Author Topic: General Tournament Discussion (Read 142435 times)

helloface · « **Reply #781 on:** June 25, 2015, 01:16:40 AM »

Yeah that looked really cool, you could even do it in Ironforge if you want.

cephalopod · « **Reply #782 on:** July 20, 2015, 12:15:22 PM »

I have a few ideas and I'm gonna run one. Any preference?

1) The most serious one, RIP5. Basically RIP4 again, but maybe MW instead of HW.
2) Funny meme tournament idea 1 - every bot can only use car steering for drive - probably DSL.
3) Funny meme tournament idea 2 - Chassis Lottery. Everyone enters a chassis, everyone has to use whatever chassis gets drawn randomly.

Squirrel_Monkey · « **Reply #783 on:** July 20, 2015, 12:17:58 PM »

Chassis lottery sounds fun, but I feel people are just going to make ridiculously impractical chassis.
Car steering sounds fun.

RedAce · « **Reply #784 on:** July 20, 2015, 12:28:22 PM »

Combine Funny Meme tournaments 1 & 2. It'll be hilarious.

Naryar · « **Reply #785 on:** July 20, 2015, 12:30:29 PM »

Nah. Car steering tournament.

Of course a HS/shell spinner will win due to gut rippers being completely useless in this meta, but well.

funny meme tournament idea 2 seems like people will enter completely useless chassis, and people will start with unfair advantages or disadvantages unless everyone enters a troll chassis (but that won't happen). Sure it's a joke tournament but still it is bullsh**.

Car steering tournament means everyone is equally crippled, so just ban crawlers.

yugitom · « **Reply #786 on:** July 20, 2015, 12:31:34 PM »

Quote from: RedAce on July 20, 2015, 12:28:22 PM

Combine Funny Meme tournaments 1 & 2. It'll be hilarious.

I second this.

cephalopod · « **Reply #787 on:** July 20, 2015, 12:33:46 PM »

I'd make everyone use the same chassis btw to eliminate unfair starts

Naryar · « **Reply #788 on:** July 20, 2015, 12:37:01 PM »

Quote from: Craaig on July 20, 2015, 12:33:46 PM

I'd make everyone use the same chassis btw to eliminate unfair starts

that would be better. also maybe remove steel 10 and equal nonsense when people are building MW and they start with a 200kg chassis.

G.K. · « **Reply #789 on:** July 20, 2015, 12:39:57 PM »

Car Steering all the way. Would give me lots of motivation to experiment with different designs.

Thrackerzod · « **Reply #790 on:** July 29, 2015, 05:54:32 PM »

Okay, so here's an idea what I just had:

Everyone would enter a LW and a HW. For example, let's say that me and Pizzaguy2020 enter.
My HW would fight his LW, and however long the match took would be recorded. Then his HW would fight my LW, and again the time would be recorded. Whoever KOs the LW faster would win the round. In case of a tie, the LWs would fight each other, and the winner of that match would move on.

Anyone think this sounds interesting?

Reier · « **Reply #791 on:** July 29, 2015, 06:01:02 PM »

if the entire goal is to survive as the LW, wouldn't everyone just coat the thing in casters and make it an indestructible brick?

Thrackerzod · « **Reply #792 on:** July 29, 2015, 06:17:17 PM »

Quote from: Reier on July 29, 2015, 06:01:02 PM

if the entire goal is to survive as the LW, wouldn't everyone just coat the thing in casters and make it an indestructible brick?

Yeah, that's why the tiebreaker would be LW fight. There'd be an advantage (maybe) to having some sort of weapon on there.

G.K. · « **Reply #793 on:** July 29, 2015, 06:39:25 PM »

I reckon a tie is unlikely though - as long as the LW's could be KO'd, different HW's would finish them off at slightly different times. My worry is that a tournament of near-indestructable bricks being slowly killed will not be exciting for people, least of all you, and a tourney is so much more rewarding for the host if it's fun. I've had a blast doing BTTB V, for example.

Naryar · « **Reply #794 on:** July 30, 2015, 03:28:13 AM »

yea no, everyone will caster armor lightweights and it'll end up being boring

Thrackerzod · « **Reply #795 on:** July 30, 2015, 09:25:31 PM »

Good points. Nevermind that, then.

El Chickenado · « **Reply #796 on:** July 31, 2015, 11:37:25 AM »

Quote from: Thrackerzod on July 30, 2015, 09:25:31 PM

Good points. Nevermind that, then.

I mean if an irl rule was attached it could be good but without that it would be awful

RedAce · « **Reply #797 on:** September 11, 2015, 04:39:38 PM »

Okay, for those who do want me to host another tournament, should I continue Hometown Showdown with any kinks ironed out (Pun intended), or should I do one of these possible tournament ideas below?

Trios of Terror II - Same as the first one, but with some simplified rules and a different weight class.

Singles and Doubles (Name WIP) - Pretty much a standard tournament with both a 1-on-1 and a 2-on-2 tournament. I can't think of any twist that wouldn't turn you away from this

Throwback Throwdown - A DSL tournament that goes focuses on rules where you prety much had to make bots inspired by BBEANS2, the very first DSL AI tournament.

Again, these are just ideas that I may scrap if you don't care much for them.

Mystic2000 · « **Reply #798 on:** September 11, 2015, 04:42:24 PM »

Throwback Throwdown would be a nice thing to do imo

El Chickenado · « **Reply #799 on:** September 11, 2015, 06:10:44 PM »

I like singles and double most but would enter any if they where irl