MAME Tournament Discussion Thread [Archive] - Page 8

Dr. Morbis

06-12-2005, 10:56 PM

Well, I finally got a really good positive score in Mouja.

This randomized matchup thing has me worried though. Without actually anouncing who's playing who beforehand it's pretty easy to put in a fix and sort of "play God" to give lower ranked people a chance or take down high ranked people.

Now, I'm not accusing anyone of anything. I'm just saying that it will seem sort of fishy to hear "Oh by the way, you were playing so-and-so last week and you lost both games. K-Thanks, Bye".

Jibbajaba

06-12-2005, 11:57 PM

So what are you saying, Dr. Morbis? I should trust you guys to give me accurate scores without using alternate DIP switch settings, pausing, or save states, and I shouldnt require INP files, but I can't be trusted to not manipulate the results?

It's been taking me too long to figure out the matchups because I keep having to refer back to previous weeks. This is due to the fact that I'm trying not to have rematches because Hydr0x complained about it. Therefore I was trying to devise a randomization scheme based on the order in which people submitted their scores this week. Nevermind. I'll do it the regular way instead, because I sure wouldn't want anyone to think that *I* was cheating.

A big gigantic :roll: for this one.

As far as which score to submit for Moula or Jenga or whatever, I would assume that it's your final score that counts, not the score from one particluar round.

As war as win/loss is concerned, your position in your division is based on your win/loss. Total score is used as a secondary means of ranking. I'm sorry if some of you think this is unfair, but using total score as the primary means of ranking players makes cheating much too tempting, especially towards the end of the tournament.

Chris

Chris

SoulBlazer

06-13-2005, 12:17 AM

I happen to think your idea for matchups is fine.

As for the win/lose collum -- oh well. I'll just have to live with the fact I lost three times on bad games. :P :D

Jibbajaba

06-13-2005, 12:29 AM

As I've said before, MOST players will advance to the playoffs.

Chris

Crush Crawfish

06-13-2005, 12:37 AM

well, I sent in my scores in. I think I did quite well on mouja, seeing as I never once finished with a negative score. Great game! With the exception of Dokaben, I've enjoyed all of Gapporin's picks quite a bit! :D Oh, and I grew to like Tapper. It's still a bit too frantic for my tastes, though. :/

NE146

06-13-2005, 12:46 AM

Hey man I really like trying out new games as well.. let me just say that I've been playing a lot of NES Solomon's Key via emulator as of late.. a game I had always known about, but had never bothered to try before :)

robotriot

06-13-2005, 02:57 AM

I just would like to say that I enjoyed the games last week, just like the week before. Keep picking games like that please =)

InsaneDavid

06-13-2005, 03:54 AM

I would say it's more fair to have total points because that rewards the winners for having a more well rounded gaming history -- i.e., you are a very good player at all games as a AVERAGE, across the board. That way if you suck hard on a game or two, it does'nt kill you.

Then that makes matchups worthless.

As for the games, I HATE Mouja. Naa, that's not true, it just gets on my nerves because I waste hours upon hours playing it. At the start of the competition I told my girlfriend "I hope they don't pick that damn cats make the change game." LOL So I kept at it and ended up with what I think is a pretty good score.

How about some Mad Crasher next week? ;) (odd yet entertaining old SNK game)

http://www.klov.com/game_detail.php?game_id=8483

hydr0x

06-13-2005, 09:27 AM

guys, jibba can't use scores as primary factor for one single and very obvious reason:

the games don't have anywhere near the same amount of points awarded to good players

example: some shmup might get a good player a few mio points advantage to a bad player, even if the bad player on that shmup is better than the other guy on every other game he'd have no chance to make up for those mio of points... it's that easy...

TripppsK

06-13-2005, 10:13 AM

It's been taking me too long to figure out the matchups because I keep having to refer back to previous weeks. This is due to the fact that I'm trying not to have rematches because Hydr0x complained about it. Therefore I was trying to devise a randomization scheme based on the order in which people submitted their scores this week. Nevermind.

Chris if you're having problems scheduling the league there is a bunch of free scheduling software available. Give it a Google and you should be able to find something to make it easier for yourself.

Jibbajaba

06-13-2005, 10:19 AM

What hydr0x said is correct. Just look at the scores for 1943. Soulblazer eraned hundreds of thousands of points more than everyone else, rocketing him into first place in the points category.

Trippy, thanks I'll check that out.

Chris

Jibbajaba

06-13-2005, 11:35 AM

Every week I have been having to chase a few people down for their scores on Monday. I keep doing this because I am trying to do the nice guy thing and not give people 2 losses for not submitting scores on time. This has been happening every week, and it isn't fair to those players who consistently sumit their scores on time. Therefore, this is the last week that I am going to do this. Starting this Sunday, if I don't have your scores when I get up on Monday morning, you get two zeroes and a loss, and the standings will be posted. I had the standings for this week finished this morning, but I can't post them because I am waiting for scores from a few people.

You will still be allowed to submit your scores late and have them aded to you total, but the two losses will stand. This has been the policy all along. Sorry to have to play the bad guy here but you guys are sort of forcing me to.

Chris

Gapporin

06-13-2005, 12:03 PM

SoulBlazer

06-13-2005, 02:17 PM

I understand the win/loss thing, I just was'nt sure exactly how a winner would be determined and what use the total points were. Thanks for making that clear.

I actually forgot I did that well in 1943, it's allready been a week, and a busy one here at work for me. :)

I ended up submiting my score for Mouja from one of my very first games -- I got to the second cat somehow and don't know HOW I did it, cause I could NEVER get back there again. So I don't know how my score was -- it was around 138k

As for Tapper, the same thing happened here as in ROTJ -- went to take a screenshot, messed up, had to play again to look at the high scores table, got a new high score. :) My final score was around 68k.

fergojisan

06-13-2005, 03:02 PM

I've posted my pick for this week in the main thread. I think that you all are gonna get funky with this game, ya dig? Groovy.

And Re: Mouja, the only score you should send in is the score that you have at the end of the game.

I tried this one a few times already, it's very addicting. The control seems a little sensitive on my pad, I keep making squiggles and losing the square, so I have to get used to that. I want to kill that zamboni dude though. The attract mode says push the red button, what does that actually do? And does it do it to the zamboni guy? I want to spray him with bullets, is that an option? :-P

Still waiting on Jiibbajaba. ;)

Dr. Pushy

Jibbajaba

06-13-2005, 03:18 PM

Well wait no longer. My game has ben posted in El Stickerino, and it is Qix.

Chris

Cryomancer

06-13-2005, 03:31 PM

Ah, I should be decent at Qix maybe, since I play a lot fo Gals Panic. It's similar to Qix, only you have to attempt to capture the siloutte of a girl. It's possible (and there are rewards for) getting 100% in Gals Panic. Seems to be Qix is only trying to get above 75%, since there's no black zone to trap the enemy in and get all the rest of the % zone as in Gals Panic. Am I right on this or did my quick testplay miss a dynamic of the game?

Check out the "expose" genre in MAME32, they're all in there. Dancing Eyes is also an interesting similar concept in 3-d. Don't waste all your time playing Gals Panic until you've submitted your Qix score though, heh.

Gapporin

06-13-2005, 03:49 PM

The attract mode says push the red button, what does that actually do?

That's the button that turns on that funky disco music, baby! Aww yeah!

In short, it stuns the enemies. Dunno if the effects the zamboni guy or not.

hydr0x

06-13-2005, 05:18 PM

DragonMaster Sam

06-13-2005, 05:26 PM

Qix should be a game that I won't have problems with. I played it during the 90's on the Sega Channel, so I have a good idea what is going on.

Cirrus

06-13-2005, 05:32 PM

I ended up submiting my score for Mouja from one of my very first games -- I got to the second cat somehow and don't know HOW I did it, cause I could NEVER get back there again. So I don't know how my score was -- it was around 138k

mh... i also made it to the 2nd cat, and i only got 55k or something like that?? how did you manage 138k? was that before or after the game-over??

I got somewhere around there, too. Just random luck, it was on my second (and last) game. I didn't feel that I really did all that well, but I had some lucky landslides of coins all hitting each other and falling right.

Jibbajaba

06-13-2005, 08:53 PM

Last weeks matchups were:

Fergojisan vs Cryomancer
Soulblazer vs Flack
Queen of the Felines vs DDCecil
DragonMaster Sam vs Cmosfm
Cirrus vs AdamG
Quintracker vs Lady Jaye
Scooterb23 vs hydr0x
Robotriot vs InsaneDavid
Dr. Morbis vs NE146
Mr. FoodMonster vs Lord007
Crush Crawfish vs Tripppsk

I will be downloading a league scheduling program to schedule all of the remaining matchups for the regular season.

Chris

EDIT: I ended up using order of score submission as my means of assigning matchups this week. In an instance of REALLY bad irony, Dr. Morbis lost both of his matchups against NE146. If there is any question as to my honesty here, I will happily take a screenshot of my inbox to prove that there was no manipulation of the matchups.

Standings will be posted shortly.

Chris

Jibbajaba

06-13-2005, 09:57 PM

I'm having problems finding a freeware program (or a cracked non-freeware program) that I can use to geberate a schedulke for the remainder of the season. They all seem to have "trial mode" limitations.

Therefore, 500 meseta goes to whoever finds me a program that will do what I need.

Chris

Dr. Morbis

06-13-2005, 11:32 PM

@Jibbajabba: My post was not intended to be taken as a harsh tone. I think you are doing a fabulous job with this league and I'm enjoying discovering all the new games I've never played. I was merely trying to point out that announcing who is playing who BEFORE the deadline is one of those cardinal rules of competition. You can't announce a matchup after a matchup has taken place.

I do have a couple questions. Have you decided on the exact length of the regular season and the playoff format? I personally think that it would be beneficial to announce this sooner rather than later. (ie: 20 games, top 4 teams in each division make playoffs, in the event of a tie in the win/loss ratio, higher total point value takes precedence.) Something like that.

Anyway, keep up the good work

:)

Jibbajaba

06-13-2005, 11:40 PM

Standings are up.

Some noteables (read this to yourself using a 1920's newsreel style. It enhances the experience.):
-In the Miyamoto division, NE146 moved into fourth place after his two wins over Dr. Morbis. Dr. Morbis remains in first place both in the division and in the conference.

-In the Sakaguchi division, Quintrackers double-loss to Lady Jaye has moved him out of first place. Cirrus is now in first place due to a higher point total. Fergojisan has moved past Crush Crawfish and into third place, and Tripppsk takes AdamG's place in the basement after not submitting a score for Mouja!

-In the Carmack division, Mr. FoodMonster took the biggest plummet of the week by moving from second place all the way into fifth after being raked over the coals by Lord007! Better luck next week, Food Dood. A strong showing against DDcecil assured Queen of the Felines the second place spot. Look out, Soulblazer!

Cirrus

06-14-2005, 12:00 AM

The standings are up, and so are the projected order of matchups (for the tourney, I think).

At this rate, I'm going to have to play Soul Blazer!!! I might have a better chance of winning by not submitting scores this week. ;)

Jibbajaba

06-14-2005, 12:17 AM

@Dr. Morbis: The season length was set when the season started. It will be 25 games long. The first week only has one game, so there will be 13 weeks total.

The current plan for the playoffs will be the top 8 players in each division enter the playoffs. If I have more than 1 or 2 more players drop out however, then I will switch to 6 players per division, and the two division winners in each conference will get a first-round bye.

I will update the "Playoff outlook" every week from now on, so that people know where they fall in the exact scheme of things, and they will know what they need to do in order to make the playoffs. As a heads-up, I may require INP files for the last few weeks of the playoffs, as that will be when cheating will be most tempting. And just to get people used to the idea, INP files will be REQUIRED throughout the playoffs.

Chris

SoulBlazer

06-14-2005, 12:19 AM

Intresting results this last week, indeed. :)

I'm impressed how well my score for Tapper did. Only QOF managed to get a higher score then me, and by 3000 points. Not bad for a game I had never played in over 10 years. LOL Congrats to QOF for getting the highest score and also for moving up so high in the rankings.

With Mouja -- yes, my score was taken at the end of the game, and I'm not surprised to see I'm middle of the group for points there. I just don't understand HOW I got so well on my first game and then sucked every time after that. O_O It's a fun game, I'd like to see a English version of that. But the AI rains down coins and makes matches so quickly, I don't see how anyone can get past the second cat.

I was'nt sure about the matchups since I challenged Flack but he never accepted, but I see it went anyway. I'm a happy gamer. :)

This week -- well, Qix is another game I have'nt played in many, many years. And Disco Number 1 I've never played in the ARCADE form -- the INTV game Thin Ice is a port of the arcade game for the Intelivision, and that I played some when I got the collection a couple years ago. I'm a little worried about this week.

BTW -- question for the ladies here: On the Blue Sky Rangers website, where they talk about all of the Intelivision games and the histories behind them, at first the programers had rejected Disco Number One from Data East because they thought it was 'too sexiest' and would cause problems. And this was back in 1983, mind you. :hmm: Would you agree? :)

Crush Crawfish

06-14-2005, 12:34 AM

Wow. Simply put, I pretty much sucked last week. :/ This week's looking much better. I love both of the games, and Qix could quite possibly be the most addicting game I've ever played. I shall be triumphant! Wait and see folks, wait and see...

robotriot

06-14-2005, 03:10 AM

Heh, cool, I'm doing better than I expected from myself ;)

Qix is a great game, but damn it's hard :/

I've got a request though - could you either increase the font size on the standings or not use anti-aliasing please? It's no good for my old eyes :D

InsaneDavid

06-14-2005, 05:21 AM

Heh, cool, I'm doing better than I expected from myself ;)

Congratulations on defeating me at Tapper.. by less than 1,000 points. LOL And I only beat you at Mouja by less than 5,000 points. Damn, close on both accounts.

Lady Jaye

06-14-2005, 07:21 AM

Whoa, I can't believe I won for both games this week -- and on top of all, in a dramatic outcome for Quintracker's standing! I'm still in the cellar, but that's alright.

Mr.FoodMonster

06-14-2005, 08:05 AM

-In the Carmack division, Mr. FoodMonster took the biggest plummet of the week by moving from second place all the way into fifth after being raked over the coals by Lord007! Better luck next week, Food Dood.
Ouch.

AB Positive

06-14-2005, 09:09 AM

woooow... second highest placement for Mouja... that is easily one of the hardest puzzlers I've tried yet, but still fun.

We have Qix this week. I should be moving up the standings! :D

-A "don't call it a comeback!" G

Jibbajaba

06-14-2005, 10:14 AM

I've got a request though - could you either increase the font size on the standings or not use anti-aliasing please? It's no good for my old eyes :D

Yeah, I don't know what happened. I somehow shrunk the image too far in photoshop. It will be back to it's normal size next week.

Chris

EDIT: Nevermind, I figured out what I did wrong. It's fixed now. :embarrassed:

DragonMaster Sam

06-14-2005, 10:48 AM

How the mighty have fallen. I started off 4-0, and now I'm at 6-5.. Looks like I need to play better to have a chance in the tournament.

fergojisan

06-14-2005, 12:22 PM

Hey, if we're still issuing challenges, I will challenge Mr.FOODMonster this week. I'm not that great at Qix, but I will try to put up a good FIGHT. I just hope I don't get a CHARLEY horse in my neck from playing these games. Although I'm sure that would make some of you CHUCKle. :D

I am a master of subtlety.

SoulBlazer

06-14-2005, 02:10 PM

I'm a little confused by the controls for both games.

In Qix, I notice that if the Qix touches any part of your line while you are making it, you get killed. I also know that you need to hold down the button to be able to draw the line. Well, what's the point of that? Can you be 'safe' from the Qix if you're not holding the button down and it touched the line? Why does the button need to be held to make your lines? Is there ANY reason you DON'T want to always leave your finger on the button?

In Disco Number 1, I'm having a hard time drawing boxes around the ladies to earn the points. It seems that just when I make my box and I'm ready to close it for the points something happens to my original line. No, I'm not trying to make them too big. It seems that if the ladies touch the lines they will erase it, which means it's defentily best to stun them before you make the box. But then with that damn witch hot on your tail the whole game, it makes it VERY hard to make ANY boxes after a few seconds.

Yeah. This week is going to be a struggle to get above 10,000 in either game. :roll:

Lady Jaye

06-14-2005, 02:58 PM

Yeah, well, you can't win them all.

I like how Gapporin goes out of his way to select very obscure titles. It's a good way of finding new games to play... :)

NE146

06-14-2005, 03:02 PM

Why does the button need to be held to make your lines? Is there ANY reason you DON'T want to always leave your finger on the button?

Because there's TWO buttons.. one for slow lines (more points) and one for fast lines (less points) :) Easy :D. And one reason for not leaving your finger on the button.. is it allows you to traverse the paths you've already drawn without straying from them.

You're safe from the Qix as long as you're not drawing a line.

If you're drawing a line, and you let go of the button.... well, you'll just stop drawing the line and you're up shit creek unless you start drawing again and get to safety :P

Lord007

06-14-2005, 03:17 PM

Quintracker

06-14-2005, 03:24 PM

Whoa, I can't believe I won for both games this week -- and on top of all, in a dramatic outcome for Quintracker's standing! I'm still in the cellar, but that's alright.

Yeah, ouch :( I only spent about 30 minutes last tuesday playing both of them, and then real life called me back. Sucked, but that's how it goes sometimes :) Good job Lady Jaye!

Gapporin

06-14-2005, 06:13 PM

Oh, and just to let you all know, I will be taking a vacation starting tomorrow for about 12 days or so. (This MAME Tournament is getting to be so stressful! :P )

Therefore next week, I still will have picked out a game, but Jibbajaba will be posting both games at the same time. Nothing big, I know; I just didn't want you guys to think that I had resigned from the tournament or fell off the side of the earth, or something.

DragonMaster Sam

06-18-2005, 11:39 PM

Gee, this thread's been kinda quiet for a few days now. Already sent in my scores, and I'm eagerly awaiting for the next games by Gap and Jibba.

NE146

06-18-2005, 11:59 PM

scooterb23

06-19-2005, 01:34 AM

You aren't the only one...although I usually test on Monday to make sure they work, play a couple games on Tuesday. I'm gone a lot during the rest of the week, and then sometime Saturday or Sunday I think "Oh shit MAME league" and then play as much as I can from that point until I give up around 10 PM Sunday.

fergojisan

06-19-2005, 02:52 PM

It has been pretty quiet this week. Maybe it's just one of those weeks for everybody, I know it was for me. I didn't even try Qix until today, but I do remember it. Still not that good at it. I wanted to get into Disco1 more, but I just couldn't this week. I did enjoy the game though, especially for appropriating "Popcorn" by Hot Butter for the second level theme. :rocker:

Cirrus

06-19-2005, 06:12 PM

Augh, too busy this week. I have submitted my first try on both games.. in other words, whoever faces me this week might get an easy win. :)

Jibbajaba

06-19-2005, 07:15 PM

I agree. This thread has been quiet. Is it because people are getting bored? Gimme some feedback...

Chris

scooterb23

06-19-2005, 07:23 PM

This has been the first week without rain around here in a while. And where the temps have been under the upper 80s.

I haven't played a lot so far this week, of course that is kind of my norm. But I think this is vacation time for a lot of people, so maybe that's part of it?

I know for one I am still enjoying the competition immensely :)

Crush Crawfish

06-19-2005, 08:42 PM

I'm most definitely not bored with it- It's just that I've been pretty busy what with finals and all.

Anyways, I sent in my scores, and I think I did pretty good. I'm hoping for a comeback from last week's fall.

SoulBlazer

06-19-2005, 08:51 PM

Yeah, this was a really busy week for me also.

The games....ah, I'm not ashamed to admit this -- I SUCK this week! LOL These kinds of 'puzzle/action' games are just NOT my strong suit. Put me behind the controls of a P-38 and I an rack up hundreds of thousands of points. Ask me to make squares while avoiding bad things or guys and I crash and burn. :P

Still, I tried to get in as much pratice as I could, and finally just sent in my scores as I doubt I can do any better.

Hopefully I can make a comeback next week -- with a nice action game to help. :D

scooterb23

06-19-2005, 09:46 PM

Wait, fergo...there's a second level to Disco No. 1??? I sure haven't seen it yet...

Dr. Morbis

06-19-2005, 11:19 PM

I don't know if you are still planning a bye week, but I'd like to suggest the first weekend in July if you are. Canada day is the Friday (July 1st) and US Independance Day is the Monday (July 4th) so it's a long weekend all round and I'm sure a lot of us will have less time for the two MAME games.

fergojisan

06-20-2005, 01:52 AM

Wait, fergo...there's a second level to Disco No. 1??? I sure haven't seen it yet...

Yeah, I'm still not sure how I got there. LOL I played a few times on Monday, and the Zamboni guy kept kicking my ass BAD. I think that i had no less than 3 girls left each time (and I never bothered taking a picture). Yesterday I fired it up again and immediately got to the second level. I guess the Zamboni guy was having an off week as well. :)

I'm not bored either, I enjoyed both games (I totally forgot that I used to play Qix a lot), but just had an off week, like I said before. Keep 'em coming!

InsaneDavid

06-20-2005, 01:55 AM

Gee, this thread's been kinda quiet for a few days now. Already sent in my scores, and I'm eagerly awaiting for the next games by Gap and Jibba.

ALREADY sent them in? @_@

Am I the only guy who only ever first tries playing the games at 11:00pm or later on Sunday night? :P

I usually play my high score games mid-week but I've been really busy this week so I just submitted my scores now. (that and I'm really not a fan of either of these games, did play them and submit scores however - there's no excuse for not doing that) Just the same I'm sure I'll get my ass handed to me this week. Was nice leading the division for seven days though. LOL

The competition is still a blast, these past weeks have just been a pain with some emu stuff and running down some abandonware all this week, and then the screwup with the USGP today... it's just been a long week. :/

...and US Independance Day is the Monday (July 4th) so it's a long weekend all round and I'm sure a lot of us will have less time for the two MAME games.

That's not a problem for me, I blow stuff up and mess around with pyrotechnics every week. <pyro> Anyway, if there has to be a bye week I would guess that would be the best unless the competition is being extended through CGE or something. I'll be gone the 26th ~ 29th of this month but that still gives plenty of time for the MAME compeition.

robotriot

06-20-2005, 03:07 AM

Damn, I sucked at this week's games. I played them on Monday to test, but didn't get to seriously playing them last night. And of course I sucked and was annoyed by losing all the time, so I submitted two extremly crappy scores. Looks like I'll take two losses this week :(

Jibbajaba

06-20-2005, 08:18 AM

Does anyone else want to have a bye week? I'm fine with it if that's what you guys want. First week in July sounds like a good idea to me...

Chris

Lady Jaye

06-20-2005, 09:42 AM

A what week? You mean no game this week, or do you mean we have 2 weeks for the next set of games? Either way, it'd suit me, as next weekend is a long weekend here (Friday's a holiday), and I'll be in New York City Friday to Sunday (ie. leaving Thursday late night, coming back dinner time on Sunday). So I'd have very little time to play this week.

And regarding the last batch of games: I too really sucked at them. My past scores so far could've been improved had I spent more time playing; this week, I doubt it would have ever improved into a truly good score -- I'd be more likely to throw (and maybe break) my Dual Shock controoller in frustration.

Jibbajaba

06-20-2005, 11:42 AM

Lady Jaye

06-20-2005, 11:47 AM

Oh well. Looks like I'll have to play my games this week between tonight and Wednesday (no time on Thursday).

scooterb23

06-20-2005, 12:07 PM

So, what kind of scores did you folks get on the games this week? I'm curious. :)

For me I got about 25k on Qix, by far my best game ever (I didn't even know that there were screens with two of the wandering lightsaber enemies).

On Disco, I honestly never saw the second level until my "give up after this game" game, when I got to the 4th level or so and came up with a 21k score.

NE146

06-20-2005, 12:20 PM

I think I did relatively well on Qix. After a number of attempts the game I submitted I was able to clear 2 boards with a big ol' slow draw after isolating the qix to a small area. Then I split the qix. Then I managed another slow draw fill. Then I died on the next board... but not before scoring about 94k. We'll see how that stacks up.

Disco #1 though I knew I didn't do that well.. but I figured what the heck and sent in my best effort 18,620. I was able to do that trick the game shows in the demo and was able to fully encircle the 1st board just by going around the edges right away. After that though it was all downhill LOL

Mame league is fun :) I'd actually probably rarely play mame otherwise oddly enough.

Lady Jaye

06-20-2005, 12:25 PM

I didn't do nearly that well... about 13,000 for Qix and a measly 8,000 on Disco. Whaddya know, I guess it's just not my type of game!

NE146

06-20-2005, 12:36 PM

8,000 on Disco.

See... if you just did the single "circle the entire playfield right away" on the first board you would have beaten that in a couple of seconds. It pays to watch the demos! :)

Lady Jaye

06-20-2005, 12:42 PM

Oh well. Duh! The worst is that I did watch the demo, but probably not enough of it before playing...

scooterb23

06-20-2005, 12:42 PM

I could never get that trick to work...

Jibbajaba

06-20-2005, 01:09 PM

Well I can't update the standings since I am at work, but I can at least post this week's results.

The scores for each person are in parenthises. The first score is Qix, the second is Disco #1.

Cmosfm (10,812 ; 14,640) vs. DDCecil (62,288 ; 6,600) - Split
QOF (22,762 ; 6,190) vs. Cryomancer (11,676 ; 6,720) - Split
Fergojisan (18,752 ; 8,840) vs. Mr. FoodMonster (26,942 ; 13,680 - MFM wins both
Robotriot (16,626 ; 6,850) vs. Cirrus (15,932 ; 12,810) - Split
Crush Crawfish (23,522 ; 16,370) vs. SoulBlazer (39,696 ; 30,660) - SB wins both
AdamG (20,600 ; 2,870) vs. Scooterb23 (25,422 ; 21.310) - Scoot wins both
Quintracker (8,806 ; 5,370) vs. DragonMaster Sam (20,476 ; 18,760) - DMS wins both
Dr. Morbis (73,074 ; 24,720) vs. InsaneDavid (20,428 ; 9,340) - Dr wins both
NE146 (94,604 ; 18,620) vs. Lady Jaye (17,542 ; 8,820) - NE wins both
Tripppsk (46,134 ; 14,780) vs. Flack (0 ; 0) - Tripppsk wins both
Lord007 (0 ; 0) vs. hydr0x (0 ; 0) - two ties

Highs and Lows
High Qix: NE146 (94,604)
Low Qix: Quintracker (8,806)

High Disco: SoulBlazer (30,660)
Low Disco: AdamG (2,870)

Flack has officially dropped out of the competition. Matchups were based on order of score submission. I like this system, because then the people who don't submit scores end up playing eachother, and the chance of a cheap win is lessened. If someone has a problem with this system, then they are welcome to give me a scheduling program. Until then, this system is the best way to ensure both randomness and fairness. If someone else has a better idea, then I'm all ears.

hydr0x and Lord007: Feel free (and I reccomend that you do it) submit scores for these games so that they can be added to your total. Your ties will stand, however.

Lady Jaye

06-20-2005, 01:47 PM

I'm glad to see that I wasn't the worst player this week... and I really didn't stand a chance against NE146 in Qix. :P

hydr0x

06-20-2005, 01:57 PM

Lord007 (0 ; 0) vs. hydr0x (0 ; 0) - two ties
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hydr0x and Lord007: Feel free (and I reccomend that you do it) submit scores for these games so that they can be added to your total. Your ties will stand, however.

lmao, a 0/0 vs 0/0 tie, i'll try to submit something later

SoulBlazer

06-20-2005, 02:24 PM

Holy COW, I can't believe I won both my matchups. @_@

And HOW did I get the highest score in Disco Number 1? Some of you were saying that you were able to pull off the 'whole room trick' with the first board as shown in the demo. I tried that several times and finally got it last night, and then decided, what the hell, I'll try the second board with that as well. And GOT it! :eek 2: I promtly died on the next board, but I'm amazed no one else was able to get that trick going twice.

As for Qix, I bow my heads to the people who could get the really high scores. Not a easy game, that one is......

Looking forward to the new games for this week.

Oh, and I personaly don't need a bye week. I have no life, I'm not going anywhere, I still work 4th of July. :P

fergojisan

06-20-2005, 02:40 PM

I'm up for whatever everyone else wants to do for the bye week thingy. I'll be gone Sunday and Monday (and part of Sat.), for 4th of July. No Dr. Pushy on Monday!! LOL But it doesn't make a difference to me, I'm super-bendy!

:hmm:

Pick Food Fight. Pick Food Fight NOW. You know you want to. So go ahead, I won't tell. Food Fight = happiness. I'm desperate here, I need points. I'll give you 10 bucks, that's my final offer. Pretty please? C'mon, be a guy. Charley Chuck has you under his spell. He wants to throw lots of food at those pesky chefs. Did you read this far? You're silly.

:D