The AVS Knockout Tournament!

Woooh, bring on the next title 😁

Doggy Dog, Nixa had 12 points + whatever you gave him.

do these points have any affect on future rounds?

Nixa got 22 points overall he goes in 3rd position alongwith Nic01 and Shreyas,sorry i forgot to type it earlier.

Congratulations, M^2k 🙂

Wow, 2nd is not bad at all 🙂.

Originally posted by siddhartha_one
do these points have any affect on future rounds?

I was wondering the same thing. It would make a big difference on the final outcome. Personally, I don't think they should be accumulative. If we did do it that way, then I don't think that we should kick anybody out each round. Just go 3-5 rounds and then take the final scores and determine the winner. But since we are kicking people out each round I don't think the scores should continue to add up.

Good decision anubis, just slightly offtopic here but shouldn't it go to the point where there are quarter finals, semi finals and finals.

wow...i'm amazed. 😁

Could you guys please start next round not before tuesday? Otherwise i will be out too as my company send s me somewhere else next week where no pc + no i-net. So i could still do it when i arrive.

Thnx.

Is that alright with everyone else? It doesn't matter to me.

yes

I know I have like no clout, but here's a theme I'd really like to see: Paranoya. His presets are still some of my favorites, and I haven't seen anything like them in a long while.

klowndes you could have pm'ed me if you had an idea.

Sorry, I don't post much here, usually just browse. But now I guess my idea's out in the wild.

3d, place, quite a good start 🙂

umm, paranoya's style is boring, unoriginal, and way too easy to replicate.


and i hate you all.
bastards.

😠 😔 😢 🧟

ok, I am in the contest, so it is not fair from me to give suggestions, but anyway, Ishan and anubis, quickly decide what the next theme should be...😁

I have a suggestion, how about if we do this again we actually have the tournament. eg Name V Name, Name V Name, Name V Name unitl we have the quarter, smis and finally the final. Just thought i'd put that in here for the next time around because i don't think this is going to be implemented now.

Then names should be selected along scores from the past round. It would be much fairer if I for example would compete against Magic.X than against m^2k. I don't know if it's doable, the differences are quite high. But we might do it in a future tournament.

Btw. How very remarkably friendly and relevant are you again, Atero 😛, even if your right. I agree on it that we shouldn't start replicating other peoples styles. The tournament was about own styles, right? We could use the word paranoya as theme, just like other words like fire, water, digital, and so on. But we shouldn't start copying other peoples styles.

And even if we'd start copying other peoples styles, we should not take somebody like Paranoya, but earlier someone like El-Vis or Tuggummi. Not UnConed for sure, he's too hard for the major part of us.

No replicating styles is my opinion. Why would you want a whole bunch of presets that all look like past presets, come on the idea was to be creative not copy someones own style. Besides if you like paranoyas presets then watch paranoya presets, you don't need new ones.

Raz: Let's not have a knockout tournament (like I think you're saying) because people can get knocked out in the first round against someone who was just really lucky to get a subject he was good at. Example:

First round is someonenotgoodatmath vs. UnConeD and the subject subject is krazy cool ray traced crap. Someonenotgoodatmath might be able to beat UnConeD while making any other type of preset, but he just happens to get this one and get knocked out unfairly.

I say the best contest would be: judges say "make a preset with just a superscope, a preset with no custom-programmable parts, a remix of BLANK, a copy of El-Vis's style, a preset that is clearly inspired by the title "giant orange hippo wearing a tutu", a good use of XOR, and a flow preset. No re-using old material. start NOW, submit your pack within fifteen days." and then after fifteen days the judges look through all the packs and gives each preset a score out of 10 points. The sum of each of the judges scores for a pack = the pack's total score. The judges can't talk to eachother or anyone else about the quality of the presets until they have all submitted their scores to the head judge (who doesn't vote and is a trustworthy person). The head judge releases the total scores after he recieves all the other judge's scores.

I think that this would be the fastest and fairest way to do a competition...

it's really too confusing for me🙁

Nice idea for a comp but i still like my isea, so what if people get knocked out straight away, they should've been better in that area, and anyway, it shouldn't be raytracing because only a few can do that, it should be a title, you know something anything can be done with.

A knockout tournament would have to be combined with a league, at least if this tournament's contestant amount is something to go after.

Again raz, what if someone who isn't that good just happens to come up with a really good preset based on "satan's fearsome sci fi space furby" one round and knocks out someone who otherwise would've won the tournament but just couldn't come up with a good interpretation. Just two presets (one from each opponent) isn't enough material to decide who's the best overall imho. I could be wrong.

Why don't we just do both types of tournament, one after the other or at the same time...

edit: runar, it won't be about something to go after.

yeah that was my point, do another tournament like i said. Ad if you can't come up with a good interpretation, tough, you should've done. It doesn't matter what they could've done, it's what they do. Rival tournaments aren't meant to be user friendly, they're supposed to be complex and intimidating, and if you fail, you lose, you're off the team, tough. Just because some good people might get knocked out doesn't mean it's not a good idea, if they're such good avsers they wont get knocked out. You see my point?

Just because some good people might get knocked out doesn't mean it's not a good idea, if they're such good avsers they wont get knocked out. You see my point?

Ok, wait a minute....

some good people might get knocked out

if they're such good avsers they wont get knocked out.

No, I don't get your point.

But I understand that if the idea of the tournament is more to create fun competition than to decide who's necessarily the best contestant, then a knockout tournament might be the best. So that's why I say do both types of tournament since both have their good points, and you seem to agree, so let's stop arguing.

Nah my idea was so that we can have a _proper_ tournament 😛

This is like trying to talk to a giant orange hippo while wearing a tutu and not feeling just a little bit silly.

Do whatever, I give up.