Holiday Season Retro Tournament - main thread

[Arvandor]

I'll join if it isn't too late! No promises as to how much I'll actually be able to play, but I'll do what I can =)

[shadowbringer]

I'll join the tournament and play whenever I have free time (though even with my vacations starting at 17th Dec, I think I'll have a lot of other interests/things to do as well, such as trying to keep up on manga/anime, trying to learn japanese from scratch, trying to speedrun achievements in fighting games (lol, good luck with matchmaking), etc. -- finishing them, though.. maybe :p)

[null1024]

This game makes me angry. Fucking spider comes and hits you in the face right before your last shot hits its target. Dicks.

[Captain]

Skipping this one due to some (stupid) issues.

[Ed Oscuro]

Most Cowardly
Shortest Innings
Lemming Award
Mostly Harmless
Where's the Ammo?

Also probably the worst game to appear in a Shmups tournament. Rubbing open sores is more enjoyable and won't cause you to break anything.

The spiders win Most Frantic and the beetle wins Most Dishonourable.

[Yazphier]

3) You can join the tournament at any time - obviously you'll be at a points disadvantage, you can skip games too - same thing happens.

.. then, I'm joining too ^^

[DocHauser]

Count me in too...

[system11]

Round 2!

http://shmups.system11.org/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=43823

Well, someone wanted Xevious, this is close enough Note the game settings please, the default is 'easy' and we're playing on 'normal'.

Round 1 scores can still be submitted up until 8PM GMT today.

[null1024]

Oh hey, this is fun. Much less frustrating than Millipede.

[Jeneki]

Well crap, did I just space the first round? Time to put Under Defeat back in the case.

[EmperorIng]

Finals week more or less kept me out of serious competition for the first round, but I'm rearin' to come back and take you all by storm this time!

[system11]

Round 3!

http://shmups.system11.org/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=43887

[Captain]

I'm officially outta here.

[system11]

Round 4 - final round, make it count!

http://shmups.system11.org/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=43943

[system11]

Zerst wins the 2012/13 Holiday Season Retro Tournament!

Thanks to those who made the time to take part, I'll run this one again next year. I had a lot of fun picking the games out, hope you enjoyed at least some of them Full results are in the first post for the best 20 players.

[yyr]

Thank you for running this. I was busy with other things so I only got to play a couple hours on each game, but I had a great time =) And now I've gotten my feet wet with a tournament here, so I'm psyched for the next one!

[Nifty]

Between here and SDA, I believe that's made four mini-tournaments from last year that I've finished second in

I don't know if this is a good habit or not

[Frenetic]

system11, thanks so much for running this tournament. I loved these retro games and it was a real joy to play these for score. great competition too, got my blood pumpin'!

--the F-man

[xient]

Thanks system11! It was my first time participating in a score competition and I thought it was great fun.

[Herr Schatten]

system11, thanks so much for running this tournament. I loved these retro games and it was a real joy to play these for score. great competition too, got my blood pumpin'!

I couldn't have said it better. Thanks so much for running the event.

[Captain]

The games were too retro.