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Re: General Tournament Discussion
« Reply #1100 on: August 08, 2017, 02:14:08 AM »
so is nobody at all interested in this tournament idea or is it just nobody reads this thread  :ouch:
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Re: General Tournament Discussion
« Reply #1101 on: August 08, 2017, 07:33:08 AM »
The easiest way to get your idea attention is to make a thread about it. This thread is slow looking.

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Re: General Tournament Discussion
« Reply #1102 on: August 10, 2017, 10:52:18 AM »
I'd join if i could, though timezones might be an issue

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Re: General Tournament Discussion
« Reply #1103 on: August 17, 2017, 02:28:38 PM »
 Anyone can host this (considering that they finished previous tournament, and know how to host one)

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Re: General Tournament Discussion
« Reply #1104 on: August 17, 2017, 03:00:47 PM »
Anyone can host this (considering that they finished previous tournament, and know how to host one)
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Now this is a neat idea! I'd take part in this in a heartbeat!  :mrgreen:
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Re: General Tournament Discussion
« Reply #1105 on: September 15, 2017, 03:11:41 PM »
What should my next tournament be? Scrapheap Challenge 3, What Doesn't Kill You 2, Keep Your Enemies Close 2 or something brand new?

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Re: General Tournament Discussion
« Reply #1106 on: September 15, 2017, 03:13:31 PM »
For the unfamiliar like myself, what would differentiate each of those?  WDKY was multi weight class father/son style right? Others I'm less familiar with.

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Re: General Tournament Discussion
« Reply #1107 on: September 15, 2017, 03:17:15 PM »
Check my sig for links to each tournament.

Scrapheap Challenge: Only one of each component allowed.
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Re: General Tournament Discussion
« Reply #1108 on: September 15, 2017, 03:25:39 PM »
rip off conraaaaaas home and away, each bot has a "home" arena with round robin format in which each bot has a home against an opponent and an away match against the same opponent. would be a lot of matches though even for a 16 bot tourney.

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Re: General Tournament Discussion
« Reply #1109 on: September 15, 2017, 03:31:18 PM »
Scrapheap challenge, DSL-IRL SHW

A tournament like WDKYMYS, but the twist is that every robot is built from pre-specified class/type combination (like LW VS, MW Poker, ect.)

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Re: General Tournament Discussion
« Reply #1110 on: September 15, 2017, 03:45:53 PM »
Swiss army training maybe?  Wasn't that a thing in your hands.
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Re: General Tournament Discussion
« Reply #1111 on: September 15, 2017, 04:26:23 PM »
Swiss army training maybe?  Wasn't that a thing in your hands.
Oh yeah, so it was. Swiss Army Training for my tenth tournament, but that doesn't stop y'all from contributing towards my eleventh. :dumb)

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Re: General Tournament Discussion
« Reply #1112 on: September 22, 2017, 08:11:35 AM »
I feel like running a tournament. I also feel too lazy to make my own rules. If anybody has any favourite cancelled or abandoned tournament they'd like to see taken over finished, let me know. I'll see what the consensus is and I'll finish or reboot the tournament, depending on if enough of the original entries are obtainable.
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Re: General Tournament Discussion
« Reply #1113 on: September 22, 2017, 03:42:09 PM »
I feel like running a tournament. I also feel too lazy to make my own rules. If anybody has any favourite cancelled or abandoned tournament they'd like to see taken over finished, let me know. I'll see what the consensus is and I'll finish or reboot the tournament, depending on if enough of the original entries are obtainable.
I've been having a few ideas:
LvD but with 3/4 teams
DSL-S SHW tournament
KOTH or sumo tournament
Secret santa/chinese whispers crossover, a bot is passed along with the 1st person choosing # of wheels, next chooses weapon system etc and the last person it lands on has to build it. idk if I explained it well but I can elaborate
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Re: General Tournament Discussion
« Reply #1114 on: September 22, 2017, 03:49:53 PM »
I feel like running a tournament. I also feel too lazy to make my own rules. If anybody has any favourite cancelled or abandoned tournament they'd like to see taken over finished, let me know. I'll see what the consensus is and I'll finish or reboot the tournament, depending on if enough of the original entries are obtainable.
I've been having a few ideas:
LvD but with 3/4 teams

YES.
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Re: General Tournament Discussion
« Reply #1115 on: September 22, 2017, 03:53:07 PM »
I feel like running a tournament. I also feel too lazy to make my own rules. If anybody has any favourite cancelled or abandoned tournament they'd like to see taken over finished, let me know. I'll see what the consensus is and I'll finish or reboot the tournament, depending on if enough of the original entries are obtainable.
I've been having a few ideas:
LvD but with 3/4 teams
DSL-S SHW tournament
KOTH or sumo tournament
Secret santa/chinese whispers crossover, a bot is passed along with the 1st person choosing # of wheels, next chooses weapon system etc and the last person it lands on has to build it. idk if I explained it well but I can elaborate

That last one, oof sign me up
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Re: General Tournament Discussion
« Reply #1116 on: September 22, 2017, 04:15:30 PM »
Secret santa/chinese whispers crossover, a bot is passed along with the 1st person choosing # of wheels, next chooses weapon system etc and the last person it lands on has to build it. idk if I explained it well but I can elaborate
You mean like this? If so, I'm down for it.

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Re: General Tournament Discussion
« Reply #1117 on: September 22, 2017, 04:16:04 PM »
Secret santa/chinese whispers crossover, a bot is passed along with the 1st person choosing # of wheels, next chooses weapon system etc and the last person it lands on has to build it. idk if I explained it well but I can elaborate
You mean like this?
exactly, preferably with more categories.
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A discussion on the outdated rules of display tourneys
« Reply #1118 on: October 07, 2017, 06:07:06 AM »
So I was thinking about what needs to be updated in the display tourney thread.

1. Allowing the display of who built what bot. This does 2 things, 1. Used as a production means when using splashes/battlecards. 2. Saves the person from creatung a massive thank you list at the end and can easially display to the viewer who did what and not make them look for it.

2. Must post videos showing the tourney, this just makes sense... if you dont post videos of it, you can just run it in your own time.

3. Deadlines. Consistant updates, simply to make sure nothing gets left unfinished.

And I think display tourneys should be a place for people to have tourneys that are outside of GTM even with members competiting, they also can act as unofficial tourneys. Ive done mine as an almost practice run to get better at editing and what not.

Feel free to disagree with this, I think its a good idea to raise a disscussion for this.
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Re: General Tournament Discussion
« Reply #1119 on: October 07, 2017, 06:26:18 AM »
Okay so I'm gonna come in and play bad cop here.

What you're suggesting is essentially just regular GTM tournaments, but only open to certain people.
If a tournament on GTM grounds is taking entries, it cannot be discriminative of what groups of people or where you're taking entries from. People can't be left out just because they're not in a certain server/group/whatever.
You're of course welcome to host these but they're not GTM-sanctioned tournaments so shouldn't really be in the GTM Tournament section.

My idea for the display tournament section is to remove it entirely and move everything in there to Off-Topic, but that's me.
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