Oh - and who is officailly running the tournament?  Passfail?

You tell me, I posted a replay I played with rawr on the bored not too long ago, but no one has actually given me any feed back about the game.

replays still work, what was eliminated was the personal for the demigod portals. There is no longer a game admin, stratedgy specialist,  replay reviewer etc.. etc.. for the portal.

So post replays as much as you can dammit! and talk on the boards I am lonely there!

I say Let synn be the only TB!

okay Thundercles has quit DG forever

I might try to coerce him to play, and if he drops, he drops. But we'll see. If you have an odd number of teams we'll see what we can do. Not that we would probably be much of a fight 'cause I've played all of 3 games in the past month :3

Macillia is also looking for a teammate. 

I'll run it then.  I'll put up what I consider the official rules and we'll see if there are any major disagreements.  For those individuals that don't make a team, I can randomize them. 

I think the one thing we really should agree upon is how crashes and invalid gamestates will be handled.  For crashes, its pretty easy to send in a screenshot showing the crash and to provide the demigod log as further proof.  So, we could establish rules, if desired, to have a match thrown out.  In the last lagwars tournament, if a player crashed, it did not matter.  Whichever team won was the winner, even if a win was only gained because a player crashed out.  We might just want to stick with this method.  I personally thinks its a lousy way to lose a tournament, though, so I personally wouldn't mind if we added some sort of provision.

With regards to invalid gamestates, that gets a little more tricky.  Replays could be used as proof of who was actually winning the game, but a team could simply get a slight advantage and then pull a desync.  I doubt anyone here would do that, but its a possibility.  Perhaps the rule in desyncs is that a 3rd party would have to review the replay and could declare a winner IF and ONLY IF it was quite reasonable to believe that the other team had the game won.

Oh - and I think a few people indicated they'd be willing to put up some money for the tourney.  I have nothing do with that, so if that does actually occur, they will handle the distribution of funds.  I will simply verify the winner.  I also won't be setting the exact times for your matches.  Once we determine who is fighting who, it will be on them to coordinate a time for the best of 3.

Here are the rules I propose:

• Exactly 1 player on the team MUST choose either Reg, DA, or TB.
• The 2nd player may choose any Demigod but cannot select the same Demigod as his teammate
• Each match in the tournament will be the best 2 out of 3
• All matches will be played on cataract with default settings (the only exceptions being AI HP on Very High and AI Gold/XP on very low)
• After teams are formed, they will be randomly placed into a bracket to determine who will fight who.  Everything will be random initially in round 1.  In the following rounds, the winners from one game will play the winners from another based on location in the bracket starting from the top on to the bottom.
  
• Each team will play 1 round on light side, then 1 round on dark side.  If there is a 3rd round, then teams can decide for themselves (keep in mind the following rule)
  
• The team that is on light must pick their characters and ready up first.  Then dark gets to pick and light side does not have a chance to adjust their characters. 
  
• To track your wins, you must do the following - post the replay at gamereplays.org.  If you have issues with gamereplays, upload the file to rapid share and provide us with a link.  Also, provide a link to the match in the pantheon and let me know if its a win or loss.  The winning team should do this for each and every match.

And here are the things left to discuss:

I think the one thing we really should agree upon is how crashes and invalid gamestates will be handled.  For crashes, its pretty easy to send in a screenshot showing the crash and to provide the demigod log as further proof.  So, we could establish rules, if desired, to have a match thrown out.  In the last lagwars tournament, if a player crashed, it did not matter.  Whichever team won was the winner, even if a win was only gained because a player crashed out.  We might just want to stick with this method.  I personally thinks its a lousy way to lose a tournament, though, so I personally wouldn't mind if we added some sort of provision.

With regards to invalid gamestates, that gets a little more tricky.  Replays could be used as proof of who was actually winning the game, but a team could simply get a slight advantage and then pull a desync.  I doubt anyone here would do that, but its a possibility.  Perhaps the rule in desyncs is that a 3rd party would have to review the replay and could declare a winner IF and ONLY IF it was quite reasonable to believe that the other team had the game won.

If you were wanting to put money up for the tournament, let us know here.  As of now, its just a tournament for fun and prestige in our community. 

Get cracking on forming teams guys in the list!  I still suggest sending pm's to people you'd like to team up with.  We'll be coming up with a date soon where registration will close.

There is no replay evidence?  I thought the replay existed but it cuts off right at the point of the desync... that's not the case?

Ninki i only said that because you have almost stop playing demigod i almost never see you on vent

I've been lurking and reading, but not posting in this thread. I don't imagine I'm good enough to provide any real competition. However, I had a couple of idea I'd like to put up for consideration.

1. Make this a spectator sport.
   1. We can't do live matches. However, we do have the demos. If we take the demos from each game, give it a commentator track, and then host it for download, this might produce more interest in Demigods, from both SD & GPG and the public.
   2. How do we get a commentator track?
      1. We need to get 2 or 3 Demigod personalities (perhaps guest hosts).
      2. We have them connect to each other using Ventrilo, Skype or another VOIP.
      3. They watch the game and make comments on it, while recording their conversations.
      4. We then package it with the Demo
   3. How do people watch and listen?
      1. The best way would be for people to watch the Demo in Windowed mode and play the commentary using WinAmp or something. This way they could keep the commentary in sync with the demo.
   4. Any other options?
      1. It would take more effort but someone could play the demo and capture it using FRAPS (or similar program). Then attach the commentary track to that.
2. Make the games use the UberFix.
   1. It might be a little egotistical, but I think there needs to be more awareness and community wide use of it. It really does change many of the little flaws in Demigods 1.20.  
   2. The more publicity it gets the sooner GPG will put out a patch with it.

I want to spectate and make comments. We could form a duo.

FORM YOUR TEAMS!!!

I'm out.