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Title: Murderbrawl Funtime Rules and Announcement
Post by: KitKatKitty on February 26, 2017, 07:30:09 pm
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Ladies and Gentleman! Boys and Girls! Delinquents and Gearheads of all Ages!

Do you like Explosions? Tar in your lungs? Burnt dead bodies? Shrapnel in your teeth? The thrill of a kill? Flaunting your sizable ego?

....I can’t hear you, so I’m just going to guess that you do.

In that case, come on down to the brand new, just now opening, mega, awesome...whatever, MURDERBRAWL FUNTIME! Now with 50% more Sky Whales! We got your Deathmatch! We got your V.I.P.! We got your Skyball King of the Hill! We got your destruction! If this sounds up your alley come on down to the Murderbrawl today!


This event is sponsored by Muse Games. We are not responsible or liable for any fires caused on deck, torn balloons, shattered ships, loss of life or limb, tar stains, liver damage, jammed guns, burnt hands, dented figured heads, broken friendships, added salt, frostbite, sun burns, scratched corneas, or any variety of other damage caused by your willing participation in this event. We do not provide ammo, guns, skills, ships, clear skies, counseling, spanners, wrenches, chemical spray, moonshine, balloon repair, gun repair, ego repair, or any repairing of any kind. If for any reason you are not satisfied with this event, blame your crew...if you are the crew, blame your captain. We do not guarantee sky whale sightings.


Synopsis:
Murderbrawl Funtime will be a 2v2, 8 player Team, 3 matches per set, round robin style over the course of 3 weeks. First match will be a classic Death match, second match will be a King of the Hill match, third match will be a VIP match. Each type of ship can only be used once during the match set. Points will be awarded as such: 1 point per Deathmatch kill, 1 point per 100 score in King of the Hill and then another 1 point for the last 50 score, 1 point per 5 VIP points. Full Rules can be Viewed Here.  (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1M6_1TIaVrbe3P8O0zLFupIJIG-W6hFLbootiMBVOvOU/edit?usp=sharing)

This event is for all the glory among factions. Factions have been fighting hard over the course of the Alliance Open Beta, pick your faction at the start of the event and bring it all the glory while mercilessly killing others. The team still standing, or mostly standing, at the end of the event with the most points will play a role in the written Open Beta Alliance War lore and receive lore themed prizes.   

With the help of KitKatKitty, Jub Jub, Nat Nyls, Admiral Obvious, Lysanya, Ayetach and others from the community we want to run the bloodiest, brawliest, no holds bar tournament possible!

Sign-Ups Here:
Sign-Ups are now live and may be viewed here! (https://gunsoficarus.com/community/forum/index.php/topic,8342.new.html#new)

Brackets and Match-Sets & Maps:
To be announced after sign-ups!

Streamers for Murderbrawl Funtime:
Admiral Obvious at twitch.tv/theobviousshow (http://twitch.tv/theobviousshow)
Lysanya at twitch.tv/thatlysanyaguy (http://twitch.tv/thatlysanyaguy)
(co-casters to be announced)

Schedule:
Saturdays at 2pm EST/ 7pm UTC for 3 weeks. Starting on March 11th
Sign ups Start: Sunday February 26tth
Close Sign ups Thursday March 9th
First Match Day: March 11th
Second Match Day: March 18th
Third Match Day: March 25th
Preliminary Day: Friday March 10th

Awards:
First place team will receive: A spot light and integral role in lore that will partake in a chapter for the open alliance war and a one of a kind title and in-game icon based on the faction your team aligned with.
Participants: A one of a kind title and in-game icon based on the faction your team aligned with.




Title: Re: Murderbrawl Funtime Rules and Announcement
Post by: Inkjet on February 27, 2017, 05:16:35 pm
Clarification: Does each matchup of teams play a set of three games against each other?

Suggestion: I'm afraid that every team will just save their squid for skyball. If, instead, a set consisted of all skyball games (perhaps only 2 instead of 3?), the teams would have to make harder choices with when to take their squid.

I realise that this would make it take much longer each week to get a full round-robin, and that wouldn't be ideal either.
Title: Re: Murderbrawl Funtime Rules and Announcement
Post by: MightyKeb on February 27, 2017, 05:31:41 pm
Suggestion: I'm afraid that every team will just save their squid for skyball. If, instead, a set consisted of all skyball games (perhaps only 2 instead of 3?), the teams would have to make harder choices with when to take their squid.

This is a good point. I think the better solution though - seeing as Skyball has had extremely negative reception by the vast majority of the vet community (the community where the pool of players for these events is drawn from, mind you) - is to take Skyball out of this event and replace it with KOTH. You can get around lack of map variety easily by making it the decider match.
Title: Re: Murderbrawl Funtime Rules and Announcement
Post by: Inkjet on February 27, 2017, 06:12:42 pm
Decider match? it's overall points, not best of 3, right?
Title: Re: Murderbrawl Funtime Rules and Announcement
Post by: Solidusbucket on February 27, 2017, 07:19:12 pm
Suggestion: I'm afraid that every team will just save their squid for skyball. If, instead, a set consisted of all skyball games (perhaps only 2 instead of 3?), the teams would have to make harder choices with when to take their squid.

This is a good point. I think the better solution though - seeing as Skyball has had extremely negative reception by the vast majority of the vet community (the community where the pool of players for these events is drawn from, mind you) - is to take Skyball out of this event and replace it with KOTH. You can get around lack of map variety easily by making it the decider match.

This. Fuck skyball.
Title: Re: Murderbrawl Funtime Rules and Announcement
Post by: Solidusbucket on February 27, 2017, 07:20:04 pm
Suggestion: I'm afraid that every team will just save their squid for skyball. If, instead, a set consisted of all skyball games (perhaps only 2 instead of 3?), the teams would have to make harder choices with when to take their squid.

This is a good point. I think the better solution though - seeing as Skyball has had extremely negative reception by the vast majority of the vet community (the community where the pool of players for these events is drawn from, mind you) - is to take Skyball out of this event and replace it with KOTH. You can get around lack of map variety easily by making it the decider match.

This. Fuck skyball.

That's a pretty blunt way to put it, but yea. You have time to make alterations. Remove skyball and replace it with KOTH. It is a more dynamic and fun mode to watch and play.
Title: Re: Murderbrawl Funtime Rules and Announcement
Post by: Solidusbucket on February 27, 2017, 07:21:16 pm
Suggestion: I'm afraid that every team will just save their squid for skyball. If, instead, a set consisted of all skyball games (perhaps only 2 instead of 3?), the teams would have to make harder choices with when to take their squid.

This is a good point. I think the better solution though - seeing as Skyball has had extremely negative reception by the vast majority of the vet community (the community where the pool of players for these events is drawn from, mind you) - is to take Skyball out of this event and replace it with KOTH. You can get around lack of map variety easily by making it the decider match.

This. Fuck skyball.

That's a pretty blunt way to put it, but yea. You have time to make alterations. Remove skyball and replace it with KOTH. It is a more dynamic and fun mode to watch and play.

Whatever nerd. Skyball sucks.
Title: Re: Murderbrawl Funtime Rules and Announcement
Post by: Solidusbucket on February 27, 2017, 07:21:51 pm
Stop spamming please.
Title: Re: Murderbrawl Funtime Rules and Announcement
Post by: KitKatKitty on February 27, 2017, 08:36:09 pm
Clarification: Does each matchup of teams play a set of three games against each other?

Suggestion: I'm afraid that every team will just save their squid for skyball. If, instead, a set consisted of all skyball games (perhaps only 2 instead of 3?), the teams would have to make harder choices with when to take their squid.

I realise that this would make it take much longer each week to get a full round-robin, and that wouldn't be ideal either.

Clarification: Yes. Each team will play 1 set against every team at some point during the 3 weeks and each set is 3 matches (Deathmatch, Skyball, VIP) It is not a bo3.

We were encouraged to use the different game modes. In saying that, there is a chance that every team could reserve their Squid for the Skyball match but KOTH only has 1 map. It came down to Skyball that has multiple different maps and teams can challenge themselves to win without a Squid if they are concerned about monotony. Or KOTH with only 1 map which would mean every set for every team would have the same mode on the same map which seemed much more monotonous.

Having a round robin each week, even with 2 casters, would make the event unreasonably long each week.
Title: Re: Murderbrawl Funtime Rules and Announcement
Post by: Solidusbucket on February 27, 2017, 09:20:31 pm
Clarification: Does each matchup of teams play a set of three games against each other?

Suggestion: I'm afraid that every team will just save their squid for skyball. If, instead, a set consisted of all skyball games (perhaps only 2 instead of 3?), the teams would have to make harder choices with when to take their squid.

I realise that this would make it take much longer each week to get a full round-robin, and that wouldn't be ideal either.

Clarification: Yes. Each team will play 1 set against every team at some point during the 3 weeks and each set is 3 matches (Deathmatch, Skyball, VIP) It is not a bo3.

We were encouraged to use the different game modes. In saying that, there is a chance that every team could reserve their Squid for the Skyball match but KOTH only has 1 map. It came down to Skyball that has multiple different maps and teams can challenge themselves to win without a Squid if they are concerned about monotony. Or KOTH with only 1 map which would mean every set for every team would have the same mode on the same map which seemed much more monotonous.

Having a round robin each week, even with 2 casters, would make the event unreasonably long each week.

I think the greater majority would rather see the same map on KOTH with the varying strategies that will be forced (especially if its last map in the set) due to using ships to try to win the first two matches. Many more options in terms of ship choices compared to skyball. KOTH will be much more dynamic than skyball.
Title: Re: Murderbrawl Funtime Rules and Announcement
Post by: Solidusbucket on February 27, 2017, 09:21:14 pm
I think the greater majority would rather see the same map on KOTH with the varying strategies that will be forced (especially if its last map in the set) due to using ships to try to win the first two matches. Many more options in terms of ship choices compared to skyball. KOTH will be much more dynamic than skyball.

STFU. ...

Yea, just use KOTH instead of skyball. Fuck skyball.
Title: Re: Murderbrawl Funtime Rules and Announcement
Post by: Lu Lu on February 27, 2017, 09:28:40 pm
I like this idea of not doing skyball.  In fact, I love it so much that I already don't play skyball.

KOTH is a much better game mode for this.
Title: Re: Murderbrawl Funtime Rules and Announcement
Post by: Guagadu on February 27, 2017, 09:32:39 pm
I would agree with Solidus on the topic of Skyball. As we learned from the Sprocket League, Skyball has a very stale meta dominated by squids. The majority of vets absolutely hate the gamemode, avoiding it like the plague. Maybe if we get enough voices, we can convince Muse to adapt another map to 2v2 KOTH before the event. Either way, I loved playing the KOTH matches during Cronus League, and I would much prefer seeing a lot of Labyrinth above seeing Skyball. Maybe if Skyball were to stay for one week and be replaced by KOTH for other weeks?
Title: Re: Murderbrawl Funtime Rules and Announcement
Post by: DaRebel on February 28, 2017, 05:44:30 pm
I think that skyball is a flawed gamemode that only leads to squids and goldfishes being conserved until it, where the only true skill is to see how fast you can fly your ship. I agree that KOTH should be replaced; it uses a system that can make almost any ship work on it, making strategy something that exists, rather than an obvious ship choice.
Title: Re: Murderbrawl Funtime Rules and Announcement
Post by: Celine Dijon on February 28, 2017, 08:13:55 pm
I completely agree with Solidus that KOTH should replace Skyball.
Title: Re: Murderbrawl Funtime Rules and Announcement
Post by: The Mann on March 01, 2017, 01:37:12 am
All of you who dislike the idea of the event don't need to participate.
There are plenty of events in the sea you can make in your own time.
That's assuming you would actually make and manage an event.

I for one like the idea of this event.
Title: Re: Murderbrawl Funtime Rules and Announcement
Post by: MightyKeb on March 01, 2017, 08:36:10 am
All of you who dislike the idea of the event don't need to participate.

Yes, and nobody will. Any number of teams that would sign up to such an event would be nearly twice as big with Skyball taken out. The point of an event is to provide players something to work towards and provide the community something to watch. While the organizers aren't our butlers by any stretch of imagination, it's important that an event makes an attempt to cater to the participating community's preferences. In this case, skyball is extremely hated by the community and replacing it with KOTH is an extremely simple action that will go a long way to boost both the reception of the event and the number of teams participating.
Title: Re: Murderbrawl Funtime Rules and Announcement
Post by: Solidusbucket on March 01, 2017, 08:43:51 am
Well, thats not a very positive way to address the issue.

Plenty of people like the idea of the event. Its unique. But, as stated by an organizer, the issue with skyball is knowing that teams are going to likely reserve the squid and/or goldfish for the event - making it slightly dull. However, skyball has more maos to choose from which compensates that fact.

KOTH is opposite of this. It doesnt have a likely ship to be reserved becsuse all ships are very viable in that game mode. However the map vhoice is limited.

Skyball is not as fun as KOTH to the majority of players. Plus, there are far more viable options for KOTH ship choice for the majority of players. Not only ship choice, but ship builds as well.

Also, many players participate is KOTH far more often than skyball. This makes the skill level much higher for KOTH and thus a better viewing and playing experiencd.
Title: Re: Murderbrawl Funtime Rules and Announcement
Post by: Solidusbucket on March 01, 2017, 08:44:53 am
Blah blah blah

TLDR...

 your a toolbag. Make it shorter for those of us with lives..

Skyball sucks compared to KOTH.

Title: Re: Murderbrawl Funtime Rules and Announcement
Post by: KitKatKitty on March 02, 2017, 10:04:30 pm
All of you who dislike the idea of the event don't need to participate.
There are plenty of events in the sea you can make in your own time.
That's assuming you would actually make and manage an event.

I for one like the idea of this event.

I appreciate your support Mann.

Yes, and nobody will. Any number of teams that would sign up to such an event would be nearly twice as big with Skyball taken out. The point of an event is to provide players something to work towards and provide the community something to watch... is an extremely simple action that will go a long way to boost both the reception of the event and the number of teams participating.

Participation seems to be about the same across various types of event. That being said, I already stated that we were willing to switch out Skyball for KOTH if that seemed to be the popular opinion. We, as the organizers, had held off from stating our decision for a few days to try to get a larger populations reactions to it. It's common that a loud minority drowns out the quieter majority but in the end we do make events in the hopes that players enjoy watching and playing the event. A lot of work from community members go into creating and executing an event and it's no fun for the organizers or players if no one enjoys it.

Blah blah blah

Please stop spamming your own posts.
Title: Re: Murderbrawl Funtime Rules and Announcement
Post by: KitKatKitty on March 02, 2017, 10:17:37 pm


*****Official Announcement*****

As it currently stands, players would enjoy Skyball being replaced by KOTH. The dominate con here is that KOTH only has 1 map which means every 2nd map will be the same. The dominate pro here are the concern that teams will reserve Squids for the Skyball match and this would lack interests for players and viewers more than the single map.

We will switch Skyball to KOTH.

KOTH is won by reaching 450 score which will make every 100 score equal to 1pt and the last 50 score will be an additional 1pt. A total of 5 points can be granted for a KOTH match.


We reserve the right to hold a popular vote among teams that actually sign up if it appears that this change is not the popular choice.


Title: Re: Murderbrawl Funtime Rules and Announcement
Post by: Solidusbucket on March 03, 2017, 12:46:56 am
Blah blah blah
Quote

Please stop spamming your own posts.
Finally, someone addresses the elephant in the room.

I like the scoring idea.
Title: Re: Murderbrawl Funtime Rules and Announcement
Post by: KitKatKitty on March 09, 2017, 01:31:42 pm
Don't miss out!!!
Sign Up HERE!!! (https://gunsoficarus.com/community/forum/index.php/topic,8342.new.html#new)
Title: Re: Murderbrawl Funtime Rules and Announcement
Post by: D.Strought on March 10, 2017, 05:17:08 am
Is that a joke or a spelling error in the header where it sais "Lades and Gentleman!"
Title: Re: Murderbrawl Funtime Rules and Announcement
Post by: The Mann on March 10, 2017, 07:08:33 am
I'm sure it is a spelling error. No need for the negativity...
Title: Re: Murderbrawl Funtime Rules and Announcement
Post by: D.Strought on March 10, 2017, 11:57:08 am
I'm sure it is a spelling error. No need for the negativity...
Negativity? I was seriously considering a joke... its not my mothertongue I make so many errors myself that so I wasn't sure...
Title: Re: Murderbrawl Funtime Rules and Announcement
Post by: KitKatKitty on March 10, 2017, 04:35:35 pm
Is that a joke or a spelling error in the header where it sais "Lades and Gentleman!"

LOL! I guess only the one that wrote that will know for sure ;)
Title: Re: Murderbrawl Funtime Rules and Announcement
Post by: KitKatKitty on March 26, 2017, 04:12:23 pm




CONGRATULATIONS

1st Place: Dmitrij's Angels
2nd Place: Team Bumble Merc. Corp.
3rd Place: The Mad Hatters
4th Place: Chocolate Shoulders




***All Points of Contact: Please send competitive@musegames.com an e-mail with all players that played for your team for distribution of prizes.***