1st Unofficial FFR Self-Improvement Tournament
Do you wonder what it is like to compete against others outside of your own division? What about competing against yourself? Interested in joining an unconventional tournament that is facilitated by the programming powers of Python?
Welcome to the 1st Unofficial FFR Self-Improvement Tournament! Tournament Rules and Overview: This tournament is designed to motivate all participants to improve their own personal best scores. By the nature of how scoring is defined, this tournament will contain no skill divisions. Players conventionally assigned to D1 in standard tournaments will have a unique opportunity to compete against some of the top ranked players! Bonus: Everyone fully participating in this event will be guaranteed to earn credits! Eligibility Requirements: To control fairness for all involved participants, prior to signing up, we ask each interested member to meet the following requirements: (**) Message me if you don't meet this requirement. (++) This is determined by using a mathematical formula I created in my Python script. Sorry for being unclear here! I have written a Python script to determine your eligibility based on these conditions. If you fail to meet eligibility requirements, the only suggestion I would recommend you to do before signing up is to play more songs and improve your Top 100 scores (particularly your lowest ranked scores). This Python script is designed to minimize the amount of potential sandbagging so that all participants will have a fair and hopefully fun experience! Ineligible participants will be notified privately to make sure their scores are valid for entry. They will also have until the start of the tournament to reapply for eligibility. Feel free to reach out to me in private if you need better understanding what the ask is. Thanks! Of course, not every Python script is fully foul-proof, so if any suspicious activity surfaces during the progression of the tournament, please don't hesitate to contact me and I will address the concern appropriately. Tournament Organization and Scoring: After the signup deadline is passed, I will run another Python script to save and store your Top 100 scores before the start of the first round of the tournament. There will be a total of five rounds (each one week long) for every eligible participant. Song choices per round will be determined by your own Top 100 scores (you have 20 song options to choose from). Specifically, each player will have the option to submit any score for songs ranked: Scoring will be measured based on how many raw goods you have successfully shaved from your previous personal best. This is defined by your raw score submission minus your previous best raw score submission. These deltas will then be added up to get your overall score. Credits will be distributed based on your total score. Lastly, to further incentivize fixing scores closer to AAA while maintaining the respect that I, as the host of the tournament, will not be receiving any credits at the conclusion of the event, in addition to winning the credits received by fully participating in the event, I will be re-distributing my accumulated earnings to every active participant with improvements that match closely to the respective song's maximum AAA equivalency. This credit redistribution will occur at the conclusion of the tournament. Cash Prize Distribution: Huge shoutouts to Rapta for adding $150 in the overall prize pool! The cash prizes of $30 will be rewarded to five lucky participants, generally chosen at random. Two of these participants would be chosen randomly from the list of Top 5 winners of the tournament, and the remaining three would be chosen randomly from the remaining set of participants. Score Submissions: Please post screenshots of your scores on this thread to submit a score. This is done by using Snipping Tool or Print Screen button to save the image on your local computer (make sure to crop the image appropriately) then uploading the image on a free image hosting site. After the image is successfully loaded online, RIGHT CLICK on the image and click "Copy image address". Use this image path to attach the screenshot in your post! You are welcome to submit as many scores within the 20 song choices available to you for a given round. Please try to minimize duplicate posts by updating your post if necessary. I will be posting "Updated scoreboard to here." posts throughout the duration of the tournament, giving you the cue to create a new post to further update your scores if needed. Frequently Asked Questions: What if I cannot improve any score for a given round? Unfortunately, you will be submitting a negative score for this round. However, you can try to get a score closest to your previous personal best to minimize the decrease of your overall total. Remember, you have 20 different songs to choose from, so this should be enough for you to find an option that would help you avoid losing too many points. What if I don't submit a score for a given round? Failure to submit a score for a round will disqualify you from receiving any credits/cash from this event. These credits will be redistributed to the remaining active participants, increasing everyone else's potential credit earnings. It is your best interest to submit any score to guarantee winning credits, even if you receive a negative score for all rounds! What if I obtained a Top 100 score outside of the tournament (via new song, improvement of a song not assigned in a round, etc.)? These scores shouldn't have any impact to the song choices you can play in all five rounds. This is the reason why your Top 100 scores are cached previous to the start of the first round. If you don't know what songs qualify for a round's song submission, feel free to reach out to me and I can let you know! What if we have multiple songs improved within the song choices we have? (Credit: badman7772) Your tracked score will be the best improvement of all submitted scores for that round. If you are unsure which improvement is considered the best, it's okay to just submit all of your songs attempted. I would kindly ask you to submit scores within reason (i.e. submitting only your improved scores vs. literally all 20 lol). Thanks! Oops.. I am late to register for the tournament. Can I sign up for the tournament? Unfortunately, I will not be accepting late registrations to the tournament due to the fact that I need to cache everyone's scores at the same timestamp. I am purposely giving a bit of time to allow everyone to join the tournament with advance notice, so please be aware next time! 1st Unofficial? That's correct! If this tournament kicks off well, I plan to host future self-improvement tournaments on an annual basis. My Python scripts are already well-equipped to deal with this (: |
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Registration: Closed... Thank you for your interest! Round 1: Ended on October 19, 2020; 10:59 PM Server Time Round 2: Ended on October 25, 2020; 10:59 PM Server Time Round 3: Ended on November 1, 2020; 10:59 PM Server Time Round 4: Ended on November 8, 2020; 10:59 PM Server Time Round 5: Ended on November 15, 2020; 10:59 PM Server Time Thank you everyone for participating! Congrats to the following Top 5 Most Improved Players of the Tournament!
Congratulations to the following cash prize winners!
Most importantly, congrats to everyone who received improvements throughout this tournament! :) Well done everyone and hope you all had a good time this tournament! Tournament Dashboard Last Updated: November 13, 2020 4:30 PM Server Time Donations: If willing, please send kind credit donations to my account iironiic. Thanks! Total Prize Pool: 3,002,000 credits + $150 cash prize ___________________________ Thank you to the following for the kind donations! (: Huge shoutouts to Rapta for kindly sponsoring this tournament and donating cash prizes (:
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I'd like to sign up, please!
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In!
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Donating 100k credits
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I do have a question though as a lot of players will ask this.
What if we have multiple songs improved within the song choices we have? Do those totals add up so we earn more credits that way or is it your best improvement of all the songs you improved? |
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It will be the best improvement for that round. If you are unsure which improvement is considered the best, it's okay to just submit all of your songs attempted. I would kindly ask to submit scores within reason (i.e. submitting only your improved scores vs. literally all 20 lol). Thanks! |
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I'll join.
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I'm in!
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In, hopefully i will be back on the fiffer grind this time instead of bailing like the last two tourneys!
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I'm in!
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FINALLY I CAN ACCESS THE SITE I'm super i n.
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yes
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In!
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:3 I would like to play
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This shit starts on my birthday!
I'm in! |
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Sounds fun 🥳 |
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I'll go ahead and sign up even though the last requirement has me baffled lol.
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Updated participant list to here.
I have contacted Logman6656 to work on improving his current top scores. Once his scores are more reflective of his skill set, I will add him to the eligible participant's list! Quote:
It's still a little ambiguous (sorry about that), but basically I created a math formula (similar to the idea of z-scores in statistics for those really interested), that will identify if your high scores are within your expected skill set. This is to prevent players to join an improvement tournament, where their Top 15 scores are gained when a player is in "try hard" mode and their other Top 85 scores are gained through very minimal effort on their behalf. Any player highlighted in red will have up until the start of the tournament to fix their Top 100 scores :) |
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this sounds fun, ill join
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Cool idea man! My top 100 is too stacked for this though lmao
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so is round 1 like rank 100-80, round 2 80-60 etc? Or am i completely wrong |
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Can I sign up to do this?
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In? I might be in a gray area for the second condition.
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I'll join and will donate some credits too =)
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I would like to join if I am eligible!
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Oooo in please
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Im in.
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Ahh, i kind of want to join this...but i suck ass at improving scores in my top 100(most of them are YEARS old that i cannot fix) and my lowest in my top 100 is an 83. XD
I may still donate, though <3 Edit: I donated 60K :P |
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I'd like to be involved please :-)
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i'll give it a try tho i might not submit depending on how workweek/life goes
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Updated participant list to here!
The following players are ineligible to participate: oOL3G1TxG4M3ROo: Expected Minimum (will fluctuate): 50.79, Actual Minimum: 50.67 CordingWater6: Expected Minimum (will fluctuate): 3.08, Actual Minimum: 0.1 Quote:
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I am probably not score-eligible.
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I'm a bit worried because I feel like I optimized my ranks as much as I could, but I'm still curious to see how things turn out. |
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Bro, this is actually pretty sick, AND you're giving me a week to play, that's super awesome of you, I'll participate~
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Updated participant's list to here.
UPDATES: The following players are ineligible to participate: CordingWater6: Expected Minimum (will fluctuate): 2.41, Actual Minimum: 0.1 Quote:
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Eh, why not. In.
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oh this sounds fun!
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i have made a donation for the cause
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I'll join, though I expect I won't stand much of a chance due to over a year of rust.
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Yes, in. I just assumed my scores wouldn't work.
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In for now. Might have to drop out later
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I'm in! How to sign up?
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I'd like to provide a simfile of your choice for each 2nd place for each division.
Limits include: Song must be under 6 minutes, no evil racist fuckboi shit everything else is fair game |
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Count my was in
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This is gonna be real hard for me lol
Doesn't hurt to play I guess so I'm IN |
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Donated 250.002k credits
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In!
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Updated to here. I am going to waive the third requirement for Matthias because there's literally nothing he can do to shape his Top 100 to meet the third requirement.
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everyone complaining about their best scores being old... mine are like 8 years old lol
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Also I sent over some credits to iironiic for a donation! |
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I love the idea, I'm just bad at improving scores when most of the I have blocks on anyways. My Pandora 2-1-1-1 was pure luck and I'm lucky to get less than 10g and fc it now haha |
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i wanna join
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My best scores are also 8 years old and I'm nowhere near that skill level anymore lol but this is worth a try so I'll join!
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I'll sign up for this. I've just got a new laptop, a new keyboard and am adjusting to a whole new setup - this actually sounds like an ideal tournament to get the competitive juices flowing.
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Ahh why not. I'll get in on this.
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I don't know if i can join it.. How can i sign up?
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Let me in! :)
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I'm in!
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Im in for this! May i join???
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I will try i guess
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Question: If you're capturing our top 100 at the start of the event, should we just not play songs in our current top 100 outside the ones for the round we're in?
I assume the reason it's week-long rounds and not just cumulative is that you want everybody to only have one week to work on improving the song, so what happens if you snapspot my ranks before round 1, and then I play a song in my 21-40 and improve it? Do you re-snapshot before round 4 and get that as the baseline score? |
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I wish to participate.
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shine bright like a diamond
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This is a cool idea, I'm in! Sent you a lil donation
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