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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Touchfuzzy

#321 Apr 25, 2013, 07:59 PM Source

VOTING IS UP. Sorry for the delays! The rest of the rounds should go much more smoothly.
Archeia

#322 Apr 29, 2013, 07:48 PM Source

The brackets are now updated and theme can be found here.
Ralph

#323 Apr 30, 2013, 12:25 PM Source

Round 2 Voting was supposed to start today! But we are sorely lacking in entries from our competitors. We will never defeat the evil overlord at this rate!

(Hey Guys, try to get your entries in by tonight please)
Andinator

#324 Apr 30, 2013, 02:06 PM Source

W

Ralph said:
Round 2 Voting was supposed to start today! But we are sorely lacking in entries from our competitors. We will never defeat the evil overlord at this rate!(Hey Guys, try to get your entries in by tonight please)
Wait wha? But i thought the theme was just updated yesterday. And with the voting delay i thought we had more time...Can I get some more time please?
Archeia

#325 Apr 30, 2013, 02:31 PM Source

The theme was actually announced a while back I believe.

But yeah we definitely need to change the calendar :"D
ct_bolt

#326 Apr 30, 2013, 04:09 PM Source

Andinator said:
W Wait wha? But i thought the theme was just updated yesterday. And with the voting delay i thought we had more time...

Can I get some more time please?
I'm with you. I need a bit more time please.

I will try my hardest to get something in by midnight tonight, but I've been feeling sick for the past couple days, I have a fever right now. Still we must defeat the evil overlord with our pixel madness. ;)
Touchfuzzy

#327 Apr 30, 2013, 08:21 PM Source

I think we can give another day, Wednesday at the end of the day at the LATEST. I don't want to see any forfeits, but I also don't want to see people who got done early to feel like they worked hard for nothing.
Andinator

#328 May 1, 2013, 11:58 PM Source

Whew. Really had to cram but I got my submission :p
Jayshr

#329 May 2, 2013, 04:30 AM Source

I hope everyone was able to get their entries in!
ct_bolt

#330 May 2, 2013, 05:43 AM Source

MotleyXO said:
I hope everyone was able to get their entries in!
It was a bit of a tight squeeze on time but I managed to submit something. :rock-left: :) :rock-right:

Edit:

ok... umm... about 3 days later... what seems to be the hold up? :unsure:
ct_bolt

#331 May 6, 2013, 05:10 PM Source

I didn't want to bump (the above edit didn't seem to get noticed) this thread but Celianna said to use this instead of posting a separate thread...

ct_bolt said:
Umm... so what is the hold up with Pixel Madness. I sent my submission May 01, 2013 - 11:02 PM, now it is May 06, 2013 - 10:40 AM

I thought that the voting was supposed to be up by now at least; I did notice that Ralph hasn't even read the message yet though. Is everything ok?
Touchfuzzy

#332 May 6, 2013, 07:44 PM Source

Everything is OK in the sense that its not dead.

I just had an attack of real life right after I put a delay to let more people finish. I plan to get the voting up today. Sorry about the delays. (and I'll give at least a week for completing the final round for the last three.).
ct_bolt

#333 May 6, 2013, 08:04 PM Source

Touchfuzzy said:
Everything is OK in the sense that its not dead.

I plan to get the voting up today. Sorry about the delays. (and I'll give at least a week for completing the final round for the last three.).
Ok, Awesome! BD Thank you so much for replying.

Touchfuzzy said:
I just had an attack of real life right after I put a delay to let more people finish.
Very sorry to hear that you're havin' some real life troubles. Hope all is well now. :)
Touchfuzzy

#334 May 6, 2013, 08:55 PM Source

Ha, not as many troubles as just lots of time consuming things happening all at once. And Archeia was pretty busy as well so I didn't want to poke her to put the polls up.
Animus

#335 May 6, 2013, 08:56 PM Source

Poking her would hurt anyway with that huge beak of yours.

It's good to know that the next batch of sprites will be out soon though, it's exciting to see.
Ralph

#336 May 6, 2013, 09:20 PM Source

NEW THEME ANNOUNCED, (YOUR SATURDAY MORNING HERO)

NEW POLLS UP!

GO VOTE!

Sorry for the delays. I overslept... my plucky romantic interest had to kick me out of bed.
Jayshr

#337 May 19, 2013, 03:19 PM Source

Did the plucky romantic interest get kidnapped?! Lol, just kidding. XD
Touchfuzzy

#338 May 19, 2013, 04:48 PM Source

My god, I have kind of failed at running this contest! Sorry about that guys. I have some stuff to get done today, but I'll have everything fixed up tomorrow so that we can carry on.
Ralph

#339 May 27, 2013, 04:35 PM Source

To all my fellow heroes and the artists,

I have suffered from an extreme case of Dimension Rift. The Evil Overlord's influence has stretched far and wide, making it extremely hard for me to get back on track. I managed to meet a Fairy to get me back on my feet to see the finale of this event!

The Theme and Brackets are updated. A three-way showdown is in progress. I would like to personally thank everyone who sticked with me this far. This is the final stage of an arduous journey. Let's see it come down to an awesomely, epic end!

The New Deadline for the entries is on June 8, 2013, Midnight EST.

The Voting will happen on June 9 - June 11, 2013.

The Announcement of the Winner and distributions of badges will be on June 12.

Once again, thank you to everyone for being patient with me and voted to make this event a success so far. I'm very grateful to you guys.
Touchfuzzy

#340 May 27, 2013, 06:05 PM Source

Thanks Ralph! ;_;