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Competitions / Challenges for KDice
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Pursey wrote
at 4:52 AM, Tuesday June 16, 2015 EDT
Hi everyone,
I came on as an Advisor recently after being here since 2006/2007 as a player. I've played on and off over time and a few of you might remember that in 2012 I ran some competitions for things like Most Kills in the month (this was before kill bonuses existed) and Highest Points from Tournaments Only (No Table Play) and the winner would get their Membership Paid for by myself. At the time I believe Ryan had numerous commitments and KDice wasn't at the top of the priority list; but he's been doing a lot of work on the backend lately ( https://trello.com/b/4dwgZaBz/iogc ) and part of things happening is myself coming on board as a sort of Community Manager / Advisor. I do have Moderation Tools and I can and will use them if needed but my primary concern is to run some fun challenges and tasks where you will get rewarded in various ways. One way will be Membership, another might be with a Points Boost, for example. What I need from you are some suggestions on what things you'd like to participate in to try and win these prizes (which will be announced when we announce the actual events selected and how they'll be entered). Examples which have been done before and may be used again are the 'Phoenix Challenge' - getting to say 20,000 points in a month then deliberately losing every point you have down to 0, then rising back up from the ashes. Another was Most Kills in a Month in Standard Games. Another was Highest Placed Player with 0 games played (you were DQ'ed if playing anything other than tournaments). These were all winner takes all but we're open to a Top 3 or Top 6 for some events and such, possibly special medals, possibly something really rare (as an example only, don't hold me to this: custom icons) for really hard to get things. Just let me know what you want to see actually played/as the goal and we'll work out a good incentive structure. You can post here or you can email [email protected] - as an extra incentive, those who do make suggestions - whoever I deem to have the most creative, fun, and interesting suggestion will also receive a prize. I won't reveal what that is yet :) Thanks, Pursey [email protected] |
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Gurgi wrote
at 7:32 AM, Tuesday June 16, 2015 EDT highest % of 1st places with 100+ games
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masterDD wrote
at 6:00 AM, Wednesday June 17, 2015 EDT |
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Louis Cypher wrote
at 7:08 AM, Thursday June 18, 2015 EDT How about asking for highest percentage of 5th place and still in the top 100? Any other non-paying or losing spot could be taken.
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Gurgi wrote
at 8:32 AM, Thursday June 18, 2015 EDT yeah, lets reward people to not fight for 1st
jut what this game needs |
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flagsrweak wrote
at 8:51 AM, Thursday June 18, 2015 EDT Yeah this idea is just... terrible.
How to have a large % of losing places and still in the top10? Purchase membership and possibly extra points as well, only participate in members tourneys where a paying finish is nearly guaranteed and play&lose one regular game (the only reg. game you play). It's possible to get top100 without playing any reg. games at all, especially with a membership, so the only difference is that you sit at a 0 table once at the end of the month. And yeah, your % of 5th place finishes will be 100%, all you need to claim the title. |
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greeen wrote
at 9:01 AM, Thursday June 18, 2015 EDT when you reach maximum 20k to 30k - you got to always play 2k table
40k+ = 5k Be in top 5 |
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Louis Cypher wrote
at 9:45 AM, Thursday June 18, 2015 EDT :-) finally some discussion and input.
@greeen: How would you control that? That is like "Most points from kills" - also good as killing on low tables is easier but you don't get the points. But how would you check it? The competition for percentage of losing spots/5th might be better if you add "and no points from tourneys". That way you need paying wins (i.e. high tables) to get to top 100 and allow for a hig percentage of losing spots/5th... (probably on low tables, giving Federer a harder time). |
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greeen wrote
at 11:59 AM, Thursday June 18, 2015 EDT @louis - you would know if they are active or not - they'll be in top 5! That's the aim of the challenge - to aim for top 5 - I say midway of month and stay in that rank till the end!
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greeen wrote
at 12:01 PM, Thursday June 18, 2015 EDT I'll explain later, its 3am :(
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superxchloe wrote
at 1:00 PM, Thursday June 18, 2015 EDT I like your idea greeen but it's kind of impossible to track. There's no way to know at month end if someone who has 40k points ONLY played 5k tables at the appropriate times etc.
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