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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Started by Ralph Mar 8, 2013, 01:20 PM 370 posts Page 19 of 19 View original ↗

Ulrika

#361 Jun 13, 2013, 05:08 PM Source

Ralph said:
I don't understand. (╯◕_◕)╯
Trust me, no one wants you to understand. It's better that way.

Anyhow, next time those ~~smucks~~contestants give you any trouble - ANY trouble - just report back to me. I'll deal with 'em.
Ralph

#362 Jun 13, 2013, 05:14 PM Source

But you might scare them off!

I mean, erm, I'll try to handle them much better. It's like what you said, I have to grow a backbone, yeah!
Ulrika

#363 Jun 13, 2013, 05:16 PM Source

Isn't scaring them the point? The only way to get them to do as they're told, is to intimidate them! Which is why yes, you should grow a backbone, utter an insult every once in a while, it might do you some good. Give them your most evil smirk you can muster!
Ralph

#364 Jun 13, 2013, 05:17 PM Source

But wouldn't that make me evil?

I'm supposed to be a hero!
Ulrika

#365 Jun 13, 2013, 05:25 PM Source

No, but it would make you a modern day hero. Modern day heroes have flaws nowadays, don't you know? It's all the rage, otherwise you're just one-dimensional, can you believe that? They're not entirely "good" anymore, they have bits of "evil" inside of them as well. So embrace it, let out the evil within! Kick some puppies!
Ulrika

#366 Jun 13, 2013, 05:26 PM Source

On second thought, leave the puppies alone, and kick the contestants that dropped out of this contest.
Ralph

#367 Jun 13, 2013, 06:03 PM Source

So that's a modern day hero, huh...?

I'm sorry but I can't do that...
Ulrika

#368 Jun 13, 2013, 06:04 PM Source

Well, what's it going to be Ralph - are you a hero, or are you a wimp? Stand up straight; it's good to be bad every once in a while!
Ralph

#369 Jun 13, 2013, 06:15 PM Source

I'll think about it.
ct_bolt

#370 Jun 14, 2013, 01:49 AM Source

☝ AHAHAHAHAHAHA! ☝

Oh I how I loves you Ralph! BD

You're Awesome! Don't ever change. **Hugs**

Oh and..
PS. Thanks for running this contest, it was fun! We now have established some very talented pixel artists.