ORIGINAL POST IS BELOW.
Preliminary Game Rules:
[All rules are, at this point in time, currently entirely subject to debate as to create the best and most enjoyable competition. All rules below are not official and exist solely to be discussed until finalized.
===Advance Wars by Web===
All games will be played at
Advance Wars by Web.
(Specific COs to ban?)
(Specific stages to use?)
===Advance Wars: Days of Ruin===
(Never played this, someone else fill it in.)
===Button Men===
All games will be played at
Button Men.
Each match will consist of 6 seperate games.
3 games will be played using the following rules: Play until 3 wins, Random TL Button Man VS Random TL Button Man.
3 games will be played as Reverse Matches of the 3 prior games, with each player using the Button Men their opponent used.
[As a side note, I highly encourage anyone to check out this game--it's pretty simple and a lot of fun.]
===Diddy Kong Racing DS===
If there are more than 8 players, all players will be grouped into randomly chosen, approximately equal groups of no more than 8 players.
Each group will compete in a series of (#?) races.
(Maybe I'm just not in the right frame of mind but I can't think of how points should be distributed on this one. I also need to test Wi-Fi because I'm not even positive 8-player Wi-Fi is there. I've read online it is though...)
===Dr. Mario Online RX===
Round Robin Tournament. Players will be ranked on wins.
[Any preference on difficulty level? If not I'll look into it...]
===Elebits (Stage Design Contest)===
Each competitor may submit only one stage.
"Judges" are those not competing in the event but who have chosen to judge the event.
All players and judges will recieve and play the stages made by each other player, and then rank the stages in order from favorite to least favorite. A player will not include their own stage in their ranking.
<Points will be awarded in some fashion in this way...>
===Grand Theft Auto 4===
(Race Mode? No clue, someone else fill this in.)
===Guilty Gear XX===
(Someone else fill it in.)
===Immaterial and Missing Power===
(Someone else fill it in.)
===Kirby Air Ride===
All matches will be played on a Nintendo Game with a Broadband Adapter using Warp Pipe. (Need link to software.)
(Need more information on what modes play in Broadband mode.)
===LandGrab===
If there are more than 7 players, all players will be grouped into randomly chosen, approximately equal groups of no more than 7 players.
(Should a specific set of maps be chosen for each round? How many rounds should be played? How should elimination work?)
===Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass===
Round Robin tournament. Players will be ranked on wins.
Stages will be chosen via in-game method.
[How many matches should be played between each set of players?]
===Magic the Gathering===
Matches may be played on
Magic Workstation or
LackeyCCG.
(Someone else fill this in.)
===Super Mario Bros.===
<Game Race rules go here.>
===Super Mario Bros. 3===
<Game Race rules go here.>
===Mario Kart DS===
If there are more than 4 players, all players will be grouped into randomly chosen, approximately equal groups of no more than 4 players.
Courses will be chosen via in-game method.
(How should elimination work?)
===Mario Kart Wii===
If there are more than 8 players, all players will be grouped into randomly chosen, approximately equal groups of no more than 8 players.
Courses will be chosen via in-game method.
(Should we use in-game ranking for this one? Does it keep track of in-game ranking during friend matches?)
===Mario Kart: Double Dash!!===
All matches will be played on a Nintendo Game with a Broadband Adapter using Warp Pipe. (Need link to software.)
(Need more information on what modes play in Broadband mode.)
===Mario Strikers Charged===
(Someone else fill me in on this one...)
===Mega Man game?===
<Anyone have a preference on a specific Mega Man game or games to use for a Game Race?>
===Metroid Prime: Hunters===
(Someon else fill in this one...)
===Monster Rancher===
(Someon else fill in this one...)
===Phantasy Star Online Episode I & II===
(Someon else fill in this one...)
===Picross DS===
(I'll look into this one at some point...)
===Picross DS (Puzzle Design Contest)===
Each competitor may submit only one puzzle.
"Judges" are those not competing in the event but who have chosen to judge the event.
All players and judges will recieve and play the puzzles made by each other player, and then rank the stages in order from favorite to least favorite. A player will not include their own stage in their ranking.
<Points will be awarded in some fashion in this way...>
===Pokémon Diamond & Pearl===
Matches will be played on a DS system over Wi-Fi or through Pokémon Battle Revolution.
Matches will follow standard OU rules.
[3-on-3 or 6-on-6?]
===Pokémon TCG===
Matches may be played using
LackeyCCG or
RedShark.
Round Robin tournament.
===Sonic the Hedgehog 2===
(Gens has Netplay, right? Any other Genesis emulators, as well?)
(Play a set of all 4 levels, using in-game scoring to decide winner?)
===Sonic game?===
<Any particular Sonic game that would be usable for a Game Race?>
===Super Smash Bros.===
Play using Netplay in Project64k.
<Anyone?>
===Super Smash Bros. Brawl===
<1-on-1 or 4-player matches?>
===Super Smash Bros. Brawl (Stage Design Contest)===
Each competitor may submit only one stage.
"Judges" are those not competing in the event but who have chosen to judge the event.
All players and judges will recieve and play the stages made by each other player, and then rank the stages in order from favorite to least favorite. A player will not include their own stage in their ranking.
<Points will be awarded in some fashion in this way...>
===Team Fortress 2===
(No clue.)
===Tetris DS===
(2-player or 4-player mode?)
===WarTech: Senko No Ronde===
(No clue.)
WOW. When I originally thought up making this post, I didn't realize I'd have so many glaring blank spots. So if anyone has any preferences on any of these, PLEASE make them known now. In addition, if you want to add any games [which I highly encourage you do], then please post a preliminary explanation of the rules.
Sorry for this otherwise being a waste, but it's a start I guess.
-------------ORIGINAL POST-------------
I came up with this idea and talked to RPG about it a little, and it's... probably too grandiose and would become unwieldy to manage, but I'd like to give it a shot anyway of people would be interested.
Essentially... a massive competition of games of all sorts.
Ranging from Mario Kart to Magic the Gathering to Chess to LandGrab to any game anyone can feasible play online [and some that feasibly can't].
I envision it working like this: People will suggest games to include. Once a list of games has been made up, people can express interest in what games they'd want to compete in. There will be no limit to how many games a person can compete in, and each person does not need to compete in all the games, or even a large portion of them. In order for a game's competition to occur, there will be a minimum number of required competitors.
I'd like to include a variety of games, from Wii/DS/360 games that can be played online, to CCGs over Lackey and MWS, to board and card games that can be played on any number of sites, to web-based games like LandGrab and possibly others.
Another idea I kicked around that I don't know if anyone would be interested in, would be "Game Races" like the ones featured
here under "Race Videos"--People would likely need a capture card or a way to record video from an emulator, and there'd need to be rules for it... also, having a mic to communicate is a plus--on those ones, the idea wouldn't just be to speed run, but to also talk to your opponents while you play and things... I know it sounds weird, but I think it'd be a fun idea.
We'd also need to decide what the best and most fair ways to run the events would be. Round Robin is extremely fair but takes a long time. Single Elimination is quick but, ultimately, doesn't give good 1st-2nd-3rd results. Any thoughts?
Anyone interested at all?
