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Favorite Match of Titan Fest 2024?

Round 1 - Erik Blank vs. an Unknown & Anonymous Masked Bay12 User?
- 3 (75%)
Round 3 - Erik Blank vs. Wolfkey
- 0 (0%)
Round 4 - Squamous vs. an Unknown & Anonymous Masked Bay12 User?
- 0 (0%)
Round 5 - FirePhoenix11 vs. an Unknown & Anonymous Masked Bay12 User?
- 0 (0%)
Round 9 - Erik Blank vs. FirePhoenix11
- 1 (25%)

Total Members Voted: 4

Voting closed: October 17, 2024, 08:28:00 pm


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« Reply #45 on: October 07, 2024, 11:36:42 pm »

I think that dragon fire must have come from xzaxza's creature, as mine doesnt have dragonfire, instead using the "searing sunlight." Which is just a max temp molten metal. The "Empty void" projectiles that littered the arena in the last round were also supposed to melt immediately after landing, but apparently I screwed that up somewhere.

I hope my boy don't get scuttled!

Went ahead and updated the match description, thanks for clarifying that Erik!

I dunno' man. I think that crabs got your number. Best of luck though!
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« Reply #46 on: October 07, 2024, 11:41:14 pm »

Yeah, dragonfire is from Adamantine Monster. He used it in the first round too.
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« Reply #47 on: October 08, 2024, 12:32:02 am »

Aww, it didn't use its spells... But gotta say, this is a neat event!
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« Reply #48 on: October 08, 2024, 09:04:54 pm »

Results are in, and here's the vid, and I'll pin timestamps up in a bit:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tX7qbiU8H2Y

Round 3 Match Results:
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               W - L - T
xzaxza:  2  - 1
jecowa:  1  - 2


Game 1 - jecowa wins the die roll, getting to spawn in first. And game 1 begins with a roar from xzaxza's Adamantine Monster! The very next tick, jecowa's phoebe leaps into the air, reigniting its flame, as if fully anticipating the torrent of dragonfire and burning slade that was to be unleashed by the adamantine monster on tick 3.

Phoebe attempts its aerial assult on the adamantine monster, with the intention of barreling through the poisonous smoke, and monstrous sulfur vapor being bellowed by xzaxza's adamantine monster, it is suddenly turned into a ram in mid-air. The adamantine monster scoffs.

Phoebe, now a goat sheep, falls from the sky and directly back down into the path of the dragon fire and miasma of deadly smoke. In just a couple ticks, the goat sheep has melted, and xzaxza takes game 1.

Game 2 - jecowa spawns second, and the arena is consequently changed to jecowa's custom submission, and institutes a mandatory flying check for tick 1. Oh, looks like someone declined to add flying to their creature. Xzaxza's adamantine monster plummets into the abyss on the first tick, and the game goes to jecowa.

Free wins are your best and only friend in this sort of tournament
If'n you ain't fightin' dirty in this here tournament, then you ain't fightin'! - Truer words have yet to be spoken.

Game 3 - this one takes place back in the old default arena. Now, this was a pretty wild game. One would think the adamantine monster would simply turn jecowa's phoebe into a goat sheep, and melt it in dragonfire. But for some reason, it declines to end the match quickly. It gets distracted by its other options. Jecowa's creature distracts it. Who knows what was happening here. But the adamantine stalls on using its best interaction for closing this fight. And it keeps stalling. It allows phoebe to close into actual melee combat, and the two actually come to blows. Melee action has been pretty rare so far during this event (except in the bizarre case of one particular mirror match). And when melee combat does happen, its usually just a singular blow, which closes out a fight once one of the combatants has been cursed and transformed into something tiny and insignificant.

In a strange turn of events, we actually see these two monsters actually wailing on each other for quite some time.
From what I can tell by the combat log, the xzaxza's adamantine monster's AI seems to have gone AFK for some reason, and merely sat still while phoebe set the ground aflame, reigniting her flame as she barreled toward her opponent.

The first actual melee action of game 3 is a bite from phoebe into the adamantine monster's left leg, which actually shatters the adamantine, followed by a latch. Phoebe begins shaking the adamantine monster's leg, as she continually reignites her flame. Another bite from phoebe into one of the upperbodies of the adamantine monster, followed by an immediate charge -> into knockdown. the adamantine monster is surprised by the ferocity, as phoebe bites into its right rear foot, fracturing the adamantine.

At this point, the adamantine monster's right rear foot, left front leg, "upperbodyupperbodies" have all been broken by the weird orange feathery ball of unmitigated glowing hot violence. 

We start to speed up the match, and the onslaught continues as the adamantine monster just continues to sit there! How much more punishment can it possible sustain before it wakes up?! Is all hope lost?! As the match continues, the surrounding grass is set ablaze by jecowa's phoebe, whose immolating heat scorches the surrounding earth, changing the battlefield from a quiet grassy plain, into a hellish sea of burning wildfire.

Biting and shaking the adamantine monster looks like the gameplan for Phoebe, as the monster may as well be taking a nap with its eyes open. Next to break is the adamantine monster's right middle foot, then its right earhole is somehow mangled, next its right spike is bitten off, finally, phoebe latches onto the adamantine monster's "leftfang left fang" and begins to shake... and that is when xzaxza's monster woke up. A "scoff", a "stare", one missed attempt at a melee action, all fired off in rapid succession, and then WHAM! Phoebe's now sheep body slams into an obstacle. Its front right leg taking the force of the impact, which bruises it, but is then immediately healed, as phoebe continually transforms into a new sheep each tick. The adamantine monster gores off one of its hooves, but again, the transformation syndrome inflicted by the monster causes the jecowa's now rapid sheep retransforming body to continually heal itself.

After transforming into a goat/ewe sheep 11 times, jecowa's monster is finally struck down. Its now goat sheep body hisses and melts within the dense thicket of flames it had set at the zenith of its near-moment of triumph.

xzaxza takes game 3, winning the match.


Wolfkey:      2  -  1
Erik Blank:   1  -  2


Game 1 - Wolfkey wins the die roll and is spawned in first. At the very start of the match, Erik Blank's Spellcaster Titan is enveloped by the crab's evil magic, and is immediately condemned to a life of servitude as a pile of lumber. The crab's intentions for these logs are to serve as wood for its next DIY project, which will be a little bird house. Wolfkey quickly steals game 1.

Game 2 - These are the moments every modder should aspire to. The very dream this tournament is built upon. You know, I actually thought the match was just a repeat of game 1. Why should I even bother with continuing to record? Why bother to even check the units list. This is a prefect example of what can happen, when we lose our faith in DF, with respect to how truly bizarre and buggy it can sometimes be, when we least expect it. Where it suddenly alarms us with new and unexpected behavior, which doesn't make any sense. This game, did not make sense. And it was awesome.

Tick 1, I hit "." and look, theres Erik's spellcaster titan, turned into yet another wagon. But something is strange. Why is the wagon so much further away from where Erik's titan spawned. "Huh, that's funny, you know I wonder if... bloody Mother of Armok!"
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A truly wonderful thing to behold. Wagons, wagons everywhere. Exploding! 11 adamantine collosi, spawned and turned to wagons in mid-air, yet Erik Blank's titan remained. And who was now rocketing toward the crab from space.

What was happening? Why was it happening?
Who the fuck cares?! DO IT TITAN! GO! GO! GO! DO IT!
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After firing a wave of projectiles, the titan closes the gap. It lands, it charges, THE ATTACKS LAND!
First a stab, then a kick, the titan collides with the crab, before it can even register what the hell is happening, the crab's shattered & broken body is blown away! Blue blood gushing everywhere, which then appears to boil in the molten liquid sunlight.

Is the match over? It should be right? NO! The units list shows the crab is still very much alive. Broken, mangled, crushed, smashed, and bleeding profusely, but alive.
Flying backwards, the crab's tiny body, shattered by the impossible to withstand blows of the titan, is still alive.
This tiny, simple, seemingly ordinary crab endures. HE ENDURES! LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, HE ENDURES!
Withstanding, the immediate shock and impact impact, its body exploding in all directions, the tiny red menace clings tightly to the razor's edge of life itself. Its eyes filled with the boundless unquenchable red hate of its entire collective species, no! Of every arthropod species the sea has ever known!
 
Would the Titan get the kill? Or with its dying breath, would the crab wagonify the mighty titan? It was anyone's game.

The titan rushes to catch the shattered body of the crab with with one of its many hands, locking it in a hold, before, before, before, ladies and gentlemen, just before the titan can finish the match, the crab escapes the wrestling hold! I've never seen anything like this.

At this very precise precipice of eternal glory, the crab, the scuttler, the undeniable mightiest crustacean under 1ft tall to have ever spawned somehow manages to slip through the titan's grasp! Upon inspection of the combat log, it appears its body had become a kobold's, with the transformation curse uttered by Erik Blank's Spellcaster Titan occurring on the same tick the wrestling hold was placed, allowing the crab to slip to the wrestling's titan iron grip. Can you believe it?!

The newly transformed kobold's body, now only slightly effected by the curse, which will rapidly begin to take effect, is given a shining window from which to rip the rug out from under the titan, and ensure its dominance be remembered in the hall of Bay12 for all of time.

While the curse would no doubt render the crab up toward the great big stinking kobold cave in the sky in a few short moments, would its temporary new body have the strength, the WILL to take this thing 2 - 0? Will he hold out folks?! Can he hold out?! Alas, he cannot. As the kobold slips from the titan's arms, it gives into the searing pain of the curse. Never getting the single tick it needed to wagonify the titan and close the match.

Erik takes game 2.

Game 3 - The crab wagonifies Erik at the start and takes game 3.
There are two kinds of creatures in DF. Crabs that can turn other creatures into wagons. And creatures that lose.
Clearly, not all creatures are crabs. And not all creatures are winners. The match ends with Wolfkey's, The Scuttler taking it 2 - 1


Squamous:       0  -  2
FirePhoenix11:  2  -  0


Games 1 and 2: Squamous gets cast into a wall of cooling obsidian. Another victory for " ".


Dikbutdagrate:  2   - 0
DPh Kraken:      0  -  2


Game 1 - Kraken wins the die roll, and we spawn above water. The lord of flies gets stuck in the whirlpool of steam and mud, while Kraken's pudding slowly slimes its way over. Immediately upon closing the distance, the pudding is ripped apart and turned into a poofy cloud of goodbye, before dissipating into a cloud of steam. Dikbutdagrate takes game 1.

Game 2 - The pudding gets a case of the bad bananas and feels terrified. It is then promptly turned into a goodbye and evaporates. Dikbutdagrate takes game 2, claiming the match 2 - 0.


An Anonymous Masked Bay12 Member:  2  -  0
The Bye Creature:                                 0  -  2


Game 1 - The Golden Kobold almost loses, despite turning into a copy of " ". For some reason, it decided to wrestle the slade angel, instead of just instantly killing it. The Golden Kobold transforms back into its original form once more, it is then beaten and bloodied by the slade angel. Before the GB can be slain however, it once again transforms into a " " , healing all of its wounds in the nick of time, and promptly uhh.... running away? Sure! I guess that's a better strategy than simply being beatin' to a pulp, I suppose?

The " " transforms back to its original Kobold State, then meanders a bit, and then turns into Erik Blank's Spellcaster Titan.

The Golden Kobold/Spellcaster Titan clone proceeds to go on a rampage and quickly wins the match from here.

Game 2 - The golden kobold slowly walks up to the slade angel, who twiddles its thumbs, before turning into a copy of Erik's spellcaster titan again, and smashes apart the BYE creature after turning into a regular kobold. The Golden Kobold takes game 2, claiming the match.
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« Reply #49 on: October 08, 2024, 09:30:48 pm »

Round 4 Match Pairings are up!
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Current Standings:

#1a  FirePhoenix11                                    |  9 points

#1b  Dikbutdagrate                                    |  9 points

#2a  Wolfkey                                             |  6 points

#2b  xzaxza                                               |  6 points

#3a  Erik Blank                                           |  4 points

#3b  An Annoymous masked Bay12 User       |  4 points

#4a  jecowa                                                |  3 points

#4b  Squamous                                           |  3 points

#5a   DPh Kraken                                         |  0 points

#5b  BYE Creature                                        |  0 points
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« Reply #50 on: October 09, 2024, 04:39:25 am »

I had been looking forward to going up against Adamantine Monster. Glad they were able to get a little bit of fighting in the third round before the ewe.

I really like the art on Beezlebub and Supreme Profanity. The eyes on the Lord of the Flies and the teeth on Profanity are very creepy, and the retro NES-era color palettes look cool.

The Golden Kobold puts on some entertaining matches. I'm sitting thinking "why doesn't he transform?" Then transforms into maybe the most powerful one only to turn back into a kobold 2 seconds later. Oh, but then he's the Spellcaster and wins!

I think both the Golden Kobold and Supreme Profanity both have the ability to turn their opponents into themselves. That just seems like a weird choice instead of turning them into a ewe or something, but there must be some advantage if they're both doing it, right?

Maybe I'm not understanding how points work, but I thought I would get one for winning round 2.
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« Reply #51 on: October 09, 2024, 09:23:54 am »

Oh this is a sweet concept. Would love to participate if it's held a second time. :)

Also, a question: does DF v50 no longer allow you to access the combat logs in one of its output files? I know the Gladiator Tournament includes those in the posts somehow, instead of just through video.

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« Reply #52 on: October 09, 2024, 03:17:48 pm »

I had been looking forward to going up against Adamantine Monster. Glad they were able to get a little bit of fighting in the third round before the ewe.
I was really looking forward to the match of Phoeball vs. the adamantine monster, it was one of the matches I was less clear on who would actually win. And based on the logistics of the match, this was one match where you were going to need to lose the die roll, rather than win it ha, in order for you to realistically have a chance at winning. 

If your arena was used for both rounds 1 & 3, this would have guaranteed you with an autowin. The match really did come down to a coin-flip. Which is why game 3 here is so surprising, because it looked like Phoeball was going to rip xzaxza's creature to shreds, until the adamantine monster's AI suddenly woke up. No idea why it took so long to start doing stuff. At one point, I had started to think Phoeball might get there in time. But Phoeball wasn't able to quite win the DPS race it needed to win, in order to secure a match victory, it was pretty close though.  Again, the match just came down to a coin-flip between you two, well actually, it was 2d6, but it was still anyone's game. 

Clearly, the Phoeball was the tougher of the two creatures, but the adamantine monster's magic goat interactions still beat Phoeball as long as both creatures are fighting on a stable surface.

It is weird, that your creature actually wants to lose the die roll pretty often. Whereas, in most cases, its the opposite. For instance, in the case seen in Erik Blank's Spellcaster Titan vs. Wolfkey's the Scuttler. Erik's creature has maybe a 50% chance of winning, but only if it spawns first. And from some testing, I don't think it can actually win if it spawns in second, unless something really bizarre happens (like the crab's AI breaking).

This was a fun match to watch.

I think both the Golden Kobold and Supreme Profanity both have the ability to turn their opponents into themselves. That just seems like a weird choice instead of turning them into a ewe or something, but there must be some advantage if they're both doing it, right?
The golden kobold can only turn itself into other creatures. When it turned into Erik's Spellcaster titan, specifically, it gains Erik's titan's ability to turn other creatures into kobolds.

Maybe I'm not understanding how points work, but I thought I would get one for winning round 2.
You get +3 points for a match win.
+1 for a match draw.
And +0 for a match loss.

Your final record at the conclusion of a match is the only thing that really matters, so say, winning a match with 2 game wins and 1 loss, won't actually effect the actual points you receive at the end of the round. But it does influence your virtual tie breakers. I say that they're virtual, for reasons that you might understand a little bit better at the end of the tournament. For now, it just influences where you end up in the a, b, c standings where there is a tie for whatever-th place. Those letter classifications don't necessarily mean anything though. And will become largely unnecessary after the conclusion of the 9th round and the end of the tournament.

In order for a match to be scored as a draw, you need to either:
a.) get two back to back game draws in a row, so crashing the client, or taking several years to finish the match, or somehow dying on the same tick as your opponent.
b.) Go 1 - 1 - 1 during the match, while scoring a draw in the third game.
c.) Scoring a draw in a potential fourth game, which can happen if a draw occurs in either games 1 or 2, as long as both players competing in the match were are able to score a game win each by the end of game 3, which is the corner case that allows the match to go into game 4.

Oh this is a sweet concept. Would love to participate if it's held a second time. :)

Also, a question: does DF v50 no longer allow you to access the combat logs in one of its output files? I know the Gladiator Tournament includes those in the posts somehow, instead of just through video.
Yeah! I was really hoping you specifically were going to take notice of it. Shame you missed it this year, would have loved to have you. We've been chatting about it, and I think we've found some room for improvement in the tournament's design, and consequently a reason to hold it again next year. So look forward to that.

Ha, I wish. We have a better log than we did at initial release, I think. And maybe there is a way? But I definitely haven't found the option yet. And nobody has yet to inform me of one.   
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« Reply #53 on: October 09, 2024, 08:48:23 pm »

Results are in, and here's the vid, it might be a second before its publicly available:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w19Yl5-BZWU
I'll pin timestamps up once its released.

Round 4 Match Results:
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              W -  L  -  T
Xzaxza:   2  -  0
BYE:        0  -  2 


Game 1 - Not too much happened here. The slade BYE creature gets turned into several goats sheep, and then melts in dragonfire

Game 2 - Same thing. And xzaxza takes the match 2 - 0.


Dikbutdagrate:  0  -  2
FirePhoenix11:  2  -  0


Game 1: The current top two contestants square off. Will the dreaded " " finally meet its match?

Dikbut loses the die roll, and " " gets to spawn in first, which means that both creatures spawn several z levels above the default arena's lake corner for the first game. Odd though it may be, the effects of gravity does nothing to prevent the encasement, and a solidified block of obsidian is formed in mid air, instantly killing the Lord of Flies Moose before anything else can happen. The horrible corrupted data monstrosity known only as " " from takes Game 1, demonstrating the wide gulf between the self-proclaimed Lord of Flies and the Great Nightmare known only as,
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Game 2: Were you expecting anything different here? FirePhoenix11's " " takes game 2 by the second tick, knocking off its only competition for first. Not only has this creature won all of its matches, it has yet to drop even a single game to either a loss or draw. Is there anything that can possibly stop the abomination wrought by FirePhoenix11? Only time will tell, but I wouldn't hold out any hope of that folks. 


DPh Kraken:  0  -  2
Erik Blank:    2  -  0


Game 1 - This is easily DPh Kraken's Black Pudding's longest match we've seen yet. Game 1 starts off with Erik Blank winning the die roll, and spawning first. We also have a bit of an unusual starting position allocated for both of the combatants, located within the default arena. Erik's Titan starts off by closing the distance, firing off projectiles, before moving into melee combat. The Black Pudding, experiencing terror, is bombarded by the Titan, but manages to survive the first wave of melee attack actions. Erik's titan transforms the pudding into a kobold, who has already given into pain, before sending the newly transformed kobold spiraling backwards and down a straight drop from 5z levels high. The black pudding/kobold dies of blood loss immediately upon impact.

Game 2 - The match opens with Erik's Spellcaster Titan casting a deadly curse, which sends the Black Pudding into yet another kobold transformation. The curse immediately causes the black pudding kobold to give into pain, and it is sent flying backwards, its upper body skidding along the ground, as it flies back a total of 15 tiles, before its mangled body falls into the river. Upon inspection of the combat log, the kobold pudding died in mid air, before it ever hit the water. Erik grabs the second game, taking the match 2 - 0.


Squamous:                           2  -  1
An Anonymous Bay12 User:   1  -  2


Game 1 - The Anonymous Masked Bay12 User wins the die roll, getting to spawn in first. For this game, we have yet another peculiar starting position allocated for our combatants.  The game begins with Squamous's Supreme Profanity immediately healing itself several times, as the Golden Kobold runs away? Pulling up the Kobolds unit status, the creature is overcome by terror!, and is attempting to flee down the ramp at the end of the room. The supreme profanity jumps into the air, as it unleashes a spray of dragonfire. Just as the Golden Kobold makes it down the ramp, it transforms into a " "!  As the dragonfire quickly moves toward the Golden Kobolds last position, the newly transformed Golden Kobold, now a " ", reverses course, and begins to advance back towards its confusing blue opponent, the Supreme Profanity.

The Golden Kobold, as a " ", leaps into the air to meet the Supreme Profanity in aerial combat. The Supreme Profanity accepts the dollar store knock-off brand " "'s challenge, and summons two new clones of itself, before more dragonfire is unleashed. Just as they begin to meet in battle, WHAM, " " uses its ultimate trump card and game 1 ends. Each of the Profanities being encased in cooling magma, and formed into a tile of obsidian, as the map is suddenly littered with spawned dragons and giant cave spiders. The Golden Kobold takes game 1.

Game 2 - Starts off with the Golden Kobold's advance toward the Supreme Profanity. Being locked in the center of the map leaves the Golden Kobold with no other recourse but to march forward, despite the terror it feels. Squamous's Supreme Profanity leaps into the air, summoning clones of itself, and bellowing forth a spread of dragonfire and barbs of adamantine.

As the kobold is sent spiraling backwards, it transforms into a clone of Erik Blank's Spellcaster Titan in mid air before impact with the back wall. More barbs of adamantine are unleashed by the Profanities, and the Spellcaster Titan answers in turn, firing off projectiles of "searing sunlight." Several of the projectiles connect, hitting the original Supreme Profanity in the third left upper arm and the upper body, but is able to jump away from several more.A skin rock fired off by a profanity hits its mark, the Spellcaster Titan, but merely phases through the titan, yielding no damage.

The center of the map explodes with geysers of searing sunlight vapor and an inferno of blue dragonfire.

Just as the combatants close into melee range with one another, something very unexpected happens.

Without ever having reverted to its original form, the Golden Kobold, suddenly, and inexplicably, transforms into a Supreme Profanity. The actual source of this body transformation is unclear to this reporter. And almost immediately, the Golden Kobold, now a Supreme Profanity, is "shot and killed."

Upon inspection of the combat log, just before the Golden Kobold had died, it had fired off a torrential rain of projectiles, almost all of which landed on the original Supreme Profanity, the Golden Kobold had thus far proven capable in recognizing the other Profanities for what they were, mere decoys, and was only interested in the original. The hail of projectiles the Golden Kobold fired all hit their mark, except for one, and chipped, fractured, and broke away the exterior adamantine casing of the Original Supreme Profanity, who had to jump away to save itself. It was at this very point however, that a stray projectile, "a small spinning rock made of Supreme Profanity skin", which had no clear indication of who or what it was actually fired from, managed to hit the head of the Golden Kobold/Supreme Profanity clone, and this caused its skull to completely cave in, killing the Golden Kobold immediately upon impact. Maybe its original source of the projectile was the Golden Kobold itself, it is not clear.

Perhaps the only one who has truly any idea of what is going on during these insane matches involving the Supreme Profanity, is the Supreme Profanity, and the Supreme Profanity alone. And since it cannot speak, I suppose we will never know the answers to the riddles of its bizarre behavior.

Squamous's Supreme Profanity takes game 2.

Game 3 - Another unusual environment. The third game is a virtual repeat of game 2, but is made more interesting by the wrestling maneuvers and melee combat actions which occur. The Golden Kobold transforms into a B-rated knock off of Erik's creature, the Spellcaster Titan, before it is "pushed" down a single tile wide hallway, before being transformed into yet another Supreme Profanity. The arena is filled with blue, as dragon fire roars and adamantine projectiles are fired, and the hallway is filled with open maw clones of the Supreme Profanity. The Kobold's clone version of the Profanity is weaker, and struggles in vain as it is wrestled to the ground. A "pushing" match for dominance continues, until the Golden Kobold is tragically shot in the head by another projectile, and is immediately slain upon impact.

Squamous takes game 3, securing another win for his insidious blue devil.


Wolfkey:  2  -  1
Jecowa:   1  -  2


Game 1 - Jecowa wins the die roll, spawning in first, but this is yet another opponent where Jecowa would have preferred to go second against. Jecowa is wagonified at the start of the match by Wolfkey's little red menace, who quickly claws itself to a win in game 1.

Game 2 - The arena shifts over to Jecowa's custom submission. The crab goes plop, down into the the abyss on tick 1. And Jecowa takes the second game.

Game 3 - A repeat of game 1, and Jecowa's Phoeball is turned into a wagon, although is able to jump into the air just before this can happen. The wagon collapses just a few short feet off the ground, and then the logs come tumbling down.

Wolfkey and the Scuttler take game 3, winning the match.
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« Reply #54 on: October 09, 2024, 09:04:20 pm »

Round 5 Match Pairings are up!
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Almost half-way done the tournament and here are the Current Standings:

#1   FirePhoenix11                                    |  12 points

#2a  Dikbutdagrate                                    |  9 points

#2b  Wolfkey                                             |  9 points

#2c   xzaxza                                               |  9 points

#3     Erik Blank                                          |  7 points

#4     Squamous                                          |  6 points

#5     An Annoymous masked Bay12 User       |  4 points

#6      jecowa                                                |  3 points

#7a     DPh Kraken                                          |  0 points

#7b     BYE Creature                                        |  0 points
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« Reply #55 on: October 10, 2024, 02:20:09 am »

" " is a true monster.

Are the raws somewhere, btw?

p.s. my titan transforms oppononents into sheep, not goats, because warcraft
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« Reply #56 on: October 10, 2024, 08:24:58 am »

I think he was planning to post the raws but maybe decided to wait until after the tournament is over because it could be spoilery. I hope they get posted too. I'm curious too see what all is going on in them and how they work.
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« Reply #57 on: October 10, 2024, 08:54:48 pm »

Round 5 is in, here's the vid, and it is the longest one yet:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWG5JfyPFMU


Round 5 Match Results:
There was a lot to cover this time, so bear with me. There may be some rather sparse coverage on otherwise notable games.
Coverage may be edited back in later, either tonight, or possibly tomorrow.


Erik Blank:     1  -  2
Dikbutdagrate:  2  -  1


Game 1 - Starts with Dikbutdagrate winning the die roll, and getting to spawn in first. The Lord of Flies marches straight at the Spelltitan, and engages it in melee combat. The Spelltitan is cutdown, and dikbutdagrate takes game 1.

Game 2 - This game goes long, and coverage is pretty sparse. Readers are encouraged to check the video out for this one. The arena shifts from the normal spot, and both combatants spawn above water. Despite this being the Lord of Flies preferred arena, the dreaded king of molten bugs actually manages to lose this one to Erik Blank's Spelltitan. The Dreaded Lord of Flies Moose spends the game bathing in mud, while it is rendered almost neigh useless by Erik Blank's hovering spelltitan's curses. The Spelltitan repeatidly bathes the Lord of flies in volleys of projectile sunlight, which find their mark in the Lord of Flies Dark Nostrontium Chitin. Even while all the surrounding waves of the arena's lake fail to penetrate the glowing Dark Fire nexus of DF's ultimate heat being radiated by the Molten Lord of Flies, Erik Blank's Spelltitan's liquid Sunny D shines the way to victory, and Erik Blank takes game 2.   

Game 3 - Waves of projectiles are fired. Dikbut's the Lord of Flies moves in. Melee combat ensues, and the body of the Spelltitan is broken. The demonic insectoid duke of hell takes game 3, winning the match 2 - 1


DPh Kraken:     2  -  0
Jecowa:         0  -  2


Game 1 - Jecowa wins the die roll, and is spawned in first. The game begins with a ferocious assault from the fiery orange fuzzball from hell. Kraken's Black Pudding really shows the audience what its made out of here, but not in the way it would probably prefer...

The Black Pudding's rather unusual body parts are ripped and torn from away, in what can only be described by on-lookers as some seriously brutal smack-down, which has GOTTA HURT. "Phoe- The Fiery Chicken McNugget from Hell - Ball" continues walloping the black pudding, continually knocking the pudding back, again and again, toward the back wall of the arena. The scary orange chicken ball tackles, it screeches, and it bites into the Black Pudding. A "ventral sporocap" is torn out and goes FLYING across the arena.

Notably here, Jecowa's Phoeball is actually caught what appears to be "a burst of black pudding boiling goo" during its beatdown of the black pudding. A self-defense mechanism of the Black Pudding perhaps? Or maybe that's just a savage burn from what is possibly, the angriest chicken McNugget on the planet.

Watch out folks! This chicken ball is out for blood! Or perhaps, "blood pudding", hehe.  Get it'? Ya see, because its a blood pudd... alright, never mind.

DPh Kraken's Black Pudding, while experiencing absolute terror, dies from being roasted in the heat of orange chicken ball. Jecowa takes game 1.

Game 2 - Kraken's Black Pudding falls into an abyss on the first tick. Jecowa takes the game, and wins the match 2 - 0.


Squamous:       2  -  1
xzaxza:         1  -  2


This is a really interesting match!
I'm sorry I don't have time to cover it at the time of this writing, its another wonderful case of Squamous's creature of getting to be very strange, and somehow getting away with it.

Game 1 - Squamous spawns in first, but is immediately sheepified, and melted in dragon fire.

Game 2 - Game 3 - You'll just have to watch the video, haha. The Supreme Profanity's deadly new scheme somehow manages to salvage the match, scoring back-to-back double knock-outs on xzaxza's adamantine monster, all while managing to avoid the Sheepification + Dragonfire combo of game 1. Brains over brawn. Squamous takes the match 2 - 1.


Wolfkey:        2  -  0
BYE:            0  -  2


Game 1 - The Red Menace easily steals game 1, turning the angel of slade into a wagon, which subsequently crumbles into a pile of logs.

Game 2 - A repeat of game 1. The caped crimson crustacean wagonmancer "claws" its way to a victory knockout, clinching the match 2 - 0.     


FirePhoenix11:  2  -  0  -  1
An anonymous masked Bay12 Member:  0  -  1  -  1


Game 1 - Game 1 starts with the Golden Kobold winning the die roll and grabbing the opportunity to spawn in first. For this match, the Golden Kobold holds nothing back, going straight from the throat by spawning in with its syndrome auto-applied, which is usually reserved for games 2 and 3. The recording itself covers everything to fully document the RNG that occurs from start to finish.

In order for the Golden Kobold to win this match, or at least draw, it was going to need to get pretty lucky. Winning the die roll was probably a good start.
But would it spawn in as a " "?

YES! Yes, it would. The Golden Kobold does indeed spawn in as its budget knock-off version of " " for game 1. And this fight proceeds to go on for over a whole 30 friggin' minutes, before ultimately ends in a draw due to time. In this fight, you see a lot of uses blank, brusies blank. A blank loses its blank. A blank's blank is missing. A blank grabs blank using its blank, bending the blank.

Its good stuff.

But ultimately game 1 is way too much happen for this one reporter to cover. You'll just have to watch the video. Hopefully, FirePhoenix11 can answer some of your buzzing questions on what in the hell even happened here. And maybe game 2 for that matter...

Game 2 - " " is spawned in first this time, and the Golden Kobold after. As the Golden Kobold is spawned, luck is yet again on its side, and the Golden Kobold spawns in as a " " for a second time.  "Here we go again." I thought

I hit spacebar and planned to spend another contemptable whole 30 minutes just sitting and waiting for the game to end, just so that I could record all of it, and properly document that this match was a draw. But nuh-h. Just as soon as the game started, it ended.

After about a mere 2 to 3 seconds, which is more or less an eternity when squaring off against the dreaded " ", the match just ends abruptly. After a couple melee actions, the Golden Kobold is just abruptly encased in a cooling magma obsidian tile! And that's it, game 2 ends, with FirePhoenix scoring a win.

Hey, don't look me folks! I don't blanking know how any of blank's blanking blank even works. The only one who might have any semblance of some clue here is FirePhoenix11.

Whatever the reason though, the king KILLBASTARD, the lord of NOTHING and all that is <blank> takes game 2.

Clearly, " " has no intention of receiving any further debasement by a creature who, at the time of this writing, is sitting in fourth to last.

Game 3 - The Golden Kobold's luck runs out this game, and it spawns in as the clone of the Lord of Flies. The Molten Lord of Flies won't cut it for this match however, and the Golden Kobold is subsequently erased by FirePhoenix's " " on the second tick of game 3. FirePhoenix takes the match 2 - 0 - 1. FirePhoenix's " " continues to demostrat, that the strongest force in perhaps all the known cosmos embedded within Dwarf Fortress, is simply "nothing", nothing at all.

"The Golden Kobold may not have been the hero we needed. But he was certainly the only one we could afford."
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« Reply #58 on: October 10, 2024, 09:10:59 pm »

Round 6 Match Pairings are up!
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We are now more than half-way done the tournament, and here are the Current Standings:

#1   FirePhoenix11                                    |  15 points

#2a  Dikbutdagrate                                    |  12 points

#2b  Wolfkey                                             |  12 points

#3a  Squamous                                          |  9 points

#3b   xzaxza                                               |  9 points

#4     Erik Blank                                          |  7 points

#5     jecowa                                                |  6 points

#6     An Annoymous masked Bay12 User       |  4 points

#7a    DPh Kraken                                          |  0 points

#7b    BYE Creature                                        |  0 points


Are the raws somewhere, btw?

p.s. my titan transforms oppononents into sheep, not goats, because warcraft
I went ahead and fixed some of the posts which mistakenly make mention of "goats", my bad.

Yes, upon conclusion of the tournament, the raw files from all the submitted entries will be made publicly available.
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« Reply #59 on: October 11, 2024, 12:26:20 am »

I continue to be disappointed. I definitely didn't push the limits hard enough here.
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