EXPERIMENT: Tonight (Fri May 5th) Virtual Mini Tournament - come and play!

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EXPERIMENT: Tonight (Fri May 5th) Virtual Mini Tournament - come and play!

Griffin's Friday Night Virtual Tournament

Friday May 5th

Start: 6pm PST/ 9pm EST
End: 8pm PST/11pm EST


Tonight we're going to be running a crazy experiment using the new score board system at www.ArcadeIcons.com to have a mini 'virtual tournament' that anyone can participate in if they have access to the games.

We will also being doing a special Arcade Roadtrip Hangout live stream during the event.

Live Hangout Video Stream Link - http://youtu.be/6IWF_J6brOI

Live Tournament Scoreboard - http://www.arcadeicons.com/index.ph...iew=article&id=7&eventID=0&tournID=18&locID=9



How to take part in the tournament

First make sure you have access to the following titles to play this evening (or head over to a buddies place with some beers if they have them).

Playing the games on MAME/multi/60-in-1 is fine too - this is an experiment in community fun and getting together 'in the cloud' :D

We've tried to pick a few games that most people may have access to in some fashion e.g. they can all be found on 60-in-1 etc

Factory defaults, 3 lives per game

  • Ms. Pac-Man (Regular Speed)
  • Donkey Kong
  • Galaxian
  • Burger Time
  • Frogger
  • Pooyan
  • Moon Cresta


If you have access to ALL of the above games to play tonight and you want to take part...

Register yourself for free here...
http://www.arcadeicons.com/index.php/component/comprofiler/registers


Once you have registered and activated your account via the confirmation email, register for the tournament 'Griffin's Friday Night Virtual Tournament' with the invite code virtual1 using this link...
http://www.arcadeicons.com/index.php/component/fabrik/form/65


Submitting Your Scores

Just before the event I will 'activate' everyone who has registered before 6pm PST/9pm EST to be able to post scores.

Usually a judge in a single location would do this, but this is a fun experiment, so even though you can see everyone in the 'post score' list, please only post scores for people at your place. (We can ban/kick idiots so play nice) :D

Once the tournament starts, refresh the tournament scoreboard page on your phone/tablet/computer...

http://www.arcadeicons.com/index.ph...iew=article&id=7&eventID=0&tournID=18&locID=9

you will see you now have the option to 'Submit New Score' at the top of the page. Click this button and use the form to enter your scores throughout the event.

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This is a first for everyone and a big test of the new site, so please have patience, have fun and let's see if this is a hit or a flaming disaster.

:D

Griffin
 

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How does this work? It seems to me like somebody could play on MAME with cheats enabled, or is there something I am missing?

I realize that it could be an honor system thing too. If so, that's fine. I am just wondering how this works.
 
How does this work? It seems to me like somebody could play on MAME with cheats enabled, or is there something I am missing?

I realize that it could be an honor system thing too. If so, that's fine. I am just wondering how this works.

It's fun and an honor system, sure someone could cheat, but why bother?
 
I removed Super Cobra as it was the only 8-way game, everything else can be played with your 4-way restrictors in place.
 
Don't cry just cuz Super Sprint isn't on the list... ;)

OTT always gets his (4) way ;)

Ah, just realized that I don't really have Bomb Jack either... it's 8-way and my 60-1 is using a 4-way stick with all 8-way games disabled. *sad face*


I removed Super Cobra as it was the only 8-way game, everything else can be played with your 4-way restrictors in place.

LOL

In just over 3 hours.....it's ON !!!

:D

-GackAttack
 
WooHoo!

Looking forward to getting my ass handed to me ;)

-GackAttack

Look at Mr. Modesty here. ;)

Nice job taking first place Gack!
Good times everyone! Thanks for setting this up Joel and for all your time into ArcadeIcons.com!
 
Well I think we can say that was a super fun and unexpected success. Thanks everyone for taking part, I'll be taking lessons from tonight's experience and looking at building a 'drop-in-tournament' option so we can do things like this more in the future.

Congrats to Gackattack for taking 1st place!!!!!

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We should do this every weekend!

Ha! Yeah that would be great but I need to build in more tech focused on this kind of event, I didn't even get to play the games as I was tech admin the whole night. The system worked well and overall I think everyone found it easy to use. I just need to build the system out better so that late arrivals can drop in and start playing without any extra assistance from me.
 
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