Competition: Team Card Design PvP!

[Nepycros]

84 (1,11 vs 9,97)
Both have an error based on my interpretation of
"Must have its cost based on the average number of letters within your team name (rounded down)."
However how do you average 1 value? Each team only has 1 team name to average.

I rounded up the team members names 

Emerald Blade Runners

19 letters, 3 words in the name.

I simply divided 19 by 3, and rounded down to 6.

[Jocko]

84 (1,11 vs 9,97)
Both have an error based on my interpretation of
"Must have its cost based on the average number of letters within your team name (rounded down)."
However how do you average 1 value? Each team only has 1 team name to average.

I rounded up the team members names 

Emerald Blade Runners

19 letters, 3 words in the name.

I simply divided 19 by 3, and rounded down to 6.

Jocko - 5
Thalas - 6
PlayerOa - 7
I divided 19 by 3, and rounded down to 6...

[OldTrees]

Adding an 's' at the end of that requirement makes a lot of sense. It probably was a typo of Kuro's. (he had to write so much that there should be a significant typo somewhere statistically speaking)

[Bloodshadow]

Team Transcendental blood member BloodShadow has resigned from the team, I have edited the team post from before to state that there is only two members now:

Flayne and Rutarete.

I edited my post to confirm my resignation.

[OldTrees]

*I was bored*

1-50 were 1 point
51-80 were 4 points
81-95 were 9 points

warmastofa (majofa, ddevans96)
majofa: 63,69,77,79,80,94,83,84.1,93
ddevans96: 6,76,18,15,90.2,74,81,51

Emerald Blade Runners (Zblader, Nepycros, Jippy99, EmeraldTiger)
Zblader: 28,86,39,73,90.1
Nepycros: 21,70,82,67,52
Jippy99: 7.2,22,26,47,91
Emerald Tiger: 17,25,5,56,62

Sunland Baobab (OldTrees, Manipul8r)
OldTrees: 19,20,14,43,87,8,7.1,4,3,58,68,85,92,95,40.1,44,1,75,24
Manipul8r: 29,37,38,42,66,45,46,48,49,64,65,89,2,72,30,59,78,61,57

Transcendental Blood (Flayne, Rutarete)
Flayne: 54
Rutarete: 53

Fivedogs (tdog0001, Five in One)
tdog0001: n/a
Five in One: 12

X2TM (XYTWO, The Mormegil)
XYTWO: n/a
The Mormegil: n/a

The Silver Lotus (Jocko, PlayerOa, Thalas)
Jocko: 84.2, 88
PlayerOa: 40.2, 27
Thalas: 84.3, 50

Whi Army (Whitevo, Genuinous)
Whitevo: 16, 9, 11, 34, 31, 10, 55
Genuinous: 13, 23, 41, 35, 32, 36, 33, 71

strong opinions (DSSCRA, Youngsot)
DDSCRA: n/a
Youngsot: 60
Assuming no submissions are disqualified and assuming the duplications are resolved as first chronological post/edit
7 (8,94) aka 7.2
40 (2,17) aka 40.1
84 (1,11) aka 84.1
90 (1,8) aka 90.1

Team	1-50s	51-80s	81-95s	Total Score
warmastofa	3	8	5	80
Emerald Blade Runners	10	6	4	70
Sunland Baobab	21	11	5	110
Transcendental Blood	0	2	0	8
Fivedogs	1	0	0	1
X2TM	0	0	0	0
The Silver Lotus	2	0	1	11
Whi Army	13	2	0	21
strong opinions	0	1	0	4

[Kuroaitou]

First off - I just wanted to say a big thank you to everyone who is not only just participating in the competition, but also giving their feedback regarding this event. I have to say; I'm pretty disappointed in myself in how the Blitz phase happened, and I assure you that if (we ever) hold another Team Card Design PvP event, the Blitz phase will definitely have a complete overhaul to address some of the issues you guys have been having.

Perhaps we could have a series of "blitzes". Each day, about 15-20 different requirements could be outlined for cards with a variety of card difficulties. After they are used up, a different set of requirements are put up the next day, and it would continue like that until a week or so has gone by, depending on the length of the competition. You might also see more harder requirements towards the end of the competition than towards the beginning.

If you wanted to make it more fair, you could also post the new sets of requirements at different times of the day for each blitz. For instance, on one day the blitz could start at 6:00 AM, the next day 3:00 PM, the next at noon, etc. This would make it even more random, and teams would need to stake out the thread to be able to strike first. Plus it also helps when team members need to go to work or school, who might miss 40 requirements over the course of a day. It makes it more gradual and gives them a better chance to get their ideas down quickly.

While the second option would be the more fair system, I would definitely need more competition organizers to be ready to post the requirements, and likewise, also post it at the right times so that no team can be guaranteed all of the sets (unless they live 24/7 at the computer like some sort of virtual zombie). That said, more CO's should be hired soon (especially since I need a quick break from this disaster of an event, sorry folks ), so major thanks for the idea Five in One.

Team Transcendental blood member BloodShadow has resigned from the team, I have edited the team post from before to state that there is only two members now:

Flayne and Rutarete.

Fixed. Sorry about not catching this earlier.

A quick question about the rules.

Whoever is posting the card idea must use artwork that they did not use before in the Card Design War (regardless if they participated in that competition or not).

Does this mean we are limited to the unused art pool in the Card Design War or can we use any art for the card with this rule?

I am interested in an answer to this as well. I assumed that art not part of CDW was acceptable.

OldTrees is correct. You need to use art that was posted (in the spoiler tag) in the main CDW thread for that card, regardless if you participated in that competition or not. If you use artwork that ISN'T from the recent CDW, then the card is disqualified.

Adding an 's' at the end of that requirement makes a lot of sense. It probably was a typo of Kuro's. (he had to write so much that there should be a significant typo somewhere statistically speaking)

Uh... let's see.

"Must have its cost based on the average number of letters within your team name (rounded down)."

...this should have been written like this:

"Must have its cost based on the average number of letters within your team's member names divided by the number of players on your team (rounded down)."

So for example (using the original post's team example):
Kuroaitou = 9 letters
Scaredgirl = 10 letters
Kamietsu = 8 letters
27 letters/3 players = Cost: 9

But at this point, I'll probably just ignore that requirement of those sets altogether. ^^;

On another note folks, I realized that the 'Insane' sets probably were too convoluted to understand, so the 'Insane' requirements will be greatly modified once I post them. They'll still be difficult to do, but a lot more flexible (and 'fair') to all of the participants in this phase.

I still can't believe you guys killed all 95 requirement sets within a week. T_T

[Genuinous]

I still can't believe you guys killed all 95 requirement sets within a week. T_T

Within 1 day you meant?
It's not that difficult if you don't have to pay attention to quality and balance issues.... And we don't have a life outside of elements...

[Jocko]

Adding an 's' at the end of that requirement makes a lot of sense. It probably was a typo of Kuro's. (he had to write so much that there should be a significant typo somewhere statistically speaking)

Uh... let's see.

"Must have its cost based on the average number of letters within your team name (rounded down)."

...this should have been written like this:

"Must have its cost based on the average number of letters within your team's member names divided by the number of players on your team (rounded down)."

So for example (using the original post's team example):
Kuroaitou = 9 letters
Scaredgirl = 10 letters
Kamietsu = 8 letters
27 letters/3 players = Cost: 9

But at this point, I'll probably just ignore that requirement of those sets altogether. ^^;

On another note folks, I realized that the 'Insane' sets probably were too convoluted to understand, so the 'Insane' requirements will be greatly modified once I post them. They'll still be difficult to do, but a lot more flexible (and 'fair') to all of the participants in this phase.

I still can't believe you guys killed all 95 requirement sets within a week. T_T

Oh, so i had it right. Good to know xD
Thanks kuro for taking the time to answer personally to all of us, and don't be so hard with yourself.
How much time did it take you make the 95 reqs? xD

[ZephyrPhantom]

About 2-3 days if I figure correctly. IMHO, this was a great concept, it just needs a bit of refining. I personally think it might need a way to have all teams be able to submit cards without 1 team just gobbling up all the requirements.

Just my  .

[Rutarete]

About 2-3 days if I figure correctly. IMHO, this was a great concept, it just needs a bit of refining. I personally think it might need a way to have all teams be able to submit cards without 1 team just gobbling up all the requirements.

Just my  .

^ That said, i look forward to the next one.

[Five In One]

Perhaps we could have a series of "blitzes". Each day, about 15-20 different requirements could be outlined for cards with a variety of card difficulties. After they are used up, a different set of requirements are put up the next day, and it would continue like that until a week or so has gone by, depending on the length of the competition. You might also see more harder requirements towards the end of the competition than towards the beginning.

If you wanted to make it more fair, you could also post the new sets of requirements at different times of the day for each blitz. For instance, on one day the blitz could start at 6:00 AM, the next day 3:00 PM, the next at noon, etc. This would make it even more random, and teams would need to stake out the thread to be able to strike first. Plus it also helps when team members need to go to work or school, who might miss 40 requirements over the course of a day. It makes it more gradual and gives them a better chance to get their ideas down quickly.

While the second option would be the more fair system, I would definitely need more competition organizers to be ready to post the requirements, and likewise, also post it at the right times so that no team can be guaranteed all of the sets (unless they live 24/7 at the computer like some sort of virtual zombie). That said, more CO's should be hired soon (especially since I need a quick break from this disaster of an event, sorry folks ), so major thanks for the idea Five in One.

You're welcome. Hopefully our input will help you revise the Blitz system and implement it again sometime later.

[Jocko]

Well, next time i'll make sure to get a 2-people team.
Not because i don't like my current team, just because it seems a lot faster...