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Iron Chef: Age of Klutz (general discussion - IMPORTANT INFO IN POST ONE!)

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Cyrus

Cyrus

Iron Chef - Master Emeritus
Discuss the contest here.

Important dates (TIME IS CENTRAL STANDARD):

Monday, September 1st: LAST day to sign up for the contest. Registration closes 12:00 AM September 2nd (Central Standard Time)

Thursday, September 4th: day I will post the first challenge.

Monday, September 8th: final day to turn in your entry for the first challenge. If you turn in your submission past midnight, then it is considered LATE (in other words, a zero). If you turn in a submission that breaks the word limit, then see below.

Friday, September 12th: day I will post the second challenge for pods 1, 2, 3, and 4 ONLY.

Monday, September 15th: final day for pods 1, 2, 3, and 4 to turn in their entries for the second challenge. Late rules/word limit rules still apply. THE DEADLINE IS STILL MIDNIGHT CST!!!

???, September ?: day I will post everyone's scores for the second round from pods 1/2/3/4, their combined scores, and a list of who qualified from the four pods.

Friday, September 19th: day I will post the second challenge for pods 5, 6, 7, and 8 ONLY.

Monday, September 22nd: final day for pods 5, 6, 7, and 8 to turn in their entries for the second challenge. Late rules/word limit rules still apply. THE DEADLINE IS STILL MIDNIGHT CST!!

???, September ?: day I will post everyone's scores for the second round from pods 5/6/7/8, their combined scores, and a list of who qualified from the four pods.

???, ??? ?: day I will announce the seeded bracketmaker.com bracket, close this thread/all active discussion threads, and then move forward into preparations for the top cut..



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My friends and countrymen,

It's not desirable for me to do single elimination with 256 people for numerous reasons:

-256 people...Means 128 challenges, unless I do it by "divisions." Think about that: that's an entire SET of Pokemon cards (and we know how bad certain cards can be)!
-Single elimination off the bat won't give me a good chance to properly determine the strongest among this giant field.,

I don't want to guarantee anything, but by the end of Monday I intend to post a full description on tournament format. Here is my preliminary format:

*Eight divisions (pods) of about 32 people each.
*Two "swiss" rounds of deckbuilding, with eight people from each pod advancing to the single elimination bracket.
*To advance from your pod, you must be among the top eight highest scoring competitors between the two rounds!
*The single elimination bracket will be seeded based on the scores earned in the "swiss." This will account for any disparity between the pods in strength.
*For these rounds, the format that you will be working under is Diamond and Pearl-on.

Here is PRELIMINARY information pertaining to your submissions, and what I will do with them (i.e. this isn't set in stone):

Writeups

*As always, you do not have to do a WRITEUP on your submitted entry; you can send in the list by itself and that will be fine. However, people who articulate the finer points of their submissions (i.e. they thoroughly describe, in a concise manner, the deck's core components, synergy/card use, creative/unique elements, etc).
*Make your deck list CLEAR from any writeup that you do.
*Do NOT write an essay on your deck! I will have over 250 entries to sort through, so...reading 250 novels is not what I want to do. Keep your responses to a 500 word limit (excluding deck lists).
*You will be docked one (1) point if you go over the word limit of 500, and from there, will be docked an extra point for every 100 words you go over (example: 501 words= 1 lost point, 601= 2 lost points, etc). Don't freak yourselves out about this limit...Just stay on topic, and be concise.


After the submission deadline...

*No late entries under any circumstance. If you have some kind of emergency that leads to you not sending in an entry...Well, that's more important, so go live life.
*Late entries/no entries will earn zeros.
*When I am finished grading all the competitors of a pod, I will post the score of each person in that pod for the round. After round two, I will post competitors' scores for the round, as well as their overall score before I cut to 64.
*None of the entries for the first two rounds will receive writeups from me; rather, I will only score them.
*I will not post all 250+ entries; rather, I will pick the very best of each round to showcase top competitors/give aspiring deck builders an example to follow.
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I'm kinda wondering how this will work out. Group play? single elim? (problems with non-power-of-2 numbers for that). Everybody getting the same challenge? Different challenges? Lots of variables need to go into this thing, I don't envy you, Patriarch!
 
It would be incredibly convenient if six more people signed up between today and tomorrow, seeing as how we're currently at 250.
Then a straight up single elim would be possible.
256-128-64-32-16-8-4-2.
 
My friends and countrymen,

It's not desirable for me to do single elimination with 256 people for numerous reasons:

-256 people...Means 128 challenges, unless I do it by "divisions." Think about that: that's an entire SET of Pokemon cards (and we know how bad certain cards can be)!
-Single elimination off the bat won't give me a good chance to properly determine the strongest among this giant field.,

I don't want to guarantee anything, but by the end of Monday I intend to post a full description on tournament format. Here is my preliminary format:

*Eight divisions (pods) of about 32 people each.
*Two "swiss" rounds of deckbuilding, with eight people from each pod advancing to the single elimination bracket.
*To advance from your pod, you must be among the top eight highest scoring competitors between the two rounds!
*The single elimination bracket will be seeded based on the scores earned in the "swiss."
*For these rounds, the format will be Diamond and Pearl-on.

Here is PRELIMINARYinformation pertaining to your submissions, and what I will do with them (i.e. these aren't set in stone):

Writeups

*As always, you do not have to do a WRITEUP on your submitted entry; you can send in the list by itself and that will be fine. However, people who articulate the finer points of their submissions (i.e. they thoroughly describe, in a concise manner, the deck's core components, synergy/card use, creative/unique elements, etc).
*Make your deck list CLEAR from any writeup that you do.
*Do NOT write an essay on your deck! I will have over 250 entries to sort through, so...reading 250 novels is not what I want to do. Keep your responses to a 500 word limit (excluding deck lists).
*You will be docked two (2) points if you go over the word limit, and from there, will be docked two extra points for every 100 words you go over (example: 501 words= 2 lost points, 601= 4 lost points, etc). Don't freak yourselves out about this limit...Just stay on topic.


After the submission deadline...

*No late entries under any circumstance. If you have some kind of emergency that leads to you not sending in an entry...Well, that's more important, so go live life.
*When I am finished grading all the competitors of a pod, I will post the score of each person in that pod for the round. After round two, I will post competitors' scores for the round, as well as their overall score before I cut to 64.
*I will not post all 250+ entries; rather, I will pick the very best of each round to showcase top competitors/give aspiring deck builders an example to follow.
 
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Will you at least post the total points and breakdowns for the people, even if you don't do a writeup for each one?
 
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*When I am finished grading all the competitors of a pod, I will post the score of each person in that pod for the round. After round two, I will post competitors' scores for the round, as well as their overall score before I cut to 64.
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OK, didn't see that part. Too much time staring at a computer screen for one day...
 
Wow, this is going to be an epic tournament.

So, to clarify.

8 flights of 32. 2 Rounds.

Top 8 in score of both rounds combined advance to Top 64.

Top 64 = single elim. Top 4 get invites to tournament of Champions.


Wow, tough feild.
 
Sandslash7 said:
Wow, this is going to be an epic tournament.

So, to clarify.

8 flights of 32. 2 Rounds.

Top 8 in score of both rounds combined advance to Top 64.

Top 64 = single elim. Top 4 get invites to tournament of Champions.


Wow, tough feild.
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Nice summary, Sandslash. The only correction is that Top 8* get invites to tournament of champions (the event size of that is 32 people).
 
OK silly question but I just don't know: How will we be submitting our decklist/write-up? PM, post?

And Cyrus is amazing for running this massive online competition. It's incredible he'll be marking 250ish entries. People like him are who make the pokégym what it is.
 
Magic_Umbreon said:
OK silly question but I just don't know: How will we be submitting our decklist/write-up? PM, post?

And Cyrus is amazing for running this massive online competition. It's incredible he'll be marking 250ish entries. People like him are who make the pokégym what it is.
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PM. Hopefully Bulbasnore will hook me up with a larger PM box to handle all of the submissions - he said a 500 box would do.

RE Ashinto: i will announce the cards you all will build decks from on September 4th.
 
"any segment of written or printed discourse ordinarily appearing between spaces or between a space and a punctuation mark."

Guys, don't get paranoid about the word limit. I'm just imposing to keep our overachievers from going too nuts.
 
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