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What shall be the theme of the game?


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reyscarface

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Welcome people, to the first Smogon isketch Tournament!

This tournament is based on the very fun and easy-to-play game, isketch, which consists of a player drawing something, and the other players trying to guess whatever the artist is drawing the fastest as possible to earn more points.


How to Play:


To play, you need to be sure you will be able to meet up with your opponents, as its crucial that you get the games done. More importantly is the game itself:

You will all play in this site: http://www.isketch.net/

After getting there, you will see an option "Play Now" (theres also an "Instructions" one, which can help the unexperienced learn the game), which you shall click.

A new window will appear, this one asks you to join. You just need to pick a name and click Log On, unless youre registered, in which case youll need to put your password as well. Clarifying here, you dont need to input a password if this is your first time playing.

There will be a group leader, which will be picked by me. The group leader will be the one who will create the room. Read below on "Rules" to see how the group must be created.

To create a room, you just need to click on the "Create Room" tab, and pick the options. After the room is created, all the players will be informed by the creator of the room's name and when its created, in order for the players to refresh their isketch page and get the room loaded. Players will need to pick the "User Created" Tab located at the top right corner and search for the room's name.


Tutorial:




1) GuessBox - In this box you will write your guesses, this is the one that counts for the points, so be sure to try your best!

2) ChatBox - You can chat with people here.

3) Player List - Self explanatory really.

4) Drawing Box - Heres where the drawing of the artist is displayed / where the artist draws.

5) Thickness Box - You can make your lines thicker or thiner with this box. (Artist Only)

6) Color Box - Be sure to use this one, it really helps the players guess correctly! (Artist Only)

7) Tool Box - Different tools you can use to make your drawing better. (Artist Only)

8) Clock - Time left to guess.

9) Counter - Heres where the current round is displayed, and for the artist only, where the options to draw are.

10) Hint/Skip/Done - You should NEVER use the "Hint" or "Done" buttons as they just screw you over (first one) and screw others over (second one). Skip can be used if you really have no idea what you got to draw.



Rules:


1) You must be available to play. I cannot stress this enough. It will be played by groups, so be sure to be available enough time so your match gets done.

2) No cheating. We dislike people who cheat by giving out the word and such, so please dont do it.

3) No giving out the word. This goes to both the player and the artist. If someone breaks this rule please tell me so we can take measures. In case of "Pokemon Theme", the artist may write "Item/Pokemon/Character/Place/Move" in order to give the players a clue of where he is going.

4) No trolling. I think this rule speaks for itself.

5) For no reason may you click the "Done" button when youre the artist. It just pisses off players and adds a whole new strategizing level not needed in the game.

6) Be careful and active during the game, if its your artist turn, be sure to quickly add some lines to the drawing so you dont get replaced in order to gain time to think how you will draw. If you get the "you are asleep" message and get replaced, be sure to click the "Away" button so you get off away and are able to draw other round. You can know when youre in "Away" by checking the Player List, if your name is grayed out, it means youre "Away".

7) I ate rule 7.

8) Follow the guidelines in this post.

9) You must post your timezone in order for me to pair people more likely to find each other. This is important.

10) Have fun!


Important:


Here's the stuff the room creators will need to know in order to create a room.

1) You will click Create Room.

2) Time / Round and Grace Period stay the same, with 150 and 20 respectively.

3) Click the "Advanced Options" tab besides "Basic Options".

4) Change "Rounds" to 15.

5) Stoke Limit, Guess Limit and Artists stay at 0/0/1 respectively.

6) Words will be 3, giving you 3 options to draw, remember, you only pick 1 out of those 3, not draw all 3!

7) Scoring will be "Any Word" -- This is extremely important as it makes people get points by getting 1 of the 3 words, not all 3, be sure to click it.

8) Make the room some bizarre name that starts with letter x/y/z in order to get away of the path of random room joiners.

9) Inform the players when the room is done, and do NOT start drawing, until all players are in the room.



Format:



The format of this tournament will be the following, depending on the interest, people will be divided in groups of 4. It will be either 4 groups of 4 or 8 groups of 4, again, depending on interest.
The top 2 players of each room will advance onto the next round, in which they will be placed, again, in groups of 4 with the other players that advanced, continuing this sequence until we get the final 4 players, in which the number 1 will be crowned the "isketch Champion".

In case of a tie for the second spot in a group, both players will confirm this on the thread. After that, we will set a time, "we" meaning me and the 2 players. I will create a room where I will be the only one able to draw. There will be 5 rounds of drawings, the player with the most points at the end will be given the spot onto next round.


With nothing else to add, go ahead and sign up!


Sign-ups:

1- reyscarface - Pokemon - GMT -5
2- Earthworm - English - GMT +10
3- Fatecrashers - English - GMT +12
4- Blue Tornado - Pokemon - GMT +2
5- Seven Deadly Sins - English - GMT -8
6- DaLetterEl - English - GMT -8
7- VonFiedler - Pokemon - GMT -6
8- billymills - English - GMT -6
9- Zystral - English - GMT +1
10- coolking49 - Pokemon - GMT +5.5
11- badalcristiano - Pokemon - GMT +5.5
12- Lightwolf - Pokemon - GMT +1
13- Exarius - Pokemon - GMT +2
14- DCJ - Pokemon - GMT -8
15- jumpluff - Pokemon - GMT +10
16- shade - English - GMT
17- Mekkah - Pokemon - GMT +1
18- Navy - Pokemon - GMT -5
19- Thorns - English - GMT +10
20- Amelia - Pokemon - GMT +8
21- monkfish - English - GMT
22- crabnebula - Pokemon - GMT +5.5
23- Alan - English - GMT -5
24- cookie - English - GMT - Dropped out
25- supermarth64 - Pokemon - GMT -5
26- LinIsKorean - Pokemon - GMT -8
27- Itchni - English - GMT -5
28- Porygon-D - Pokemon - GMT
29- PK Gaming - Pokemon - GMT -5
30- Mattimeo - English - GMT -7
31- Eo Ut Mortus - Pokemon - GMT -5
32- Rodan - Pokemon - GMT -4
33- ENZ0 - Pokemon - GMT -5
34- LeBron James - Pokemon - GMT +1 - Dropped out
35- Pidge - Pokemon - GMT -6
36- dbolt - Pokemon - GMT -5
37- Nook - English - GMT -5
38- Plus - Pokemon - GMT -5
39- _Rewer_ - Pokemon - GMT -3
40- dracoyoshi8 - Pokemon - GMT -4
41- Mizuno - Pokemon - GMT -4
42- tito - Pokemon - GMT -7
43- jigglypuffers42 - Pokemon - GMT -8
44- Umbreon Dan - English - GMT -5
45- Breludicolo - Pokemon - GMT -7
46- G80 - English - GMT -4
47- The Pokemon Pimp - Pokemon - GMT -4
48- Mentlegen - English - GMT -8
49- Bobtheball4 - Pokemon - GMT -10 - Dropped out
50- whistle - Pokemon - GMT -5
51- tophway - Pokemon - GMT -4
52- Dromiceiomimus - Pokemon - GMT -6
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Forgot to add! Signups will be closed in 2 days (48 hours) from this post or whenever we get enough players.
 

reyscarface

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Theres a Poll above as you can see. Let me explain.

There are 2 mayor themes to pick of, so ill let the players pick which theme shall be the used one. Feel free to vote in the poll ONLY if you sign up for the game. In the end, only the votes of the accepted players will count.

Have fun!

Edit: If you sign up for the game you must cast a vote in the poll above. We dont want no sheeps in this game!
 
GMT -6


I like the numbering system for the tutorial. It seems vaguely clockwise with some random numbers thrown in.

EDIT: Zy making us all look bad with his knowledge of daylight saving time.
 

LightWolf

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GMT+1(though any time works.)

Also Pokemon>English. Those who aren't English speakers are pretty much screwed(If they suck as much as me), while at pokemon everyone has a fair chance to win(I doubt anyone's language is pokemon...)
 
In to win with my drawing skillz

GMT +2

Also I pretty much agree with LW. If we go English, every non-UK/American/English Major is boned out the first round, which won't be any fun.
 

LightWolf

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Also, you should add another rule in case pokemon wins...

DON'T SPAM GAME NAMES.

It is unfair if some people are trying to guess what that green gray blob is while you randomly guess Pokemon Red...(I have done this in non serious games already, so I really want to avoid it here.)
 

vonFiedler

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PROTIPS

1. Do not draw things. Define them. Take the word volleyball. You could draw a circle that kinda looks like a volleyball (but probably won't, let's be honest). OR, you could draw a court, a net, and a person serving the ball. This may sound time consuming, but this example worked wonders for me.

2. Arrows. After defining something, then drawing it, draw an arrow at exactly what the word is. Someone may still be frantically typing in synonyms for net instead of volleyball.

3. Don't stop drawing. If someone randomly guesses your word, don't assume that everyone else knows what your picture is. Don't stop drawing until time runs out.

4. Don't do things you don't need to do. Don't fill the background green if you have the word marble.
 

vonFiedler

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A fantastic away to annoy people is to go into animal and only guess pokemon. I really don't think this should be considered trolling, but at least one person just couldn't let it go. Ironically, that person was named ditto.
 
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