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Billy vs. SNAKEMAN Contest 2 (Up To 50 BP in Prizes)So, funny story. Once upon a time I ran a contest in this thread and I could have *sworn* I invoked the early termination clause and ended it, but guess what? It seems that I’ve left this hanging for about a year. Whoops! Why you all waited until now to call me out on this I have no clue, but I don’t like the idea of leaving unfinished business. As such:
CONTEST ENDED per OP, section 4, point 2 (no new entries for a freakishly long time).
While the final goal was never reached, the point of this contest was to expand the playerbase, and anyone still eligable at this point has certainly contributed to that, so I’m going to go ahead and give out the final round of BP anyways. Since the value of BP has changed since I started the contest, the prizes will be adjusted accordingly. Heparin informs me that 1 old BP is worth 15 new BP, so that is the new prize amount.
The final five winners are Dmitri, Kol, Vikage, and Heparin (x2). BP has been awarded. I’m not updating either of the two main posts because I’m already tired and I still have to go convince a mod to lock this thread without banning me for unintentional Toxxing.
THREAD CLOSED (view post) |
11/05/2010 | |
Billy vs. SNAKEMAN Contest 2 (Up To 50 BP in Prizes)It does indeed, though I use the player lookup to keep track of contestants and that gives realtime info. (view post) |
10/19/2009 | |
Billy vs. SNAKEMAN Contest 2 (Up To 50 BP in Prizes)Just in case you were wondering, I do still keep an eye on this thread and I do keep the BP prizes in reserve. 2/5 peeps to final prizes. Also, quite a few of the people who obviously only created characters to win BP have idled out, which means better odds of winning for the rest of you. (view post) |
10/19/2009 | |
Billy vs. SNAKEMAN Contest 2 (Up To 50 BP in Prizes)And with that, we’ve reached our next prize point. Congrats to Krystie, Malix, Saemir, Sancdar, and Syphax for being the winners this round. One round to go. (view post) |
09/11/2009 | |
Billy vs. SNAKEMAN Contest 2 (Up To 50 BP in Prizes)Bumpady-dump (view post) |
09/05/2009 | |
Billy vs. SNAKEMAN Contest 2 (Up To 50 BP in Prizes)HOLY CRAP! Congrats on making PC, Sancdar! When did this happen? (view post) |
08/12/2009 | |
Billy vs. SNAKEMAN Contest 2 (Up To 50 BP in Prizes)New winner time! Congrats to Halo, guest42, Bionic Taffy, Helston, and Malix for each winning 1 BP. Second post has been updated accordingly. (view post) |
08/06/2009 | |
Billy vs. SNAKEMAN Contest 2 (Up To 50 BP in Prizes)New winner time! Congrats to Streak101, JayZJay, and P14yBoY_dONg13 for each winning 1 BP in the most recent round of prizes! Also, congrats to Sancdar for winning 2 BP! Second post has been updated to reflect the new prize totals. (view post) |
08/04/2009 | |
Billy vs. SNAKEMAN Contest 2 (Up To 50 BP in Prizes)Oh. I totally forgot to mention. New winners yesterday. Second post was updated to reflect that. (view post) |
08/01/2009 | |
Billy vs. SNAKEMAN Contest 2 (Up To 50 BP in Prizes)Poison-Beeblebrox Posted:
Players are eligable until they win 5BP. Considering that the ratio of Awarded BP to Contestants at this point is 3:4, however, everyone stands a pretty good chance to walk away a winner even this late in the game. (view post) |
07/31/2009 | |
Billy vs. SNAKEMAN Contest 2 (Up To 50 BP in Prizes)You’re eligable. One more chunin away from the next prize awarding. I guess it’s about time to hit the community ads again. (view post) |
07/30/2009 | |
Billy vs. SNAKEMAN Contest 2 (Up To 50 BP in Prizes)itachi92 Posted:
Because of bum Hater. No seriously. bum Hater hit chunin the last day that referrals for the Over 1100 contest were being counted (he was the only one from this contest to do so in time), and therefore this contest contributed to the me winning moneys.
Me profit = Not a contest (view post) |
07/28/2009 | |
Billy vs. SNAKEMAN Contest 2 (Up To 50 BP in Prizes)For that round of prize drawing, yes. Since you didn’t play yesterday you didn’t show up in my list of students today. Thems the breaks. But as long as you play the day before the next prize drawing, you’ll be eligable for that one. (view post) |
07/20/2009 | |
Billy vs. SNAKEMAN Contest 2 (Up To 50 BP in Prizes)The sigs lag behind a bit, PieMan, but the Player Lookup (which I use to keep track of your progress) is real time.
And it’s time for prizes again! Congrats to Auro-kun, Bionic Taffy, Fran, Michiyo, and Sancdar (finally) for each winning 1 BP. The new totals for awarded prizes have been updated in the second post. (view post) |
07/20/2009 | |
Billy vs. SNAKEMAN Contest 2 (Up To 50 BP in Prizes)Prize time! Congrats to BUNNI_RAPE, Bigandtasty, Krystie, Fran, and RaptorZombieJesus for each winning 1 BP. (view post) |
07/16/2009 | |
Billy vs. SNAKEMAN Contest 2 (Up To 50 BP in Prizes)Bigandtasty Posted: |
07/15/2009 | |
Billy vs. SNAKEMAN Contest 2 (Up To 50 BP in Prizes)Okay. I’ve decided to change one of the rules of the contest. After thinking about it for quite a while, I have decided to change the restrictions on eligible contestants from one eligible character per IP to one eligible character per person.
My reasoning is this. The original purpose of this restriction was because I was trying to get the referral items in the game. Billy vs. SNAKEMAN only counted each IP once when awarding referral points. Furthermore, I was able to verify that players had unique IPs by keeping track how many players hit Chunin before I should have gotten the items and comparing it to how many players hit Chunin before I did get the items.
However, this is no longer the case. The first BvS contest was so successful that I received the last of the referral items on the first day of this contest. As such, my goal shifted from getting referral points to expanding the playerbase. Additionally, as there were no more items to get, I had no way of verifying that all the contestants did indeed have unique IPs anymore. As such, I have been operating on the hope that all contestants would fairly represent themselves.
Looking at the current situation objectively, any players who wanted to be douchbags and pretend their alts were different people could have done so without being caught, while those who were honest about sharing IPs have been excluded. With this change, honest players sharing IPs (such as siblings) will no longer be restricted as severely. Dishonest players, on the other hand, will not gain any ways to cheat that were not technically already open to abuse.
I realize that blindly trusting everyone to be nice and play by the rules isn’t the smartest thing I’ve ever done, especially considering that among the contestants are cheaters and players who have admitted they’re only in this for the BP, but this appears to be the most fair way to balance expanding the playerbase as much as possible with preventing cheaters.
The first post will not be updated, both for Toxx reasons as well as my belief that if you aren’t willing to look through three and a half pages for a post like this, you probably don’t deserve the lesser restriction.
ALL CONTESTANTS THAT SHARE AN IP WITH ANOTHER CONTESTANT MUST DISCLOSE THIS FACT! This is because I technically still have one method of checking player’s IPs. It’s expensive for my character and very time consuming, so if I have to use it to investigate an abnormally large jump in my student count I will be a very unhappy ninja. Any cheaters I catch like this will no longer be eligible to participate in the contest. (view post) |
07/14/2009 | |
Billy vs. SNAKEMAN Contest 2 (Up To 50 BP in Prizes)Hmm. That’s tricky. I’m personally all for getting more people interested in the game, but I also mentioned in the opening post that eligable contestants would be limited to one character per IP.
Edit: See below (view post) |
07/13/2009 | |
Billy vs. SNAKEMAN Contest 2 (Up To 50 BP in Prizes)Time for more prizes!
Congrats to Bionic Taffy, BUNNI_RAPE, magic-molester, Kooler221, and bitpixel for being the winners of round 3. (view post) |
07/12/2009 | |
Billy vs. SNAKEMAN Contest 2 (Up To 50 BP in Prizes)goldensevenfold Posted: |
07/11/2009 |