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This is the second TF2RJweekly jumping competition!  Beginnings 2013 was fun, but several important changes have been made, including the addition of the new trickjump competition and significant changes to the way the speedrunning competition will work.  All details are below.  Sorry for the wall of text, I tried to bold the important things for people who are lazy.

Prize Pool Donation Link:  https://steamcommunity.com/tradeoffer/new/?partner=101170748&token=W9iMCxOj

Speedrun Competition (November 30th - December 21st)

The speedrunning competition will be very different this year.  There will be 3 maps per class, all released at the same time (November 30th).  There will only be one easy, medium, and hard map per class.  You can choose to run only one or two maps, or all three.  Players can participate in both the demo and soldier competitions.  Speedrun rules are the same as last year (here).  Outside of simple things like rocket jump or ctap scripts, no plugins/scripts or similar things of any type are allowed.  This includes freeze glitching, bounce alert or any similar plugin, and abusing the wait command.  The submission deadline is December 21st for speedruns.

Beginnings 2 Map Pack

Download:  https://mega.co.nz/#!T50W1JJZ!hj-76YAUwyE1m1bK3b-hfNkPiojYP112ZrJqqKEHwPo

Easy soldier - jump_elephant by Oatmeal
Medium soldier - jump_above by sitood and Splash4Damage
Hard soldier - jump_apex by obsidiian

Easy demo - jump_crypt by Sere and Electro
Medium demo - jump_internal by sitood
Hard demo - jump_isak by Brock


How to submit your runs

How to name your demos

Name your demo in this format:  map_time_name_tick_demotype
Example:  apex_6_25_3_gebobus_15600_pov

This would be a 6:25.3 run on jump_apex by gebobus that starts at tick 15600.  Naming your demo correctly makes it much easier to find and watch demos.  This took a lot of time last year so hopefully with this system it will be a lot faster.  Please try and include both POV and STV demos!  It's really difficult to edit a video well with no stv demo.

Emailing your runs

Email your submissions to tf2rjdropbox@gmail.com in the following format:

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Subject line:  Beginnings 2 Speedrun (jump_name)

Name:
Map:
Time:
Tick(s):
Demos:

Please upload demos to mediafire (www.mediafire.com) or MEGA (mega.co.nz), not zippyshare or something else like that.  Demos uploaded to sites other than the ones listed will not be reviewed.

Example email:

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Subject:  Beginnings 2 speedrun (jump_isak)

Name:  obsidiian
Map:  jump_isak
Time:  5:14.3
Tick(s):  POV 24300 | STV 24600
Demos:  www.mediafire.com/isak_5_14_3_obsidiian_24300_pov | www.mediafire.com/isak_5_14_3_obsidiian_24600_stv

If everyone can follow these guidelines, it will make it a lot easier and faster to go over all of the submissions.  This was a very time consuming and tedious process last year, so please try and help us out by taking an extra minute to format everything correctly.

Points and Prizes

Last year, points were awarded to the top 100 times.  Unfortunately, this took a ton of time, and there were often far less than 100 entries.  Because of this, there will only be points awarded to the top 5 times.  If everything is going quickly enough, we may create a chart with more than 5 times so everyone can see how they compare to other people, but this is not currently a top priority.

Point Breakdown

1st - 40 points
2nd - 25 points
3rd - 15 points
4th - 10 points
5th - 5 points


While this may seem like a somewhat harsh point dropoff past 2nd place, the goal is to prevent people from being forced to place in the top 1 or 2 spots against someone who simply gets a top 5 or 3 time on all 3 maps.  First place is significantly awarded in order to discourage a winner who simply places 2nd or 3rd on all 3 maps.  We are open to suggestions for changes to the point system, but we probably won't be making any huge changes to it.

Prize Breakdown

The prize pool will be split as evenly as possible between soldier and demo.  Prizes for high placing map times will be a little more significant this year than last year.

Overall Placement (40% of class prize pool)

1st place for a class - 25% of class prize pool
2nd - 10%
3rd - 5%


Map Runs (60% of class prize pool)

1st place on a map - 12% of class prize pool
2nd - 5%
3rd - 3%


This system is set up so that people who don't have enough time to run all 3 maps still have a chance at winning some significant prizes by winning maps.  While 25% of a class prize pool may not seem like a lot, anyone who wins first overall will have probably won at least one map, so they should get a pretty good amount of prizes.


Trickjump Competition (November 23rd - December 7th and December 14th)

The second big change to Beginnings 2 this year is that there will be a trickjump competition!  There will be 3 parts, the soldier, demo, and co-op (any class) trickjump categories.  Anybody can submit as many jumps as they want to each category.  However, you can only win once per category.

How to submit your jumps

Everything is pretty similar to submitting runs, but there are some important differences.

How to name your demos

Name your demo in this format:  jump_category_name(s)_tick_demotype
Example (solo jump):  jump_soldier_brock_38200_pov
Example (co-op jump):  jump_coop_brock_obsidiian_27900_stv

Please try and include both POV and STV demos!  It's really difficult to edit a video well with no stv demo.

Emailing your jumps

Email your submissions to tf2rjdropbox@gmail.com in the following format:

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Subject line:  Beginnings 2 Trickjump (category)

Name(s):
Map:
Category:
Tick(s):
Demo:

Example emails:

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Subject:  Beginnings 2 Trickjump (Demo)

Name(s):  Afterglow
Map:  pl_upward
Category:  Demo
Tick(s):  POV 12700 | STV 12200
Demos:  www.mediafire.com/jump_demo_afterglow_12700_pov | www.mediafire.com/jump_demo_afterglow_12200_stv

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Subject:  Beginnings 2 Trickjump (Co-op)

Name(s):  brock and obsidiian
Map:  pl_upward
Category:  co-op
Tick(s):  POV 58100 | STV 58300
Demos:  www.mediafire.com/jump_coop_brock_obsidiian_58100_pov | www.mediafire.com/jump_coop_brock_obsidiian_58300_stv

Again, this may seem like a pain, but it's really helpful to us and it speeds up the demo-watching process by a lot.

Trickjump Rules

  - No noclip
  - No getpos/setpos in the middle of the jump
  - No jumps with altered gravity
  - No creating maps just to do a jump
  - No modifying stats of weapons
  - No giving classes weapons they aren't supposed to have (for example, using plugins to give a medic a rocket launcher
  - No bhop


Anything else is allowed unless it's something I forgot that obviously shouldn't be allowed.

Trickjump Deadlines

Soldier and demo solo trickjumps must be submitted before midnight EST on December 7th
Co-op trickjumps must be submitted before midnight EST on December 14th


Jumps submitted after the deadline will not be considered!!!

Trickjump Judging

Obviously, trickjump competitions are a matter of opinion.  If your jump doesn't get picked, that doesn't mean it sucked.  It just means that we thought it wasn't the best jump.  There will be 5 trickjump judges.  Trickjumps will be judged on 3 main things:  originality, difficulty, and visual appeal.  Jumps that have been done before will obviously be a lot less impressive than new jumps.  Similarly, an original but super easy jump isn't as likely to win the competition as a hard one.  Visual appeal concerns how fun the jump is to watch.  Slow and boring jumps like wallpogo are unlikely to win a competition against faster and more interesting ones, even if the wallpogo is difficult and original.

The top 3 trickjumps from each class will be combined into a sort of mini jump movie if time permits.

Trickjump Prizes

Solo (demo and soldier)

1st place for a class - 5 keys
2nd - 3 keys
3rd - 1 key


Co-op

1st place - 10 keys
2nd place - 5 keys
3rd place - 3 keys


Again, sorry for the wall of text, but hopefully you guys at least read the bold stuff.  Good luck and have fun!!!
« Last Edit: December 29, 2014, 03:43:18 PM by obsidiian »


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For co-op no crit rockets and stickies plz.

Put dates in day/month, not the other way around, that's just dumb.


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Put dates in day/month, not the other way around, that's just dumb.

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stv or pov?

Both, thanks for pointing this out.  Updated post.


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Put dates in day/month, not the other way around, that's just dumb.

BUT THATS FUCKING WRONG AND STUPID YOU EUS ??? ::).THERE IS REALLY NO REASON TO USE YOUR FORMAT WHEN ITS AN US COMPETION. I SERSIOUSLY DONT UNDERSTAND WHY EU REFUSES TO USE ANYTHING OTHER THAN THEIR DUMB DATE SYSTEM EVEN THOUGH THEY WERE THE ONES THAT CHANGED IT FROM THE US ORIGINAL FORMATâ„¢WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY
i can't wait for it to begin though.I hope its not the same 5 people winning each map.Was it like that last year?
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Any speedrun rules or its same like last year?
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Any speedrun rules or its same like last year?

Same as last year.  Added to main post.


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Time to dust off my rocket launcher and try to win the trickjumping ones I guess.

LF rocket jumping buddies  :-* 8)

Still need to find a map just as big as bigcity but without the overflow error. Doubt anyone wants to see another trix jump.

Stupid question but where are the new maps located or are they even released yet?


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Stupid question but where are the new maps located or are they even released yet?

New maps aren't out yet, they'll be released on the 30th.  You can work on the trickjumps though.
« Last Edit: November 23, 2014, 08:51:50 PM by obsidiian »


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Stupid question but where are the new maps located or are they even released yet?

New maps aren't out yet, they'll be released on the 23rd.  You can work on the trickjumps though.

Today is the 23rd...


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Stupid question but where are the new maps located or are they even released yet?

New maps aren't out yet, they'll be released on the 23rd.  You can work on the trickjumps though.

Today is the 23rd...

I'm tired ok... I changed it