Quote from: Cueshark on June 29, 2012, 10:07 AM
That was the funniest shot ever!

QFT

both URLs work now.
future plans are that 2012.eac-wa.com will always be the URL for this year's edition. eac-wa.com will always redirect to the current version of the championship ^^

It might be a bit offtopic, but:

Quote from: Mablak on June 28, 2012, 02:46 AM
Also something to consider: ties may have a suspense factor, but they always favor the better player, and the larger the margin of error in times we consider draws, the more it favors them. Suppose you have an 82.5% chance of winning, and 17.5% chance of losing against a particular player. Then suppose a rule creates a 5% chance of a draw, and let's say the probabilities go to 80% chance of winning, 5% chance of drawing, and 15% chance of losing. In actuality, we might not subtract 2.5% from wins and losses evenly, but I think this works assuming both players have similarly shaped normal distributions of their times.

This 5% chance of drawing implies playing another game, so you could rephrase it as "5% chance of (80% chance of winning, 5% chance of drawing, and 15% chance of losing)". Or to just focus on the winning percentage, it becomes .8 + .05(.8 + .05(.8...)), which can be written .8 + (.05)*(. + (.05^2)*(. + (.05^3)*(. +.... This is just a geometric series, .8*(summation from n = 0 to infinity of) .05^n. You might remember learning at one point that a geometric series reduces to 1/(1-r), where r is the ratio. So this sum is equal to .8/(1-.05) = .8421, so the real winning ratio is 84.21%.

You're assuming that the chances will go from 82.5% for A and 17.5% for B to 80% for A, 15% for B and 5% draw, which is not logical imo. Let's say a draw is what it is now (players finishing in the same second), then chances that A finishes first in this second are higher than 50%. If B has not some super mental power which makes him stronger in close situations, A should even be first in 82.5% of the cases. Which means that draws wouldn't change anything at the winning percentage.
Even if B would perform better in close game than he usually does, the winning percentage for A just slightly increases. And you chose a pretty high winning percentage for A as an example.
To sum it up: I don't think draws have practical influence (less than 1%) on the outcome of a game.

And also:

Quote from: Statik on June 28, 2012, 06:36 AM
Just a note: 1ms = 1/1000s. WA shows only hundredths of seconds (1cs = 1/100s). So 34.56 = 34 seconds and 560 milliseconds, but not 56ms. So be careful with calling it "ms" Wiki

Quote from: Worms2d.info
Each turn is divided in frames, at a rate of 50 frames per second.

source: http://worms2d.info/Replay_file

Quote from: Ray on June 28, 2012, 03:11 PM
Is it wrong if I prefer private messages through the site rather than using the Meeting-Point topic? I'll always send a Bcc to both Random00 and SPW. I prefer that because I get email notifications about private messages and also, you cannot miss that. :{

both ways are ok, as long as you always send a copy to spw and/or me if you prefer PMs

It never crashed for me so far.
It's just full of bugs, especially at the end of a game. Everything related to planes seems to bugged....

We agreed to play wednesday or thursday in the evening

auhauhuahu, it started!
...and playing SPW first round, meh

gl everyone!

To all those who say the time in the replay is something like "the one and only truth":
It's a question of how things are defined:

Time in the world as we know it is continuous, in Worms however time is discrete. 1 Second is split up in 50 frames, each lasting 0.02 secs.
The ingame clock discretizes time even more. You can only see whole seconds. So, why should this definition of ingame time be worse than the other? Because its just farer away from continuous time?
Well, then what about finishing itself, if you hit your head before finishing, the timer will stop earlier as if it would when you reach the finish without stopping the timer.
Measuring the time for your run is defined as either the time where the timer stopped before you reached finish or at the exact frame when you hit the Finish word (or something similar depending on the map). This definition is as far away from the truth or reality as measuring ingame time in whole seconds is.

So, imo there is no good reason for either side. It's just a matter of taste. I'm fine with either having the rule or just having everything as its now.

lales was always responsible and tried to play his games in time.
I still remember asking you several times that you finally get your games played, I never had to ask lales.
And since I don't see any reason why the behaviour for this years eac would change, we chose lales to be the last participant.

If you signed during the first days of signup, you woulda been in I guess

Quote from: Dub-c on June 26, 2012, 01:46 AM

Quote from: ropa on June 25, 2012, 09:50 PM
Nah, there's been times with much more competition and more contenders. In WL, from the top of my head, whilst HoS kind of dominated there were plenty of other top clans to today's 3: t5x, eif, susuii, dwi, bS, CoN, AC etc etc.

[...]
The very fact that you say HoS dominated back then totally negates your argument that there was more competition and more contenders.

Thats exactly what I thought as well lol. But imo this whole discussion is pointless. The most important thing is that we still have fun playing this old game, isnt it?

sick bl with Dub's sheep at 15:50, and then this unreal Supersheep by Husk in the next turn lmao xD

Quote from: Dub-c on June 24, 2012, 03:58 PM

Quote from: SPW on June 24, 2012, 02:45 PM
A new feature will be there! Its a prediction game! You can give your votes before every round to earn some points. A direct hit (f.E. 3-1 win from A) gives you 3 points. The right winner 1 point. After 19 rounds top 1 player will get $20, second best $10. So sponsoring rises to $400.

You cant play rounds beforehand without contact a Moderator. Only current games are open to report and its not allowed save replays by playing earlier. If you have a problem by organize a date with your opponent, contact a Moderator. We dont accept old replays and reports.

Right after a round starts, you have to contact your opponent about possible times to play. Do this at the "Meeting Point-Thread" at beginning. If you wanna pm your opponent too, just send it with a copy to Random00 or me. We decide very consistently and taking all possible facts to be on the right side. Its better you just play all your games in time and dont wait until the very last day if its not necessary. Avoiding and dodging isnt an attribute of an ea-member!  

As I said yesterday, soon you'll get a private message with all the important facts.

And note: For first round there is only a small window to give your votes in the prediction game. So be awake!

I love this predictions game! Would be better if we all had an amount of fake money at the start and odds to bet.

You'd need someone who's making the odds for this, which is quite a hard task imo. So, we'll start the prediction game with the details SPW posted above.
But ideas like that are always welcome

I accidentally reported wrong.
Tomi played instead of Professor.

Game link: https://www.tus-wa.com/leagues/game-115192/

wow, cool shot 
Also the end by style is pretty nice I think 

gj franz