The second AVS tournament

having 3 judges is fair enough. If we would start a system which means everyone rates everybody's preset, that would go way too slow. Mostly because of people who aren't regulars or have dial-up connections and cannot therefor check everytime to rate every preset. I've changed my mind about the mailing thingie, I guess it's do-able just fine 🙂. And it's up to the judges to make some good topics about what we should do. I'm sure they'll start of easy for the newbies.

I don't really think they'd launch a topic like raytracing and if they did, i'd make up SSC ray and a SSC Crosshair that "traces" along the ray 😛

We aren't going to be choosing any topics where you have to have any sort of advanced knowledge. All of our topics will be more or less "themes" that you build your presets around.

As for judging, I see nothing wrong with what we did last time. Having everyone judge would make it end up taking a really long time.

I agree that there is no real point in such a convoluted judging system... it will just slow things down, even though it is fairer and generally better.

I wish I never made that post... it seems to have caused general disarray.. it was meant to be a joke. 🙁

we know 🙂, don't worry.

Yeah, i just made another one with the "raytrcing" preset

I'm waiting on Ishan's reply right now. I gave him some suggestions about the topic and such. Once he replies, and everyone gets back from vacation then we'll start. WOOT!

Anubis Sez....
I'm waiting on Ishan's reply right now. I gave him some suggestions about the topic and such. Once he replies, and everyone gets back from vacation then we'll start. WOOT!

Thanks for clearing that up 🙂

Me in, need sleep and recover from booze week now, just count me in.

Good to hear 🙂

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Who has still got to get back from vacation? Only Skupers, right?
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Atero too, I think.

hey i'm back 😁 i had gone out for a couple of days.
many people have joined. thats good👍

anubis: i have replied to your pm🙂

Ishan convinced me to join the tournament too.
So it seems that i'm in!

15 people so far, and atero should be back today. Is skupers gonna be in it?

Competitors:
Deamon
Jheriko
Horse-Fly
Zevensoft
Akuso
Siddhartha_one
S-uper_T-oast
geozop
Nic01
Atero
Pixelcraft
50slash05
Magic.X
Raz
Oussy

Judges:
Ishan_Rocky
anubis2003
Doggy Dog (?)

dunno, we're waiting for him to reply. Till that time signups are open to every one. After that I think we can get started 😁.

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I suggest 2 instead of 5 or so people get kicked out every round. Otherwise the round will go to fast. Just an idea, it's of course up to the judges. I prefer 2 each round.
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We do that though, and we'll have like 7 rounds. That's a lot of rounds. If that's what everyone wants then let's do that. Opinions anyone?

I think we should make it last a while.... maybe 3 a round

maybe 2 - 3 peops a round

Hmmm. Why do we kick anyone? We could sum up the points from every round in the end instead, so it will last as long peopel like! Besides this is much fairer, because noone gets kicked because he got a topic he couldnt be creative enough with.

(This has been proposed before and the majority agreed)

Sounds good. It'll be more fun for the people who otherwise be kicked out in the earlier rounds as well. If we have a knockout system, I think 2 or 3 people should be eliminated each round, though I generally like the idea of Magic.X a lot more. 😁

I have the longest name, thus, i shall win!
BAHAHAaaa

lol, sidd.
Anyway if thats the way everyone wants thats always OK, but then the main idea was of a knockout tournament was'nt it?

No that was the first one, i'm open to different ways of doing things and this doesn't sound like that much of a bad idea.

Previous one was indeed knockout, and that worked just fine, but this is much more fun, since it lasts longer, and it's fairer to people who just happen to suck at one theme. You even say it in your signature, Ishan 😉

Originally posted by siddhartha_one
I have the longest name, thus, i shall win!
BAHAHAaaa

Wtf does that have to do with anything? lol 😁

If we do that then we need to go ahead and decide how many rounds we are going to have.
[edit]It also appears that atero's back, so let's hurry up and get started before someone else leaves.[/edit]

As much as possible if it's up to me 😉. I guess it isn't a good idea to just get started and then see how long we want to go on? We can always decide later when we want to stop...

thats fine with me. I guess i just mixed up this tournament with the previous one😛
so when do we start? i guess we have the first topic ready(anubis?) so we an start.and what about doggy dog? is he judging too?

Yeah, we got a topic ready. Doggy Dog will probably be judging(if not this round then the next one) - he should be back before the first deadline. I say we do 5 rounds. 5 rounds and 15 contestants makes 60 presets - A nice number for a large pack.

Each of the three(two?) judges rates each preset out of 10 points based on:
1. ability to represent topic
2. overall appearance of preset
3. Um, there is no three that I can think of.
That means a possible total of 3*10*5, or 150 possible points at the end of five rounds. Top three contestants get recognition. It would be nice if they could have a custom title for a month like MOTM winners have(would that be doable mods?). If not, then they just get the nice feeling that they are better than everyone else.😛

great... so the topic is: .....?

(judges please fill in on the dots)