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Special Events Forums => King of the Hill => Topic started by: fuzeman on January 03, 2022, 08:12:20 PM
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Do you have what it takes to be Aces High's King of the Hill?
http://www.ahevents.net/index.php/events/koth
The first KOTH of 2022 will be will be held Saturday 22 January 2022 in SEA II at 9 PM EST, 8 pm CST, 7 pm MST, 6 pm PST.
If you didn't earn a reservation to last years TOC we start from scratch now..
Plenty of great, sweaty-palm dog fights to have for one and all. Join the fun.
Test your situational awareness and see how you do.
Winner gets 500 Melee arena perks and a TOC invitation.
Winner of the TOC gets three months of Aces High.
ALL fliers are invited to Aces High's version of a "cage match"
Peanut1's plane selection was the Mosquito Mk. VI for 2022's first chariot of battle.
Concept:
All players fly the same plane type
Fight to the death
Winner of the round chooses the next plane
Repeat until someone wins three rounds,
which do not need to be in a row.
2022 Rule Changes
I am going to make it official that from hence forth after you win a regular season KOTH, that will add 1 to the number of rounds you need to win the event.
So, whomever wins January 2022 KOTH will have to win 4 rounds to win in February.
And thinking how that would relate to the TOC, it makes sense that if you have already won a TOC or TOCs, each TOC win would add a round to how many you need to win this year's TOC. I'll have to go back and get a TOC winners list for this one I guess.
Thinking about it and after some feedback this will be implemented for the 2023 TOC.
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I'm perfectly fine with the new rules changes for KOTH events for 2022 and for the KOTH TOC event in 2023 for the 2022 TOC winner!
Makes it a lot more interesting
<S>
TC
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Nvm. Found it!
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Sounds like an interesting rule change..
Will the winner of a KOTH need to win an additional round in the next KOTH or just the end of year tournament?
Eagler
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Rule change will mean:
1 Whomever wins next weekend. When we get to February, whoever won January will have to win four rounds to win February KOTH.
Boy it really makes typos easy with both thumbs and a forefinger taped up from dry and cracked digits.
And I think it follows with the TOC. You just increased by one the number of rounds you need to repeat your title.
I guess if somebody was real good and lucky and swept the first 11 events they would need to win 14 rounds to win December’s KOTH , but that the most extreme outcome.
When I put it like that I wonder if it would drive the winners away from events later in the season.
Winter finally came to Orchard Park. Breaking out the blower for the driveway.
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Sounds good to me .. makes it more challenging..on a scale of sorts
Thanks fuzeman!
Eagler
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For simplicity, you might consider making it so that any winner has to win 4 instead of three for the next event, including for the TOC.
Just one extra, no matter how many previous titles, not cumulative, just an extra 1. I think that will present a challenge itself?
Rule change will mean:
1 Whomever wins next weekend. When we get to February, whoever won January will have to win four rounds to win February KOTH.
Boy it really makes typos easy with both thumbs and a forefinger taped up from dry and cracked digits.
And I think it follows with the TOC. You just increased by one the number of rounds you need to repeat your title.
I guess if somebody was real good and lucky and swept the first 11 events they would need to win 14 rounds to win December’s KOTH , but that the most extreme outcome.
When I put it like that I wonder if it would drive the winners away from events later in the season.
Winter finally came to Orchard Park. Breaking out the blower for the driveway.
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Hmm, I’ll have to think about that.
KOTH is an event where I WANT players, who attend the event and are familiar with it, to guide it and have input into rules and things like this.
Let’s see how others respond. What you think KOTHers?
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Either way sounds good to me but the single extra round as Shane mentioned might be best for the majority
Eagler
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Maybe I should figure out how each way would look.
Need a few more hours in each day :bolt:
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Hmmm..Warthog took a dive last night
Not sure if I will be back online by Saturday
Eagler
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Hmmm..Warthog took a dive last night
Not sure if I will be back online by Saturday
Eagler
Could have done it a week earlier. :banana:
I'll miss ya :frown:, the others might not :devil
AND... we have our first KOTH of 2022 this Saturday.
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Turned out to be a busted wire on the DIN connector in the base
A little luck with the soldering iron and it seems to be fixed!
Hope to be there Saturday
Eagler
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Good news indeed!!
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Be there or be square :cheers:
Eagler
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KOTH tonight with Mosquito the first plane.
Hope my fingers thaw out by then.
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+1 regarding 4 total round wins to win KOTH event for previous winners of any number of events.
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On the other hand, handicapping the competition might be seen to undermine the putative point of the tournament: for the best flying to win the day.
Wouldn't want a KOTH win to become a watered-down participation award.
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I think it gives the non-repetative winners more of a chance.
And I am really thinking of having a minimum attendance to run a KOTH, tonight we had 4 guys dueling excluding the host.
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I didn't see a notice in MA arena message about KOTH this month
I think they help as not everyone reads this bbs
Thanks for the fights guys!
Thanks for hosting fuzeman <S>
Eagler
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I have not been flying much and entered melee first time all week just before for the ninety minute announcement and noticed that or lack of it.
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Normally I'd have been able to stay for the full time but had to leave for an errand. The 3 rounds I was able to participate were fun! (At least I was able to surprise Eagler in the P39Q - but then forgetting to check fuel load and only taking 25% probably had something to do with that, lol.)
I also will try and get at least one other person to enter next month - if we all do that, that's 8-10+ right there.
Probably too much administrative hassle, but offering say, 25-50 perkies (fighter of course) for showing up and the winner gets the already published prize(s)? I can see pros and cons to this, tho' - ymmv.
I think it gives the non-repetative winners more of a chance.
And I am really thinking of having a minimum attendance to run a KOTH, tonight we had 4 guys dueling excluding the host.
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There is absolutely no way I would award perks for just attending a KOTH. Its a pandora’s box of trouble.
What is attending a KOTH?
( pause to cogitate )
Staying for the whole thing? Showing up and flying round one and leaving? Showing up and not even flying? I could see some poindexter coming in and trying that.
The dogfights alone should really be a good enough thing in a air combat game to attract players. I hope you see my point. Way to subjective.
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Yeah, I thought of those things as being part of the administrative hassle of monitoring play(ers.) Perkies are meaningless to me, fwiw. I'll at least try and drag a few people in next month.
There is absolutely no way I would award perks for just attending a KOTH. Its a pandora’s box of trouble.
What is attending a KOTH?
( pause to cogitate )
Staying for the whole thing? Showing up and flying round one and leaving? Showing up and not even flying? I could see some poindexter coming in and trying that.
The dogfights alone should really be a good enough thing in a air combat game to attract players. I hope you see my point. Way to subjective.
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Good luck and it’s appreciated.
From The Shawshank Redemption…
Hope is a good thing.