Recent content by Burnt_Toast

What's Dantarion's progress on the Clone Engine like? How's that coming along?

Thanks for the bump XAQ and sorry for the lack of recent information. *** The statistics section of the website is almost complete and should be ready to use within a few days. Once completed, anyone will be able to go to the site and enter the results of his/her own contests (there will...

Yeah, playing one of those people you mentioned will connect you to everyone in AZ and Nor-Cal, and then you can play whoever. Ultimately, play whoever you want/can as the ultimate goal is for everybody to be connected. And here, I made a couple videos showing step by step how to set these...

J-Man - don't worry, you're not alone. I'm currently working on a post that will summarize a lot of what's been said in this thread and (hopefully) make things a lot more clear to everyone. For now, I'll just say that your contest against Zhu was the most important one completed at the...

This tournament was awesome! Thanks so much to everyone who participated or expressed interest in Smash Ranks over the weekend. We completed an additional 11 contests Sunday for a total of 17 for the weekend. We created connections from Nor-Cal to AZ via Axe vs Silent Spectre and So-Cal to NY...

Thank you to everyone who participated in Smash Ranks yesterday. We got a total of 6 completed results and they can be found here starting with contest 000015. We had a seventh in progress (Smoke 2 Joints vs Gishnack) but unfortunately, the data was not saved. It was a really close match when...

I wanted to add a bit to what Manondorf was saying - Player's A, B, and C in your scenario all have to play several different people to get ranked, not just each other, which helps to wash out results amongst people who play together extremely often and know each other's styles very well. Also...

Sheridan has permitted me to bring a setup dedicated for Smash Ranks. For those of you who don't know what that is, you can read about it in this thread or at smashranks.com. Our goal at this tournament will be to connect as many out of town players as possible to what will eventually be a...

50 I think is too low, but we tried a couple of these with a threshold of 60 last night and it worked well enough that I've gone ahead and changed the rules. The main post has been updated. I do not foresee any future changes to this system. *** Also, I keep forgetting to mention this crazy...

Sorry, I guess this is technically off topic, but I didn't want to start a whole another thread just for DK64. I was wondering if anyone else has noted this ban-worthy problem with that level - When off the ledge and falling to correct sweet-spot length, it is impossible to see the barrel...

Sorry for the double post, but I did a few things here... -Vastly simplified the first post and reformatted it. -Changed the way level selection works (feel free to provide an opinion on it but I'll care a hell of a lot more once you've actually tried it). -Reduced the number of contests...

The 100 KO threshold may be lowered, especially depending on how long something like a competitive Samus/Peach matchup would take in this format. Personally, I've found these to be very fun and extremely competitive, and as such I haven't minded their length, but once a few more heads start...

This was the idea behind the recording and public upload rules that used to exist. Quite a few people thought that was too much to ask, and after trying it myself, I realized that it was true. These contests last about an hour and half, and the resultant videos from my camera were 4-5 GB...

Violence, yes, we have been familiarizing ourselves with several different ranking systems and plan to incorporate different ideas from each of them. A measure of confidence will definitely be included. Another idea I'd like to incorporate is an Anchor system that I first read about on KGS (by...

Just now took the time to read through everything you've got up to this point. It's a great read and you're well-written. I, too, played 64 and eagerly awaited the release of this game, but I regret that I did not find the tourney scene early as you did. It was the summer of '04 that me and...