one step closer to tournament 20...

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reposting this in case Kai didn't see it

btw, because stuff unexpectedly came up, I wasn't able to make a poster on time for this tournament. sorry bros

>FORMAT and DA RULES
If we have over 7 players
>Regular phase
2 lobbies
12 races
Point system:
1st place – 10 points
2nd – 8 points
3rd – 6 points
4th – 4 points
5th – 3 points
6th – 2 points
7th – 1 point

TOP 2 from each lobby qualify directly to the playoffs.
3rd and 4th placed racists from both lobbies advance to a single WILD CARD RACE in which last place is eliminated and the rest advance into the FINAL PLAYOFF LOBBY

>PLAYOFFS
The player that finishes in LAST PLACE is automatically ELIMINATED. The rest of the players go on to the next race until ONLY 3 RACISTS ARE LEFT. They will then race in a single FINAL RACE, in which the one that finishes 1st becomes the Champ.

If we have seven we will use the double elimination rules pioneered last tournament. If you are last you receive a strike. A player is eliminated when they have 2 strikes. We race until 3 remain, then we race a final race.
The winner of that is the champion.

>Character rules
ALL RACISTS gotta stick to the same 2 characters throughout the whole event or you're DQ’d from championship contention

Hype moments and aura imminent!

>>51231578
didnt see it, i like it

>>51231578
>I wasn't able to make a poster on time for this tournament. sorry bros
its okay dude, we can just harvest your organs and whoever wins this tourney can keep them and earn some cash on the side

I'm ready

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room name: /jp/ tournament 19 a
password: yukari
we begin in 30 minutes

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>Newbie guide
https://pastebin.com/Bw2RB1CQ
>Shortcut compilation
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLfVXTV9d6V2E

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Will there be a stream this time?

Yes, and it is up now https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhpCt3rnrq0

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tragedy has struck... this is my last can and the store near me stopped selling this stuff. life is unfair

sup AkiDesuYo~, -=XneT=-, FUDGE, and Fester

>>51233707
That sucksss. Love me some Hard Baja Blast.

>>51233708
yeah hi
hope all of you niggas lose
>>51233707
see, thats a bad omen already

https://youtu.be/gL6fdBrwgB4

>>51233708
hi hi yoyo
and hello to Fester, FUDGE, and -=XneT=-

so we camn possibly wait on Kai, Eagle, nabana, frog, and Waik. and whoever else might wanna join!

>>51233724
whos this individual named waik

>>51233741
Waikin sorry. from last month's tournament

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we will postpone the race for about 5 minutes, if not enough show up then we will hold tournament 19 next month
fear not though for we will still do double elimination for fun this week followed by casual racing

Fester: I

damn... guess i was a bit too late

>>51233756
you can still join. but there won't be any stakes this month

Fester: II Eliminated

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*castrates both Xnet and Yoyo at the same time*
Whoops, sorryyyyy~!
kek

>>51233756
>only couple minutes late
whar

>>51233762
going to play a couple

That's what you deserve for doing the evil spiritual strike!

>>51233764
Excellent job, keep up the good work.

> video unavailable
youtube-sama...

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>>51233754
>>51233763
Oh, I forgot that's what we were doing lmao
I was just playing like we were doing basic races, not elimination. Eh, whatever.

FUDGE: I

>>51233771
try this one
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gL6fdBrwgB4

nah, too distracted, sorry

>>51233764
i was gonna fall behind just to get you back but you were pretty far away, decided not to risk it, lel you lost

FUDGE: I
Aki: I

FUDGE II and we do the final race
mildly sarcastic drumrolls please

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thought I could save up in time for a last second last word for nue but forgot it was near the end lol

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ez money!!

and it is yoyo 88888
everyone can join back now

almost made me thought i bit my own tongue there

i'll be back in a minute, gotta fix something real quick

Can any of the oil sheiks on /jp/ sponsor Skydrift so that the winners get the money they deserve?

goddamn UFO gives you a free win every time there

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>>51233816
it really does

>>51233815
sorry, the only oil sheik here is roach-tan, and we already burned that bridge...

that was nasty xnet kek

>>51233825
i was supposed to get you and aki but that failed lol

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I'm gonna go fetch my dinner now. see you guys later!
next month will be the big one for sure, I can tell

ha, gotem
>>51233829
see you later dude!
>next month will be the big one for sure, I can tell
i hope so

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I'll be going for tonight, fun races!

>>51233856
see you later FUDGE ggs

>>51233856
GGs fudge, cya

wtf
nigga

>>51233871
vengeance bitch

oh man i still messed it up, idk how i got stuck there

hi nabana

hello homu

Hi, and ggs.
I woke up an hour before the tournament, but I ended up going back to sleep.

>>51233920
ggs
sleep is nice

lol, damn you aki

>>51233920
feels good to go back to sleep though, except for the times you realize you missed something important

GGs xnet
thanks for the games

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>>51233945
GGs aki, some of those rounds you got me pretty good, if only i had 6 amulets to keep messing you with on that map...

Wtf so there wasn't a tournament? :|

>>51234112
we needed more people to show up. be the change you want to see!

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I think it's a bad look that it had to be postponed seeing it had never happened before. But bruh you made the tourney thread like not even a day before the race. How did you think you were gonna get any hype or traction for the actual event?

>>51235199
This was the first time it was postponed, but honestly not the first time it was considered. Last months' and I believe the month before as well we didn't have a good turnout and it was suggested that we postpone during those times too, we just didn't go through with it and still pushed through with who we had. This is just how it is now. I honestly don't think making the thread days before would've made all that much of a difference, it's not like we've seen that many new racists join the ranks. It's just the same old fags who've stuck around at this point. We should probably face the facts at some point; these events aren't really gonna have much of a turnout no matter how much we try to sell them. /jp/ as a whole is pretty dead and anyone interested in joining-in probably would've done so at this point, and a lot of our usuals have either moved on or have other things going on in their lives to do instead.

>>51235199
>Bad look
I feel it would have been worse to hold it with like 5 people.
I will fully admit I fucked up by posting the thread too late. I should have went ahead and posted it by Wednesday poster be damned. Or at least have done the the Thursday practice races.
This will not happen again.
>>51235306
I think we saw an increase in new racers last tournament. By posting the thread late several of our consistent racers missed it. (We also failed to crosspost to kissu)

>>51235199
>I think it's a bad look that it had to be postponed
see the thing is, if you put it like that then we been having a bad look for a while now, at least after VD left, since you know, we havent been able to get a full lobby and sure as hell not more than 7 people
>>51235306
>these events aren't really gonna have much of a turnout no matter how much we try to sell them. /jp/ as a whole is pretty dead and anyone interested in joining-in probably would've done so at this point
grim
>>51235379
>I think we saw an increase in new racers last tournament.
oh yeah we did huh, but not a whole lot of them joined in the tourney, although a part of me feels like the usual racists would've known there was a tourney going on today regardless if the thread was posted late or not, probably a coincidence they werent able to join in

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Ok so the biggest issue is getting new players in, and making them regulars. How do we do that? Since the game won't be getting any more official updates, it's all up to the players to keep it from dying entirely.

In previous weeks some new racists joined us, and that's a good sign. But they didn't show up for the tourney. This can be addressed by posting the tourney thread in advance and reminding newbies when the tournament is held so everyone knows.

Maybe it's time to start branching out to shitholes like /v/ as well. Kissu is kinda dead, but maybe having one thread there would help. Getting irl frens to try the game out and join. Or going to the game's discord and recruit from there.

Once new players join in, we can bring back player/board culture. Drawings, other games, modded tracks and events.

I refuse to let our little niche die so let's all do our part, what do you think?

>>51238274
>Once new players join in, we can bring back player/board culture.
lol, lmao

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>>51238274
That sounds like a plan!
pic entirely unrelated

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>>51238274
>Maybe it's time to start branching out to shitholes like /v/ as well.
maybe. however, they do have schizos who stalk recurring gaming threads and try to kill them (like Peak threads), so it is possible that this would be painting a target on our backs. maybe /vm/ (is that alive?). or maybe we branch out to games other than skydrift, and we start making /jp/ game night threads with multiplayer touhou games.
>Kissu is kinda dead, but maybe having one thread there would help.
we do maintain a thread there but it's kinda dead outside of when I post there. makes sense considering this isn't even a kissu event. perhaps if we organized a mega tournament with all the other imageboards? with team racing, even!
>Getting irl frens to try the game out and join.
I've done this and had some modest success. at the moment I don't have any more friends that I can convince
>Or going to the game's discord and recruit from there.
idk, many of those guys are bigger tryhards than we could ever be. in the past I wouldn't have considered that a huge problem, but these days I've come to realize that it kind of makes our niche less fun because it means that new players or players who don't care to grind out shortcuts or choose optimal characters will just lose interest. there's certainly a thrill for the individual when it comes to sharpening one's skill and being put to the test, but it eventually alienates the racists who are just here to have fun. anyway regarding recruiting from discord, maybe it would be fine if we explicitly targeted the absolute newbies.

in the bigger picture, I think we should find ways to encourage a more casual form of competition with our races and tournaments, lest we optimize the fun out of the game entirely. it's sobering to look at the discordfags and realize that most of them only play a few days a year, and they all play the same few characters with the same optimal efficiency unless they literally ban half the roster. that's not what I want for us either.

so how do we keep things fresh and fun and exciting for all instead of stagnant? I think one factor working against us is that the characters are unbalanced, favoring speedy ones, so maybe we could mod the game to balance that out. that way, you aren't at a big disadvantage for picking a non-optimal combo (like for example, Sanae and Suwako lol). maybe another mod could change the item pool so that offensive items are less common near the back? that way it's easier for the pack to keep pace with the frontrunners. it would also make bagging easier, but bagging is less effective if half the lobby can do it anyway, so maybe it's not a huge deal. or maybe we can just play on "dynamic" spell meter mode and see if that creates more chaos? dunno. I just know that I liked having full lobbies of average players more than having small lobbies of elite ones.

let me know what you guys think about my ideas

>>51238349
What's so funny

>>51238503
Of course we should target the newbies, of course we're better than them but it's not like we're as good as the pros, so any noob can realistically get as good as us.

I don't think we should cheapen the main tourney by making it casual since that one should be kept for serious racing like vd said but we should appeal to newbies too, some of your suggestions sound nice so let's put them into practice. We have time and no one who joined us has had a bad time playing it so the game has its pull, we should just make an effort to not let our thread die.

>>51238503
About balancing issues btw, you are able to do those things fairly easily right now without almost any coding knowledge by creating a balance patch (and item table), all it would require would be for people to join the lobby with shinten and the host to select their balance patch (and item rule) which is a human readable json file.
If you want to keep the sweats in check that solely play meta, increasing every speedies grip by like 5 (so their drift is less optimal for those people) and reducing boost by 1 would probably be enough of a blanket change to keep those more in line, in addition to probably just giving an increase in boost to the slower characters so they just go faster without changing a lot of other things and have them all be roughly at suwako/reimu/marisa level of viability.
You can change the item tables and weights for the lower places rather easily and make attack items less common, but i dont really feel like that would be a fun way to go around things here. Like right now the bottom 2 positions just get speed items in a full lobby for them to catch up, if you increased that to bottom 4 then half the lobby would more or less not interact with other people and just be stuck catching up. You can still do it and see how it works out though, but i would rather just add kokoros last word into the level 2 item pool at a low weight to have some more blueshelling against front runners happening throughout the race while also making protection items exceedingly less likely to be drawn for everyone so people dont just dodge stuff especially near the end.
That would help a lot more in drawing everyone together with closer finishes.

A lot of stuff can be changed to even out everything for everyone, only real issue is coming to some kind of consensus on what to do and what would be fun and competetive for this environment here (and force people to play through shinten) and while i can lend a hand in writing the patch if so desired, someone else should probably draw the broadstrokes before i get too occupied in changes that noone wants, you could also have a rolling balance patch that you change based on each tournaments result or fun stuff like that.

(Also item rain is a fun mode, like its not competetive but its really fun and like nobody ever plays it and it would be nice if more people played it casually every once in a while)

Also if there is anything else i can do on my side, do ask. Otherwise ill stuck with vibing in ranked whenever that happens. (And i really need to learn to bother to captcha)

>>51238652
>I don't think we should cheapen the main tourney by making it casual since that one should be kept for serious racing like vd said
I get it, but my worry is that if we don't retain our players then the tournaments won't happen at all. hopefully I will be proven wrong.
>we should just make an effort to not let our thread die.
yeah I'll still be here

>>51238845
you've got some interesting suggestions. how exactly to balance the characters is definitely something we could experiment with if we choose to mod the game, so I'll save this post for if that happens. adding LWs to the item pools too... is something I never considered. sounds crazy but I kinda like it. I wanna try out item rain sometime too. is that an existing mod?

>>51240816
Yeah Item Rain is in the Shinten mod menu

>>51241208
neat

>>51240816
>I get it, but my worry is that if we don't retain our players then the tournaments won't happen at all. hopefully I will be proven wrong.
So how about we put the tourney on hold until we establish a healthy base of recurring players? That way it stays competitive and allows for other different events or types of racing

>>51241363
I wouldn't mind that. I'm sure we can come up with some fun special events. on friday when everyone is here we could maybe take a vote or something?

bump for tomorrow

if there isn't already a lobby I'll have one up in half an hour

it is up, no pass

will start, let me know if you can't join

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Hi Kai
Hi AkiDesuYo~

sup guys

>>51250308
Hey hey Kai, yoyo, and EagleR

if you haven't mastered the super specific autistic strategy to take that shortcut without an item, it's impossible to win against someone who has. it kinda sux

fuck I was playing that so perfect too

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Hi yoyo
Hi Scarlet Devil
Hi Lileigh
Hi -=XneT=-

>>51250351
Underworld?
Yep, I really need to repractice that jump.

>>51250351
i won a tournament and i still dont know how to keep the boost while drifting or how to use a few shortcuts...

>>51250361
that one counts too, but I was talking about forest of magic

>>51250360
hi
mmmmmm game blew its head smoove off, resurrection in progress

Did want to join in a bit to slot fill, but ye taking my leave here. hate how connection picky this site is being lately

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that was a good ol fashioned brawl at the end!

sometimes i miss when we were newbies... cant we all agree on getting amnesia and start over?

>>51250396
next week, let's all agree to play like nebies

>>51250396
I don't miss every turn being too sharp even as sakuya
but I guess I'd be willing to take a couple head injuries this week

instead of dooming me, that random moon actually killed all my foes. pretty sweet!

>>51250402
interesting idea... what would be the rules?

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>>51250362
>non-VD hosted tourney
>legit champ

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-=XneT=- bro ur aim fukin sux whay are you aimin in the corner where im at?
https://litter.catbox.moe/tfu8wl34f8fmhxie.mp4

>>51250396
yeah probably, let me be the last guy to get that i would totally get that amnesia

>>51250412
maybe we all agree not to use shortcuts (including shortcuts that use items) and we agree to not switch characters for the boost?

>>51250420
LOL I saw him throw that and thought "how the fuck did that bomb in the corner hit someone?"

>>51250412
no shortcuts
intentionally pick characters you are unfamiliar with/suck at
try to use your lw as frequently as possible
play drunk (or just be retarded)

>>51250419
you better sit down for this one... if he is who i think it is

>>51250420
>>51250428
yeah i intentionally aimed at that corner you fucking retards
dumbass doesnt know about shit can bounce off the fucking wall, and guess what it hit you so i was correct to judge that

>>51250419
secondary-kun, get on out of here

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>>51250408
The moon wasn't even aiming at me and it still murdered my ass
https://litter.catbox.moe/uttufcx319eg34qc.mp4

fuck. you. Sanae.

>>51250446
it would have won me the race but someone got a good bomb throw on me

>>51250445
I fell off after dodging it. I WAS THE ONE WHO PLACED IT. i feel so dumb

i got FOUR red boosts lmao

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that was possibly the worst Embers I've ever played....
anyway I gotta go early this week so I can attend a normalfag event. see you later!

>>51250458
see you
don't allow them to consume your soul

last race for me, make it count!

>>51250458
>pic
visual representation of me fucking getting you

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>>51250437
bro stfu
bombs in this game rebound wierd all the time you just got lucky
https://litter.catbox.moe/maqkz0lpehy45hwq.mp4

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>>51250458
>>51250468
one day... i will get my hands on sanae players... and i will... I WILL... i will give them a VERY strong HUG while telling about how i remember ALL those times they nuked me...

>>51250472
if you say so
>>51250473
faggot

Alright gents
Last two races
I got housework chores to get to

GGS Xnet and EagleR

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>>51250512
Ggs everyone

>>51250489
i will kill you!