Hello! I am happy to announce, that my long planned cup will start on February 28th. That's right, next weekend. The cup is called Talvi Cup, thanks to niN for kind of suggesting it! The cup will have 10 events, and it will last from Feb 28th to May 2nd. I hope the starting date is not coming too late for many of you, but I just couldn't announce it earlier.
Nine of the levels are made by me, and one level is made by niN. Thanks to Zebra, Bjorn and Haruhi for offering their levels too, but this time I chose to go with niN's level. All your levels were nice multi-style levels, so I couldn't include them all. I am not giving more information about the levels or styles, you just need to play and see One thing though is, that events 5 and 6 will be running simultaneously and only for one week, but I can tell you that they aren't very monstrous levels. No other "weirdness" about the events, every event will start on Sunday at 20:00 (EET) and deadline is on next Sunday at 19:00.
As you may know, the cup is based on cupsource. Big thanks to Kopaka for making it and always helping me when I had some questions. I have made some changes on the site, and hope that everything is working ok. I've done very much debugging and other things to try to find every possible error, but sometimes it just isn't enough. If you encounter any errors or strange behavior, please contact me.
Some of the things I've made include highlighting your position on player and event standings, point difference to next position/1st position, a guestbook and a level-name-guessing-possibility which can give you some extra points. First one to guess level's name correctly will gain extra 3 points. There is more information about it on the Talvi Cup rules-section.
What else... I don't know. I hope many players will play this cup because it has taken some time to prepare it. I also invite everyone to join #talvicup @ircnet for the discussion and who knows what. Oh and right, here is a link to Talvi Cup page:
http://talvicup.oktobia.org
So, hello! It seems like I'm more back to Elma than I ever thought I could be. I will be arranging a cup next year, most probably in feb-march-april, ! don't know the exact time yet. This topic is here to open discussion and to get some nice ideas from you.
What is the cup called?
I don't want it to be "VJ cup" or anything related to my name or something. I was thinking maybe Winter Cup, do you think it is appropriate? By searching in lauta I found out that there have been two cups named Winter Cup (2003 and 2004, source) but they have been only for hungarians. Would it be confusing, or somehow inappropriate to call this Winter Cup 2010 or something? Do you have some other suggestions for the name?
What do you want from the cup?
The cup is not going to be a pair-cup or a first-finish cup, but a regular cup. I definitely will be adding my own twist into it, but how much, it depends. Would you like it to be more of an "experience" than just play-höyl-send-play-download-höyl? Experience is maybe a bit too powerful word, but what I mean is, that you might get certain benefits if you're actively exploring the scene, and so on? I'm not trying to make anything great, but just little things to make it something than just another cup blah. As I said, I will add my own twist to it no matter what, but if you really don't want it, I will reduce it.
Timing of the cup
As I said earlier, I have not decided the timing of this cup yet. What would be a good time to arrange it? I know there is for example lovely cup maybe in early 2010, then EOL may or may not be coming... Your thoughts about the month? Is there something I'm forgetting? I have also made almost 20 levels for the cup and will continue until the day the cup starts. Then I will pick only the best of the best levels and include those into the cup. This leads to my final question:
How long?/How many events?
What would be suitable amount of events? As I said, I have already made quite many levels, and will choose only best of those. The levels are from side to side, very different in styles. Short, long, simple, complicated, planned styles, non-planned... etc. so they shouldn't be too similar. I will not be accepting levels from other lev makers now, but maybe later I can give it a try.
Something else?
The cup site will be based on Cup Source, but I have already started developing it for my cup's benefits. Layout is completely different and I've made many custom coding too and more will come. I hope that your innovative minds can now help me to plan this cup even more, and make it something special!