Well with 2007's event done with, I figured there's no point in wasting time to discuss about next year's event, including format, how long to run it, etc.

So please by all means, if you have any ideas on how you feel this premier event can be improved, feel free to post them all here. After all, this is for all you guys and I wish things to be as good as they can be, if not better ^_^


Mr. Kelly R. Flewin

Kelly:

The Advanced Deca experiment was a 6-month endeavour. It lost a lot of steam mid-way and some gamers indicated that they could not predict so far in advance whether their work or home life would allow them to play significantly every month of the event. That was 2 titles per month and then last month was 1 last shot per title, if you recall. Didn't work out as planned.

What's been working so far seems to be a 3-4 week voting period, then a week or so of testing, then the announcement for a 90-day event.

Variations of the Deca and Advanced Deca were discussed but never tried for various reasons. Some included...

-> An all-BW deca
-> Having sections with 3-4 titles each, such as section 1 which would be 3 or 4 titles for most points in stage 1 or thru stage 5 or 10, the idea being point-pressing is a different skillset, section 2 would be 1st life only meaning care and caution is another skillset, and section 3 would be full-game, meaning the usual all-encompassing skillset.

But that's for you to consider at some point. The general Deca format works fine for me.

What we found to generally hold tru over the years was holding a Deca type event that includes December as a month of competition was not the brightest as a lot of gamers had either exams or things busy at work/home during that month, and in some cases could not game for several days due to religious reasons so they lost out. I'd advise not to have December as a month of competition, except for the monthly MAME challenge.

Robert

Two from the 70's (pick 3)
Avalanche
Canyon Bomber
Cosmic Alien
Guided Missile
Safari Rally
Sheriff
Sky Diver
Tail Gunner
Tunnel Hunt

The 80's (pick 3)
Blaster
Camel Try
Carnival
Chicken Shift
Crush Roller
Darius
Penguin-Kun War
Road Fighter
Sky Kid
Splatter House

The 90's (pick 2)
Aliens
Balcube
Blomby Car
GI Joe
Pigskin 621ad (biggest blowout)
Smash TV
Super Street Fighter II
The Simpsons
Trog
Zombie Raid

The 00's (pick 2)
1945k III
Dragon Blaze
Gunbarich
Nightmare in the Dark
Metal Slug III
Metal Slug IV
Metal Slug V
Mr Driller 2
The Grid
Rage of the Dragons

The TRUE \"Naughties\", as ZM calls them (pick 2)
Gals Panic
Gun Dealer
Perestroika Girls
Pipi & Bibis

Obviously these are all semi-serious choices, but I think a limited array of titles per era to choose from would work, else there will be (as usual) 90% of the choices having 1-2 votes and wasting the voting process.

Robert