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Ladies and GENTLEMEN! Be prepared for ACTION, for the pools phase of our highly expected tournament starts NOW! The brackets and game picks are: @Dr. Morbis vs @Mega Tank - Pooyan @NESfiend vs @Ausden - Chase HQ @PII vs @FireHazard51 - Chase HQ @0xDEAFC0DE vs @MegaMan52 - Kero Kero Keroppi no Daibouken @mbd39 vs @JamesRobot - Pooyan @bertsampson vs @the_wizard_666 - Kero Kero Keroppi no Daibouken @Krunch vs @docile tapeworm - Challenger @Jeevan vs @Bearcat-Doug - Challenger The rules for the games are as follow: Pooyan: Play till game over Highest score wins. Chase HQ: One life only. You may not use any continues. Highest score wins If you beat stage 7, take your picture at the capture screen Kero Kero Keroppi no Daibouken: Play till game over Highest score wins If you make to world 8, stage 8, take your picture right before you finish it. Challenger: Start at the default difficulty setting 1 life only Highest score wins If you roll the score, take a picture before rolling it. Score rolls at 6,553,500 points You can loop the game as many times as you desire. You may begin competing to see who will advance to the top 8. Game on! The pools phase ends Sunday, 11/28/21 at midnight 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

I will open a new thread for this then.

Adjusted the rules to state that. Start at the default difficulty settings and loop the game and the score as many times as you feel like.

Place better next time so you can actually pick the game you want to play.

Game picks and rules posted at page 1. You may commence the carnage.

We have our last fighter. @Mega Tank accepted the invitation and will be trading blows with @Dr. Morbis at round 1!

@8bitdontquit hasn't answered it. I will extend the invitation for the next in line.

@arnpolydidn't reply so far, so he is out. I will extend the invitation for the next ones in line and update later today. I was to update you all on this matter yesterday, but I crashed hard after working 40 hours straight and being up for 48 hours total.

Whence, post your picks in order.

@PII, @0xDEAFC0DE, @mbd39, @bertsampson, @Krunch and @Jeevan, please post your picks in order.

Since @Dr. Morbis picked his game, now @NESfiend can pick his.

Ausden is in, so we're now only waiting for @arnpoly If he doesn't answer till tomorrow, I will extend the invitation to the next one in line.

Some of which I am forcing poor, unsuspecting NES players to experience through this weekly contest. I am so evil!

We are now waiting on @Ausden and @arnpolyto confirm if they will partake in the tournament. Meanwhile, Dr. Morbis, NESfiend, PII, 0xDEAFC0DE, mbd39, bertsampson, Krunch and Jeevan can pick a game from the list, starting from @Dr. Morbis.

All 8 upper seed players have accepted and we are 3 players short of closing the full bracket. Today the top 8 players will be allowed to pick the game they wish to play, with seed 1 picking the game first, 2nd next and so on till the 8th has picked their game. With luck, by today's end, we will have our complete bracket and the rules for each game posted.

So far, two players refused the invitation due to being very busy. A round of applause for them for their valiant run in the VGS NES Weekly Contest!

It isn't true, but there is nothing stopping me from using games from this year contest to pad out the grand finals. Aka, don't be surprised if you have to run through Antarctica for score again to help with your grand finals standings.

Famicom multicarts on NES clones were all the rage in the late 80s and early 90s in Brazil.

We have our game selections and the brackets are set. @Dr. Morbis vs @Mega Tank - Pooyan @NESfiend vs @Ausden - Chase HQ @PII vs @FireHazard51 - Chase HQ @0xDEAFC0DE vs @MegaMan52 - Kero Kero Keroppi no Daibouken @mbd39 vs @JamesRobot - Pooyan @bertsampson vs @the_wizard_666 - Kero Kero Keroppi no Daibouken @Krunch vs @docile tapeworm - Challenger @Jeevan vs @Bearcat-Doug - Challenger The rules for the games are as follow: Pooyan: Play till game over Highest score wins. Chase HQ: One life only. You may not use any continues. Highest score wins If you beat stage 7, take your picture at the capture screen Kero Kero Keroppi no Daibouken: Play till game over Highest score wins If you make to world 8, stage 8, take your picture right before you finish it. Challenger: Start at the default difficulty setting 1 life only Highest score wins If you roll the score, take a picture before rolling it. Score rolls at 6,553,500 points You can loop the game as many times as you desire. You may begin competing to see who will advance to the top 8. Game on!

Hello and welcome! @guillavoie and I have the honour to present the 2021 VGS NES Tournament, which picks the top 16 players of the season to play among themselves to decide the 2021 VGS NES Tournament Champion. @Dr. Morbis was already crowned the 2021 VGS NES Weekly Contest Champion and will have the chance to add another title to his collection should he choses to play in the tournament. While we wait for our top 16 players to confirm their participation and see if we will have to hunt for replacements, here are how the things will run for this tournament. 21th to 28th - Pools, single elimination, 16 players. 28th to 5th - top 8, single elimination, 8 players 5th to 12th - Grand finals, 4 players, everyone against everyone. For Pools and Top 8, a selection of games will be given for the top seeded players to pick. The seeding for Pools 1 will be as follow: Bracket 1: 1st place vs 16th place Bracket 2: 2nd place vs 15th place Bracket 3: 3rd place vs 14th place Bracket 4: 4th place vs 13th place Bracket 5: 5th place vs 12th place Bracket 6: 6th place vs 11th place Bracket 7: 7th place vs 10th place Bracket 8: 8th place vs 9th place The seeding for top 8 will be as follow: Winner of bracket 1 vs winner of bracket 8 Winner of bracket 2 vs winner of bracket 7 Winner of bracket 3 vs winner of bracket 6 Winner of bracket 4 vs winner of bracket 5 The games for Pools are below: Pooyan (shooter) Challenger (plataformer) Kero Kero Keroppi no Daibouken (puzzle) Ninja Hattori-kun (action) Taito Chase H.Q. (racing) The games for top 8 will be revealed at the end of the Pools phase. Confirmed players: @Dr. Morbis @Krunch @0xDEAFC0DE @docile tapeworm @bertsampson @NESfiend @Bearcat-Doug @Jeevan @PII @the_wizard_666 @FireHazard51 @mbd39 @Ausden @MegaMan52 @JamesRobot @Mega Tank Good luck for all the players. Expect some nastiness in game selection for top 8 and for the grand finals.

Geral and genre scoreboards updated. This ends the main VGS 2021 NES Weekly Contest run and we are getting set for the tournament now. Congratulations to @Dr. Morbis for securing the VGS 2021 NES Weekly Contest Platformer crown by a mere 2 points!

Final standings posted. @PII and @NESfiend score updates happened after midnight, Brazilia time, so they were not counted. Fun fact, if we were observing DST, y'all would have lost another hour to post your scores. With this, @Dr. Morbis is the 2021 Platformer Genre champion! Congratulations. I will update the final standings on the leaderboard and send the invitation PMs now.

PMs with the tournaments invitations will be sent to the top 16 tomorrow and to the 8 that form the top 24 to cover any players from the top 16 that don't accept the invitation.

Current standings posted. Tomorrow night I will post the tournament thread where the top 8 will pick their game and next weekend we start playing!

Geral and genre scoreboards updated.