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Kid of the Hill - A new type of speedrun event!
tehjman1993:
Hello everyone,
In our never-ending pursuit of fun community events, we believe we may have something to satisfy your need for such an event!
We would like to propose a new 2-month speedrunning event: Kid of the Hill!
Kid of the Hill is a spin on the classic "King of the Hill" style of tournament play.
What does King of the Hill mean?
King of the Hill is a style of tournament play that typically involves the #1 seeded participant vs. any other participant in an effort to hold their spot as #1. If they win, they keep their spot (their "hill"), if not, the one who beats them is crowned as #1. This is a classic KOTH-style event.
So how does this relate to Kid of the Hill?
We want to use this KOTH style of play and implement it into a challenge of speedrunning various fangames. Here's how it will work:
-A pool of 25 fangames is chosen from us, the event organizers. This pool is public knowledge, and will include fangames of varying skill levels.
-A King will be chosen for the first round, and the King will decide 1 week before they race what fangame will be played out of the pool of fangames provided.
-After a fangame has been chosen for the week, that game will be announced to all participants and everyone will have exactly 1 week to run the chosen game and get the fastest time possible.
-Runners are to submit their best times to Speedrun.com at any time during the week, up until the day before the race.
-The runner (that is not the current King) that submits the fastest time to Speedrun.com is chosen as the "challenger" to the King for the race on the next day.
-The race will be featured on a Twitch Channel (TBD) as King vs. Challenger (think of the 2-player races on our fangame marathon layout!)
-If the King wins, they stay King. If the Challenger wins, they become the new King.
-The race is open to all participants, however, only the challenger may knock the King off of the Hill on any given week. So if you happen to beat the King but you are not the challenger, better luck next time!
-Immediately following the race, the King that is determined from the race will pick another fangame from the pool, and we start a new week of racing.
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Does this sound like a fun event to participate in? This would require no sign-ups, just show up and play! I believe it both gives our community a unique race feel to it, and promotes both racing and submissions to speedrun.com's fangames.
Let us know what you think in this thread. This thread is solely for feedback and suggestion purposes - all information-related material relating to this event will be posted in a different thread once dates and times are set. We would really like to know if this would have a lot of runners! You can also ask questions about the event at our channels, www.twitch.tv/tehjman1993 or www.twitch.tv/mrssfireball
Thanks,
TJ & Fireball
Zurai:
What would you think of letting all people participate for the "hill-spot" in the weekly race? Instead a 1v1 race. And the week before is solely used for practice and submissions on the leadboards?
Denferok:
Sounds neat but I fear the list would just be full of easy games no one runs instead of the more difficult and popular games
tehjman1993:
--- Quote from: Zurai on August 24, 2016, 11:41:45 AM ---What would you think of letting all people participate for the "hill-spot" in the weekly race? Instead a 1v1 race. And the week before is solely used for practice and submissions on the leadboards?
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This is definitely an option, but then the question becomes who do we stream? Of course we could stream the current King, but who else would we feature? Or would we keep the same layout, but allow anyone who wins the race to become King?
--- Quote from: Denferok on August 24, 2016, 01:54:04 PM ---Sounds neat but I fear the list would just be full of easy games no one runs instead of the more difficult and popular games
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I hope that not all of the games are 25 or 30 difficulty fangames. We aim on taking fangames that do have some difficulty in them - like NANG! Of course, this will exclude fangames that are pretty exclusive in difficulty, such as the ever-popular K3. But when it comes to picking a pool of fangames, we'll make sure we have a good spread of difficulty. This won't include super easy (see: Hunyaapunpun) games, but won't include very precise (see: Kill the Needle Game) games.
Artardss:
--- Quote from: tehjman1993 on August 24, 2016, 02:26:06 PM ---
--- Quote from: Zurai on August 24, 2016, 11:41:45 AM ---What would you think of letting all people participate for the "hill-spot" in the weekly race? Instead a 1v1 race. And the week before is solely used for practice and submissions on the leadboards?
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This is definitely an option, but then the question becomes who do we stream? Of course we could stream the current King, but who else would we feature? Or would we keep the same layout, but allow anyone who wins the race to become King?
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You could maybe display the king and the 3 fastest people on the leaderboards. This way you increase the chance of showing the winner on stream. I also think it's more enjoyable to watch 4 people race at once instead of 2.
I definitely like the idea of this though.
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