[Approved] Nintendo VGM quiz of doom, or something like that

ddrox13

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    Google doesn't have a sound search function yet, so we can do this!

    Anyway, relatively simple concept here. I PM out a sound clip or three from a Nintendo game, teams identify said clip. Each clip may or may not be joined by an obscure hint. Sometimes it will be the whole song, sometimes just a ~30sec part of it. Points within the quiz will be awarded for correctly identifying the series, game, and title of each track (a brief description of when it plays is acceptable for the title). There will be a bias towards the Pokemon series because Pokecommunity.

    Also worth noting that I define a "nintendo game" here VERY broadly as any game that either A) Was made by Nintendo proper B) was made by a 3rd party that works near exclusively with Nintendo C) Debuted at retail exclusively on a Nintendo console. Most things that fall into categories A and B also fall into C, but that's neither here nor there. Yes, this DOES mean FF1 counts, not that I'll use it. There are a couple odd situations this creates (i.e. I intend to use some Ace Attorney music, but the most recent one is ineligible because it never went to retail at ALL) I decided to limit it to Nintendo stuff because that's what most people here know best.

    This is not intended so that every team gets full points, or that teams should rush. speed points will not be awarded at all - the number of correct answers is the sole determinant of who gets what points.

    I also need to figure out how to embed sound clips, otherwise I'll be linking them from my Drive.
     
    So I'm making a song list, and right now I only have like 5 songs planned from before the DS era. I may chop the stated "what could be on the quiz" to DS, 3DS, and Switch stuff, simply because anything older than that is beyond my expertise.

    Edit: Thanks much to Rabinov, This problem is dealt with. Also there will be more songs than I originally intended. But that's okay.
     
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    Will you keep a tally of each individuals points or is this team-based?

    As much as I'd LOVE to individualize this, team based. I was Doctrina last year, so I know how important cooperation on these quizzes are.

    EDIt: A word on points - My plan is to grant points within the event, about 5 points per song with partial credit given for at least getting the game/series right. I would like to see a direct conversion to team points from this scoring rather than a 1st/2nd/3rd thing (though I'm all for awarding a position bonus at the end). The current plan has 90 total songs over 9 days (assuming the event is 10 days with a lone signup day).
     
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    As much as I'd LOVE to individualize this, team based. I was Doctrina last year, so I know how important cooperation on these quizzes are.

    EDIt: A word on points - My plan is to grant points within the event, about 5 points per song with partial credit given for at least getting the game/series right. I would like to see a direct conversion to team points from this scoring rather than a 1st/2nd/3rd thing (though I'm all for awarding a position bonus at the end). The current plan has 90 total songs over 9 days (assuming the event is 10 days with a lone signup day).

    That system wouldn't really work out with how we're divvying out points this year.
     
    With the tweaked system, I'd like to see the rewards for this event be the following:

    1st place tribe - The newly discovered Melloettaium Z (Unless you can't. Then Decidium)
    2nd place - Firium (for correctly guessing the contents of my FIRE mixtape)
    3rd - Normalium
     
    With the tweaked system, I'd like to see the rewards for this event be the following:

    1st place tribe - The newly discovered Melloettaium Z (Unless you can't. Then Decidium)
    2nd place - Firium (for correctly guessing the contents of my FIRE mixtape)
    3rd - Normalium

    I you take a look at the crystals thread, there's already prizes assigned for this one and I think they're pretty fair. Is this otherwise ready?
     
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