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SPEED FREAK (KING OF THE HILL)

Posted: Mon Apr 09, 2018 10:07 am
by N/a
This Wednesday a fastest night. 'Speed Freak Friday' King of the hill whoever wins gets the title 'Speed Freak of The Week'. NO SIGN UP REQUIRED, JUST TURN UP and request to play and have a fucking brawl. Starts 6pm to 8:00pm UTC.




Some more detail:


King of the hill, whoever goes first has to win as many battles against the challengers, whoever wins the most matches in a row wins.

When you get beaten you go to the bottom of the pile of challengers.


Whats so awesome about fastest is that you can get in a high amount of games in a very short space of time 16-18 which means everyone can have a go!





GET IN AT 5pm for PRACTICE, KING OF THE HILL STARTS AT 6pm UTC.





Go watch on:

Looking for a streamer!


WILL BE LINKING UP THE DISCORD with the #live-scores section to give live updates on the scores through out the event. https://discord.gg/UcUztfr



Will be showcasing my own maps and selected with a list randomiser.


First come first server, first player on the server i'm hosting will be first up, second as follows etc... When you lose you go to the bottom of the list you can challenge again after the others in succession.

Lots of top players about!


So lets find out who the speed freak of the week is...




See you there.

Posted: Tue Apr 10, 2018 4:26 am
by camundahl
RA2 and OG RA style lol

Posted: Wed Apr 11, 2018 9:37 pm
by eskimo
I'm rarely on Fridays at that time sadly. Me and Unano did some fastest games and they pretty fun.

Posted: Fri Apr 13, 2018 1:35 pm
by lundiz
Great initiative, I'll be streaming this tonight. I'll hang out in the OpenRA discord voice channel if you want to come in for some co-casting or post-game analysis.

Here's the Twitch event: https://www.twitch.tv/lundiztv/dashboard/events

Would be nice if someone could make Reddit thread for this or otherwise build up some hype. I don't want to spam the community too much.

https://www.reddit.com/r/openra/

FIRST SPEED FREAK OF THE WEEK results!

Posted: Fri Apr 13, 2018 8:46 pm
by N/a
SPEED FREAK OF THE WEEK: BARF with 6 POINTS!!!!!!


HE HAS THE NEED FOR SPEED!



THANKS to all participants.


Thanks to Lundiz for doing a really great stream, finishing it off with the soundtrack Danger Zone - Kenny Loggins


Runners up were Netnazgul and Ganon with 3 points!

followed by Anjew and .1 with 2 points.


Best moment of the night was probably Netnazgul's monsterous parabombs on anjews massive blob and anjew taking it like a champ...But ultimately losing the match.

I think theres a brutal gif of the very bombs somewhere.


Overall I think it went well looking forward to doing some more themed nights in the future!

All future results I think I'll be posting here as well.


Feel free to give feedback and let us know what you think!

Posted: Fri Apr 13, 2018 11:40 pm
by CatGirls420
Wow, cool. Thanks for letting me know. Guess I was too good to be allowed to play ;)

Posted: Sat Apr 14, 2018 6:12 am
by netnazgul
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Anyway, that was fun, but most fun was removed from the game by specs and, to some extent, players with mediocre connection, so Fastest becomes not much faster than Fast and the whole purpose of the Tournament is deteriorated.

Next time I'd like to see some source to check on players list and current performance. I think it can be easily set up on googlesheet, even with some automation to calculate rolling king of the hill score.

Posted: Sat Apr 14, 2018 8:13 am
by N/a
Yeah, next time I'll be uploading screenshots of the queue and the points scored by the players name to discord!


I have a great app for shifting orders of items. Didn't think to use it this time but next time it'll be a bit more transparent.



Yes certainly on a number of occasions the lag was quite horrible. With a transparent queue update and stream, should be able to keep the lobby limited to just 2 or three, i.e only those that need to be there.


And yes there were a few mishaps here and there but the main goal of having fun was accomplished.

Looking to improve the format every week.


Certainly room for other themed nights as well!

Posted: Sat Apr 14, 2018 8:46 am
by anjew
netnazgul wrote: players with mediocre connection
I think shit PCs are a possibility too with fastest and lots of units
But might I suggest using the servers closer to the players with those connections rather than EU

Posted: Sat Apr 14, 2018 11:27 am
by lundiz
First part of the VOD: https://youtu.be/Gp0meUEWWuQ

Sure there's lots of ways to improve. I've had quite a bit of technical issues as well mostly due to my own set up. It was fun though and thanks again for organising and playing. Looking forward to the next event!

Posted: Sat Apr 14, 2018 11:33 am
by lundiz
Here's all the replays I have. Plenty of good matches there. The first one that I just came in halfway through on the stream was really good. Haven't got around to adding the player names to the replay files, that would be a nice feature for the game actually!

Posted: Sat Apr 14, 2018 4:11 pm
by N/a
Good stuff lundiz and yeah anjew I did that for gates game but we'll try to do more of that in the future.

Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2018 1:17 pm
by lundiz
Part 2 of the raw VOD: https://youtu.be/OawK-LSzz-g

I think I've got most of the technical issues ironed out now for the next event. Hopefully we could get more specs to watch the streams provided to minimize the lag.

2nd SPEED FREAK FRIDAY

Posted: Mon May 07, 2018 9:19 am
by N/a
THE SECOND EVER SPEED FREAK FRIDAY!


This FRIDAY STARTING 6pm - 9pm UTC



WILL BARF RETAIN HIS TITLE?

OR WILL YOU BE THE NEW KING OF SPEED?




I have new information that BARF Will not be playing this 2nd speed freak Friday, therefore the title is going to a new player for sure!






Streamer: Not confirmed.

Posted: Wed May 23, 2018 2:41 pm
by N/a
For some reason the post of the 2nd speed freak friday post was deleted?


Blackened was the winner with 9 consecutive wins in a row!





Next Speed freak Friday is on the 1st of June