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Title: CENTAURI - Online Tournament | SBV
Post by: Reier on August 13, 2018, 02:05:56 PM
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Title: Re: CENTAURI - Online Tournament | SBV
Post by: Dreamcast on August 13, 2018, 02:12:39 PM
Most of these robots appear to be "front-loaded." I had an idea for some sloped armor that turned on a motor but never went through with building it, sorry. Hopefully, Mystic's robot does well because I've built similar designs in DSL.

Fun fact: Clickbeetle has experience in online tournaments.
Title: Re: CENTAURI - Online Tournament | SBV
Post by: [cringey name goes here] on August 13, 2018, 02:19:17 PM
Most of these robots appear to be "front-loaded." I had an idea for some sloped armor that turned on a motor but never went through with building it, sorry. Hopefully, Mystic's robot does well because I've built similar designs in DSL.

Fun fact: Clickbeetle has experience in online tournaments.
hopefully my driving can lead it to victory!
Title: Re: CENTAURI - Online Tournament | SBV
Post by: Reier on August 13, 2018, 03:47:54 PM
Badnik, cringey, trackerzod and 8bean all did their qualifiers today. some results were... interesting  :dumb)

once everyone plays their match I'll combine them all for the first video, then we'll get to the main bracket.
Title: Re: CENTAURI - Online Tournament | SBV
Post by: Clickbeetle on August 13, 2018, 06:59:12 PM
Fun fact: Clickbeetle has experience in online tournaments.

If you can call "getting to the semifinals with a noob bot because half the competitors dropped out due to scheduling issues, and then getting completely destroyed by a generic HS in my one and only fight, but not seeing what even really happened because lag had me jumping all over the arena and even winning at one point" experience, then I suppose I do.

Really hoping Parsec improves the online multiplayer experience.  I'm willing to give it a try.

Winning isn't the goal here so much as testing the waters for Parsec online play, and trying to build something "cool and hard to AI"... but I'm still pleased to see no one has a big VS (the one bot type my entry has no chance against).  Thrackerzod and freeziez do worry me though.
Title: Re: CENTAURI - Online Tournament | SBV
Post by: Reier on August 13, 2018, 09:16:22 PM
Fun fact: Clickbeetle has experience in online tournaments.

If you can call "getting to the semifinals with a noob bot because half the competitors dropped out due to scheduling issues, and then getting completely destroyed by a generic HS in my one and only fight, but not seeing what even really happened because lag had me jumping all over the arena and even winning at one point" experience, then I suppose I do.
you'll kill us all

Test match. no bearing on the actual tournament. trying to get editing and format locked down (and to get people pumped cause boyeee look how much more fun it is to watch than ai tournaments).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8AKaL9BJGk
Title: Re: CENTAURI - Online Tournament | SBV
Post by: 8bean on August 13, 2018, 10:49:12 PM
This mini tourney was really fun to participate in. I really need to get used to the speed of ironforge bots now lmao
Title: Re: CENTAURI - Online Tournament | SBV
Post by: Reier on August 13, 2018, 11:45:15 PM
This mini tourney was really fun to participate in. I really need to get used to the speed of ironforge bots now lmao
;)

6/7 qualifiers have been filmed. Once I get the last one will put up the compilation of all 7  :dance:
Title: Re: CENTAURI - Online Tournament | SBV
Post by: WeN on August 14, 2018, 07:12:06 AM
If I entered, I would had play withthe big boy.

nvm about that, I can't play on Monday to Thursday expect the school holiday.

Title: Re: CENTAURI - Online Tournament | SBV
Post by: Reier on August 15, 2018, 11:15:49 PM
Qualifiers are live! See who gets the bye slot for the main bracket.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9KpZKn7FbQ
Title: Re: CENTAURI - Online Tournament | SBV
Post by: Thrackerzod on August 15, 2018, 11:42:56 PM
Title: Re: CENTAURI - Online Tournament | SBV
Post by: Clickbeetle on August 16, 2018, 12:36:30 AM

General comment: I'm really impressed with Parsec-based online play.  I had practically ZERO lag in this.  Parsec online is not going to replace AI tournaments (fight scheduling is still a challenge, especially on a large scale), but this removes the biggest obstacle.  Hope to see more like this in the future.  (I wonder though, is there any risk of sabotage if you let strangers push buttons on your keyboard?)
Title: Re: CENTAURI - Online Tournament | SBV
Post by: Reier on August 16, 2018, 12:49:11 AM
(I wonder though, is there any risk of sabotage if you let strangers push buttons on your keyboard?)
in theory yes. not much we can do about it unless one party uses a controller and one uses keyboard (the host can mutually exclude these) but many people don't have controllers and it's a bit tricky to get them going even so.
Title: Re: CENTAURI - Online Tournament | SBV
Post by: [cringey name goes here] on August 16, 2018, 05:31:51 AM
Title: Re: CENTAURI - Online Tournament | SBV
Post by: Clickbeetle on August 18, 2018, 06:14:36 PM
(I wonder though, is there any risk of sabotage if you let strangers push buttons on your keyboard?)
in theory yes. not much we can do about it unless one party uses a controller and one uses keyboard (the host can mutually exclude these) but many people don't have controllers and it's a bit tricky to get them going even so.

What I meant was, could some dipwad hijack your PC and delete system32 or something nasty.

Just seems like letting strangers on your computer is slightly risky.

It's not a problem here, but if anyone ever tried to do larger-scale Parsec tournaments, it could be.  I hear that AI tournament hosts have to check any custom Python scripts they get sent now for that reason.


Anyway, ROUND 1 HYPE.  I don't know what happened in the other fights, but there were some nail-biting moments in mine!
Title: Re: CENTAURI - Online Tournament | SBV
Post by: Reier on August 18, 2018, 06:31:48 PM
What I meant was, could some dipwad hijack your PC and delete system32 or something nasty.

Just seems like letting strangers on your computer is slightly risky.

It's not a problem here, but if anyone ever tried to do larger-scale Parsec tournaments, it could be.  I hear that AI tournament hosts have to check any custom Python scripts they get sent now for that reason.


Anyway, ROUND 1 HYPE.  I don't know what happened in the other fights, but there were some nail-biting moments in mine!
https://support.parsecgaming.com/hc/en-us/articles/115003442732-Security-At-Parsec-
doesn't seem like there's much of a risk, but I guess you never know. I do know the host has the capability to instantly terminate all connections with a key command if needed.

your second one was one of the better matches filmed today, always a pleasure  :mrgreen:
Title: Re: CENTAURI - Online Tournament | SBV
Post by: Reier on August 18, 2018, 09:51:38 PM
round 1 is live!!
WARNING: way cooler than ai battles, other hosts may be jealous  :gunz:


brackets updated.
Title: Re: CENTAURI - Online Tournament | SBV
Post by: 8bean on August 18, 2018, 10:31:37 PM
Title: Re: CENTAURI - Online Tournament | SBV
Post by: Thrackerzod on August 18, 2018, 11:02:28 PM
So far this has been a lot of fun.  Thanks for getting everything together, Reier!

Title: Re: CENTAURI - Online Tournament | SBV
Post by: Reier on August 18, 2018, 11:40:04 PM
really enjoying this so far. way more fun to watch as a host at least :)

my thoughts:

 :dance:
Title: Re: CENTAURI - Online Tournament | SBV
Post by: Lightning S. on August 19, 2018, 01:02:55 AM
Title: Re: CENTAURI - Online Tournament | SBV
Post by: Reier on August 19, 2018, 02:05:27 PM
Losers B 1, CB vs cringy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMeNsE1akuo
Title: Re: CENTAURI - Online Tournament | SBV
Post by: [cringey name goes here] on August 19, 2018, 02:09:30 PM
Losers B 1, CB vs cringy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMeNsE1akuo
Title: Re: CENTAURI - Online Tournament | SBV
Post by: Clickbeetle on August 19, 2018, 03:08:58 PM
Title: Re: CENTAURI - Online Tournament | SBV
Post by: Reier on August 26, 2018, 01:19:53 AM
Winners bracket round 2 is up and ready to knock yo sox off yall

BADNIK96 vs LIGHTNING S.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vPEmms1NgU
this match should be on WWE with all the RADICAL suplexes and full nelsons that keep happening.

FREEZIEZ vs THRACKERZOD
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G12qKON5Zyw
Title: Re: CENTAURI - Online Tournament | SBV
Post by: Lightning S. on August 26, 2018, 02:07:34 AM
Title: Re: CENTAURI - Online Tournament | SBV
Post by: Reier on August 26, 2018, 08:46:45 PM


Losers bracket round 2
THRACKERZOD vs 8BEAN
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9mUZ2uYTgs

BADNIK96 vs CLICKBEETLE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_cyGeozTqo

down to 4 competitors left!
WHO WILL TAKE DE GOOOOLD
Title: Re: CENTAURI - Online Tournament | SBV
Post by: UberPyro on August 26, 2018, 11:09:04 PM
Title: Re: CENTAURI - Online Tournament | SBV
Post by: Reier on August 27, 2018, 12:52:10 AM

Title: Re: CENTAURI - Online Tournament | SBV
Post by: Clickbeetle on August 27, 2018, 12:53:13 AM
Title: Re: CENTAURI - Online Tournament | SBV
Post by: Naryar on August 27, 2018, 07:12:43 AM
i've been watching all of this and enjoying this. ya know, i had this feud against pits... but when there is no AI they're actually fair, because you usually just drive into them and could have been more careful.

Also those arena flippers are entertaining as hell. The bots just fly all around the arena all the time.

seems people still build DSL-S even when the arena is meh for it. those wide plow/wide wedge robots are pretty bad in that arena cuz you get snagged all the time by the flippers. then again it makes for a funny match so  :p also some bots are really too fast for that arena.

my favorite bots in no particular order are Pit Viper, Falling Star 2 and Vipress.
Title: Re: CENTAURI - Online Tournament | SBV
Post by: Reier on August 27, 2018, 12:33:09 PM
i've been watching all of this and enjoying this. ya know, i had this feud against pits... but when there is no AI they're actually fair, because you usually just drive into them and could have been more careful.

Also those arena flippers are entertaining as hell. The bots just fly all around the arena all the time.

seems people still build DSL-S even when the arena is meh for it. those wide plow/wide wedge robots are pretty bad in that arena cuz you get snagged all the time by the flippers. then again it makes for a funny match so  :p also some bots are really too fast for that arena.

my favorite bots in no particular order are Pit Viper, Falling Star 2 and Vipress.

I think MW is about the heaviest weightclass you want for pvp octagon. LW would probably be a perfect size.
People will also probably get better over time with driving in the arenas and building specificially for an arena. It's really important to build for the arena being used imo. bad idea to use 120cm angled wedges in the octagon, but not in the ra2t2 for instance.

ballasts also really help the speed situation without sacrificing drive power. Just most people didn't use them for this tourney
Title: Re: CENTAURI - Online Tournament | SBV
Post by: Reier on August 27, 2018, 12:44:52 PM
WE GOT A WINNERS FIGHT WE GOT A LOSERS FIGHT WE'RE JUST ALLLL CULTURALLY INTEGRATED NOW

W3 LIGHTNING S. vs FREEZIEZ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7JSnmMhq7Q

L3 CLICKBEETLE vs THRACKERZOD
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8dv9SQRApI

And we're down to 3 left.  :gunz:
Title: Re: CENTAURI - Online Tournament | SBV
Post by: freeziez on August 27, 2018, 01:00:11 PM
my bot was built in a rush, also happens to be the first bot i've ever built in ironforge. the side effects are noticeable. i didn't test it, it's horribly underweight (no ballasts, actually a LW), and i didn't process how it would perform in this arena. i'm lucky i did as well as i did in this.

Title: Re: CENTAURI - Online Tournament | SBV
Post by: Reier on August 27, 2018, 06:03:44 PM
just cause i love you all so much heres the last match before the 'first ever' online G :gawe: R :gawe: A :gawe: N :gawe: D   F :mrgreen: I :mrgreen: N :mrgreen: A :mrgreen: L

LB 4 FREEZIEZ vs THRACKERZOD
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGhF-mjDb9M
Title: Re: CENTAURI - Online Tournament | SBV
Post by: Clickbeetle on August 28, 2018, 01:17:22 AM
Title: Re: CENTAURI - Online Tournament | SBV
Post by: Reier on August 29, 2018, 03:59:46 PM
and here we go.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1DXdPwkaUM



congratulations to all who entered! real fun tournament to host. Hopefully I'll do another one fairly soon.
Title: Re: CENTAURI - Online Tournament | SBV
Post by: Lightning S. on August 29, 2018, 06:00:47 PM
Title: Re: CENTAURI - Online Tournament | SBV
Post by: freeziez on August 29, 2018, 08:25:23 PM
Title: Re: CENTAURI - Online Tournament | SBV
Post by: [cringey name goes here] on August 30, 2018, 05:24:20 AM
Title: Re: CENTAURI - Online Tournament | SBV
Post by: Naryar on August 30, 2018, 03:02:13 PM
Title: Re: CENTAURI - Online Tournament | SBV
Post by: Reier on September 15, 2018, 11:59:02 AM
This tournament is finished.
Title: Re: CENTAURI - Online Tournament | SBV
Post by: Hoppin on September 15, 2018, 12:39:17 PM
Good job on this tourney. Most enjoyable.