9th Official Tournament -- Round 8

[psychoangel691]

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Just curious about placements, are the people doing placements solely looking at level ranks and determining off of that? Being a raw scoring tournament I would think it would be wise to snoop through the players forum posts to see if they have posted any scores simply because they could be getting good raw scores but you will never pick that up in a combo scoring dominate list. My example would be Gradiant in D5, looking at his scores they seem to par up with what I am capable of yet he snuck into D5. Im complaining, just using him as an example of good raw scores being posted, but you cant pick it up through level ranks. Since this is a raw scoring tourn, I would think if you are getting good raw scores that should play a factor into where you are placed.

We do try to look around at everything but sometimes things are missed. That's why we welcome people coming to us about placements it's just preferred in PMs to limit drama coming from it. Placements are basically always a rough draft when we first go through. I wish there were a better method for getting more accurate placements. Last tourney ended up fairly solid but it wasn't without fault (in terms of placements).

[SethColeman]

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Additional hype

[flashpantss]

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super hype

[MKIIPro]

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[DoNaughts]

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Let's do this! Let's hope I do okay, I haven't been very accurate lately xD Best of luck to everybody!

[Dynam0]

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If you only had 50 or 60 people entering because they were the only ones serious enough about it to put up one whole shiny dollar, it would also be a hell of a lot easier to sort them into appropriate categories. With that few people, you might even be able to be more precise and not fall victim to the "The best D5 player is miles ahead of the worst D5 player" thing, and maybe give everybody the same song with skill-based score co-efficients.

That's probably the best way to resolve sorting issues, but it is impossible with as many people as sign up now, but would be totally possible with fewer, more serious players who also therefore have more and better scoring data to analyze.

Downsizing tourneys is a step in the wrong direction imo. I agree that it would weed out players who are on the fence competitively but I bet that would only include players who are D1-D4 for the most part. Those divisions would be extremely scarce compared to D5/D6 (I doubt you could find enough D1 players for an elimination tourney who would pay $1). Part of the appeal of the tournament is to see how well you can improve through any level of effort; casual or intense. For newer players it's a good way to get involved in the community a bit too. The fee has its pros and cons for sure though.

[Tim Allen]

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just auto-ban anyone that complains without warning L O L i would have been out as fuck during the 7th official xeno what the hell i used to love your skill token whoring antics rip friend

[Hakulyte]

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Following D6 meta cus bored:

arcnmx St.Scarhand: Check
awein999 St.Scarhand: Check
Charu St.Scarhand: Check
Choofers St.Scarhand: Nope Highest AAA: The Adventures of Lolo (77) Best Scores: Betrayal(83)(0-1-0-3) / J'ai Envie de Plaisir X2(90) 17-3-0-6
Coolboyrulez0 St.Scarhand: Check
dAnceguy117 St.Scarhand: Check
Elite Ninja St.Scarhand: Check
FFR Pro 21 St.Scarhand: Check
gameboy42690 St.Scarhand: Check
Gilly G: St.Scarhand: Nope Highest AAA: Otaku Speedvibe [Oni](73) Best Scores: A Kidney Stone(84): 3-0-0-3 / Across Rooftops(81) 3-1-0-2
Hakulyte St.Scarhand: Nope Highest AAA: Throwin' Down (74), The Big Crunch (74) Best Scores: Breakbeat Acid(85): 7-0-0-4 / STRAWBERRY SWEETZ(84) 6-0-0-2 / ==Planet KARMA==(84) 5-0-0-1 *reset levelranks at one point
justin_ator: St.Scarhand: Nope Highest AAA: The Adventures of Lolo (77) Best Scores: A Kidney Stone(84): 2-0-0-2 / RAN(85) 7-0-0-4
Plan_Bsk81127: St.Scarhand: Check
PriestREA: St.Scarhand: Check
RagedBerserker: St.Scarhand: Check
Reshiram: St.Scarhand: Check
Tarrik: St.Scarhand: Nope Highest AAA: Sleep(76) Best Scores: Ultrasounds!(83) 4-0-0-0 / Electro Rush x8 v2(82) 3-0-0-4 / World End's Yama Xanadu(82) 5-1-0-4 *reset levelranks at one point
___________ St.Scarhand: Check

[danceflashrevo]

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also wanted to make this post:

in regards to the overly aggressive posts in regards to placements, I am going to refer you back to the front post and remind you that starting drama in the forums is not going to be tolerated. Consider this a formal warning (@ Fontsize/Xenorosth/(etc)).

I will tend to these when I get home if things decide to blow up further. Stay on topic and please, by all means -- commence hype.

aj the fun killer strikes again. what fun will he kill next? stay tuned to find out!

Just sayin :3

[Elmerz]

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I'm scared guys. D5 looks intense, so much skill. HYPE

[Lambdadelta]

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Hope I get passed round 2 this time.
Hype.

[shenjoku]

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but I'll be unavailable for Round 1 for a few days since I'm off to a concert band camp for a week

Yay for band camp Some of my fondest memories were at band camp.

Hope I get passed round 2 this time.
Hype.

^Also this lol. Never got past second round in an official (except for the MP one, but that was because so many people were no-shows so I got free wins lol.)

[loop123456]

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im d3 k

[PrawnSkunk]

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I hope D4 will keep things classy with another AAA-or-Die week in round 3.

(or AAA, and still die because it was too late)

[Sspeed9]

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Hey I didn't miss sign-ups this time....
Think the last time I was in an official tourney not including multiplayer was....several years ago before FFR vanished from virtual existence