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I'm just gonna throw out what llyair and I talked about earlier. Auto-record should be an assist tool to prevent intentional sniping and stop people from holding scores until the end of the round.

That being said not this coming round, but in future tournaments that use this auto-recording feature, we should be required to post any score that's recorded into the spreadsheet and we'll be able to call out snipers at that point.

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Score sniping is a part of tournaments so that would mean essentially losing an aspect of any tournament.

The Official Tournament uses their auto-recording score script and there's tons of snipes in there.

While this is something that orientates friendly gameplay during a tournament, it is definitely an aspect of any given tournament; User or Staff.

BUT

If we ever decide to use the Automatic Recording script again then we will mandate posting scores into the Tournament Thread to ensure a friendlier environment when participating in one of our tournaments. Thank you for the suggestion!

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At least there's also good sniping. The people that REALLY legitimately get their scores at the last minute to move on. Holding your score until the very last second is a dick move and it can prevent a player from possibly playing their full potential because they think they'll win via non-submission.

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imho intentionally holding onto a score should be good deductible because it truly is such an asshole move. I agree that people who spend the entire length of a Round to conjure their best score on the song and post the best improvement in the last hour or so in the Round deserve to move on compared to players who intentionally hold on.

In our next tournament besides mandatory score submissions in thread; I personally will check the dates and times to see if there are any withheld scores and penalize someone who does this. As any tournament host, they reserve the right to do so. (sun)

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I donated to the tournament if that's still a thing.

http://imgur.com/BEUz33n

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Just going to jump back in here with an update for ChaosBolt.

Hey Chaos!! So here's something else you could try (if you haven't already):

press start, search for %appdata% > Roaming > Macromedia, delete Flash Player folder to clear your cache‏

(thanks to PrawnSkunk for the help!)

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It is! Thank you so much for the donation, Rapta!! :D Portalbob will add you to the OP soon~

Edit:
I should also stop double posting hehheh x_x

Edit2:
According to Zenith (master of the credit distributions), the credit pool is at 897,000 credits ;)

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Lmao I just reread the OP and missed the part that said "send to xxxxedfghkwefxxx". Whoops.

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LOL it's alright, we can just reroute the credits to kingkilla (Zenith's alt) :) It is a bit confusing and you weren't the only one to send to portal hehe :)

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I meant to change that to _Zenith_ haha

Thank you a lot for the donation!

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I actually really liked this tourney and the way things were ran. It served a little differently to other tourneys with the song submission and the auto-recording features. A little disappointed more people couldn't join. Maybe one improvement could be to have spon-cons or something to increase the threads activity. The whole tourney barely managed 10 pages while others have 50+ because no one had to post their scores. Not that it's a major issue or anything, just a little more activity in the thread would be nice. With that being said, would love to see these features in other tourneys and for you guys to host another one.

Totally agree with this. Any scores posted on the last day of any round have to be within the hour of attaining it or it's a void score. Any score before that final 24 hours is OK though, no matter when achieved during the round (although it still should be posted straight away).

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Pretty good. :)

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FFR Pro how is your timestamp saying 4/17/2015? Are you a day ahead of us down in New York? :p

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They should fix that timestamp to match server time srsly.

Oh and what in the world?! Wall has been set for the final round. :D

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Omg, badman, whatttttttt?! I am so jealous, the best I could do yesterday was 9g x_x


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Thanks for the suggestions so far, it really helps! :)

It sounds like the main concerns about using auto-recording is the lack of thread activity, knowing your rivals, having a friendly environment, and maybe just all-in-all missing the feeling of being part of an active tournament.

And that possible ways of improving this are to:
1) make posting scores in thread mandatory.
2) have sponcons.
Both are definitely doable, and we'll see what we can do for Round 6. It's probably not a good idea to suddenly require score submissions, though, so that might have to be a note for future tournaments :)

So I guess the question is whether the pros outweigh the cons for using auto-recording for each tournament xD Especially if there are alternative ways to achieve the advantages of using it (like making a blanket rule that posting valid scores is time-sensitive). This is good to keep in mind to make any future tournaments the best we can! :)

Anyways I'm also glad no one has mentioned (or maybe they haven't had a chance to mention) feeling like this invades privacy in any way (like wanting to play a song without anyone knowing)... idk, I was wondering about that, too.

And also glad no one suggested getting less PMs from me yet xD I was hoping I wasn't over-spamming anyone hehe.

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in case autorecord isn't up yet

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For once I'm glad I'm not in D2. :P

lol
also lol ;)

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Just won D5. Nicely ran tourney guys. It's been fun. :)

Wall going into this round: 1630
Raw score away from AAAing both songs: 1105