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!