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Dukasaur Hall Of Fame Thread
Naturally, there is sample bias, since I was only seeking the opinions of players in my tournaments of a similar type. There's no pretense here that these values are useful for any purpose other than the one I intended.Dukasaur wrote:Greetings, friends!
You are receiving this message because you signed up for one or more tournaments in my Best of 2011 series. The Best of 2012 series will be starting soon, but I have couple announcements to make first, and some decisions that I hope you will help me with.
First off: The Best of 2012 maps just don't excite me as much as the Best of 2011. Don't get me wrong -- some of them are pretty nice, but there's nothing that completely blows me away like Transsib1914 or Conquer Rome. (Well, Baltic Crusades has really captivated me, but for cross-consistency I am going with koontz's system and treating Baltic as a 2013 map.)
Consequently, I am going to continue the Best of 2011 series for at least three more tournaments (which will bring us to 8, at which point we qualify for a Grand Finale tourney.) The Best of 2012, on the other hand, will be no more than four or five tournaments and might only be three.
I would like your input on what settings you would like to see in the B of 2012s. It would be nice if I had the time to do all 16 of these possibilities, but I don't, and other tournament ideas are calling me. So, please follow the link below and help me narrow this down.
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/KXTCDNW
This is my first time using surveymonkey and I'm not very familiar with it, so please let me know if you have any problems.
The survey runs for a week, but please go do it now while it is fresh in your mind...
The survey results are not binding. The final decision is mine, and I want to have a lot of variety. Still, I of course will consider the results very carefully. Thank you for your time!
Oneyed wrote: Kraje in the CR:
ZČK (Západočeský kraj)
SČK (Severočeský kraj)
StČK (Středočeský kraj)
JČK (Jihočeský kraj)
VČK (Východočeský kraj)
SMK (Severomoravský kraj)
JMK (Jihomoravský kraj)
towns in the CR:
Praha
Beroun
Kladno
Karlovy Vary
Plzeň
Ústí n/Labem
Liberec
České Budějovice
Tábor
Hradec Králové
Pardubice
Olomouc
Ostrava
Brno
Jihlava
Kraje in the SR:
ZSK (Západoslovenský kraj)
SSK (Stredoslovenský kraj)
VSK (Východoslovenský kraj)
towns in the SR:
Bratislava
Nitra
Trenčín
Kúty
Banská Bystrica
Lučenec
Žilina
Košice
Prešov
Poprad
hope it helps you a little
Oneyed
Dukasaur wrote: Even after all these years, there are still a dozen maps that I haven't cross-mapped. There will be 12 tournaments in the series, one for each of these maps. In each tournament, you will attempt to teach me one map.
my worst maps
These are the maps I have not yet cross-mapped. There are a couple, like Krazy Kingdoms and Temple of Jinn, that I haven't really given a chance. There's others, like 1982, that I've tried over and over and over again but just can't figure out a winning strategy for. There's a few like WWII Eastern Front that I seem to understand but just seem to always have bad luck on. And then of course there's the vile mostrosity Hive, where just looking at the fucking thing is like driving a railroad spike between my eyes.
Pirates and Merchants ... 0 wins 0 unique kills
Rail Asia ... 0 wins 0 unique kills
Temple of Jinn ... 1 wins 1 unique kills
Krazy Kingdoms ... 2 wins 1 unique kills
WWII Eastern Front ... 2 wins (in 18 attempts!) 1 unique kills
1982 ... 3 wins (in 16 attempts!) 2 unique kills
Pot Mosbi ... 3 wins 3 unique kills
Vertex ... 3 wins 3 unique kills
Feudal Epic ... 3 wins (in 18 attempts!) 3 unique kills
Hive ... 2 wins (in 17 attempts!) 3 unique kills
2011 World Cup ... 1 wins 4 unique kills
Classic Cities Sydney ... 2 wins 4 unique kills
Just to be clear: each of the maps will be a separate tournament. THIS tournament is only for Sydney.
Eligibility: To play in this tournament, you must be Premium, and must MapRank positive on this map.Basic Games Procedure: 16 players will take turns teaching me the map in question. I will launch only one game at a time, and I expect it to be about 2 months to launch all 16 games. In each game, one player will be the Teacher, who will partner with me and attempt to explain the map to me. The Teacher will choose the settings. (No speed, no freestyle, and there must be a round limit. Other than that pretty much anything goes.) Two players will be randomly chosen to be the opponents. It's a limited random -- nobody will get their second game until everybody has had their first, and nobody will get their third until everybody has had their second. Thus, you will play a total of three games in the regular season, one as Teacher and two as Opponent.
- The current patched version of MapRank can be found HERE. It works for me both with Firefox and and up-to-date Greasemonkey and with Chrome and an up-to-date Tampermonkey. (Keep in mind, if you want to use it in Game Finder, it must be the olde version of Game Finder, NOT the new one.)
I will be present in all the regular games, but I will NOT score and I am NOT eligible to win the tournament.
Finals: Once all the regular games are done, the top four players will advance to the Finals. The top will be decided by:The top four players will play six games (every combination of four players possible) and for each pair of games I will ask the partners to jointly choose the settings.
- Total wins
- Wins as Teacher
- Solo wins (where you manage to pull out a win even though your partner has been killed)
- Fastest wins (sum of rounds of all games where you won.)
- Precedence (first to sign up.)
Epiphany Points: If at any point when you are the Teacher you say something that makes me see things in a new way or understand something I didn't understand before, you will get an Epiphany Point. Epiphany points have absolutely nothing to do with winning the tournament. However, I will total them over the 12 tournaments in the series, and the player with the most Epiphany Points after all 12 tournaments will win a prize, probably 1 year of premium. Perhaps I'll get a GA approved for that also. After I see how the first tournament goes I'll give this more thought.
Just a short 7 year breakDukasaur wrote:It's been quite a while since I updated this list.
