Week 3!

The second week of our tournament featured 1000% more head-crushing and dream-crushing than the first, which is a trend we can only hope will continue. Check out the bottom of this post for all the gory evidence! But first, the third week ends at 11:59 PM on Sunday, December 22nd January 12th and features these challenges:

Stone Age: Better Huts and Gardens

Competitors have been divided into pods to attempt to reinvent the wheel on Brettspielwelt. Make an account and then hook up with your pod for some prehistoric pandemonium! Scoring for this event will be based on your placing within your pod's game; first place in each pod will be worth 4 points, second in each pod 3, and so on. In addition, one bonus point will be awarded for each non-food resource type your villagers eat during the game. 

Pod 1

SB

Pi

Aaron

Andrew

Pod 2

Jeff

Shane

Alise

Super Mario Bros Super Ironman Show

Progress as far as possible into the legendary Super Mario Bros 3 without dying. And no warping! At your first death, your run is over. Then of course submit your beautiful bean footage to me and I will cut it together with everyone else's in such a way that everyone involved looks as dumb as possible.

Week 2 Coverage

Alien Swarm Pod 1

Alien Swarm Pod 2

Chivalry Pod 1

Chivalry Pod 2

Chivalry Final Rounds

Week 2 Results

Alien Swarm:

Pod 2 (Pi, Andrew, Aaron): 39:55.30 = 5 points

Pod 1 (SB, Alise, Jeff, Shane): 43:39.17 = 1 point

Chivalry:

1st - Aaron (6 points + 3 diversity bonus) = 9 points

2nd - Andrew (5 points + 3 diversity bonus) = 8 points

3rd - Shane (4 points + 3 diversity bonus) = 7 points

4th - SB (3 points + 3 diversity bonus) = 6 points

5th - Alise (2 points + 3 diversity bonus) = 5 points

6th - Pi (1 point + 2.5 diversity bonus) = 3.5 points

Week 2!

The first week of competition has drawn to a close, and judging from the amount of blood on the track it must have been a success! Check the bottom of this post for all of the week 1 coverage that you can possibly stand. Looking forward, week 2 ends at 11:59 PM Thursday, December 12 and the schedule is as follows:

Alien Swarm Bug Hunt

In teams, competitors will race through the campaign of Alien Swarm (Difficulty: Easy, Friendly Fire: Normal, Onslaught: Disabled). Smash bugs, save lives, display your cooperative spirit, and unravel the mystery of whatever the hell it is that this game is about. Pick a person on your team to record your adventure so that the future space marines who find your emptied-out corpses will have something spooky to listen to! The team rosters (selected by an arcane but ultimately fair method):

Team 1
SB
Jeff
Alise
Shane

Team 2
Pi
Andrew
Aaron
An AI character of their choosing

Chivalry Duel Competition

Armor up and get ready to smash some skulls! Competitors will engage in acts of medieval brutality in a series of best-of-three Chivalry duels. A half-point diversity bonus will be awarded for each different weapon group used as the primary slaying tool in a fight, and a maximum of one bonus point will be awarded per round. Note that the diversity bonus requires the use of weapons from different groups and you will not score a diversity bonus for using multiple weapons from the same group! As always, one of the duelists should record the fight and send it to me.

The fighters have been randomly separated into two pods. Each fighter will battle the others in their pod to determine their placing within the pod. (In the event that the pod round robin fails to yield a result via the dreaded spiral, pod placement will be determined by a single free-for-all fight between all three competitors, with the winner taking first in the pod and the other two places being determined by the previous match between the second and third place competitors.) Once pod placements have been determined, each fighter will duke it out with their counterpart from the other pod for final placement; the two first placers will fight over 1st and 2nd, the two second placers will fight for 3rd and 4th, and the last two will fight over 5th and 6th. The pods are as follows:

Pod 1
Aaron
Alise
Shane

Pod 2
Andrew
Pi
SB

Week 1 Coverage
Super Meat Boy Combined Coverage Video
The 5 Stages of Shane Playing Super Meat Boy
Playlist of everybody's scoring Super Meat Boy run
Spelunky Pod 1 Race (Pi, Shane, SB)
Spelunky Pod 2 Race (Alise and Jeff)

Week 1 Results

Super Meat Boy:

Pi - 07:38.67 (6 points) + 1 bandage (0.5 points) = 6.5 points

Andrew - 10:34.63 (5 points) + 0 bandages (0 points) = 5 points

SB - 11:41.38 (4 points) + 6 bandages (3 points) = 7 points

Aaron - 12:56.23 (3 points) + 0 bandages (0 points) = 3 points

Shane - 14:57.07 (2 points) + 0 bandages (0 points) = 2 points

Jeff - 46:14.08 (1 point) + 4 bandages (2 points) = 3 points

Spelunky:

SB - 03:50.47 = 5 points
Jeff - 04:39.07 = 4 points

Shane - 07:15.60 = 3 points

Pi - 15:16.47 = 2 points
Alise - 16:38.67 = 1 point

Week 1 Begins!

Welcome to the first week of the Brolympic Games! This week's events are as follows:

Super Meat Boy Individual Competition
To compete in this event, record yourself completing all levels in light worlds 1 and 2 of Super Meat Boy. Commentate your run if you can! Scoring will be based on completion time relative to the other racers, with a bonus half-point awarded for each bandage grabbed.
(If you'd like to wipe your save so as to be able to get bandages that you might have already grabbed, it's stored in %STEAM_DIRECTORY%/steamapps/common/super meat boy/UserData/savegame.dat and savegame.dat.bak. You can just move it somewhere else while doing your run and then restore it afterward if you don't want to lose your progress. You might also have to disable Steam cloud saves for SMB.)

Spelunky: Race to the Jungle
Racers will gather in pods to race to the bottom of the fourth level in the original Spelunky. Each racer must submit a video and, ideally, one racer from each pod should submit a recording of the race's audio so we can all enjoy the trash talk and wails of anguish. Scoring will be based on completion time relative to all other racers (not just those in your pod).

If you need recording software, I highly recommend OBS: http://obsproject.com/

This week's tentative end time is 11:59 PM on Monday, December 2nd. If you need some more time because of a busy schedule around Thanksgiving, talk to me and we can figure something out!

The Format

Welcome to the Brolympic Games! The august Brolympic Committee has released the competition's tentative inaugural schedule, and it promises to test each competitor's every faculty (except for those related to, like, physically moving around). Ten events will challenge our brave "athletes", with each competitor's top eight scores contributing to their final rank (which means that you can just skip up to two events at no penalty if you so choose). And of course, throughout the event the Brolympic Coverage Team will ensure that no triumph goes uncelebrated and also that every embarrassing mistake will be enshrined forever on the Internet. Let's take a look at the schedule:

Week 1 (Indie Week): 

- Super Meat Boy Individual Competition (Worlds 1 and 2)
Each competitor will submit a single-segment video of them running the first two light worlds of Super Meat Boy. Scoring will be based on completion time, with a half-point bonus for each bandage collected.

- Spelunky Race (Complete the Caves)

Competitors will be gathered in pods to race to the bottom of Spelunky's second region while misleading and taunting each other in realtime! Scoring will be based on completion time.

Week 2 (Combat Week):
- Alien Swarm Co-op
The competitors will be divided into teams based on week 1 scores and sent into the inky void to reclaim a space station from the clutches of the terrifying Zerg generic non-copyrighted space bugs in the game's original campaign. Scoring will be based on completion time and all members of a team will receive the same score.

- Chivalry Duel Competition
Competitors will fight a series of thrilling hand-to-hand duels in the most advanced yelling simulator ever released as they slaughter their way through this single combat tournament. Scoring will be based on placement, with bonus points for diversity in weapon use.

Week 3 (Prehistory Week):
- Stone Age
Competitors will be divided into groups based on current overall scores to get in touch with their distant, distant roots in a round of Stone Age on BrettspielWelt. Scoring will be based on placement within your game group.
- Super Mario Bros 3 Individual Ironman
Each competitor will submit a single-segment video of them getting as far as possible in a warpless run of Super Mario Bros 3 without dying. Scoring will be based on progress.

Week 4 (BRAAAAINS Week):
- Wiki Wars
Competitors will participate in a brain-tingling (?) contest of wits in which they must navigate from one given Wikipedia page to another only by clicking links within the body of Wikipedia articles. Scoring will be based on placement in a tournament bracket.
- Left 4 Dead 2 Bloodbath
Competitors will be divided into groups based on current overall scores to battle each other in a savage Versus Mode bloodbath. Scoring will be based on Versus Mode rounds won.

Week 5 (SECRET Week):
- It's a secret!
Two secret events selected by the Brolympic Secret Committee will be inflicted on competitors in our final play period. They're so secret that not even I know what they are!



The committee (which is to say me) will be accepting competitor applications and comments and suggestions about the tournament format until Saturday morning, at which point week 1 will begin, barring any unforeseen issues. Hit me up on Skype or Steam!