rules for a tourney?

[BEER4PKing]

Okay i would say if you have the 10 months tourney, dat we must decide some things so there is no arguing after the race possible.
I gonna tell how i should do it but i need your input, so we can make a set of rules for every tourney.

First i have a question, in HP we use a sort of random track chooser where you give in the amount of races and it will come up with cars,laps and tracks, is that possible for flatout2?

Okay here we go i make a list you all fill in the blanks

1. we always do everything (nitro, damage) on 1.

2, we always use the same car as host.

3. we must decide how we ranking (points) so this is a blank

4. we must decide wat to do if the game makes someone drop out.

5. is hamachi a way to play it more or less private?

6. you must use always the same nick.

7. we try to race clean as possible, there is no way to control that but arguments will be settled in the tourney itself as real democrats on the server.

8. the host takes pictures of the results, and one other member of the same server.

9. points i missed

Let us be clear and so simple as possible in the rules.

[drag_racer]

good Ideas. I'll just point out how we would do each one:

1, 2 - Game

3. myleague.com ... Sure we could make our own, but why spend the extra time on that when myleague.com has it for free. Making our own would be wasting time that could be put towards the v2 mod ...We could also link FOJ and the ranking page together.

4. find out how many people have a microphone. If enough people do, then we can use programs such as teamspeak or ventrilo (ventrilo is much easier to setup, and I have used both. It even has text chat for those that don't have a mic)

5. don't know anything about hamachi so can't reply to this one

6. Anyone not using the same nick are dq'ed. If you can't make your name inside Flatout 2, use this tutorial: http://flatoutjoint.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=14&Itemid=32

7. Is there a way to view replay online? if there is, then if someone is purposely hit off the road, use FRAPS to record the part of the replay that they hit you off. Otherwise no arguing that someone did unless if you have video proof.

8. FRAPS. easy as pressing a single button.

What would we do if we have tourneys with custom cars?

[drag_racer]

The other idea I got from playing in a myleague.com league, is Tournament Of Champions tournaments. Basically, they are tournaments hosted at the beginning of a month, and the only people that can play in it are the people that won a tournament in the previous month. This would help to find out who is the "Best of the Best". We then could extend it and have the monthly one a "Tournament of Winners", and once a year have a "Tournament of Champions" where there would only be a maximum of 12 people in it, as only the people that win the monthly "Tournament of Winners"  can go in. This would be the tournament to find out who really is the "best of the best". So no more bragging that you are the best, this will prove who is really the best.

edit: well after setting it up, I don't think it'd be a good Idea. I can see it having a lot of problems, as it already won't let me login to my admin account!
So now to making our own, even if it means just having a simple one.

[drag_racer]

well I found a tournament system. The only thing i don't know yet is if it supports 4 to  8 player play instead of just 1v1 or 2v2. Basically team play with 4 teams instead of 2 and 1 player per team.

http://www.mygamingladder.com/

[BEER4PKing]

good Ideas. I'll just point out how we would do each one:

1, 2 - Game

3. myleague.com ... Sure we could make our own, but why spend the extra time on that when myleague.com has it for free. Making our own would be wasting time that could be put towards the v2 mod ...We could also link FOJ and the ranking page together.

4. find out how many people have a microphone. If enough people do, then we can use programs such as teamspeak or ventrilo (ventrilo is much easier to setup, and I have used both. It even has text chat for those that don't have a mic)

5. don't know anything about hamachi so can't reply to this one

6. Anyone not using the same nick are dq'ed. If you can't make your name inside Flatout 2, use this tutorial: http://flatoutjoint.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=14&Itemid=32

7. Is there a way to view replay online? if there is, then if someone is purposely hit off the road, use FRAPS to record the part of the replay that they hit you off. Otherwise no arguing that someone did unless if you have video proof.

8. FRAPS. easy as pressing a single button.

What would we do if we have tourneys with custom cars?

1-2 are clear i think.

3. we go for myleauge.com?

4. there is already a TS server with a flatoutjoint cafe:-)

5. we keep that one open till we tryed normal hosting.

6. nick is not a issue, we use 1 nick for tourneys, and no changes alowed.

7. there is no replay thingy in FO2 so it looks like we must believe eachother?

8. fraps it will be.

First we try ingame cars, then it must be not to difficult to do custom cars if all use the same carpack.

I hope we getting somewhere now:-)

About making our own tourney, i gonna ask Marcellus once again, maybe he can be helpfull, because he had a dedicated site i think.
I think there is much time involved to keep a site like that running, so i can offer my help for that, hes dutch so we can understand eachoter:-)
Keep editing here, i see that Mottz has already a running tourney?
Maybe its not very handy to invent the wheel again?
I shall PM him.

[drag_racer]

well I found a site that had code for a tournament/ladder system for online (as posted earlier), so I e-mailed them to see if it supports 4 player (instead of 1v1, or 2v2, it would be simply 4 players, no teams), and if it does I think it would be a good one. The only problem is it costs $150.

[BEER4PKing]

Okay im away for the weekend, im only on this night so we wait till after this weekend.
I dont wanna pay for a tourney site so i find that site you found not good:-)
But you are looking wat is good:-)
I dont have a messaga back from Muttz/Mottz...forgot the name:-)

Looks like Muratus didnt find anything, Marcellus is building cars as i know, but i gonna ask him anyway:-)

If nothing gonna work we set one up, i have a domain so we can put it there, and we can keep it simple first, must find someone who is good at building something then, i clear my domain, and give someone acces to it thats no problem i think.

But every other idea is welcome:-)

[drag_racer]

Tournament systems are everywhere, the only problem is finding one that has 4 player "non-team" tournament systems. Like no teams, just 4 players playing against each other and 1 or 2 go on, as said before.