Kongregate Competition Sign-Ups And Directory (locked)

More current thread, go here.

Since Googooglyeye never updates his thread anymore, I’m going to go ahead and start a replacement one, shamelessly ripping off his formatting, but actually updating it

▪ This thread is exclusively for sign-ups. Please use this thread for any discussion: http://www.kongregate.com/forums/1-kongregate/topics/74355

This thread is for controlling any chaos over the hosting and execution of gaming competitions.
It is required that you sign up for a spot in this thread if you would like to host a competition.
If you post a competition thread without first signing up here, that thread will be locked.

The rules! Please read these first.

Guidelines:
▪ Competitions must be open to the general public. Hosts may put minor restrictions on who may qualify (accounts must be created after a certain date, no one who was DQ’d in the last few tournaments, etc.)
▪ There can only be one competition running at once (except in the situation listed below).
▪ A second competition may be started if the first lasts longer than 10 weeks.
▪ The competition must be completed within 15 weeks, or it will be closed.
▪ Competitions will take place on a first come, first served basis.
▪ Each person can only sign up to host one competition at a time.
▪ If it is your turn and you do not begin sign-ups or a qualifying round within 5 days, your turn may be skipped for the next competition. During this 5 day period, the host in the front of the line must either shout me or make a post in this thread stating his/her’s status on competition readiness.
▪ Relating to the above guideline, if you acknowledge that your competition will not be ready during this 5 day period, your spot in line will be given to the next person, who will then be given a 5 day period. However, if you give your spot up, you may take the next spot in line. However you can only do this once, if you are not ready after you pass once, you will lose your turn all together. (This does not apply to TeamEgoFrisk because this rule was implemented after he passed once.)
▪ The next tournament may begin its qualifier once the finals of the previous tournament begins. However the first round may not begin until the final of the previous tournament has completed. Your 5 day period to start your qualifier begins once the finals begin of the previous tournament.
▪ Any who do not sign up using the provided template may or may not be able to host said competition.

Notes on this thread:
▪ Older posts in this thread may be deleted for the sake of cleanliness.
▪ This thread is exclusively for sign-ups. Please use other threads for discussion.

Hosting your competition:

Signing up should be done in the following way:

 
<h2>Signing Up</h2> 
Name of Competition (optional): 
Number of competitors being accepted: 
Approximate run time: 
Names of co-hosts, spreadsheeters, etc.: 

Starting your competition should be done in the following way:

 
<h2>Starting competition</h2> 
Name of Competition: 
Number of competitors being accepted: 
Name of co-hosts, spreadsheeters, etc.: 
Link to qualifying round: 

Ending your competition should be done in the following way:

 
<h2>Ending Competition</h2> 
Name of Competition: 
Link to final round/thread: 

Examples:

Signing Up

Name of Competition: K.O.N.G.R.E.G.A.T.E
Number of competitors being accepted: 150
Approximate run time: 3 weeks
Names of co-hosts, spreadsheeters, etc.: guuguulyeye

Starting Competition

Name of Competition: Competition 3
Number of competitors being accepted: As many as possible
Approximate run time: 5 weeks
Names of co-hosts, spreadsheeters, etc.: None
Link to Qualifier Round: http://www.kongregate.com/forums/1/topics/29447

Ending Competition

Name of Competition: K.O.N.G.
Link to final round/thread: http://www.kongregate.com/forums/1/topics/45187

Tips for crafting and hosting a successful tournament

(work in progress)

Here are some additional tips from Danaroth.

1.) Basic Preparation

A.) Plan all the numbers in your tournament.

• This means how many people, number and length of rounds, games, etc. you’ll want.

• With the length of rounds, early on the people who are there to have fun want to submit a score, but later on the hardcore people will generally make time to play a game. Factor that into how long to make rounds. Generally rounds should be 3-5 days.

• Eliminations should make sense from round to round. Don’t jump from 10% to 50%. Two good methods are to have a steady elimination percentage each round (say 35%,) or start out with a lower elimination percentage, and gradually increase it (for example start out at 30% and work your way up to 50% gradually.)

2.) Game selection:

A.) The primary goal of each tournament is for the competitors to have fun, so pick games that people find fun. This would exclude Tower Defense and Rhythm games, as well as Pel. Look for:

• As mentioned before, find fun games.

• Find new games to use. People enjoy playing fun games they’ve never played before. Not Pel.

• Feel free to ask people for suggestions, people will be glad to give you suggestions.

B.) However the ultimate goal of any tournament is to crown a winner. So later on, it’s better to find games that are ideal for competition. 4 things to consider:

• Scaling difficulty. It’s better to not have something that just tries the gamer’s patience, or something with a maximum score. You’ll want something with scaling difficulty.

• Games with API, and one where the score submits when the game finishes, without having to push a button. API allows other players to see where they rank in the round so far.

• Games without a pause feature are useful. Combine this with API and you won’t have someone just post a score that no one knew about the entire round b/c they could keep it hidden.

• Alternatively, (or additionally) to games with no pause, you can use multiple games in the finals. Since people will have to focus on multiple games, they’ll worry less about ninja’ing.

• Finally it’s better to have games run on real time rather than frame rate. Games that run on frame rate become easier if you can slow down your computer, while real time games only become choppy. This prevents people from using slow computers to have an advantage.

Other tips for games that you select:

• If you’re having problems finding games, then use the new recommendation system that Kongregate implemented. It recommends games to you that you haven’t rated before, based on how you have rated other games similar to them. The list does refresh periodically by itself, but you can get it refresh as you rate games on the list.

• Have backup games. I recommend at least 1 backup for each game you have. Lack of backups has really hurt a lot of tournaments, so don’t let yours be one of them.

• Recruit some people to be play testers. It’s better to find glitches before you use the game and have to change the game in the round.

3.) Other General Tips and Suggestions

• Have a co-host, and make sure they know what’s coming up next for your tournament, in case you aren’t able to make it.
• Setup the tournament so you WILL be around. Don’t set a round to end when you’re going to be at work. Questions come up near the end of a round, and it’s better if you’re around.
• Prepare early. There are lots of people in line, and if someone isn’t ready, we move on to the next person. If that person is you and you’re not ready, you’re might try to just wing it, but you’re more than likely just going to have a crappy tournament.

The Current List

Wiiplayer113 is currently hosting a qualifier: The Kompetition

The following people are in line to host a tournament.
meltedbutter
Kranix
Vegard20
asmodous
JimmyCarlos
Vampire_Overlord
zakid
Lebossle
Precarious
Ikara
Fogfun
BadgesFreak
Sellyme
Bluji
burrito
SamsterSamster
SilentSand
videogames518

Also, if you’re looking for help with hosting a competition (co-hosting, spreadsheets, etc.), try contacting one of these people.

videogames518
(If you would like to be put on the list, feel free to make a post in this thread or leave me a shout/PM)

List of available past competitions for reference:

(ss denotes the link to the spreadsheet)

This spreadsheet contains the information from virtually all of the tournaments and compiles them into several lists to see how you've done compared to other people.

ss Competition #3 Winner: Kyru
ss The Gauntlet Winner: SJOKER
ss K.O.N.G. Winner: Friz
ss Konguest
ss Official Amberial Axis Release Tournament
ss Kong-Prix
ss The Kongreatest Challenge Winner: Friz DQ: WiiPlayer113
Castlewars Competition
ss The Goliathan Konquest Winner: Snape007
Starland TD Competition
ss Kwest for the Holy K Winner: PkkHaseo DQs: Drovoxx, skeelful08, Snape007, LethalMutiny, Devlini, heeheex2, JaumeBG, Starshooter123, D3ath4u2
ss50/50 Winners&Losers Winners bladewing650 Elldaman311 Fricknmaniac Thyrael DQ Wiggles96
ss The Tower Winner: Thyrael DQ: chavkill
ss The (Inter)National Greg Games Winners: Danaroth, Elldaman311 DQs: JoshDragon, Shizokuya, Wiggles96
ss The Kongregate King Winner: Fricknmaniac
ss Competition to Find the Best XIII Winner: Cirpacha DQs: Hokage4354, NicolBolas
ss Vigorous Gaming Winner: Wiiplayer113 DQs: MicroGamer15
ss Secret Panda Tournament Winner Wiiplayer113 DQs DisposableClam, asmodous, MamboJambo
ss Masters of Gaming Winners: Cirpacha, Thyrael DQ: yourmomdad
ss Rise to Power Winner: Svenskamordare DQs:MicroGamer2, AioriaRox
ss Remembering Retro Winner: Cirpacha DQs: bananagram, Luisn002, mayrakis, WiiPlayer113
ss The Road to Gaming Greatness Winner: Fusha DQs: sam1122922226737, Aakash
ss The Pinnacle of Gaming Achievement Winner: Ben_B
ss The "Colosseum" Winner: MaistlinRajere DQs: Mdawg4
ss SURVIVOR: Kongregate Winner: hiperson134
ss The Quirky Capricious Kongregate Competition Winner:

In the previous thread I suggested to have a list of winners of the tournaments by number of tournament wins. Could that be done this time? I see it as a good idea.

How about updating it? :P

You should have updated the formatting.
I don’t like walls of texts without any aesthetic consideration =(

Two more years. Just two more years.

I’m available to be a spreadsheeter. Just saying…

Yes, I deleted my previous posts, feel free to delete your posts too.

I know what this list means, but it’s not very clear to newer users. You should explain what it means.

Thanks for uploading this. The old one hadn’t been updated for months.

Can I be taken off the upcoming host lists and be added to the spreadsheeting list?

I’m happy to be a spreadsheeter for anyone who wants it.

I’m also happy to help anyone out as a co-host/spreadsheeter if wanted.

I’m interested in helping in a competition. I’ll probably be to busy to make enter anyway, but I can update spreadsheets a few times a day.

Damn, I didn’t realise how long the list was when I signed up.

Thanks for reposting this! Goog wasn’t updating the other one.

Also interested in assisting with the spreadsheet.

I’m willing to help with the spreadsheet, but after this tournament (Drov’s) I’m probably not going to be willing to be a replacement host in the case of emergency (I just can’t find enough interesting games). I was slightly inactive this past tournament because of real life events (mostly out of town basketball), but that should be over by the time the next few tournaments are around.

I can definitely help with the spreadsheets, so you can add my name to the list. :D

I can help with the spreadsheets.

I will help on spreadsheets. I volunteer mainly because I don’t like sheeting to be slow.

Updated to include Winners of each tournament and those who were DQd in each tournament.

Tralala, I got disqualified.