I mentioned this idea in the server a few days ago and already got quite a lot of interest, so I'm going to be hosting a capture the flag tournament. Here's what's going to happen:
-Get together a team of 4 people. You can have a team leader if you think you need one, or not.
-Ops can compete, but each team must have no more than 1 op to keep it fair. Keep in mind that you may have to referee some matches.
-Maps will be chosen randomly among the following: arena, castles, outpost, factory, and Britannia. If your team doesn't like the map that gets given to them, they can choose a new one to use.
-Ladder-style organization will be used.
-If there is a disruption (lag spike, crash, game-breaking bug, hacker) then the game that was going on at the time will be redone.
-An op will referee each game and record the scores and send them to me. Any team that breaks the rules intentionally will get one warning, then they will be disqualified.
-The player limit will be set to 10: 8 players, a referee, and a possible spectator. Keeping the limit this low should cut down on the lag.
-The server IRC will be used to coordinate stuff.
Additional info, posted by Makoto:
Tournament day:
- Everybody's points set at 550. Regardless of points now. Kills are 10 points, and captures are 30.
- No joining teams. OPs will force people on the team. This way, we make sure OPs are valid, and are paying attention.
- During the tournament, Ranks will not be updated. REMEMBER THIS!
- If OPs cannot perform that service, then replacement OPs will be judged rightfully and temporarily.
- If one of your teammates leave the game, that is fault on your team.
- Minimum per team: 2, if the number of players drop to 1, the team forfeits.
- PLAN AHEAD. Make sure you are available to play that day and time.
- Instead of playing 2 rounds. Matches will be up to 7 instead of 5.
- Whether you leave during a match is not our fault, but yours.
DO NOT ASK FOR TEMP OP.
Here's how this works.
YOU>Find 3 other people>Post a request, regardless if another person has posted one of your members already. PM THEM FIRST.
We: Will have the final decisions on teams. End. We will split the teams up equally so there are no complaints and the match is fair.
I'm not going to set a date yet, I'm going to let everyone sign up that wants to and get the brackets organized.
You can use this thread to discuss the tournament and your teams, once you get a final team decided on have one of the members or the leader PM me.
That would be a GREAT IDEA! I love your ideas RealG.(: Although since it's only a temporary thing. I think somebody else should host it so it's lag free and fair. It's not like you're going to update amidst the contest.
After each team is assembled, under respectfully and equally chosen members for each team. The teams will think of the official team name representing them.
Remember, during the match, bias opinions whether red or blue is better is absolute and not tolerated. Enjoy finding partners.
Ok so since CTF is connected to Andrew's VPS we can use that server (or both if we have enough teams). Some rules to add.
No pressing R. This will absolutely not be tolerated. You will be kicked from the game and your team will be forced to play a man down. Or perhaps harsher, your team will be disqualified. I am nice so I choose the first option.
Once times have been set up we should set a time limit for teams to show up or a default will occur. Perhaps 5 - 10 min?
Jacob if you can make it so specs can also not build. We could allow specs flying around in the game which would be great.
Finally the last issue is lag. If the lag on a game is too great for some reason or another(hopefully flist doesnt break down again) the games should be paused. However that should be determined by ops. (EDIT: oops, I seemed to have missed that you already posted about lag spikes)
Maps: Let me handle this. I have already laid out 3 equally challenging and well thought out maps. Total custom maps: 7. I shall make these maps especially for the tournament. Nobody but Jacob and me is allowed to have a look. Tournaments are to be dealt with in the most sensitive scenarios.
Tournament day:
- Everybody's points set at 550. Regardless of points now. Kills are 10 points, and captures are 30.
- We need to add more features.
- Jacob_, I suggest you copy the codes. And alter the 2nd copy to fit standards.
- No joining teams. OPs will force people on the team. This way, we make sure OPs are valid, and are paying attention.
- During the tournament, Ranks will not be updated. REMEMBER THIS!
- If OPs cannot perform that service, then replacement OPs will be judged rightfully and temporarily.
- If one of your teammates leave the game, that is fault on your team.
- Minimum per team: 2, if the number of players drop to 1, the team forfeits.
- PLAN AHEAD. Make sure you are available to play that day and time.
- Instead of playing 2 rounds. Matches will be up to 7 instead of 5.
- Whether you leave during a match is not our fault, but yours.
DO NOT ASK FOR TEMP OP.
Here's how this works.
YOU>Find 3 other people>Post a request, regardless if another person has posted one of your members already. PM THEM FIRST.
We: Will have the final decisions on teams. End. We will split the teams up equally so there are no complaints and the match is fair.
Makoto's group so far:
- Me
- Undeceived
- .Snake
- Amba
Oh an interesting idea. About ranks not being updated. How about we will have a special tourney rank chart. It will be temporary while tourney is ongoing. Perhaps winner of rankings gets MVP of CTF <-- Just a title nothing more.
Oh an interesting idea. About ranks not being updated. How about we will have a special tourney rank chart. It will be temporary while tourney is ongoing. Perhaps winner of rankings gets MVP of CTF <-- Just a title nothing more.
Oh an interesting idea. About ranks not being updated. How about we will have a special tourney rank chart. It will be temporary while tourney is ongoing. Perhaps winner of rankings gets MVP of CTF <-- Just a title nothing more.
I like it, maybe the winning team could get something in their sig?
- Everybody's points set at 550. Regardless of points now. Kills are 10 points, and captures are 30.
Are you talking about store points, or rank points?
Too lazy to quote everyone else, lol.
* I might make an image that you can add to your sig to show your ranking, then add some extra code so the winner's looks different. Also, a gold-colored name on the server, and maybe if the mods are ok with it, they could get a custom forum title as well.
* A separate scoreboard would be doable, this would make it easy to reset everyone's store points to 550 as well.
* I just removed building ability for specs, that should have been fixed a long time ago. There will only be room for 1 spec though, due to lag.
* Kicking a member of the team off if they cheat is probably better than just DQing all of them, this way you can't sabotage your own team if you get mad... If 2 people cheat, then they are DQ'd.
* (Just coded this) Players will be forced onto a random color team by the referee, this will eliminate pointless arguing and time-wasting over which color to join.
* I will probably make the matches go up to 7, that's is a good idea.
RealG, I like the Clan Olympics idea, but I'm not too sure how to integrate it with the tournament. Most of the people on the list I've never seen on this server, and also the teams have 3 players instead of 4.
If you would like, I could send you the server once I get the mods done if you wanted to host your own as part of the Olympics, also I sent it to Dysgalt last week so he may be working on adding it to D3.
oooh i like the gold name idea. Perhaps if we have more tourneys in the future this gold name will be transferred from champion to champion like a boxing belt.
As for olympics. We could have the tourney conincide before, during, or after the olympics. While it may not be the olympics it could perhaps a warmup for it?
Also i think in the olympics they said they would add no more games
-Get together a team of 4 people. You can have a team leader if you think you need one, or not.
-Ops can compete, but each team must have no more than 1 op to keep it fair. Keep in mind that you may have to referee some matches.
-Maps will be chosen randomly among the following: arena, castles, outpost, factory, and Britannia. If your team doesn't like the map that gets given to them, they can choose a new one to use.
-Ladder-style organization will be used.
-If there is a disruption (lag spike, crash, game-breaking bug, hacker) then the game that was going on at the time will be redone.
-An op will referee each game and record the scores and send them to me. Any team that breaks the rules intentionally will get one warning, then they will be disqualified.
-The player limit will be set to 10: 8 players, a referee, and a possible spectator. Keeping the limit this low should cut down on the lag.
-The server IRC will be used to coordinate stuff.
Additional info, posted by Makoto:
I'm not going to set a date yet, I'm going to let everyone sign up that wants to and get the brackets organized.
You can use this thread to discuss the tournament and your teams, once you get a final team decided on have one of the members or the leader PM me.
Finished teams:
viewtopic.php?f=3&t=12292
VICTORY'AN #2
Edit: Unless koto will have me?:biggrin.gif:
Remember, during the match, bias opinions whether red or blue is better is absolute and not tolerated. Enjoy finding partners.
No pressing R. This will absolutely not be tolerated. You will be kicked from the game and your team will be forced to play a man down. Or perhaps harsher, your team will be disqualified. I am nice so I choose the first option.
Once times have been set up we should set a time limit for teams to show up or a default will occur. Perhaps 5 - 10 min?
Jacob if you can make it so specs can also not build. We could allow specs flying around in the game which would be great.
Finally the last issue is lag. If the lag on a game is too great for some reason or another(hopefully flist doesnt break down again) the games should be paused. However that should be determined by ops. (EDIT: oops, I seemed to have missed that you already posted about lag spikes)
Tournament day:
- Everybody's points set at 550. Regardless of points now. Kills are 10 points, and captures are 30.
- We need to add more features.
- Jacob_, I suggest you copy the codes. And alter the 2nd copy to fit standards.
- No joining teams. OPs will force people on the team. This way, we make sure OPs are valid, and are paying attention.
- During the tournament, Ranks will not be updated. REMEMBER THIS!
- If OPs cannot perform that service, then replacement OPs will be judged rightfully and temporarily.
- If one of your teammates leave the game, that is fault on your team.
- Minimum per team: 2, if the number of players drop to 1, the team forfeits.
- PLAN AHEAD. Make sure you are available to play that day and time.
- Instead of playing 2 rounds. Matches will be up to 7 instead of 5.
- Whether you leave during a match is not our fault, but yours.
DO NOT ASK FOR TEMP OP.
Here's how this works.
YOU>Find 3 other people>Post a request, regardless if another person has posted one of your members already. PM THEM FIRST.
We: Will have the final decisions on teams. End. We will split the teams up equally so there are no complaints and the match is fair.
Makoto's group so far:
- Me
- Undeceived
- .Snake
- Amba
I was totally thinking of this.
I like it, maybe the winning team could get something in their sig?
Are you talking about store points, or rank points?
Too lazy to quote everyone else, lol.
* I might make an image that you can add to your sig to show your ranking, then add some extra code so the winner's looks different. Also, a gold-colored name on the server, and maybe if the mods are ok with it, they could get a custom forum title as well.
* A separate scoreboard would be doable, this would make it easy to reset everyone's store points to 550 as well.
* I just removed building ability for specs, that should have been fixed a long time ago. There will only be room for 1 spec though, due to lag.
* Kicking a member of the team off if they cheat is probably better than just DQing all of them, this way you can't sabotage your own team if you get mad... If 2 people cheat, then they are DQ'd.
* (Just coded this) Players will be forced onto a random color team by the referee, this will eliminate pointless arguing and time-wasting over which color to join.
* I will probably make the matches go up to 7, that's is a good idea.
RealG, I like the Clan Olympics idea, but I'm not too sure how to integrate it with the tournament. Most of the people on the list I've never seen on this server, and also the teams have 3 players instead of 4.
If you would like, I could send you the server once I get the mods done if you wanted to host your own as part of the Olympics, also I sent it to Dysgalt last week so he may be working on adding it to D3.
As for olympics. We could have the tourney conincide before, during, or after the olympics. While it may not be the olympics it could perhaps a warmup for it?
Also i think in the olympics they said they would add no more games