GameZZone: Diablo [Winner: ZionT]

[amazzony]

Nightmare, Act 3. We've dropped to only 7 active games

[amazzony]

Nightmare, Act 3. And just 6 games left, most of them look like they are going to be played out, 1-2 games look like possible stalemates which I will deal as soon as all other games are done.

[amazzony]

Nightmare, Act 3. Now there's just 5 active games left in this Act.

[amazzony]

Nightmare, Act 3. We are left with 4 half-stalemate-ish games. I will take a day or two to think about it and most likely will add a round limit to those games.

[amazzony]

Nightmare, Act 3. I've decided to put a 33 round limit to the active games which means that if the games aren't finished in the next 33 rounds (details below for each game) then the remaining players will share the remaining points equally between themselves.

Round limits (must be done for this round or will be considered stalemate):
Game 7390689 (75)
Game 7390686 (69)
Game 7390684 (68)
Game 7390662 (102)

[amazzony]

Nightmare, Act 3. All 4 games are still active.

[amazzony]

Nightmare, Act 3. We are waiting for our 4 games to end or reach a certain number of rounds to be declared as stalemate.
Round limits (must be done for this round or will be considered stalemate):
Game 7390689 (75)
Game 7390686 (69)
Game 7390684 (68)
Game 7390662 (102)

[amazzony]

Nightmare, Act 3. We are waiting for our 4 games to end or reach a certain number of rounds to be declared as stalemate.
Round limits (must be done for this round or will be considered stalemate):
Game 7390689 (75)
Game 7390686 (69)
Game 7390684 (68)
Game 7390662 (102)

But, as an addition, I've decided that we'll move on to next Act in a week. To be honest, I don't believe much into the stalemates ending, or at least not all of them, so I don't think that the freemium will get rid of those games. Therefore, there's no need to wait for the stalemates to reach certain round and then keep being stalemates. Erm, you probably don't get a word of my rant but nevermind *rolling eyes* Basically, what it means, get your other slots open and some groups will start with 3 games and play the 4th game later.

New games coming out on November 14, 2010! Get your slots open.

[amazzony]

Sorry, guys and gals, I won't be able to get games out today. But, I will try to find time tomorrow or the day after to get new Act out.

[amazzony]

Bah, I just realised that I cannot start new games yet because after downsizing the tournament from 42 players to 35 for the last acts, I realised that I cannot be sure which player I'm "kicking" to the reserve list (it depends on one of the active games). Therefore, we keep waiting for the 3 games below to end or reach the round limit I've set.

Nightmare, Act 3.
Round limits (must be done for this round or will be considered stalemate):
Game 7390689 (75)
Game 7390686 (69)
Game 7390684 (68)

[amazzony]

Nightmare, Act 3. Waiting on the three games to end or reach round limit.
Round limits (must be done for this round or will be considered stalemate):
Game 7390689 (75)
Game 7390686 (69)
Game 7390684 (68)

[amazzony]

Nightmare, Act 3. Waiting on the, now, two games to end or reach round limit.
Round limits (must be done for this round or will be considered stalemate):
Game 7390689 (75)
Game 7390684 (68)

Game 7390686 has reached its round limit (69 rounds) and therefore 3 alive players (Johnny Rico, PepeAtila and Bones2484) will get all 14 points (because overall there was 21+13+8=42 points). All other points have been given out like normally, including every kill giving a point in the game.

[amazzony]

Nightmare, Act 3. Waiting on just one game to end or reach round limit.
Round limits (must be done for this round or will be considered stalemate):
Game 7390689 (75)

Game 7390684 has finished! Which leaves us only 1 game to finish or reach its round limit. Currently it has round 66 active and limit is 75.

[amazzony]

Nightmare, Act 3. Waiting on just one game to end or reach round limit.
Round limits (must be done for this round or will be considered stalemate):
Game 7390689 (75)

[amazzony]

Nightmare, Act 3. Waiting on just one game to end or reach round limit.
Round limits (must be done for this round or will be considered stalemate):
Game 7390689 (75)

Round 75!!! Nightmare, Act 4 coming out within a week!

[amazzony]

Nightmare, Act 3. Waiting on just one game to end or reach round limit.
Round limits (must be done for this round or will be considered stalemate):
Game 7390689 (75)

Round 75!!! Nightmare, Act 4 coming out within a week!

Game 7390689 is considered stalemate now and all remaining players (5) have collected 10 points from that game (3+5+8+13+21 = 50 points divided by 5). Eliminating players gave points as usually.

I'm working on setting up Act 4 of Nightmare right now. Like I mentioned some time ago, we'll be cutting the tournament to 30 players now which means that the characters are getting messed up again and there isn't an equal number of each of them as I've moved to reserve list the lowest point players and not lowest points from each character class. Anyways, this means that currently playing lowest scoring Amazon (Jobiwan) will be transformed into Necromancer (map to FoW) and lowest scoring Sorceress (superkeener) is moved to Druid (spoils to initial deployment).

[amazzony]

Wooh, we are almost back on track Scoreboards have been updated fully and I've received an answer from superkeener who has picked Automatic for his games. I've created games if Act 4 (Nightmare) to 4 groups who I have full set of settings and sent those games out. Group 5 has to wait for Jobiwan to send me his fog preference and as soon as I have it, I will create games for their group and we'll be hopefully fully active in a couple of days.

Edit. Mere 10 minutes after I posted this, I got an answer from Jobiwan which means that I've now created games for group 5 also, therefore everybody who have advanced straight to this round should have got a PM by now.

[Bones2484]

Going for triple digits this round! Need a good round to make a run at first place.

Game 8143900 and Game 8143906 are both mine with all the kills.

[amazzony]

Going for triple digits this round! Need a good round to make a run at first place.

Game 8143900 and Game 8143906 are both mine with all the kills.

Come on, I haven't got all games started yet!

[amazzony]

poguemahone is taking a brake from CC and he is replaced by Pringleplace (group 2). All other replacements will be done in a day or two.

[ZionT]

splat takes Game 8143903 and ZionT takes Game 8143905!

Sorry Bones, no dice on all 4, but you still did pretty well in those. GG's!

[amazzony]

Pringleplace takes the place of Prmurty and scottie comes in for Zarg78. After these players get into their games, I'll get everything fully updated.

[amazzony]

Nightmare, Act 4
2 groups have finished their games in this act, 2 have just started their games a couple of days ago and 1 group has two games active and the other two will begin as soon as the freemium player in the group gets spot(s) open. I don't see a problem with it because the 2 active groups are playing Supermax/Esc and Doodle/No Spoils games so I have confidence that the not started Age of Merchants/Esc will end more or less at the same time than other groups.

Scoreboards have been updated with the finished groups.

[amazzony]

Nightmare, Act 4
I've update the Nightmare scoreboard, overall experience is still from December because no other groups have finished their games yet. Right now we have 2 No Spoils/Doodle games with some eliminations in both games, 2 Escalating/AoM games that have just started and 4 Esc/Supermax games that should end in a few rounds. So, overall situation is quite good, a lot depends how the foggy Doodles will go and if they are going to go into stalemates or not.

[amazzony]

Nightmare, Act 4
There are just 3 more games left to finish in this act before we can move on to third stage of the tournament (Hell) where we there are 4 final acts waiting for you. I'm hoping that the games are done in the next 2 weeks but I cannot see through fog so lets just hope that the games move fast, smooth and we are ready to begin with final difficulty by the end of February.