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sfxazure
February 23, 2014, 07:18:18 PM - ORIGINAL POST -

S.P.E.R.G.I.N.4. (Stepcharts Produced by Enterprising Rhythm Gamerz In the Northwest 4our)
Brought to you by Ben (sfxazure) and Laura (SomeLauraChick)
With help and hosting from Scott (Suko)
19 July 2014, starts at noon o clock sharp!
Entry Fee: $5.00 if you preregister, $10.00 at the door.

EDIT: The amazing fantastic submissions page is here!

UPDATE: The pack can be downloaded here!

Time for another round of S.P.E.R.G.I.N. y'all! I have tentative dates of July 19th, 2014 for the tournament and May 25, 2014June 8, 2014 for the submission cutoff. I'll follow up on this thread once the dates are finalized or if either of them change. Like previous S.P.E.R.G.I.N.s, this will be held at Suko's house (confirmed once I get the final 'ok' from him).

For those of you new to the PNWBemani scene: S.P.E.R.G.I.N. is an unserious tournament  held in the PNW every summer with a ruleset inspired by Zetorux’s DOWNS customs tournaments. Preregistrants can submit up to four songs that, once approved, compose the tournament pack. The pack is frozen after a cutoff date, and the tournament is a (mostly) standard double-elim bracket played with the competitor-submitted pack.

What's new this time around:
  • We've heard a few complaints about being unable to test charts on the ACME machine which has led to sync issues. I have a few ideas around fixing this issue but haven't landed on a solution yet. I'll update this thread once I have a solution or if USB is fixed and I don’t need one.
  • Seeding is now based on registration time. Want a high seed? Hurry up and preregister!
  • Nothing else. The format works; why change it?

The Rules

Phase One: Pre-registration and Stepchart Submission
Due Date: May 25, 2014 June 8, 2014

Preregistration will begin immediately and will run until the end of Phase One. Attendees who preregister will pay a discounted rate ($5.00 instead of $10.00.) Preregistration will be handled by PMing me. I'll be accepting payment through Amazon Payments, PayPal, or in person. To keep things organized, please use the title “SPERGIN4 Preregistration” for your PM.

You will have from today until June 8 to submit up to four songs (one stepchart each) to be included in the tournament pack. Make sure to identify yourself by name/forum name somewhere in the file. We encourage you to create and submit new stepcharts, but any are fine as long as you had a hand in their creation.  Submitted songs/stepcharts will be rejected if they do not conform to the following rules:

  • The chart must be to a song which does not exceed three minutes and thirty seconds (3:30) in length. There are many reasons for this, including but not limited to the fact that we have to keep the tournament moving and the fact that 3:30 is ACME's cutoff for a “long song.” We don’t want people to have to pay more to practice some charts than others.
  • Songs must be appropriate for play in public venues such as ACME Bowl. Please avoid profanity or find some way to work around it (clean versions, comedic censoring, etc.) Any content deemed inappropriate for a public venue will be rejected.
  • Songs must be ITG Arcade Ready. Details for preparing your songs can be found here.  If your song is over 2 minutes, DO NOT .OGG PATCH IT. Also, it is recommended that you test your file on Acme’s ITG machine before submitting it, as different machines have different syncing.
  • Stepcharts must have at least 50 hittable arrows. While there may be ways to make an interesting chart with under 50 steps, it would increase the likelihood of ties and slow the tournament down.
  • The stepchart must be Expert difficulty. This is to ensure that we can use the ITG machine’s built-in Random selector to pick tie-breakers. Submitted songs can have any number of stepcharts, but only the Expert chart can be picked during the tournament.
  • Charts that have already been submitted to a previous S.P.E.R.G.I.N. tournament can not be submitted. We want original content! If you’re not sure what counts as “the same chart”, ask us!

We also reserve the right to reject a stepfile for unusual reasons, such as the file crashing StepMania/ITG.

Note: If a song is rejected for any reason, you may submit a replacement; cleaned-up versions of rejected submissions can be submitted, as well as completely different songs/charts.  After a song has been accepted for the pack, it is finalized and can not be replaced or modified.

As soon as a stepchart is accepted into the pack, it will be made available for download at the bottom of this post.  This is because Laura and I will be entering the tournament ourselves, and we don’t want to gain an unfair advantage by viewing songs before they are released publicly.

We can’t stop you from preregistering, submitting charts, and then not showing up. But doing that is super lame. Come on, don’t be lame.


Phase Two: Practice

During this period of time, the organizers will combine your charts into a pack.  If the organizers feel that there are not enough new stepcharts on which to run a tournament, we will find some quick hack to fix this issue.  This should take about a week.  After this, the pack will be released and installed on the ACME machine, so that you may practice these charts at your leisure.


Phase Three: TOURNAMENT!
July 19, 2014
Please note:  You will see the phrase “Because this is not intended to be a serious tournament...” many times.  This is because this is not intended to be a serious tournament, and is supposed to be for fun!   Please do not get too caught up in minor details.

This will be a double elimination event with room for up to 32 entrants.  Only songs from the S.P.E.R.G.I.N.4. pack will be playable in this tournament.

Seeding:  Seeding is based on registration order to encourage early registration.

Matches:  High seed gets first choice of machine side or pick order.  The other choice goes to low seed.  Each player will then pick one song of their choice to play against the other player.   Whoever gets the highest percentage (as calculated by the machine) on a given song wins that song.  (You know how this works by now.)  If both players are tied at the end of two songs, a third song will be chosen from the S.P.E.R.G.I.N.4. pack by way of the ITG machine’s “random” function.  If both players are still tied, another random tiebreaker will be chosen until the tie is broken.

Song Selection:  Each player may only use a song as their “pick” once over the course of the tournament.  Because this is not intended to be a serious tournament, either player may fail any song throughout all tournament rounds with no additional penalty - once you fail, your percentage is “locked” as your score.

Prizes:  Once preregistration ends and we have a better idea of how many entrants we will have, we will determine a prize structure based on 100% of the entry fees.

Please note that although the “I.N.” in “S.P.E.R.G.I.N.” does stand for “In the Northwest,” out of state players are still more than welcome to participate and submit stepcharts.

« Last Edit: June 12, 2014, 11:03:43 PM by sfxazure »
 
Suko
Read February 23, 2014, 08:27:27 PM #1

We've heard a few complaints about being unable to test charts on the ACME machine which has led to sync issues. I have a few ideas around fixing this issue but haven't landed on a solution yet. I'll update this thread once I have a solution or if USB is fixed and I don’t need one.
Did I miss something? What is the sync issue?
 
OrangeChicken
Read February 23, 2014, 09:25:52 PM #2

>July 19th
Mid-July?

Oh no Sad

I probably won't be able to compete since I'll most likely either be out of state visiting family, or on some crazy exotic summer expedition.
Darn. I thought this would be my first tournament to join in too :/

But I suppose I'll still send in some charts Smiley

If I were in California at the time, would I have to find my own means of getting to the tournament in Washington?
 
Nykkel
Read February 23, 2014, 09:34:39 PM #3

The 4th line of the post says June, the rest of the tournament date lines say July.  May want to fix whichever one is wrong.
 
M477
Read February 23, 2014, 10:14:36 PM #4

Getting hyped for this! Cheesy
 
sfxazure
Read February 23, 2014, 11:03:04 PM #5

Did I miss something? What is the sync issue?
A few competitors have complained that they don't have an easy way to test their charts for sync before submission. Because of this, a bunch of charts in SPERGIN 1-3 are poorly synced.

If I were in California at the time, would I have to find my own means of getting to the tournament in Washington?
Sorry to hear you won't be around. I don't see a way around you having to make it back.

The 4th line of the post says June, the rest of the tournament date lines say July.  May want to fix whichever one is wrong.
Thanks, fixed! July is correct. Sorry about that!
 
NSX
Read February 23, 2014, 11:48:08 PM #6

I'm going to be out of the country for the month of July/early August. Won't be able to make it this time Sad

I'll still submit my scrumptious charts Smiley
 
Dr.Z
Read February 24, 2014, 12:35:57 AM #7

A few competitors have complained that they don't have an easy way to test their charts for sync before submission. Because of this, a bunch of charts in SPERGIN 1-3 are poorly synced.
I think I'm the source of the worst synced charts xP
To this day they sound fine on my copy of OpenITG and Stepmania, but fairly off on Suko's machine and even worse at Acme.

Shame that Tuan both can't make this event date . .

« Last Edit: February 24, 2014, 12:37:51 AM by Dr.Z »
 
AndyBurnsDDR
Read February 24, 2014, 01:19:21 AM #8

I'll most likely be there.
 
Suko
Read February 24, 2014, 11:04:50 AM #9

As for syncing charts, here's the best idea I could come up with that doesn't require me (or someone else) personally editing each file's syncing:

I can create a template simfile that is to a simple beat and is synced as close as I can get it to perfect on my machine. I can then share this file here and anyone who wants to make a chart could download the simfile, run it on their machine and then sync up their PC to that simfile. I could make a video demonstrating this so everyone can get their computers synced up properly to make an on-sync stepchart.
 
BLueSS
Read February 24, 2014, 12:30:19 PM #10

Scott's idea is what my simfile tournaments did to standardize it. The standardizing file should sync perfectly to the machine running the tournament, and then everyone else can standardize off of it.
 
M477
Read March 01, 2014, 02:11:54 AM #11

1st submission
https://www.mediafire.com/?ykf2xfrsh932gjs
It's another Pory song. Smiley

EDIT: Here's a preview
Run To Forest (final draft)


EDIT the SECOND: Updated with new link. Previous link had the wrong offset value. Should be -0.520

« Last Edit: March 01, 2014, 10:59:19 PM by M477 »
 
Suko
Read March 01, 2014, 07:07:28 PM #12

For those of you who want to make sure their songs are synced properly to my machine, follow this tutorial here:

http://youtu.be/IMBSB4_StYk

Here's the Song Sync file:
http://www.techno-hut.com/download/SongSync.zip
 
sfxazure
Read March 02, 2014, 12:36:27 AM #13

Hey y'all! The chart list is available here: http://bkirz-spergin-4.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com/. I'll be adding links to that page as songs are submitted, so check it frequently. Also, thanks Suko for uploading the sample stepchart and tutorial!
 
OrangeChicken
Read March 02, 2014, 12:46:10 AM #14

I've got like 30 charts I'm working on, and with multiple difficulties.

I like so many of them, I don't know which to pick >_<
 
Ifc.NiNe
Read March 02, 2014, 02:37:10 PM #15

Hey y'all! The chart list is available here: http://bkirz-spergin-4.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com/. I'll be adding links to that page as songs are submitted, so check it frequently. Also, thanks Suko for uploading the sample stepchart and tutorial!


Tried downloading the 2 that are up and gives forbidden 403 message

More specifically this one
403 Forbidden

    Code: AccessDenied
    Message: Access Denied
    RequestId: F1056A5963F0E81A
    HostId: PVZVBdPV1wdEbJalhMYa38LDtoVcX+fpsZFcqk3SOkInpbMvi45CTqdAhB7nlkHM

 
 
sfxazure
Read March 02, 2014, 03:28:06 PM #16

Tried downloading the 2 that are up and gives forbidden 403 message
Sorry about that. That was a bug in one of my scripts that should be fixed now.
 
Suko
Read March 02, 2014, 03:57:16 PM #17

Sorry about that. That was a bug in one of my scripts that should be fixed now.
Pft. Programmers.
 
Ifc.NiNe
Read March 02, 2014, 04:55:05 PM #18

Thank you Ben for the fix.
 
Telperion
Read March 05, 2014, 11:50:52 PM #19

Oh hella yah. Gonna get started on some files right now
 
ElectroMite
Read March 06, 2014, 03:12:34 AM #20

Hey guys, I'm new Tongue
Where will this be held and where do I pay the fee?
 
sfxazure
Read March 06, 2014, 10:04:39 AM #21

Hey guys, I'm new Tongue
Where will this be held and where do I pay the fee?
Welcome! This will be held at Suko's house in Mukilteo. To protect his privacy, we aren't posting his address on the internet. You'll need to reach out to him for his address and/or directions.

As far as payment, here's the relevant section from the rules:
Preregistration will be handled by PMing me. I'll be accepting payment through Amazon Payments, PayPal, or in person. To keep things organized, please use the title “SPERGIN4 Preregistration” for your PM.
 
Suko
Read March 06, 2014, 01:05:54 PM #22

Here's the general directions I posted for the last tournament. This will give you a good idea of where I live and allow you to plan trips, carpools, etc.

http://www.pnwbemani.net/events-meetups/(tournament)-s-p-e-r-g-i-n-3-august-3rd-2013/msg29121/#msg29121

However, if it's possible, I'll just wait until closer to the tournament date and we'll just send out an email or something to everyone with the exact address. This way I don't have to worry about explaining directions to each person individually.

Sound good, Ben (sfxazure)?

« Last Edit: March 06, 2014, 01:14:24 PM by Suko »
 
Tyrgannus.
Read March 07, 2014, 02:28:00 AM #23

1.) I live 900 miles away now. Obviously, I cannot compete.

2.) I love making files more than anyone should and have provided files for SPERGIN 2 and SPERGIN 3.

3.) I would like to submit files without entering the tournament.

4.) If you are hellbent on collecting my $5 as per tournament rules, I'll do it. I know people have enjoyed my charts and I want them represented in this upcoming pack.
 
ElectroMite
Read March 07, 2014, 11:40:18 AM #24

Welcome! This will be held at Suko's house in Mukilteo. To protect his privacy, we aren't posting his address on the internet. You'll need to reach out to him for his address and/or directions.

Awesome!! I live in Edmonds, and I'm pretty sure I'll be able to make it, how long is the event from 12pm?

EDIT: I have another question, is there going to be a qualifiers tournament? For people who can't do Heavy or Challenge, like me, go against others with the same amount of skills? I've recently started playing DDR and I really love the game, I can do just about Standard and I've been practicing just about every week.

« Last Edit: March 07, 2014, 11:47:45 AM by ElectroMite »
 
 
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