Spiral Knights - Olympics Poll + Apology

Olympics Poll + Apology

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Sat, 07/21/2012 - 19:45

Zaderules

Greetings fellow SK-ers!
I would like to make a formal apology for those of you that are in my Clockworks Dash Competition. As of July 21st, 2012, I am letting the Clockworks Dash Competition die. Now, some of you may be raging at me, call me an idiot and a liar. I do not intend to keep all of these prizes to myself. To be honest, I really want to get rid of these prizes that are just making my list of swords very long and it has become inconvenient. However, I have my reasons.

1) I came up with a better idea to involve more people into the competition and have more fun.
2) The prizes for this new competition idea will require more prizes than what I currently have on board. I don't want to start all over again gathering prizes.
3) There are people that have been raging and quitting my Clockworks Dash Competition because of the unfairness of lag, etc. Although, there is an idea of putting people of the same region in the same competition and have several winners. However some of the competitions would be so small, it wouldn't even really be a competition. I have came up with a better idea (I think) to overcome that. There are also people that haven't been recently active. I give out my thanks to those that stayed and persisted with the competition until now.

Again, I deeply apologize for crashing this Clockworks Dash Competition.

Now on to the next topic...

I would like to host something similar to the Summer 2012 Olympics in London as most of you know or should know. I plan to host the Spiral Knights 2012 Olympics. Featuring 5 events: 6v6 Lockdown, 4v4 Blast Network, Trivia, Fashion, and 4v4 Clockworks. Each guild is treated like a country. So, Guild Masters can send their best players for each of the events. Guilds are not required to participate in all of the events. HOWEVER, there is a guild point system, where the guild with the most points wins the ENTIRE olympics. The higher your team places in each event, the more points are contributed toward the Final Guild Score. I am thinking the competition will start in late June 2012-beginning August 2012. The dates have not been final yet.

Here is how this new competition will affect my past reasons for stopping the CDC:

1) This should be a better idea and hopefully be more fun than just a competition consisting of only one event.
2) I am going to have prizes 1st, 2nd, and 3rd for each event, as well as 1st, 2nd, and 3rd for the Final Guild Score (which will be a lot).
3) If you have slow loading time, you may compete in other events, such as fashion or trivia. Let your guild mates take on the other events for you and help your guild rise to the top! I will post warnings for each event as a possible reason as to why you shouldn't compete in the event and let your guild mates do it. If you feel confident in bypassing those warnings, go ahead and sign up for it with your guild master.

This is all of the information I can provide as of now. I will be releasing a link to a website with more information about every event. If, you would like to contribute and help me host this grand event(s), tell me in the post below. The only requirement is that you have an email account (preferably Gmail) to help me out.

Now, I would like the Spiral Knights community to help me and my fellow hosts decide on the SK 2012 Olympics Mascot! I have these already suggested mascots below. If you would like to vote for one mascot or add another mascot to the poll, comment below.

Mascot Poll:
Wolver
Tortodrone
Snarby (2)
Spookat (2)
Bomber Suit
Chromalisk
A Spiral Knight
Love Puppy

I will be updating this as more votes come in on this thread. Now all of you who are reading this, spread the word! Especially to guild masters, so they can start thinking about who to send to the olympics! I am hoping this will be a huge turnout!

Sat, 07/21/2012 - 20:08

Glacies

Honestly...

Pretty disappointed that you completely just killed everything. Firstly you started talking about reviving it, now you're just quitting on it. You can't just toy with people like that. My Partner and I were really thrilled to have made it as far as we did and then you just completely left us in the cold (and everyone else who joined the run.) Worrying about changing to another subject. You just don't do that. It's stupid and makes the host look stupid. It's just not right.

That's all I have to say.

Sat, 07/21/2012 - 20:09

Incoherrant

I can't find an adjective suitable for the magnitude of my disappointment in you dropping the race after returning to it after the long break. Maybe if you'd called it off immediately after you healed up, but... Ugh.

I acknowledge your apology, but it does not negate the disappointment. At all.

"My Partner and I were really thrilled to have made it as far as we did and then you just completely left us in the cold."
This exact thing.

This is beyond disappointing, Zade. :(

Sat, 07/21/2012 - 20:47

Kalaina-Elderfall

Yeah, we're pretty

Yeah, we're pretty disappointed about the race thing. The prizes weren't really a motivation at all. It's just that the race thing was sort of a different way to play, something different than just grinding out runs while you chat. It was interesting and we were looking forward to doing more of it. So yeah, disappointing.

As for the Olympics, it's an interesting idea and getting guilds involved will probably make things fun. If you can manage the organizational effort required for it, it's definitely a worthy idea and will be an interesting event. I just can't see it as a replacement for the racing since it's kind of a different thing entirely. That said, though, I'm certain we'd be interested in entering our guild; it sounds like it will be fun.

Sat, 07/21/2012 - 20:53

Canozo

Not disapointed at all. Im actually happy that you are here with us and nothing terrible happened to you on that accident :)

And I choose spookat

Sat, 07/21/2012 - 21:03

Zaderules

@ Glacies/Incoherrant/Kalaina

Yes, I understand that feeling that everything goes well and then boom, the competition disappears because of that. I have been in that situation before, I know how it feels.
Here's what I have to say: My competition format will still be there in the 4v4 Clockworks event. The only things that have changed are 4v4 instead of 2v2. And its a guild thing. Everything else will be the same. I know this may not replace that earlier competition, but there were like over half of the entries gone. At first it was 128 people (64 teams). Now it's like 8 teams.

Sat, 07/21/2012 - 21:24

Kalaina-Elderfall

Yeah the logistical problems

Yeah the logistical problems with the long delay and just some other things with the race competition in general, it's not surprising and probably had to happen. It's not really your fault, but it's still meh. And yeah we'll probably be in the 4v4 race, but for some reason I just find the duo thing incredibly appealing in a way that any four person party isn't.

I will say, though, that you should stick to missions on the race, avoiding any clockworks floors like the plague. The variance in time between them is just too high (one run you might have to hunt down a key to the random gate blocking the elevator, the next you just cruise through no probs). It doesn't have to be boss missions, although I'm not sure how many non-boss missions don't start with a clockworks area. But clockworks luck is make or break on any two runs of similar skill (and doesn't even have to be that similar).

And for fashion, I don't know. There are a lot of questions involving subjective judgment and a lot of differences in opinion on what is good and what isn't. Apparently having a set is bad regardless of accessories, so you have to have off-items that match in color, but to some different shades of the same color are a faux pas while others think they work together, and some people implicitly hate all wolver gear, and etc etc etc. There are reasons for these things, and they're often good reasons, but still judges have all these personal taboos that aren't necessarily shared by other judges. I don't really know if it has much of a place amongst four other events with completely objective scoring. But I understand the drive to include non-skill-based categories, so if you feel it's an important part then it's sort of the only way to do it.

Sun, 07/22/2012 - 04:55

Aureate

Processing Thoughts of You Always

...I really must protest about your mascots so far.
Obviously Love Puppy is the only choice.

I would personally like to participate, but given that my guild isn't all that active any more and that EoS may well be participating... my team would probably be like Sealand irl.
:B

Sun, 07/22/2012 - 09:37

Wodanct

Don't see why people would

Don't see why people would sign up again when you couldn't even finish the first event.

Sun, 07/22/2012 - 10:10

Zaderules

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How can you finish the event when the majority of the competitors dropped out? ._. This was not something I wanted to do. This was something that had to happen. I feel so depressed for stopping my previous event and I wondered what I could do to those that persisted and stayed with me all along. It's not like I enjoyed toying with people. ._. Seriously.

Sun, 07/22/2012 - 10:27

#10

Tersakaff

Chromalisk has my vote. <3 But I'd like the snarby too. :o I'd enjoy drawing him.

And guys, don't hate on him for not being able to finish the CDC. I'm sure it would've been finished by now if not for the accident.. and the lack of cooperation from certain persons. It's not all his fault.

Mon, 07/23/2012 - 04:22

#11

Shadowracer-Forum

Shame about the race

Can I help with the trivia? Pleeeeease?

EDIT: Love Puppy.

Sun, 07/22/2012 - 23:34

#12

Tersakaff

Logo done. :)

Mon, 07/23/2012 - 14:04

#13

Incoherrant

"I wondered what I could do

"I wondered what I could do to those that persisted and stayed with me all along."

Annnd decided to go with "absolutely nothing". No seriously, I'd have been happy with even something like... http://i193.photobucket.com/albums/z121/Mazzelh/Derps/CDCbadge.png Like that. But nothing but the "sorry, it didn't work out". Zaaade. :(

I don't blame you personally, I'm just venting frustration with it because it sucks that it didn't work out. Tier Zero will likely be throwing teams at everything in this new thing for the lulz anyway.

Mon, 07/23/2012 - 14:37

#14

Isekuube

Hmmm

I think this is a nice idea, do we need to sign up out guild for it or something? :3 Either way MASCOT = LUV PUPPER!

Mon, 07/23/2012 - 17:29

#15

Artistbma

Ergh! I'll have to talk to my

Ergh! I'll have to talk to my master about this. And...I vote for...a greaver.

Mon, 07/23/2012 - 18:37

#16

Shadownox

DEADFBUNNY!!!

Lol, artist, Necro loves greavers. He'll want that too. xD

Mon, 07/23/2012 - 21:19

#17

Vifig

a minor thing, but-

"I am thinking the competition will start in late June 2012-beginning August 2012. The dates have not been final yet."

Except you posted this on July 21, according to the timestamp. So, it's almost the beginning of August already, and June has already passed. So, you probably want to move that time frame back a little, or be ready really soon XD

Also, it does sound like it could be fun, but as I am basically alone in my guild, I won't be participating. Good luck, though!

Mon, 07/23/2012 - 21:47

#18

Zaderules

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Yeah I plan to release all of the information by the end of this week. I am making a website with everything everybody needs to know.

Tue, 07/24/2012 - 13:03

#19

Tersakaff

I find it silly how people are still voting despite the logo alrady being done.

Tue, 07/24/2012 - 13:23

#20

Serell

...

I was lol'ing.... did no one see what ters drew? XD

Tue, 07/24/2012 - 14:14

#21

Tersakaff

:'(

Tue, 07/24/2012 - 15:11

#22

Artistbma

I ignored Tersakoff's logo

I ignored Tersakoff's logo cuz I thought it was unofficial. :P

Tue, 07/24/2012 - 15:54

#23

Tersakaff

It is official lol.

Tue, 07/24/2012 - 15:57

#24

Artistbma

That makes me sad. Two votes

That makes me sad. Two votes and now we have a mascot.

/cry

Tue, 07/24/2012 - 16:12

#25

Isekuube

No Wuv Pupper?

Tue, 07/24/2012 - 17:11

#26

Koi-Wa-Sensou

\o/

How many Trivia Q's do you need, sir ZadeN? (that is your new nickname) o7 o7 o7 o7
Also.... LUV PUPPEH. IT MUST BE.

Tue, 07/24/2012 - 19:08

#27

Zaderules

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Lol actually theres 5 votes for snarby. I was just too lazy updating the OP. and koi who are you? =ooo Xair? Joe?

Tue, 07/24/2012 - 22:31

#28

Tersakaff

It's Xai.

Tue, 07/24/2012 - 22:35

#29

Shadownox

DEADBUNNY!!!

I see what u did there, Ters. :3

Tue, 07/24/2012 - 23:06

#30

Tersakaff

Huh

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