15 game marathon

[AniMeowzerz]

Well to be honest with you, I believe someone should only be a commentator if they're a backup runner or know nearly everything about the game exclusively. Cause the most questions are going to be asked about "WTF just happened?" And someone's gotta be there to back it up. I don't know about your knowledge of any of the zelda games, but...

and Shift times, it's kind of hard to say since we don't even have set-in-stone plans or a time roster of any sort. In general, if you can commentate on a game in the daytime, take it. if it's too inconvenient for you, don't do it. Simple enough.

Anyways, with the way things are going for me, I might even be able to backup MM. We'll have to see how well things go but if I get decent enough, I'd be allover that

REPLY since I dont want to make another post in this thread:

I see...   

That's not to say you can't learn stuff before the next marathon, you know

[BlueStarReturns]

I see...   

[Slowking]

Well to be honest with you, I believe someone should only be a commentator if they're a backup runner or know nearly everything about the game exclusively. Cause the most questions are going to be asked about "WTF just happened?" And someone's gotta be there to back it up. I don't know about your knowledge of any of the zelda games, but...

Uh I would love to comment on MM. I'm not good enough to backup run it but I know basically everything about that game. ^^

[BlueStarReturns]

Well to be honest with you, I believe someone should only be a commentator if they're a backup runner or know nearly everything about the game exclusively. Cause the most questions are going to be asked about "WTF just happened?" And someone's gotta be there to back it up. I don't know about your knowledge of any of the zelda games, but...

See, Ani, I am just like Slowking, but with OoT instead of MM. I'm not good enough to backup run it, but I know what's going on when I see it. Having seen the any% run done enough times (which I assume is what would be done for the marathon), I have picked up on what's being done and how it's done.

I feel the same way as Slowking. If you at least know what's going on in the run, you should be able to commentate. The skill has nothing to do with it, in my opinion. If I were asking a question in the chat, it wouldn't matter to me if the chat commentator had the skills to back it up or not. As long as they know what's going on in the run, I'd accept their input.

Please don't be mad at me for saying this. I just needed to get my opinions out there on the table.

To be honest, whatever's decided will be fine with me. If I don't get to commentate, that's fine. I'll still support the marathons and will participate in the chat. But, I do think that Slowking and I have raised a point...

I think this is something that should be discussed more, but by those who are in charge of planning the marathons.

[Lexkeeta]

Uh... commentating is probably the least of our concerns; it's going to be a hell of a lot harder to get runners for all the games and making sure they all show up.

Besides, I don't really see the point... I mean, who wants to watch a run where a guy's saying "Well he's running now. He has to talk to the cucco lady. He got cojiro! Now he's going to RBA again for a bomb bag and quiver. RBA is..."?

[Slowking]

Well I think the commentators aren't a bad idea. If we are going to promote the marathon all over the place there are bound to be a lot of questions. So somebody who can answer them would be a good idea... and ofcourse somebody who can yell STFU up when somebody calls "cheater". Ofcourse we would need to device a way in wich we still have the runner and the game audio in there so that the runner can also comment...

But in general: Come on people!

We don't have anything as of yet.

First of all we need a fixed date to start planing. I still vote sometime in spring break.

Then we need a ruling on how LA and ALTTP will be played. With warp glitches or without? That will determine who can run them and how long it takes.
Let's get to work!

[SD2]

Spring break sounds good, but that's different for different people.

I'm just going out on a loop here, but why not do both runs for LA and ALttP?  Both are no longer than 10 minutes when you include credits (shortened version), so if the respective runners are willing to do both, then do them both.  Obviously, we shouldn't force the issue, and can always do the other one at the end with an entirely different runner if need be.

Might as well say my Spring break is from the 15th of March to the 19th of March.

[Slowking]

Hmm didn't know spring break is differnet. Your school system is so confusing...

Well I would argue that we should get the best time for the marathon to promote for future marathons or to promote with during the marathon.
So if LA and ALTTP were to played in full it should be after the marathon as a bonus. Likewise the OoT MST run.

[ZFG]

I think sometime during summer would be best.  I know its far away but I think we should try to get pages up for every,  or almost every game so if people want to know how to do a trick we can just link them to the site.

[Slowking]

We won't have those pages anyway. Or are you going to make them? :p And isn't that what the comentator is for?

[BlueStarReturns]

Well, I have to agree with ZFG on the choice of summer as when the marathon. Personally, as I'm not even in school, I could do it any time, but I realize fully that this is not the case for many of the members and runners here.

But, I also agree with Slowking and wonder: If we just link the people with questions to the site, is there any other reason to have chat commentators? There might be other stuff in the chat that may not pertain to the run but that people might just want explained.

Of course, what's decided is decided. As I've said before, I'll still participate in the marathon's chat regardless of whether we have commentators or not.

So, my vote for the date is sometime in the summer.

[SD2]

May point out that the chart went down with the site, the page no longer exists.  This is, of course, not true if Cosmo backed it up somewhere.

[Blizzerk]

I believe I have a full backup of /junk/, but until #zelda believes that I didn't hack ZSR I can't do anything really...

[MarcusSDA]

Should all of them be SS runs? If so, I can't do one. But if it's segmented, I'm working an Any% WW run.

[Tompa]

Marathons are obviously SS runs, that's the main idea of the marathon.
I wonder if I shall rechange some of the LA/OoS/OoA routes to the marathon, as none of them are perfect enough for my test.