Online Pop'n Tournament

[otaku1313]

Hey guys, I've been thinking about having a pop'n music tournament similar to all the IIDX tournaments Songy has hosted online. Date is still TBA, but will almost surely be on a friday, saturday, or sunday night. I need some input from everyone first though, and I'll go through them in order of importance:

1. Will you enter an online tournament? Those of you who have all ready answered, ignore this.

Prospective entrants: 9

2. Ojama use WILL be allowed for the tournament.

3. Points awarded on top of regular score; Taisen mode, which was used in the topranker DVD, gives an extra bonus to each player's score depending on some conditions. I do not agree with Taisen mode's standards for points, but I do have other ideas. I was thinking, perhaps for a Full Combo you could be awarded 1000 points more, and with a Perfect, given 1500 points more. These would NOT BE STACKABLE, meaning you could only get one bonus or the other.

Votes for points: 1
Votes for no points: 1

4. S-challenge vs. Normal play; I thought up an idea of working S-Challenge into play, but I am sure a lot of you don't feel proficient enough at it yet. I have an idea: S-Challenge must be agreed on by both players before beginning the match.

For agreement option: 1
For S-Challenge ONLY: 2
Against S-Challenge (Normal play ONLY): 1

5. S-Random WILL be forced for the final round, and possibly the two last rounds, of the tournament, depending on size and format.


Thanks everyone, hopefully if I get more than 8 possible entrants this tournament will happen.

[Ledline]

1) yes
2)meh
3)no
4)no
5)yes

[otaku1313]

The polls will be left open for the next two days, but I'm now going to narrow down the choices. Please REVOTE based on the new options we have. After the two days are up, I'll post the rules and when the possible date will be. If you have any ideas for the date, then by all means post them and I'll take them into account.

[Will154]

how exactly is this done ???

i might be interested though !

[otaku1313]

Okay so I'm gonna test run the tournament this weekend, enough people or not. The second weekend of January will be the weekend of the actual tournament, not sure what day we'll have it on yet. What's going to happen this weekend is this:
1. MORE VOTING since we still have ties for some of the options.
2. Input from everyone as to what day would be best for the tournament, fri sat or sun.
3. A test-run of the tournament to see if it's gonna run smoothly or not.
4. Suggestions about how to make this tournament better and more fun.

Basically, if you can come to the #vjarmy IRC channel this weekend on saturday night at 7 PM EST and/or sunday night at 7 PM EST, then do it. It'll help me out, and make things run quicker during the real tournament.

If you DON'T know how to get into the #vjarmy IRC channel, here's some instructions:
1. Google search for mIRC, then download the latest version and install it.
2. Once you get it up and running, go to Tools, then hit Options. Fill out the "Connect" information, doesn't really matter what you put.
3. Click the plus next to Connect, or just make sure you can access "Servers." Once you do this, change the network to GameSurge, then click "Connect To Server."
4. Wait a little, and you'll either get a pop-up box telling you what room to enter (type "#vjarmy" and hit enter), or you'll still be in the same window, connected to GameSurge (type "/join #vjarmy" and hit enter).

If you have trouble with this, contact me at "otaku1313" via Instant Messenger.

Once you get into the channel, type in "/join #pnmcst" and you'll be in the room I made for the tournament. If you don't see anyone in there at all, you're in the wrong room.

Rules will be posted later tonight, so check back.

EDIT1: Sat test tourney will be on 13 CARNIVAL, and the sun test tourney will be on 11. Reason for this is to test how we would do an only Cools tourney, and an only Greats tourney. There WILL be people playing in the test tourneys on ADVENTURE, so don't pick CS stuff that isn't on ADVENTURE. During the real tournament however, someone using ADVENTURE instead of the CS game will have to forefeit a song if it is picked on them and is not on ADVENTURE. They do NOT automatically lose the match, only that one song.

[otaku1313]

Qualifiers at 7 PM EST, lasts until 7:45 PM EST. The tournament itself will start around 8 PM EST, but you MUST qualify in order to enter the tournament.

The qualifiers will be two songs randomly chosen from LV 32-35 or whatever the closest category is on Carnival, and for 11 they have been picked by an outsider from level 32-35. The scores will be combined, and the best total gets seeded first, worst last. ONLY PLAY THE QUALIFIER ONCE. You may not play it on a different difficulty to warm-up, but you may play any other songs on the game. Your first try is your final score, DO NOT restart the song if you're doing bad.

These tournaments will be double elimination, two-player matches (not three as in topranker).

The tournament for Carnival on SATURDAY will run on S-Challenge ONLY. This includes the qualifier and every match. We will also try using points on top of the regular scores as outlined before.
The tournament for 11 on SUNDAY will be NORMAL/Challenge play, and we will only use GREATs. No points will be awarded at all for Full Combos or Perfects. HOWEVER, if you DO get a Full Combo, LET ME KNOW so I can keep track of losing and winning Full Combos.

There are NO level limits in these tournaments, use your own discretion. During a match, both players will pick one song and the difficulty they wish to play it on. If you FAIL your own song, there is no penalty. For the purposes of the test (and only the test tournaments), try not to pick something that isn't on ADVENTURE, as some players will be helping me while using it. Same goes for you using ADVENTURE; don't pick something that's not on Carnival or 11, whichever we're using.

Two out of three song wins takes the match, with both players picking one song each. You may NOT pick a song more than once in one tournament, not even on a different difficulty. Loser of the match will advance to the losers bracket after first loss, and the winner will move on. Also, DO NOT play any song more than once. You are NOT allowed to restart for any reason, and if I find you're taking too long to give me a score, have a good excuse.

If any match goes to the third round, it will be a RANDOM song from the ENTIRE songlist, and will be forced S-Random. Pick whatever modifiers and ojamas you like, but you MUST have on S-Random. If I think the song is too easy (on pop'n 11 ONLY due to Greats), I will pick a different song.

The semi-finals AND the finals for the Carnival tournament will be S-Random only, meaning the last 2 winners and the last 2 losers will play forced S-Random rounds, and the very final round will also be S-Random. As per usual, any other modifiers and ojamas are allowed, but you MUST have on S-Random.
For 11, ONLY the last round will be S-Random, not any others. The last round in the pop'n 11 tournament will also be out of FIVE songs, not three as per usual. Each player picks two songs in this case. Same applies here for modifiers and ojamas as in the Carnival tournament.

Any mods are allowed, and any ojamas are allowed. If you want to use Ojama HS8 on the slow-ass cat song, go for it.

After you finish the tournament, if you have time please HANG AROUND or post in one of the threads I made on here, Bemanistyle, and AIJ. I still need input from you guys on how you want the real thing to run.


These rules may change a bit for the real thing, but they shouldn't change too much. Expect similar matches and rules.

EDIT: Those of you in the tournaments, about ADVENTURE--DON'T ASK DON'T TELL. Don't tell someone if you've got ADVENTURE running, and you'll have a slightly better chance of winning. Don't ask someone about whether they are running ADVENTURE either, or you're just trying to be a dick and find a cheap way to win. I will NOT let you know if you win by default or not, since you may face that person later. We want this to be a fun game for everyone, and beating a person by picking stuff they can't play isn't exactly fun.

EDIT2: Changed one rule and added two; best two out of three songs now wins, not total. You can only pick a song once. Don't play a song from a match more than once, including restarts (this INCLUDES the qualifier).

[otaku1313]

The tournament will be postponed until 8PM EST tonight.