Tournament: TC Blockbox Tetris League - SEASON 3 HAS ENDED

[Rosti LFC]

English version of Blokkendoos/Blockbox can be found at http://www.blockboxgame.com



SEASON THREE HAS NOW FINISHED
FINAL POSITIONS HAVE YET TO BE PROCESSED
SEASON FOUR DUE IN DECEMBER, DATE TBD, REGISTRATION OPEN

So, a few ground rules:

1) The IRC is by far the easiest way to arrange matches (#tetrisconcept on quakenet.org, or click the "Join Live Chat" link on the main page), and this method should make it easier for everyone. Obviously there's some personal discretion involved in this rule, but it's primarily to just remove the people at the first step who aren't going to actually make an effort to play their matches. I'm not saying that to take part you need either 1000+ posts here or to be on IRC every day without fail.
2) Matches will be first to 15 wins.
3) Each player plays every other player in their division once.
4) Matches shall be played on Blokkendoos, and with the standard rated game settings. Obviously DAS and rotation system are at the individual players' discretion.
5) The points awarded to each player after the match shall be equal to 15 plus the difference in score (including negative difference, so a 15-6 result would give 24 points to the winner and 6 points to the loser)

FOR REGISTERING:
- New players will automatically be placed into the lowest division initially
- If they wish, they can play a play-off match between the top player in their division, or the bottom in the division above (decided at random). If they win this game they will move up a division and be allowed to take a similar play-off for the division above if they so wish. If they lose, they remain where they are.
- The number of relegation and promotion places available for each division will reflect any imbalance in the number of people in each division.

Third round fixtures/results

Players for Season Three:

Division A
01 - Blink
02 - Corrosive
03 - Rosti
04 - goofer
05 - Heretic
06 - kotetsu213 / AcroAmphibian
07 - KevinDDR
08 - awake / meow

Division B
02 - En Fuego
03 - Kitaru
04 - clincher
05 - myndzi
06 - Anonymous
07 - Profane
08 - SimMarine
09 - mzhang

Division C
01 - Slowmo / sheenie
02 - Ray Ayanami
03 - nismo
04 - Jerycho / freakwithfire
05 - Edo
06 - Securis
07 - DDRKirby
08 - thazzle
09 - briann / deadbB4youknowit
10 - Ai
11 - reaper1228


Past results:

Season 1:
FINAL TABLE|FIXTURES/RESULTS

Season 2

I'd like to participate. Could you elaborate a bit more on how the point system works? Will players that enter later on be at a disadvantage (is that what the positive point difference part was about?)?

[caffeine]

I'll play... till the death.

i'm down, got free time now lol

[Zircean]

I'll play, but expect me to lose a lot

[KevinDDR]

I'm interested in playing in this, if only at least to gauge my progress since my last "competitive" matches.

[milkolate]

I'll join.. But I don't know how to register in Blockendoos and where the IRC channel is

[Rosti LFC]

Originally Posted by DIGITAL

I'd like to participate. Could you elaborate a bit more on how the point system works? Will players that enter later on be at a disadvantage (is that what the positive point difference part was about?)?

Players that enter later on won't be at a disadvantage. That's an advantage of having a league. With a tournament tree you can't really add people in during the latter stages, while with a league adding people in is easy, they'll just be on zero points with zero games played and as they play games they can pick up points the same way everyone else did.

By points difference I meant difference in games won during the individual match. So if a player won 15-9, they'd get 2 + 6 + 3 = 11 points, and their opponent would just get the 2 for having played a game. Winning 15-3 would give 17 points.
What I meant was that with the first suggested points total, whichever player won would always get 15 + 5 = 20 points. It would matter to the player who lost what the score was, but not the player who won. The difference between 15-0 and 15-14 would be zero points for the victor and 14 points for the loser.

I've not figured out the points system because ideally I'd like one which causes both players to care at least slightly about score, but means that each game played should result in at least a small points gain, which is quite hard to do.

milkolate, I'll PM you later.

[Ezzelin]

What about some kind of an ongoing ladder system? I know a lot of games do this. Players would get points for beating people higher then them on the ladder. Anyway, I'm in, although I also plan on losing a lot.

[Rosti LFC]

A ladder system could work, and I might implement it. I think for at least a first run through though a league system will probably work better.

I think I might just implement a score system of 2 points per game played and (difference in score + 3) for the winner.

is there any way to play this on a Mac? I get a wrong java installed message.

Originally Posted by m:)

is there any way to play this on a Mac? I get a wrong java installed message.

Click on the second button which ignores it.

Originally Posted by m:)

Click on the second button which ignores it.

does this work for anyone? I just get a white screen after that.

[Rosti LFC]

Originally Posted by m:)

does this work for anyone? I just get a white screen after that.

I occasionally get that on Windows, and just refresh and then wait for a while and it usually works.

I'll play, but I am only mostly available during nights.