JimmyFantastic
Joined: Feb 06, 2007
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Oct 10, 2014 - 17:30 |
 
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Yep stop arguing and just be happy that this awesome event is happening! |
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Stimme
Joined: Jun 30, 2013
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Oct 10, 2014 - 17:36 |
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No idea what you guys are arguing about, but I have a burning question: Do we have to paint the player icons ourselves or are they provided by the organizer? |
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Wreckage
Joined: Aug 15, 2004
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Oct 10, 2014 - 17:42 |
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| Stimme wrote: | | No idea what you guys are arguing about, but I have a burning question: Do we have to paint the player icons ourselves or are they provided by the organizer? |
I don't think there has ever been a tabletop event where all the painted miniatures were provided by the organiser.
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Just for those many of you who are a little slow, now I'm ridiculing myself.  |
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WhatBall
Joined: Aug 21, 2008
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Oct 10, 2014 - 18:00 |
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| Purplegoo wrote: | | Hi mrt. Whether you win the Road to the NAFC or not, if you come to the NAF Championship, we will find you miniatures to use. The tabletop community is great at welcoming new coaches, as I'm sure FUMBBL will be when the new functionality is in place. |
I may be reading WAY too much into this, but the part in bold is what really has me excited for the future...
I'm all in for this tourney too. I was told my flight would also be covered!  |
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koadah
Joined: Mar 30, 2005
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Oct 10, 2014 - 18:05 |
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| WhatBall wrote: | | Purplegoo wrote: | | Hi mrt. Whether you win the Road to the NAFC or not, if you come to the NAF Championship, we will find you miniatures to use. The tabletop community is great at welcoming new coaches, as I'm sure FUMBBL will be when the new functionality is in place. |
I may be reading WAY too much into this, but the part in bold is what really has me excited for the future...
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Purplegoo
Joined: Mar 23, 2006
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Oct 10, 2014 - 20:23 |
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Hi chaps.
As a keen (loud? ) FUMBBLer myself, I know how much the minutiae matters, and how passionate we can all get over the little details. I promise when there is something to tell you regarding divisions, teams, what happens next, etc. you'll know the answers.
In the mean time, get painting those pixels, Stimme, you're doing everybody's. |
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Village_Idiot
Joined: Mar 09, 2009
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Oct 10, 2014 - 22:33 |
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This is really awesome, great work by all who helped make it happen.
Great idea, great execution so far. I can well imagine the organizational challenges you guys have overcome, and still have to defeat. Best of luck!
A question though: I'd love to join the tourney, but as it's pretty much 99% unlikely I'll ever be able to game in the UK, would it be disruptive for me to join? I'm not exactly good, (so I'm not worried I'll win) but would I displace a slot for someone who legitimately could attend the tourney?
If that seems like a non-issue, I'd love to join.
I can work around the timezone issues to an adequate degree. Not to a degree it makes sense for me to join euro leagues on here, but I think I'd make any commitments for a tourney like this if I'm sensible. |
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the_Sage
Joined: Jan 13, 2011
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Oct 10, 2014 - 23:03 |
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| Wreckage wrote: | | koadah wrote: | What happens to the teams after the tournament?
Do they stay as is for higher TV res events? Do they get reset? Could they switch to progression?
Assuming the options are generally available to [L]eague events. |
It does not seem likely to me that you get to continue to use a team in progression that you created in non progression... pretty sure thats unheard of in tabletop leagues.. . |
Actually, I'm pretty sure some existing TT leagues with older teams let new teams start at higher spending TV and/or give them some skillups to get them started. |
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Purplegoo
Joined: Mar 23, 2006
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Oct 10, 2014 - 23:38 |
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| Village_Idiot wrote: | A question though: I'd love to join the tourney, but as it's pretty much 99% unlikely I'll ever be able to game in the UK, would it be disruptive for me to join? I'm not exactly good, (so I'm not worried I'll win) but would I displace a slot for someone who legitimately could attend the tourney?
If that seems like a non-issue, I'd love to join.
I can work around the timezone issues to an adequate degree. Not to a degree it makes sense for me to join euro leagues on here, but I think I'd make any commitments for a tourney like this if I'm sensible. |
Hello there!
Please don't be put off playing in the tournament because you can't make the NAFC if you win (or at all). The tournament is open to everyone, and I hope worthwhile even if you aren't planning to ever pick up a miniature in your life (although you should! ).
You bring up a great point regarding time zones. With weekly rounds, coaches that enter the Road to the NAFC need to consider their schedules as they would (for instance) a FUMBBL Major. When fuller details are posted, there will be some notes on this.
The NAF has members all over the world, and FUMBBL probably has coaches in every time zone. We'll learn a lot from running the Road to the NAFC, and I assure you that if they need to have, future sanctioned events will have one eye on time zones that maybe feel like they missed out. We want everyone to benefit here.  |
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Grod
Joined: Sep 30, 2003
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Oct 11, 2014 - 05:09 |
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Its more difficult than a major though: You have to complete 6 rounds (most people can count on just 1 or 2) and you can't get ahead of the schedule. Also motivation can be low for people who can't win but must play all remaining rounds...
Not saying can't be done, but needs to be stressed to entrants just how difficult it is. |
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Rabe
Joined: Jun 06, 2009
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Oct 11, 2014 - 12:42 |
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Sounds great! Looking forward to it! |
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koadah
Joined: Mar 30, 2005
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Oct 11, 2014 - 13:40 |
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| Grod wrote: | Its more difficult than a major though: You have to complete 6 rounds (most people can count on just 1 or 2) and you can't get ahead of the schedule. Also motivation can be low for people who can't win but must play all remaining rounds...
Not saying can't be done, but needs to be stressed to entrants just how difficult it is. |
I thought this too.
But, as the winners will mostly be playing winners they will still have an incentive to get the games done. The main part of the the tournament should work. Though I can imagine that a 0/0/3 coach may not be keen on playing at 03:00 vs some guy on the other side of the world.
Not being able to get ahead does make it harder. 7 day schedule and mixed time zones will probably put off some of the more casual coaches but I would expect the hardcore Majors dudes to be there.
Dode should have info on how it went on Cyanide. |
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Purplegoo
Joined: Mar 23, 2006
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Oct 11, 2014 - 15:22 |
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I think it would be naive to suggest we will get a 100% game completion rate, so I won't. But I am optimistic that the percentage will be high.
As I say, we're going to learn an awful lot about the online format from the Road to the NAFC. There is a novelty to the event, and FUMBBL has a strong tournament ethos (is it fair to suggest this is less true of Cyanide? Not that I want to go down that rabbit hole). We have the carrot of NAF members being able to track their games, and there are stick options such as those the FUMBBL tournament scene already use. Finally, we'll take stock of how the tournament progresses, and as I said above, look to involve people of all time zones in the future.
These are things we've discussed, but there is always going to be a 'suck it and see' element to this. There will be notes on getting games played nearer the time. |
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Tarabaralla
Joined: Jul 24, 2010
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Oct 11, 2014 - 15:34 |
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Didn't mean to lead this post to all the little issues you'll have to face, just trying to give some positive (i.e. possibly useful) imput!
Great job so far, and good luck for the rest! |
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Purplegoo
Joined: Mar 23, 2006
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Oct 11, 2014 - 15:36 |
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Hehe, no worries. I like input. |
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