Jeevan | 8,910 Events Helper · Posted May 29, 2021 Share Posted May 29, 2021 22 hours ago, NESfiend said: Has anyone made any attempts under these rules? Is it as punishing as it sounds? I wanted to try some runs this week and it actually sounds fun. Time has just been really hard to come by 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BeaIank | 1,618 Events Team · Posted June 5, 2021 Share Posted June 5, 2021 Geral and genre scoreboards updated. @Dr. Morbis is still leading, but his lead is now down to 2 points to @NESfiend.@bertsampson still remains in 3rd, going on with his cruise mode. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BeaIank | 1,618 Events Team · Posted June 13, 2021 Share Posted June 13, 2021 Geral and genre scoreboards updated. @NESfiendties with @Dr. Morbis for 1st place. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BeaIank | 1,618 Events Team · Posted June 14, 2021 Share Posted June 14, 2021 Geral and genre scoreboards updated. @NESfiend takes 1st place, now 2 points ahead of @Dr. Morbis.@bertsampson creeps closer thanks to his 1st place at Silk Worm. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NESfiend | 1,515 Posted June 14, 2021 Share Posted June 14, 2021 5 hours ago, BeaIank said: Geral and genre scoreboards updated. @NESfiend takes 1st place, now 2 points ahead of @Dr. Morbis.@bertsampson creeps closer thanks to his 1st place at Silk Worm. Thanks for updating so early this week. Pretty inevitable @Dr. Morbiswill retake the lead and never look back, so nice that I get a full week at the top! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BeaIank | 1,618 Events Team · Posted June 27, 2021 Share Posted June 27, 2021 Geral and genre scoreboards updated.@Dr. Morbis recovered the lead, opening a 2 points advantage over @NESfiend@bertsampsonremains in 3rd, with @mbd39 and @PII slowly gaining territory to overtake him. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BeaIank | 1,618 Events Team · Posted July 4, 2021 Share Posted July 4, 2021 With World Games scores tallied, @Dr. Morbis increases his lead over @NESfiend and @Krunch overtakes @bertsampson for 3rd play on the geral scoreboard. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BeaIank | 1,618 Events Team · Posted July 8, 2021 Share Posted July 8, 2021 Geral and genre scoreboards updated. @Dr. Morbis greatly increased his lead over @NESfiend while @bertsampson retook his 3rd place. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BeaIank | 1,618 Events Team · Posted July 18, 2021 Share Posted July 18, 2021 Geral and genre scoreboards updated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BeaIank | 1,618 Events Team · Posted August 2, 2021 Share Posted August 2, 2021 Geral and genre scores updated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BeaIank | 1,618 Events Team · Posted August 8, 2021 Share Posted August 8, 2021 Geral and genre scoreboards updated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BeaIank | 1,618 Events Team · Posted August 15, 2021 Share Posted August 15, 2021 Geral and genre scoreboards posted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr. Morbis | 2,088 Posted August 15, 2021 Share Posted August 15, 2021 Wow, the difference between 5th and 8th is a scant two points! And there's a three way tie for 6th as well. Major drop off after 8th place though, but it will be interesting to see how things shake out coming down the stretch... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
docile tapeworm | 4,198 Posted August 16, 2021 Share Posted August 16, 2021 ok....gradius 2. i have never played you. perhaps i will soon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
docile tapeworm | 4,198 Posted August 16, 2021 Share Posted August 16, 2021 (edited) 20 hours ago, Dr. Morbis said: Wow, the difference between 5th and 8th is a scant two points! And there's a three way tie for 6th as well. Major drop off after 8th place though, but it will be interesting to see how things shake out coming down the stretch... wins should count for more nesfiendband 0xcode both have four wins. Edited August 16, 2021 by docile tapeworm 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr. Morbis | 2,088 Posted August 17, 2021 Share Posted August 17, 2021 (edited) 10 hours ago, docile tapeworm said: wins should count for more nesfiendband 0xcode both have four wins. Yeah, it looks like the small point spread is intended to encourage more participation, so people won't see that they are super far behind and say, "fuck it." But the problem is, if you don't play every week, you're going to fall way behind no matter what the ranks are worth. The best way to encourage casuals is to include popular games that more people want to play, but then you're limiting the pool of available games, and playing the same few games all the time would get boring, so it's a catch 22. I will say this though, the amount of wins I have reflects the points given per rankings; if you got like five extra points for being #1 on a game (like you should), I would be putting in way more effort into most games to try and get those extra points, but you don't, so I've been second and third place like ten times this year, which is fine since it's only one less point. If I were running the show, 2nd through 8th would be the same amount of points, but first place each week would get 15 points instead of 11 for being better than everybody else. Now that would stimulate competition! (...and it would give people a Hail Mary pass to try and make up ground quickly by trying to win multiple weeks in a row). But what do I know...... Edited August 17, 2021 by Dr. Morbis 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mbd39 | 2,020 Posted August 17, 2021 Share Posted August 17, 2021 (edited) 8 minutes ago, Dr. Morbis said: Yeah, it looks like the small point spread is intended to encourage more participation, so people won't see that they are super far behind and say, "fuck it." But the problem is, if you don't play every week, you're going to fall way behind no matter what the ranks are worth. The best way to encourage casuals is to include popular games that more people want to play, but then you're limiting the pool of available games, and playing the same few games all the time would get boring, so it's a catch 22. I will say this though, the amount of wins I have reflects the points given per rankings; if you got like five extra points for being #1 on a game (like you should), I would be putting in way more effort into most games to try and get those extra points, but you don't, so I've been second and third place like ten times this year, which is fine since it's only one less point. If I were running the show, 2nd through 8th would be the same amount of points, but first place each week would get 15 points instead of 11 for being better than everybody else. Now that would stimulate competition! (...and it would give people a Hail Mary pass to try and make up ground quickly by trying to win multiple weeks in a row). But what do I know...... I like the extra four points for winning idea! We should totally do that next season. Edited August 17, 2021 by mbd39 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mbd39 | 2,020 Posted August 17, 2021 Share Posted August 17, 2021 And the contests used to be one point for participation with three points for 9th place. Going back to that would also encourage more competition. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NESfiend | 1,515 Posted August 17, 2021 Share Posted August 17, 2021 1 hour ago, mbd39 said: And the contests used to be one point for participation with three points for 9th place. Going back to that would also encourage more competition. I think there should be some sort of seeding for the tourney to keep people coming week to week. Doesnt have to be seeding necessarily, but something to reward people at the top 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richardhead | 2,813 Posted August 17, 2021 Share Posted August 17, 2021 Can we get a rule change? @Murraywill be disappointed. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mbd39 | 2,020 Posted August 17, 2021 Share Posted August 17, 2021 10 minutes ago, NESfiend said: I think there should be some sort of seeding for the tourney to keep people coming week to week. Doesnt have to be seeding necessarily, but something to reward people at the top In 2017 and 2018 the top seeds in the tournament picked the games out of a small group of games. I was a top seed in 2017 and picked Rad Racer and lost. I really wanted Tetris but a game couldn't be picked more than twice and two higher seeds had already picked it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr. Morbis | 2,088 Posted August 17, 2021 Share Posted August 17, 2021 17 minutes ago, mbd39 said: In 2017 and 2018 the top seeds in the tournament picked the games out of a small group of games. I was a top seed in 2017 and picked Rad Racer and lost. I really wanted Tetris but a game couldn't be picked more than twice and two higher seeds had already picked it. That's how I assumed it was going to work: reward the guys at the top who outperformed the guys in 7th and 8th all season. If it's just some sort of extra elimination week(s), but with only X number of players invited, what does it matter if you came in 1st or 8th after a full season of competition? As long as you're 8th (or whatever the cutoff is), you're basically the same as first. That would obviously inhibit competition because you could just phone it in for eight months and then turn it up in the tourney... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mbd39 | 2,020 Posted August 17, 2021 Share Posted August 17, 2021 6 minutes ago, Dr. Morbis said: That's how I assumed it was going to work: reward the guys at the top who outperformed the guys in 7th and 8th all season. If it's just some sort of extra elimination week(s), but with only X number of players invited, what does it matter if you came in 1st or 8th after a full season of competition? As long as you're 8th (or whatever the cutoff is), you're basically the same as first. That would obviously inhibit competition because you could just phone it in for eight months and then turn it up in the tourney... Yeah. Tier systems have been used in prior tournaments. You can look at past tournaments here: http://archive.nes.science/nintendoage-forums/nintendoage.com/forum/messageview0d82.html?catid=31&threadid=168510 2016 had tiers for the tournament and that was my first contest year. I did alright. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
docile tapeworm | 4,198 Posted August 17, 2021 Share Posted August 17, 2021 @NESfiend @mbd39 @Dr. Morbis the nascar system yeeeehaw! where a win gets you into the post season (15 players with one win then get ranked by points) and if you dont have a win you battle for any spots that may be left with points. any additional regular season wins by any one player will add 1 point to your post season. (5 wins means you have 4 points at the start of the tournament). the way we have always played before is like morphius said. just get in and your equal again and i sure have learned i dont have to grind the whole season, just do enough to get in. i think i was the last or next to last to get in last year and made podium. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr. Morbis | 2,088 Posted August 17, 2021 Share Posted August 17, 2021 1 hour ago, mbd39 said: Yeah. Tier systems have been used in prior tournaments. You can look at past tournaments here: http://archive.nes.science/nintendoage-forums/nintendoage.com/forum/messageview0d82.html?catid=31&threadid=168510 Cool that it's all archived there. I couldn't help but notice that the guy who won Adventure Island in the 2009 tournament (that being the one and only game he ever competed in prior to this year) looks like one hell of a bad-ass I'd watch out for that guy... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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