. Problems with the site should never be a factor in the outcome of a tourney.

Totally not what I was trying to do btw. I've just been so frustrated dealing with this shit all week, it's starting to wear on me. Looking at the dashboard now, I probably wouldn't have made it anyway XD

Anyways, I'm out. Pretty satisfied with making it this far in D5... could have done without the rage of this round though. Good luck to you and the rest of D5.

[Micah_]

Originally Posted by xSonicBulletx

Below is a summary of my feelings & probable performance for Round 6.

LOL. you'll do fine man, you AAA'd this last round!

[badman7772]

Well I'll say that I'm in before a last hour attack into top 8 for D4.

[Darkomni]

Cya, folks.

There's no goddamn way I'm SDGing Crow's Ghost.

[Garquillex]

So do you guys know what's happening to the servers yet?

[psychoangel691]

The only thing that I know for sure is that synth is working on it. If it keeps up for a bit in the next round we might have to postpone this tournament. I would just host the files up on the DF engine but people use R^2 and R^3 which we don't have.

[psychoangel691]

Alright, there's no way I can have a 24 hour tiebreaker with the way the site is running nor really just have this tournament in general. I'm going to go ahead and postpone it as much as I don't want to. The issue will hopefully be resolved sometime tomorrow and as soon as it is we'll resume the tournament. Sorry guys.

[Xx{Midnight}xX]

Originally Posted by psychoangel691

Alright, there's no way I can have a 24 hour tiebreaker with the way the site is running nor really just have this tournament in general. I'm going to go ahead and postpone it as much as I don't want to. The issue will hopefully be resolved sometime tomorrow and as soon as it is we'll resume the tournament. Sorry guys.

Thanks for the update and for postponing it.

Hopefully it's resolved quickly and I can finally get a day of FFR practice in rather than SM.

Best of luck with the issue.


In the meantime, super hype for next round guaiz?

[Micah_]

Originally Posted by psychoangel691

Alright, there's no way I can have a 24 hour tiebreaker with the way the site is running nor really just have this tournament in general. I'm going to go ahead and postpone it as much as I don't want to. The issue will hopefully be resolved sometime tomorrow and as soon as it is we'll resume the tournament. Sorry guys.

That's the best call. Best of luck getting this thing solved!

[rushyrulz]

Originally Posted by Xx{Midnight}xX

super hype

¯\_(ッ)_/¯

[dAnceguy117]

rip me. in one of my first runs of the night, I had 4-0-0-0 right before the final jumptrills but got owned by the jumpstream. story of my arrow-smashing life.

good luck everybody!

[Bobby Jeffrey Hill]

oops i fell asleep lol

[Mollocephalus]

It keeps going up and down (mostly down). During an official tournament it is unexcusable that you're just letting the round pass without giving an opportunity to those who were penalized by this problem. What matters in a tournament is skill. If you need to extend the round by a few days, or even a whole week (so the deadlines aren't shifted over), you should do it. I, just as salitz, was screwed over. I had the potential to place in top 8 and couldn't even try doing so. And i don't see how extending deadlines is unfair to people who already placed? They will also have the same time to try again, if they wish.

Chances are i could have been eliminated this round anyway, but i can't accept to lose for something that i have no control over.

[popsicle_3000]

so what's the story then: is there something gonna happen for 8 who were elim'd? or is round still active? or neither?

[psychoangel691]

Originally Posted by Mollocephalus

It keeps going up and down (mostly down). During an official tournament it is unexcusable that you're just letting the round pass without giving an opportunity to those who were penalized by this problem. What matters in a tournament is skill. If you need to extend the round by a few days, or even a whole week (so the deadlines aren't shifted over), you should do it. I, just as salitz, was screwed over. I had the potential to place in top 8 and couldn't even try doing so. And i don't see how extending deadlines is unfair to people who already placed? They will also have the same time to try again, if they wish.

Chances are i could have been eliminated this round anyway, but i can't accept to lose for something that i have no control over.

Everyone was affected by the site not just those who were under the line. There was a whole week to play the song and it's not as if this took over an extreme amount of time. You could have tried doing so because the site was never down for an extended period. Was it annoying? Of course but it was not impossible to play. You had just as much time as anyone else did in the round. As I also mentioned before I do have something I'm going to do for the eliminated but frankly if people are going to have poor attitudes (yours has been pretty poor throughout) they'll be excluded from it.

On another note vROFL has been given out to the top 8 aside from those involved in a tiebreaker situation.

Originally Posted by popsicle_3000

so what's the story then: is there something gonna happen for 8 who were elim'd? or is round still active? or neither?

The round is not active. As I mentioned previously the site was never down for any extended period of time, while the up and down was a nuisance it was still possible to play the round. Had the site actually gone down for a full day or for several hours at one time I would have extended. The fact is we're going to deal with things beyond our control just like the engine lag. Should we have stopped because that was affecting people? Had extensions? This is why rounds are a week long it gives time for things like people's outside lives or issues like this one.