Speccy Tour 2002 Rules

***  2nd Tournament in games for ZX Spectrum with playback feature  ***

What's this all about?

   The Speccy Tour 2002 is a games playing tournament that will run for more then 2 months, giving you the time to improve your scores in the games that take part in the tournament. This means that you don't have to rush your scores. There's plenty of time to make a good score.
   Players, i.e. competitors, votes for which games they want to take part in the Tour. So don't complain if you are unhappy with some of the games :-)
   The whole event is decathlon-like, games are grouped in 8 genres, so we'll have 2 genres represented with 2 games on Tour. Players also choose those 'doubled-genres'.


Start Date: 16 September 2002
Ending Date 02 December 2002

Ending date to vote for games is 6th September.
Ending date to sign up is 30th September.



Rules:

We have an Emulator that can record and playback recordings. It's the wonderful Real Spectrum
emulator that now have this feature included.

Every player must send at least one recording (AIR file) on all ten games. Players who don't submit a
score to all ten games are disqualified. You can send as many recordings to a game as you wish, as long as they are
higher than your previous score. For a complete rules list remember to download the help files on the download page.

To make a life easier for Tour's management, send one recording per game in 1 week.
Deadline for sending scores is every Sunday 23:59 GMT.

The last 2 weeks are on 'special regime', as we need to avoid 'score hoarding'. During that time, when recording starts,
players have to type 'public key' for that week and send zipped AIR file (e.g. manic.zip) within 48 hours.

Standings are updated weekly, every Tuesday.



Point System:

The highest score (the topscorer) in each game gets 100 points. His/Her score is made equivalent to 100%,
meaning that if the topscorer, for example, have a score on 100.000 points and your submitted score is 70.000,
you are awarded a score of 70% equal 70 points. The scores from all your ten games will be added together to get
a total score (which max can be 1000 points), and out of that the standings will be calculated.
Unlike last year, more then one player can get 100 points awarded for a game if we have a tie scores.
Scores will be rounded to 0.1 points (e.g. you'll get 69.9 pts for 69.880 score).

If two or more players have e.g. 530 points, the player with most top scores wins. If they all tops in 2 games, the
player with most 2nd places wins, and so on.



What do I need to take part?

You need the newest version of Real Spectrum to make recordings, and you need to download the help files package and
all the Z80 files on the Download (not elected yet) page.



What do I do with my AIR recordings?

Send your AIR file to me, attached to an E-mail. Remember to use the cut and paste upload.txt file in your E-mail. You can find that txt file in the help files packages on the download page.

E-Mail:  aleksandar.lukic@ev.co.yu

IMPORTANT: Always keep a backup of your recordings, old and new scores. Tour's judges will do their best to verify player's scores ASAP, but... the whole thing is volunteer and 'real life' is...
 



Recordings (AIR files) will be checked and judges by:

Michael Bruhn (frankie@image.dk)
Ivan Ruiz Etxabe (jaivan@navegalia.com )
Aleksandar Lukic (aleksandar.lukic@ev.co.yu )
Digital Experience (digiexp@wanadoo.es)
Jaime Tejedor aka Metalbrain(tour@sevenup.sinfree.net)
Klive (klive@wanadoo.es)



Prizes:

None, you'll have to play for the honour :-)



I still have one or more questions, what do I do?

Well, ask me, by sending me an E-mail, and your question(s) will be included on the Speccy Tour 2002 FAQ
page.



THANK YOU TO:

Michael Bruhn the founder of Speccy Tour, who started the whole thing.

Aley Keprt for making and creating the AIR feature, and for letting Ramsoft use it in Real Spectrum.

Ramsoft for making it as suitable for the Tour as possible, and for being so friendly and helpful during this. And if they fix the 'key stuck' problem till start of ST2002, Speccy community will be over the moon. Thank you anyway ;-)
 

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