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SC2k7 Oracle Challenge - Pre-contest / Team Signup Topic
From: Spark Mandrill | Posted: 8/15/2007 4:06:06 PM | Message Detail
Formally requesting Spurak or pikaness.
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From: Sack of Balls | Posted: 8/15/2007 4:07:09 PM | Message Detail
I accept Giggs' proposal with gusto!
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From: Seginustemple | Posted: 8/15/2007 7:40:38 PM | Message Detail
Aherm, our team doesn't need two "Teams" and my name is SEGINUS dammit SEGINUS!

Can't wait to predict now....
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From: King Morgoth | Posted: 8/15/2007 7:52:10 PM | Message Detail
Aherm, our team doesn't need two "Teams" and my name is SEGINUS dammit SEGINUS!

I messed up pretty bad didn't I? >_>
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From: Iubaris | Posted: 8/15/2007 8:07:04 PM | Message Detail
*signs* I guess I'm a little late... Looking for a team. >_>
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From: AlecTrevelyan006 | Posted: 8/15/2007 8:44:16 PM | Message Detail
*signs* Also looking for a teammate. It's me, I can't be picky

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From: Iubaris | Posted: 8/15/2007 8:47:22 PM | Message Detail
Actually, strike that. I'll just do the individual thing.
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From: Ed Bellis | Posted: 8/15/2007 8:48:45 PM | Message Detail
ted ransience accepts his teamup with transience !!

His internet will also be very stable by then, so don't worry!
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From: King Morgoth | Posted: 8/15/2007 9:21:08 PM | Message Detail
People who have been formally requested: (requester):
ActJef (Weird Kirby Dude)
GMUN (warning_crazy)
HM (consolefreak)
Icon (Tom Bombadil)
Luster (FigureOfSpeech)
Sine (jonthomson)
StifledSilence (Shaduln)
transience (Icon)
Wakko (XIII_rocks)

People looking for a partner: (Requests)
AlecTrevelyan006
andylt
Aprosenf (PeaceOut, Luster)
baubeta
BeTheMan
Biolizard28 (Suprak, pikaness)
consolefreak (HM)
DarkLink89
DaruniaTheGoron
entropyx
Evil_REmade
FigureOfSpeech (Luster)
freac
Gaddswell
GoldSlime35 (?)
Icon (transience)
jonthomson (Sine)
Kaidyn04
Luster Soldier
Mantyke
marioinblack
MegatokyoEd
NClark128
oneills1
PeaceOut64
pikaness
Radix
Redtooth
SF_Clowns
Shaduln
Shoenin_Kakashi (?)
somdude04
Starion
StifledSilence
supdawg
Suprak the Stud
Taslion (Luster, Tombawocxer)
th3l3fty
Tombawocxer
Tom Bombadil (icon)
warning_crazy (GMUN)
Weird Kirby Dude 11 (ActJef)
WhakkoJacko
XIII_rocks (WhakkoJacko)

Teams:
1. Kaxon/King Morgoth - Team We Used To Be Good?
2. Janus5000/KleenexTissue50 - Team Battle with Gilgamesh = J-E-N-O-V-A
3. neonreaper/Sess - Team Jagermeister
4. amyvitality66/raytan7585 - Team Klonoa Alliance
5. Dekar TKB/Haste2 - Team Drunkadelict Armadillos
6. Explicit Content/Master Moltar - Team Big Black Wangs
7. linkhatesganon/ScorpionX3 - Team Los Gonzalez
8. DSRage/War13104 - Team RAGE OF WARCRAFT
9. _Yonex_/Ayvuir - Team The Shy Teds
10. Stingers/Tirofog - Team Eltbus
11. MajinZidane/Smurf - Team The X Crewstaters
12. Alanna82/kawaiifan - Team Jigglypuff
13. BBallman7/LinkLegend27 - Team ???
14. Luis_Sera89/StifledSilence - Team StifledSera
15. TRE/Xcarvengerx - Team ???
16. FastFalcon05/kaonashi1 - Team Better Bettors
17. CrimsonOcean/Lady Ashe - Team Vector Industries
18. Applekidjosh/Jay Lv99 - Team Elitist Clique Members
19. outback/Rodri316 - Team ???
20. AmazingKirby/Draco1214 - Team ???
21. satai_delenn/Lopen - Team The Council of Two
22. MaxedOutRyu/yoshifan823 - Team Boondock Saints
23. Sir Chris/yoblazer33 - Team ???
24. Forceful Dragon/SBell0105 - Team DragonBellZ
25. BZer0/ShatteredElysium - Team Ice Cream
26. basmeyer42/ps2rulezzz - Team mvp's
27. GameBopAdv/IhatethisCPU - Team It's An Upset! And You're On Your Own
28. Eeeevil Overlord/Maniac64 - Team Fodder
29. Camden/meche313 - Team Happy Happyists
30. Vlado/Zylo the wolf - Team ???
31. alpha door/Lagoona - Team ???
32. Ness26/TheKnightOfNee - Team ???
33. BlAcK TuRtLe/XxSoulxX - Team lol xstats
34. Jmast7/Leebo86 - Team ?Discovery Channel?
35. Dilated Chemist/Z1mZum - Team Awesome
36. Pats_Dynasty/SuperSmash Master - Team ?ISS GON RAIN?
37. creativename/Ngamer64 - Team Predestined Divination
38. StopPokingMe/ToadYoshi - Team ???
39. GrapefruitKing/Xuxon - Team ???
40. DpObliVion/WiggumFan267 - Team Mets & Sonic at the Oracle Games!
41. Canth/Scythe Marshall - Team Hyperion
42. ad00/cyko - Team ???
43. Darkash/Heroic Viktor - Team Battle Royale
44. Menji76/Seginustemple - Team magical innuendo pirates with guitars
45. Ed Bellis/transience - Team ???
46. Hartzenan/Tomoyo - Team ???
47. cokes/Giggsalot - Team ???
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From: creativename | Posted: 8/15/2007 10:12:17 PM | Message Detail
Very interesting setup for this contest...I filled out my bracket but didn't catch on to the multi-way polls until I read this topic.

At first I didn't like the idea, but it's growing on me. Still, I think one-on-one matchups are much, much more exciting. There's something better about mano-e-mano. But it should still be fun - and in the end, most matches will essentially be the two better character competing anyway, with a couple stragglers just there.

There probably will be at least 1 match where the winner of a heads-up match loses to the guy he beat the previous round. That should be an interesting day on the boards when that happens.


TheKnightOfNee
You could do 50-x or 25-x for each character, and then divide by 4 or 2 for each to get the base score back to 50. And by starting with the larger number, it'll keep people from hitting 0.

This seems like the best idea I read.


Heroic Viktor:
and if you pick the wrong winner, take off 5 points. If you miss 2nd, take off another 2.5.

I don't think a winner penalty is necessary, however a -5 penalty for picking the wrong guy as #1 is quite acceptable. I don't think you need to penalize beyond that though - it gets needlessly complicated, and we should try to keep things simple.


Kaxon:
Every match, your score will be 50 - (w + x + y + z)/4, where the letters are the % off you are for each character. This could be expressed more simply as:

Ah - good to see you guys went with a wise choice. Faith in our Oracle leaders always works out :)

However IMO it really should be divided by 2 instead of 4. In a normal contest with 2 character you divide by 1, so with 4 characters you should divide by 2.

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From: King Morgoth | Posted: 8/15/2007 10:21:40 PM | Message Detail
However IMO it really should be divided by 2 instead of 4. In a normal contest with 2 character you divide by 1, so with 4 characters you should divide by 2.

Yeah but in a normal contest we're doing - x which is implicitly - (x + y)/2 since you're going to be off by the same amount for each character

I'm just wondering whether or not this will lead to higher scores than usual. It should be balanced by the ridiculous pack of newcomers....
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From: creativename | Posted: 8/15/2007 10:22:45 PM | Message Detail
Wait...I just realized, with this 4-way stuff, I have to work on my poll update script! That totally sucks...blah.
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From: Eternal_Debate | Posted: 8/15/2007 10:22:54 PM | Message Detail
Random partner I guess, but I'll sign up for the main contest too. Whoever I'm teamed with can pick the team name (again).

Should be able to work out who this is from the name, but if you can't, my name is mentioned in the first post. Old account is dead, forgot the password and don't have access to that email address any more.
From: creativename | Posted: 8/15/2007 10:24:45 PM | Message Detail
Yeah but in a normal contest we're doing - x which is implicitly - (x + y)/2 since you're going to be off by the same amount for each character

Ahhh...I see, nevermind then, I was confused.
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From: creativename | Posted: 8/15/2007 10:29:06 PM | Message Detail
There probably will be at least 1 match where the winner of a heads-up match loses to the guy he beat the previous round. That should be an interesting day on the boards when that happens.

And I was confused about this too...each match is a 4-way...still, the notion holds, as there should be at least 1 occasion where positions flip-flop from one round to the next, and it could well affect advancement.
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From: Ness26 | Posted: 8/15/2007 10:29:53 PM | Message Detail
Have any team ideas KnightOfNee?

I noticed I've beaten you by one position each time. ;P We both did really well then bombed to mediocrity. No real team ideas from me, but anything random/amusing sounds good here.
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From: AlecTrevelyan006 | Posted: 8/15/2007 10:30:55 PM | Message Detail
I request marioinblack, because he's won his Devil Rays sig bet now.

Although if I were him, I wouldn't suggest me, so... >_>

-RAWR WANGKONG
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Punk is 'I ****** your mom last night.'
Emo is 'I ****** your mom last night and she still hasn't called me back! *cries, cuts self, linkin parks*
From: Kaxon | Posted: 8/15/2007 10:57:42 PM | Message Detail
The prediction topic is actually going to be up tomorrow... sorry about that.
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From: Ness26 | Posted: 8/15/2007 11:10:06 PM | Message Detail
Er, my post is referring to team names. Just realized it was kinda vague. Oops. >_>
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From: Link versus Cloud | Posted: 8/15/2007 11:15:33 PM | Message Detail
i sign up for singles and will do teams if someone wants to
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From: WhakkoJacko | Posted: 8/16/2007 5:52:00 AM | Message Detail
I'll accept XIII's request for our team. ^_^
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From: WhakkoJacko | Posted: 8/16/2007 6:00:01 AM | Message Detail
Oh, name. Ehh... "Crusaders of Lara"?
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From: KleenexTissue50 | Posted: 8/16/2007 8:27:34 AM | Message Detail
very good turnout for both this and guru this year
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From: XIII_rocks | Posted: 8/16/2007 8:29:19 AM | Message Detail
I was thinking something Tomb Raider-themed, actually. That or Lina Inverse XIII >_<

I like "Crusaders for Lara". Crusaders of Lara sounds kind of off. Up to you though.
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From: Topic Protector | Posted: 8/16/2007 9:08:53 AM | Message Detail
Uhh, I'll request MegatokyoEd or Alec, if either of them don't want to get randoms. =D

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is Redtooth
From: King Morgoth | Posted: 8/16/2007 11:24:38 AM | Message Detail
*up*
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From: Starion | Posted: 8/16/2007 12:05:54 PM | Message Detail
Wait...I just realized, with this 4-way stuff, I have to work on my poll update script! That totally sucks...blah

Didn't it work just fine last year in the battle royale?
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From: King Morgoth | Posted: 8/16/2007 12:08:45 PM | Message Detail
Didn't it work just fine last year in the battle royale?

I'm pretty sure the updater didn't do everything automatically...
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From: MegatokyoEd | Posted: 8/16/2007 12:09:14 PM | Message Detail
I'll accept Redtooth's request... Not really sure on a name though >_>.
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From: yazzy14 | Posted: 8/16/2007 1:02:23 PM | Message Detail
I'll sign up.
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From: Ngamer64 | Posted: 8/16/2007 1:10:04 PM | Message Detail
Yeah, the script worked great on the last 4-option we had.

http://www.gamefaqscontests.com/drupal/node/43

So at least creative should have some code to fall back on.

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From: creativename | Posted: 8/16/2007 1:56:30 PM | Message Detail
Didn't it work just fine last year in the battle royale?

King Morgoth is correct, those were manually given to me by the board updaters (TRE, RPGuy, transcience, Xuxon). It's noted on the pages above the tables.

Hopefully it doesn't end up being too much work to rework it as automated for a 4-way format...I didn't bother with the Battle Royale because it was only 4 matches. Any Battle Royale code probably wouldn't have worked for this new contest anyway.


I have one not-so-bold prediction for this contest: lots of the percentages that characters get will best be described as "wacky"!
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From: trannyscience | Posted: 8/16/2007 1:58:32 PM | Message Detail
yeah, try guessing percentages for fun and you'll see how truly impossible this is.
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From: King Morgoth | Posted: 8/16/2007 6:37:44 PM | Message Detail
yeah, try guessing percentages for fun and you'll see how truly impossible this is.

This is what will make this Oracle so awesome!
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From: TheKnightOfNee | Posted: 8/16/2007 7:00:27 PM | Message Detail
Ok, that's it. Ness and I are Team OH IT'S NESS

Unless we have something better later.
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From: Dilated Chemist | Posted: 8/16/2007 7:02:16 PM | Message Detail
I don't how and if I'll be able to predict the entire bracket being away. =(

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From: King Morgoth | Posted: 8/16/2007 7:05:15 PM | Message Detail
I don't how and if I'll be able to predict the entire bracket being away. =(

We'll have to figure out something....*damn*
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From: Warning_Cmexy | Posted: 8/16/2007 8:36:53 PM | Message Detail
I ask for Kirbyjump as a partner.
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From: kirbyjump | Posted: 8/16/2007 8:38:06 PM | Message Detail
*signs* with W_C
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From: Draco1214 | Posted: 8/16/2007 8:39:00 PM | Message Detail
Well, AmazingKirby wants to withdraw, I'll team up with someone else then. Any takers?
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From: Aprosenf | Posted: 8/16/2007 8:43:21 PM | Message Detail
Draco1214, I shall team up with thee! As #3 and #4 from last year, we shall pose an indomitable force!
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From: Draco1214 | Posted: 8/16/2007 8:53:31 PM | Message Detail
So what do you want to call the team?
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From: Aprosenf | Posted: 8/16/2007 8:54:59 PM | Message Detail
I'm bad with team names; how about Team Indomitable Force? =)
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From: Draco1214 | Posted: 8/16/2007 8:58:15 PM | Message Detail
Yes.

...with italics!
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From: Kaxon | Posted: 8/16/2007 9:22:19 PM | Message Detail
We now have a prediction topic!

http://boards.gamefaqs.com/gfaqs/genmessage.php?board=8&topic=37564158
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