Shooting Game Tournament 2006

DEL · Post by **DEL** » Mon Aug 21, 2006 10:56 am

Danny · Post by **Danny** » Mon Aug 21, 2006 11:01 am

Hello who do I ask to join team underdog?

(yes btw I'm not that good but I feel like joining just for fun!)

Edge · Post by **Edge** » Mon Aug 21, 2006 11:20 am

Danny wrote:Hello who do I ask to join team underdog?

(yes btw I'm not that good but I feel like joining just for fun!)

Just post in this thread. And don't worry the whole competition is meant to be fun.

Heh, looks like we get some late entries too...

EDIT:
Here's the points earned per position on the team rankings (remember only the best 3 scores of on team count for this):

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Tier 1:
 1st      55pts
 2nd      52pts
 3rd      49pts

Tier 2:
 4th      46pts
 5th      44pts
 6th      42pts
 7th      40pts

Tier 3:
 8th      38pts
 9th      36pts
10th      34pts
11th      32pts
12th      30pts
13th      28pts

Tier 4:
14th      26pts
15th      25pts
16th      24pts
17th      23pts
18th      22pts
19th      21pts
20th      20pts
21st      19pts

Tier 5:
22nd      18pts
23rd      17pts
24th      16pts
25th      15pts
26th      14pts
27th      13pts
28th      12pts
29th      11pts
30th      10pts
31st       9pts
32nd       8pts

Tier 6:
33rd       7pts
34th       7pts
35th       6pts
36th       6pts
37th       5pts
38th       5pts
39th       4pts
40th       4pts
41st       3pts
42nd       3pts
43rd       2pts
44th       2pts
45th       1pt

DJ Incompetent · Post by **DJ Incompetent** » Mon Aug 21, 2006 1:11 pm

Edge wrote:DJ Incompetent:
Please don't take the banner designs too serious. I know you have probably put a lot effort into your logos. And if someone didn't like your result, don't get upset and instead try to see why he didn't like it and think of a way to improve those banners. Or to improve yourself for future projects.

That's at least what I try to do when I get harsh criteria for something i did.

huh??
er..advice appreciated, but naw, man. Nobody's losing sleep over logos on the internet. I didn't realize I was coming off as some sort of icycalm.

But yeah, seriously, new rule, if I ever sound emo on the interweb, read it off as pestimistic sarcasm..and then tell me I'm sounding emo in the internet. I couldn't stand to think I was being known as that guy.

Good times all around. But thanks anyways. Conveying tone on the internet is damn near tedious, isn't it.

Edge · Post by **Edge** » Mon Aug 21, 2006 3:32 pm

Hehehe, yeah maybe I am just a bit too worried that some argument could pop up out of nowhere...

Tychom wrote me an interesting PM, I wanted to share his thoughts with you:

There was some talk earlier in the thread about a separate (unofficial) ranking for individiual players so that we can see how well we've performed against other people we know (and want to humiliate ). I've just put together a python script that'll do such a thing so if people are interested I can post a table at the end of each round..

The main difference between this and the main table (posted by Edge just above) will be that individual scores will accumulate across the competition (rather than being swallowed and anonomized into the team score) and all submitted scores will be recorded rather than simply the top 3 per team with all others being discarded (hence the larger number of points available).

The main question I have regarding this would be the allocation of points for each player. So far I have the below table:

1st pos : 100pts
2nd pos : 92pts
3rd pos : 86pts
4th pos : 82pts
5th-8th : 3pt gaps (i.e. 79-70)
9th-18th : 2pt gaps (i.e. 68-50)
19th-67th: 1pt gaps (i.e. 49-1pt)

So the top players are rewarded with increasing score gaps over their nearest challengers with the tail closing in on each other.

Of course there are loads of different ways to allocate points and thats just one but I think it seems rather fair. An additional question will be what to do with those who dont participate one thing would be to allocate a straight 0 points to those people for the round, another would be to rank them all equally at the bottom of the chart. This in turn would mean a joint Nth place (e.g. around 50th) with an associated number of points (e.g. around 17) and its perhaps unfair to not participate yet still make up points.

Well, I just returned home and I am too tired to discuss this now in detail. But I wanted to implement something alike. And thanks for the suggestion, seems like a pretty solid system. Although sharing the points for those who didn't participate doesn't sound like such a good idea to me...

I'll post something about the individual scores tonight or tomorrow morning.

Tychom · Post by **Tychom** » Mon Aug 21, 2006 3:53 pm

I'm definately edging towards 0 points for a round you don't participate in. Its how I'm currently outputting results, e.g. something like this:

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#   Name        Team                       Total Points    Rounds
1   CRI         Underdogs                  100             100 (28,669,630)    0 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0)
2   Skyline     USA Westcoast               92             92  (10,475,010)    0 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0)
3   PlasmaBlooD Team Germany                86             86  (7,924,390)     0 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0)
4   Rob         Feka USA                    82             82  (7,883,480)     0 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0)
5   Edge        Team Germany                79             79  (6,216,350)     0 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0)
6   Ghegs       Team Skandinavia            76             76  (4,644,340)     0 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0)
7   crithit5000 Super Buffet Sitting Turbo  73             73  (1,097,400)     0 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0)
8   1up         Team Skandinavia             0             0   (0)             0 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0)
8   _Bnu        Team Loser                   0             0   (0)             0 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0)
8   Acid King   Drink & Fly                  0             0   (0)             0 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0)
8   aventus     Team Germany                 0             0   (0)             0 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0)
8   Belmont     Team Loser                   0             0   (0)             0 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0)
8   big_aug     Drink & Fly                  0             0   (0)             0 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0)
....

krius · Post by **krius** » Mon Aug 21, 2006 3:54 pm

nha i wanted to join the tournament ,even if i'm not too good ,but my computer just didn't want me to come on the forum anymore :/ .
i guess the inscription are closed now, anyway there isn't lot of free spot left in the teams.

cigsthecat · Post by **cigsthecat** » Mon Aug 21, 2006 6:32 pm

Here's a logo, if you guys don't like it let me know.

Post by **Icarus** » Mon Aug 21, 2006 6:36 pm

Wow, Great/Mahou Daisakusen. ^_^
(Can't tell exactly from the tiny screenshot.)
Needs ARE YOU GREAT? in it somewhere. ^_-

cigsthecat · Post by **cigsthecat** » Mon Aug 21, 2006 6:37 pm

It's Batrider. I had some other text in there but it's too small to bother with much else.

Post by **Icarus** » Mon Aug 21, 2006 6:40 pm

cigsthecat wrote:It's Batrider. I had some other text in there but it's too small to bother with much else.

Where in Batrider is the flaming red background? Or did you knock the ship out of its original background in Photoshop/etc and pasted it onto something else?
(I thought it was Great Mahou as stage2 has the red clouds.)

Looks good. ^_^

cigsthecat · Post by **cigsthecat** » Mon Aug 21, 2006 8:00 pm

The big head w/red bg is from the attract sequence, the ship is Gain pasted on.

oxtsu · Post by **oxtsu** » Mon Aug 21, 2006 11:09 pm

cigsthecat wrote:
Here's a logo, if you guys don't like it let me know.

Solid. Thanks for taking the time, cigs.

MarcoX · Post by **MarcoX** » Tue Aug 22, 2006 1:28 am

Please add me to team canada.

thanks

Turrican · Post by **Turrican** » Tue Aug 22, 2006 3:16 am

Ok, so, I cannot play Blazing Star. I suppose I had to officially announce it somewhere, so that my teammates (btw, welcome to Herr Schatten!) are prepared to this.

Looking forward to Terra Diver for the next week.

Post by **Icarus** » Tue Aug 22, 2006 3:31 am

Turrican wrote:Looking forward to Terra Diver for the next week.

Soukyugurentai is shortlisted for next week?

Turrican · Post by **Turrican** » Tue Aug 22, 2006 3:32 am

Icarus wrote:
Turrican wrote:Looking forward to Terra Diver for the next week.
Soukyugurentai is shortlisted for next week?

if there will be a poll, I'll vote that one - why not, it's Raizing. ^_^

cigsthecat · Post by **cigsthecat** » Tue Aug 22, 2006 3:44 am

Batrider Batrider Batrider

I don't understand Blazing Star yet :(

sven666 · Post by **sven666** » Tue Aug 22, 2006 5:20 am

cigsthecat wrote:Batrider Batrider Batrider

I don't understand Blazing Star yet

you and me both buddy.. i thought i was pretty down with this whole medal chaining by now.. but i guess i was wrong

ill6 · Post by **ill6** » Tue Aug 22, 2006 8:34 am

Can I be the first (I think) to suggest that we play for 2 weeks... I just came back from a weekend in a field and have a big project just land on me at work and need to go to Paris this weekend....

I will get some time in on the game but not much. Even if I had a full week something often comes up at work to scupper plans. Why not shorten the break to allow more play time and less break time? Its not like I will dent the scores anyway but maybe other people feel the same?

Tychom · Post by **Tychom** » Tue Aug 22, 2006 9:59 am

Also being away this weekend the idea of a little more time would suit me, perhaps 10 days playing, 4 days voting rather than a straight 7 - 7 split.

_Bnu · Post by **_Bnu** » Tue Aug 22, 2006 10:30 am

Team Apes officially condemns this!
You bunch of sissies! >:O

(Yeah, I'm just kidding.)

Gorecki · Post by **Gorecki** » Tue Aug 22, 2006 12:16 pm

Am I right in saying that if I join a team and then suck hard, it wont be to the detriment of the team since only the top 3 scores count?

I'm quite awful you see, yet would love to at least give this a shot. It sounds like fun.

NTSC-J · Post by **NTSC-J** » Tue Aug 22, 2006 12:37 pm

Edge wrote:No new players anymore, the tournament officially started.

Maybe we should put that in the thread title.

Belmont · Post by **Belmont** » Tue Aug 22, 2006 2:42 pm

I have the WORST luck...so yesterday i finially got Blazing Star to run flawlessly in mame and before work i got in a few games. I figure God doesnt want me to play shmups this week because while i was at work i got poked in the eye by a freakin eletrical wire! I guess im lucky because i didnt loose my eye and i can still see out of it, but its swollen up now and doesnt want to stay open. So yea in order to make this compitition fair i think we should add 26 million to my score just for good measure

Hopefully i will be able to play more later this week...because when i tried to last night i couldnt even beat my scores from the first time i ever picked up the game. Sorry team looser i thought we had a real shot at this one! (ok not really)

Post by **BulletMagnet** » Tue Aug 22, 2006 2:57 pm

We shall do our utmost to avenge the memory of our fallen Loser!

Guts · Post by **Guts** » Tue Aug 22, 2006 3:17 pm

You are right

Rob · Post by **Rob** » Tue Aug 22, 2006 5:20 pm

ill6 wrote:suggest that we play for 2 weeks...

I think it's good as is, so hell no. There are 5 other weeks.

Rob · Post by **Rob** » Tue Aug 22, 2006 6:40 pm

Giga Wing Generations better be the hidden gem week.

jpj · Post by **jpj** » Tue Aug 22, 2006 6:41 pm

how about six weeks of blazing star?