rm -r comic, three year anniversary contest
Wow. It'll be three years for the comic on April 2nd. Who would've thought that I would've kept up with this for so long? Well, in an attempt to celebrate this milestone, I'm hosting a contest. Since this comic was birthed in the seedy underbelly of giant LAN party, the contest will be video game based. See the rules below.
Rules
- The contest starts April first (midnight), 2010 and ends April 29th (11:59pm)
- There will be a four weekly prize winners
- The first will be decided on April 9th, for game play from the 1st to the 8th
- The second will be decided on April 16th for game play between the 9th and the 15th
- The third will be decided on April 23rd for game play between the 16th
- And the last will be decided on the 22nd, and on the 30th for game play between the 23rd and 29th.
- There will be one grand prize winner decided on April 30th for game play between the 1st and 29th.
- A player can win, at most, one weekly prize and one grand prize. If a player is the weekly best for more than one week, then the second best will be chosen for the prize.
- In order to play, download Smokin' Guns 1.0 from here. Install it. Create a user here. Then play multiplayer on the server "rmrcomic.com Contest Server Z" (Found in the game, via multiplayer, "Get new list").
Prizes
- There will be 4 weekly prizes, the weekly prize consists of one t-shirts, winner's choice (from the list below). If you want the shirt signed, let me know, but it will slightly delay your getting the shirt.
- All the shirts come in various sizes, men's and women's cuts, and in either black or white.
- Jacob t-shirt
- Cassandra t-shirt
- Jase t-shirt
- Jane t-shirt
- Hope t-shirt
- There will be 1 grand prize winner, this winner will receive a skateboard (no wheels, or risers, etc, just the board) and a pair of gym shoes. I figure, if the winner's been gaming this much, they need to do something outside for a while.
- The skateboard
- The shoes
Shoe 1, available in Men's shoe sizes
Shoe 2, available in Women's shoe sizes
Scoring
- The score will be determined by the following: base score + non-teammate kill bonus - teammate kill penalty
- base score = non-teammate kills divided by deaths
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non-teammate kill bonus = 1 points for each player kill, 0.5 points for each level 5 bot kill, 0.4 points for each level 4 bot kill, 0.3 points for each level 3 bot kill
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teammate kill penalty = 3 points for each same side player kill, 1.5 points for each level 5 bot kill, 1.2 points for each level 4 bot kill, 0.9 points for each level 3 bot kill
Just a note, suicides count as a teamate kill.
The tournament server will be live from March 22nd until April 30th, 2010, incase any of you want to get some practice in before the contest. If you run into problems with the server, let me know asap, so I can get it fixed. You can email me here. If you have any suggestions for the tournament server, feel free to email them to me. Once the contest starts, I won't be changing the server though, so email me before the 1st.
The tournament server has 17 bots on the law side, so that people can play at anytime, even if other players aren't on. If you choose the side of law when others are on, be warned, sometimes, the bots kill their teammates right at the load time.