Toribash
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Make your own event
Staying on the staff-related topics, without being annoying by naming the thread "You're now an ES".
Seeing as Clan League 2020 is around the corner, you can throw some of your creativity in here before making dozens of threads about it.

Let us assume you were assigned as the Event Planning Genius of Toribash [EPGoT], and were provided with a team that included a Mod Maker, Event Artist, Item Forger (3D items) and sir.
Make any kind of cocktail that appeals to your flavor - from in-game weekly events that are similar to the Opener Challenge, to a good old Ukayden sequel - and had the power to command as you wish with no some limits.

What would you do? What is your dream event? Do you want any previous event to be revived or renewed? Focusing on multiplayer or the singleplayer aspect more? etc etc...
I'm curious to see what your dream event would be like. Maybe staff will steal your ideas from this thread for future events, who knows?
NEVER 4GET.

Originally Posted by Moop 2k15


The Great GM Squabble!


It was a warm summer's day in GMetropolis. The sort of summer's day where you might expect to find the GMs frolicking through the poppy fields, or laughing at some noobs in ban appeals. But alas, GMetropolis now resembled No-man's-land closer than the picturesque haven it once was. It had been a full week since 'the almighty kerfuffle' had taken place. A kerfuffle, which would marginally alter the landscape of Toribash forever

2 weeks earlier

Jtank, after discovering he was 1/8th Scottish, was now refusing to answer to anything other than Angus MacDonald. As well as this, he had found something in his big brother's room and was going round with it shouting 'AAAACCCCCHHHHHH D'YE LIKE MA TRANSPARENT PIPES?' on an infinite loop. Rather than feed his delusion, the GMs locked him in Stellar's old room, hoping that he'd eventually reboot and restore to factory settings. Unfortunately, Jtank wasn't the only GM in emotional distress. It seems the long, arduous GM work had gotten to everyone slightly. Even the all-loving Powas was starting to wilt...

It was evident that the root cause of all this lied with Erth... Fresh back from his Somalian expedition to recover the stolen punkspikes, Erth had never really returned to normality… Having not noticed this at first, the Toribash Monarchy decreed that Erth would be appointed new GM lead, in appreciation of his key role in the war against the pirates. However, soon after the ceremony, it became evident that Erth was acting strangely…

The once vibrant tourney scene had become scattered, as more and more GM time was dedicated to attending to Erth’s bizarre whims – which had progressed to collecting colossal numbers of fish and lining up children for what he called ‘initiation’. Many theorised that Erth’s sudden and violent psychological meltdown was attributed to the emotional strain he had suffered during his month-long kayak excursion to Somalia; they said that no man could ever fully recover from such a long and isolated journey on his way to ostensible certain death, to then summon the super-human strength and courage that was necessary to bring down an entire Somalian subculture. Others, however, thought it was more likely that his odd behaviour was due to the miniature shark that had attached itself to Erth’s head at some point in the journey. Initially assumed to be an obnoxious new fashion accessory, it had quickly become clear that we were wrong, but by that time it was too awkward to say anything. Moop had taken it upon himself to find the truth about Erth’s mysterious behaviour. Putting on his detective hat and putting “some o’ the good stuff” in his detective pipe, he scuttled off into the bushes to inquisitively watch events from afar while scratching his chin, since that’s probably what detectives do.

During the recent events, among the most perturbed GMs were Scorpio and SmallBowl. Having lost one of his Polish doppelgangers, Scorpio had turned against the community, using a 3D shovel to wreak havoc on the beginner aikido servers. SmallBowl, on the other hand, had attempted to hide his identity altogether, wearing a thoroughly unconvincing Groucho mask and trying to claim his name was Hans. It was a reflection on SmallBowl’s creativity that his alterego was a retired German philatelist.

As the days grew longer, the atmosphere became tenser. GMetropolis was a combustible mix of power, confusion and emotion. Huge statues of toilet seats and famous sharks had started appearing on every corner, and the streets were ladened with rotting fish carcasses. Using his professional detective skills, Moop had deduced that Erth’s odd behaviour was a result of the miniature shark. He hypothesised that the shark’s molars of cranial intrusion had penetrated Erth’s mind, forcing the once loveable ginger to slowly transform into some maniacal, aquatic dictator. Moop knew he was onto something, but didn’t know what Erth’s goal was… What the solution was… Or how deep the rabbit-hole went…


Day 7: The Almighty Kerfuffle
It was official. Erth had announced the new 3D item available to all Toribash users would be a shark-head accessory. It was at this point that Moop realised Erth’s true intent. With an army of like-minded brainwashed shark-minions, there would be no end to the evil Erth could inflict…

Moop, recognising he had to do something, stood up and raised above his head the nearest item he could find, declaring “NO! THE NEXT 3D ITEM WILL BE MY DETECTIVE HAT AND PIPE!”

Before anybody could even react, Hans leapt out of the shadows, announcing “NO! THE NEXT 3D ITEM SHALL BE MY MASK! FOR IT IS I – SMALLBOWL – AND I HAVE TRICKED YOU ALL THIS TIME WITH MY MASK OF ULTIMATE DISGUISE!”

Moop, SmallBowl and Erth were locking eyes with one another, each standing their ground. The tension was palpable. But then… A faint rumble started in the distance… Could it be? No… It was… BAGPIPES.

“AAAAACCCCCCCCCCHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH YE CAN GET TAE FUCK! NEXT ITEM WILL BE MA TRANSPARENT PIPES!” Jtank’s delusions had reached epic proportions, he was now wearing a kilt, with a cloud of miserable Scottish weather above his head, following him wherever he went.

However, Scorpio, now with an elo of 1790 thanks to his shovel, had broken past rank 1 into negative ranks. He had broken the ranking system and declared himself the new king of GMetropolis. With the tension at boiling point, Scorpio walked up calmly, gently chuckling to himself.

“Fools…” whispered Scorpio. “While you were all wasting time bowing to your new idiotic leader, I was gaining experience. I am the best player in the world because the ranks say so and so you will all BOW TO ME INSTEAD. I AM YOUR NEW RULER. THE NEW ITEM WILL BE TO COMEMORATE MY ALMIGHTY SHOVEL.”

The lines were drawn in the sand. Between Erth, SmallBowl, Moop, Jtank and Scorpio, nobody would give an inch. Friendships and allegiances in tatters, the only thing that they now had in common was the fervent belief that Devil should stop using B) all the time, it’s annoying. As is tradition in these situations, the GMs must choose 5 warriors to fight for them. Destiny will decide which of the tyrannical expansions will continue…



TLR?

5 of the most noble, least flatulent GMs have selected their favourite unreleased 3D item, and will battle with their teams of 5 until only 1 team is left standing. All 5 members of this team will be rewarded with the 3D item in question (as well as other assorted knick-knacks?)




During all stages these rules apply:
1. By entering the event, you are obliged to sportsmanlike behaviour and fair play.
2. An unfinished fight (quit/no response) is always considered as a loss, unless the other player agrees to the rematch.
3. Remember to take screenshots of your duels in case something happens.
4. If you are suspected of any kind of cheating (rigging, entering on alts), Stellar will come back for a day just to curse at you.
5. Using #events IRC channel is encouraged for setting up duels, clearing up confusion and all other event-related things. You can find the GMs there.
6. GM team has the right to change any of these rules to improve & ensure quality of the event.


STAGE 1: Application and Culling

The first 50 applicants to pay the 5k entrance fee to MagicalSack and post here will be in. Applications will end when all 50 spots have been filled up. At this point we need to narrow you down to 25.

To do this, we will pair all of you up with an opponent, with whom you will have to complete a best-of-5 duel in any mod from this list: lenshu3ng, rb_greykido, erthtkv2, judofrac, wushu3box, taido2 and sambo-off.

Read here for what to do if a mod can't be decided


These pairings will be decided automatically, with entrant #1 fighting entrant #50, entrant #2 fighting entrant #49 etc.

The 25 applicants who didn't make it through will receive their 5k entrance fee back and a " :/ " emoticon in a PM, to express our awkwardness at the fact you weren't quite good enough.



STAGE 2: Team selection

From the 25 applicants who made it through the first duel, the GMs will choose their teams of 5 in a draft-like system (we'll have to find a fair way to draft players, something like GM 1 chooses -> GM 2 chooses -> GM 3 chooses -> GM 4 chooses -> GM 5 chooses 2 players -> GM 4 chooses -> GM 3 chooses etc).

Stage 2 will finish when the teams have been selected and announced.


STAGE 3: Betting

Stage 3 will last for 1 week, during this time everyone is welcome to place bets (minimum of 2,000 tc) on who they think will be the winning team. At the end of the event, the winning betters will split all of the bet tc in a similar fashion to in-game betting. Please keep bets to 500tc increments.

Betters are to post here in this format:

Example User
Bet amount: 10,000tc
Team: Team Moop


STAGE 4: Battling

Here is where the squabbling gets marginally less trivial...

Every 3 days, each GM team leader will select a duel between one of his members and a member of another team. They may choose any member from any team they want and duels may not be declined. The loser of the duel will be out of the competition (but will still win the prize if their team wins overall). A GM cannot select the same team member to fight 2 cycles in a row.

Team members are not permitted to organise duels themselves, the GM leaders are the only ones who will organise duels and each GM will do this only once every 3 days, with the new duels announced at the start of each new cycle. If 2 GMs decide to go after the same player in the same cycle, this player will have to play 2 duels in the cycle, regardless of whether he loses the first one (so if he loses the first duel, he will be out of the competition but will still play the second duel for a chance to eliminate an enemy player, since all original members of the winning team will win their 3D item)

This stage will last until only 2 GMs have players remaining on their teams.

*DUELING*

- Each battle will consist of a best-of-7 duel. These duels will be 1 game of each of the following mods:
lenshu3ng
rb_greykido
erthtkv2
judofrac
wushu3box
taido2
sambo-off
(this list still veryyyyy much up for discussion)

- After each duel, the winner must post here with the inidividual match results and overall winner. (screenshot / replay evidence required?) An example format:


Example Player
My team: Team Moop
Opposing team: Team Erth

lenshu3ng   win
rb_greykido   win
erthtkv2   loss
judofrac   win
wushu3box   loss
taido2   loss
sambo-off   win

Team Moop wins 4-3

- If no duel has taken place within 3 days, BOTH players will be disqualified and removed from the competition. Exceptions may be made if 1 player can demonstrate they made strong unreciprocated effort to try and organise a duel, but by default both would be disqualified.

- New duels will be announced every 3 days, so PAY ATTENTION TO THIS THREAD.

- #events in IRC will be a useful way of finding duels, as well as communicating with the GM leaders - if we're online, we'll be in #events.



STAGE 5: The Final

When only 2 of the original 5 GMs have players remaining on their teams, we're ready for the final.

For the final, the remaining players of both teams and their GM leaders will play off in a final war, with the winning team crowned the winner of the event.

*THE FINAL WAR*

- The final war will consist of a first-to-10 war, cycling through the duel mods (lenshu3ng, rb_greykido, erthtkv2, judofrac, wushu3box, taido2 and sambo-off). This means when the sambo-off match has been played, the mod cycles back to lenshu3ng.

- A player cannot play 2 matches in a row. This means that if a team only has 1 player left, the player-order will be stuck, alternating between the remaining player and the GM, giving them a strategic disadvantage.


STAGE 6: Gloating

hurhur hurhurhurhur... hurrrrhurhurhr...


Winning team: all players in the winning team will receive their GM's chosen 3D item and will each receive 25k from the entry fees

Runner up team: all players in the team placing 2nd will receive a coupon for 50% off the winning item, or any of the other 4 items once they're released. (and knick-knacks?)






THE TEAMS


< Insert art for each team, with a cartoony (?) picture of the GM leader and their chosen item, along with some sort of team panel, on which we could put the head textures of our team members when we've chosen them >

one time i had a hair deep in my urethra and when i pulled it out it felt kinda good ~fudgiebalz 2020


<~Skul> they're not children, they're demon midgets
<~Skul> if you kill one in front of the rest, they'll scatter and leave
a Climb The Mountain! challenge sounds like a cool concept.

two players start at the bottom of a mountain and have to climb their way up the side of it. the challenge is that you race against the other player: a hotseated staff-run player with new items made to look like an old hiker. the first one to make it to the top of the mountain has to find the player on the other side and throw them off. DQ will be enabled and the DMThreshold would be fairly low, so taking someone who grabs on to the mountain off isn't so hard. however, there is a possibility the hiker may not throw the other player off.
- if neither fall off the mountain (or get DQ'd), no point is awarded.
- if the one who made it to the top ends up being DQ'd first, the point is awarded if the non-DQ'd player made it to the top. if not, no point is awarded.
as with other recent events, the overall first place prize would consist of one of the items from the hiker's set, along with some ST and other items. points will be based off how many times one person successfully climbs the top of the mountain and throws the hiker off. there will also be a count for those who are DQ'd from the mountain. if someone gets DQ'd during their match, no matter if anyone made it to the top, there will be a point added for fallen players. whoever has the most falls by the end of the event gets a silly untradable item with no in-game appearance. it is purely decorative and does nothing other than remind you of that time you fell a lot.
the event would run for about a month with announcements every 3-4 days and different announcements times, so both NA and EU have a shot.
i like this idea.
funny blue smiling person
please to be enjoying lowkido
let's bring minibash back!