The Wipeout HD Cup

[MetaKraken]

Lol I also pre-ordered GT5 (unless I already said this), but I'm not playing it yet.

[Kryowing]

Will anyone be recording the matches? If so, I'd really like to watch them; I have no recording hardware myself and I can't enter the tourney. D:

[kanar]

yes for sure, lots of meeting will be recorded mate. We'll open a feedback/log/vids/report thread I think, when the cup will start.

[DjM1zw1z]

i hope people wont judge me for my low rank in the cup

[kanar]

'til the end of this journey in World of WipEout.

Wanted to post a small update, especially with Gt5 release. I think we need to clarify some stuffs right now.

83.98% of red pills, that's already a fantastic performance, so I would like to thank all the pilots who confirmed their participation. Special thanks to my Raptor mates, you guys did a fantastic job so far, spending ages sending pm, mails, phone calls, smoke signals to every pilots who previously signed in this cup. To be honest, I realise 256 was somewhat unrealistic, wipeout hd is awesome but was released long time ago now, so motivating such a big number now is def. mayhem. But I can't forget these 200+ pilots who are definitely IN, that's just amazing, & this is already such a nice picture for the record.

Less than one month before the start now. Among the people who didn't confirm yet, I'm certain half of them will pop up in the next few days, as they're well know members here. There's some special cases too (the (P) status, who just can't give me a definitive answer right now). I'm rather confident & I respect these people, busy with their real life probably, but who'll give me a head up as soon as they could for sure. I'm insisting on this point, as what's I'm about to say below is definitely not aimed at everyone in this sad, blue status.

I'm dedicating this major, BIG :- to the dudes who made me/us loose my/our time, in this order :

Number 1, the ****ing campers in the boards who just popped up at some point & never gave any news from now. Once again, behind internet & psn IDs, there's people so the least you can do is to answer to the pms we send you. We're not dogs, we're human beings.

Number 2, the dudes who quitted for stupid reasons. Right from the start, I just proposed a major wipeout pilots piss up, nothing more. Of course there's some bots registered in the cup, and I should say hopefully too, just for the show & some future great uber high skilled yt vids. But for the majority of us, including me,

this cup is nothing more than a farewell to one of the best game ever made. So to the motivated ones, you'll never walk alone. My fighting spirit will compensate my lack of skills, and I'll give my best to pass the first round at least lol. I just want to feel this joy of racing in a big, intense wipeout competition a last time. I waited for 5 years to play gt5, so the stig & the Lambos can wait a bit for me now. I gave you my word there, I won't disappear, I'm not that kind of man. Because I respect way too much all the pilots who confirmed their attendance to this GRAND FINALE.

Now the upcoming schedule. Deadline for the blue IDs is around Dec. 5/10, at least for the (P) status & for some well known zoners & pilots we all know. For the others, I mean the IDs we never heard about, they'll be put in the waiting list as soon as we find motivated pilots ready right now to enter the comp.

PS Home ceremony is still scheduled for the early days of December, we could organise maybe (maybe) a rehearsal for some teaser needs before, as I think we need some kind of counter attack with this gt5 release. I'm sure at 100% a teaser featuring 50/100 wipeout pilots dancing all together at the wipeout museum could have a great & positive impact on the registrations.

I've been confident in these registrations so far, but of course we're starting to wonder what to do in case we couldn't reach this 256 magic number. Perhaps the best thing is to draw lots anyway, & offer the opportunity to some unseeded pilots to pass the 1st round without racing. This is the worst scenario there of course. Cos' as akirapill could say, it could be somewhat insulting for them in this case.
At least I'm sure we'll have a great competition after this critical round 1.

[slow-train]

hi kanar,i still have loads of wipeout buddies who haven't registered for this event ! so im gonna do some bullying n tell them to put there ego's aside n register asap

[Eloï]

Hi Kanar and blackwiggle, I'm sorry to have kept you waiting. I'm indeed in. Just sent a psn message to you blackwiggle to confirm.

[slow-train]

hi, xdjope and AIR-HEAD33 both want to join! if you need more racers?

[kanar]

No worries there Eloï, I knew regarding your internet problems and so on. Really glad you're definitely taking part!!!

slow-train, big thx for your scouting report eh eh. I'm registering xdjope in my board already (Vulture board, I will send him a confirmation registration pm tonight, hope you or Triboy could help him if he needs translations), & I'm registering AIR-HEAD33 in the waiting list for now, but as I didn't turn my ps3 yet I'm sure I have some "sorry but I'm way too much busy" pms waiting for me, so he'll probably receive a confirmation registration pm too.

[jeegee]

Hi, newbie to forum, but not to wipeout (joined up to go for bb as there is a dedicated thread on here), i would be well up for this! please consider me. PSN ID : JEEGEE. I will reply as soon as i get inboxed.

[kanar]

Hey Jeegee, thanks for your interest there! I'm registering you on the waiting list for the moment, but you can already consider you're in as I'll find you a slot before the end of the day.

[jeegee]

Ok thanks, i will keep an eye on my inbox!

[OBH]

Any idea when we'll find out who our opponent is???

I'll have easy access to my brothers ps3 over Christmas, so i'd like to try and sort out a time frame with my opponent as soon as I can.

[mic-dk]

Buzzards FTW! 100% confirmation

Pretty excited to see if Wellington still got it. Of course, if I draw him, he'll be back in top-form, I'm sure

[kanar]

ok blackwiggle just drawed the lots for buzzard group, I have my sis in law & his boyfriend at home atm, but I'll update the whole stuff in a few hours (including the buzzard board). jeegee I'm thinking about you too, sorry guys now they fked my wz access at work I can't stay up to date lol.

OBH as soon as your board reach 100% we'll draw the lots & you'll know your opponent & you could arrange your meeting

[Constrictor]

Hi kanar, I had a chat w/ Mateo (Mister_Mateo) my Melon mate from Xpand. I don't think he'll confirm as he's very busy w/ his study ATM. I gave my best to get him back on track - though I might have failed. Maybe you'd give him a final call to confirm .. or leave the slot.

[OBH]

Nice one

[kanar]

Jeez big thanks Darkdrium for the technical help, I'm a real jerk with these hypertext link codes. Mic I'm really sorry, I couldn't believe it myself when I saw the toss, especially after I read your post above; all blame on this internet site lol : http://www.random.org/lists/

We have a serious round 1 already there, some crazy meetings for sure! You guys are free to already contact your opponent now, we'll see if we can maybe launch the cup earlier. Ok I've more work to do, must check the pms I received on my ps3 for updating the first post of this thread


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AND oooops I forgot : the official WOHDC Hymn will be unveiled tomorrow, stay tuned for more infos real soon!

[OBH]

Pretty excited to see if Wellington still got it. Of course, if I draw him, he'll be back in top-form, I'm sure

Cant believe it - "mic-dk99 vs Wellington86". Did you know something the rest of us didnt?

[blackwiggle]

That's freaky, I'd love to know the odds of picking that.

What I did is copy & paste each unseeded pilots name in Buzzard group from the first page in the order that they appear into Notepad, then pasted that into the random list generator, ran the program and that's how they came out.

IMHO looking at who is in it, Buzzard is the toughest group of the lot.