Dungeon Crawl: Stone Soup - The Soupening

Michael wrote:

I also watch Demise a fair bit but I feel like I get less useful info. Different play styles. His “presentation” videos are often useful, his gameplay less so.

Yeah I like his presentation videos although he can sometimes come off as kind of a dick.

I've grown to almost like Demise's videos more. He just does runs so fast!

tboon wrote:
Michael wrote:

I also watch Demise a fair bit but I feel like I get less useful info. Different play styles. His “presentation” videos are often useful, his gameplay less so.

Yeah I like his presentation videos although he can sometimes come off as kind of a dick.

I'm willing to give the benefit of the doubt that it's mostly schtick. But who knows.

Looks like seven signed up so far, so two small teams at the moment. Now is a good time to add your name to the list!

Oops, forgot to add my name, thanks for the reminder.

I'm sorry, I'm missing where to sign up. I definitely want to participate!

From this thread's OP:

Unless anyone objects, I’ll set up teams with merphle and myself as captains and random-assign everyone between the two tonight.

Michael wrote:

Unless anyone objects, I’ll set up teams with merphle and myself as captains and random-assign everyone between the two tonight.

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Just kidding, that's fine.

We are still more than a week out, I assume more folks will sign up. Like Mix and Eric the Red. Maybe I can guilt convince GodzillaBlitz to play in it too if he is not too busy playing all the RPGs in the East and West.

Derp, never mind. For some reason I had it in my mind that it started on the 2nd. You are correct, much more time than I thought.

I mean it don't hurt nothing to get an early start.

I've been thinking it was this coming Friday too, I have to keep looking at the blog and then opening a calendar to make sure.

I think they usually only gave two weeks in the past? Seemed like it anyway.

Edit: Besides if we get this thread to pop to the top of the thread list often enough, someone else may jump in.

tboon wrote:

We are still more than a week out, I assume more folks will sign up. Like Mix and Eric the Red. Maybe I can guilt convince GodzillaBlitz to play in it too if he is not too busy playing all the RPGs in the East and West.

Ha!

I put my name in. I'm going to try to be a little more low key than in the past, but I should be able to get a handful of runs in.

I'm looking forward to it!

Godzilla Blitz wrote:
tboon wrote:

We are still more than a week out, I assume more folks will sign up. Like Mix and Eric the Red. Maybe I can guilt convince GodzillaBlitz to play in it too if he is not too busy playing all the RPGs in the East and West.

Ha!

I put my name in. I'm going to try to be a little more low key than in the past, but I should be able to get a handful of runs in.

I'm looking forward to it!

Awesome! That is great, glad to have you back in it!

I'm looking forward to it. It's been a while.

Any server better than the others, for those of us playing from the US?

CKO is great.

I'd check your pings to CKO, CBRO, and CAO and use the one with lowest latency.

Math wrote:

I'd check your pings to CKO, CBRO, and CAO and use the one with lowest latency.

Ah, that's a good idea. I'll do that.

In terms of functions, features, they are all the same?

Yup, all the same. Some might have more (older) versions and forks than others, but for the purpose of the tournament, they’re all the same.

Ugh, work is swamping me. I think I am out.

Mixolyde wrote:

Ugh, work is swamping me. I think I am out.

Come on you can get one good run in, surely?

(Totally get it, sorry if you can't make it, hopefully next time)

Is it time to team?

merphle wrote:

Is it time to team?

Sounds like a plan!

I did a ping test on the servers and am going with CBRO. I've updated my info on the signup sheet too.

May have changed but, CBRO gets pretty swamped at tourney time, if there is something almost as close but has lower volumes it might be better performance.

Clumber wrote:

May have changed but, CBRO gets pretty swamped at tourney time, if there is something almost as close but has lower volumes it might be better performance.

Humm. Got it. Okay, I'll switch to CKO. Thanks.

Got my game face on

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Nice! You are READY! Congrats.

Using the Algorithm of Randomness (tm), we have the following:

Team 1:
Michaelh
senkrad
Zaque
quasiChaos
Rauc
tboon

Team 2:
merphle
Taharka
GodzillaBlitz
Clumber
Math
Copingsaw

We have exactly twelve, which puts us in an awkward position if another one or two people want to join before the closing of the tourney.

Remember to adjust your rc file before the tournament starts, putting the following as the first line:
# TEAMCAPTAIN nameofcaptain

Where "nameofcaptain" is either MichaelH or merphle.

Some names:

Jet Fuel Can't Burn Labyrinths
Nemelex's Deck Wreckers
Hubris Maximus
0.23 and Me

+1 for Hubris Maximus

Suggest team names be prepended with "GWJ-" to make it easier to follow along with everyone.