Denver, CO, USAHey there, we just wanted to let you know about the upcoming All Bosses No Major Glitches tournament. We're pleased to be able to partner with SpeedGaming to hold another tournament showcasing Metroid Dread.
Here are a few things you should know:
Before the tournament begins, there will be eight qualifier matches.
Qualifier heat schedule (all times are in US Eastern)
Two heats on Saturday August 5th, 2023: 3:00pm / 8:00PM Two heats on Sunday, August 6th, 2023: 3:00pm / 8:00PM
Two heats on Saturday August 12th, 2023: 3:00pm / 8:00PM Two heats on Sunday, August 13th, 2023: 3:00pm / 8:00PM
Quals:
- You must join racetime.gg and you must stream your run live on Twitch.
- You must participate in at least two heats. You can participate in more than two if you would like. In fact, we encourage it because your best time from the qualifiers will determine what bracket you will be placed in, so the more runs you post results in, the better chances to seed higher. Based on your performance, you will be placed into one of two brackets, Mawkin (upper bracket) or Thoha (lower bracket).
Brackets:
- All runners are required to join the SpeedGaming Discord server and state they're participating by posting in the #dread channel.
- The ruleset for the category will be the same as the ones found here on speedrun.com. (https://www.speedrun.com/mdread?h=All_Bosses-No_Major_Glitches-Rookie&x=ndx3qjod-dlorordl.810d8m2l-6nj5x4el.jqzzn7gq)
- All runners are required to run on Rookie Mode
- Runners may make an ad hoc agreement ("gentleman") to increase the difficulty level or run All Bosses Glitchless. Dread Mode is not allowed, and making a gentleman's agreement to All Bosses Unrestricted, while extremely cool and rad, is also not allowed.
- When the tournament begins, all matches will be 1v1. Scheduling will be decided by the players, but a date must be selected before a given timeframe. For those who lose their match, you will fall to the loser's bracket, where you will have one more chance to win. If you lose in the loser's bracket, you are eliminated from the tournament. Better luck next time!
- We encourage all runners to show up 10 minutes early for the qualifiers and for the rest of the tournament. This helps the staff and admins out greatly.
- During the qualifiers, four people will be chosen at random to be showcased on one of the SpeedGaming channels on Twitch.
- There's a prize pool for this tournament! As of this forum post, we're at a prize pool of $111.43; if you want to contribute further to the pool, click this link: https://sglive.speedgaming.org/
Take care, and See You Next Mission.
Hey there, we have some news from the Discord. We want to hold more events where we focus on specific categories, and so we're starting something we're calling a Season. Since the All Bosses No Major Glitches tournament is coming up, our first Season is going to be focused around that category.
This Season is divided into two parts: free play and tournament play. During free play, we'll be holding events, such as clinics and races, to bring new runners into the fold. We'd be flattered if you would join us in the Discord during this time. We'd particularly like to draw your attention to the two clinics we're holding on Saturday July 15 and Saturday July 29. During these clinics, you'll learn the ins and outs of the category and be better equipped to compete (and with a little luck, win) races and tournaments.
(all times are in US Eastern)
Week 1 Friday, July 14, 2023 9:00 PM: Race 1 Saturday, July 15, 2023 3:00 PM: Clinic 1 Sunday, July 16, 2023 12:00 PM: Race 2
Week 2 Friday, July 21, 2023 9:00 PM: Race 3 Saturday, July 22, 2023 3:00 PM: Race 4
Week 3 Friday, July 28, 2023 9:00 PM: Race 5 Saturday, July 29, 2023 3:00 PM: Clinic 2 Sunday, July 30, 2023 12:00 PM: Race 6
Week 4 Friday, August 4, 2023 9:00 PM: Race 7 Saturday, August 5, 2023 3:00 PM: Race 8
Starting August 2023, we're going to be partnering with Speedgaming to hold a tournament for All Bosses No Major Glitches!
Here's what we know so far:
- Tournament Format: double elimination, with each match being a Best of One. Grand Finals will be a Best of Three.
- Tournament Rules: https://www.speedrun.com/mdread?h=All_Bosses-No_Major_Glitches-Rookie&rules=category&x=ndx3qjod-dlorordl.810d8m2l-6nj5x4el.jqzzn7gq
- There's a prize pool on Speedgaming's website. If you would like to contribute, we would be very grateful.
- Qualifiers are planned for August.
We'll let you know when we have more information.
Please join us as we celebrate our speedgame; we would love to have you.
Wanted to bring this to your attention: there is a poll currently out on renaming the No Major Glitches category, in the wake of the discovery of Short Boost / Air Walk. The poll will be open until Monday, May 23 at 03:59 AM GMT.
There is also a question on the poll about merging NMG with Unrestricted, this question is present strictly to gauge popularity; no action will be taken based on the results at this time.
https://forms.gle/JGV959CFKeGTKKiJ8
NOTE: For questions, go to the Metroid Dread Speedrunning Discord, link https://discord.gg/BdmYr5TRGT. I don't manage the form and am not involved in administering the vote, I can't answer your questions.
From the poll contents itself:
[quote]Why does this matter? The name of NMG is subjective and varies from person to person. When the category was created, no set of rules or definitions were implemented leading to various discussions over what constitutes a major glitch. This discussion has been brought forward again with the discovery of short boost and air walk. In an effort to facilitate decision making for the category, a name change to the category has been proposed.
Points to consider:
- Removal of major/minor declarations from decision making.
- Trick allowance based on category rules and definitions or based on community desire and route intentions.
- Future tricks and strategies and their potential impact on the category.
- How you define the category and what you think it’s intentions are or should be.
Please note that this is a separate poll from short boost and air walk. We'll be posting a poll for this in the coming days.
A two-thirds majority, discounting neutral votes, will be required of the results to result in a change of the name for the category.
The final question regarding the board merger IS FOR INFORMATION GATHERING PURPOSES ONLY! A merger of the boards is not currently being considered, but the topic has been brought forth by the community several times recently so we are gauging community interest.[/quote]
Wanted to bring this to your attention: there is a poll currently out on merging all non-Dread difficulties for Any%, 100%, All Bosses, and Legacy (NOT 0%, Minimum Items). The poll will be open until Wednesday at 12PM Eastern Time.
https://forms.gle/h6pzTBniBz5NDhVW6
NOTE: For questions, go to the Metroid Dread Speedrunning Discord, link https://discord.gg/BdmYr5TRGT. I don't manage the form and am not involved in administering the vote, I can't answer your questions.
From the poll contents itself:
[quote]The purpose of this poll is to gauge community opinion on the potential merger of the rookie and hard modes into the normal mode leaderboard. Also the team would like to note that the Boss Rush mode will be added to Metroid Dread page on speedrun.com when these changes are implemented as well.
Please note that the Min Items and 0% categories will be unaffected by this change. The categories which WILL be affected are Any%, 100% and All Bosses and Legacy alongside their respective subcategories. Also Dread mode WILL remain its own respective subcategory for all difficulties.
You can find the discussion about the topic in the Metroid Dread Discord Server under #Discussion -> #combining difficulties on leaderboard (sub category). In addition there was a post in #announcements which details the points made as well.
Below is a summary of the points as well for your reference:
Reasons FOR the board merger
-Insignificant differences between runs of different difficulties. -Reduce verification load, allowing for quicker turn-around times on run submissions. -Reduce the number of boards, particularly sparsely run boards. -Increased engagement with community for runners who prefer different difficulties -Alignment with other communities where rookie/easy is a standard for fastest times. -Difficulty filter option available to compare like runners still -New runners won’t have to feel alienated if they prefer the easier difficulty. -Rookie differences minimal outside of Corpius and Kraid. (RNG heavy fights)
Reasons AGAINST the board merger
-Different difficulties have different skill caps. -Reduce number of boards one can compete on. -Runners forced to “compete” against different difficulties. -Visibility of similar difficulty runs reduced to filter option. -New runners may not explore other difficulties -Potentially makes Corpius/Kraid easier. (“Potentially” as avoiding phase 3 with the extra missiles could negate the positive effect of having more missiles.) -Rookie not “intended” difficulty. Advantaged with 30 missiles start.[/quote]
