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Which is why people speed run it instead of playing for score. Anyway, it is almost 10 pm, started at 7 am I stopped working about now. Fuck it was all I had available with the time I got before I had to go deal with work matters. And I can't even know if tomorrow won't be like this again. I didn't have time to run this tournament but I still trying to. For now I will just abide to whatever decision @guillavoiecomes with and run the next round in whatever spare time I can muster.

I messaged @guillavoieto chime in on all this. I will be working till late in the night again and I won't be able to deal with this right now. I will wait for his input then we move on.

Also, the whole Brasilia time (GMT -3 hours) is because people bickered that there is no such thing as VGS time, I got pissed and put in a more convenient ending time for myself there as a punishment. A punishment that got worse thanks to DST. Be happy we don't observe it here anymore or you wouldn't have lost one hour to post, you would have lost two hours. I will reconsider going back to EST next year. Reconsider.

Yes. All the top 16 is in. I want to see the world burn.

I am getting too fucking old for this shit. OK, so I have read it all, there is no fucking way to fix it in a way that will be fair to everyone, nor I have lots of time today to figure a better way, so fuck this, screw the initial plans, every fucking one advances, winners of pools round 1 get a 2 point advantage in their score for pools round 2. Top 8 no longer exists and it will be 4 best scores advance. Deal? Even if it isn't deal, it is how it will be. I will post the final standings of pools round 1 tonight and who carries the 2 points advantage to pools round 2. Eff this.

The hell went on while I was sleeping? FFS! I will deal with this mess after my morning work meetings.

A valid strategy. You can compensate for the 2 points in Tennis with a good goal lead in Soccer.

Glad to hear that the format is being liked. I am trying my hardest to make it interesting and more challenging than the previous years. I got a surprise up my sleeve for the grand finals. Something that was never done in the contest before.

You can pause. I will trust that no one at the top 8 will be so lacking in ethic to play level 1 and pause the game to secure 2 points in this round.

Sure, a title screen with the best score will be good for Golf.

Pooyan is one hell of a fun game. Glad you could discover it through the Weekly Contest/Tournament.

You won't get to do PKs. If the game ends 0-0, then your score will be 0. I will update the rules regarding that.

I will let you guys go with the level 4 one in that one.

Yes, it will be just as planned. I will adjust the top 8 post with that info once we have the top 8 formed.

So dramatic. You just have to outscore your direct opponent to make it to the grand finals and then suffer with what I have in mind for you all there.

You guys had it too easy in the pools, so I decided to up the ante properly for top 8.

1st 0xDEAFC0DE 22 Soccer - 0 Tennis - -2 Golf - +24 2nd Bearcat-Doug 17 Soccer - 4 Tennis - +2 Golf - +11 3rd bertsampson 16 Soccer - 2 Tennis - +2 Golf - +12 4th Dr. Morbis 15 Soccer - 2 Tennis - -2 Golf - +15 5th NESfiend 14 Soccer - 2 Tennis- -2 Golf - +14 6th the_wizard_666 14 Soccer - 1 Tennis- -2 Golf - +15 7th Krunch 8 Soccer - 1 Tennis- -2 Golf - +9 8th PII -3 Soccer - -1 Tennis - -2 Golf - 6 9th mbd39 -22 Soccer - -10 Tennis - -2 Golf - -10

Ladies and gentlemen, the competition heats up as our top 8 is close to be decided! At the end of this day, 28th of November, we will know who are the brave and valiant players who will compete in the tournament top 8/9. @Dr. Morbis @NESfiend @PII @0xDEAFC0DE @mbd39 @Krunch @Bearcat-Doug @bertsampson @the_wizard_666 And for this top 8/9, we will put them a excruciating, complex, tough yet extremely fun task! They will compete in the most beloved genre of our weekly contest, Sports. For this top 8/9, they will play 3 black box sports games to decide who is worthy of playing the grand finals! The games they will have to play to determine their final score and placing are: Blackbox Soccer Choose 1 Player game Choose whichever team you want Pick skill level 5 Pick half time 15 No PKs. if you tie the game, then your score is zero. Your tournament score for Soccer will be your goals for minus your goals against (ie If you win 5-2, your score is 3) Take your picture when the game ends. Be quick with your picture because you won't have a lot of time to take it before the game resets. Blackbox Tennis Choose Singles if you win by 6-0, 6-0, your score 2 tournament points Pick skill level 4 If you win by any score other than 6-0, 6-0, you score 0 tournament points If you lose, you score -2 tournament points Take your picture when the game ends. Be quick with your picture because you won't have a lot of time to take it before the game resets. Blackbox Golf Play all 18 holes Take your picture after you finish the last hole (either on the last hole screen or the title screen) Your tournament score will be your par times -1 (ex, you beat the game with a -5 par, your score is 5. You beat with a 3 par, your score is -3) Take your picture when the game ends. Be quick with your picture because you won't have a lot of time to take it before the game resets. Your final tournament score will be your Soccer score + your Tennis score + your Golf score. You must post a picture of each game score for your tournament score to be valid. The 4 players with the highest sum total will advance to the grand finals. Tie breaker, if needed, will be decided by the players Weekly Contest Geral standings. The player with the highest Geral standing will be considered the winner in case of a tie. Good luck for our contestants. May their week be filled with lots of sporting fun! The top 8/9 phase ends Sunday, 12/05/21 at 11:00 EST VGS time (12/05/22 1:00 AM Brasilia time)!!!!!!!!!!... Your user name MUST be written or typed on a piece of paper and be in the picture for your score to be valid. The entire TV screen, or computer monitor if you are playing on an emulator, MUST be in the picture for the score to be valid. No partial screenshots will be considered or accepted. No screenshots by hitting "print screen" on a computer will be allowed. You must take a picture of your computer monitor. There may be instances where this will be acceptable, but it will be at the discretion of myself and the contest organizers. Also, the use of turbo controllers is forbidden, as well as any cheat codes, Game Genies, slow motion functions, or save states if playing on an emulator. Also, we will only be using NTSC systems for the contests. The use of PAL systems will NOT be allowed. Good luck everyone and have fun

If you all prefer, we can go with the 4 blackbox games pick. Baseball is completely out as an option. If I were to add it, I wouldn't replace volleyball with it. I would just add it to the line up so you all would have to play 5 games for the top 8 score.

It could be worse. I could have chose to make you all play blackbox Soccer, Volleball, Tennis and Golf and the combined scores of all those games would define the winner.

If you have a cell phone, you can record your screen using it.

Hyper Sports will be highest score in one loop. If needed, the world records will be considered for tie breaker. Soccer will be highest score differential at skill 5.

Tennis will not require mere pictures. It will require video proof and 6-0, 6-0s all around. The only way a score that is not 6-0, 6-0 to count is if both players suck so much they can't do it against the CPU. In that case, highest score difference in the sets will win.

The tie breaker will be pretty straight forward. Score as many 6-0, 6-0s you can in a row. Stop when you don't score one or your mind breaks down. It will be PURE endurance.

No can do, no.