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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 »
 
NSX
Read June 08, 2014, 11:55:47 PM #76

The Last 3 Subs. are finished and ready to go! Here ya go! Talk about last minute uploads...

All Expert charts Smiley
https://www.mediafire.com/?5f19qug3f16zpga

« Last Edit: June 09, 2014, 12:00:27 AM by NSX »
 
Suko
Read June 09, 2014, 09:43:01 AM #77

Ben, if you have any charts you want me to personally test on my machine to check sync, let me know. I doubt I could test 60+ charts easily, but if there's only a handful, I can manage that. I could even use AutoSync to report back how much I think it's off. Let me know.
 
sfxazure
Read June 09, 2014, 10:07:44 AM #78

Ben, if you have any charts you want me to personally test on my machine to check sync, let me know. I doubt I could test 60+ charts easily, but if there's only a handful, I can manage that. I could even use AutoSync to report back how much I think it's off. Let me know.
Thanks so much! I'll get you a list tonight.
 
NSX
Read June 11, 2014, 12:07:29 PM #79

If possible, can someone give me feedback on my charts? Thanks Smiley
 
Suko
Read June 11, 2014, 02:21:32 PM #80

List the names and I'll try to check some of the charts tonight. Any that I can't get to tonight I can try to get to this weekend.
 
NSX
Read June 11, 2014, 02:40:00 PM #81

Come & Get it (11)

Somebody Loves You (11)

Can't Control Myself (11)

I wouldn't recommend testing Invisible Depths lol. Kudos to anyone that can pass it!
 
Tyrgannus.
Read June 11, 2014, 04:20:37 PM #82

Holy crap, there are more charts than SPERGIN 2 and 3 combined. I'm not complaining, I'm just surprised.

Hopefully my charts don't get lost in the madness.
 
Suko
Read June 11, 2014, 08:22:59 PM #83

Here's my first round of fixes for people:



If you're the owner of one of the stepcharts in the photo, I've synced your charts as best I could and have the revised simfiles available for download here:

www.techno-hut.com/download/SPERGIN4fix.zip

Please note: I only synced the first part of the song, so if check the last half to make sure it's in sync with the first half. If you have the wrong BPM for the song, it can and likely will drift from on-sync to WAY OFF (no pun intended) by the end of the chart.

Gay Mountain: I think the first part isn't synced with the rest of the song. Everything after the intro is on-sync now, but check the intro to make sure you got the BPM right (or change the arrows to match accordingly).

Portlandia: On-sync, but those first few steps felt off. Could be a gradual BPM ramp up at the beginning of the song, but I don't know for sure. The majority of it seems on-sync now.

Revenge: I don't think all of those should be purples. I synced it so it's on beat now (red notes), but a decent number of the purples might need to be green (16th) instead.
 
NSX
Read June 12, 2014, 06:56:11 PM #84

Thank you Suko for taking the time to help Sync our charts Smiley
 
sfxazure
Read June 12, 2014, 11:01:41 PM #85

Alright, the full pack is available for download here:
http://bkirz-spergin-4.s3.amazonaws.com/spergin4.zip

I might make some cosmetic changes between now and the tournament (making a banner for the pack, fixing stepchart artist attribution, etc) but the songs won't change at all. I'm planning to stop by ACME sometime this weekend to get the pack on the machine.
 
Suko
Read June 13, 2014, 10:58:49 AM #86

I have a banner I've been using on my machine for the packs in the past. I can add a 4 to it and let you use that. =D

Also, Orange Chicken, nice job with #SELFIE. I like the pop up images. I wish I knew how to do foreground stuff, but I don't have any idea how to go about writing the scripts to get it to work right.

« Last Edit: June 13, 2014, 02:40:16 PM by Suko »
 
OrangeChicken
Read June 13, 2014, 08:44:54 PM #87

I have a banner I've been using on my machine for the packs in the past. I can add a 4 to it and let you use that. =D

Also, Orange Chicken, nice job with #SELFIE. I like the pop up images. I wish I knew how to do foreground stuff, but I don't have any idea how to go about writing the scripts to get it to work right.


Hey thanks Smiley

You should try Jayce's FG changes tutorial here (The website is under maintenance and isn't working).

Oh my god that Afrobarney Primeval chart is just too perfect, I'm crying.

« Last Edit: June 13, 2014, 11:39:44 PM by Kevin (OC) »
 
OrangeChicken
Read June 15, 2014, 11:24:30 PM #88

Hey Suko, you're hosting the tournament on your machine, right?

For one of my charts, MLG Dynamo, the syncing is a tiny bit delayed, and I've decided that its off-set must be changed to -0.400.

Would you be able to do that? Thanks.
 
Suko
Read June 16, 2014, 11:34:38 AM #89

Hey Suko, you're hosting the tournament on your machine, right?

For one of my charts, MLG Dynamo, the syncing is a tiny bit delayed, and I've decided that its off-set must be changed to -0.400.

Would you be able to do that? Thanks.
I don't mind, but we need to make sure everything is matching up with the charts on the machine at Acme. Would you let Ben know and get him to verify it. Once he says it's cool we can update the master pack so people are training on the correct sync.

Once he gets it updated, I'll just replace the old .SM with the new one.
 
sfxazure
Read June 19, 2014, 11:13:30 PM #90

Good news: The pack is on the ACME machine!

Bad news: Some people might have submitted charts that don't work on OpenITG because they were written in Stepmania 5 with Step Timing instead of Song Timing. The only song I tested with this problem is Talia's Good Food Fast, but there might be others. Because it effectively ruins the chart, I'm willing to amend the pack. Everyone: please check ALL of your charts on the ACME machine (or another machine running OpenITG) and let me know if any of them aren't working by Sunday evening (or get someone else to do it for you). If you can't test on OpenITG, try playing your chart after moving the .ssc file out of the song directory (leaving the .sm file there). If anything is wrong, submit a fixed file by Sunday and I'll update the download link and machine. Since I'm updating the pack anyway, I'll accept sync fixes by Sunday evening (including the two requested by Scott and Orange Chicken).

« Last Edit: June 19, 2014, 11:15:49 PM by sfxazure »
 
sfxazure
Read June 23, 2014, 08:52:52 AM #91

Ok! The updated pack is available for download (it's replaced the original download link).
The full set of changes is:
  • MLG Dynamo sync fixed
  • Raisins in my Toast bpm changes corrected
  • Good Food Fast bpm changes corrected

I'm heading to ACME tonight and am planning on updating the machine then.
 
Rose
Read June 26, 2014, 03:48:57 AM #92

I played Tuan's chart, Come and Get It a couple of times and I feel like the chart is late. I just wanted to inform you guys before SPERGIN4.

I have played through some of the charts and haven't found really any problems so far.

@Laura I had some fun trying to play and pass your Cups chart without bracketing....my thighs just burn out. Oh the pain.
 
sfxazure
Read June 26, 2014, 07:46:05 AM #93

I played Tuan's chart, Come and Get It a couple of times and I feel like the chart is late. I just wanted to inform you guys before SPERGIN4.
Thanks for the heads up. There's less than a month until SPERGIN4, so I don't want to make any more changes to the pack. I'd consider the chart's lateness part of the challenge. Smiley
 
Suko
Read July 14, 2014, 07:23:14 PM #94

I think it would be worth reminding people that I do not have foam modded pads on my machine. It's more or less stock.  That said, I make sure that they work well and they are responsive. Just don't expect to be able to shuffle shuffle revolution your way through a  chart with super flush pads.
 
NSX
Read July 15, 2014, 08:18:33 AM #95

I think it would be worth reminding people that I do not have foam modded pads on my machine. It's more or less stock.  That said, I make sure that they work well and they are responsive. Just don't expect to be able to shuffle shuffle revolution your way through a  chart with super flush pads.
Sucks I won't be there to witness the calamity of people playing on stock pads. Everyone is so used to playing on modded pads that I'm not sure how players will handle higher end difficult charts. I'm sure everyone will have their share of laughs throughout the tournament. Good luck everyone!
 
Suko
Read July 15, 2014, 04:54:30 PM #96

Yeah. And we all need to remember it's just a silly happy-go-lucky tournament. No need to get pushy or angsty about this stuff.

I am wondering how many will be there. I know a lot of people submitted charts, but I think many are out of town for some reason. At least you won't be taking the victory this year Tuan!

Also, I hate Laura's chart. I was enjoying it, thinking it was a genuine 7, then the quad stomps came...and they didn't stop.

Also, ROFL at The Devil in the Kitchen. I love the "?" near the beginning Kevin. Very (horribly) well done.
 
Tyrgannus.
Read July 15, 2014, 07:06:36 PM #97

*walks in with a cain and puts in his dentures*

Back in my day, we played the NEW DDR Extremes that had so many pad misses that you were a god amongst men if you could single A Max 300. Used to modded pads...new-fangled...whippersnappers...ZZZzzzzzZzzzz
 
Dr.Z
Read July 15, 2014, 09:46:01 PM #98

Yeah. And we all need to remember it's just a silly happy-go-lucky tournament. No need to get pushy or angsty about this stuff.

That's typically my number 1 priority~  Wink
..hence the designated name for the upcoming no-bar Pump tourny http://www.pnwbemani.net/events-meetups/%28tournament%29-easy-go-lucky-piupro2-june/
 
OrangeChicken
Read July 16, 2014, 12:23:42 PM #99

Hello guys, I'm back from my summer trip, and I'm ready for SPERGIN4.

Only on major issue: I don't have transportation to Suko's place .-.

Would anyone be willing to take me with, to SPERGIN4?
 
Keby
Read July 18, 2014, 10:45:51 AM #100

Everyone is so used to playing on modded pads that I'm not sure how players will handle higher end difficult charts.

They'll learn to move Wink
 
 
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