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what a blast tonight guys! thanks for the invite and im glad to join the three of you on the main team piloting my feisar baby ;) . i drove home super fast from my friends house after getting the msg on HIS ps3 while drinking and enjoying the company of my brother and friends lol. i actually filmed it driving home..ill have to upload.
Awesome racing Kyonshi, L&P, Mjolnir (don't throw the controller just yet), and Vart (even if you do hack :P). I haven't had that much fun racing online in awhile :+ .
That said the Bombs and Mines were INSANE, flying behind any of you is bad for my health, I broke my plastic chair mat by bashing my foot into it :o :lol.
I'm happy I made main but I know it was pure luck at certain cases. Kyonshi, L&P, or Mjolnir could have easily have won it.
Lets get another tourney going either for bragging rights or if new NA users join and wanna chance before Sept/WWC.
I know I'm no where near close to being the fastest in NA, looking at you Dark777 (hope RL going well) and others.
Thx a lot Vart and TCK for setting this up, once we picked a format it was great fun.
Looks like I have to start playing WOHD more, get some more practice to catch up to TheFrostE, TarotCardKiller, and Vartazian. Time to take a break from WoW anyway.
See you out on the track
Hey if I WAS Hacking , I would of had a perfect 128 now wouldnt I? :P
It was indeed awesome to compete against you guys. I had fun even if i consider having been destroyed 3 times and faced countless shooting weapon hazards while i was first...Grrrrr God i was over-heating :bomb I wish so bad i had made it to the main team. Since i started playing WipEout games i dreamed of taking part in a big championship :)
@TCK
There's a Mexican guy who's ruthless on the racetrack and its CoatlKetzal. He's a solid one and without a doubt could make it to the main team if that would happen again.
Well you don't wanna make it obvious now do you Vart. I see your mental games. I was able to beat you a couple times during the first 8 which we didn't record, and L&P rocked that CP run we didn't count. PROOF, now I see why you "forgot" to record the numbers :P
jk jk
or am I?
Oh Shi- IM BUSTED. Yeah lol, well I even ackknowledged the losses.... But I can see what you meant, I owuld be about 8 or 10 shourt of perfect if we counted round 1. I really didn forget to record the first 8 ='(
Heres a banner I made for our country when we sign up, I threw it together. Hope you guys like it!
http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e3...rthAmerica.jpg
If you guys want me to make a better one I gladly will. This was just a small idea that I wanted to throw together in 5 minutes.
After following TCK around for many races last night and having raced Vartazian many times before I can see you have the makings of a cracking team there.
FrostE - Let me know when you upload that video =]
I actually have CoatKetzal on my list. He told me ketzal meant snake; I didn't know he was Mexican though. I'll see if I can get him on the forum. and you need to take a picture of that plastic chair mat RedScar. It'd be cool to see the destruction WO causes. =D
That banner looks good. Slap a cowboy hat on the AGS and you're good to go =]. j/k you don't have to
Suit up Pilots! We got our first challenge on our hands!
Assuming they Accept...
Team : North America
VS
Team : Australia
Lets Not Lose our first match aight guys? Lets Make our team proud!
Yah, that was a great time last night, guys...even if I'm a bit embarrassed by the fact I just snuck into the last spot as a sub. :redface: My consistency is horrible! Anyway, great racing to you all and congrats to those who made the team, either as a main or a sub. Thanks to the hosts/organizers, as well!
@ Kyonshi - Don't fret, you could still end up piloting on the main team...I mean, you just never can tell when one of the current mains might encounter an untimely "accident"...bwah-ha-ha. :p
hey vartazian...wheres the feisar in that banner!?!? ;)
and what is the date for first match...i have work mon-fri. 5:30 am-2:00pm est.
so i have nights and weekends off.
Excellent racing last night! It was tough competition with 9 other great pilots, and I'm just glad to get the spot I did. Still, I wish that first tournament had counted, even though it was a fluke. ;) Congratulations again to our main 4. I like our chances with them come September.
AFAIK this was mainly for the WWC qualification: for other one-off matches we should definitely give others like BlochNWhitey a chance to play or qualify. I was thinking that someday we could try a monster 8v8 match against another Wipeout nation: the top 4s and the bottom 4s face off for the most points total. It might be a little tricky to set up, but if it's on a weekend I'm sure it would be possible.
Thanks again to TCK and Vartazian for organizing everything (or trying to :p).
Man i tried so hard and so quite a few mishaps..but again i'm glad i at least made a sub. I've been playing around with a banner for the NA team...but had some issues and problems with the "right" look. I avoided using any ships just because different pilots use different ships. (i saw feisar, icaras, goteki45, piranha..etc)
But i was trying to incorporate all flags/colors from all 3 countries of the NA team.
I would of Put a Mexican Flag into the Banner but there is 2 reasons I didnt
1: we dont have any official Mexicans ont he team and
2: theres technically 40+ countries in North America, cant include them all.
I put the AG Systems in there for the Red/White (Canada) and the Auricom for Red/White/Blue (duh The United States).
I put them on opposite sides for the "Contrast" factor.
I see your point on the mexican flag..
But i thought NA team was decided to be Canada/US/and Mexico...
That's why i took that approach with it.
I love where you went with the AG/Auricom color scheme...
But i just didnt want to favor any ship team in the creation of the NA logo
I dont think its Favouring a ship so to say. Just MAtching the color scheme. I know a good chunk of out team used AG SYS anyways.
Hell if we were in Europe I would be using the Feisar. Africa, Assegai, So on and so on...
If you dont like the Banner Ill take it down. but It was just something I thought the team would Appreciate.
Actually, North America includes Canada, USA AND Mexico. Any countries further down are considered part of Central America. Then when you get at Colombia's boundaries, its considered South America.
I think that's what my geography classes showed me :P
I'm sorry if you feel I dislike it or I'm criticizing it... :|Quote:
Originally Posted by Vartazian
Just expressing creative thoughts and different views/apporaches to the NA logo.
(And IT IS appreciated) ;)
Easy boys.
I like your idea about the 8vs8 tourney. If we can get all 16 pilots available at once then I'm sure it'll be fun. We can hold different tourneys before other matches like Feisar31 mentioned. I'll leave that up to you guys to decide; that would include more North American Tourneys which would definitely be fun =D. If there is a lot of interest then we can do that. Let me know.Quote:
Originally Posted by Feisar31
We might be able to start a new kind of tournament if the feedback is good. Here is a Grand Tour match outline using 4 pilots from each team. The idea is to use both Weapons/No Weapons and create unique events while minimizing lag. Just in case you can't understand the diagram, I'll explain here as well.
http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b3...g?t=1247010264
There will be a total of 32 races.
At first, the nation teams will split up into teams of 2 and have 8 track tourneys simultaneously. One 2vs2 group will race 8 tracks with weapons while the other 2vs2 group races 8 tracks without weapons. The 8 tracks with weapons will be all forward tracks while the 8 tracks without weapons are the reversed tracks or vice versa.
The second part of the tourney will be an all out 4 vs 4 race to the finish on all 16 tracks with weapons. After all 32 races are over, the team with the most amount of points will win.
This will help make a well-rounded tourney. If my math is right, there are 464 available points in the 4vs4 tourney with an additional 368 in the doubles part. In case you feel you'll have a bad run in the 4vs4 races, you can make up for it in the 2vs2 part. You can use this to your advantage by strategically picking which event a pilot races in. This will take little longer to organize but in the end, there will be less lag, less vista pads, and more fun.
What do you guys think ? Any questions?
I love it TCK.
We would need to Strategically Decide who we want where though. As Determined b our Qualifiers. We definatley excell in Weapon Events!
Ill gladly help you organize this tournament if you so decide you need the help. hopefully we get off on a better foot this time. We know what happened last time....
Now we just have to pick the Roster.
GET ON MSN TCK
I like it although im not sure if I understand it correctly. Would this be a second type of qualifyer, practice, or just a tourny for the sake of having one?
I would say we pick best of the best.
Whoever specializes in certain roles should race in that sector.
i am for sure a much better battler than avalon pilot :D lots of ship wreckage in my wake of fury.
The Grand Tour match design would be against other national teams or any other 4 pilots that decide they'd like to have a match. There are no qualifiers involved with it. Does that answer your question?Quote:
Originally Posted by RedScar
When you said qualifiers, I think you might have been referring to when I said, "We can hold different tourneys before other matches like Feisar31 mentioned." In an earlier post, it was suggested that we have North American tourneys before any match to have a rotation of pilots that represent the NA continent. It would allow for more NA tourneys. I'll leave it up to you guys. If there is interest, we should definitely do it. I wasn't quite clear before, sorry about that.
When it comes to picking the pilots for no weapons/ weapons races, qualifiers are not needed I'm sure it wouldn't be too much of a hassle to choose.
I'm giving you guys this information early so you can have it and hopefully there will not be any confusion when the time comes to race another team. We can just pick a date and race. I will mention SaturnReturn (the mastermind behind the GT design) and I would like to test this Grand Tour design using the North American Team and The Flying Dutchmen. We'll let others know how it works out.
For now, there is nothing planned. I'll keep you guys updated and will let you know if I need help Vart, thanks. Any questions ? let me know
OK, sound good. Just let me know if something is to happen and I shall say if I can show or not.
OKay Guys listen up.
We got 2 months to get our practice in. WipEout World cup is closing in on us fast.
I want to organise some team practices to prepare for the imminent close races we are going to have.
I want to Send France, The Netherlands, Italy and Austria Crying home to their mommies!
If you are on the team send me a few PM's with times you are available. Lets get training folks, Victory comes with practice.
Hire me if you need some additional competition (Like when a spot is open) during your training, when I'm on. Just use a nudge (zomg a useful feature that is) :)
But no, doesn't mean I can return to the team, as uni starts just befor World Cup and I want to have the least distractions at the time.
My situation is the same as dark's, Uni starting on the 8th. I will be moving into my apartment on the 4-6th and prob will have my internet on the 6-7th. Work load shouldn't be that heavy first month of the semester, but school > wipeout.
That said, im so down for some "practice" if it means we can do another tourny.
We Desperatley need practice, We need Frost as well. Lets take advantage of everyone playing fury and get some solid practice in.
Same here although school starts the 25th for me. Thanks for letting us know in advance.
Another tourney/practice session would be great. We can start by setting a temporary date and see the availability. Would next weekend, maybe Friday or Saturday be good ? or would you guys prefer a couple of weeks to get settled first?
This will be a more-organized session. Since we're practicing for the WC, we'll do weapon races with the older ships/tracks. It'd be a great idea to have some Zone Battle, Eliminator, and Avalon tourneys too. Maybe a mini-tourney of the new Fury tracks? If you guys are interested, I'll find ways to include those. =D We can do a points-style ranking system to up the ante and bring out the best in everyone.
If you can, please direct some North American pilots to the forums/thread so we can have a bigger pool of pilots to practice with. I know CoatlKetzal, Pngthk, Texus009 and RedAlrt are good pilots.
If this sounds like its too much, let me know. I'm trying to make it fun training session.
I thought about it and realized we don't have to make it that complicated. LOL Lets just play Wipeoout soon. I know FrostE, Vartazian, and RedScar are down for practicing
I'd definitely be up for some practice, as well. :nod
It seems a lot of the NA players are up for some practice sessions. We can hold some this coming Thursday 7th and/or Friday 8th. We can make the NA Team chatbox again, share tips/tricks, and make an 'invite only' room lol that doesn't work. It seems to hold of a couple of people off though when they see its 'invite only'. Though many zoners are kind enough to ask to stay =].
I think Thursday or Friday should work, RedScar mentioned his internet should be up by then. If you guys would like to practice/after by yourself, we can post some NTSC ghosts on el habib's website. If you don't know about it yet, you can find out more info in his thread http://wipeoutzone.com/forum/showthread.php?t=5335 .
If Thursday and/or Friday work, how about setting up a time. I've looked a couple of your timezones (I'll finish writing the rest in a bit); this'll help setting up future events more easily. Most of you seem to be in the East so the timing will be in your favor. Maybe 10-11PM GMT-5?
GMT-5 BlochnWhitey, DarkDrium777, Feisar31, Kyonshi, LoudandProud, Mjolnir, RedScar, theFrostE
GMT-6 Cerium, DividedXZero, TarotCardKiller
GMT-8 Vartazian
Again, if you know anyone else that'd like to play/practice with us, let em' know we're here. =]
How's this sound? Any questions, objections, and/or suggestions ? The more we can get, the better.
The earlier the better for me...10-11pm is gettin near my bedtime lol. If that's what we settle on though, then I can prob play for a bit anyway.
Ya TCK, that is in September for those dates, there is still all of augest left for me to play WO hassle free.
Im up til 5 AM everynight anyways. Ill be there when the teams there.
Thanks for the replies, this gives me something to work with. =]
From what I've gathered, it might seem best to just set a time, maybe this can be done regularly each week. The practice session will last from 9-12EST, join and leave at your leisure. If you can sign in around those times on Thursday, it'll be great. We'll have a game/chat room up. We can have one on Friday too if you guys are up to it. It'll be nice playing with the NA pilots. I'll send some messages out just to make sure everyone is aware.
RS - Thanks for letting me know
Sounds Good TCK, perhaps exchange tips to strengthen the NA team as a whole (not only practice for the main pilots but for the subs and any upcoming new NA pilots around).
Buddy might wanna hang out on Thursday, but I should be home around 11ish anyway. Friday is cool also.
Alright, we can have sessions Thursday and Friday. You can come in when you want/available. We may do this weekly. This'll help out both the mains and the subs AND any other NA racer that would like to practice.