9th Official Tournament -- Round 8

[psychoangel691]

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which reminds me

Haha yes AJ had showed me this but I forgot about it.

I had a brilliant idea just now for how to fix tournaments forever:

It costs 100,000 tokens or 1 US Dollar to enter.

Seriously, think about what that would mean.

That would mean more bitching about placements and more cheating.


Edit: Also BAD AJ! Don't get caught on FFR at work lol.

[devonin]

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Haha yes AJ had showed me this but I forgot about it.



That would mean more bitching about placements and more cheating.


Edit: Also BAD AJ! Don't get caught on FFR at work lol.

It would not mean more bitching about placements. It means all the people who are going to bitch about placements JUST WON'T ENTER instead.

Imagine a world where ONLY the people who were going to take this seriously and planned to spend at least a couple hours a day working at it were the ones who entered! A glorious bright future!

Also: I don't mean that the entry fee would result therefore in cash prizes too. No no no. It just costs money to enter, full stop, to show that you're actually serious about this, and not going to come in here and whine about how you're going to lose because you're so cool and have a life, and don't have time for this silly game.

If you think it is silly, why the hell are you wanting to take part in the most serious competitive thing it does? Best of luck playing in the World Series if you think Baseball is dumb and that people who spend hours a day on Baseball are dumb. Even at 500 people entering at 1 dollar each, the staff running this event would be making WAAAY less than minimum wage for running it. Let them have the entry fee.

[psychoangel691]

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It would not mean more bitching about placements. It means all the people who are going to bitch about placements JUST WON'T ENTER instead.

Imagine a world where ONLY the people who were going to take this seriously and planned to spend at least a couple hours a day working at it were the ones who entered! A glorious bright future!

There are people who are serious about the game that still complain about their placement. Fueling it with a potential monetary gain will only make that worse unfortunately. Or the loss of their dollar lol.

Damn you and your edit lol. We couldn't take on an entry fee unless we were putting it back out since the site is non-profit. Most of our music permissions are based on being non-profit.

[Sgt. Traveler]

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Imagine a world where ONLY the people who were going to take this seriously and planned to spend at least a couple hours a day working at it were the ones who entered! A glorious bright future!

Maybe it's just me who never notices his credits counter, but wouldn't 100,000 credits a little too much, or is that pretty much affordable to the veterans here?

[devonin]

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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.

[TC_Halogen]

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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.

[devonin]

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Maybe it's just me who never notices his credits counter, but wouldn't 100,000 credits a little too much, or is that pretty much affordable to the veterans here?

It's way more than what a dollar would be in terms of time invested. The point being, anybody who is seriously unable to pay a dollar to enter has a way to pay with credits, and by setting the number high, it generally also means either the person has played a lot of FFR (And thus, has a lot of good scoring data to sort them accurately) or is a multi/has a credit wealthy friend (which flags them for the sorting staff to look more closely at their account which weeds out cheating and sandbagging well)

[psychoangel691]

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Maybe it's just me who never notices his credits counter, but wouldn't 100,000 credits a little too much, or is that pretty much affordable to the veterans here?

That's not much for the really actives. Especially people who participate in user tourneys and other events.

[GammaBlaster]

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also just found out I can bring a laptop whilst I'm away for a week during round 1 (though I still have about 4 days to spare if it starts on the 24th)

so if I can find a free WiFi hotspot I'll be dropping off to say hi to you all whilst I try to secure a safe spot

inb4shoutoutvid

[DossarLX ODI]

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[Zapmeister]

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quick suggestion. the first post should include the detail that the tournament is raw scoring. it's on the front page announcements thing, but not the first post.

[Frederic54]

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Poor D3 is getting no love for now it seems

Also hyped !

[psychoangel691]

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Poor D3 is getting no love for now it seems

Also hyped !

We were just talking about that haha. There should be some in there later today since there are some people marked as D3 just not by everyone quite yet. I'm sure AJ will work on more placements after work so you'll probably see some later this evening.

[Charu]

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Whoa, this exploded last night. People shouldn't be crying wolf now, lol.

I mean, Halogen did say: "PM your concerns with placements."

Pssssst... I think that should be bolded and put a size tag on it in the first post.

[Plan_Bsk81127]

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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.