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June 2021 Monthly Challenge - Antarctica

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June 2021 Monthly Challenge - Antarctica

Postby groovysmurf on Sun May 30, 2021 11:31 pm

Official Monthly Challenge for June 2021
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Antarctica

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June SCOREBOARD

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Settings - Bronze
Maps: Antarctica
Players Per Game: 2
Game Type: Poly 4
Initial Troops: Automatic
Play Order: Sequential
Spoils: Escalating
Reinforcements: Chained
FOG: YES
TRENCH: NO
Round Limit: 20 or 30
Round Length: 24 Hours or 2 Minute Speed
Joinability: Public except for specifically-designated tournaments

Settings - Silver
Maps: Antarctica
Players Per Game: 8
Game Type: Quads
Initial Troops: Automatic
Play Order: Sequential
Spoils: Escalating
Reinforcements: Chained
FOG: YES
TRENCH: NO
Round Limit: 20 or 30
Round Length: 24 Hours or 3 Minute Speed
Joinability: Public except for specifically-designated tournaments

Settings - Gold
Maps: Antarctica
Players Per Game: 8
Game Type: Standard
Initial Troops: Automatic
Play Order: Sequential
Spoils: Escalating
Reinforcements: Chained
FOG: YES
TRENCH: NO
Round Limit: 20 or 30
Round Length: 24 Hours or 2 Minute Speed
Joinability: Public except for specifically-designated tournaments

Medal Criteria
At least 23 POINTS are required for a medal and at least TWO DIFFERENT TOKENS.

Tokens are for wins only.

Each BRONZE Token is worth 1 point
Each SILVER Token is worth 2 points
Each GOLD Token is worth 3 points

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Re: June 2021 Monthly Challenge - Antarctica

Postby groovysmurf on Mon May 31, 2021 12:08 am

FAQs:

Who can play a Challenge?
Challenges are open to everyone!

How do I join?
No signups required. Join and/or create games that meet the given parameters for this month as found in the OP. Only public games count towards the challenge unless otherwise explicitly stated in the challenge OP. There is also a "join games" link in the OP to provide an easy list of qualifying games.

What are the prizes?
All players who meet or exceed the minimum number of required points for the month will earn a Challenge Achievement Medal. The point requirements change every month as we aim to provide a vast assortment of challenges which includes a varying level of difficulty.
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Site Event Medals are awarded to the top three finishers on the challenge scoreboard.
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In addition to the medals, the first place finisher receives: 1 Green Conquer Star
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And the 2nd-5th place finishers receive: 1 Blue Conquer Star
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When do I get my prize?
My goal is always to award prizes during the week following the completion of the event.

How do we deal with deadbeating?
Please report deadbeats in your games by sending me a PM. I will periodically do a random check however I cannot monitor every game. We will evaluate the distribution of prizes to a violating player on a case by case basis.

Tiebreakers?
Ties are awarded to the player who reached the point threshold first.

A player has me foed and it is preventing me from joining a lot of challenge games. What can I do?
PM the player in question. Be courteous and non-accusatory, ask why you are foed. Do your best to resolve any issues with the other user in this manner. However, if they decided not to remove you from their foe list then you will need to join games without that player or start your own.

What if I want to run a parallel tournament to the challenge?
Okay, awesome! Individual tournaments can be added to the challenges so that those games drop tokens. Send me a PM and we will get it added for the month.

Rulings:
1. Deadbeats will have entry points stripped.
2. Wins by round limit will drop tokens.
3. Inventory relating to the challenge will vanish at the end of the year.
4. Bot games do not drop tokens.
5. Any unforeseen abuse is still abuse. Don't take advantage of the system.

If you have any further questions or issues not covered here please either post in the active challenge thread or PM groovysmurf.

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Re: June 2021 Monthly Challenge - Antarctica

Postby Donelladan on Fri Jun 04, 2021 3:37 am

I really like the map, but I wished you'd picked a bit more original settings.

Poly(4), quad and FFA 8 players escalating are so common.

Some 12 players triple/quad, 8 players dub, freestyle double etc..

Escalating is the most common and imho enjoyable settings on this maps, and fit perfectly a monthly challenge (=, fast games), but the rest of settings could have been more original, or more open.

Why restrict so much what kind of games fit in the challenge btw ? Like poly(4) escalating chained -> could let the kind of fort open so people can do parachute/unlimited/adjacent at least.
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Re: June 2021 Monthly Challenge - Antarctica

Postby Keefie on Fri Jun 04, 2021 4:45 am

I would also like to make a complaint.

In the above picture, we can't really see the penguins very well and they are very small. We really do need better pictures of penguins and a few of different varieties too. I'm very upset about this.

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Re: June 2021 Monthly Challenge - Antarctica

Postby IcePack on Fri Jun 04, 2021 8:57 am

Donelladan wrote:I really like the map, but I wished you'd picked a bit more original settings.

Poly(4), quad and FFA 8 players escalating are so common.

Some 12 players triple/quad, 8 players dub, freestyle double etc..

Escalating is the most common and imho enjoyable settings on this maps, and fit perfectly a monthly challenge (=, fast games), but the rest of settings could have been more original, or more open.

Why restrict so much what kind of games fit in the challenge btw ? Like poly(4) escalating chained -> could let the kind of fort open so people can do parachute/unlimited/adjacent at least.


They’ve done that before on Antarctica challenges on different settings and what not before. It’s nice to have a variety instead of always doing random stuff or repeating the same thing over and over.

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Re: June 2021 Monthly Challenge - Antarctica

Postby groovysmurf on Fri Jun 04, 2021 11:56 am

The reason for sticking to escalating for this one was because we were also introducing the new escalating medals. For instance, when we introduced the new zombie medals, we used all zombie settings as well. I agree more variety is best. In hindsight, perhaps we should have done different reinforcements.

Regarding the penguins, they were not willing to sign the appropriate waivers so we were unable to show their faces.
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Re: June 2021 Monthly Challenge - Antarctica

Postby Keefie on Fri Jun 04, 2021 12:40 pm

groovysmurf wrote:
Regarding the penguins, they were not willing to sign the appropriate waivers so we were unable to show their faces.


It's their Union that's the problem here :(
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Re: June 2021 Monthly Challenge - Antarctica

Postby DBandit70 on Fri Jun 04, 2021 8:39 pm

Keefie wrote:I would also like to make a complaint.

In the above picture, we can't really see the penguins very well and they are very small. We really do need better pictures of penguins and a few of different varieties too. I'm very upset about this.

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also we need freestyle as an option on the 8 players game to make them fair, other wise if there like 15 games all same players in same order and then the player after the dumb player will win in almost everyone. I mean could invite the same 8 players to tons of games and put 1 bad player at the end so I play after him in every game so I win them :roll:
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Re: June 2021 Monthly Challenge - Antarctica

Postby Donelladan on Sat Jun 05, 2021 12:12 am

The reason for sticking to escalating for this one was because we were also introducing the new escalating medals.

Maybe that was unclear in my message, but I wasn't complaining about the choice of escalating spoils, more the rest of the settings.
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Re: June 2021 Monthly Challenge - Antarctica

Postby groovysmurf on Sat Jun 05, 2021 12:49 am

Donelladan wrote:
The reason for sticking to escalating for this one was because we were also introducing the new escalating medals.

Maybe that was unclear in my message, but I wasn't complaining about the choice of escalating spoils, more the rest of the settings.
Thanks for the response.

Yeah. In hindsight, those should have been more varied, for sure.
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Re: June 2021 Monthly Challenge - Antarctica

Postby rockfist on Thu Jun 24, 2021 1:57 pm

I did not get credit for winning this game Game 20980076...Its a Tribes game, but it meets the criteria for the monthly challenge so I would think it would count (besides I didn't pick the settings lol).
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Re: June 2021 Monthly Challenge - Antarctica

Postby IcePack on Thu Jun 24, 2021 2:01 pm

rockfist wrote:I did not get credit for winning this game Game 20980076...Its a Tribes game, but it meets the criteria for the monthly challenge so I would think it would count (besides I didn't pick the settings lol).


Joinability: Public except for specifically-designated tournaments

Not one of the special monthly challenge tournaments and not a public game.
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Re: June 2021 Monthly Challenge - Antarctica

Postby rockfist on Thu Jun 24, 2021 3:40 pm

ah crap...it showed up in the search under the challenge so I thought it counted :?
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Re: June 2021 Monthly Challenge - Antarctica

Postby Dukasaur on Thu Jun 24, 2021 4:01 pm

rockfist wrote:ah crap...it showed up in the search under the challenge so I thought it counted :?


In that case there could be a problem with the way the search links is written.
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Re: June 2021 Monthly Challenge - Antarctica

Postby groovysmurf on Thu Jun 24, 2021 5:42 pm

Dukasaur wrote:
rockfist wrote:ah crap...it showed up in the search under the challenge so I thought it counted :?


In that case there could be a problem with the way the search links is written.

There isn't a problem with the links in this thread. BW's links include private games. I informed him of this a few months ago and he said there is no need to change. Just use the links I provide or when you click the links from the event page, select "public" yourself.

And yes, that game does not count. It just happened to be the map/settings I selected to play in the tribal challenge. Sorry for any confusion.
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Re: June 2021 Monthly Challenge - Antarctica

Postby Dukasaur on Fri Jun 25, 2021 5:53 am

groovysmurf wrote:
Dukasaur wrote:
rockfist wrote:ah crap...it showed up in the search under the challenge so I thought it counted :?


In that case there could be a problem with the way the search links is written.

There isn't a problem with the links in this thread. BW's links include private games. I informed him of this a few months ago and he said there is no need to change. Just use the links I provide or when you click the links from the event page, select "public" yourself.

And yes, that game does not count. It just happened to be the map/settings I selected to play in the tribal challenge. Sorry for any confusion.


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Re: June 2021 Monthly Challenge - Antarctica

Postby groovysmurf on Tue Aug 10, 2021 3:37 pm

All achievements, awards and challenge dome points issued.
Thanks to all who played and congrats to IcePack! :-)
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