The Wipeout HD Cup

[kanar]

This event is dedicated to Marcus.

[UB3R~JKP]

I'd like to pull out of the event plz kanar, i'm sorry but I dunno if I can play wipeout again.

[kanar]

UB3R, lots of us can't easily find sleep tonight. I can understand the reasons you want to pull out. Didn't turn the ps3 on myself. Was horrible, an horrendous feeling to pull his name out of the line up, first post. We're on WipeoutZone here, we always see & consider the human being first right behind the avatar. A real social community. We're somewhat caring for each other. So lots of us feel kinda devastated atm. But I think it's a definitive reason to all race together in his honour. He would have loved that.

[Dark_Phantom_89]

We have to do the cup for Marcus. I think that it would be the most respectable thing to do.

I haven't been on the PS3 today and I don't know how I'll feel when I hover over his name on my friends list...

[emwu23]

Kanar!

Dear mate I dont know what to say.I havent been here for a long time and i was just trying to go sleep and decided to visit the site and WOW.
Im tired im not able to write more ,all the time at work.Just please put my name in that crazy event.

Cheers

[OBH]

I keep writing and re-writing my message I want to post. Just all seems so trivial.....

I think though, If I can ill still compete. I would much rather dedicate this to my friend than to pull out of it.

[mic-dk]

Indeed, this is all the more reason to have this cup succeed. I say this is all the more reason to keep WO alive - it's through WO we've all met and made friends.

Let's keep flying high!

[stin]

UB3R~JKP, Just play for him!

Yes, we had a hard time sleeping overnight, yes me too!! but I`m doing it for him!!!

Without this WipeoutZone, I would have never met asa and the rest of the zoners!!!!

stevie:)

[DreamyElf]

i agree with all of you.
this must be dedicated in the memory of Marcus.
its the least we can do to honour him first as a friend and then as a wipeout pilot.
we all feel sad.
just remember: what doesn't kill you, makes you stronger.

sorry if this was an off-topic post.

[UB3R~JKP]

The Marcus Memorial Cup...I'm sorry for that post last night, thank you guys, seriously I love this community like a family, cheers for the motivation



Wipers, let's go out there and kick some ****ing ass

[Kyonshi]

He was a true friend in Speed. It is undeniable that we must do this event in his honor.

I'm proud to be part of this event and this community. From where he is, flying high, he will be very happy that we keep racing. :)

[JaLK]

Count me in. Though I might not be able to make it far considering the pedigree of the people on this forum, it'll still be a blast.

[carlos69nash]

Im in.

[stinkleroy]

You know, I have been rather selfish in my participation (or non-participation) of these events. I am not the player I used to be...online annoys me..blah blah blah.

I now realise that and wish to participate in this community once more, the community that has given me so much and that I have gained true friends from.

Sign me up. For Marcus, I will race in his honour.

[MetaKraken]

In all my months of being a true Wipeout fan (I have also made Wipeout teams from different racing games, like MNRacers and MC:LA due to their vinyl editor feature), with all my heart, I'm in. For Marcus (even though i haven't interacted with him).

[alterego]

Hi All.

Totally agree with the Kanar's decision!

This hd cup is for Marcus.

...and This cup will be done for Marcus and in the name of friendship that binds strongly all the members of this community.

A community where the members are, first that the avatars, real people.

Is at times like this that we must remember that we are here in the name of friendship.

Let's be friends togheter and for Marcus!

CdRom

[MiguelX69]

Someone called me? I received a massage on this trough PSN some time ago. I am sorry for being out of the forum for some time now, but I'm back! :D

[kanar]

Thanks for your nice words here guys, and a warm welcome to the newcomers. Marcus Jannes memorial cup... Obviously. I found myself zoning on Syncopia all yesterday's afternoon. I'm not even able to reach half of his performance... Jeez he would have kicked some asses on this cup for sure........ .

I've never seen such a beautiful sunshine as yesterday. Really wished it was you Luri, flying high in the sky.


Cat thank you so much for joining us.


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[Medusa]

Kanar, I'd like to sign up for this if there's still slots left. Thank you for organizing such a grand event. I doubt I'll keep up many (any?) of you on the track, but at the least, I'll keep up with you all in spirit.

[kanar]

That's awesome Medusa, really happy you're joining us. Oh and you know I just launched a discussion, and I was quickly joined by such a professional team at the command center, so it's a collective project right from the start. Speakin of professionals, some of us had the privilege to watch the new teaser from JJPAP...


Stay tuned for the upcoming link here. Warming up twitter & Facebook lol.

[JJPAP]

WipEout HD Cup (Friends in Speed)

PS3 (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=0J8V29TS) (164mb) | PSP (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=DMTS45BM) (19mb) | PC/Mac (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=Z5DECUAH) (86mb) | YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9iuoajx8tE)

Oops, the PS3-file will be up a little later ... Not enough room on my server, I´m told :eek
Oops again, seems to be something wrong w/ the PSP-file ... Will be up later ...

Sorry ´bout the big video-files, but ... Q u a l i t y :|
If you mind, you can alway watch it on YouTube :)

Again big thanks to Novide for all the logos and animations! :rock :+
And to XpanDrome (long time, no see) for the music and reminding us, why we´re here at The Zone! :rock :+
And the rest of the Command Center Crew! :rock :+ You´re inputs are really great - I don´t always have the time to make changes - (takes an awful lot of time, but is very fun at the same time!) - but I carry these inputs with me, when starting the next project :D

2 BIG probs making this video:
1. When Panda is in the studio, reporting LIVE, a lot of "button-Seekers" will stop, investigating if he has a hidden button somewhere, thereby destroying the recordings ... He had to shout at quite a lot of unknown people! :lol
2. Recording the Internal View BR´s, when not normally wiping w/ Internal View! :eek A lot of re-takes! :lol

Well, enjoy!

[gordo1974]

Insanely good.
Damn man that is sweet

[Jav]

Great work man :D

[mic-dk]

Indeed, that's a awesome video! Soundtrack's great!

Will there be a clipshow/outtakes with Panda on the DVD? :lol

[kanar]

that's outstanding JJPAP. Looks sooo professional. Could be definitely added in the playstation Store 8).

[guillaume]

Excellent! :g
And thank you for the internal view, I missed that in the two previous trailers!

[kanar]

there's a grand total of 4 teasers guillaume now :g

[guillaume]

Indeed!
And three of them lacked internal view. :p

[kanar]

that's true Guillaume, if only asa could buy some hd equipment eh eh. Internal view is so sexy, and tbh JJPAP's teaser is really impressive regarding the overall quality of the ingame footage. Jeez massive thanks for these incredible 3:20 mn in world of wipeout JJ!!!

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[Golgofier]

Daaaaamn PAP! Those are some seriously cool looking vids, mate 8)

And yes! I'll gladly join!
GGs to all involved in organizing this :beer

[stin]

Certainly alot of work there but just phenomenal stuff!! added to my HDD! ;)

stevie:)

[OBH]

VERY COOL VIDEO :beer

padman's a bad man! :g

[leungbok]

You rock JJ !! :rock

[stin]

JJPAP!, how long does it take that video to make?, must be alot of hours for that!

stevie:blarg

[Pure2097]

So I'm pulling out of the cup.

I have no desire to race in an event that has been turned into a memorial for someone I don't know and didn't care about. That's not right. A memorial should be only attended by those who care no?

[JJPAP]

Stevie - and the rest of you as well!: Thanks for the nice replies :)

Hours? ... Hrhhhmmm (calculating) ... a lot! :D
But mainly because of collecting/recording the footage. Imagine: Everything is going well at the WHDC Command Center (formerly known as the WO Museum!), then suddenly someone unknown virtual guy/girl enters your personal space, your live-recording(!), pointing his/her finger at you, wanting to talk homish, believing your a button to be pushed to get his/her WO Museum (now the WHDC Command center!) Trophy ... A Panda-head ... :D
And a lot of technical - not virtual human - issues, which took a lot of time, unexpected: When ever there´s an explosion or something "wild" going on in WO, you´ll (mostly) see (in slow-mo, not real time) a single jagged line "crawling" down the screen. Those I had to get rid of aka watching every "nicked" footage/(and my own) frame by frame ... Extremely boring! But to me: Necesary.
This weekend I´d collected and recorded a lot of footage, ready to start editing - the fun part. But then monday ... What can I say? Totally Numb.
After the initial shock I got into a working frenzy, maybe 14-16 hours in 2 days. Sending the link to a few members of the Command Center-crew last night.
This morning I found out that there was a sound- and video-"crack" in the middle of the vid ... A lot of work to be re-done ... again ...
But but but, don´t get me wrong! It´s really fun to do - otherwise I wouldn´t hesitate to do something else, like watching The News, The Cosby Show, Sex & The City ... or having a nice glass of reeed, awaiting to be among good friends tomorrow night :lol

[sgt_getfked]

Hi i'm interested in joining the Hd wipe out cup.
Could you please add me to the list for the competition. Many thanks Chris

[kanar]

welcome to the cup mate, could you please give me your psn ID for the first post?

[sgt_getfked]

Hi mate my psn id is : sgt_getfked thanks mate

[Dark_Phantom_89]

JJPAP - That teaser is absolutely fantastic, great job! I loved the panda-man dancing and the various slow-mo shots! :rock

[Nutcase:259]

Do i detect some tilt-shift selective focus effects * gets excited by the thought of tilt-shifting :hyper :hyper :hyper *

awsome vids! XD

[Aeroracer]

This event is dedicated to Marcus.

sorry to be ignorant but who is Marcus and why is the world cup dedicated to him.i dont understand..

thanku :)

[Medusa]

Go to this thread Jasmin:
http://wipeoutzone.com/forum/showthread.php?t=7746

[Aeroracer]

thx medusa..

i just seen the news..its really awful..and sad..i just take for granted that people here are here forever and nothing like that will ever happen..

so sad.he is in my thoughts.

its good to dedicate this cup like its has been.

[JJPAP]

Do i detect some tilt-shift selective focus effects

You do indeed, sir! :D

[Nutcase:259]

today was a **** day, but reminding me of that technique just made smile :g

[JJPAP]

Have updated the post w/ the links to the vids.
Now they contain downloadable files for PS3, PSP and PC/Mac.
Had to set up a Megaupload-account, ´cause my own web site-provider is not too fond of me atm :lol
This also means that links given earlier won´t work anymore, but: No dead links, the previous posts are all updated

[kanar]

downloading the ps3 version right now my dear JJPAP! once again, awesome stuff there. You fkin deserve your title of content distributor. I'm so in love with you :P.

Ok I got a nice pm from a dear friend in speed; ladies & gentleman "Mr rocketeer" is IN!!! chaos80!!! :rock:rock

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[JJPAP]

I´m so freaking happy that Chaos, the founder of Team Nordic, has enrolled :hyper
But please don´t let me draw this guy in the 1st Round, because ... Well, Chaos is Chaos!!! :rock

[slow-train]

hi kanar,id like to sign up,my psn is slow-train! ; )-'

[kanar]

Welcome there slow-train! And a warm welcome to DJTechno & trinity17 (you probably burned the matrix with her mate uh?) too!

[Challenger #001]

Kanar, good news. ;3 P_Denton wants in.

[Jav]

Sweeet :D

[Woopzilla]

I've been away a long time recently and suppose I should take part. This is all still in preparation, right?

So, if you're still accepting, please sign me up. ^^

[kanar]

Woop Woop!:rock Welcome to the cup mate, really glad you're taking part! All details, rules, infos first post of this thread btw. Around 50 slots left, beginning mid-december! WooooW. the line up is definitely

LEGENDARY:mr-t

[R3BU5ER]

You are right Kanar! Looking awesome Already :) But I've got the feeling we're Still missing some japanese and German pilots....What's up with that!? :brickwall

[kanar]

We're missing a LOT of Japanese pilots yes, & Aka-sho is doing lots of efforts to recruit them, like here : http://plaza.rakuten.co.jp/wipeout2/... And a LOT of pilots who simply stopped playing or giving news here. I'm acting as a lobbyist for a while now, keep saying "biggest wipeout event ever" "Fairest way to compete" "No lag, no framerate stuttering (at least really less)" "racing for unity", or "in the name of our common memories"... Now I think everyone around is aware there's a big cup coming in the next months, & we can't force anyone to join lol.

Ok time to make a little progress report btw;

-We need to boost the registrations as there's still around 60/70 slots left (counting the very useful waiting list). December is coming quickly, and we'll need time for completing the registration process (mails, drawing lots, tournament boards...). I'll make a last wiper psn IDs spam this week, then we'll have to go "public", trying to contact the official sony boards from all over the globe. We have high quality teasers & pics, and an awesome line up already, I'm sure we could get the last pilots we need this way. As I said, I tried to privilegiate the pilots from this place & from wipeoutArena, but I think we reached the zone limit here lol.

-I've no news from Connavar or anyone else regarding a dedicated webpage for the cup. Tbh, this is not a big deal as we have the zone, and I'm sure we'll find a way to highlight the reports & the important news from here. So if nothing happens, I've my own ideas anyway :P.

-There will be a 64 seeded player list, & Blackwiggle will draw the lots as soon as the 256 will be known (he found a very nice tournament board generator).

-8 Cup community managers will be in charge of group of 32 pilots for round 1 (number of cup managers will be decreased to 4 for round 2). Here's the list of your new friends :P:

Kanar, JJPAP, KGB, Jasmin, Blackwiggle, challenger001, triboy, R3BU5ER

You'll have to report anything (results, complaints...) to your designated cup manager.

-An "Official" wipeout HD cup Tee-shirt will be available in the next few months, nutcase is working on the design and should see with Rob what can be done with Cafepress. We're also working on a custom/limited serie t-shirt only available as a prize, as nutcase found a crazy website where you can do whatever you want regarding print zones.

-I'm thinking about a trophy set too, as I've already the design in mind (mmm panda trophy with "wipeout HD world champ" written on it ah ah...)

So here we are now. We're on the brink of making a fantastic event all together, but there's still a lot of work to do. And one last thing.

Just look at Counter Strike or Trackmania. At least I know these two. There's a rock solid online community for both of them, and these games are available for ages now. So don't tell me we're unable to do the same, & offer an incredible challenge to the wipeout community. Jeez this is the hardest & the best game ever after all!:rock

[il_NIK]

I'm up with you, mates!!!!

warming up and training hard again

[kanar]

Awesome il_Nik, you just gave me a lil' smile on my face; really good to see the old guard mobilizing. Like in the "300" movie ah ah. We must stop that christmas invasion of crappy game releases lol

Oh btw important info ;

CUT OFF DATE FOR ENTRY IS DEC 17th 24.00 GMT
Official starting date for round 1 will be December 20 (then 3 weeks to play your meeting; deadline scheduled to Jan. 9, 23:59 GMT)

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[blackwiggle]

CUT OFF DATE FOR ENTRY IS DEC 17th 24.00 GMT

[piranha2097]

I'm up for it. PSN id: tomcatziggy

[kanar]

Welcome piranha2097, eh eh we just exchanged some psn pms & you're already here, superb!

[OBH]

I've just been looking at the long, long list of prestigious names that will be competing in this and wondering; how on earth could i ever pick a favourite for this? :)

Annoying, due to his ridiculous consistency... only one name crops up in my head... :beer

[kanar]

I think the Uni will give him some sort of handicap lol. Speakin of this prestigious list, please Saturn or Rob or Xeik or Lance, could you guys help me to sort the code I'm trying to put on my first post? It's been 3 hours I'm trying to sort this out, & my laptop is going out of battery lol

[yeldar2097]

Ears - burning :P


I know who my favourites are. Maybe we should whack out some odds on people and do some betting :banzai

[SaturnReturn]

@kanar - I've sorted the list according to the number order now (in Excel, not pasted in yet). What else did you want? Just bold black text?

[kanar]

grrrr I'm so dumb. Just wanted to add Vartazian on the list & I completely messed up with the code. Thanks a lot Saturn, and sorry I ruined your work there gah. If you have some time could you explain this stuff to me by pm?

[mic-dk]

Is that our startnumbers? I remember when I was roadracing, everyone wanted the same digit numbers, because then you'd only have to buy one pack of stickers. I like 111.

1-1-1 The Number of the Fail

:D

(no odds are given)

[kanar]

ah ah no mik, it's not your definitive startnumber, as we still have to implement the ranked seeded player list (64 pilots, protected by blackwiggle magic randomizer tournament board maker)

[UB3R~JKP]

095
I likes it :P


What's the purpose of the numbers Kanar mate?

[kanar]

lol, 1 to 64 will be the seeded player list (to be sorted as soon as we'll have a complete list). Then all the numbers will be added in the program Blackwiggle found, some sort of tournament board maker/randomizer. Seeded players will be placed in the board the same way as on the avalon cup, and we should not see any clash of the titans before round 3 this time.

So the number you guys have actually is not definitive. But when it will be sorted, yes we could see that as some sort of ID number/startnumber/lucky number lol

[Ace3cube]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rMSDGfTCII

The Broth3rs productions bring to you that video. Big big work from Fyue3
Hope you like it.

[stin]

That video are brilliant and the rest of the videos are also awesome!!!

stevie:nod:+

[kanar]

:rock:rock:rock:rock:robot:robot:robot:robot:dizzy :dizzy:dizzy:eek:eek twitter & facebook ready to launch there : incoming KICK ASS TEASER!!!! you guys fkin rock!!! This one seriously gave me shivers! arh need to see it one more time lol. Oh I read "28 races" btw, what does it mean?
Anyway fantastic teaser, almost flawless!!!
What a feeling to see you guys working all together on a common project. Feeling good to see this synergy between all of us.

You guys just gave my smile back, after a fkin disapointment I got this afternoon with a wz member. After I advertised Sengoku81 with the cup yesterday, he came back with an insulting pm, just because I sent him a pm about the cup. Seriously, why entering your psn ID in your profile if you don't want to play with the guys here. He even reported my pm as a spam lol. I reported him too, as I don't like to be treated of f a g, m u g and so on.

[mic-dk]

That's some great 1v1 action, Ace! Bloody great job :+

[R3BU5ER]

Another hell of Ã* teaser!! Brilliant! :)

[JJPAP]

Super guys! :rock
Just got back from a short vacation and all is sweet :D

[R3BU5ER]

Forgot to give you the probs for your panda teaser JJPAP! Great job! :)

[Ace3cube]

Well 24 for single race and you add 4 zone o.O no ? lol

[Colonel]

Ace3cube - Just watched your video with the headphones on and it gave me goosebumps all down my back, it's epic. Well done.

[kanar]

aaah just got it, 28 races for 28 tracks, including zone tracks. And YEAH! it's a fkin epic teaser there, once again I could say. Jeeez, I've no words to thank you all at the command center for all these hours spent on your laptops to produce logos, animated logos, wallpaper, teaser footages, or just offering your help/thoughts. World of Wipeout is fkin alive, thanks to all of you guys.



EDIT :

keep watchin your teaser again & again ace3 & Fyue, JEEZ I'M HYPED for my meeting against ONlock now lol. Speed Lap training on the way!

[blackwiggle]

Sony Playstation forum Aus/NZ site has just got a Wipeout HD WC invite thread put up[ just before the site went down for maintenance, the Typical Sony/Wipeout curse again :rolleyes::brickwall:lol ]

http://community.eu.playstation.com/t5/Community-Events-Join-us-online/WIPEOUT-HD-CUP-Starting-DEC-20th/td-p/11715185

[gordo1974]

Another magic teaser. Well done...truely WipEout is great.

I love the bit when the assegai gets his ass kicked whilst BR showboating on Met Rev. :twisted

Mainly 'cus I can't do that BR very well!

By the way, towards the end it says
"become a legend"
Shouldn't that read
"get your ass kicked by a Legend" :redface:

[stunsty99]

Responding to the PM sent to me by kanar over PSN...

Ill signup for sure! Glad to be apart of this event.

See you all there :twisted

[yeldar2097]

Has the code thingy at the start got anything to do with potential matchups or is it just doubled-up so it doesn't get WAAAY long?

[kanar]

Welcome there stunsty99, and thank you for not interpreting my psn pm as a spam lol, as my new zoner friend Sengoku81 did, insulting & reporting me to Sony. Hopefully the BIG majority of the zoners are not fkin internet weirdos.

Yeldar the code is just here to make a proper view of the contenders, and I'm completely messing with it each time I'm editing it lol. We'll draw lots mid november/early days of december, and I still need to make a 64 seeded player list, protected for round 1 at least.

[stunsty99]

Welcome there stunsty99, and thank you for not interpreting my psn pm as a spam lol, as my new zoner friend Sengoku81 did, insulting & reporting me to Sony. Hopefully the BIG majority of the zoners are not fkin internet weirdos.


Haha! Yeah I knew it wasn't a spam message becuase it didn't contain anything along the lines of "Send this message to at least 20 friends".

Although I was a bit in disbelief at first... but I'm glad to be here.

Just got to practice now a whole lot more :D honestly haven't played for ages due to YR 12 final exams :(

[kanar]

Everything's cool with Sengoku81 btw, he thought I was a psn chain but realised I was legit today. cheers mate, and sorry for the rant against you here, I was really pissed off by your reaction as I'm actually spending AGES to organise this stuff.

[SenGoku81]

No worries man, sorry for raging like a complete arsehole. I'm flattered to have been considered for the contest though :redface:

[SenGoku81]

Hopefully the BIG majority of the zoners are not fkin internet weirdos.



I resemble that remark :)

[kanar]

ah ah of course you're not of that kind, as you quickly realised I was legit. As I said I'm spending more time than I should on this crazy project, so this little incident made me over-react myself too. Hopefully we're cool now, and yeah wipeoutZone is definitely the place of the good guys.

[SenGoku81]

Hopefully we're cool now, and yeah wipeoutZone is definitely the place of the good guys.



Mate, no worries. You've nothing to be sorry for. You wern't the one being a a smeg head ^^

[kanar]

a very special thank to SpaceboyG for joining, as I said you by pm mate, really good to see the old guard mobilized on this one. This event is what I dreamed of, wanted to reunite the entire zone & "the crazy acrobats of wipeoutArena" :P at least one time in the wipeout history. During a week-end of tournament there's always guys away, busy with their real life. With this format, everyone can be involved, as the competition is based on 1vs1 confrontations, with a large delay to play your meeting. And contrary to our previous phantom-only events, this time you're choosing your own settings (well except the eliminator mode lol). Arrrh. Such a great story so far. And can't wait for the massive playstation Home party early december, when we'll reveal the boards :rock after drawing the lots.

Oh btw Dardrium, I thought about the names of the different parts of the huge board : what about Makana West & East, with Northwest & southwest parts (4x64):P

[blackwiggle]

You are going to need 8 boards/Groups A to H with 32 pilots in each, 8 seeded pilots in each group.

[Challenger #001]

I was actually thinking of splitting the boards into leagues based on predatory avians. Given that the moderators are all 'Raptors', it made sense to have:

Eagle League
Falcon League
Kestral League
Hawk League
Merlin League
Owl League
Vulture League
Buzzard League

And then the Raptors could refer to their groups by the birds. So for example, Jasmin could open a thread to all 'Merlins'.

[mic-dk]

Who do I bribe so I don't draw Leungbok in the first round again? Come to think of it it'll probably be too expensive, since I have to "insure" me against pretty much everyone... :eek

But seriously, BW, are you for sale...? We won't let anybody know!

[kanar]

eh eh mic, hope you'll get a better pick this time yes!
Oh yeah you're right guys btw, Blackwiggle, Challenger, what you said makes sense to me now. Ok 8 little parts of boards, just like on the avalon cup, but X8, ok. then the bird names on them. But regarding the managers taking care of each part of the boards, maybe you'll get some difficulties with your friendlists no? Hope you'll have enough slots left.
Oh challenger, I just saw your point about the threads for each part of the board; mm maybe Sat or Rob could gave us some advices regarding the way to go to the arena section. As there's already some competitions on it, I can't see 8 new more threads realated to this cup. Or 4. Arh this stuff is really huge lol.

[billychanxtr33m]

after the first group of elites are seeded, i think it would be wise to bracket pilots by region. this would keep language and time zones from being an issue in the first few rounds.

[kanar]

mmm I see your point there billy, but I think we can deal with these timezone issues, as we have 3 weeks to set our meetings. I like to see this cup as an international, mixed one, just like the online servers.

[yeldar2097]

What's the seeding system going to be based on? Conna's site or general consensus? Or a bit of both?

[Challenger #001]

Re: Billy's idea of nation-specific zones, why not make one bird group Roosters, so all French pilots can go in there? :D

[SaturnReturn]

If it weren't for the fact that there are so few Dutch players (and they will, I expect, largely be seeded) then I'd personally be very against the grouping by country idea. So while it's not a personal thing, I think it's not much fun to only race fellow countrymen in the first few rounds. Not just because of the patriotism aspect, but also because, for some, it could mean knocking out their closest friends in every round up to about the quarter finals or something. Perhaps it's unlikely with the seedings and all, but I still think it would be more fun to generally distribute people randomly, if it can be done practically. What's the point in an international event if we don't get to race and make friends with people from around the world? That wouldn't happen for people making an early exit from a nation-specific section.

[kanar]

Billy came with a valid point with some kind of confederation system then the best of the different regions will come up for the quarter finals, that kind of thing. But I think we should stay on a tennis-format like, with a random, mixed board. And to answer your question Yeldar, seeded players list will be based on Connavar site and the online boards, and our common judgement at the command center. I don't want to do that alone lol. Blackwiggle system, as far as I understood, will permit to put 8 seed into each group of 32 pilots. Should be pretty good. And with the bird names it will be funny lol.

[SaturnReturn]

I think the bird suggestion is really cool too.

[Aeroracer]

no federations or zones or countrys or any crap to complicate things.

like Kanar says wimbeldon style and dedicated to markus..:nod

if i have to play a austrailian player i will make the effort to play them and not use the time zone to mess around.

as for languages you got babelfish.if they can sign up for this competition they obviously have some understanding and communication should not really be an issue.

keep it 100% random with seeded players and unseeded players.Using wipeout time site to see who is seeded.

[yeldar2097]

If it weren't for the fact that there are so few Dutch players (and they will, I expect, largely be seeded)

TFD pwnage :banzai

[OBH]

I like the seeding idea, but please, please dont sort anything by nation. Somehow it just doesnt seem fair to do so for what is an individual's tournament.

If people that concerned about concerned about time problems in the early rounds, then by continent at least.... though that does narrow most people down who arent european..

[blackwiggle]

Just leave it how the draw falls, no sorting by country.
It's only 7 races after all, it's not going to take a lot of time to actually race.
And when it's all said and done 80%- 90% of people are most likely going to be based in Europe anyway.

As soon as you have you list of seeded pilots just number them 1 to 64 and I'll get the randomizer to sort them into 8 groups of 8.
We can do that early on if you wish since the names would be pretty much known by all already, it's up to you.
It could cause some added excitement for all unseeded pilots wondering [ or Dreading :P ] which group they will get drawn in and who they could possibly be racing against.

Then, when we have 256 total, just give every unseeded pilot a number from 1 to 192 and I'll run it with those to give 8 groups of 24.

I then add the seeded & unseeded back together again into 8 groups of 32.

So it would look like so.
Kestrel group 8 Seed 24 Unseed
Duck group 8 Seed 24 Unseed
Chook group 8 Seed 24 Unseed
etc

Then I run it again for each group of 32 to see who races who.
Or, since most of the sorting has been done already you could do 8 final group draws at the WIPEOUT HOME MUSEUM for added tension to see who races who first up.
But bare in mind that's still 256 names to be written down, drawn and be called out, not a job I would envy to be honest.
You could just give each pilot a number 1-32 in each group[ let them know in advance what their number is ] and use the randomizer to draw 16 X 2 to see who races who, then just call out the numbers .
So you could do it over two days, drawn into groups then number each pilot in that group on the 18th, final group draw on 19th.

By the way.
I've got the first new reply/entry from the Aus/NZ Playstation forum thread I put up yesterday, so could you please add.
PSN ID KILLER_KID

[kanar]

Ok, there's 2 things I don't understand these past few days; bb code thingy and your drawing lots system blackwiggle. BUT don't take me wrong, I'm finding it awesome, even if my brain can't follow your explanations :P.

15mn later ^^ Ok ok I got it. I like this, let's go this way :


As soon as you have your list of seeded pilots just number them 1 to 64 and I'll get the randomizer to sort them into 8 groups of 8.
Then, when we have 256 total, just give every unseeded pilot a number from 1 to 192 and I'll run it with those to give 8 groups of 24.
I then add the seeded & unseeded back together again into 8 groups of 32.
So it would look like so.
Kestrel group 8 Seed 24 Unseed
etc
Then I run it again for each group of 32 to see who races who.

And oh you're right, drawing the final seeded player lots live at the museum would take ages : better thing to do is to come at the museum with the final draw, and then the cup managers who attended to the party will announce the final boards (divided into 8 blocks of 32).
I should have more time next week, so the 64 seeded player list could be up in a few days. But as I told you, Elois doesn't have the internet atm, but could join us before the registration deadline, and there's still pending responses sent to some famous names.

[brainbeat]

hi count me in, cant remember if i have said yes already here lol.

[kanar]

ah ah welcome there brainbeat. And good to see you back btw.

Ok novide came back with awesome cup wallpapers, added the link 1st post and in the temporary signature below.

Next important step in the next few days will be the confirmation PSN PM. Just to know if there's no MIA pilots already. Your nationality & your timezone will be asked in this pm, in order to send you back some kind of Pilot ID card (jpg file) that you could exchange with your opponent. You'll be free to give me more infos like your fav ship, track, availability... any relevant info you would like to share. But nationality & timezone are the only requirements.

[OBH]

Mates comin' over to fix my ps3 in 2/3 weeks :beer

[Constrictor]

Better late than never ....

I'm in. Olivier (and the kick-ass trailers / teasers) did a good job.

[kanar]

really glad you're joining us mate :D. Fantastic to see the entire zone mobilizing, slowly but surely, for December. And yes teasers are outstandings; could be easily taken for official ads...

I think it's even better than an official event. I've never heard about any official online competition on any videogame, reuniting in the same tournament board almost ALL the pilots in the online leaderboards and all the legendary pilots, past & present.

That's just awesome. 9 weeks left :nod

[blackwiggle]

ah ah welcome there brainbeat. And good to see you back btw.

Ok novide came back with awesome cup wallpapers, added the link 1st post and in the temporary signature below.

Next important step in the next few days will be the confirmation PSN PM. Just to know if there's no MIA pilots already. Your nationality & your timezone will be asked in this pm, in order to send you back some kind of Pilot ID card (jpg file) that you could exchange with your opponent. You'll be free to give me more infos like your fav ship, track, availability... any relevant info you would like to share. But nationality & timezone are the only requirements.

You might want to ask if they have the FURY DLC as well.
It can't hurt to know the percentage of entrants that don't have it.
That info could head-off possible problems with those rare beasts "the Zone Battle Experts" who might complain that the person they are drawn against can play ZB.

[kanar]

:rock true BW, one more necessary info yes, Fury or not fury.

[RJ O'Connell]

Put me down as entry #214.

[kanar]

errrr I'm running out of superlatives now lol, :rock:rock:rock:rock:rock:rock RJO!!!! awesome! OlD GuarD FTW

[ONlock]

Would like to advertise here as well about this:

http://www.wipeoutzone.com/forum/showthread.php?t=7766

Everyone that can, should join the VOIP server and use it actively. I believe it to be good for the community! And more fun when playing online.

Also it will be good to have when this big event starts.

[kanar]

Yep ON, just checked briefly your thread and it sounds good for sure. I'm planning to open a special PS3 "wipeout HD cup chatbox" in the next few weeks, as another way to pass the infos or arrange scheduled meetings, but this VOIP system could be a nicest addition to our communication set. Shame the ps3 vocal chat doesn't work on this game btw.

[ONlock]

Not to go off topic, but this VOIP really is depending on that people wil actually use it.

If it could help you guys, I could make a "Wipeout HD Cup command center" room for you? As talking with each other is much more easy, than to keep everything text based.

Just a thought.

[kanar]

not at all off topic, as communication will be the key here. Tbh I would like to see this mumble broadly uploaded and used by all here, in order to compensate for the broken wo hd vocal chat. But I see, at least for me, some issues that I could hardly deal with;
First I'm speaking english like a dying mad cow. And when I'm available here or on the ps3, it's always for a few minutes as I'm always on the move. But I admit I'm not a good example, & I really would like to see this vocal chat used by everyone at the cup.

But our real, only way to keep contact with everyone during this event will be the ps3 directly, with pms & the upcoming wipeout hd cup chatroom. Even this way, we'll have some communications issues with some really busy guys, as Mad-Ice for ex. Hopefully I had his phone number to tell him about the cup, cos' his ps3 is turned off for ages now.
I'll try mumble asap mate btw.

[UB3R~JKP]

BTW Kanar, my PSN is: UB3R-BR3NDAGE

[kanar]

thanks mate, I modified that in the list. Btw I thought you guys may need some kind of chronology of what's going to happen until december ;), just to clear up your minds.


Oct 25 ---------------------------------------->> End of nov. or before

Confirmation registration process : I'm going to send you all a confirmation pm in order to validate your registration. You'll have to answer & share some basic infos (nationality, timezone, fury or not fury) then I'll send you back a cup ID card with these basic infos registered. You could for ex. share this card with your opponent, during the 1st contact. As it's a huge number of data to process, I'll begin next week, even if registrations are not complete yet.
In the same time, we'll try to sort out the seeded player list.

early dec------------------------------------------------------------>>dec.20

As soon as we'll have all the -confirmed- 256, we'll draw lots. The board will remain secret a few days lol, time for each raptor to add as a friend all the pilots in their managed board.
Playstation home wipeout museum ceremony will take place mid. december, and boards will be revealed during the party. Then, a few hours laters, you could check the board here at wz too. And finally, a few days after (48h max), you'll get a psn pm roadmap for your 1st round.

[Nutcase:259]

Ohhhh i havnt seen the wallpapers, ;) very nice :+ i like satturnreturns icurus one, with the wings :D

[OBH]

Id like to make my reserved place and official one please Mr. Kanar sir :beer

Mates coming down with the tools and pieces needed to fix my ps3 next weekend. Get in there my son!

[kanar]

Jeez I wish you the best with your technician mates, really hope they could fix this little bastard!

[mikrucio]

im pretty sure I registered for this! Can you double check Kanar?
thanks mate.

[kanar]

eh eh mikrucio, found you under number 146. Huge list so far lol. A warm welcome to Elois-13 btw, Ace3 just confirmed me his participation.

[Laeke]

kanar, thank you for the PSN PM. I do not think I will attend, way too rusty for one, and not sure if I am able to hold my short attention to WO until December.

Nevertheless, I hope you will have fun and felt it was the polite thing to do to come here to reply.

Cheers to all.

[Medusa]

Since it's been a long time since I've done anything completely daft, I signed up for the cup on Oct. 13, bought my first PS3 and HD and played it for the first time on Oct. 19! I took a break from grids to beat Zico yesterday, still need to beat the game, and get immensely better lines and times before the HD Cup begins!!
So I won't have Fury. Y'all can kick my daft newbie butt every which way on any HD track. :twisted

I aim to place at least 255th in this worthy tournament.8)

[SaturnReturn]

You beat Zico in only four days?:eek That's scary.

[triboy]

Good news, new pilots ;)

Wreckedge / kundox1 / GrzesPL / Slawolk

[SilverSword]

Greetings to all participants! :) Dear organizers, please reserve an empty spot. I'd like to host a game on one site. After this, I'll let you know which PSN ID will participate. Obviously, a new place, not mine. :) Thank you. ;)

[kanar]

hey mate, to be honest I didn't quite understand everything there. I've registered you a few days ago;

Do you mean you're going to bring us more fellow Russian pilots? would be nice eh eh.

[SilverSword]

Yes, I am registered in the tournament and want to invite more Russians. :) So I want to leave this place blank. Will fill it with a PSN ID before the end of november. ;)

[kanar]

Ok then SilverSword, hope you'll come back with lots of friends eh eh.

[SilverSword]

Ok then SilverSword, hope you'll come back with lots of friends eh eh.
Ah, no, I just wanted to perform a tournament on my site for your event. :) Please reserve a place. :)

[kanar]

Oh ok, I'm reserving one more slot for you then.

[texasalex]

hey guys

please sign me up for the cup!

[kanar]

OF COURSE I'm signing you up mate. A warm welcome to you ;)

[OBH]

is fgdk involved?

[kanar]

ooh you right there OBH, He's not, & not sure we sent him an invitation yet; I'll do that tonight. He's MIA for a while afaik, but would be awesome if he could come out of retirement for the monster cup :)

[OBH]

definitely should get him. as soon as i saw ericd7m i instantly thought of the troublesome twosome :)

[yeldar2097]

Also, I see O_BR is in the Command Center Crew, but not in the lineup. I was about to seed him till I realised he's not there.... ?_?

AND...NO Luxoflux? What is this?!

[kanar]

O_BR is in Australia without ps3 atm (sadly lol). Regarding Luxo, tbh I thought he was in the line up but just realised he's not! I'll pm him about that later in the night if I have time.

[klocki LEGO]

Hi guys
I'm in too
Return from retirement ;)

[kanar]

old time partner klocki !!! good to see you changed your mind there mate. I'm sure you'll find time to arrange your meetings, 3 weeks is enough to schedule around 20/30 mn of wipeout.

[rdmx]

I'm way too out of practice (not like I was good in the first place!) to bother - but good luck to all competitors

[kanar]

Half of the registered pilots, maybe even more, are out of practice I think mate. We're organising this blaze of glory cos' the most important is not to win, but to take part.

[ProblemSolver]

Can we postpone the cup? LOL²

[kanar]

lol! could you make this firmware update, or play at a friend's place your scheduled meetings, or rent or buy a old/new ps3 instead? Mate WE NEED YOU THERE

oh btw where's TraxX? not seen him for ages. He would be a great addition to the cup too...

[Oryx Crake]

I just gotta get me a piece of this action =D:hyper

[triboy]

KoDeks wanna join ;)

[R3BU5ER]

I've raced Trackx not too long ago. I assume he received the spam message? I think there are Also still some pilots who haven't decided yet, chaos80 for example, I would Also love him to join. But when THE slots are running out, I think they'll show up :)

[kanar]

lol chaos is in mate, myself I thought luxo was in but yeldar spotted he wasn't. HUGE list lol.

[Subsonic Retinal Burn]

Saw the invite on my psn, so thought I'd invite myself in if there's still room.:hyper

[R3BU5ER]

Woooops :-p I asked him 2 weeks or so ago, Then he hadn't decided yet, so I thought He wasn't in yet :) Should I send Trackx another psn message?

[kanar]

A warm welcome to you Subsonic Retinal Burn!!! & welcome back to wz btw!

chaos80 is in UBER form btw, he kicked my ass big time yesterday.
ah ah yeah spam trackX :), we need him too!

[AiiRW0LF]

Im proud to say that my son "SpeedKAng96" dicided to participate!


@Kanar can u put him on the list :)

[R3BU5ER]

Allright, I'll do that. Yeah chaos is very good! Racing him is awesome :)

[Mr Phlanj]

I'm #223

thats my lucky number :D

[R3BU5ER]

unfortionally, ID_7of9 has redrawn from the cup due to personal reasons...

[kanar]

ah crap, that's not cool. Thanks for the update ID_7of9 & R3BU5ER btw.

[UB3R~JKP]

:hyper Started playing WipEout again in preperation!

[kanar]

yeah, it's still time to get back to practice & come back in december in good shape for those who stopped playing a while ago.

Oh btw we're in search of a cup community manager, afair challenger couldn't make it. It would be just for round 1, job consisting essentially to add 32 friends (or less if you already have some zoner friends), and guide them first at the ps home ceremony in december (not an obligation, but wd be gladly appreciated due to the ps home limitations), then in the cup (as you'll be in charge of a part of the board). If you're interested just lemme know.

[yeldar2097]

Sweet, -1 days of practice before it starts :paperbag

Weee everyone get excited, it's nearly Christmas...and better yet, Cup time :hyper

o_O Maybe I'll get an HD camcorder or HD PVR! :g

[OBH]

Ill get about the same amount of practice mate, dont worry :beer

[yeldar2097]

I thought your wotsit was getting fixed this week though innit?

[Challenger #001]

Yeldar, if you promise to do Beat Zico for me, you can come over and use my PS3 next weekend. XD Beat Zico or a curry. That's my PS3 rent cost. :P

[UB3R~JKP]

I'll be happy to volunteer Kanar :) Unless you're looking for a high profile member :D

[Dark_Phantom_89]

Sweet, -1 days of practice before it starts :paperbag

Yeldarbot laughs in the face of practice and does not need any to get back into shape. ;)

[kanar]

eh eh good to see you guys excited :).

[Laeke]

Oh and hell.
You guys know how to sell your stuff.
I'll probably be stomped and humiliated but I changed my mind: I want in (if it's possible). :bomb

[UB3R~JKP]

Well glad to be on the team guys and gals! Should be an exciting and great tournament!!
Hope to be as much help as possible Kanar ;)

[OBH]

I thought your wotsit was getting fixed this week though innit?
Said he might have to wait till around the 20th :-:paperbag Wants to do overtime for Xmas.

All else fails ill borrow kierans, meaning a big fat 0% practice :)

[kanar]

ah ah good stuff! welcome to the cup Laeke! Was hoping you'll change your mind & there you are. World of wipeout is magic these days ah ah.

Don't worry ub3r, just asking basic communication stuff there, helping a group of people, reporting any troubleshootings, results, important news... lol once again a spammer job. But I'm sure you'll be great.

arh OBH that's not cool news; wish you better days with your ps3, seriously some of you guys had really crazy YLOD stories x2, 3 or 4 times, pff looks like Sony kinda messed up with some series, once again...

[zubr]

zubr_z_puszczy

Ok i will have a try ;)

[OBH]

@ kanar
Still confidentish.......................... :paperbag lol

[Mr Phlanj]

if you do use mine then we will have the same problem when i couldnt enter the world cup. We wouldnt be able to play each other :P

[Challenger #001]

What's wrong with split screen? :D

[Mr Phlanj]

oh yeah lol

[triboy]

And another polish pilot,

CalopS-PL

Yes, I know, we are already over 30 ;)

[R3BU5ER]

So I received Ã* reply from Trackx, and He told me we won't join because he's rusty and hasn't got time. Too bad!

[Dark_Phantom_89]

zubr_z_puszczy

Ok i will have a try ;)

Hang on, I'm sure I've seen you online somewhere else before...

[Challenger #001]

All those webcam sites you keep hiding on, DP?

[Dark_Phantom_89]

Hahaha, yep my secret's busted - cheeky Challenger ;)

[kanar]

Triboy you made a fantastic job in advertising the cup in your country. And it seems like we reached some kind of limit in the registrations here or at the arena anyway. They're all saying that anyway R3BU5ER lol, I'm out of practice & I won't have time. Tired to hear that. Like if I was 24/7 playing wipeout myself, without a job, a wife, a social life. No I'm struggling fkin hard to find time to make that cup happen. And I'm organising another cup in the meantime. I'm struggling hard to keep this wipeout thing alive. So if there's 20 more motivated Polish wipeout fans around, they're fkin welcome.

You know what I love? stories like this one; I remember first round of the avalon cup, Triboy was opposed to DJTechno. They had lots of trouble with the time zone, and do you know how it ended? Techno brought his ps3 at his job to make his round almost right in the delay. This is what I'm calling REAL WIPEOUT FANS.

[Challenger #001]

I think I might have another two recruits by the way kanar, moving off what a gentleman does outside of WipeoutZone on the internet. DP, Tarquin, Uber and I got a match in with them and Annoying_Git (who'll be making a profile here shortly he assures me). The fellows in question who are showing interest (nothing concrete yet) are gasric and ashleigh1995

[ID_ArsNova]

I'm in. Going to try my best this time... and maybe get revenge on Saturn for the Avalon Cup :p

[UB3R~JKP]

OK, Kanar, you advertised on Gamespot forums yet? We might be able to get some pilots from there? I'm on my way to try out now...



Just seen that you guys have already posted there...my bad!

[kanar]

eh eh yes UB3R, we almost advertised everywhere. There's still around 20 (30 if we're counting the very helpful waiting list) pilots to find, hope we could get 'em, as there's still around 2 months before the start.

[F.E.I.S.A.R]

Say,U3BR,did you update the second document in the first post? I'm asking because,well,I'm not in it.But this can be ignored if you don't want to update it.

[kanar]

entry n°193, FEISAR-CSY mate. I know, huge list, hard to spot your psn ID there.

[Mr_L07H4R]

I'd very much like to participate if there is room for a humble old swede!
(PSN id Mr_L07H4R )
Looking forward to this!

[kanar]

Sure mate, & welcome to the monster cup ;)

[Fyue]

18 slots, and we're only on October... What a work !

Soon the list will be complete. 256 players, one winner. And i don't know how many matches with fun ^^ !

Kanar, it's an amazing achievement ! \o/

[Hellfire_WZ]

Looking brilliant so far mate! I'll be picking up an HD-PVR in the near future so I can record some of the races :)

[erich123]

:beer:beer:beer:beer:beer:beer:beer:beer:beer:beer :beer For KANAR:clap

[Jav]

Yep, kudos man. Done a great job setting this up, and with only 18 slots left and 2 months to go, there's absolutely no doubt we're gonna have 256 pilots come December.

Great work!

[kanar]

aww thx guys; but it's a common project, lots of people implicated (hopefully lol) so far in this crazy stuff. As I said, just wanted to reunite you all, & we're about to make it all together.

So massive thanks to ONlock, R3BU5ER, Novide, Nutcase:259, DP89, SaturnReturn, Kyonshi, JJPAP, Leungbok, Ace3cube, kaori, OBH, triboy, Darkdrium777, unctuous, blackwiggle, aka-sho, challenger001, kgb1971, Fyue, Jasmin-jade, Zoth-Ommog, IDReaper, Rob, Jav, UB3R, Yeldar, kat-kun... you guys rocked the command center so far.

[zubr]

Hang on, I'm sure I've seen you online somewhere else before...

Yeah I know you from ps3t forum but its quite possible that we meet before online :)

[kanar]

just a quick note to thank kat-kun for this http://www.wipeoutzone.com/forum/picture.php?pictureid=2801&albumid=242&dl=1288380551&thumb=1 (http://www.wipeoutzone.com/forum/album.php?albumid=242&pictureid=2801)

It will be your "official" wipeout HD cup ID card ;)

[OBH]

fantmusik still isnt in the list is he? :(

[kanar]

Yeah I'm kinda disapointed by the number of Japanese registered at the cup. I think we did our best to advertise em, aka-sho made a good cup news on his website, lots of us sent pms to almost all the well-known Japanese pilots... Our last hope there is Ace3cube now lol. He's on his way to make a last try to bring em back. December is clearly a big business month I admit, but hey 30mn of wipeout in 3 weeks, I think it's something you can schedule almost easily.

Ok as I told you I'll launch the confirmation registration process real soon, just practicing a little bit more for my avalon cup Terminator round then I'll send you all your cup ID card in the end, & the rules & regulations in extended version (c)SaturnReturn ;) (jpeg format, pm attachment). We're right on schedule for everything, which is damn good.

So -17 slots right now, hope some well known psn IDs will change their mind & join us before the end of registrations. For the record!

[stin]

Kanar, did your wife help you do all the work for you or she must be totally demented by all this Wipeout Cup!!!:hyper

She must be loving you alot! lol A wipeout widow;)

stevie:g

[kanar]

LOL! Nah she doesn't help, oh sometimes she's helping me with the english language (english teacher), but tbh wipeout sounds rubbish for her. And she can't understand why I'm spending that time here or preparing crazy stuffs like that lol. She's a Tetris fan on iphone though, which is funny as she doesn't play videogames in general. Should put a vid of her on my yt channel lol, she's really good! But her sister is even better ah ah. Watch out for the upcoming tetris cup lol.

Ok, let's once again make a little update about the cup.

Present Day---------------------------------------->> End of nov. or before

Confirmation registration process : I'm going to send you all a confirmation pm in order to validate your registration. You'll have to answer & share some basic infos (nationality, timezone, fury or not fury) then I'll send you back a cup ID card with these basic infos registered. You could for ex. share this card with your opponent, during the 1st contact. As it's a huge number of data to process, I'll begin very soon, even if registrations are not complete yet.
In the same time, we'll try to sort out the seeded player list.

early dec------------------------------------------------------------>>dec.20

As soon as we'll have all the -confirmed- 256, we'll draw lots. The board will remain secret a few days lol, time for each raptor to add as a friend all the pilots in their managed board.
Playstation home wipeout museum ceremony will take place mid. december, and boards will be revealed during the party. Then, a few hours laters, you could check the board here at wz too. And finally, a few days after (48h max), you'll get a psn pm roadmap for your 1st round.

CUP COMMUNITY MANAGERS aka THE RAPTORS ARE : Kanar, JJPAP, KGB, Jasmin, Blackwiggle, triboy, R3BU5ER, UB3R~JKP



http://www.wipeoutzone.com/forum/picture.php?albumid=210&pictureid=2807
===> They will contact you early December, just after we made the board
===>They will send you the "official" wipeout hd cup chatbox invite
===> Each CCM will be in charge of 31 pilots, in the 8 parts of the global board. You'll have to add him in your friendlist, & report any results/troubleshooting to him directly.

==> Prize section to be sorted soon. There will be prizes, sure thing lol. Working on some medal stuffs, like the olympic games, with novide. The official T-shirt is actually designed by nutcase, for Rob's cafepress wipeoutzone store.

==> Well, nothing more in mind for now lol. Oh yes, Many many many thanks for joining this incredible journey in World Of Wipeout!!!

[kat-kun]

um kanar, where do i post track info, im finding it hard to understand the instructions on the first page of the thread.

[kanar]

mmm kat-kun, rules & regulations are pretty simple, honestly.
Could be summed up like that :
You pick 3, your opponent picks 3, no eliminator, then if needed you go to race 7 chosen by me (same for everyone in the cup btw).

SaturnReturn prepared a detailed version of the rules & regulations, & I'll send it to you all with the registration confirmation pm. Hope I cleared up your mind mate, & big thanks for the nice set of cup ID card btw :clap

[kat-kun]

no prob. cant wait to see who im racing in the first round (plz let it not be you or im screwed. haha)

[yeldar2097]

fantmusik still isnt in the list is he? :(

I'll be seeing him either tonight or tomorrow so I'll have a word with him. Maybe he can have a go at bolstering the Japanese effort :)

[OBH]

Remind him i slowed down to shoot him, get him riled up :):+

[SaturnReturn]

I think I've recruited a player named skrotos32. I pointed him in this direction to register, but could you send him an official invite please kanar?
Cheers.

[mikrucio]

this is sounding more awesome by the minutes. Kanar I wish to kiss you. (but not in a gay way)

[kanar]

aww thanks mikrucio lol. But really it's team working there; this afternoon I lost the entire participant list with a stupid copy/paste & hopefully Saturn was here with a back-up lol. So yeah I'm thankful to have big supports from all over the world in this wipeout adventure. And you all, ready to run the show this December eh eh.

edit : new board design by darkdrium777 is really sexy!

[kat-kun]

can i see the board design, im very curious

[blackwiggle]

The board design will be a much bigger version of this one.
http://www.wipeoutzone.com/forum/showthread.php?t=7658

[kat-kun]

ah ok, no surprise there kanar's definately gonna win tha Avalon cup

[blackwiggle]

I somehow doubt it looking at the opposition. ;)
You obviously haven't come up against those who are still left in the tournament apart from Kanar.
Check the names against post made in the videos thread for an idea of what sort of ruthless racers these guys are.

[kanar]

yeah, kanar will definitely be kicked out 1st round ah ah. will give me more time to manage the cup lol. Blackwiggle, the board is actually designed by Darkdrium (work in progress), and it's fkin amazing so far. Professionnal stuff, you'll see that soon enough guys ah ah.

[blackwiggle]

That was you 1500 post! :clap

[Storm_FF]

I think I've recruited a player named skrotos32. I pointed him in this direction to register, but could you send him an official invite please kanar?
Cheers.

I've done the same thing today, he was very happy to join in :) I'm going to post him the link on his profile

In the next days I'll ask someone else to partecipate... I know a couple of very talented italian guys, and I think they would be interested in this new amazing challenge ;)

[kanar]

Nice initiative Storm, and there's possibly more than 15 slots left anyway; I'll have a clue as soon as I'll launch the registration confirmation process. And we need a waiting list too, as for last cup; Was really useful last time, as there will be probably last minute withdrawals during the first round.


That was you 1500 post! :clap

Thanks, and all of 'em in an awful english :blarg

[kat-kun]

have still to race kanar, but looking at his TT and SL times he's fkin fast. no way ill be able to beat him if i come up against him in the WoHDC.

[yeldar2097]

Practice practice practice have fun practice have fun practice.

All you need, just sit back and let it happen :g

[Darkdrium777]

The board design will be a much bigger version of this one.
http://www.wipeoutzone.com/forum/showthread.php?t=7658Not quite as simple ;) :p
I went for something new.

[kat-kun]

thats what im doin atm. still dont think im fast enough for top 10 like kanar

[kat-kun]

Practice practice practice have fun practice have fun practice.

All you need, just sit back and let it happen :g
yeh your right

[kanar]

lol funny young man. I don't remember any TT from my part lol, as I'm just a speed lap junkie. And shhhhh no no me in the rankings? no not me certainly not. I'm just a poor boy lost in the matrix, no more. There's definitely HUNDREDS of pilots far better than me dude. Practice practice practice YEARS practice practice. Patience. And don't forget the real world btw. Wipeout is just a game. Stay safe, stay fast, as my mate sinus1 said to me lol

[R3BU5ER]

LOL Kanar! Bad English? Before I met you I wasn't even aware that Frenchmen COULD speak English ;) And Kat-kun... Don't be too afraid of the rankings....I mean Ã* tt and sl is totally different Then Ã* online weps off race with another fast pilot breathing down your neck :) Not even speaking of Ã* weps on online race. Strange things can happen there. There are chances for all! Lol :).

EDIT: got Ã* message from il_nik he's in!

[Rolodzeo]

Hello there! I've been invited through the psn by kanar and I'm interested in joining the fun.

[Oryx Crake]

Welcome Rolo, new guy here to nice to see that more people are joining up :)

[Koleax]

If there's a slot left, I'll take it.

[kanar]

heey guys, welcome to the cup! good to see you joining. Koleax! Long time no see!

[Oryx Crake]

does anyone know about Challonge? are we using it for the WOHD-Cup? if not it's an easy and professional looking way of keeping score!

http://challonge.com/

theres a link to the site maybe that would be a good way to graphically show the tournament results?

Just a thougt :)

[kanar]

hey mate, Darkdrium777 is working on a sexy board atm, should be released right on time. So no worries, and thx for the suggestion there, I'll check your link even if we already have a the sexiest board ever ;) .


EDIT : Contacted Oryx cos' when I think about it, if we can access the board on challonge as a guest, in one single clic we could check the results (compared to 2 or 3 more clics for the nice boards here lol). So if there's a free access, definitely worth a try.

[kat-kun]

LOL Kanar! Bad English? Before I met you I wasn't even aware that Frenchmen COULD speak English ;) And Kat-kun... Don't be too afraid of the rankings....I mean Ã* tt and sl is totally different Then Ã* online weps off race with another fast pilot breathing down your neck :) Not even speaking of Ã* weps on online race. Strange things can happen there. There are chances for all! Lol :).

EDIT: got Ã* message from il_nik he's in!
yeh but kanar has lots more experiance than me though. the original wipeout was 3 months 9 days old when i was born (calculating the exact date to 10th december 1995)

[Dark_Phantom_89]

It seems easier said than done, but it really is a case of practice makes perfect. I was absolutely horrendous when I started out on HD but stuck at it because I was determined to improve. Watch videos on YouTube, learn to master the sideshift and know where the barrel roll locations for each track are. It also helps if you can handle Phantom speed, because then the lower speed classes will be no problem for you whatsoever.

It's always a great feeling to get a high ranking time and this spurns you on to improve even more, at least it did with me.

[kat-kun]

sweet. well i have a long time to improve before the 20th december. hey btw whos gonna see the new jackass (dont know what this has to do with wipEout but hey better ask while I remember)

[SaturnReturn]

Better to ask in the general conversation thread.
http://www.wipeoutzone.com/forum/showthread.php?t=6061

[kanar]

lol! go the offtopic discussion & make a thread if you want to talk about that mate. Between you & me & totally off-topic, I'm a Jackass die hard fan lol. I've everything from them, especially the wild boyz series, my fav. Tbh cinemas are way too much expensive here in my town, so I won't go to see it sadly. But I definitely would like to.

[kat-kun]

yeh, thing is i have a rubbish memory. once i need to ask a question i got to ask it ASAP or ill forget

[Darkdrium777]

http://challonge.com/Unfortunately the maximum number of participants allowed on the website is 200. We have 256.
I did manage to make a bracket with 244 players but it won't let me add any more.

[Dark_Phantom_89]

Have you asked Luxoflux and spook-21 if they want to participate? Those are two names that I think should be in the cup.

[kanar]

Well Luxo still stays mysterious regarding his participation. Maybe you could send him one more hint to this thread eh eh. I think we advertised spook already too, but like Luxo iit could be interesting to make him a reminder too. Eric contacted peh hok today after I sent him an invite a while ago, and seems like he could be interested now. Now the stuff looks big some people may change their mind, as R3BU5ER said here recently.

[Oryx Crake]

Unfortunately the maximum number of participants allowed on the website is 200. We have 256.
I did manage to make a bracket with 244 players but it won't let me add any more.

well there is a way to get around that though.

Make it 2 or more groups. that would also make it more easily scanned for both competitors and guests.

in any case if it works great if not oh well what are we to do? :)

[Darkdrium777]

I had not thought of that. Well ok since there will be eight groups on my board there could be 8 on there too... And then one last one for the top eight players (Kind of like what I have setup right now for me.) I guess, if someone wants to try and set up this thing I have the list of players currently (minus maybe one or two) so go ahead.

Oh but wait we don't know who is in what group and facing off against who. Ok so test it out if you like but do not publish it yet because it's not official.

Also one last thing this is gonna be more stuff to keep up to date if people are going to use it. More work for the raptors. But also it will probably be more simple than updating mine (which is a picture and not text like the website.) However mine looks better :p

[kanar]

Very interesting stuff there. Oryx, if you have time you're free to check all challonge possibilities (like direct link to reports/yt vids;)). This is how I see the whole stuff in December;

One board here updated by Sat & me, and one board on challonge, updated by Oryx & maybe some raptors who are up to subscribe to challonge (in order to update the board too), for direct cup feedbacks.

http://www.wipeoutzone.com/forum/picture.php?albumid=210&pictureid=2813


However mine looks better :p
Your board is teh sex

[OBH]

I cant see my brothers name in there, but now he has a ps3 I assume he wants in.

[kanar]

he's registered under ploppysmthing mate, his main psn ids.