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Other Things => ea => Clans & Communities => Championship 2014 => Topic started by: SPW on April 07, 2014, 07:11 PM
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Sooner than last year EAC 2014 sign-ups will start. Get ready and in shape!
And.. lets talk about it. :)
When does sign-ups start?
- Monday 7th of April 2014.
When does the event start?
- 1st of June.
When does it end?
- October or begin of November.
Will it be like EAC 2013?
- the modus will be the same like last year. Just little changes in the payout structure. ;)
With trophies and cash prizes?
- yep! 8)
More questions? Lets just talk. And get warm by playing TEL. Seasons until #20 get rewarded with 150$ for the winner! Currently we are at season #16, few last days until start of playoffs.
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Lol dämn cash man spw. I hope you still got some money left to eat :D
Well thats cool! Ill be far from my apartment for whole summer so im not able to participate:C
Heh nc, sometimes I just got soups at the end of month. But works well. :)
Too bad you cant join once again after last year skip. People like you are always nice to see.
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Can we donate soup to EAC as well?
Looking forward to it :) GJ at another year ;)
Btw, are buy-ins allowed? Like in poker? ;D
Guess it has its drawbacks, but I dunno, think it would be pretty funny.
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No need to donate but if someone really wants, it goes into prediction game payout structure.
If interested, contact me with a pm.
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13 players are in so far. And all from different countries! That shows how populate worms is all over the world. :)
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arent u and random both playing? that's at least two germans :P
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Are you joking Almog? Switzerland and Germany ARE different countries.
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rofl!
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Lolz kidding dude ;)
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catched :D
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looking forward to this :D
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Woohoo, I am in. I passed as 20th player. Is there a strict limite of players? Do I have already an account on EAC site?
Looking forward for challenging elite matchs. My personal goal for this year is TOP 10 :)
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True, current we are 20 players. It wont get much higher than this. Random and I already spoke about it. We got the solution. :)
And about your account, you will get it as soon random is ready. There are still 4 weeks until it starts. No hurry about it.
And, top 10 is quite a tough goal. If you reach it, you did a good championship, thats for sure. Good luck. ;)
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Yay! Elite!
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Wish I could compete fellas, but I need to continue to avoid using my right hand as much as possible due to carpal tunnel. Maybe next year, who knows.
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Peace for you mab and I wish you all the best. Lets see next year. :)
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This goes to the participants of this year EAC. What you guys think about following idea?
- We report every single game played for EAC 2014 also for TEL League.
This means..
a) Both players, if not 3-0, has to report their wins right after the match-up ends. With the correct row, win by win.
b) It affects your personal statistics of TUS / TEL.
c) Everybody has more to do's and if missed, it causes work for TUS-moderators.
d) Positive: It brings a lot activity instead of nothing when just reported at specific EAC Homepage. Also it could take some players back to activity, and not only for seperate EAC statistics.
I dont talk about some little amount of games. Based on 21 players, there are 20 rounds with each 10 match-ups. It could go on 1000 single games, if all games ending 3-2. And it would affect at least 3 seasons of TEL (#17-19).
So guys, wanna hear you now. ^^
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Good idea, I'm in.
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Good idea, I'm in.
Me too.
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Good idea, I'm in.
Me too.
me too
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I'm against that idea. EAC and TEL are two different things and I don't want to be forced for playing TEL. Plus it's fake 'activity boost' which would drop down once the EAC is finished.
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I'm against that idea. EAC and TEL are two different things and I don't want to be forced for playing TEL. Plus it's fake 'activity boost' which would drop down once the EAC is finished.
seems right
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I'm against that idea. EAC and TEL are two different things and I don't want to be forced for playing TEL. Plus it's fake 'activity boost' which would drop down once the EAC is finished.
seems right
Yea. No change then. Just would do it if none disagree.
btw, only few days until eac starts! 8)
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Two players can still agree to also report their games here.
Not as big of an add to the activity as if all games would be reported here,but it could still count.
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i dont like to mix both things, EAC games and TEL ones
we dont play the games in a same way.. or yes? ;)
btw, Csongi said is ok, both players agree, then report as TEL games too
i leave an open door about theme
peace
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Dont have a problem if both agree. Thats prolly the best solution. ;)
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i dunno where to post this:
Championship 2014
Anything related to the ea Championship 2013 will be in here.
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copy/paste for the win. Ty :)
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Two players can still agree to also report their games here.
Not as big of an add to the activity as if all games would be reported here,but it could still count.
agree.
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I want to sign-up to the yachting tour by accepting all weather-conditions and rules of the open sea. I will do my very best to make every sailing turn possible and I won't walk the plank before the end. I will be drinking wine and will respect any other participants and also the moderators (even if they look like riviva).
By philie
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I had to laugh. :D
Nice one and cool Sig. For further graphics, the fonts name is obelix-bold.
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For further graphics, the fonts name is obelix-bold.
ok, thanks :D
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lol philie
jokes appart, i would like to know when EAC site is ready to know opponents and more info
i need to contact with those players i will play in 1st & 2nd week, ASAP
ty
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The table gets public at sunday. Maybe saturday. Its not allowed to play games beforehand so we prefer to public it as late as possible.
And we know about your circumstances lales, no worry. :)
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uf, nice then ;) maybe im a bit impatient, hehe
cu soon mates !!
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lales has right, it would be nice to know the opponent. eac site is already launched?
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The table gets public at sunday. Maybe saturday. Its not allowed to play games beforehand so we prefer to public it as late as possible.
And we know about your circumstances lales, no worry. :)
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hope I will not get hard opponent at start..
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lales has right, it would be nice to know the opponent. eac site is already launched?
Random will launch it. Anyway for the first round of the prediction game you wont have much time. So check the page before 20 GMT. If its too short, maybe we start the PG from 2nd round.
Lales, just check tus page from wifi-point. I guess you got a free round for first matchday and if not, you got +1 week.
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ok ty ;) I will check it
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EAC-Page 2014 will launch today between 17 GMT - 18 GMT.
We decided to start the prediction game from 2nd round so everybody having 1 week to predict all games.
We wish every participant a good championship. Fight for get a legend! :)
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The page is up and running under http://www.2014.eac-wa.com
The URL http://www.eac-wa.com will direct there as well.
Every participant should have received the password to log in.
The prediction game will be enabled at 20:00 GMT and prediction will start with second matchday.
Good luck and have fun everyone!
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lolo SPW first, then Random. Time to go Robben mode >:(
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Question!
We are asked not to plan/schedule our games before the matchday starts (Sunday 20:00 GMT). But what if I like to play at Sunday 20:00GMT (or later that night) ? Obviously there's a rare chance that my opponent will visit the forums/PMs and be ready to play my games with such a short immediate notice :x
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Scheduling before the matchday starts means that the game itself shouldn't start before this matchday. You're obviously allowed to arrange dates for your match earlier :)
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https://www.tus-wa.com/forums/ea-championship-2014/eac-2014-meeting-point-24019/msg200520/#new
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Dont get me wrong. Of course you can schedule your next match before a new round starts. But just dont do this in the meeting-point thread. You can contact your next opponent with a pm or any other way. Just want the meeting-point thread clear round for round.
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k thats what I figured just wanted a clarification
thanks
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Oh, seems like I also misunderstood those rules!
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I just talk about to schedule it, not to play it. Just saying.. ::)
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I need rope skills
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Hey guys,
is there a way to see which person did which prediction?
aaaaaaaaaaand gj @ Ray for betting an Master ;)
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Rabbit im home in about an hour
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You both have a free round, check Randoms post.
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Yea was quite lucky, right the minute we wanted to start random sent the message
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Hey guys,
is there a way to see which person did which prediction?
aaaaaaaaaaand gj @ Ray for betting an Master ;)
That's funny, if you look at the prediction table, everyone predicted Almog's win except from me. ;D
By the way, why do two people have a free round in one round? Why not play against each other in that round? ???
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Duplicate.
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Ahaha thx Ray for believe on me :D
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Even Dulek didn't see that one coming ;)
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f@#! I missed this one :(
Gl all! Have a good one. Props for staff!
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@Ray, it was too complicated. For more details, ask Random. Besides its not a big deal and everybody has 2 free weeks. Thats also nice imo. :) And we can enjoy EAC some more days. 8)
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Is there any punishment for joining and backing off?
Edit: not that I want to or anything I just want to know since barman got kicked out.
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By the way, why do two people have a free round in one round? Why not play against each other in that round? ???
For example in round 1, chuvash and lales have a free round. Sure, they could play against each other. But then check round 2, where chuvash has to play against lales. So you don't gain anything by changing the schedule there.
If you wanna avoid giving two free rounds each matchday, you had to set a whole new schedule starting at matchday 3, which is a very complex task, given this new schedule has to have the same first two matchdays than the current one.
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Shame on you, barman! What about replacing him, is that an option? Free is back active, maybe he could have his spot? I heard rumours about killger being back as well, but he's not ea + risk @activity
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Its always a risk, so we decided that way and we keep it. Nothing against replacement but this isnt sure as well. Free was just too late and killger isnt an option as you already said (activity???).
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Oh, I didn't realize barman was originally in the schedule, but he's not anymore. What happened there? ??? Of course this explains the two free rounds.
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Yeee let me in! I'll do anything! :D
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it is actually BIGtalk
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Why do you guys think it is that some people are better at predicting games and some are less good? Do you think this has to do with some kind of a sense, imagination or what?
So far in the prediction games I did pretty well, 1.5 points per games in 2012 (1,44 for the winner Dulek) and 1,30 points per game in 2013 (again 1,44 for the winner Dulek) and the only reason I didn't have a realistic shot at the end was that I missed out on placing the bets.
Why do you think it is that these statistics can be so consistent - especially in Dulek's case, I mean that ratio is just plain amazing. I usually score better without using any strategy at all and just predict what I feel, but analyzing data can lead to good scores as well.
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While making my predictions I just noticed that I didn't play against half of participants. The fact that I missed the predicitons for Matchday 1.&2. explain my disastrous rate :-)
Other topic: I really miss a shoutbox on EAC-Site! It would be so easy to install one.
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Other topic: I really miss a shoutbox on EAC-Site! It would be so easy to install one.
there wasn't the need to have one so far. But sure, I could do something about it, if it's needed
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It might come in handy if TUS site/forums go down again.
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Thats a good argument.
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Hey guys, how do you enjoy the championship so far? How does everyone feel they are doing?
I for one already overdid my own expectation regarding my performance. :D Considering I did absolutely nothing worms-wise in the past year...
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u r playing good Ray ;) gj
take care with Random and speacially with me
cu around :D
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Hey guys, how do you enjoy the championship so far? How does everyone feel they are doing?
I for one already overdid my own expectation regarding my performance. :D Considering I did absolutely nothing worms-wise in the past year...
I'm really enjoying this competition. My goal is to finish in the top 10 even though I know it will be hard because everyone is very strong. However, the start looks promising, I hope to keep it up :)
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My perfomance is a little bit restricted by the fact that I had to play 3 of my 7 games on my netbook.
I feel more confident when I am at home at my desctop computer. Still looking forward to roll up the players list from behind :p
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Overall it seems to be running smoother and smoother after a start with 2 kicks/leaves.
All games up to matchday 8 have been done now and there were lots of good games with quite a few surprising results. This also shows that we have many strong players and at the moment it's hard to tell who will be on the top ranks at the end. Currently there is noone who didnt lose yet and there are 6 players with only 1 loss. :)
Regarding my own performance so far, I'm quite happy with my games. Maybe except for my games vs franz where I was simply worse in 2 rounds and lost round 4 by some silly mistakes. But anyway, eac will last some more weeks, so I'll look forward to my next games :)
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I'm also happy with the activity, keep it up! And its maybe not the strongest lineup compared to 2013, but the players are closer together skillwise and new participants like casso, csongi, master, whiterabbit and joschi giving a lot of spirit and good competition.
My own performance is swingy as hell. Yea, maybe my bng works well but I had some strange moves which I usually dont have (for example against casso). But I got the reason about it. At first, my activity. Since almost 2 years I only play eac. At second, I do have some very hard weeks with my job, that makes it hard to keep the focus over many games in a row. I still can beat everyone, but I guess this year I also can loss against everyone.
But I do enjoy this and I am also happy by watching some good and tight games. There is a lot of elite power at eac 2014. And still everybody can win it. :)
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I play Worms from about 10 years, and its incredible that i heard only this year to this league.. And league starts 2009!! Btw its very nice and i love play it... And this thaaanks to SPW and Random. Ho pe we ll continue play this awesome game, and if this will be its thank to you.
For my 1st year of it i think i could do better but its ok.
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I play Worms from about 10 years, and its incredible that i heard only this year to this league.. And league starts 2009!! Btw its very nice and i love play it... And this thaaanks to SPW and Random. Ho pe we ll continue play this awesome game, and if this will be its thank to you.
For my 1st year of it i think i could do better but its ok.
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all in all, well done fratello ;D
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I play Worms from about 10 years, and its incredible that i heard only this year to this league.. And league starts 2009!! Btw its very nice and i love play it... And this thaaanks to SPW and Random. Ho pe we ll continue play this awesome game, and if this will be its thank to you.
For my 1st year of it i think i could do better but its ok.
Not 2009. First EAC was 2011. And not a league. A championship! :)
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Oooooooh come on 2009 2011 its same
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I've been really enjoying the championship so far this year and happy with some of my wins and disappointed with some loses. As mentioned by other the competition is great and all the games are pretty close!
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I love EAC
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Is this dedication or just plain batshit crazyness?
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Did that also at gigaliga 2003, bit different but in the end it was the same. Pic coming soon. 8)
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Haha, now I know why I lost to Ray, he was clearly cheating! ::)
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I just write on a paper the weapons my opponents used :X
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Yeah, I do the same in eac :D
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Yea Almog, I also do this, just this way. Easier for me. I also take notes, like with Girders for example, I just draw a line every time it's used, then when my opponent is out of Girders, I black out the Girder on the picture of the inventory with the sharpy. This way, when I look down, I instantly see my opponent's inventory, except from the super weapon of course.
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Heh ok, it's fun to know how others people do their games :]
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This would distract me a lot more then help me ;-)
When I played Intermediate on a decent level, I made notes, too. But I think at elite this isn't as necessary as as it is in Intermediate, for the simple fact that the set up is more simple.
But I like the idea behind this: play the game in a more and more professional way. Because of this, I am very mad about the fact that I have to play EAC on my netbook with a tiny resolution and a tiny keyboard. That doesn't allow big moves.
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I also play on a notebook, for about 4-5 years. That never really disturbed me.
How big is your screen?
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I play on a mini notebook 10,2" :-) But only during the summer months, in september I will go back home where I have my normal computer.
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yeah that is tiny. I got 15"
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I have always played on a notebook too, but my screen is 15,6' and my resolution 1366x768.
I play better when I'm at university because I'm alone and connession isn't so bad. When I'm at home everyone call/distract me and it's hard to focus on game. It's no coincidence that I lost my last 3 matches in a row at home :(
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yeah that is tiny. I got 15"
15 is not huge either Almog, but whatever makes your gf satisfied I guess
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I play better when I'm at university because I'm alone and connession isn't so bad. When I'm at home everyone call/distract me and it's hard to focus on game. It's no coincidence that I lost my last 3 matches in a row at home :(
Interesting to read how you explain your recent drop in form Casso. During my studies in Sports Management I had some basic psychology focusing on athletes, and attribution theory was one of a few things I found interesting... Some of what defines a top-athlete is how they attribute their success and defeat. You attribute your bad results to external factors (that are out of your control), such as slow connection, telephone ringing, parents disturbing you and so on. I'm not buying it, it's too easy way out to explain your bad results. How does a bad connection have anything to do with how you perform in a turn-based game? It's not like it's making you screen-lag or anything. Are you receiving more calls from friends when you are at home vs at university? In that case, you could always turn off your phone for those 1-2 hours of playing.
The self-serving bias is the tendency to attribute successes to internal factors and failures to external/situational factors. This bias tends to increase as time passes after an event. Therefore, the further in the past an event is, the more likely people are to congratulate themselves for successes (internal) and to blame the situation (external) for failures.
You told me yourself that you always predict loss for yourself in EAC in the prediction game. Except in the games vs Joschi, myself and Ray. I assume this is because these were games you felt confident you were gonna win(no offence taken ;P). The games vs Ray and me were the ones where you did the most amount of mistakes so far in EAC. Coincidence? I doubt it.. If you'd try to attribute your poor results to internal factors, you might come to a different conclusion that could improve your performance later on in the championship: Did I underestimated my opponent? Did I lack focus and did I not concentrate 100%? Things like that, so that you don't make the same mistakes again (which you did vs me one week after the games vs Ray). Now you also lost your third game in a row to Almog at home, but chances are equally big in my opinion, that you'd lose to him in University as well. You're a great player Casso, you've had some really convincing wins in this championship, but if you want to be in the top with Random, Almog and so on, you have to be more critical to your own performance, IMO!
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Some good psycho words, Crazy. ;D But you are right and no offense to Casso. But you gave him the super trooper hint for the future. If he got it, he will win EAC 2015, even with Random00, Mablak and all the top players involved.
EAC is way different to play compare to normal tournaments. In a championship you have to play your best once a week, for several month. Only the very best will win it. There is no luck / bad luck over all the matchdays. You're rank never lies!
Casso and also Csongi are players with a very big potential to rule everything. But mental far away from Random00, Mablak, Almog. Also Ray and some others cant control their emotions. The winner is always the cooler. Like germany at wc. Skill and Control = Win! :)
No offense to all of you. You know I love every ea member ;D
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I really appreciated these tips and I will try to put them into practice. However, I believe to be light years away from players like Random, Mablak and others top players. I would need many more years of practice to reach certain levels. Maybe in EAC 2020 :D
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I wish to thank Crazy and SPW for their kind words. :-[ ;D ;D ;D
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SPW, I would like to respectfully disagree with your statement. I think my playing and my recent results speak for themselves and I don't think at all that the lack of controlling my "emotions" are working against me, or not even sure what that means even.
Nice analysis there Crazy! I can something similar on myself too, although that's more related to extra pressure not because of confidence but rather recent results and personal wishes. I really wanted to beat Joschi because that would have put me to a place in the standings that I would have been satisfied with. Hence, I lost.
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You speak a lot of psychologics :) Just gimme a better hardware and I am already higher ranked :)
I dream of molotov throwings like Random, Ray or Casso are able to do. Random saied, for him it's only math. But on a 10' monitor you can't applicate Randoms concept. Recently somebody asked me if I am drunk, because I horrible failed the supersheep. But I have a far smaller image section then most of my opponents.
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Yea Joschi, I told you the same thing, those notches are just mathematics, really, and on full HD it's very easy to do. More so, full power bazookas are also easy to calculate with the wind, usually one wind means roughly around 1.1 difference to the aiming, but that varies highly.
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Sure a perfect notching helps, but thats not all. You can change your tactic on anti-bng and then its almost useless. You also can watch plenty of Elites from Random00 without one single notched molotov or nade / zook.
Sure a little screen is an handicap. But the biggest factor is in your head. When you dont believe having a chance before the game started you probably will lose. And if I check some random replays a lot of games ending only with an one turn advantage.
So yea, notching on a small screen is hard. But other factors (technic, tactic, mental) are much more important.
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1) I don't notch. I mean, I never calculated it or put a ruler on my screen or whatever you do to figure out how many clicks on the arrow u need to hit position X. Yet, that doesn't bother me.
2) What has the screen size to do with notching? If it's just mathematics (and it is), then you only need to do the same thing and same math with merely a different "screen coefficient" (lol).
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Well, its harder. For example Random00 can do a 4.1 notch in the same screen and Joschi would have to scroll all that landscape 2 or 3 times. That makes it harder. Also its harder to count the steps when everything is so damn small. ^^
But again, you dont win a lot of elites only cause of being a notcher. And there is no 100% hit. Random00 maybe having a 95% hit, me maybe 80% (cause of my unsensible keyboard) ;D, Casso maybe 90%.
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Well, its harder. For example Random00 can do a 4.1 notch in the same screen and Joschi would have to scroll all that landscape 2 or 3 times. That makes it harder. Also its harder to count the steps when everything is so damn small. ^^
But again, you dont win a lot of elites only cause of being a notcher. And there is no 100% hit. Random00 maybe having a 95% hit, me maybe 80% (cause of my unsensible keyboard) ;D, Casso maybe 90%.
Casso's accuracy is definetly higher than mine. I never got really used to my current screen regarding notching.
But anyway, I also think that having a bigger screen / bigger resolution comes in handy when you notch a shot. But I find it even more important that you see a lot more of the map at once.
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Well, its harder. For example Random00 can do a 4.1 notch in the same screen and Joschi would have to scroll all that landscape 2 or 3 times. That makes it harder. Also its harder to count the steps when everything is so damn small. ^^
But again, you dont win a lot of elites only cause of being a notcher. And there is no 100% hit. Random00 maybe having a 95% hit, me maybe 80% (cause of my unsensible keyboard) ;D, Casso maybe 90%.
Casso's accuracy is definetly higher than mine. I never got really used to my current screen regarding notching.
But anyway, I also think that having a bigger screen / bigger resolution comes in handy when you notch a shot. But I find it even more important that you see a lot more of the map at once.
Yea, somehow it keeps your brain more organized that you don't have to scroll with your mouse. I generally also hit Shift + Scroll Lock to keep the screen at one position during most of the game.
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So yea, notching on a small screen is hard. But other factors (technic, tactic, mental) are much more important.
Your technic is influenced by hardware. Try to fly a supersheep on a lower resolution. Smaller the screen, more difficult to fly a supersheep. Always the guy who has +1 option wins. The guy who knows to block the other one by a molotov, though he is on the other side of the map got +1 option. The delivered hardware is the base of your skills.
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So yea, notching on a small screen is hard. But other factors (technic, tactic, mental) are much more important.
Your technic is influenced by hardware. Try to fly a supersheep on a lower resolution. Smaller the screen, more difficult to fly a supersheep. Always the guy who has +1 option wins. The guy who knows to block the other one by a molotov, though he is on the other side of the map got +1 option. The delivered hardware is the base of your skills.
It is not the base, it is the outlet.
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And here my promised pictures. ;D
(http://www.team-coldfusion.de/board/download/file.php?id=1955)
(http://www.team-coldfusion.de/board/download/file.php?id=1954)
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That's quite something!
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:D
first time I see this
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omg lol
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Oo Rabbit is that oldschool, didn't know. Cool pics SPW
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yea, Rabbit is pretty oldsql. :) That was about 10 years ago and it was the best way to find matches. Just click on "Fast Challenge" on a specific time and within few seconds you got your random opponent.
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Can we predict who will win the prediction game? :]
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The fact that I had seen many replays at least is proving useful in the prediction :D
It will be a close race.
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If Random can win both his two last matches 3-0 he will end up almost with the exact same result as Crash had in his stunning 2012 championship. That year Crash won 18 out of 19 matches with the score 54-11. Random will end up with 18 out of 19 matches won and 53-11 in score if he wins both his last matches 3-0. However, Random had one match less to improve his score since Devilage failed to play this year... You have set the score as 1-0 vs Devilage for everyone, but why is this? It's a bo5, 3-0 would be more logical
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I think the 1-0 has something to do with not just Devilage but everyone who loses by forfeit, so it won't mess up the prediction games.
It looks like Random will finish 1st anyway... the drama will porbably take part in the last match of the season when I will meet Lukz perhaps for a direct combat on 2nd place O_O
That of course only if Crazy who's doing an amazing season won't kick my ass
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Random has to fight me next week and I will win at least one game, hrhr. But yea, pretty similar score compared to Crash's amazing 2012 one.
by the way, Almog, you should report draw games. Only disconnected one's nobody cares. 8)
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the link for the 6th (1st) game is in the comments :o
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i'll add it to the page now ;s