Donkey Kong Wildcard Tournament Rematch #2

[ChrisP]

I would like that clarified as well.

The nature of the bounties make it very possible for the same player to earn more than one in the same game. For example, a kill screen game is likelier than any other to have a long "last man stretch", and to be in the top 3.

If it happens to be the first kill screen of the tourney and ends up being good for third place, does the player get only the first kill screen bounty and third place money, and the last man stretch will go to the player whose last man lasted the second-longest? Or, like Jeff said, does the last man bounty simply get taken off the table?

[tessler1134]

Brian and Colman - we got your registration emails, for some reason they ended up in our spam folder. John will update the registration page shortly.

[tessler1134]

Thanks for the feedback everyone. John and I discussed the bounties and updated the rules accordingly. Please take a look at the updated rule post.

- Bounties
   * Contestant is solely responsible for specifying which bounty they want to claim when they submit a score.
   * A contestant can only be paid for a maximum of 1 bounty for any one contest.
   * If a submitted game qualifies for more than 1 bounty, the contestant is solely responsible for specifying which bounty they are claiming and they can only claim a single bounty (and the refs will consider only the specified bounty for the score submission). For example, if I have a game where I am the first to a million points and a kill screen, I claim the million point bounty and the kill screen bounty remains open for other contestants to claim.
   * If a contestant tries to claim a bounty however is not awarded that bounty for some reason (i.e., they were incorrect about the bounty or another contestant's score submission invalidates their bounty claim), the contestant may try to claim another bounty on one of their next score submissions.
   * Bounties are considered in the order in which the score submissions are received.
   * Please remember that the bounty system was introduced for fun and to spread around some extra money to the contestants. Any disputes over the bounties will be settled accordingly by Eric/John.

[ChrisP]

Cool! You guys are doing great.

Hopefully you don't feel like we're "pecking" it to death, just trying to think about all the potential problem scenarios before they happen.

[tessler1134]

Thanks Chris! No problem at all...we appreciate all feedback. We want to make sure the rules are understandable and that we catch all of the different scenarios to make this next contest as smooth as possible.

Thank you everyone for your feedback! Please do not hesitate to contact us with feedback/questions.

[muscleandfitness]

Im in all going well wht time is it here when its starts lol

[Simpsons99]

Same as last time Allen

[JCHarrist]

Im in all going well wht time is it here when its starts lol

Allen, it will be 7pm Saturday night to 7pm Sunday night for you.

[stella_blue]

I won't be playing, but I'll be bouncing around on various streams, catching as much "history in the making" as I can.  I hope everyone crushes it, putting up at least one score well in excess of their PB.

Do it guys, it's only a cartoon ape with anger management issues.

[danman123456]

I understand the whole "you could cheat" attitude because frankly people do or we wouldn't have a 3 million DK score to talk about. To cheat in event like this and not play "live" is deplorable. If your are "caught" doing this the entire community SHOULD ban you and you would deserve every bit of it. There are simple ways to validate if a "Stream" is truly live versus recorded. Make the inp/wlf files available to John/Eric for review is probably a good thing. People need to be up and up and if they aren't they will ruin the entire spirit of what this is trying to accomplish!

[muscleandfitness]

Haaa  I will win this time lol

[Simpsons99]

Haaa  I will win this time lol

Your dreaming again Allen

[JohnTheLawnMan]

All the feed back from everyone is appreciated.

I, for one, hate when rules are vague and sketchy.  It's hard to be objective, when you write, read, and re-read your own material over and over.  We really need the players feed back to make this a smooth enjoyable tournament.

I also hate registering, but there's not way around it.  I believe the rules and registration are as "light" as we can possibly make them.

Also, as far as cheating goes, we'll have a nice start up procedure for MAME, that should eliminate any cheating.  It's going to be a bit an inconvenience, but not too bad, and well worth it.

I'm hoping by the time KO3 rolls around, we'll have a nice tight wild card group, ready to put the heat on the "pros".

Dang!  It's only 3 weeks away!  I'm freakin' pumped!

[syscrusher]

Might as well get in on the action too!  Email sent.

[Simpsons99]

Might as well get in on the action too!  Email sent.

Ben your not in the wild card group! lol

Be cool if you played though!