09-01-2010, 05:19 PM
remember TUGS
would any of you feel up to doing something like that again?
For those of you who have no idea what I'm talking about:
TUGS was a "tournament" held at tsr way back when it was still the pixeltendo forums.
The tournament has an initial challenge that, when completed, every entry is compared and all of the entrants are split into tiers (beginner, intermediate, "expert") Once members are split into tiers, they each receive a challenge much like the ones Shawn posts here every once in awhile.
None of the tiers are related, so each bracket receives a challenge based on the general level of talent in that tier (for instance, the beginner bracket would never be expected to make a 300x300 minimum pixel art of a mythical creature using only pure red, green, blue, and black; likewise, the expert bracket would never be asked to pixel a small idle sprite with gameboy color limitations)
on top of this, if you win the beginner bracket, you won't have to worry about challenging the winner of the expert bracket; there's essentially 3 winners.
The tournament is judged by 2 or 3 people who handle coming up with the challenges, judging the victors of each match (obviously), and handling pretty much everything about the tournament.
If you guys are up to this, I'd definitely be able to host it assuming that two other *competent* spriters are willing to be judges (and not enter the tournament on top of that). The length of the tournament will be based on the amount of people to enter.
So yeah, if enough people are interested I'll select some judges and start a thread with the initial challenge to place everyone in a tier sometime in the next month
would any of you feel up to doing something like that again?
For those of you who have no idea what I'm talking about:
TUGS was a "tournament" held at tsr way back when it was still the pixeltendo forums.
The tournament has an initial challenge that, when completed, every entry is compared and all of the entrants are split into tiers (beginner, intermediate, "expert") Once members are split into tiers, they each receive a challenge much like the ones Shawn posts here every once in awhile.
None of the tiers are related, so each bracket receives a challenge based on the general level of talent in that tier (for instance, the beginner bracket would never be expected to make a 300x300 minimum pixel art of a mythical creature using only pure red, green, blue, and black; likewise, the expert bracket would never be asked to pixel a small idle sprite with gameboy color limitations)
on top of this, if you win the beginner bracket, you won't have to worry about challenging the winner of the expert bracket; there's essentially 3 winners.
The tournament is judged by 2 or 3 people who handle coming up with the challenges, judging the victors of each match (obviously), and handling pretty much everything about the tournament.
If you guys are up to this, I'd definitely be able to host it assuming that two other *competent* spriters are willing to be judges (and not enter the tournament on top of that). The length of the tournament will be based on the amount of people to enter.
So yeah, if enough people are interested I'll select some judges and start a thread with the initial challenge to place everyone in a tier sometime in the next month