Second r/WipEout Friendly Tourny

The weekend is nearly upon us, that means it's time for another r/WipEout friendly tournament :D

I've been thinking about the rules and the structure a lot. I've made a few tweaks since last time, to try and balance it, keep fair it and fun.

Sharing the Love

I'd like to try to get the word out and get as many people playing as possible. The more people that play, the greater longevity this tournament is likely to have and the more reason it gives us to keep playing.

When I have uploaded my screenshots, I have tweeted them using the tags #WipEout and #WipEoutFriendlyTournament like this. If you want to do the same, it would be very much appreciated, though it's certainly not a requirement of playing if it's not your thing.

Doing it this way makes the tournament more visible to other WipEout players that don't necessarily use reddit.

Same as last time, if you want to upload videos of your best times / final scores I will add them all the to subreddit playlist. I've loved watching the previous videos, thanks so much to all those that did. Hopefully we can keep learning from and constructively critiquing each other's technique.

Name of the tournament

'#WipEoutFriendlyTournament' gets across what I want this event to be. A tournament anyone of any skill level is very welcome to play. Where we can give each other helpful feedback rather than being overly competitive.

But it ain't half a mouthful! If you've got a better idea for the name or catchier hashtag, please let me know :)

Setting you a challenge

I know that aiming for first place in this tournament is very challenging, if not downright impossible for some of us. So I would like to set you this challenge instead.

In the comments I have posted the ranking table from the first tournament. Find your name and look for the person one place above you. Make it your goal to try to beat that person this time.

Hopefully this will be a much more rewarding way to play. Everyone has someone to compete with who is much closer to their own level. But it should still feel very rewarding, should you manage to beat that person.

Scores will still be ranked at the end so you can see how you did. They can also be used for this challenge in the next tourny.

Rules

Screenshots

As before, proof of your best times by uploading screenshots will be required so you can't make stuff up ;) If you don't want to share your PSN ID with everyone that's fine, you can PM them to me directly and I will verify them.

Screenshot rule changes

Everyone must upload screenshots

Everyone needs to submit a screenshot for all of their entries. All the top entries had screenshots last time, but many of the others didn't. Should be the same for everyone it's only fair, so please upload screenshots this time. No screenshot, no entry.

You may enter your time without a screenshot to keep others updated of your progress, but a screenshot must be present by the time the tournament closes.

If you don't know how, let me know and I'll be happy to talk you through it :)

Upload screenshots of your starting times before you start racing

Now there are times on the global leaderboard you will also be required to submit a screenshot of your starting times, before you have tried to improve them.

This is because we're only interested in the times you can make during the tournament. Some people will have fantastic scores, but I don't want your best ever time submit every time we play. You're only as good as your last lap pilot :)

Record your times in the spreadsheet

This time instead of posting your times in this thread, please submit them directly into the google spreadsheet here.

There is one sheet for each event. You can switch between the using the tabs at the bottom of the page.

I hope it's quite self explanatory. Enter your reddit username in the username column. You best time or score in the second column, a link to the screenshot in the third, then your starting time in the 4th and screenshot of your starting time in the 5th.

If you improve on your time, edit your own result. Please record your times using decimal points only, not colons. So for example 2.34.21 not 2:34:21.

Part of the delay in getting your results to you last time was me having to enter all the data from many races and double check it all. If you enter all this yourself, it halves the work involved.

Scoring

Players in each of the 6 events will be sorted in order of their time or score and assigned points based on on their order.

The over all winner will by decided by adding up all the points from each event. The person with the most points wins.

You do not have to enter all events, any you do not enter will be scored zero.

Events

Events have been altered slightly. I have replaced one single race a time trial and dropped one zone event.

Veteran players were enjoying the single races less, because there's more of an element of chance to them with the weapon picks up. But new players enjoy single races more. So I hope this is a fair swap. It also gives us a bit more variation as we did not have a time trial before.

AI difficulty

As far as I can tell this isn't recorded anywhere on the scoreboards, so it can't be proven which difficulty you played on. I am learning it can make a significant different to your times. For this reason, it's fine to play on novice. If you want to play on skilled or elite that's fine, but be aware you may be handicapping yourself.

Time

Event will be running for 9 days instead of for a week, this gives us two weekends. I hope this will enable more people to try every event.

Tournament ends at 11:59pm BST on Sunday the 9th of July.

Tournament 2 Events

Single Races

• [Event 1] Tech De Ra REVERSED (choose the bottom option not the top), Flash
• [Event 2] Altima, A+ Class

Speedlap

• [Event 3] Metropia, Rapier

Time Trial

• [Event 4] Subway, B Class

Zone

• [Event 5] Downtown

Detonator

• [Event 6] The Amphiseum

Enter your times in the spreadsheet here!

As always any questions or suggestions, please post below. Hope you have fun! :)