Pixel Madness 2013

Ralph · 2013-03-08T22:20:47+0900

Welcome to RPG Maker Web's first single elimination spriting tournament. Sixteen spriters enter, one spriter leaves the winner. The rest take a walk. But how do you become one of the sixteen? Create a single, never before seen sprite in the VX/Ace style. The VX/Ace style is important, as the tournament is judged by blind voting, so all sprites must be in the same style. Once your sprite is complete, PM it to me (Ralph), our forum Event Boss. All qualifying sprites will be put up without names with a poll allowing the forum users to rate each sprite from 1 to 5. The sixteen sprites with the best average rating will move on to the tournament. IMPORTANT: Qualifying has been extended! Full Schedule will be adjusted based on when we start. ENTER THOSE SPRITES GUYS! Each round will begin with a theme being announced. Once the theme for that round is announced, you will have four days (from the beginning of Friday to the end of Monday) to create a single sprite in VX/Ace style for that theme. On Tuesday, each sprite will be put head to head against another sprite based on the brackets. Blind polls will be put up allowing the forum users to vote for one of the two sprites. The sprite with the most votes by the end of Thursday of that week will go on to the next round. The other sprite goes home. The last spriter standing at the end of the final round is the winner! 1. You have until Midnight at the end of each Monday (GMT-5) to turn in your sprite. If you do not meet this deadline, you forfeit that round. 2. You may not tell anyone else which sprite is yours. All voting must be done blind. If for some reason you inform someone else which sprite is yours, PM Ralph with the name of the user and they will not be allowed to vote. Anyone found cheating the blind voting will be disqualified. 3. Anyone participating in the tournament is not allowed to vote in the tournament. Don't have any skill at spriting? Don't worry, there is still something for you to do in this contest. Its time to test out your prognostication skills. So look in that crystal ball and try to pick the winners of each matchup every round. Once the 16 participants are determined, you can fill out a bracket. In order to do this, you will fill in a fillable pdf form with the full bracket. You will need to fill out the full bracket with all of your predictions by the end of April 22nd. You will get points for each correct prediction you make as follows: Round 1: 1 Points Round 2: 2 Points Champion: 5 Points You can download your Bracket Entry Form here: BracketEntryForm.pdf Alternate Download Link You can find the themes and the brackets over here! At the end of the tournament the user with the highest point total wins! Spoiler Friday, April 12th: Last Day to Vote on Qualifying Sprites. Saturday, April 13th: Announcement of the Brackets Saturday, April 13th-Monday April 22nd: Bracket Entry Tuesday, April 16th: Announcement of Round 1 Theme Tuesday, April 16th-Monday, April 22nd: Round 1 Creation. Tuesday, April 23rd-Thursday, April 25th: Round 1 Voting Friday, April 26th: Announcement of Round 1 Winners/Updating of Point totals for bracket competition. Tuesday, April 23rd:Announcement of Round 2 Theme Tuesday, April 23rd-Monday, April 29th: Round 2 Creation. Tuesday, April 30th-Thursday, May 2nd: Round 2 Voting Friday, May 3rd: Announcement of Round 2 Winners/Updating of Point totals for bracket competition. Tuesday, April 30th: Announcement of Finals Theme Tuesday, April 30th-Monday, May 6th: Finals Creation. Tuesday May 7th-Thursday, May 9th: Finals Voting Friday, May 10th: Announcement of Contest Winner/Announcement of Bracket Winner Spoiler Champion: Any item from the forum store (includes VXAce or Member+) 2nd Place: 3 Months Member+ or an item from the store under $20 Participants: A participation achievement badge Credits to Ocean's Dream for the Banner Background. Credits to Conveito for doing my Alex request and the free avatars. Attachments BracketEntryForm.pdf 319 bytes · Views: 18

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Archeia

#221 Apr 4, 2013, 12:51 AM Source

Just send it to Ralph~ And you can make a new one if you so wish.
Jawnsunn

#222 Apr 4, 2013, 02:30 AM Source

I hope there's a spot saved for me.

Definitely want to get in on this and ~~compete~~ destroy the court.
EvilEagles

#223 Apr 4, 2013, 02:33 AM Source

Do your best, Jawnsunn! I'm rooting for you.
T.Bit

#224 Apr 4, 2013, 03:05 AM Source

I'm so glad this is back on!
Looker10

#225 Apr 4, 2013, 07:45 AM Source

I hope I'm not to late, I actually spent a bit of time on this one, instead of half-assing it like last time.
Archeia

#226 Apr 4, 2013, 09:39 AM Source

Alright everyone, we have received 11 pms from people who stated their entry's sources (and a couple of new ones). Four people haven't pm'd Ralph yet where they franken'd their entries. Please PM him so we can reboot!

You can also change your entry.
monkeynohito

#227 Apr 4, 2013, 03:54 PM Source

I'm glad this is back on with consideration for Frankensprites. I really don't have a problem with them as long as the sources are legit and it's a clever remix.
Jayshr

#228 Apr 4, 2013, 04:45 PM Source

Whoo! :D I can't wait! Oddly enough I'm even more excited than I was before *_*
Celianna

#229 Apr 4, 2013, 06:47 PM Source

monkeynohito said:
I'm glad this is back on with consideration for Frankensprites.
Completely agree. If we got someone to begin spriting because they started to franken for this contest, then all the better! There's no better way to start learning than to pull something apart and stick it back up :)

Hope everyone has fun with this.
BILL_NYE_THO

#230 Apr 4, 2013, 07:19 PM Source

Celianna said:
Completely agree. If we got someone to begin spriting because they started to franken for this contest, then all the better! There's no better way to start learning than to pull something apart and stick it back up :)

Hope everyone has fun with this.
For the record, I completely agree. Very excited to see what happens with the contest! :D
themo

#231 Apr 4, 2013, 09:28 PM Source

I didn't half-ass it this time since everybody got so super serious lol
Archeia

#232 Apr 5, 2013, 12:29 AM Source

I was told that we can have more than 16 entries since the last PMM has over 23. So if anyone else wants to join in, please do so~
Espon

#233 Apr 5, 2013, 01:00 AM Source

I would assume it could have any number of entries, it's just that the top 16 will go into the actual tournament.... unless there's more than 32 which you can then add an extra bracket.
Archeia

#234 Apr 5, 2013, 01:17 AM Source

You've got that right~
ct_bolt

#235 Apr 6, 2013, 04:06 AM Source

So.... umm... how many left until we get this started again? :unsure:
Archeia

#236 Apr 6, 2013, 10:23 PM Source

Yesterday was the last submission thing. Touch has to fix the dates...again.
Touchfuzzy

#237 Apr 6, 2013, 10:55 PM Source

woo, date fixing. I'll get on it lonight sometime.

Will update again when I have deadlines fixed.
Celianna

#238 Apr 7, 2013, 03:41 PM Source

And the voting forum is up again, everyone please go vote :)
dw817

#239 Apr 7, 2013, 03:54 PM Source

Celianna said:
And the voting forum is up again, everyone please go vote :)
Where is that ?

Went HERE: http://forums.rpgmakerweb.com/

Did a keyword search for voting, nothing came up ? Still finding my way around here.
Celianna

#240 Apr 7, 2013, 03:55 PM Source

Here.