Weekly 5-Map Custom Map Tournament

[thepenguin]

A.Rules:
Every competitor will have until Sunday evening at midnight (forum time (GMT - 5)) to set the best scores/times for these 5 maps, all linked together by their common theme, so there's no need to subscribe; just start playing!
The winner (best total score) gets to pick a new theme from the list of proposed themes by the community in this topic and publish the dates to be played before Monday evening at midnight (forum time).
This will ensure the winner doesn't have a major advantage and also makes sure that every player has 6 days to participate.
Last weeks winner is also responsible for determining next weeks winner by calculating/checking the total scores.
Each tournament will have its own topic (Created by the winner of the previous week's tournament) where players can post scores and discuss their progress.

B.Please note:
- It is not allowed for the same player to submit scores with different names. If done so, both names will be disqualified.
- Winners are calculated by highest total score, however, in the event that two players are tied in their scores, the lowest total time wins.
- When two players have the same total score and the same total time, the amount of individual #1 spots counts, followed by the amount of #2 spots, etc.
- When the tournament has been won by the same player as last week the runner up (#2) will pick the next theme to ensure themes & maps will be picked by different people.
- When this runner up already picked last weeks theme (same top 2 twice), the number three will pick the theme + maps
- When this number three already picked last weeks theme (same top 3 three times), the winner will pick the theme + maps again
I will keep this initial post up-to-date with a list of nominated themes and winners of kept tournaments.

C.Regarding posting the results of the tournament you won:
1. Of course the final results haven't been posted yet, but I'm sure the winner will know he has won by adding and comparing his scores.

2. It's a tradition that the winner of a tournament posts screenshots of his solutions for others to learn from. Use the backspace key to create a screeny; it will automatically be saved in your 'documents\creeperworld2_screens' folder. When posting click 'Additional Options' to be able to attach them. Use the 'Insert Image' button or IMG-tag when you also like to embed them into the post itself.

D.Regarding posting next weeks tournament theme & topic:
1. When selecting the theme yourself just pick one from the list (see first post of this thread) or think of one yourself. Please make sure it will appeal to a wide variety of players.
2. When selecting the codes of maps to be played make sure these maps haven't been played before. I would also check if you're not posting any fools mate maps (maps that can be finished without engaging the creeper at all), (also, no impossible maps (undiggable terrain surrounding an emitter) :))
3. When entering the name of the new tournament topic, please use this format: "Weekly 5-Map Tournament - [theme title] - closing [date of next Sunday]".
4. When posting all tournament data you may want to use a table (the only way to align data in columns and keep it resizeable for every screen size/resolution). Again quoting a post of a previous tournament and copying its table is the easiest option here when you don't want to create it from scratch (see above).
5. Please provide a link to this thread, containing the overview of themes, previous tournaments, players rankings and most important: the rules!
6. No two maps in a tournament can have the same combination of size/complexity
7. if a new tournament is not posted on monday before midnight (forum time), I will supply a tournament before noon (forum time) on tuesday, in the event that no tournament is created by noon (forum time) on tuesday, anyone can create the next week's tournament

E.Previous/Current tournaments:


F.Overall Scoreboard:

Player

Gold Medals

Silver Medals

Bronze Medals

Total

* Won a point (or more), without finishing all maps in the tournament



edit: feel free to make theme suggestions as a post in this thread

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G.Future (suggested) topics:

• J's Maps

[thepenguin]

it looks like the code maps are dead, so I carried this over to the custom maps

[Ebon Heart]

this is a great idea, when do we start? And how do we pick the first set of maps?

[thepenguin]

this is a great idea, when do we start? And how do we pick the first set of maps?

started.

i did this today, so it's a little more than a week-long tournament

BTW, can someone sticky this?

[Fisherck]

Better be carefull here. I bet that most custom maps will be longer than code maps. And on that note, I would like to suggest J's growing list of maps to be a possibility. They are generally shorter, and a lot of fun. :)

[Colin]

The only problem I have with this, is it has a higher chance
of playing maps that people have already played, and some-
one who doesn't even "enter" the tournament (kithros) could
easily win without wanting too.

The code maps aren't dead, its just people are REALLY
distracted by the custom maps and editor (especially me),
and for good reason too because Virgil has done an awesome
job!

I suggest that this DOES carry over to the code maps,

the first tournament is the first 5 maps?

so we have:

Shipyard Prints
Outdoor Arcade
Transporter
Choice
Choice 2

all on various sizes/complexities.

[Fisherck]

The only problem I have with this, is it has a higher chance
of playing maps that people have already played, and some-
one who doesn't even "enter" the tournament (kithros) could
easily win without wanting too.

He is completely right. I was finished with this tournament before it started. :)

[UpperKEES]

it looks like the code maps are dead, so I carried this over to the custom maps

There's a time and place for everything. People are now just busy experimenting with the editor, but I'm sure the code maps will be played more when CW2 gets the attention of the flash portals, which will draw many new players here.