Noobs Guide to running a tourney...

[22woger22]

I'm hijacking this post to add a Screenshot help guide. It is temporary. We may want to re-type these rules.

Need Screenshot Help?

To create a screenshot is very simple.
FIRST: On every keyboard in the top right corner is a button that says "Print Screen" (sometimes abbreviated Prt Scn). By clicking this button, your computer will take a picture of whatever is showing up on your screen, called a screenshot. After you complete a match for TAL, it is necessary that you take a screenshot of your victory that either A) shows your opponent losing, or B) shows your opponent surrendering.
SECOND: After you press the "Print Screen" button, the picture that you just took will be active in your copy/past queue. Before you copy or paste anything else, you must go into a third party image creating program (like "Paint" or "Photoshop" or "Illustrator"), open a new document, and press the paste button (either CONTROL-V or Edit>Paste). Your image will then show up.
THIRD: Save your image as a JPEG, JPG or BMP in a location that you will remember.
FOURTH: Host the image either by visiting a third party host site (www.imageshack.us, www.photobucket.com) and clicking the "browse" button to find your image, or host the image through the TAO Tournament Central webpage when you record your battle by clicking "browse" and finding your image.

[Lordofzrings]

he only posted this so it would get stickied =p

[22woger22]

he only posted this so it would get stickied =p
And it should, in my opinion.

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[Megabyte]

he only posted this so it would get stickied =p

No i posted it as a reference, i.e. look at the other links in my siggy :p

I think only one of those is stickied.

I just like having something handy for when a noob does something. If they want to join a clan, send 'em to the "how to join a clan" thing. If they don't know screenshots, got one for em too. etc etc

[22woger22]

I think your signature is getting too big. You might have to create a whole thread to contain all your helpful infomation or something.

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[Megabyte]

yes, it is too big, max in siggy is 500 characters, I'm sitting at like 498 or something. I've had to edit it the last few times I added a link so that it would all fit.

[Merdoc.]

lol noobs cant run turnys.....

[Merdoc.]

ya man your sig getting way outta hand, soon jeff gonna nag on ya ;)

[Megabyte]

pff, my banner conforms to all reg's, and my sig isn't over 500 characters (mostly because it won't let me, but still).

Nothing to get on me about :p

[_Thunder_]

*looks for sticky*

[Megabyte]

*ba-bump...even though its only like 3'rd on the list*

Edited spelling and phrasing to make it clearer. Thanks to those who for some odd (and mildly creepy) reason take such active interest in the thread.

If you have other suggestions/additions to it, just pm me if u want me to edit it in, or post 'em urself.

[The Cheat]

Wow this really helps. I'll use these rules as a guide when I create my own tourny. Great job megabyte.

[roody poo]

Below are examples of Tournies that I believe were done properly and so that people had fun in them (i.e. successful tournies).

***Pre-Mudquake Nostalgia Tourney*** (http://www.tacticsarena.com/forum/showthread.php?t=18776)

remind me who won this again? :confused:

no seriously, as always great work bro. :cool:

[Vie]

Megabyte I love u lol thanx for the help wasnt really planning on making a tourney but now I am

[Lonely Tylenol]

Below are examples of Tournies that I believe were done properly and so that people had fun in them (i.e. successful tournies). More will be added as time goes on. Even if your not following the ideas and themes in these tournies, they are good references to see what sort of information needs to be included, and what should be done in the prep phase.

***Pre-Mudquake Nostalgia Tourney***
**Revelation Survival Tourney**

:blush2: Aww, there's no need to add my tourney to the list of well-done tourneys... In all actuality, the tourney died once it was run, because so many of the tournament's participants had other things to do for the summer, and it never actually started off.

If it was really well-done, then I hope it will be used as a guideline, but I honestly don't think I did such a good job of it. :happy: Thanks for the compliment, though!

[22woger22]

STICKIED!!!!!!

Congratulations Byte!

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[Sgt. Bash]

*claps* :cool:

[Vie]

woo hoo its finally stickied thank the heavens

[*X-Z-I-S-T*]

nice megabyte ..Now lets see if any n00bs reads it

[Megabyte]

nice megabyte ..Now lets see if any n00bs reads it

i update it based on what ask to see added/adjusted to it, so yeah, they do.
Most of the emphasis is on not everyone can make tournies, I mean this as more a discouragement than anything else.

[bludhoundz]

Mega, in case you want to make more space for links, you can take out the white text, the links are pretty self explanatory :D

And, great guide, as usual.

[Megabyte]

Mega, in case you want to make more space for links, you can take out the white text, the links are pretty self explanatory :D

And, great guide, as usual.


I'm thinking to just make a button .jpg setup for it, but I've been too lazy to do it yet.

[Lonely Tylenol]

:) Maybe with all the interest in tournaments I should bring back Rev Survival.

[Megabyte]

edited to add in the concept of listing your tourney in the TAO calendar.

Suggestion came from *this* (http://www.tacticsarena.com/forum/showthread.php?t=20966) thread.

[Mithrandir]

I never looked at this thread before and what do you know, my tourney is listed in the second post.:)

[spartion]

when 2 clans get in a war instead of fighting slowly to the leaders then hold a tourney by stats ranking. i think this will be better that way other ppl dont get caught up in it like greys gettin jumped and it would i think be easyer.

[plusminus]

Idea for an update:
Link back to old threads when making new ones. A lot of tournaments have a separate sign-ups thread from a first round (or whatever) thread, which is a good idea. However the first round thread should have a link back to the sign-ups thread, because that's usually where the rules are. The second round should link back to both the first round and signups, just in case. It's much more conveniant for people interested in following a tournament, I thnk.

[† Bubacik †]

That's a good idea. Btw I'm posting rules into every thread in my tourneys. When there is like 1st round, I'll post rules, timing, all what there need to be. IN 2nd round too, etc... But I'm not posting the links back to other thrdeads. Good idea plumsy.

[whitesoxfreak]

thanks a whole lot for the helpful tips:) :D

[Rock Hard]

Nice Work Megabyte It realy helps me althouhg i am not gona run a tourney just got an idea

[DIAAU]

mega GREAT JOB i couldent have said it better myself. :P

[DIAAU]

Great Job Mega I Hope The Noobs Will Learn :)

[VAMP7]

Bump.*

[Serge]

Bump.*

[deemo.jr]

Edit 8/5/05: If you have a tourney you'd like to have added to the list, pm a link of its thread to me. I'll look it over and see add it if I think it works (yes, arrogant of me to go by my standards alone, but its my thread, so get over it).

Below are examples of Tournies that I believe were done properly and so that people had fun in them (i.e. successful tournies). More will be added as time goes on. Even if your not following the ideas and themes in these tournies, they are good references to see what sort of information needs to be included, and what should be done in the prep phase.

***Pre-Mudquake Nostalgia Tourney*** (http://www.tacticsarena.com/forum/showthread.php?t=18776)
**Revelation Survival Tourney** (http://www.tacticsarena.com/forum/showthread.php?t=17158)
***Exiled's Challenge Tournament*** (http://www.tacticsarena.com/forum/showthread.php?t=19110)
**Team Rev Re-Selection** (http://www.tacticsarena.com/forum/showthread.php?t=19442)
***Mithrandir's Pro-Sports Style Tournament signups*** (http://www.tacticsarena.com/forum/showthread.php?t=20140)

hey i am trying just to join a tourney and cant figure out how can u help me

[Megabyte]

hey i am trying just to join a tourney and cant figure out how can u help me

*month delay response should make the answer self evident*
no

[Maverik07]

Maybe we should update this with the new D/Q rules and stuff that Mith wants?

[Megabyte]

this guide is designed around organization and basic setup, not any specific rule set

edit: though I did update it to include references to the TAL

[Lieutenant]

NIce post Megabyte, perhaps you can help me out with some ideas I have for in the future. That, of course, if you don't mind if I PM you some day. =)

[abhimanu]

what happened to all those links in your siggy megabyte? i wanted to check some of em out.

[Master TAO]

nice thread man, i just now bothered to read it

[Galucaus]

Great work Mega.

[Nomadic Methods]

Is this still open for grabs? If so I'm in.

are u retarded?

[cekkino]

Ahah yes nice thread :)