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Default Devonin's Ongoing FFR League (Qualifier)

Welcome to Devonin's Ongoing FFR League. This is a somewhat new thing, think of it like a tournament that doesn't actually end, with prizes given out periodically as we go along. I'll explain everything below.

FORMAT

The league is going to be divided into 5 divisions, corresponding to general skill level at FFR. There will be no placement process, and thus don't bother asking to be put into a certain division. The beauty of this system is that it fixes itself. At the beginning of the league all participants will be placed into Division 3. For the first several rounds, the top and bottom X people will be moved up into division 2 and down into division 4, this will continue until the 5 divisions have roughly equal numbers in them. This will be the make-up of the league for Season 1.

At the end of each Season (Probably one round per week for 6 weeks) we'll take a 1 week break to give out prizes, and sort out anything that needs changing, and then Season 2 will start.

SEASONAL DIVISION MOVEMENT

At the end of each season, the top X people in their division will be moved up one division, and the bottom X people will move down a division. The top of Division 1 stay put, and the bottom of Division 5 are removed from the league and put into a 're-qualifying' bracket. This bracket also contains anybody who wants to join mid-season. At the end of each season, the re-qualifying bracket are shuffled into the league at skill-appropriate levels.

SCORING AND PRIZES

This is a raw score based league, it's all about accuracy and skill. There won't be any trick-shot rounds (bad PA, max boos all that other stuff) I know it's a game, but this is a reasonably serious attempt to get some long-term competition and interest going. Scores are ranked simply by their raw score, highest to lowest. Points are awarded each round, with 1000 points awarded to the first place finisher, and .9*N points for each lower place. (This means that it is MUCH easier to stay competitive. This is the method I used for the Critical Thinking tournies way back, and it makes the middle of the pack a lot easier to move around in.

At the end of each season, prizes (So far just credits out of my pocket, we'll see how it develops as we go) will be given out across the divisions such that the top 50% of each division win something (So the more people who sign up, the more people get prizes, including YOU!)

If we get at least 50 people for season one, I'll shop around for someone to make some "Ongoing Tournament Season 1 Champ" style sig banner things. Heck, if it really takes off, maybe we can bribe Velocity to put stuff on profiles for it!


CURRENT PRIZE POOL
Qualifying Tourney: 1,000,000
Season One: 2,000,000
Season Two: 2,000,000

DONATIONS

Devonin - 140,000
TC_Halogen - 350,000
The Powers That Be - WAAAAY TOO MANY


FAQ (As things come up)

GENERAL QUESTIONS
Q: How do I sign up?
A: Just post in the thread that you're in

Q: When does the first round start?
A: I'm planning to start the sorting/qualifyer round Sunday Jan 22, for 4 weeks. Standard Seasons are 6 weeks long.

Q: How long is each season?
A: The season will be 6 rounds, 1 per week, Sunday->Sunday

Q: I'm on Team X, Can we make this a Team Thing too?
A: Absolutely! If you're on one of the FFR Teams, just include it in your signup request and I'll put a note beside the name. While I'm not including anything in -my- tourney about the teams, it's a great way for you to compete and rank against your own and other teams!

Q: You already started the qualifier, is it too late to join?
A: Anybody who wants to join the Qualifier ONLY while Round 1 ONLY is going on, can submit scores. Those people will have their scores recorded by me, be moved through the divisions as normal, but will only actually be present in the start of season 1 if they were needed to make the numbers in the divisions work out. If this is going to become a regular long-term thing, the system in place is going to have to be enforced, which means only signups during the time for signups count.

DIVISION/MOVEMENT QUESTIONS
Q: What if I don't submit a score for a round?
A: You get 0 points, and drop places

Q: What if someone becomes inactive, do they just soak up a spot until they work their way all the way out of the bottom?
A: Anybody who fails to submit for at least 3 of the 6 rounds of a season is dropped immediately to the re-qualifying bracket

Q: Someone is obviously too good for their division! Move them up mid-round!
A: Not going to happen. I'll do my best to put people in the qualifying bracket into the correct place at season start, but if someone is really good and got misplaced (Or skill jumps, or whatever) then they slowly work their way up just like everybody else. Yes this means a D1 player who somehow got into D3 is probably going to win D3, then win D2 next season, but the prizes go down to 50% of people, and I'd really like to see this become a permanant ongoing thing, so there's MORE than enough time to be winning credits and prizes

SCORING/SUBMISSION QUESTIONS
Q: What's with this 0.9*N nonsense? How do the points work?!?
A: Basically, this system is designed to keep a large number of competitors as competitive and involved as possible. The way it works is that the top score for a round is awarded 1000 points. For each place below that, they player scores 90% of the previous person's points. So instead of a usual structure that tends to go
10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 0
It goes
1000, 900, 810, 729, 656, 590, 531, 478, 430, 387

This means that as you move down into the middle of the pack, it is MUCH easier to stay competitive and in the running for good prizes since one bad round isn't going to completely wreck your score.

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Division 1
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One Winged Angel (Team Indeed) 3900 justin_ator 3810 yo man im awesome (Team Indeed) 3729 iironiic (Debbie Downers) 3656 MikeShinoda12345 (Team Indeed) 3656 TC_Halogen (Dragon's Fury) 3656 Plan_Bsk81127 (Team Indeed) 3590 xXOpkillerXx (Debbie Downers) 3531 krunkykai22 (Dragon's Fury) 3531 Ninty64 (Debbie Downers) 3387 Hakulyte (Team Indeed) 3349 megamon88 (Team Pony) 3314 rushyrulz (Team Indeed) 3207 U.N. Owen (Team Blaze) 3086 Poison- (Team Indeed) 2900 Non-Submitters in Round 4 flashpantss 3000 Anaru 2810 alloyus (Dragon's Fury) 2729 ~Zeta~ (Dragon's Fury) 2656 DossarLX ODI (Team Indeed) 2590 chocobothief12 (Team Fur) 2590 awein999 (Team Indeed) 2531
Division 2
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hi19hi19 3810 sanzath (Team Fur) 3610 shonen7 3610 FrozenAngel91 3114 dragonmegaXX (Team Fur) 3095 MrPreggers (Team Blaze) 3046 reuben_tate (Team Blaze) 2917 Zakvvv666 (Team Blaze) 2638 Nonsubmitters in round 4 FontSize72LOL 2400
Division 3
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who_cares973 (Team Fur) 3390 wildfireskunk (Team Fur) 3154 SK8R43 (Debbie Downers) 2939 Sephiroth28 2816 magicturbo (Debbie Downers) 2473
Division 4
Code:
thusunfan 2757 popsicle_3000 (Team Blaze) 2595 typing like wat (Dragon's Fury) 2516 Non-submitters in round 4 Nois-or-e 1745 emerald000 1814
Division 5
Code:
Bobogoobo (Team Fur) 2509 Guest15937 (Team Blaze) 2429 pikakirby123 (Team Fur) 2159 Altivu 1896 kayotik (Team Fur) 1706

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Qualifying Tourney
(Updated to #474)

Welcome to the first round of the ongoing league's qualifying event! Scores must be posted as screenshots in this thread, or PM'd to me, in all the usual tourney ways. Ranking is based on raw score, not final score. None of this mashing nonsense. Screenshot must include login info with your username, and a date/time after Noon EST Sunday the 22nd. Round goes until Midnight EST Saturday the 28th

Round 4:

Division 1:Ketsarku Mozgalom (Misc)
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xXOpkillerXx (Debbie Downers) 81750 TC_Halogen (Dragon's Fury) 81750 One Winged Angel (Team Indeed) 81725 justin_ator 81720 yo man im awesome (Team Indeed) 81675 MikeShinoda12345 (Team Indeed) 81650 iironiic (Debbie Downers) 81650 Plan_Bsk81127 (Team Indeed) 81550 krunkykai22 (Dragon's Fury) 81545 rushyrulz (Team Indeed) 81525 U.N. Owen (Team Blaze) 81465 Ninty64 (Debbie Downers) 81160 Hakulyte (Team Indeed) 81095 megamon88 (Team Pony) 80335

Division 2:Final Fantasy Last Battle Festival (Secret)
If anybody in this division somehow lacks the credits to play this song, PM me and I'll loan them for the round.
Code:
hi19hi19 182270 shonen7 182225 sanzath (Team Fur) 182140 FrozenAngel91 181770 dragonmegaXX (Team Fur) 181690 MrPreggers (Team Blaze) 181590 Zakvvv666 (Team Blaze) 181275 reuben_tate (Team Blaze) 180445

Division 3:Vertex Beta (Dance 2)
Code:
wildfireskunk (Team Fur) 87465 who_cares973 (Team Fur) 87215 SK8R43 (Debbie Downers) 86545 Sephiroth28 84665 magicturbo (Debbie Downers) 84390
Division 4: Delirium (Dance 2)
Code:
thesunfan 53700 typing like wat (Dragon's Fury) 53575 popsicle_3000 (Team Blaze) 53565
Division 5:Crystalis - House Leaves (Long) (Arcade)
Code:
Bobogoobo (Team Fur) 35850 Guest15937 (Team Blaze) 35530 pikakirby123 (Team Fur) 34980 Altivu 33415 kayotik (Team Fur) 29255

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Sounds pretty interesting, ill join. Maybe it'll make me get better.
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I'm already in 2 tourney's, but what the heck, I'll join! Team Fur will be victorious! >:3
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