Wipeout HD Fury - OMNIUM Tournament

[Hellfire_WZ]

Currently compiling all the footage I have of the online and offline stuff for the Silver group, this is gonna be a MONSTER video. Still have Eliminator and Zone Battle to add and I'm already pushing an hour and a half!

[UB3R~JKP]

I will submit my results as soon as I get home Hellfire! I regret to say that those attatchments I sent you were NOT in order...Im not sure what result is for what race. I'm sure Rapier or Ragsus has the results in order! I think I too might be done. Ive been playing the game for 3 years come March and I'm just not cut out to continue, dont get much gaming time these days and unfortunantly there might not be a reason to continue. This has been an amazing tournament however. Thanks so much for everything Hellfire!!

[Colonel]

Charlie is it okay if I send you my times / scores tonight, but screenshots in the morning? I've got a few computer problems atm and it won't be easy to upload them tonight.

[Hellfire_WZ]

No problem. I'm uploading mine now and will send them to you ASAP.

I'm hoping there's going to be a massive glut of submissions in the next few hours, because I've only received a couple more since this morning...

[Ragsus Maxima]

I'm not sure what result is for what race. I'm sure Rapier or Ragsus has the results in order!
Both we have the results, but I don't know if Rapier has sent them (most likely, he has). If needed, then I'll do so myself.

Also, it's a shame some people have the intention to quit the game, but honestly, this kind of thing may happen to all of us eventually. :(

[Hellfire_WZ]

Yeah, RR will send them through later.

Guys, the final deadline is in an hour and 20 mins! (unless you're behind GMT)

[SoA_Booney]

would like to thank the gold group, group 5 and everyone for the amazing hospitality throughout this event. indeed there has been problems, disconnects, gmt difference etc. but we kept going and has genuinely been my favourite wipeout experience. so far at least ;) big thanks to you charlie, keeping the pilots alive, if it wasnt for you the game would be on its last legs, thanks on behalf of everyone :)

[Hellfire_WZ]

Thanks mate, although I can't take all the credit for keeping things going. I'm just doing what I can :)

15 mins to go guys, I'm still waiting on offline results for the following:

GOLD
LJtheZombie
JFthebestJan
ericd7m (the link you sent me showed an empty library :?)

BRONZE
morfeo378
kiTTun - Zone & Detonator (were you still having issues with your camera?)
TarquinFarquar
Ace_3000 (although did you say you couldn't compete any longer?)

[UB3R~JKP]

Well, all submitted.

It's crazy to think that the tournament is fully complete for me. What an absolute blast and I'd like to than both the Bronze finalists and of course Group 6 for the amazing fun I've had throughout the tourney. Regardless of the results I am more than happy with what I have gained through putting the time into the game. Lots and lots of fun!

Thank you so much, Community managers, Charlie and of course all the pilots.

Fly high guys!

[Medusa]

Damn you didnt get my pm hellfire? I sent mine around 7pm gmt today!!

[Hellfire_WZ]

No, nothing came through :? Can you send it again? Don't worry about getting it in in the next 5 mins, just whenever you can.

[Medusa]

I'm really sorry, I'm at work overnight,i can resend it first thing in the morning

[Hellfire_WZ]

No problem at all :)

Ladies and gentlemen, after a long hard month the Omnium tournament is now officially CLOSED. Thank you to everyone who took part, both in the group stages and in the finals!

[bpinflag]

Great racing all!

[Azurooth]

This has been an experience for me. Thanks group 7 and bronze group. It was an absolute pleasure racing with you guys. Big thanks to you Charlie for taking the time and organizing this great tournament. This has given me some insight of the wipeoutzone community and i'm amazed of what a great community it really is!

[Ace3000]

Ace_3000 (although did you say you couldn't compete any longer?)

Yeah, I had a lot of stuff to do, I couldn't make a start on the offline stuff

[ericd7]

Sorry for answering you so late Charlie, i checked the link yesterday and it worked.
I just sent you separate links for each part.

Would like to thank you a lot for organising this event too, a massive effort keeping the community alive!
It's been a while i didn't enjoy the game that much and i'm glad to meet some new friends all along the tournament.
I'll do my best to take part to the further events, see you soon all :)

[Colonel]

Right I'm really sorry for the delay in collating the Silver and Gold results needed for Charlie to announce the winners. But yesterday was a nightmare of computer problems and other commitments. I'm just typing this on my lunch break, and I won't get a chance to send the results until this evening. So once again I'm sorry, I know I'm holding the whole thing up, just bare with me for a few hours. Thanks.

[novide]

here some vids from Silver final offline:

Speed Laps (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEVmywtUGFM)

Time Trial (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzjk8teCnhI&list=PLlOk2k4iJVw3xPtQaJcw9Ueyn01gSRjQt)

Zone (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZRQhFreyM0&list=PLlOk2k4iJVw29a0k4QMQQuhg6cFW9M-y_)

Detonator (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bLILtt54Wk&list=PLlOk2k4iJVw194saujWRrQR5NBkBCMyGT)

Online was a disaster for me, i hope did it better with the offline-rounds ;)


Big THX to Charlie for this intensive wipeout-experience :rock
and to all pilots :hyper , was nice to meet you

[Hellfire_WZ]

Thanks mate, I'll link your videos into mine when it's done :)

[GekkoP]

Can't wait for some online videos, guys, post them soon. So curious to see who'll win.
And again, thanks Hellfire. I got a chance to improve my Detonator (finally all Elite Gold in Fury campaign without any effort), my Zone Battle and my racing lines overall. I haven't been much of a racer to race with, I know, but I'll do better next time. Please tell me there's going to be a next time. :)

[Rapier Racer]

I think thats probably the most extensive tournament I've taken part in to date! It was a blast and I've developed a thing for Detonator mode...never used to like it. Thanks to Charlie for arranging all this it's no small effort mate! I'm glad I was able to help out and of course, take part!

Thanks to all the people I raced against it was great fun! See you on the track....and of course next time!

[Colonel]

I'm nearly there with the scores etc. Miles you only sent me a score and not a final Zone for Metropia Rev mate. It's the Zone I need, sorry I've only just noticed. Also you've sent me Chenghou Zone, is this meant to be TDR?

Edit - Also you've sent me Talon's Zone, is this meant to be Sebenco? This one also doesn't have a screen so I can't see the final Zone. Your Zone scores are a bit of a mess Miles, I don't want to submit them until I know what's meant to be what.

EDIT - No offline results from Defjukie16 :(

[blackwiggle]

Currently compiling all the footage I have of the online and offline stuff for the Silver group, this is gonna be a MONSTER video. Still have Eliminator and Zone Battle to add and I'm already pushing an hour and a half!

There is only one video I really want to watch from that SILVER meet.
The one where after Meesiash's 4th disconnect during Eliminator, it was either he or Liod-19 won the next Eliminator [I think it was Anulpha Reverse] in around, I kid you not, 15 seconds ..... it was a real WTF happened then for everybody?
I've never been in a eliminator that has finished that quickly.

[Liod19]

Lol, that wasn't me. It was the one meesiash won after his lots of disconnections. I was far from winning that one.

[blackwiggle]

I have a feeling that Messiash points from the previous Eliminator rounds sort of got stuck in his PS3's memory.
So when he eventually reconnected for the 4th time [after being prompted to shut down his PC that was throttling his bandwidth]... all his previous points from the past 3 rounds, before he got disconnected, all came to him at once at the start of the 5th round.

Not that it matters any.

Just another weird Wipeout HD/FURY Online occurrence :nod

[TheConzio]

My offline attempts
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zuzZlrYzFcc

[Hellfire_WZ]

OMNIUM - FINAL RANKINGS



GOLD
SILVER
BRONZE


SoA_Booney
onlykpop
Ragsus_Maxima


ericd7m
Hellfire_WZ
UB3R-BR3NDAGE


LJtheZombie
Dark_Phantom_89
Azurooth


JFthebestJan
Meesiash
Rapier_Racer


andybob35
Liod19
kiTTun


Colonel__Gaddafi
novide
TarquinFarquar


theconzio
Defjukie16
Ace3000_42


bpinflag
blackwiggle
morfeo378



Congratulations to SoA_Booney, onlykpop and Ragsus_Maxima!

There are a few minor things just to clear up with the final points totals, but I should have the full breakdown for you soon :)

[SoA_Booney]

victory dance! wooo! its been an honour guys! Would i be able to get some sort of notification on my forum name? like kpop did? just a thought :)

[Light Buster]

Congrats to the winners of OMNIUM. Sorry that I couldn't stay for the whole thing but I hope that I can participate in the next tournament.

[Defjukie16]

Colonel - Yeah, I was confused on if the offline results were taken from our previous scores but before I knew we had to do the levels, it was too late. Sorry about that.

Kpop - congrats on your silver medal, I'm still disappointed in you, you should have been in the gold finals lol, you're the Kel Solaar of online WipEout right now and you're on top of your game, keep it up, one day kpop. :twisted

[Dark_Phantom_89]

I had a feeling that the third generation pilots would come out on top in the Gold and Silver groups. ;)

Well done guys, and congratulations! :)

[Medusa]

Congrats Booney, kpop and Ragsus! Well done!

Also, a special thank you to Hellfire for organizing such a grand tournament, and another thank you to the real gentlemen pilots I had the pleasure of racing (I don't think I raced any ladies, at least...).
I was quite relieved to encounter some very "sporting fellows" that were new names to me, as sometimes I think chivalry is dying everywhere, even here at the zone where sportsmanship has always seemed to be high on the priority list for many.

Thanks guys! :D

[Hellfire_WZ]

And at last, here we have the full breakdown of the final results :)

[onlykpop]

Thanks everybody! Congrats and thank you Charlie for this kick ass tourney!!

Defjukie16 - thanks a lot! LOOL i forgot to turn in my DET results haha O.o

[Ragsus Maxima]

Woo-hoo-hoo!! I didn't expect I'd become the winner of our group because of the tough competition I (we) had. And I actually have reached the peak! :D

I want to say thanks to all of the contenders of my group, both Three and Bronze, and the entire tournament participants and the staff. It has been an honour to be there until the very end.
Also, thanks very much to Hellfire for putting a helluva effort into this. What would've happened without you?

We'll see each other in the tracks! :)

UPDATE: In the Time trial done in Modesto Heights, my time is 1:45.87, not 1:44.40. Even so, my final position in that round is still the same.

[Hellfire_WZ]

Thanks a lot everyone, it did take an awful lot of effort to keep everything together. But it wasn't just me, I'd like to extend my thanks to the event managers for collating and communicating results to me. Without them, there's no way I could have run something of this scale.

I'm now in the process of encoding a 2 hour 20 minute marathon video of the Silver final, including all of my offline events ;)

[SoA_Booney]

btw, i think the time trial scores for the gold group is incorrect xD i may be wrong but i think i should have 8 points, not that it matters, just something i noticed :P

[Colonel]

Well, what a mission! Congratulations to Booney, kpop and Ragsus, thoroughly deserved winners. And thank you to everybody I had the pleasure of racing and chatting with this last month. This post is gonna be a long one...

Huge thanks of course to Charlie. I can only imagine how stressful this has been for you over the last few months. A ridiculous amount of planning must have gone into it before it even started. And then the running of the tournament itself must have put years on you. I can say without a shadow of a doubt that nobody else could have pulled this off, even if they were mad enough to try. So really mate, thank you, it's been a terrific achievement.

And thanks to all who took part, the effort that everybody has put in over the last few weeks has been superb. Personally I've loved doing such a challenging and varied tournament. There isn't a mode in HD that doesn't put a grin on my face, so it's been a pleasure to do it all in one event.

It's not without its regrets if I'm honest. And please don't take this the wrong way, I just need to get it off my chest. I'm not sure how to explain this, but I think I was just burnt out by the time the finals were announced. I hardly touched the game in the two weeks the finals were running, literally leaving everything to last Sunday. So I rushed through the Racebox stuff, and I know I didn't give a good account of myself.

To make matters worse, and this has happened many times before, I completely fell to bits in the online session. Races, Zone Battles, Elims, I was utter sh*te at everything, I had to fight the urge to quit half way through. The saddest part is I think I may have looked at the Gold final group and subconsciously given up. After the online session on Sunday I was positively distraught, I never wanted to play HD again.

So I'm a bit down with myself. I love this game, and Omnium has been the pinnacle of it in many ways for me. I feel like I took a place in my final group that could have gone to somebody who wouldn't waste it, and would've given it everything they had. Sorry, this probably sounds like the most self absorbed toss, and I haven't even had a drink.

Anyway, I really am very grateful to Charlie for all his hard work (not to mention patience). And I hope we get to do something this cool again.

Cheers,

Adam.

[bpinflag]

I agree with Colonel, thinking about racing against that gold lineup humbled me so much. And truly I don't think I deserved to be in the ranks of them, but I gave my all and really, I would love to race all of them again! It was absolutely fantastic flying against those guys. So congrats to Soa, kpop, and, Ragsus.

Soa_Booney, you are amazing. I should probably fall of Tech De Rah more if I want to win like you do. It was an honor, to race you.

onlykpop: You and I have raced a lot online, and you deserve every bit of the silver medal.

Ragsus_Maxima: I didn't get to compete against you, but congrats on the bronze medal. See you on the track.

And for everyone else who participated, winners and losers alike, thanks for keeping the game alive. It was a great experience and I hope to see all of you on the track again. Charlie, I cannot express how much good you have done this month, you have put a smile on my face every weekend seeing those results come together for everyone. You deserve the platinum medal (that I don't have) here, thanks. Thank you to everyone.

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I agree with Colonel, thinking about racing against that gold lineup humbled me so much. And truly I don't think I deserved to be in the ranks of them, but I gave my all and really, I would love to race all of them again! It was absolutely fantastic flying against those guys. So congrats to Soa, kpop, and, Ragsus.

Soa_Booney, you are amazing. I should probably fall of Tech De Rah more if I want to win like you do. It was an honor, to race you.

onlykpop: You and I have raced a lot online, and you deserve every bit of the silver medal.

Ragsus_Maxima: I didn't get to compete against you, but congrats on the bronze medal. See you on the track.

And for everyone else who participated, winners and losers alike, thanks for keeping the game alive. It was a great experience and I hope to see all of you on the track again. Charlie, I cannot express how much good you have done this month, you have put a smile on my face every weekend seeing those results come together for everyone. You deserve the platinum medal (that I don't have) here, thanks. Thank you to everyone.

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[onlykpop]

Such generous comments :D Thank you!! The races are fun because the people are fun :) See you on the tracks!!

[Ace3000]

I don't care one bit if I came nearly last. I had tons of fun, and made some new friends along the way. With that, I'd say that this tournament was a huge success. Now, I think some thanks are in order!


-Hellfire, for all your fantastic work in making this happen, and sorting out the problems to keep it working. I know that it must have been a right pain in the arse at times, but you were able to pull through and make OMNIUM one of the largest successes I've seen in a long time!


-Group 8... all 3 of you, haha! In all seriousness, though, you guys are the most awesome bunch of people I have ever had the chance to meet. Racing against, no, no. Racing WITH you guys brought me to my first online WipEout experience, and it was absolutely fantastic, I loved it!


- BRONZE Group... all of 4 races I had with you, it was still awesome, racing with people all over the world, the one problem being those scumbag time zones (-_-)! Seriously though, I had lots of fun with you, and I usually don't have fun at 6am. You guys are brilliant.


-And to everyone else, through the wins and losses, disconnections after disconnections, and the murders in Eliminator(!), without you, you fantastic people in the WipEout community, without you, all of this would have never happened.

Final thoughts? If I had not decided to participate, I would not have met a brilliantly fantastic community like you guys, I would not have made friends like group 8: TheConzio, blackwiggle and Lazer0pz; goodonya, mates! But then again, I have made friends with all of you!

I leave you with a message to everyone, the entire community, participants, non-paricipants, winners and losers alike:


GG, EVERYONE. GG!

I am Ace3000, AG Systems pilot, and I thank you, wipeoutzone, for such a fantastic time I had participating in the OMNIUM tournament. Thank You.

[UB3R~JKP]

Great tournament everybody. :+

[GekkoP]

Congratulations to the winners. As I said on Facebook, I did bet on Booney so I deserve my money now.

[TheConzio]

Such a great experience! I hope one day i can be as good as the winners :P

GROUP 8: When can we meet up online to do some casual racing? :P

[ericd7]

Congrats to SoA, Kpop and Ragsus :clap
Huge thanks to Charlie and the group's moderators :clap
It was a great tournament and to get people involved in every game's modes was a great idea.
It really makes me enjoy every parts of the game.
Thanks to everybody for keeping the community alive, i hope to see you soon online or in the next tournament.

[Ace3000]

As of today? Any day, any time, I have nothing else to do! :D

[ericd7]

Let's go :)
I can't stay a lot but if you can play now, i'm getting online.

[stin]

Congrats to all winners and losers and also who all participate Omnium. I`m glad I got to play and these guys were great, we had a good laugh.

Charlie, you deserves it and hopefully more to come in near future!

stevie:)

[onlykpop]

Congrats to SoA, Kpop and Ragsus :clap
Huge thanks to Charlie and the group's moderators :clap
It was a great tournament and to get people involved in every game's modes was a great idea.
It really makes me enjoy every parts of the game.
Thanks to everybody for keeping the community alive, i hope to see you soon online or in the next tournament.


Yess!!! Thank you so much to moderators for putting up with me! @Defjukie @Adam @Charlie :) *Hugs*

[Hellfire_WZ]

Here is the (absolutely MAMMOTH) video from the Silver Final


http://youtu.be/Ya90NTF76Xk

If anyone has any other videos from Silver, let me know and I'll link them into mine

[blackwiggle]

Or
How to come last consistently with dignity ;)

It was fun, even if you lose amongst friends, playing the game [Participating ] Is, and always was the main thing .:cowboy

[TheConzio]

Here's the Gold Finial's Online events!

By watching this you will help Gabriel White out because he has allowed me to use his music, so therefore he wants to start getting his music to be heard by more people, so watching the video will be appreciated by him!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0FXL_ipCzI

[Ragsus Maxima]

My videos of the Bronze finals are up. Hope you like them. :)

Online trials
• Single races (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yeDCIo2C3E0)
• Eliminator (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQynSV4h3KA)
• Zone battle (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Jmz4vD73zU)

Offline trials
• Speed lap (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7UvjwcJM6M)
• Time trial (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7D4-2oSlz8)
• Zone (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byYFrPEImYA)
• Detonator (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PiWNPrNYDWA)

I'd like to note that all the video descriptions have time links if you'd like to watch a race in particular. See you in the tracks! :)