Altador Cup Split 3

[Chivewarrior]

It's much more morale-boosting when you can see your wins as you go. I'm not sure why...

[Mongrel]

Here's a rambling thought.

Each game is 3 minutes long.
That means you can, theoretically, win 20 games an hour.
To reach Level 20 you need a minimum of 1850 points.
So, with Yooyo ball alone, that is 92 1/2 hours of game time.
There are 16 teams. If we play each team twice,
and then play a single final round, that's 33 games total.
If each round is just one day long, that is 33 days.
That would mean you need to play 2.8 hours a day
to reach the bare minimum for level 20. Ouch.

Actually, each game is less than 3 minutes long unless you don't score. Check your timer before the victory scene and the Yooyu reveal, and then check after it. You lose about 8 seconds off the clock, whether you skip the victory scene and Yooyuball reveal or not. So if you take 12 seconds to score a goal, each Yooyuball game takes about 2 minutes, and theoretically you could win 30 games an hour.

[3lla]

meh ive only played 15 games today, 280 more games to go.........*tra la la la la*

You're seriously still going for your 150 games a day target? Wow - quite a daunting challenge, seven and a half hours of Yooyuball per day, solid, not including breaks. And today your target'll take you close on fifteen solid hours. Are you planning on sleeping this summer?

Pickles, kudos to you too for your rank! That's quite a feat. I've just had another look at the shields and set Rank 9 as my target by the end of the Cup - the first rank with a shiny bronze shield rather than a crappy-looking stone one - but that means I'm going to have to clock up 600 wins in my limited spare time, which is 450 more than I currently have. Bye-bye, weekends.

Ye i pretty much dont sleep anyway......i also got sooooooooooo much time on my hands its nuts!
meh im no where near my daily target
ill still keep goiong though lol

[Jerch]

It's much more morale-boosting when you can see your wins as you go. I'm not sure why...

Since there's no actual notification that TNT has received our scores?

I mean, the program could have sent to scoring data to a rubbish dump, and we'd still be none the wiser. Similar stuff had happened to some of the previous lenny conundrums and other contests [not positive about the mechanics though]...

That meant that we might have wasted all our efforts spent on the dratted game.

Actually, each game is less than 3 minutes long unless you don't score. Check your timer before the victory scene and the Yooyu reveal, and then check after it. You lose about 8 seconds off the clock, whether you skip the victory scene and Yooyuball reveal or not. So if you take 12 seconds to score a goal, each Yooyuball game takes about 2 minutes, and theoretically you could win 30 games an hour.

Hmm...for my computer, it actually takes more than 3 minutes if I score. Even if I hit the continue sign, the scene spans around 10-15 seconds. [Note that if it's going to be a goal, the timer actually freezes BEFORE the ball goes into the net ]. However, the timer only registers a ~8 second difference. This makes each game a little longer than 3 minutes for me. And that's already discounting the 2 comment scenes, the whistle, submit result, etc.

[Mongrel]

Actually, each game is less than 3 minutes long unless you don't score. Check your timer before the victory scene and the Yooyu reveal, and then check after it. You lose about 8 seconds off the clock, whether you skip the victory scene and Yooyuball reveal or not. So if you take 12 seconds to score a goal, each Yooyuball game takes about 2 minutes, and theoretically you could win 30 games an hour.

Hmm...for my computer, it actually takes more than 3 minutes if I score. Even if I hit the continue sign, the scene spans around 10-15 seconds. [Note that if it's going to be a goal, the timer actually freezes BEFORE the ball goes into the net ]. However, the timer only registers a ~8 second difference. This makes each game a little longer than 3 minutes for me. And that's already discounting the 2 comment scenes, submit result, etc.

The Yooyuball scene(where the ball type is revealed and it jumps into the air) can be skipped as well by hitting the space bar.

[anjuna]

Your score of 8,088 in Make Some Noise has been reviewed and accepted.

You have been awarded 1,000 neopoints. If you qualified for an avatar, that has also been awarded.

Silly nmails, I know it is an automatic response, but I have scored higher and those scores never were checked.

Wait...we can get NP for Make Some Noise? I never seem to get any and average 2-4k.

[Jerch]

The Yooyuball scene(where the ball type is revealed and it jumps into the air) can be skipped as well by hitting the space bar.

Didn't know about that
Gotta admit that it would make the game much faster. I also forgot about the fact that, if the last goal was scored within the last 10 seconds or so, it would automatically jump to the whistling scene, freeing up a few seconds....

[Chivewarrior]

Jerch- you don't need to wait for the two comment scenes. The continue button appears well before those conclude.

[Jerch]

Jerch- you don't need to wait for the two comment scenes. The continue button appears well before those conclude.

Yeah...but you still need to waste around a second pressing the continue button. Same as the choices at the start of the game. [not that these seconds actually matter much..]

Your score of 8,088 in Make Some Noise has been reviewed and accepted.

You have been awarded 1,000 neopoints. If you qualified for an avatar, that has also been awarded.

Silly nmails, I know it is an automatic response, but I have scored higher and those scores never were checked.

Wait...we can get NP for Make Some Noise? I never seem to get any and average 2-4k.

That is an automatic response users receive when TNT deemed a 'score-to-be-reviewed' authentic. Chances are that they didn't remember that MSN rewards neither NP or avatars directly....I think.

[gingernut]

I got one of those for Yooyuball the first day of the tournament:

Your score of 10,002 in Yooyuball has been reviewed and accepted.

You have been awarded 1,000 neopoints. If you qualified for an avatar, that has also been awarded.

I also got the 1000 neopoints. I don't know where the score came from though.

[tsuzuki_konzen]

Last year, when you can see your wins as you go, I made 50 wins a day.
I'm nowhere near that this year.
I'm happy if I do 10.


Here's a rambling thought.

Each game is 3 minutes long.
That means you can, theoretically, win 20 games an hour.
To reach Level 20 you need a minimum of 1850 points.
So, with Yooyo ball alone, that is 92 1/2 hours of game time.
There are 16 teams. If we play each team twice,
and then play a single final round, that's 33 games total.
If each round is just one day long, that is 33 days.
That would mean you need to play 2.8 hours a day
to reach the bare minimum for level 20. Ouch.

actually... there are 16 teams.. but we will only be playing against 15 teams as we are not playing against our own team rite... so we will play a total of 30 games... and i thought this year there is no changing of teams.. so unless your teams are in the finals.. i dont tink the rest will play the single final round...

[Kryse]

I was just wondering where you can see the other rank sheilds? I can't seem to find them in here anywhere. Helps please? ^_^

[Daze]

I was just wondering where you can see the other rank sheilds? I can't seem to find them in here anywhere. Helps please? ^_^

Just view the properties of the shield and change the last number - they go up to 20:

http://images.neopets.com/altador/altadorcup/levels/levelshields100_1.gif

[apranum]

eh? avatar? what else did I miss?

[Daze]

eh? avatar? what else did I miss?

There are no avatars for the Altador Cup games.

A automatic nmail is sometimes sent to players regarding their game scores,but there is no avatar (not yet anyway).

Here is what Snarkie said on the board about it: