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[Fracas]

As the title says, I'd like to garner interest for a mega, GAF-wide gaming olympics. This could potentially be a huge undertaking, as it would involve hundreds of people and would span multiple weeks. If this turns out to be something a large amount of people would like to participate in, I'll need volunteers.

If enough people would want to do this, I'd suggest we have "nations" led/organized by an "President". Teams would be filled by their respective team leaders, after breaking off into individual team threads.

What say you, GAF?

 

[guest1321]

Lets get it on!

 

[The M.O.B]

USA VS WORLD!

The only way to do it.

I would be interested pending enough people (Around 50 or so participants would be nice)

 

[Franklinator]

Sounds awesome. Team Franklinator 2012!

 

[Vaporak]

I don't understand how this would work or what games we would play. On the other hand it sounds awesome.

 

[The M.O.B]

I don't understand how this would work or what games we would play. On the other hand it sounds awesome.

Well I guess it would be by popularity.

COD would be a popular one.
Counter Strike.
Left 4 Dead 2
Gears
Halo

The bigger problem would be everyone not having access to multiple consoles or a PC.

 

[Fracas]

I don't understand how this would work or what games we would play. On the other hand it sounds awesome.

I imagine what could happen is we would either vote here or create a separate thread for voting on the games we would play. As for the schedule, we could do something like this:

Monday(Xbox 360 event)-5:00 PM EST- Halo Reach
Tuesday(Playstation 3 event)-5:00 PM EST- Killzone 3
Wednesday(PC event)-5:00 PM EST- Team Fortress 2

With each day of the week being console-centric, ie Xbox 360 events taking place only on Mondays.


However, a schedule like this would be heavily dependent on the number of competitors.

 

[theRizzle]

Well I guess it would be by popularity.

COD would be a popular one.
Counter Strike.
Left 4 Dead 2
Gears
Halo

The bigger problem would be everyone not having access to multiple consoles or a PC.

That's why you have a team. If your team had 40 or 50 guys on it, you shouldn't have too much trouble fielding a group for each game.

 

[Tashi]

SC2, I'll dominate you all

#silverleague #terran #3raxallin

 

[Dash Kappei]

Well I guess it would be by popularity.

COD would be a popular one.
Counter Strike.
Left 4 Dead 2
Gears
Halo

The bigger problem would be everyone not having access to multiple consoles or a PC.

God that sounds boooring. It says Olympics, not 100m dash only.
There should be every genre. Puzzles, strategy, sports, fighters, racing and so on. Then you'd have team members specialized on one or more games. Otherwise call it shooter mega tourney or something.

 

[Vulcano's assistant]

Too many pros in here for me to have a chance.

 

[Fracas]

God that sounds boooring. It says Olympics, not 100m dash only.
There should be every genre. Puzzles, strategy, sports, fighters, racing and so on. Then you'd have team members specialized on one or more games. Otherwise call it shooter mega tourney or something.

That's what I'm shooting for
(No pun intended)

 

[Booshka]

Sign me up for Shadowrun and Dark Souls PvP.

 

[enzo_gt]

God that sounds boooring. It says Olympics, not 100m dash only.
There should be every genre. Puzzles, strategy, sports, fighters, racing and so on. Then you'd have team members specialized on one or more games. Otherwise call it shooter mega tourney or something.

Yep. You can elect members of the community to give input on game selection.

For instance, you can set up a thread for FGC-GAF to argue over which fighting game is best and why they're game is more deserving than others' for the spot!

 

[The M.O.B]

God that sounds boooring. It says Olympics, not 100m dash only.
There should be every genre. Puzzles, strategy, sports, fighters, racing and so on. Then you'd have team members specialized on one or more games. Otherwise call it shooter mega tourney or something.

Just a hypothetical list.(All those shooters are drastically different from one another anyways.)

But again, the more events/genres there are, we will need more people. Would be boring if the same 7-8 people doing everything.

 

[Rentahamster]

International online play for fighting games might be kinda hard, considering how some of the recent popular fighting games handle lag very badly.

 

[Fracas]

International online play for fighting games might be kinda hard, considering how some of the recent popular fighting games handle lag very badly.

Are there any other specific games I should watch out for, in terms of international lag? I can make sure that any fighting game matches are done in the same country.

 

[enzo_gt]

Based on popularity, player pool and interest on GAF that I measure from threads, I would suggest UMvC3, SSFIVAE2012 (or SFxTK for this slot, but I doubt it) and KoFXIII as far as fighting games would go. Maybe Mortal Kombat too depending on how many games you want, even though it's not the most popular or active game ever it seems.

 

[Face it Tiger..]

Based on popularity, player pool and interest on GAF that I measure from threads, I would suggest UMvC3, SSFIVAE2012 (or SFxTK for this slot, but I doubt it) and KoFXIII as far as fighting games would go. Maybe Mortal Kombat too depending on how many games you want, even though it's not the most popular or active game ever it seems.

MK don't get no love on GAF. >_>

 

[thekonamicode]

Caveman Games or bust.

 

[Fracas]

Caveman Games or bust.

Haha I'd vote to play it.

 

[ponpo]

Dark Souls PvP session with Estocs to simulate fencing count me in.

 

[Dragoon En Regalia]

Reminds me of something I used to do. When I was a community moderator for the Minecraft forums, way back before Multiplayer Survival really took off, me and someone named RealG organized the Minecraft Clan Olympics. We essentially did things like spleef and racing around pre-made obstacle courses, mainly because it was fun and and because each little community clan got to show off. If I ever tried to do it today, though, I'd be simply swamped with the sheer potential provided by mods and so many more players.

 

[Fracas]

Well, I need to get some sleep. Let's see how it goes overnight, and if there's enough interest maybe I'll get some preliminary signups going.

 

[Dash Kappei]

Well, I need to get some sleep. Let's see how it goes overnight, and if there's enough interest maybe I'll get some preliminary signups going.

It went bad.

 

[Franklinator]

Well, now that it's bumped maybe some more people will see it. I think he just posted the thread at a bad time, lol.

 

[Fracas]

It went bad.

Haha nice bump, but you picked one of the worst times ever to bump a thread!
Bump it again in about 9 hours!

 

[0 HP]

this could be amazing

 

[Fracas]

this could be amazing

I know, man! Keep this thread alive til tomorrow when the majority of GAF can see it!
Now I'm going to bed, let's see how this thread does overnight, and maybe I can start preliminary signups

 

[Feep]

Okay, but California gets to be its own country.

 

[Syph Medwes]

Sounds like a cool idea. The first time GAF does it should be kinda broad, like all the major genres but the games themselves should just be the big name ones. Then in subsequent "olympics" you can add more specialized games after you've garnered which genres had major interest and which ones didn't.
Also I'm down to help if you need it.

 

[GraveRobberX]

If Trophies are Involved

SIGN ME THE FUCK UP!

***Ringer!***

Also add Burrito Buffalo Flash Game, Parts I & II

GAFfers would be Marathoning for days

 

[mclem]

There was once an Olympic medal for architecture.

Is that enough to justify the inclusion of "LBP level design"?

I did actually muse on a 'gaming book club' idea along similar lines; the idea being that the game for a given week's play would be available for a sufficiently low price that the barrier for entry wasn't too prohibitive, and it could inject a little life into the online of some dead games. That'd include SP rather than being pure multiplayer, of course.

 

[KevinCow]

This is an interesting idea and I would be into participating if I wasn't bad at video games.

 

[Haunted]

Two-time Mario Strikers Charged GAF champion reporting in.

I'm on board if someone makes this happen.

 

[Koren]

Two-time Mario Strikers Charged GAF champion reporting in.

Damn, I missed the news that there was a second one ^_^ I must say that this championship is still one of my best online experiences...

 

[snoopeasystreet]

I'm in.

 

[Fracas]

Sounds like a cool idea. The first time GAF does it should be kinda broad, like all the major genres but the games themselves should just be the big name ones. Then in subsequent "olympics" you can add more specialized games after you've garnered which genres had major interest and which ones didn't.
Also I'm down to help if you need it.

Thanks! If this takes off, I could definitely use the help.

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This needs to happen!

 

[Franklinator]

Two-time Mario Strikers Charged GAF champion reporting in.

I'm on board if someone makes this happen.

This needs to happen just so I can compete in a Mario Strikers Tournament. That sounds awesome.

 

[Shiloa]

Sounds cool. Should have some weird events, very specific things like, doing the best ingame glitch.

 

[Professor Beef]

If Street Fighter is a game, then it should be a rule that you have to use a character from your IRL ethnic background.

 

[Tambini]

Sounds good, I'm in depending on the game choices