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Streaming => Streaming Events => Topic started by: xelnia on December 19, 2018, 11:24:05 am
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Yolympics has returned! The tournament will run from February 1 through March 10. This will be a 4-team tournament where the top 6 scores from each team will be used to score points for that team. Please use the new Yolympics Discord server (https://discord.gg/YhAzb8S) for discussions and questions. Read on for the dates, rules and more info. I hope everyone has a safe and happy holiday season.
Quick Links
Yolympics Discord (https://discord.gg/YhAzb8S)
Tournament Site (https://www.cagtournaments.com/)
Final Game List (https://goo.gl/XvRnvx)
Team List (https://goo.gl/3H7njn)
Team Captains
The Fast Fires: Barra
Camel Toe Silhouette: TIF
Verizontal 3D: ExedExes
Mekanix: Dalar
Dates
Tournament Start: Feburary 1, 6:00 PM PST.
Tournament End: March 10, 11:59 PM PDT. This is a hard cutoff. All submissions must be received by this time.
Games
4 games each from the following range of dates for a total of 20 games:
1982 and earlier
1983-1987
1988-1992
1993-1997
1998 and later
Game Nominations and Voting
Players will nominate 1 game per time period, using this Google Form (https://goo.gl/forms/srqjlKDoFYvU4Ja83). Players will then vote on the nominations to decide the final game list. The tournament organizer reserves the right to veto shitty games. Don't pick shitty games.
Banned Games
There are NO banned games for this tournament.
Player Registration
Players must register at https://www.cagtournaments.com (https://www.cagtournaments.com). The registration period is from now until January 25, 12:00 AM PST.
Rules
-Autofire is not allowed.
-Pausing is not allowed.
-Mapping multiple keys to a single input is not allowed.
-All MAME submissions must maintain an average recorded speed over 95%.
-All submissions must include an INP or link to a stream or video. Acceptable platforms are WolfMAME 0.183 or an original arcade cab. Video-only WolfMAME submissions will be required to show the startup of the WolfMAME program and the game settings. Please submit only one attempt per INP.
Scoring
The top 6 scores from each team will score points for that team.
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Hey Jeremy, thanks for posting this, Happy Holidays to you and Kate too! :P
I'm looking forward to following this, particularly the streams, mostly weekends as I'm mostly busy with work
cheers,
Đức
Chicago, IL
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Cross posted to RU, which I'll keep doing periodically.
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Hmmm ill try but practicing for BOTA, New job and others will make it hard to have time for it all. GL all! Kreygasm
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Reminder: if you're going to nominate games, please actually register for the tourney. Otherwise your nominations will be removed. :)
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Yeah, just a warning for people. Mozilla Firefox sucks, and so does Internet Explorer. Google Chrome is the way to go if you want to work the site. I couldn't register with Internet Explorer, but I could nominate games. Very unusual.
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Hey George. What problems were you having using Firefox/IE? I can't repro any problems.
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Hey George. What problems were you having using Firefox/IE? I can't repro any problems.
Internet explorer would let me sign up, but wouldn't let me register for the tournament. Firefox wouldn't let me sign in. Google crome works great though. So everything is fine now. 8)
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I think it's possible that you were registered in a tourney before and just got confused. I use firefox primarily and worked without a thought.
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Time for game nominations has been extended by a week. Hopefully this will give us more nominations (and give me more time to check for compatibility issues with WolfMAME 0.183). Keep spreading the word!
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Sitting at 41 registrations. Keep getting the word out people, lets try and get to 50!
Remember registration closes January 25, 12:00 AM PST.
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Sitting at 41 registrations. Keep getting the word out people, lets try and get to 50!
Remember registration closes January 25, 12:00 AM PST.
I'm in.
How do the teams get picked? Do the "captains" pick from the list of registered users?
Is there any way I can ask you not to pick me on your side? I want to be a winner for the first time in my life :)
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I'm in.
How do the teams get picked? Do the "captains" pick from the list of registered users?
Consider reading the original post:
Player Draft: January 26. (Time TBD)
Is there any way I can ask you not to pick me on your side? I want to be a winner for the first time in my life :)
Don't worry mate you aren't even on my list of potential picks :)
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Ghosts and Goblins doesn't seem like a good enough game to be nominated 2x.
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Game nominations will only be accepted for a few more days, so get them in ASAP! And please let me know if you see any problem games on the nomination list; I may not be able to go through the entire list before voting opens!
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QUESTION!
Why MAME 183?
It's not a problem, and I think that all of us SHOULD be on the same MAME to minimize headaches, but usually in tourneys we use the most recent MAME, whereas this one is from February 2017. Just curious why that particular version was chosen.
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WolfMAME 0.183 is the last precompiled 32-bit release of WolfMAME.
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QUESTION!
Why MAME 183?
It's not a problem, and I think that all of us SHOULD be on the same MAME to minimize headaches, but usually in tourneys we use the most recent MAME, whereas this one is from February 2017. Just curious why that particular version was chosen.
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WolfMAME 0.183 is the last precompiled 32-bit release of WolfMAME.
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Voting has opened for the final game list! Not all nominations made the list, for various reasons, but we have plenty of games to choose from!
Final Game Voting (https://goo.gl/forms/CO3O2GRlkpurQ2eG2)
Current Vote Tally (https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSckaQmIp0pSvxej1wr389y9LPdGFo20Qh1CylDARQz1OAO3kA/viewanalytics)
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Not all nominations made the list, for various reasons
BibleThump
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A few notes and answers to questions I've already seen:
First: PANG PANG CAR HAS BEEN REMOVED FROM THE VOTING LIST. For lewdness. Those who voted for it please submit new votes.
1) Voting is open until the player draft starts, which right now is January 27th-ish. We are still working to schedule a time that works for everyone involved in the draft.
2) You can re-vote. Just submit a new, full vote and I'll delete the old one. Please try to keep this to a minimum though.
3) Please only vote for 3 games per time period.
4) Please be registered before you vote. If I don't recognize you or you're not on the list, I will eventually delete your vote.
5) In the case of tied votes I will choose the game that is the more unique of the tied votes and/or hasn't been in a tournament before.
6) If we end up with too many similar games (Bubble Bobble, Raiden, etc.) I will replace one with the next highest vote.
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5) In the case of tied votes I will choose the game that is the more unique of the tied votes and/or hasn't been in a tournament before.
6) If we end up with too many similar games (Bubble Bobble, Raiden, etc.) I will replace one with the next highest vote.
Kreygasm Kreygasm Kreygasm
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Is the draft going to be streamed again? It might be difficult with various time zones represented but I think it was a fun show last time.
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Is the draft going to be streamed again? It might be difficult with various time zones represented but I think it was a fun show last time.
Hopefully. We're still trying to align everyone's schedules.
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Still 26 Jan?
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Still 26 Jan?
Looks like we're aiming for Sunday, the 27th.
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Couple of announcements/reminders:
1) The player draft will be this Sunday, 5 PM PST/8 PM EST. It will be hosted by CaptainJivePants and BackdoorFred and will be streamed on Jivey's channel: twitch.tv/captainjivepants (https://www.twitch.tv/captainjivepants). Don't miss it!
2) Player registration (https://www.cagtournaments.com/) ends tonight at midnight PST, so you have about 19 1/2 hours to sign up!
3) Game voting (https://goo.gl/forms/CO3O2GRlkpurQ2eG2) will end when the player draft starts. Please get your votes/re-votes in ASAP.
4) Please use the time between now and the start of the tournament to familiarize yourself with WolfMAME 0.183 (https://github.com/mahlemiut/wolfmame/releases/tag/wolf183), the Yolympics Discord server (https://discord.gg/YhAzb8S), and even your potential captains and games.
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Is Metal Slug 3 or Metal Slug X more original? Asking for a friend. They're tied in votes in the top 3 for their era.
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Is Metal Slug 3 or Metal Slug X more original? Asking for a friend. They're tied in votes in the top 3 for their era.
Metal Slug X has not been in a tournament. Metal Slug 3 was in Yolympics 2016.
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Registration is now over! We have 71 players registered, which should make for some pretty solid teams!
Don't forget to submit your game votes/re-votes by Sunday, 5 PM PST!
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Draft is in about 12 hours at twitch.tv/captainjivepants (https://www.twitch.tv/captainjivepants)! Get your game votes in now!
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The draft is over and the final game list has been determined! Check them out below.
Game List (https://goo.gl/XvRnvx)
Team List (https://goo.gl/3H7njn)
The tournament officially starts on Feburary 1, 6:00 PM PST. Take the next few days to coordinate with your captains and practice the games (and MAME command-line >.<)!
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By popular demand, the romset for 1942 has been changed to the parent set...1942. This is Rev. B. Do not use 1942a.
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Ugh, I played a game not realizing that it started at 6 P.M. today. Usually it's 12:01 A.M. Oops! FailFish
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It's great you played, previously you were saying how your heart wasn't in it anymore. Good for you mate. :)
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It's great you played, previously you were saying how your heart wasn't in it anymore. Good for you mate. :)
You see a lot of misdirection leading up to the draft by players in order to better position themselves to be selected by a big market club. It's a lot of posturing and jostling among the players. I generally don't put a lot of stock in it as a former GM.
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That's a shame, but, it's what turned me off from participating.
At the same time I've been playing MGL and just chose to take a break. This makes sense though Wags, wish it didn't come down to shit like that.
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That's a shame, but, it's what turned me off from participating.
Don't let it turn you off from participating. It mainly just makes it more difficult on the captains but one thing to keep in mind is no matter what folks say prior to the competition, this a prideful lot, once competition gets going all the pre-draft talk of not spending time on the tourney evaporates like Allen's DK lives counter.
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Oh to be sure, I am not playing as much this year. I just have things that will take away my time this time around. But that doesn't mean I can't participate this year. But yeah, I will not be getting 23rd like last year. Probably more like 35th or so. :) Still a deal since I was drafted 43rd. :)
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The tournament officially starts in 4 1/2 hours! A few reminders before we kick off:
-Please double-check the Games/Rules. Some romsets and rules have shifted since the announcement of the game list.
-Even if you've been playing/practicing already, only games started/scores achieved after the start of the tourney are eligible for submission.
-Make sure you're using WolfMAME 0.183 for MAME submissions. Wolf. MAME. Not regular MAME. And double-check that your INPs are being recorded with the correct settings.
-This tournament is about fun and friendly competition, but don't forget to crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of their women.
Good luck to all the players and teams (but mostly my team)!
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The tournament has officially begun! GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
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How do you submit? I don't see a submit button? :(
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OK, figured it out. For some reason Internet explorer doesn't work for me. I had to use Google chrome.
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WHO PICS THESE TEAMS FTT COME OF IT IM GONE
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WHO PICS THESE TEAMS FTT COME OF IT IM GONE
Allen, to be fair, Exed Exes actually did a fantastic job picking teams. If you minus the captain's scores from the team scores it becomes easily apparent that Exed Exes actually did a fantastic job picking teams.
Fast Fires 1525-283=1242
Mekanix 1507-166=1341
Camel Toe Silhouettes 1416-277=1139
Verizontal 3D 1363-84=1279
When you minus the point total for Captains our team actually comes out second. So don't blame his picking ability, because you'd be completely wrong.
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We're 5 minutes into the contest, you can't say anything about who picked the best team yet
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We're 5 minutes into the contest, you can't say anything about who picked the best team yet
Oh true. There are still a few players out there who have a lot of potential. I was just responding to Allen and his complaints about Exed Exes picking abilities.
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Exed drafted well. It would help if Red Star and Novice played.
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We're two weeks in! The Fast Fires are currently leading the field by 106 points. V3D and CTS are 3rd/4th, but they still have some empty slots in their game submissions. And some of the strongest players in the field have yet to submit a single score, so there could be a shake-up brewing! BBH is leading the individual standings, but Zerst is hot on his heels. Will Toobin' be the deciding game?!
Keep grinding, keep submitting, and good luck!
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One week left in the contest! Make sure you get scores in by the deadline...it's a hard cutoff! https://www.timeanddate.com/countdown/generic?iso=20190310T2359&p0=137&msg=End+of+Yolympics+2019&font=serif
TFF have a strong lead, but not completely unassailable. 2nd-4th are anyone's game.
Also, there are number of scores on all teams that have the potential to be DQ'd for various issues: INP playback problems, missing evidence, etc. The team captains should have alerted their respective teams by now...if you haven't heard from the lately, let me know! Bad scores will be DQ'd Wednesday night.
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(http://www.slither-gdi.net/teamspaceyshirt.jpg)
If you listen really closely, you can hear our stock plummeting.
(http://www.slither-gdi.net/lastplace.jpg)
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24 hours left in the contest! Get those scores in!
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Yolympics 2019 is officially over! I'd like to thank all the players for their outstanding efforts throughout the tournament. We had 65 of the 72 registered players submit scores!
Congratulations to The Fast Fires for winning the tournament, with a final score of 1,731! Mekanix took an early lead but The Fast Fires could not be stopped. And congrats to LordBBH, who took home the individual title with 406 points! Zerst and Todayisforgotten made strong runs at 1st, but BBH is BBH. Several new players put in strong performances, like Pearl and JasonV91, so kudos to all of them as well.
I'd also like to give some special thanks to all the people that made the organization and execution of this tournament possible:
johnbart - Created an amazing tourney site, and there would have been no tourney without it.
Barra, Todayisforgotten, DaLar, ExedExes - Your amazing captains who all drafted very well and helped me manage all the information flow.
ILLSeaBass - Set up RSS/Recent Scores feed in the Discord server which was very useful, especially for me as I was tracking the flow of submissions.
Wolf (Just_Wolfman/Just_Markus/whatever) - The founder and godfather of these tournaments. Helped me verify a ton of scores.
Apologies to anyone I may have missed who helped me during the tourney.
Even though the tournament is over, please keep an eye on the Yolympics Discord. BackdoorFred and CaptainJivePants will be hosting an awards show in the next week or so...don't miss it!
Wolf is also hosting a couple of upcoming tournaments so make sure you sign up for those!
Congrats and thanks again to all the players!
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Thanks Jry et al. Yo was great. Happened to not be very competitive individually this time but I guess I had fun playing Arkanoid 1,000 times Kappa
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Great tournament all. Thanks to JohnBart, Jry, Wolf and all others who made it possible. Also, thanks to our team captain Barra for keeping everyone motivated and Jry for running our analytics dept. Our discord was a lot of fun and that's a testament to all the players who were not only highly skilled but fun af to hang out with.
On a personal note, was happy to finally 1cc 1942 in one of these things as that was a goal of mine last time it made an appearance. I also need to get much better at Keyboard Kong, way too unsure of myself on the lenovo control panel. <Billy>
Some new to me games I really enjoyed, Espgaluda, AvP and.....Espgaluda.
Some new to me games I've never played before and I did not really enjoy.....everything else, GnG, ST2, MSX, Raiden 2, DDP, Truxton, BB.....you get the idea.
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Thank you, jry and everyone, for this tournament, it was a fun experience! I went in this with virtually no experience in CAGing other than DK, so I was able to discover new games, new achievements, new frustrations, new friends, and new communities. A new appreciation for shmups like DDP and Espgaluda was formed as well, so I might continue exploring those sometime.
And thank you, Barra, for drafting me to the winning team! :)
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Great tournament everyone! Some quick stats:
Number of score submissions: 1973 (not counting DQ scores which would easily put it over 2000 Kreygasm )
Size of INPs uploaded: ~800 MB (Doesn't sound like a lot but given they are all zipped and tiny it's not bad)
Most number of submissions: 95 by ILLSeaBass
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Great tournament everyone! Some quick stats:
Number of score submissions: 1973 (not counting DQ scores which would easily put it over 2000 Kreygasm )
Size of INPs uploaded: ~800 MB (Doesn't sound like a lot but given they are all zipped and tiny it's not bad)
Most number of submissions: 95 by ILLSeaBass
Thanks for your hard work John!
Allen, to be fair, Exed Exes actually did a fantastic job picking teams. If you minus the captain's scores from the team scores it becomes easily apparent that Exed Exes actually did a fantastic job picking teams.
Fast Fires 1525-283=1242
Mekanix 1507-166=1341
Camel Toe Silhouettes 1416-277=1139
Verizontal 3D 1363-84=1279
When you minus the point total for Captains our team actually comes out second. So don't blame his picking ability, because you'd be completely wrong.
Kappa
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Mine-Us-Captains
FF - 1424
VER - 1294
MEK - 1243
CTS - 1187
FF won by 47 less points w/o captains than they did with.
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Is that a final shot of the spreadsheet of success, Jry?
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I forgot to thank BackdoorFred and CaptainJivePants, as well. They hosted the draft and will be doing an awards show soon. Thanks guys!
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Closing ceremonies start soon! Make sure to vote early and vote often!
Best game - https://www.strawpoll.me/17622563 (https://www.strawpoll.me/17622563)
Worst game - https://www.strawpoll.me/17622546 (https://www.strawpoll.me/17622546)
Worst Enemy - https://www.strawpoll.me/17622582 (https://www.strawpoll.me/17622582)
Best Sounds - https://www.strawpoll.me/17622628 (https://www.strawpoll.me/17622628)
Worst Sounds - https://www.strawpoll.me/17622617 (https://www.strawpoll.me/17622617)