FTF 2012 Tempe Comments and Thoughts

Advanced Master Poster Joined: Apr 11, 2011 Posts: 309

that is IT.....going to start pleading my case to the wife why I should attend next years F2F.....yes, next years, lol, it'll take that long to either get her approval, or bug her enough to where she wants me to leave to get outta her hair, hmmm, that gives me an idea, I'll bribe her by taking the youngest child with me Twisted Evil

Posted: Thu Jan 26, 2012 9:41 pm

Okay I got a question, was the 1st round of Eligibles and Freshman messed up and had to be re-run?

The reason I ask is because I recieved tourney results today for the 1st round only for 4 warriors, 2 Eligible and 2 Freshman. It does not say which tourney the results are for and I did not run any warriors in the recent FtF.

Posted: Fri Jan 27, 2012 3:58 pm

One Armed Bandit wrote:

I did some quick number crunching on the Rookies through Champions (the "basic" classes - no, Challengers doesn't count as that's basically an ADM level class now).

There were 1,434 warriors: 634 Rookies, 284 Apprentices, 254 Initiates, 170 Adepts, and 92 Champions.

STs were most popular with 334 warriors, ABs and LUs next most popular with 265 and 261 respectively. PS and PL were the least popular with 31 and 37 basic entries.

I took the percentage of TVs won by a style and divided that by the percentage of entrants by a style. For instance, STs comprised 23.29% of the total entrants, but captured 36.84% of the TVs, so they outperformed their participation by 58% (they captured 158% of the TVs that one would expect if all styles were equal). The list of all ten styles:

ST +58% (334 entries, 35 TVs)
AB +53% (265 entries, 27 TVs)
TP -3% (171 entries, 11 TVs)
WS -8% (82 entries, 5 TVs)
PL -18% (37 entries, 2 TVs)
LU -42% (261 entries, 10 TVs)
SL -52% (126 entries, 4 TVs)
PR -74% (59 entries, 1 TV)
PS -100% (31 entries, 0 TVs)
BA -100% (68 entries, 0 TVs)

Total (1,434 entries, 95 TVs)

The TV figure is every warrior still active in round 11. I did not exclude warriors that died in the late rounds or give extra points for TCs.

Given the number of prizes that get placed on ABs and the twenty to thirty trip-21 ABs that were created in the past year from team stat-swap prizes (which is far too powerful and I will lobby hard for them to never offer again), STs seem to be the undisputed masters of basic, still.

Just some food for thought. I like numbers.

Edit: swapped PS and BA in the list, as I figure BA did slightly worse with over twice the entries and no TVs

Great stuff! Neat info!
We like numbers too, but each birthday seems to absorb all the numbers we can hold!

Posted: Fri Jan 27, 2012 4:02 pm

_Buri_ wrote:

FLOYD1 wrote:

[I went and checked ...Grape Ape killed Flowersniffer ( double 21 striker ) ..I knew I was still sad for a reason.

Ah, well that makes me feel better, double 21 Strikers are a dime a dozen, right? (/holds up sarcasm sign)

How many fingers does one use in the sarcasm sign?

Posted: Fri Jan 27, 2012 4:06 pm

Visionst01 wrote:

Okay I got a question, was the 1st round of Eligibles and Freshman messed up and had to be re-run?

The reason I ask is because I recieved tourney results today for the 1st round only for 4 warriors, 2 Eligible and 2 Freshman. It does not say which tourney the results are for and I did not run any warriors in the recent FtF.

Cannot remember if these were the two, but two classes were messed up and rerun. Somehow the two classes were pulling warriors from the previous mail in. It was fixed quickly and ran ok thereof.

Posted: Fri Jan 27, 2012 4:07 pm

Buri, we love your new and well-deserved title, and think is is awesome you are using it.

"The Consortium kneels and kisses the Crapmaster ring" Wink

Posted: Fri Jan 27, 2012 4:17 pm

The Consortium wrote:

Buri, we love your new and well-deserved title, and think is is awesome you are using it.

"The Consortium kneels and kisses the Crapmaster ring" Wink

Not only am I using it, but I'm gonna run that crap Basher in the Inits next tourney. Turns out after I got home and examined him closely, he's +4 Init, +4 Defense, and at least +2 Attack!

ArchMaster Poster Joined: Apr 15, 2004 Posts: 2466

_Buri_ wrote:

The Consortium wrote:

Buri, we love your new and well-deserved title, and think is is awesome you are using it.

"The Consortium kneels and kisses the Crapmaster ring" :wink:

Not only am I using it, but I'm gonna run that crap Basher in the Inits next tourney. Turns out after I got home and examined him closely, he's +4 Init, +4 Defense, and at least +2 Attack!

Isn't your prize a +1 bonus potion that can only be used on one of your Crapmaster warriors? Looks like he is about to get one more Attack bonus (if he isn't +4 already)!

Watch out, Primus, here he comes!

Posted: Fri Jan 27, 2012 4:37 pm

One Armed Bandit wrote:

Isn't your prize a +1 bonus potion that can only be used on one of your Crapmaster warriors? Looks like he is about to get one more Attack bonus (if he isn't +4 already)!

Watch out, Primus, here he comes!

Yes it is, and I've already put in for it to be applied to ATT.

Posted: Sat Jan 28, 2012 12:04 am

The Consortium wrote:

Cannot remember if these were the two, but two classes were messed up and rerun. Somehow the two classes were pulling warriors from the previous mail in. It was fixed quickly and ran ok thereof.

Since it was only the first round and all 4 warriors fought in the mail-in, they are probably from that. Thanks Wayne.

Posted: Sat Jan 28, 2012 5:11 pm

Handful of pics and videos on the Facebook site:

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Duel2/120799997957937

ArchMaster Poster Joined: Apr 15, 2004 Posts: 2466

Managerr wrote:

Handful of pics and videos on the Facebook site:

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Duel2/120799997957937

It looks like the Floyd vs. LHI video is posted as OAB vs TUM, for what its worth.

Posted: Sat Jan 28, 2012 7:41 pm

Sorry, uploaded OAB vs. TUM for real this time (I think)