[K10] Final Results

[BBH]

Rankings:

1st colman paolo
2nd RAX@AIVA
3rd nii-san
4th *Goldtimes*

ELIMINATED IN ROUND 6
5th el_fumador
5th Paulo Valmir
5th Tekkaman@AIVA
5th TRB_MetroidTeam

ELIMINATED IN ROUND 5
9th BDFil
9th Chrono256
9th Dax
9th essekappa
9th INNUENDO
9th NotMan
9th oldtimes
9th Sawys

ELIMINATED IN ROUND 4
17th AGODZILLA@AIVA
17th Barra
17th chrisbo
17th giro-X
17th Kale
17th MarcoMarocco@AIVA
17th Metrackle
17th Phil Lamat
17th Potante
17th RdP
17th RedStar
17th saulonpb
17th sikraiken
17th TheBSM
17th wolfman24
17th Yar

ELIMINATED AFTER QUALIFYING ROUNDS 1-3
33rd nibbler 69@AIVA
34th RJM
35th Fordy
36th DaLar
37th BRU
38th Pengafin!
39th Hunter Killer
40th C. Hatchett
41st simpsons99
42nd RichyS
43th Gerhard Schindler
44th DeSangre
45th kernzy
46th CrazyKongFan
47th Dark Kariya
48th MassimoGaspari@AIVA
49th ballas


Results by round:


Qualifying Round 1 - Cosmo Gang the Video

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01. TheBSM                        10,442,420      100 pts
02. RedStar                       10,415,730       90 pts
03. sikraiken                      9,181,680       80 pts
04. MarcoMarocco@AIVA              8,809,760       75 pts
05. nii-san                        8,613,950       70 pts
06. colman paolo                   7,548,300       65 pts
07. Metrackle                      7,223,440       62 pts
08. *Goldtimes*                    7,201,410       60 pts
09. saulonpb                       7,099,050       58 pts
10. essekappa                      6,570,230       56 pts
11. el fumador                     6,296,510       54 pts
12. Tekkaman@AIVA                  6,027,920       52 pts
13. oldtimes                       5,890,650       50 pts
14. Paulo Valmir                   5,841,840       48 pts
15. Kale                           5,816,800       46 pts
16. Sawys                          5,804,950       44 pts
17. wolfman24                      5,242,760       42 pts
18. RAX@AIVA                       5,174,660       40 pts
19. INNUENDO                       4,816,840       38 pts
20. Potante                        4,812,120       36 pts
21. simpsons99                     4,700,950       34 pts
22. nibbler 69@AIVA                4,526,630       32 pts
23. RdP                            4,468,610       30 pts
24. NotMan                         4,465,780       29 pts
25. Yar                            4,388,550       28 pts
26. Dark Kariya                    4,054,330       27 pts
27. Phil Lamat                     3,911,310       26 pts
28. Gerhard Schindler              3,762,250       25 pts
29. AGODZILLA@AIVA                 3,734,010       24 pts
30. BDFil                          3,712,780       23 pts
31. Chrono256                      3,567,420       22 pts
32. Dax                            3,551,070       21 pts 
33. chrisbo                        3,451,660       20 pts
34. TRB_MetroidTeam                3,386,110       19 pts
35. DaLar                          3,265,660       18 pts
36. kernzy                         3,145,790       17 pts
37. ballas                         2,806,700       16 pts
38. CrazyKongFan                   2,577,510       15 pts
39. RJM                            2,567,760       14 pts
40. Fordy                          2,516,670       13 pts
41. giro-X                         2,387,190       12 pts
42. MassimoGaspari@AIVA            2,342,490       11 pts
43. RichyS                         2,289,670       10 pts
44. Hunter Killer                  2,272,350       10 pts
45. C. Hatchett                    2,251,560       10 pts
46. DeSangre                       1,892,540       10 pts

Qualifying Round 2 - Hang-On

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01. RedStar                       43,025,950      100 pts
02. RAX@AIVA                      42,764,040       90 pts
03. colman paolo                  39,914,660       80 pts
04. AGODZILLA@AIVA                38,468,540       75 pts
05. *Goldtimes*                   37,851,480       70 pts
06. Kale                          37,129,970       65 pts
07. oldtimes                      35,586,900       62 pts
08. Sawys                         35,010,810       60 pts
09. nii-san                       33,356,280       58 pts
10. el fumador                    32,972,180       56 pts
11. Barra                         30,513,550       54 pts
12. Pengafin!                     30,323,620       52 pts
13. Dax                           29,969,000       50 pts
14. INNUENDO                      25,640,190       48 pts
15. TheBSM                        24,471,260       46 pts
16. MarcoMarocco@AIVA             21,397,110       44 pts
17. Hunter Killer                 19,179,700       42 pts
18. C. Hatchett                   19,144,760       40 pts
19. Tekkaman@AIVA                 18,161,890       38 pts
20. RdP                           17,270,680       36 pts
21. Phil Lamat                    17,068,150       34 pts
22. essekappa                     16,852,010       32 pts
23. sikraiken                     16,768,010       30 pts
24. wolfman24                     15,910,490       29 pts
25. nibbler 69@AIVA               14,027,680       28 pts
26. RJM                           13,977,500       27 pts
27. DeSangre                      13,526,700       26 pts
28. Potante                       13,197,860       25 pts
29. Fordy                         10,619,850       24 pts
30. chrisbo                       10,434,770       23 pts
31. BDFil                         10,277,270       22 pts
32. saulonpb                      10,219,590       21 pts
33. DaLar                         10,168,770       20 pts
34. TRB MetroidTeam               10,024,350       19 pts
35. kernzy                         9,832,640       18 pts
36. giro-X                         9,519,980       17 pts
37. Metrackle                      9,093,670       16 pts
38. Chrono256                      7,734,960       15 pts
39. simpsons99                     7,485,080       14 pts
40. CrazyKongFan                   7,319,800       13 pts
41. Gerhard Schindler              7,217,380       12 pts
42. Yar                            7,205,780       11 pts
43. Paulo Valmir                   7,131,730       10 pts
44. MassimoGaspari@AIVA            6,845,550       10 pts
45. NotMan                         6,808,770       10 pts
46. RichyS                         6,611,410       10 pts

Qualifying Round 3 - Ghostlop

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01. giro-X                           114,568      100 pts
02. chrisbo                          112,899       90 pts
03. Potante                          111,455       80 pts
04. Chrono256                        111,218       75 pts
05. RedStar                          109,052       70 pts
06. Metrackle                        106,855       65 pts
07. Phil Lamat                       104,238       62 pts
08. BRU                              103,372       60 pts
09. saulonpb                          98,614       58 pts
10. sikraiken                         95,141       56 pts
11. NotMan                            93,442       54 pts
12. BDFil                             92,132       52 pts
13. nii-san                           90,864       50 pts
14. Yar                               90,226       48 pts
15. TheBSM                            86,935       46 pts
16. MarcoMarocco@AIVA                 85,419       44 pts
17. INNUENDO                          84,220       42 pts
18. colman paolo                      80,777       40 pts
19. TRB_MetroidTeam                   80,205       38 pts
20. Barra                             77,783       36 pts
21. RdP                               77,367       34 pts
22. essekappa                         77,092       32 pts
23. Dax                               76,353       30 pts
24. wolfman24                         72,216       29 pts
25. *Goldtimes*                       71,340       28 pts
26. Tekkaman@AIVA                     69,820       27 pts
27. Fordy                             68,494       26 pts
28. DaLar                             67,834       25 pts
39. el fumador                        67,074       24 pts
30. RJM                               66,331       23 pts
31. Sawys                             65,144       22 pts
32. oldtimes                          62,592       21 pts
33. Paulo Valmir                      62,216       20 pts
34. AGODZILLA@AIVA                    58,871       19 pts
35. RichyS                            57,257       18 pts
36. Kale                              54,587       17 pts
37. nibbler 69@AIVA                   48,935       16 pts
38. RAX@AIVA                          48,298       15 pts
39. MassimoGaspari@AIVA               34,492       14 pts

Qualifying round rankings to determine top 32:

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      Name                    Week 1   Week 2   Week 3   Total

01. RedStar                      90      100      70      260
02. TheBSM                      100       46      46      192
03. colman paolo                 65       80      40      185
04. nii-san                      70       58      50      178
05. sikraiken                    80       30      56      176
06. MarcoMarocco@AIVA            75       44      44      163
07. *Goldtimes*                  60       70      28      158
08. RAX@AIVA                     40       90      15      145
09. Metrackle                    62       16      65      143
10. Potante                      36       25      80      141
11. saulonpb                     58       21      58      137
12. el fumador                   54       56      24      134
13. chrisbo                      20       23      90      133
14. oldtimes                     50       62      21      133
15. giro-X                       12       17     100      129
16. Kale                         46       65      17      128
17. INNUENDO                     38       48      42      128
18. Sawys                        44       60      22      126
19. Phil Lamat                   26       34      62      122
20. essekappa                    56       32      32      120
21. AGODZILLA@AIVA               24       75      19      118
22. Tekkaman@AIVA                52       38      27      117
23. Chrono256                    22       15      75      112
24. Dax                          21       50      30      101
25. wolfman24                    42       29      29      100
26. RdP                          30       36      34      100
27. BDFil                        23       22      52       97
28. NotMan                       29       10      54       93
29. Barra                         0       54      36       90
30. Yar                          28       11      48       87
31. Paulo Valmir                 48       10      20       78
32. TRB_MetroidTeam              19       19      38       76
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33. nibbler 69@AIVA              32       28      16       76
34. RJM                          14       27      23       64
35. Fordy                        13       24      26       63
36. DaLar                        18       20      24       62
37. BRU                           0        0      60       60
38. Pengafin!                     0       52       0       52
39. Hunter Killer                10       42       0       52
40. C. Hatchett                  10       40       0       50
41. simpsons99                   34       14       0       48
42. RichyS                       10       10      18       38
43. Gerhard Schindler            25       12       0       37
44. DeSangre                     10       26       0       36
45. kernzy                       17       18       0       35
46. CrazyKongFan                 15       13       0       28
47. Dark Kariya                  27        0       0       27
48. MassimoGaspari@AIVA          11       10       0       21
49. ballas                       16        0       0       16

Round 4 - Snow Bros

TRB_Metroidteam [32] defeats RedStar [1]
3,027,800 - 2,601,290

INNUENDO [17] defeats Kale [16]
1,565,000 - 0

RAX@AIVA [8] defeats wolfman24 [25]
4,116,030 - 236,600

Dax [24] defeats Metrackle [9]
2,284,030 - 1,011,710

nii-san [4] defeats Barra [29]
1,582,460 - 0

essekappa [20] defeats chrisbo [13]
3,481,420 - 855,670

NotMan [28] defeats sikraiken [5]
1,310,960 - 133,010

el fumador [12] defeats AGODZILLA@AIVA [21]
2,599,300 - 1,157,710

Paulo Valmir [31] defeats TheBSM [2]
1,073,970 - 904,030

Sawys [18] defeats giro-X [15]
1,509,930 - 1,145,190

*Goldtimes* [7] defeats RdP [26]
3,386,490 - 2,108,550

Chrono256 [23] defeats Potante [10]
2,103,410 - 1,345,670

colman paolo [3] defeats Yar [30]
3,254,590 - 0

oldtimes [14] defeats Phil Lamat [19]
3,101,320 - 2,103,850

BDFil [27] defeats MarcoMarocco@AIVA [6]
1,628,410 - 0

Tekkaman@AIVA [22] defeats saulonpb [11]
1,518,550 - 206,160




Round 5 - Metamorphic Force

TRB_MetroidTeam [32] defeats INNUENDO [17]
442,000 - 254,800

RAX@AIVA [8] defeats Dax [24]
339,100 - 197,400

nii-san [4] defeats essekappa [20]
330,700 - 260,300

el_fumador [12] defeats NotMan [28]
290,500 - 268,100

Paulo Valmir [31] defeats Sawys [18]
293,800 - 157,600

*Goldtimes* [7] defeats Chrono256 [23]
445,600 - 288,100

colman paolo [3] defeats oldtimes [14]
477,300 - 470,500

Tekkaman@AIVA [22] defeats BDFil [27]
160,100 - 85,900




Round 6 - Grobda

RAX@AIVA [8] defeats TRB_MetroidTeam [32]
112,980 - 94,060

nii-san [4] defeats el_fumador [12]
89,100 - 78,850

*Goldtimes* [7] defeats Paulo Valmir [31]
107,160 - 0

colman paolo [3] defeats Tekkaman@AIVA [22]
112,470 - 92,160




Round 7 - Street Fighter III: Third Strike

RAX@AIVA [8] defeats nii-san [4]
3,396,600 - 3,001,200

colman paolo [3] defeats *Goldtimes* [7]
4,541,500 - 3,789,200



Finals - Tetris the Absolute the Grand Master 2 Plus

Normal Mode:
colman paolo (185,100) - RAX@AIVA (162,144)
nii-san (204,559) - *Goldtimes* (106,734)

Master Mode:
colman paolo (33,242) - RAX@AIVA (29,787)
nii-san (37,825) - *Goldtimes* (15,495)

TGM+ Mode:
colman paolo (27,699) - RAX@AIVA (27,039)
nii-san (25,175) - *Goldtimes* (0)


colman paolo [3] defeats RAX@AIVA [8] 3-0

nii-san [4] defeats *Goldtimes* [7] 3-0


http://challonge.com/k10

[BBH]

So, it took longer than expected to get it started but we've reached the end of Knockout Tournament 10. Thanks to everyone that participated, we know the game selection is not always to everyone's liking, but I think things went well outside of a few issues along the way.

Of course, as mentioned in that other thread, it didn't take long before I began to think "Maybe a 32-man single-elimination bracket isn't the best of ideas". I knew there would be some upsets but I was really surprised by certain players who ended up getting eliminated. That's not to take anything away from Paolo Colman's victory - he had impressive scores in nearly every round and deserved the win (although interestingly enough, nii-san's scores in the bronze medal match for the finals were higher than Paolo's...). But a 32-man bracket is just... TOO random I think. I definitely feel that whoever does the next Knockout tournament, it would probably be wiser to have more rounds in which highest scores move on, instead of 1-on-1 matches. I'm starting to think that maybe the earliest the 1-on-1 matches should show up would be top 8, but even that might be pushng it. Then again, I know people like the exciting nature of head-to-head matches. It's a tough decision, but ultimately that lies in the hands of the future coordinators. To anyone who got eliminated despite putting up one of the highest scores for the round on their respective game - I'm sorry, but these things happen

Also, to answer a couple thoughts people might have had... "Why wasn't there a sports game? Why wasn't there a traditional shoot-em-up?"

Finding a sports game is tricky, especially when it comes to one-credit competition as an arcade game. It seems like in a lot of sports games (soccer games in particular), it comes down to figuring out one pattern that the CPU won't counter and then running it over and over. I know I'm over-generalizing things, and that there are a lot of games that DON'T fit this criteria. In lieu of a "regular" sports game, I thought a Track 'n Field-style game would be good, but we didn't find one we all agreed on there either. So we ended up using a fighting game (SFIII 3rd Strike) as a backup plan. Hopefully the next group of coordinators fares better in finding a sports game.

We didn't use a regular shmup because Cosmo Gang seemed like a good, basic introductory game for the tournament (and I think it worked well in that regard), and Grobda was different enough that we thought it had some potential as a tournament game with its depth in score chaining. Unfortunately we didn't expect the best basic strategy to be suiciding on stage 12 for a big chain That was unfortunate, but it's the risk you run in using an "underexplored" game.


I'm still pissed about the whole Pengafin thing. Whoever you are, thanks for wasting your time in making these slowed-down inps, and wasting our time in watching the inps trying to figure out what exactly the deal was with them, when we had so many other recordings to be watching and confirming too (the qualifying rounds are busy...). It was no accident, you knew EXACTLY what you were doing. Ugh.


Anyway, I'm not sure when MARP elections are taking place but I do not plan on being a coordinator for the next tournament. Definitely better to have some new blood take a crack at it.

Thanks for playing everyone!

[TRB_MetroidTeam]

Congratulations Colman Paolo, weel deserved! A-la LAWLSHOOTERGAMES, 1st competition and top position reached.
Congratulations RAX, you played very well. Well done! Also nii-san and Goldtimes, and everyone. It was excellent to play with you all!

And special thanks to BBH, mahlemiut and MJS. Very good competition! I really know how hard is to do it! See you next Knockout!

And to everyone: let's never forget that this competition, that completed TEN editions... 10 editions... is only result of all we, hobbyists. Everyone that loves electronic games, mainly Arcade games of that old era! It's not easy to come together so many people, of many countries, with some different tastes and preferences, and put all in one FREE competition, just for fun! No one here is professional, and the free time is an issue to everyone, that have many other priorities instead of videogames, but it's similar to everyone! I'll support Knockout competition all long as I can... See you my friends!

[MJS]

Congratulations to colman paolo for 1st place!!!
And thanks to all players for participating, I enjoyed watching everyone playing.

Since BBH wrote his thoughts on the tournament, I'll do the same.

First of all I want to publically say thanks BBH and mahlemiut, it was fun running K10 with you guys.
Special thanks (and congratulations) to you Matt, for doing all the difficult job. It's not the first time we run a knockout tournament together. I bet he probably hates me by now, lol.

We took the game selection process quite seriously. We had to agree on games with a good variety of genres, skills required for each, years, manufacturers, control schemes, etc. We wanted to test every game to discard those with bugs or playback issues (unfortunately many games were discarded because of this) and this was very difficult and time consuming. Some games ended up having issues we didn't catch, I am sorry for that. We also tried to focus on games with good scoring systems (in other words, friendly for competition) and games with good potential for players with different skill levels. It was also important for us to make sure every game worked well, but our free time was limited (specially mine, and on top of that I suffered an HD crash during the tournament) so some things didn't turn out as we expected.

I think we could have done a better job on many aspects, but please understand we do this on our free time and for the love of the games. Also, please understand it is impossible to pick games which meet everyone's expectations. I apologize if you ended up "suffering" some of the games.

As BBH already pointed out, we learned a few things along the way, so you can expect another (hopefully better) tournament from us in the future. I share feelings with BBH here, definitely not next year, though. Me at least, wants to play the next tournament!

Again, I hope you enjoyed playing K10 and thanks everyone for participating!!!

See you next tournament!!!

[Zhorik]

Anyway, I'm not sure when MARP elections are taking place but I do not plan on being a coordinator for the next tournament. Definitely better to have some new blood take a crack at it.

I'm planning to go ahead and kick off elections in the next week or two. I wanted to give the KO a chance to finish and then start the next election cycle. I know we're out of sync with the original end of year timing, but I figure keeping things pretty much annual is best at this point.

-George

[nii-san]

Bravo!
Congratulations for the tournament.
BBH, MJS and Mahlemiut, excellent job.
Good choice of games ... Track & Field in the semifinals ...
Congratulations to colman paolo, has been very strong in the knockout phase.
Congratulations also to my friend and RAX, and Goldtimes, sorry, I'm not a great player, but I play tetris enough. You've been a great rival.

It was a shame that good players have dropped for lack of time or unexpected crosses.
In especila Essekappa and RedStar, for me, the tournament favorites.
Greetings to all!

[giro-X]

Well done, I enjoyed this KO, well organized i.m.h.o. (good occasion to learn somethin' more), got a better-than-fourth place in at least a game, saw three players of my country in the top 4 at the end...

See you next time, which I suppose it's at the MARP elections. Of course, I'll give a look when possible to the replays uploaded.

[kernzy]

didn't i warn you about this guy? !!!!
congratulations Paolo!!!!!!

he is really me, incognito!!!!

[colman paolo]

i am very happy to win this tournament
BBH, MJS and Mahlemiut great choiche of games,thanks guys!
thanks to all my rivals in this tournament,you were all great players !
great tournament,great organization!i am very happy to join in mar site!
i think marp has the best players in the world!
RAX,my friend and "creator"(he suggested me to participate in K10)i was lucky in the last round,because you hate tetris!
you're one of the best players i know!
thanks to all the people who believed in me,especially KERNZY and AGODZILLA@AIVA!
arcade rules!forever!

[kernzy]

indeed well done mate!
now, take 10 years off from playing games. give someone else a chance!!!!!

[el_fumador]

Congratulations for the winner Paolo Colman, Rax, Nii-san and Goldtimes.
Thanks to coordinators BBH, Mahlemiut and MJS for organizing and make possible this exciting tournament.
Marp competitors, see you all in next K11.