England@KRob16 - we cut your one as the disparity in your times was pretty big for a race. We've seen how long it can take to improve ALTTP times. However, if you do improve in time for the marathon, I see no reason why we can't make it a race later (let us know how you're doing!). However, right now it's a solo run.
@Frozer - partly my fault for wanting Disgaea so much.
@Metako - Unless someone else already changed it, SotN isn't in the cuts list. It was accepted right now.
@Mergy - Donation incentives we need to figure out. Will chat with the other staff and get to work on that.
Does the Izakaya have lots of sake like the name suggests?
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ESA 2016 will be open from Saturday the 23rd of July at 8am until Monday the 1st of August at noon. Click here to visit the master thread!
This post was written by flicky
The Game submission and scheduling team are flicky, bangerra, Fatzke (new!). We will also reach out to individuals and game communities regarding runs, rules and so on to help us make our decisions as we have done in previous years.
[centre][big]Round 2 (aka the horrific slaughter) cuts are live![/big] [/centre]
Second Round Cuts So it turns out that it's brutally difficult to cut down our runs this year. Last year we cut down to 229 hours of runs for two streams after round two. This year we could only manage to cut to 297 hours with a single stream. We planned to cut down more substantially here, but it turns out the run quality was too high, so really it's your fault...
Final Cuts and Schedule We will be cutting down to the final schedule on the 5th of June 2016. You may have noticed that we didn't write out complete reasons for each cut. It turns out that was a bit ambitious, but we will strive to add them over the next few days (so check back!). We thought it was more important that the cuts were published on time, than to delay for the reasoning to be added. If you would like reasoning sooner, just post here.
Now is the time to practice super hard as we will be really skimming the top for the best runners and runs. Please keep your sr.com leaderboards up to date!
Feel free to discuss any of the cuts here. If you'd like to contact any of us privately to talk about cuts, please check our contact info in the master thread linked at the post of this post!
For people who have WR in their runs, asking about performance - basically we need to know that you're still doing well. It also might be the case (and hey, sometimes it is!) where the WR is still pretty bad - so sometimes simply having a WR might not be enough. However, if you're top of a leaderboard, you don't really have much else to prove.
@Kirua: The second cuts will be a bulk of the final cuts, so we'll be down to something like 110% content. This means that there may be a final phase of cuts if necessary to bring the lists in line, but most of these cuts will be games from the same series (ie, you may find 8 Zelda games still in 2nd cuts). The final schedule itself (alongside any final cuts) will be out sometime around the 29th of May. That date may shift by a week, but it's what we're aiming for right now.
@Garadas - If you only have specific days you can attend, we will make sure that your games are on those days for you!
Regarding submissions after deadlines, I've explained this to Nudua too, but I'll write it out here for everyone.
Accepting someone after a deadline means a reconsideration of everything post-deadline. This means anyone who missed the deadline - even by days - has a right to have their game in the event, defeating the point of having a deadline at all. If you accept one person, especially on some technicality (the game was submitted by someone else as well), then you have to go through everybody. Three hours after deadline is no different from 3 weeks after deadline - both are still past it - we have to be fair on this point. The reason we have a deadline is because it makes everything a lot easier for us and gives us a fair window in which we can treat everyone fairly.
If you missed the deadline, it's really no one else's fault - people had two weeks of submissions and the submission dates were announced two weeks before that.
We don't want to be completely rigid on these points, so if this causes a problem in other instances, we will reconsider but so far this is only instance of people being upset about it. As it stands, accepting Nudua's late submission purely because Mega Man 2 is in already is unfair to the person who submitted a unique game late. If we accept that person, then why not accept people who want to submit a game now?
The way we see it, doing anything except reject all games that were after submission just makes things unfair and defeats the whole exercise. If you think we gave too little time to make submissions or you didn't know how long they were lasting, that's another topic and one we can discuss.
@MLSTRM - it's the same unfortunate problem of JRPG length for runs. There are a lot of good series we'd like to represent and so to include more, we try to go for the shorter options.
@SirRouven - Fatzke and I both speak German, so we can still understand you. We'll probably need to hear that you can at least speak English while playing at some point, so as long as we know that, no problem.
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ESA 2016 will be open from Saturday the 23rd of July at 8am until Monday the 1st of August at noon. Click here to visit the master thread!
This post was written by flicky
The Game submission and scheduling team are flicky, bangerra, Fatzke (new!). We will also reach out to individuals and game communities regarding runs, rules and so on to help us make our decisions as we have done in previous years. Currently we want to talk to the communities for Resident Evil, Sonic the Hedgehog (2d), Harry Potter, Kingdom Hearts, GTA and 2d Disney.
[centre][big]Round One of Cuts are now Public![/big] [/centre]
First Cuts Hopefully we've done a decent job of cuts. We legitimately think that this is the best list of games we've had yet for ESA. As usual, we made these cuts based on the games only and not the runner or run quality.
We now have to make the decision on whether a second stream is required to house these things and so we'll be discussing that over the next few days and will announce our decision on the 27th of March.
Second round of cuts... From this point on, we'll be looking at runners, runner skill and all of that stuff, so now you have to get to work! We will be giving you until the 1st of May 2016 to optimise your runs! Please update your speedrun.com leader-boards and pages with things as we'll be checking those for times and videos. You can also ask questions in this thread and post here, if you so wish.
If you want to change your estimates, please post only once in this thread before the deadline. We don't need to know every time you want to adjust the estimate, just once!
Feel free to discuss any of the cuts here. If you're like to contact any of us privately to talk about cuts, please check our contact info in the master thread linked at the post of this post! We can give any reasoning on request. We will be giving detailed reasons for the second round of cuts.
Expected date for final schedule: 29th of May 2016
Yeah, it's a no-go. Sorry guys.
The final cuts and schedules won't be out until a few months before the event. We ran a poll asking when people would like the schedule out and the most common answers were one-two months before the event.
The thing is, I understand that if you're coming from America, things will become more expensive (I've been to AGDQ 5 times), but deciding on going only if your game is in, is going to mean you have to deal with this sort of problem. I would advise you make a decision on whether to come regardless of whether you have a run or not, then book and organise travel now, rather than waiting to see if you make it down the line.
We can't make the schedule too early, because then people won't have enough time to really practice things and we could end up cutting a load of stuff unduly.
We haven't decided on an exact date yet, but we're looking at around the 20th of March.
When we've fully decided, we'll edit it into posts and all that.
If you work at getting a good game and can commit to it, that could be something worth submitting.
Regarding not getting through to me:
The reason I didn't respond was because I felt like I was always just a day away from having a confirmed answer and so just waited on it. Obviously that wasn't the case and it was the wrong decision for me to make, so sorry on that front - I take full responsibility for it.
Sorry for the slow, but we basically have a completely scrubby tech setup right now Insomnia is going to want something more. I will let you know.
For you guys complaining about me saying that, if I had just told you to book you might be in a much worse spot.
update: getting final word now from multiplay. Will let you guys know hopefully today. Once I get confirmation from Planks that he can do i58, I'm going to fucking 100% solid book that in and get started on it.
Really sorry for how these last events have gone. Their fuckup for 56, and not enough tech for 57 (all our backups fell through too) causing troubles. If 57 doesn't happen, I want to apologise again and thank you for your patience.
Technically there's no limit on the length afaik, but bear in mind that someone has to read it!
Matse, feel free to submit another video that you think showcases the game well. A trailer, let's play or someone else's run is all fine.
Cartina, your question is answered in the first post in the thread:
"If you are submitting races, relays, co-op games or anything else with multiple people, all involved runners must submit a form including a list of the other participants. If you suggest a race and your race partner does not, then we will make it a single player run. "
I think you answered your own question: It's a multi-game category so it encompasses multiple games, so it's a multi-game submission.
I think you're confused. The dressing rooms would be sectioned off as a female only mass housing and/or shower. It would be female only, so if you're not a female, you're not allowed in. We've never offered anything specifically for couples or anything like that.
If mass housing was available for the 22nd, it would already say that. It's from the 23rd until the 1st, that's why we wrote that.
