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Handicap Battles!
Handicap Battles!
Yes, you read it right! A brand new PC GFX tournament pitting the best and the bravest artists against each other in a bloody, messy graphics battle royale! Booya! ...Erhm, yeah. Onto the rules and specs: Who can join? The event’s open to all PC members (and new members, of course!) intrepid and imaginative enough to make graphics with the little freedom HB!’s gonna give them. Are you up for it? Bring it on, CME. That’s the spirit! All you need to do is say you want in and you’re in. Read on, chief. Tournament Format Handicap Battles! will implement the sudden death tournament format where only the winner of a match will advance to the next round. The tournament bracket will be released at least two days before the first round so keep checking this thread. Rounds and Matches A thread will be created by the tournament presider for each match. The participants will be given 48 hours to create, post and edit their entries. • Should there be an odd number of participants in a round, a pre-round match will be held between the two lowest-seeded participants. • Seeding will be based on the total number of votes the participant garnered in all of the previous rounds. Handicaps Aside from the deadline, the tournament presider (aka me) will also place a set of restrictions/“handicaps” on submissions for each round. These restrictions may range anywhere from size limits to a total ban on certain graphics elements. • To make the game a bit more interesting, some of the handicaps of the previous rounds will be carried over to the new round. • There will be no new handicaps in pre-round matches. Voting A 48-hour (2-day) voting period will begin immediately after the deadline. All members can vote, except for the two participants of the match. The tournament presider can only vote in the case of a tie. Members must post a paragraph of at least three sentences about the entry they’re going to vote for, and one sentence of constructive criticism for the other entry. It’s a pretty simple format so if a member fails to follow it, he/she will be sent a PM by the Tournament Presider and will be given the rest of the voting period to edit his/her vote. His/her vote will be invalidated if it still isn't of the prescribed format by the end of the voting period. (Sorry, chief.) And no playing favorites! Grounds for Elimination • One loss • Failure to comply with the handicaps • Failure to meet the deadline will result in a forfeit ----------------------- A list of participants will be needed by the end of this week. That's plenty of time! That's about it for me. Hope to see you all competing! List of participants: Counterfeit Gummy Statistics Dukey Nitrous Oxide Chibi Robo C:\PC\Ezzo |
Oooh, looks like this could be fun; Count me in.
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How do you come up with this crazy schemes? I'm in.
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This mind is a crazy one, Gummibar.
lol third person. :( |
Whoop, we has our prefix now. |D
Go say thank you to Cowrie. |3 |
Sounds like fun. Count me in, as well.
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I suppose I'll do some joinage.
It'll force me to get back into making tags :/ |
Add me in here, sounds neat enough.
Although, handicap wouldn't really be my term of choice, as handicaps are meant to help a certain person over another... |
Actually no, handicaps are meant so that everybody has the same chance, no matter what ability etc.
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hand⋅i⋅cap [han-dee-kap] Show IPA noun, verb, -capped, -cap⋅ping.
Use handicap in a Sentence –noun 1. a race or other contest in which certain disadvantages or advantages of weight, distance, time, etc., are placed upon competitors to equalize their chances of winning. dictionary.com knows all. |
Might wanna update that list there :3
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MAYBE I DO
MAYE I DON'T |
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I dunno, just doesn't seem politically correct... every time I see handicap battle, I think of people in wheel chairs fighting to the death. On a volcano. |
Which is exactly what the definition said...
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Politically correct? is this some sort of immigration debate?
Anyway..I won't be in 'cause I suck. But it's a great idea CME..And good luck to everyone who does join. |
Blahhh, I don't think I'll be joining either. xD;
I'm pretty much horrendous when it comes to handicaps. :P And I'm a lazy arse, but hey. xO I'm gonna be voting for sure though. >:3 Count on it~ <3 |
Ooooh looks like fun count me in CME~
Good luck to all the participants too |
Fufufnfunfunfun.
Count me in, CME. Can't wait. |
Here's the bracket, kiddos!
Chibi Robo vs Dukey Counterfeit vs C:\PC\Ezzo Nitrous Oxide vs Statistics and because we had an odd number of participants, Gummy gets a first round by. keep an eye out for your threads!! good luck to all! |
Tch Tch. Bad CME!
Making poor old me go first, I had some better things to on the first days of holidays >: |
Whoever faces me next round gets an easy win :x
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It's how the cards scraps of paper played out Dukey. :(
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I'm guessing all the cards said Dukey huh CME?
You devious little girl. |
Sounds like fun. Count me in, as well.
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Sign ups are closed, buddy.
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Oh well hopefully next time >.<
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Do I win by default or what?
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Apparently... xD That would be my guess anyway.
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Yeah, you do win by default.
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Holy cows CME, banning resizing the stock XD
This'll be fun to see how they turn out. |
Wow, banning resizing the stock. Looks like this will be interesting.
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Well Joe and Ezzo are two of my favorite GFX artists, so this will be interesting.
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For the next few weeks it's going to be my civic duty to ruin your lives. :)
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At the end of this competition, will there be a chance for more applicants to sign up for it? I was thinking of joining, but I decided not to, and I regret it now.
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I have a surprise up my sleeve for when this is over.
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Ooh, the possibilities. :P
Well after the surprise, do you think there will be more rounds? |
Probably not. It's a lot of work to come up with good, interesting stuff to work with.
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Tada~
I actually loved the stock btw, plenty of detail in there to work with. |
Magna Carta II stocks are ftw. I has a stock pack of 'em coming up
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Are they all going to be 500x125px by the way?
It was it interesting working with a different canvas than I normally would, but that novelty might ware off. xD |
That canvas size is only for the first round, I promise.
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Wow, the votes are really pouring in.
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I was going to vote for you Joe, then Ezzo went and changed his entry, and now I have no idea...
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Ffs, can anyone get this competion right? D; |
lol.
No entries from statistics or nitro yet? D: |
Rofl after seeing that Yuki stock I went: "Whew! Good thing I didn't enter!"
xDDD |
Can you guys just please stop your whining? The whole point of this is to challenge your imagination as an artist. So suck it up and do it.
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No point in doing something if you're not going to have fun doing it.
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I feel Deja Vu with this and Nitrous Oxide's theme, rofls.
Anyway, I'm pretty sure I was the only person who actually did any real complaining: And I'm not even a contestant, soooo. xD |
Any chance me vs Statistics could be extended? I'm fairly busy (work from 8 am until 6 pm) and not really on the computer after that because I'm either with family or sleeping early.
No clue where Statistics is though... |
I've been busy as well. College + Work = No time. There's no sense in complaining though. Instead of wasting our time with another match, just give Nitrous the win, if at all possible. I'm going to forfeit.
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Uh, is it too late to enter? ;-;
Yeah, cause i want in. >:O |
If you read the last page... you'd know it's too late to enter, seeing as the battles have already started.
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..Dammmit. No exceptions?
Ah well, Good luck to all them there battlers, I guess. |
So where's this handicap thing going to?
Like, what's going to happen next. I'm a bit confused. we waiting for nitrous or statistics? |
The next round will be up today, just needed to think of some good handicaps.
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Wow..that balmung stock is just cruel XD
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I'm thinking of changing it.
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If I wanted artwork, I'd use artwork.
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Sweet mother I cant wait to see the tag out come of their tags. xD
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I do try, I really do try.
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mmmm, i guess im forfeiting?
Well, I'm packing all day today, since I'm leaving for some other place and won't be back for a while. /notimetbh So yeah. Dukey wins I guess. D: |
This is really sad. Only one true match so far. Not nearly as good as I turned out. I know it's no one's fault but seriously... I was expecting better.
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Aww what Ezzo?
The battle we wanted finally came and you can't do it? Well.. this sure has been a competitive tournament thing from my point of view XD |
Suggestion: more time. Would have solved every problem, and multiple rounds can be run at once, nothing says you have to do them one at a time. Give everyone a week, that would have been plenty of time.
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The point is to think quick on your feet with the crap you're given... that's what makes you a better artist.
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Emphasis on the crap you're given there.
I'm still crappin' mah pants over those requirements o.o;; |
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I have a job too. You're not the only one.
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So....
Can I assume the battle between Dukey and Ezzo is over, and I should just close it? xD; |
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