Zombie Playoffs - Who Is Really The World's Best Player

[jokrAzrael]

Imagine a contest to prove who is the best? Leaderboards?

We don't need no stinking leaderboards. Well, actually we would need them. How to organize a contest that would pit players against each other. Some way of seeding this so the top leaderboard players would fight it out. In the cage.

Ideas & Possible Rules

1. 64 * 64 = 4096 of the top leaderboard players - 2 player as this will be head to head (round robin style?)

2. Die Rise - new map - lots of room

3. Nerf the goo gun or fix it so no escalator issues

4. Winner posts the latest round played - if tied then points wins

5. Possibly team based tournament also - brings revives into it? (or give 3 Revives for Solo game)

6. Maybe nerf all the God guns depending on map

7. A tournament for all the maps

8. No trolling? Allow trolling? Judging committee?

9. Any way to use stats other than leaderboards for rounds played to choose players.

10. Matches would have to be played fast. Meaning you would have to play your next match quick. Time limits to play.

Any ideas? Good idea? Some basic rules we could agree on that could build into something tempting?

[way2g00d]

It is good to see you and your creative ideas flowing. Generally this subject of "Best Player" gets off tracked and misunderstood very soon and so some people in the forum often ignore this but you came up with some good points.

I will help you with this and let me know if you need any support by PM'ing me.

Welcome back Azrael.

[Caddyman]

I think it is a great idea, you will need a good way to track it, possibly a separate website. There are other zombies ranking sites now but they lack some features I think you would need.

As a web designer, if this thing grows legs i would offer my services free of charge.

Judges, heck yeah you will need judges. I have seen where someone isn't able to upload a whole 50 round game so a thrid party, person, picks 3 or 4 rounds at random for the person to upload, im sure there are other way to validate proper games but a metric like this would need put in place.

[jokrAzrael]

Thank you both for your comments. This thread started from the galva discussion. Trying to find some way to offer a possible competition. Or at the least to have us talking about it and see if, as a group, we could agree on a set of rules that seemed fair.

I feel firmly that we need to consider Team play as much as a Solo idea. The basis of zombies has always seemed to me to be a team game. Sometimes the team was the ideas and options brought about on this site. But I just finished playing a bunch of fun games with some Randoms that are now on my friends list. Team building has to always be an important part of the game. Sometimes it really does not work. And sometimes you meet cool new people.

And anyone wishing to help in any way will be able to help. The team starts here.