INSERT COIN - FORUM BATTLE 2009

Skykid · Post by **Skykid** » Fri May 08, 2009 11:53 pm

Welcome to the first major cross forum gaming battle, being held at Insert Coin 2009 to win a £100 cash prize!

APPLICATION INFORMATION:
It’s time to see which is the greatest gaming forum of them all!
Five people will be chosen to represent each of the major gaming forums, and those five will head into battle at Insert Coin to see which forum is gaming king across a variety of genres. It's all in the name of good fun, and totally free to enter, so why not have a go!

Currently we're looking for people to captain for their forum, and then rally up four additional members. Please make all applications via PM for captaincy. The captain's will be providing all correspondence, so once nominated simply need to let us know who his/her team are, and we're good to go!

The winning team not only gets to crown their forum champion and take home this years Insert Coin Forum Battle cup, but will also win £100 cash!

Please send a PM if interested in captaining your forum!

COMPETITION GAMES

SHMUPS
1: PROGEAR NO ARASHI – SCORE BATTLE (JAPANESE DEFAULT SETTING/AUTO C ENABLED/1 CREDIT FOR EACH TEAM'S NOMINATED MEMBER/HIGHEST SCORE WINS THE ROUND)

BEAT-EM-UPS
2: STREET FIGHTER ZERO 2 (MAX 3 NOMINATED MEMBERS/KNOCKOUT HEATS/LAST MAN STANDING WINS FOR THEIR TEAM)

PUZZLE:
3: MR DRILLER G (1 GO PER MEMBERS OF EACH TEAM/EGYPT STAGE 2000 METERS/HIGHEST COLLECTIVE SCORE WINS FOR THEIR TEAM)

RACING:
4:INITIAL D (ALL MEMBERS TO RACE ON ORIGINAL COURSE/TEAM WITH MOST WINS TAKES THE POINT FOR THEIR TEAM/)

5: FINAL CHALLENGE: TBC...

FORUMS IN BATTLE

ARCADEOTAKU
Captain: Charlie Chong
MarkedKiller
Nightstalker
Tetsujin
Neo Nate

SHMUPS.COM
Captain: Will Freeman (Spadgy)
Mulletgeezer
msm
RGC
Smraedis

NEO EMPIRE
Captain:----
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JAMMA+
Captain:----
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DO YOU HAVE A FORUM YOU'D LIKE TO GET INVOLVED? FEEL FREE TO CONTACT US WITH THE DETAILS!

RULES:
All entry is free. All teams MUST fill their spaces (5 members per team) or can not compete. Details are subject to change.

See you there!

jpj · Post by **jpj** » Sat May 09, 2009 12:11 am

i thought charlie was heading up an AO team ..?

poolchamp · Post by **poolchamp** » Sat May 09, 2009 10:09 am

He IS

sven666 · Post by **sven666** » Sat May 09, 2009 10:31 am

oh man this is cool, ill see if we cant get an arkadtorget.se team together and come over to kick all your asses..

Skykid · Post by **Skykid** » Sat May 09, 2009 11:02 am

poolchamp wrote:He IS

My bad, post updated, Charlie added as captain of AO!

mr_m0nks · Post by **mr_m0nks** » Sat May 09, 2009 11:03 am

do we need cheerleaders?

poolchamp · Post by **poolchamp** » Sat May 09, 2009 12:16 pm

sven666 wrote:oh man this is cool, ill see if we cant get an arkadtorget.se team together and come over to kick all your asses..

That would be ace mt8 if you want me to send you a page so you can post on the forum .

Aslo i have 3 german looking for team mt8 on the day .

Regards Alan

Marshall banana · Post by **Marshall banana** » Sat May 09, 2009 12:58 pm

mr_m0nks wrote:do we need cheerleaders?

Skykid · Post by **Skykid** » Sat May 09, 2009 8:05 pm

mr_m0nks wrote:do we need cheerleaders?

Monks, are you getting involved? I'm sure Spadgy will be representing on Progear (where is Spadgy btw?!)

sven666 · Post by **sven666** » Mon May 11, 2009 1:30 pm

poolchamp wrote:
sven666 wrote:oh man this is cool, ill see if we cant get an arkadtorget.se team together and come over to kick all your asses..
That would be ace mt8 if you want me to send you a page so you can post on the forum .

Aslo i have 3 german looking for team mt8 on the day .

Regards Alan

cool!

scoping interest right now, we have a small shmeet this weekend and ill check with the people then

Skykid · Post by **Skykid** » Mon May 11, 2009 4:37 pm

sven666 wrote:
poolchamp wrote:
sven666 wrote:oh man this is cool, ill see if we cant get an arkadtorget.se team together and come over to kick all your asses..
That would be ace mt8 if you want me to send you a page so you can post on the forum .

Aslo i have 3 german looking for team mt8 on the day .

Regards Alan
cool!

scoping interest right now, we have a small shmeet this weekend and ill check with the people then

Good work Sven, get it sorted!

mr_m0nks · Post by **mr_m0nks** » Mon May 11, 2009 4:57 pm

Skykid wrote:
mr_m0nks wrote:do we need cheerleaders?
Monks, are you getting involved? I'm sure Spadgy will be representing on Progear (where is Spadgy btw?!)

my attendance can not be confirmed at this date, I hope to go but I have allot going on at the moment.

Spadgy was in America last I heard, i think he is back though as he was on XBLive last night.

Skykid · Post by **Skykid** » Fri May 22, 2009 9:38 am

Arcadeotaku has formed a full team, thread updated!

If you're a member of shmups and want to use your skills, it's free to enter - just for fun.

PM Spadgy as he's the shmups captain!

Post by **spadgy** » Fri May 22, 2009 1:14 pm

Hello? What's this? Right - at work now but I'll read it later and we'll sort a team. Seems I'm a Captain.

I'll be on it Skykid - I promise!

msm · Post by **msm** » Fri May 22, 2009 1:59 pm

would there be any possibility/interest in a sort of B team? just wondered as i'm crap but would still quite like to take part

charlie chong · Post by **charlie chong** » Fri May 22, 2009 2:07 pm

dont worry msm it's not a serious affair

i've never even played initial d or sunset riders,can only just scrape through to the 5th level in progear and am ok at best at alpha 2 and mr driller. I just hope the final is a raizing game or a cave one i know

i wanna see yor war faces
grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
THIS IS ME

Skykid · Post by **Skykid** » Fri May 22, 2009 2:19 pm

msm wrote:would there be any possibility/interest in a sort of B team? just wondered as i'm crap but would still quite like to take part

Don't worry bud, it's the taking part that counts! Please PM Spadgy to confirm.

P_HAT · Post by **P_HAT** » Fri May 22, 2009 3:10 pm

WTF

STREET FIGHTER ZERO 2 SUX (well, not really, but still odd choice)

Play SF2!!!!

jpj · Post by **jpj** » Fri May 22, 2009 4:10 pm

P_HAT wrote: Play SF2!!!!

for real :awe:

msm · Post by **msm** » Fri May 22, 2009 6:15 pm

thanks charlie, Skykid, i will pm spadgy. not too bothered about taking part unless it's for some sort of team looser though, i don't cope well with pressure

anyone know if you can get a home console version of this initial D game? and would the arcade machine have a steering wheel?

Skykid · Post by **Skykid** » Fri May 22, 2009 7:39 pm

msm wrote:thanks charlie, Skykid, i will pm spadgy. not too bothered about taking part unless it's for some sort of team looser though, i don't cope well with pressure

anyone know if you can get a home console version of this initial D game? and would the arcade machine have a steering wheel?

ID is unconfirmed - it could be ID3, we're not 100%. It could even change to Sega Rally 3 closer to the time (that's to try to give everyone a fairer advantage as it's a newer release). Just watch this space.

msm, you're a modest chap - don't worry about yer skillz, the team will organise who plays what, and not everyone has to take part in every challenge.

RGC · Post by **RGC** » Fri May 22, 2009 8:12 pm

Lordstar · Post by **Lordstar** » Fri May 22, 2009 8:14 pm

charlie chong wrote:dont worry msm it's not a serious affair
i've never even played initial d or sunset riders,can only just scrape through to the 5th level in progear and am ok at best at alpha 2 and mr driller. I just hope the final is a raizing game or a cave one i know

i wanna see yor war faces
grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
THIS IS ME

thats epic that dude. Oldschool avatar for you

Skykid · Post by **Skykid** » Fri May 22, 2009 9:10 pm

RGC wrote:I'd be up for any kind of tournament, even if it means getting my arse whipped. But, there's a fair chance I'll only be around for the Saturday now, and I'm guessing the contest will run over both days Still, if you need a part-timer, I could definitely balance out against any deficiencies in the opposition.

I think it's on the saturday only afaik - hopefully this will remain the case. It makes more sense and lessens the chances of people not being able to make it on day 2.

RGC, PM Spadgy if you're up for it.

And it's all about SFZ2!

RGC · Post by **RGC** » Fri May 22, 2009 9:23 pm

poolchamp · Post by **poolchamp** » Fri May 22, 2009 9:29 pm

You can have a b team if needed the more the better .

Or you could use a diff forum name sega naomi having trouble getting a team

msm · Post by **msm** » Fri May 22, 2009 10:40 pm

Skykid wrote:ID is unconfirmed - it could be ID3, we're not 100%. It could even change to Sega Rally 3 closer to the time (that's to try to give everyone a fairer advantage as it's a newer release). Just watch this space.

thanks for the info, only played initial d once before (in a full size moving car thing no less) so was thinking about getting some practice in, just in case!

Skykid · Post by **Skykid** » Fri May 22, 2009 10:52 pm

RGC wrote:Cool, I'll get on the case with that. Good thing I haven't played a 1on1 fighter since Zero/Alpha2 was released. It's the last game of the genre to be 'fresh' in mind.

And bar 3rd strike, the last SF game to be any good!

(Bring on that controversy, yeah!

)

mulletgeezer · Post by **mulletgeezer** » Fri May 22, 2009 11:31 pm

Skykid wrote:
RGC wrote:Cool, I'll get on the case with that. Good thing I haven't played a 1on1 fighter since Zero/Alpha2 was released. It's the last game of the genre to be 'fresh' in mind.
And bar 3rd strike, the last SF game to be any good!

(Bring on that controversy, yeah! )

Well said chap... and until recently I'd have agreed with you - When SFZ2 was released it was great but after playing Z2 and Z3 a few days ago I'd say Z3 is horribly broken but still fairly exciting, whereas Z2 now seems surprisingly dull and bereft of interesting possibilities... just like SF4! Still, I'd be interested in representin' at Z2 if the contest is held on the Saturday.

Skykid · Post by **Skykid** » Sat May 23, 2009 12:05 am

mulletgeezer wrote:
Skykid wrote:
RGC wrote:Cool, I'll get on the case with that. Good thing I haven't played a 1on1 fighter since Zero/Alpha2 was released. It's the last game of the genre to be 'fresh' in mind.
And bar 3rd strike, the last SF game to be any good!

(Bring on that controversy, yeah! )
Well said chap... and until recently I'd have agreed with you - When SFZ2 was released it was great but after playing Z2 and Z3 a few days ago I'd say Z3 is horribly broken but still fairly exciting, whereas Z2 now seems surprisingly dull and bereft of interesting possibilities... just like SF4! Still, I'd be interested in representin' at Z2 if the contest is held on the Saturday.

Excellent stuff Mulletgeezer, always nice to hear from you! Shoot Spadgy a PM, as Cap'n he's compiling a final list.

Z2 is a massively superior game to Z3, even if it doesn't have the same flamboyance. What counts is how tight the mechanics are - and you have to love the alpha counter. I couldn't ever find it dull, but each to their own.

SF4 doesn't even make it out of the starting blocks by comparison.