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The Big Adventure Gamers “VS - There Can Be Only One” Tournament

Poll: Would you like to have a group stage before direct knock-out duels?
Total Votes: 32
Group stage before the direct elimination duels
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Immediately start with the knock-out rounds (128 - 64 - 32...)
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chrissie - 17 December 2014 03:17 AM
Zifnab - 16 December 2014 11:03 PM

Wouldn’t it be better to wait until all the voters have played the games on the list, even if it takes a year? Otherwise I don’t see anyone learning anything new from the results.

I’d need more like 5 years Zifnab! - also there’s such a variety of games there’s a few games that don’t appeal & then there’s the problem of getting hold of some of those that do appeal!

I don’t think it matters if nothing new is learnt from the results but they hopefully will be interesting & it’s going to be a lot of fun!

At the rate I’m going, I’d never make it. Tongue


Also, it doesn’t really matter if nothing new is learnt, it’s the journey that’s the most fun. And I’m quite looking forward to “odd pairings” in the knock-out stages and what kinds of discussion they’d generate. Tongue

Intense Degree - 17 December 2014 04:22 AM

Can I just say that the quickest way to kill this tournament will be to over-complicate it. Let people vote how they will and save Bogi an extra headache! Wink It should be fun above all and if people try and treat it like Empirical research (NOT suggesting anyone here is doing that) which will elicit a final answer, rather than a fun knock out tournament then things could go sour.

In summary - let’s have fun and thanks Bogi for doing this! Laughing

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Bogi - 17 December 2014 04:43 AM

Does somebody know a way to have ASCII table with consistent boundaries that won’t mess up when values of different sizes are filled?
I would use it in the first post of each group’s thread and update it regularly.

Test one two three..     7
This sentence has an     5
equal amount of char     3
acters 
as the one ^^     

That’s using the [ code ] tags. Wink
Expect some quirks for words that represent actual code (like suddenly being in a different colour).

     

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Thanks TimovieMan Wink

     
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Bogi - 16 December 2014 05:27 PM

The live draw will be held tomorrow (Wednesday 17) starting at 10 P.M. (GMT/UTC) on Adventure Gamers discussion boards (on this topic Grin )

Livestream!! We want livestream!! Laughing

     
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Sefir - 17 December 2014 08:00 AM
Bogi - 16 December 2014 05:27 PM

The live draw will be held tomorrow (Wednesday 17) starting at 10 P.M. (GMT/UTC) on Adventure Gamers discussion boards (on this topic Grin )

Livestream!! We want livestream!! Laughing

The best I can (and will Smile ) do is to edit the special post for the draw 134 times in a row.
Unfortunately I couldn’t find 134 Kinder egg yolks Frown so I promise I’ll use real random numbers generator and will edit the post a few seconds later. I know I could do it in one click for the whole draw, but trust me this is far more interesting at least for me Grin

So you will all know which game is being placed in which group a mere seconds after me.  Wink

     
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The page views on this thread are going to go through the roof with everyone constantly refreshing to see the draw… Tongue

     

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I’m way more excited for this random draw than I probably should be. This tournament is going to be great!

     
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Group A

#10 – Portal 2

#31 – Portal

#39 – Last Window: The Secret of Cape West

#54 – Samorost 2

#73 – Discworld II

#94 – Faust (aka Seven Games of the Soul)

#103 – Botanicula

#122 - Kentucky Route Zero

#134 - Zero Escape: Virtue’s Last Reward

Group B

#11 – Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis

#23 – Quest for Glory IV: Shadows of Darkness

#45 – The Curse of Monkey Island

#56 – In Memoriam (aka MISSING: Since January)

#68 – Shadow of Destiny (aka Shadow of Memories)

#95 – Ripley’s Believe it or Not!: The Riddle of Master Lu

#100 – Titanic: Adventure Out Of Time

#133 - Valiant Hearts: The Great War

 

Group C

#16 – Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers

#19 – Beneath a Steel Sky

#47 – Professor Layton and the Curious Village

#50 – Zork

#72 – Maniac Mansion

#86 – Dark Fall

#98 – The Space Bar

#130 - The Stanley Parable

 

Group D

#5   – Riven

#17 – Machinarium

#40 – Myst IV: Revelation

#55 – Syberia II

#66 – Callahan’s Crosstime Saloon

#93 – Toonstruck

#111 – Lost Horizon

#124 - Space Quest V

#120 - Deponia

 

Group E

#4   – Broken Sword: The Shadow of the Templars

#25 – Tex Murphy: Under a Killing Moon

#46 – The Journeyman Project 3: Legacy of Time

#62 – Obsidian

#74 – Shadow of the Comet

#91 – The Feeble Files

#106 – Edna and Harvey: The Breakout

#129 - The Moment of Silence

 

Group F

#12 – Zork Grand Inquisitor

#30 – Bad Mojo

#48 – Space Quest IV: Roger Wilco and the Time Rippers

#49 – Sam & Max: Season 2 (aka Sam & Max Beyond Time and Space)

#78 – Freddy Pharkas: Frontier Pharmacist

#87 – Penumbra: Black Plague

#105 – Broken Age

#132 - The Whispered World

 

Group G

#3   – Gabriel Knight 2: The Beast Within

#20 – Still Life

#36 – Sanitarium

#58 – Star Trek: Judgment Rites

#75 – Kings Quest: Quest for the Crown

#84 – Colonel’s Bequest: A Laura Bow Mystery

#99 – Nancy Drew: Curse of Blackmoor Manor

#114 - Brothers - Tale of 2 sons

#116 - Corpse Party

 

Group H

#2   – The Longest Journey

#22 – The Lost Files of Sherlock Holmes: The Case of the Serrated Scalpel

#33 – L.A. Noire

#51 – Zork: Nemesis

#79 – Gemini Rue

#89 – The Journeyman Project 2: Buried in Time

#104 – The Cat Lady

#117 - Danganronpa

 

Group I

#6   – Day of the Tentacle

#32 – Gabriel Knight 3: Blood of the Sacred, Blood of the Damned

#34 – Amnesia: The Dark Descent

#60 – Another Code (aka Trace Memory)

#80 – Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened

#90 – Spycraft: The Great Game

#102 – Primordia

#123 - Night of the Rabbit

 

Group J

#15 – Syberia

#21 – Blade Runner

#42 – Conquests of the Longbow: The Legend of Robin Hood

#63 – Black Dahlia

#67 – Pepper’s Adventures in Time

#85 – The Dark Eye

#109 – To the Moon

#127 - The Inner World

#128 - The Legend of Kyrandia 2: The Hand of Fate

 

Group K

#1   – Grim Fandango

#29 – Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney

#43 – John Saul’s Blackstone Chronicles

#61 – Loom

#69 – I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream

#88 – Simon the Sorcerer II: The Lion, the Wizard and the Wardrobe

#107 – Gray Matter

#131 - The Walking Dead

 

Group L

#14 – The Secret of Monkey Island

#18 – Myst

#37 – Stacking

#59 – Myst III: Exile

#77 – Silent Hill: Shattered Memories

#96 – Gold Rush!

#101 – Resonance

#119 - Death Gate

 

Group M

#9   – Tex Murphy: The Pandora Directive

#28 – Sam & Max Hit the Road

#41 – Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective

#52 – Dreamfall: The Longest Journey

#70 – Amber: Journey’s Beyond

#92 – The Dig

#108 – Overclocked

#126 - The Dagger of Amon Ra

#115 - Cognition

 

Group N

#13 – King’s Quest VI: Heir Today, Gone Tomorrow

#24 – Police Quest 2: The Vengeance

#35 – The Neverhood

#53 – Return to Mysterious Island

#71 – Leisure Suit Larry: Love for Sail!

#82 – The 7th Guest

#112 – Discworld

#113 - Broken Sword 5 - The Serpent’s Curse

 

Group O

#8   – Monkey Island 2: LeChuck’s Revenge

#26 – Heavy Rain

#44 – Simon the Sorcerer

#57 – Indigo Prophecy (aka Fahrenheit)

#65 – Hotel Dusk: Room 215

#83 – The Black Mirror

#110 – Blackwell Epiphany

#125 - Tales of Monkey Island

 

Group P

#7   – The Last Express

#27 – Discworld Noir

#38 – Full Throttle

#64 – The Book of Unwritten Tales

#76 – Drawn: The Painted Tower

#81 – Quest for Glory II: Trial by Fire

#97 – Runaway: A Twist of Fate

#121 - Gone Home

#118 - Danganronpa 2

 

     
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Wooh…. That would be all folks, I still have to look at the groups, it seems there are really hard ones.
Now we need to start opening threads for each group.

     
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Congratulations Bogi for the hard work! There are indeed many interesting battles. Some of them even from the same series!! (Myst, Portal)

     

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Bogi - 17 December 2014 06:10 PM

Wooh…. That would be all folks, I still have to look at the groups, it seems there are really hard ones.
Now we need to start opening threads for each group.

probably should have them in a sub-section or something.. Flooding the adventure forum with 16 threads doesnt seem like a great idea.

     
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zane - 17 December 2014 06:16 PM
Bogi - 17 December 2014 06:10 PM

Wooh…. That would be all folks, I still have to look at the groups, it seems there are really hard ones.
Now we need to start opening threads for each group.

probably should have them in a sub-section or something.. Flooding the adventure forum with 16 threads doesnt seem like a great idea.

I thought to create threads for the first half of the groups (A-H).

@TimovieMan I’ll start creating them as soon as we know definitely where to put them. In Adventure section or somewhere else?

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Ok, I’ll start creating them and later thay could easily be moved if there’s a more appropriate place.

     
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Looking good, Bogi! In the first post for each group thread, underneath the scoreboard, maybe you should add some brief instructions, like this:


Vote for up to five games you’d like to see advance to the next round.

First choice (7 points)
Second choice (5 points)
Third choice (3 points)
Fourth choice (2 points)
Fifth choice (1 point)

Voting for this group will end on X Day at Y time. The four games with the most points will advance.

Not sure what this tournament is all about? See the Overview thread here. Join in and have fun!


Feel free to reword this however you want.

     
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I’ll do that pronto, thanks Caliburn.

     
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Maybe it’s a dumb question and I haven’t read correctly, but can I only cast my vote for one game, in case I haven’t played the rest?

     
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Bogi can confirm, but I think Bogi’s conclusion was yes. I’ll update my mock instructions with this.

     

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