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Sign up form redacted & removed - we closed for business
Alright, as you can see in the title to this thread, the date for AVCON for 2015 is July 18-19. (Technically it starts on the Friday (17 July) but we wouldn't be running / doing anything then, unless asked, which would be a special scenario - considered closer to the date.)
It is my intention to leave these sign ups open until 21 March, 2015 - so don't worry, you've got time to get things in order.
You will notice on the form it repeatedly warns you to not submit the form until you have your plans to get to Adelaide 100% sure. You'll all have to forgive me for the bluntness of the statement, but I can't schedule someone for the marathon without having absolute trust in their ability. Now, I'm willing to trust all of you - but I can't trust you if you don't trust yourselves. So please, I'll say it for the hundredth time - make your plans, then submit.
If you make plans, submit, and then have to pull out later, as long as it's not too 11th hour - that's cool, but please, let me know. I'm pulling in a few favors to get this gig to happen, and you better believe your cotton socks I'm going to do everything within my purview to make this event run as smoothly as is humanly possible.
Anyway, enough tirade, I'll hop off the soapbox and get on with the details...or at least as many as I have...
I'm just going to wall-of-text in everything I can think of. I'll probably forget details - so if you have questions, either post in the thread or bug me on Skype.
- If you are running a game at the marathon, we will be able to get you into the convention without paying ticket price for the day that you are running. If you're running on both days, naturally you'll get a free ticket for both days. For those running on one day but not the other, but want to attend the other day, I'm attempting to negotiate a deal which means you won't have to pay anywhere near full price for your ticket.
- It is my full intention to get this event streamed. But, please note it is an on site event, so if you can't get to Adelaide, sorry.
- At this point, we are looking at approx 15-20 hours of games over the two days. If there is enough support, we can run a second TV and not stream that. But we'll end up with double the video games, so that would be cool. At this point though, please take the assumption that we are not going to run a 'second setup'.
- After considering the submissions we receive, we will have to make a judgement on whether we age restrict our speedrun area or not. This means that we'll be able to run games that aren't just G and PG - but we'll have to lock the area off to anyone who is under 18, that doesn't have a parent or guardian there with them. This will obviously affect numbers - but it opens up what we can run. Another option is to have two areas of runs - one G/PG and the other mature. But again - that's a judgement call we'll make slightly closer to the date.
- When it comes down to submissions, the shorter the game the better. Remembering that at this point, we are assuming only 15-20 hours - so those 3 hour games are just too huge to put in. Please submit them by all means - because it might be a perfect excuse to get a second (or third if necessary!) setup going - but don't be surprised if your 6 hour Final Fantasy gets cut for length.
- On another note regarding submissions, please remember that with exception to the stream viewers, the primary on site audience, is going to be a bunch of people who don't even really know what speedrunning is. So the best games are ones that everyone knows and look impressive to the untrained eye (see e.g. Link to the Past any%, Super Mario 64, OoT any% - as they clearly have something peculiar going on the whole time - whereas say, Goldeneye - is really impressive - but only to the trained eye). Whilst submissions don't have to be THE perfect speedgame - again, please don't be surprised if some games get cut on the basis of being inappropriate for the audience in question. (However, this will naturally become far less of a problem if we get a second or third setup going - because cutting is going to be far less strict)
- We may consider some games for the 'main stage' - perhaps OoT or SM64 or something. Again, that's something we'll have to figure out closer to the date. (Hope you're not a nervous person - person who runs those games :P) That's also a matter out of my hands. We may be asked to provide some content for main stage - maybe not...
That's it for now, at least all I can think of at this point. Again, I've probably forgotten a million things. Please, by all means, ask - and I'll either answer, or seek an answer.
Remember to tell your friends and family. As said in the other thread, let's try make this a big deal. We're being handed a great opportunity here to do something cool as hell - no one here can do it alone, we all need each other, for both organisation back stage and boots on the ground. Good luck finding your way to Radelaide, and I'll see you all around.
Alright, now that we've got those sign ups out of the way - I can now release a full list of games submitted.
SUBMITTED GAMES LIST HERE
Additional notes at this point:
- Schedule is currently planned to be released before the end of April - more likely to be released mid-late April. This gives everyone ~ 3 months to make sure their game/s are all OK. However - I'm putting #1 priority as getting everyone at least 1 game - so if you only submitted one game - well...should be obvious. If you submitted more, you can guess, and I can probably give you an indication if you asked - but I would ask you not to quote me. My thoughts may just be objectively wrong - so if people point that out - I'll probably reverse my thinking.
- Over the next week or so, I'll be contacting everyone personally to confirm your submissions and nut out any little hiccups. This isn't because I don't trust anyone, so please don't take it personally! But by the same token, I just want to make sure all my ducks are in a neat little row. (i.e. no updates have to be made to estimates, that everything is accurate, etc. etc. Better to have some minor embarrassment at my bad transposing now than later.)
- On the previous note - if you feel anything is in error about the above sheet - don't hesitate to contact me. Or if you feel bad - wait for me to contact you. I'm really not that fussed, I did a 2 second copy-paste job - I wouldn't be surprised if I made an error somewhere.
Besides that, enjoy your practice. I'm actually going to have to start speedrunning again...so should be fun. Let the hyping commence.
EDIT: Important edit - given the sensitive nature of some of the info that's part of the sign ups - the sheet will not be distributed to the public. We'll release something down the track - in the interest of full disclosure - but it will be sanitised.
Sign up form redacted & removed - we closed for business
Alright, as you can see in the title to this thread, the date for AVCON for 2015 is July 18-19. (Technically it starts on the Friday (17 July) but we wouldn't be running / doing anything then, unless asked, which would be a special scenario - considered closer to the date.)
It is my intention to leave these sign ups open until 21 March, 2015 - so don't worry, you've got time to get things in order.
You will notice on the form it repeatedly warns you to not submit the form until you have your plans to get to Adelaide 100% sure. You'll all have to forgive me for the bluntness of the statement, but I can't schedule someone for the marathon without having absolute trust in their ability. Now, I'm willing to trust all of you - but I can't trust you if you don't trust yourselves. So please, I'll say it for the hundredth time - make your plans, then submit.
If you make plans, submit, and then have to pull out later, as long as it's not too 11th hour - that's cool, but please, let me know. I'm pulling in a few favors to get this gig to happen, and you better believe your cotton socks I'm going to do everything within my purview to make this event run as smoothly as is humanly possible.
Anyway, enough tirade, I'll hop off the soapbox and get on with the details...or at least as many as I have...
I'm just going to wall-of-text in everything I can think of. I'll probably forget details - so if you have questions, either post in the thread or bug me on Skype.
- If you are running a game at the marathon, we will be able to get you into the convention without paying ticket price for the day that you are running. If you're running on both days, naturally you'll get a free ticket for both days. For those running on one day but not the other, but want to attend the other day, I'm attempting to negotiate a deal which means you won't have to pay anywhere near full price for your ticket.
- It is my full intention to get this event streamed. But, please note it is an on site event, so if you can't get to Adelaide, sorry.
- At this point, we are looking at approx 15-20 hours of games over the two days. If there is enough support, we can run a second TV and not stream that. But we'll end up with double the video games, so that would be cool. At this point though, please take the assumption that we are not going to run a 'second setup'.
- After considering the submissions we receive, we will have to make a judgement on whether we age restrict our speedrun area or not. This means that we'll be able to run games that aren't just G and PG - but we'll have to lock the area off to anyone who is under 18, that doesn't have a parent or guardian there with them. This will obviously affect numbers - but it opens up what we can run. Another option is to have two areas of runs - one G/PG and the other mature. But again - that's a judgement call we'll make slightly closer to the date.
- When it comes down to submissions, the shorter the game the better. Remembering that at this point, we are assuming only 15-20 hours - so those 3 hour games are just too huge to put in. Please submit them by all means - because it might be a perfect excuse to get a second (or third if necessary!) setup going - but don't be surprised if your 6 hour Final Fantasy gets cut for length.
- On another note regarding submissions, please remember that with exception to the stream viewers, the primary on site audience, is going to be a bunch of people who don't even really know what speedrunning is. So the best games are ones that everyone knows and look impressive to the untrained eye (see e.g. Link to the Past any%, Super Mario 64, OoT any% - as they clearly have something peculiar going on the whole time - whereas say, Goldeneye - is really impressive - but only to the trained eye). Whilst submissions don't have to be THE perfect speedgame - again, please don't be surprised if some games get cut on the basis of being inappropriate for the audience in question. (However, this will naturally become far less of a problem if we get a second or third setup going - because cutting is going to be far less strict)
- We may consider some games for the 'main stage' - perhaps OoT or SM64 or something. Again, that's something we'll have to figure out closer to the date. (Hope you're not a nervous person - person who runs those games :P) That's also a matter out of my hands. We may be asked to provide some content for main stage - maybe not...
That's it for now, at least all I can think of at this point. Again, I've probably forgotten a million things. Please, by all means, ask - and I'll either answer, or seek an answer.
Remember to tell your friends and family. As said in the other thread, let's try make this a big deal. We're being handed a great opportunity here to do something cool as hell - no one here can do it alone, we all need each other, for both organisation back stage and boots on the ground. Good luck finding your way to Radelaide, and I'll see you all around.
Alright, now that we've got those sign ups out of the way - I can now release a full list of games submitted.
SUBMITTED GAMES LIST HERE
Additional notes at this point:
- Schedule is currently planned to be released before the end of April - more likely to be released mid-late April. This gives everyone ~ 3 months to make sure their game/s are all OK. However - I'm putting #1 priority as getting everyone at least 1 game - so if you only submitted one game - well...should be obvious. If you submitted more, you can guess, and I can probably give you an indication if you asked - but I would ask you not to quote me. My thoughts may just be objectively wrong - so if people point that out - I'll probably reverse my thinking.
- Over the next week or so, I'll be contacting everyone personally to confirm your submissions and nut out any little hiccups. This isn't because I don't trust anyone, so please don't take it personally! But by the same token, I just want to make sure all my ducks are in a neat little row. (i.e. no updates have to be made to estimates, that everything is accurate, etc. etc. Better to have some minor embarrassment at my bad transposing now than later.)
- On the previous note - if you feel anything is in error about the above sheet - don't hesitate to contact me. Or if you feel bad - wait for me to contact you. I'm really not that fussed, I did a 2 second copy-paste job - I wouldn't be surprised if I made an error somewhere.
Besides that, enjoy your practice. I'm actually going to have to start speedrunning again...so should be fun. Let the hyping commence.
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