The Official Kerbin Cup Tournament Thread - Final Entries Posted

[Specialist290]

Let's try to keep the discussions in this thread related to the Kerbin Cup submissions, please

EDIT: Just letting y'all know I've done a little bit of housekeeping in this thread since I posted this.

Edited July 11, 2014 by Specialist290

[kmMango]

Yes sir. Char.

Edited July 11, 2014 by kmMango

[NFUN]

Looking earlier in the thread, it seems many people were somewhat disappointed that Round 2 only gave extra points. The officials must be psychic, because, judging from most of the reviews in the forum, the margin of victory will likely be less than 25 points. If COM is Team 1 or 3, they have a huge advantage and makes trying to guess results even more impossible. A day is too damn long to wait!

[Kerano]

My personal rankings for the forum teams:

#1 - Team 1 - putting the huge craft together with massive cranes on Kerbin itself was impressive, heading to Bop to meet the Kraken was ambitious, the perfect landing on the KSC was awesome, and a great story to tie it all together topped it off.

#2 - Team 3 - entertaining video and nice pictorial entry, shame you couldn't quite make it to orbit without the fuel cheat, but full respect for making it all the way to Gilly and back once you got the craft assembled.

#3 - Team 2 - good effort getting the craft together, would have been nice to see you go somewhere with it.

Oh, and Team Reddit - that was certainly a Grand Tour, and nice finish on the KSC also. Nice work getting all the parts to the Mun in the same configuration, would have loved to see the craft put together there.

[kmMango]

Team 1: Very humorous, assembly on ground, landing near an Easter egg, VAB rooftop landing.

Team 2: Didn't land anywhere.

Team 3: Landed on Gilly, great shots of toppling lander, but they cheated the fuel.

[kmMango]

Anybody know when voting ends?

[4nxs]

Anybody know when voting ends?

Voting will end tomorrow.

, also 10 char

[kmMango]

That was posted yesterday, I just meant the time. Sorry, I am just bored and have been following this closely as a result.

[iClarion]

So will voting end on Monday? Or does it end tonight?

I'm very anxious to see what the next challenge will be.

[The Jedi Master]

And voting is closed. Lets see what happens...

[kmMango]

May the best team win.

[The Jedi Master]

It can't take this long to count the votes, it's electronic!

[Apollyon]

It can't take this long to count the votes, it's electronic!

Rowes doesn't work on the weekend does he?

P.S. My apologies if this is a stupid question, I DO follow the Kerbin Cup but not religiously.

[NathanKell]

IIRC they've made clear that while the votes will influence the decision, they won't determine the decision. Or at least that was true for prior challenges.

[Wooks]

IIRC they've made clear that while the votes will influence the decision, they won't determine the decision. Or at least that was true for prior challenges.

If that's true then is news to me, can you please quote where that was said? I think is not stated anywhere in the OP.

[Apollyon]

If that's true then is news to me, can you please quote where that was said? I think is not stated anywhere in the OP.

I understood it as: Voters determine the winner for each competition, BUT the winner of the last competition (forum vs reddit) will be decided by SQUAD.

[Red Iron Crown]

The Kerbin Cup tournament will consist of four teams of four people who will represent the best of what the following two community channels have to offer - Reddit and The Forum. Each team will collaborate on a mystery challenge that will be revealed each Monday. Team submissions must be handed in by that Friday. When they have, they will be posted here, sans team names, ready for a community vote that will take place over the course of the weekend. The team on each side that gathers the lowest number of votes will be eliminated from the competition. This will continue until there are just two teams left, all culminating in a grand finale that will be judged by members of Squad.

Emphasis mine. Sounds like there's no vote at all in the reddit vs forum finale, members of Squad decide. I didn't notice it either until NathanKell pointed it out.

[Hans Dorn]

How anti-climatic

[cantab]

It's possible the final challenge involves something that will go in the game, which would account for a "Squad's decision is final" approach. For example a new stock craft or scenario.

[Red Iron Crown]

Final challenge idea: Make $1,000,000 kerbucks in 0.24.

[The Jedi Master]

I would like it if they had a competition for a new scenario. There are too few scenarios right now.

[Majiir]

I would like it if they had a competition for a new scenario. There are too few scenarios right now.

Crotchety Old Modders are up for this. Just sayin'.

[chicknblender]

It's possible the final challenge involves something that will go in the game, which would account for a "Squad's decision is final" approach. For example a new stock craft or scenario.

If true, that would be incredibly exciting!!

Can't wait to see what the last challenge is.

[Wooks]

Emphasis mine. Sounds like there's no vote at all in the reddit vs forum finale, members of Squad decide. I didn't notice it either until NathanKell pointed it out.

The actual challenge is not the final one, this is the challenge in which each side, forums and reddit choose their champions, open for vote and, to my knowledge, decided by the players. The final vote decided by members of SQUAD is for the next challenge with the final teams: One from Reddit, One from the forums.

That is not what NathanKell said:

IIRC they've made clear that while the votes will influence the decision, they won't determine the decision. Or at least that was true for prior challenges.

Emphasis mine.

So, what NathanKell said is truth or not? Not that it would make any difference at the end, but it would be nice to clarify things.

Edited July 13, 2014 by Wooks

[Red Iron Crown]

Herpy derp, you're right Wooks. I thought he was talking about the final challenge, you're right that it looks like it should just be a straight vote for the preliminary rounds. I'm not sure what is meant by "that was true for prior challenges", I thought they were decided by popular vote only.