YoshL's Tournament of Mediocrity (One Division Tournament!)

[YoshL]

The Tournament of...Mediocrity

It's Over!

Concept and basic rules

This will be a very unique tournament, in that there is Only one division. How...? It took a little bit of thinking to figure out just how to make something like this work.

To make a one division tournament viable, there has to be a way for lower level players to compete with upper level players. Harkening back to other competition level games, it comes down to having some sort of strategy and luck. FFR isn't really meant to be strategized: you just hit arrows properly and win.

SO. The idea here, is to, out of all the players in the tournament...and more, have the most average score in the round.

There will be 3 songs per round, a "Main Event", a "Side Show", and a "Fudge".
The Main Event will be most likely a high level song, which will account for most of the skew in score. The less skilled players have the chance to drag the average score down with this song. The Side Show will be a much easier song for the purpose of making significant, but managable changes to your average score. The final song, the Fudge, will be a low notecount song that allows you to fine tune your final score.

The total RAW SCORE of all 3 songs in the round will be added together to get your final average score. At the end of the round, half (yes, half) of the people who are furthest from the average score for the round will be Eliminated.

HOWEVER! Once you're eliminated, the fun doesn't stop there! In each subsequent round, you are able to, and even encouraged to send in more scores! Even if you're eliminated, you can send in scores and fudge the average to your liking

Submitting Scores/Rules (Seriously read these)

1. Do not cheat. Simple. Submit real scores. Easy stuff.

2. Be respectful to your fellow competitors. I reserve the right to remove anyone from the tournament at any time for disorderly conduct/insults/dumb arguments/etc.

3. Rounds will last for five (5) days each. If you miss the deadline, your score will not factor into the average, and you will be eliminated. Of course, under extraordinary circumstances, something can be worked out. (PM ME PLEASE IF THATS THE CASE DO NOT POST IT IN THE THREAD)

4. Feel free to submit your scores multiple times. I will keep track of them in a google doc format.

5. Submissions should be in screenshot form. Not in a video. Not in a replay Screenshot it.

*copypaste from DFCT thanks kayla*
For those of you who do not remember how to take a screenshot, here's some help:

Mac users:
- Command + Shift + 3: Takes a screenshot of the entire screen, and saves the image to your desktop. From there, you can upload it to a site like imgur.com and crop it if necessary.

Windows users::
- Press the print screen button. From there, open Paint (or another image editing program) and paste your image in Paint. If you'd like, you can resize it within Paint at this time. From there, you can upload it to a site like imgur.com and crop it (if you haven't done so).

SCREENSHOTS SHOULD INCLUDE:
- The score being submitted
- Server timestamp
- If you are using a standalone, you will include your username located on the top right corner of FFR's window in your screenshot.


An example of an acceptable screeenshot:



- includes the username, and timestamp. Since this is being played on the custom engine, we will need a timestamp included on your screenshots. There are NO exceptions to this rule.

*If you make an account and have scores saved you do not have to include the ffr gamertag. (if you use a different name on our site than on ffr, make sure we know what name you're under)


Sign Ups/Current Round Scores
Please check this google doc for more information


Starting date/Current Round information
I plan to start this tournament in one week, on July 26th, at 11:59 PM EST. (10:59 Server Time)

Signups will halt after the first round ends.
And once again to re-iterate if you didn't actually read the rules, Each Round Is Five (5) Days Long.

Prizes and Donations!
Current Prize Pool = 1,204,396

For Each Score you submit, you will get a credit prize! This is to encourage the fudging the average even after you're eliminated!

Credit prizes will be determined after sign ups end (% of pot)

Please send all donations to YoshL thank you very much
Donations
Velocity - 469134 - <3<3<3 yissssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss
YoshL - 333,333 - hey look it's me
dAnceguy117 - 217,239 - dat number <3
sticklydude - 100,000 - i'll spare you a rest for this one <3
gameboy42690 - 42,690 - <3 shoutouts and such
Gradiant - 21,000 - the upsidedown mightyena~ thank youuu! <3
_Fluttershy_ - 15,000 - Thank youuu <3
SK8R43 - 6,000 - Heartsssss

Asked Questions Answered (might want to take a look!)

Originally Posted by TheSaxRunner05

Can you resubmit a lower score later in the round and have it replace your old score if needed?

Yes! You're allowed to submit scores at any time, even ones lower than your previous scores. This is to encourage a bit of strategizing in terms of submitting scores. However, because of this, I'll have to strictly enforce deadlines.

Originally Posted by cedolad

Would it to be much to ask for an example of elimination? Not sure if I totally understand

http://www.flashflashrevolution.com/...1&postcount=48

rates and complete playthroughs of songs?

Rates are allowed unless it puts your score under 0.

Your scores must be complete playthroughs of a song

More Specifics about score submission?

Your obtained scores must be after the round start.
You are not allowed to submit a score that you have already submitted.

If it follows those rules, you're fine

Previous rounds

===Round 1===

Your Songs
Main Event
Twister

Side Show
Turbulence

Fudge
Tower
(purchased song)

(jgano gets 2k for guessing 2 of the songs correctly)

Please submit your scores as screenshots in the thread. The google doc will be updated as frequently as possible, so please check it at http://goo.gl/Csulca

Round 1 will end on July 31st at 11:59 PM EST

===Round 2===

Some people are...too good...or too bad for the rest of everyone.

Anyone who didn't submit a score was cut from the spreadsheet, and the 15 out of 30 that was furthest away from the average were eliminated.
Please keep in mind that you're allowed to continue submitting scores even after you've been eliminated!

Your Songs for Round 2
Main Event
Zombie Sunset

Side Show
You will die

Fudge
Secret Zombie Room
(serket song)

Please submit your scores as screenshots in the thread. The google doc will be updated as frequently as possible, so please check it at http://goo.gl/Csulca and make sure you are viewing the correct spreadsheet

Round 2 will end on August 5th at 11:59 PM EST

===Round 3===
THE FINAL 8/9

Anyone who didn't submit a score, or had missing scores was cut from the spreadsheet. K

too little people submitted to the song con so i can't give credits or make much of a choice for the con. *sad*

So I decided to pick songs that people banned >:3

Your Songs for Round 2
Main Event
Tenimuhou

Side Show
Stay Crunchy

Fudge
Soul Shift

Please submit your scores as screenshots in the thread. *The google doc will be updated as frequently as possible, so please check it at http://goo.gl/Csulca and make sure you are viewing the correct spreadsheet

Round 3 will end on August 8th at 11:59 PM EST

===Final Round===
THE Final Round

Because Interest is waning, might as well run this out with a bang

Your Songs
Main Event
Any song with 2000+ notes

Side Show
Any song with < 2000 notes and > 1000 notes

Fudge
Any song with < 500 notes

Please submit your scores as screenshots in the thread. The google doc will be updated as frequently as possible, so please check it at http://goo.gl/Csulca and make sure you are viewing the correct spreadsheet

Final will end on Sunday August 11th at 11:59 PM EST

[bmah]

Approved.

[YoshL]

===Song Con!===

a spon con that will go along with round 2!

Because this tournament is less concerned about testing the mind and mettle of how well you can play, alot of this has been focused on having songs that are fun to play alot of times. Therefore, this is going to be an interesting contest.

Send me a pm with the name of the songs that you'd like to see in the next round: one for each category (Main Event, Side Show, and Fudge) and label them as such.
Also include in the pm the name of a song that you like to not see in the next round.

What i'll do is this:

I'll take the songs and organize them as votes. however, if someone sends in the song name as a ban, that song will be completely taken off the list. think hard about what you guys want to play.

If your songs are chosen for the next round, credits are to be had~

====Prelim Spon Con!====
Guess the songs~

Criteria: Post what you think the Main Event, Side Show, and Fudge songs will be!
First person to get the correct answer for [each] category will receive 1000 credits!
(Winners will be announced at start of round 1)

Check out the google doc, there's a hint up for you. If you saw the doc prior, then you have a head start on the guessing, because there was a more substantial hint up earlier

(Spon Con over)

jgano guessed Twister and Turbulence correctly, netting 2000 credits!

=====Re-AAA Spon Con!=====
Re-AAA a song! (any song!)

Criteria: The rank shown must be a 1, and so does the Previous best rank.
You will receive credits based on the difficulty of the AAA: take the difficulty and multiply it by 25 to get total credit payout.
(Spon Con over)

r - Excite Bike (2) -> 50 credits
cedolad - Rocket Flight (59) -> 1475 credits
foxfire667 - Lolo (77) -> 1925 credits
HalfStep - Blue Marine (47) -> 1175 credits
drizzleromancegirl - Innocent Decay (50) -> 1250 credits
axith - what the f is this (59) -> 1475 credits
top - R176 (60) -> 1500 credits
TheSaxRunner05 - Yoshi's Cookie (47) -> 1175 credits
Yulanik - Dimensions Of A Square (54) -> 1350 credits
Gradiant - Etude On A Nimbus (64) -> 1600 credits
Yoshiisland - Gradeus (60) -> 1500 credits
SethColeman - Nyanyanyanyanyanyanya! (51) -> 1275 credits
gameboy42690 - Of course you Need and...NEED ME (75) -> 1875 credits
jgano - Excessive Sex (60) -> 1500 credits
TC_Halogen - Pandora (86) -> 2150 credits
ryuyasha - Shinryuu (23) -> 575 credits
Viisbyxa - Dr. Mario Pt. 1 (27) -> 675 credits

[Jonlovesddr]

in

[YoshL]

p.s. i saw the (hhhhh)

[mi40]

im gone

[Jonlovesddr]

Originally Posted by YoshL

p.s. i saw the (hhhhh)

no u didnt

[evanescence_death4ever]

In!!

[Psittacosis]

... in xD

[TheSaxRunner05]

In, for as long as I last anyways.

[YoshL]

well, again, you can still submit scores to help fudge the average after you're eliminated.
(and gonna be giving out rewards for each score submitted)

[21992]

I haven't been in a tourney for a while. And D5 has always screwed me over! In!

[TC_Halogen]

yes.

Yes.

YES.

(in)

[VisD]

Exciting idea, count me in

[mrpreggers]

in

[loop123456]

in

[RagedBerserker]

Very interesting, count me in.

[alloyus]

Are we supposed to get the most averages or something?

[axith]

I can deal with being average. In.

[YoshL]

no, just be as close to the average score for the round as possible