15 game marathon

[SD2]

12am(morning) to 11 pm. PST

We'd lose an entire day of primetime watching, I can't do that.

[BlueStarReturns]

We'd lose an entire day of primetime watching, I can't do that.

Makes sense. As said by others as well, the schedule looks fine and it probably shouldn't be changed.

[bluephantom340]

Well then. Let's keep the V2 schedule.

[BlueStarReturns]

Sorry to bring this up again, but I haven't received a definitive answer yet:

I'd like to be a chat mod for the marathon (the internet's up and working and I'll be getting my own soon anyway) and I don't know what's required to do so. Do I just show up in the IRC during the marathon or how are we going to do this? I just know I'll be bored if I can't help with the marathon in some way (I may not be able to donate due to limited income.).

Thanks for any answers!

[AniMeowzerz]

What's your ustream name, I'll add you to the permamod list

[Blizzerk]

Haha sorry BSR, I just gave everyone who was running permamod on /channel/zsr-marathon... You weren't online when I scanned the channel for familiar faces


Also, my question from my post on the last page still stands.

[BlueStarReturns]

What's your ustream name, I'll add you to the permamod list

BlueStar81089.

But if Blizz is being serious, I guess it's too late. Guess there's no point in me watching now  

EDIT: I misunderstood Blizz's post. I thought he was saying that I couldn't be a mod when he was only saying that he didn't see me when he first assigned the mods to the channel.

Thanks for adding me, Ani!

Also, what will our chat rules be? We should discuss these so that we're not kicking people just because we feel like it.

Here's the rules that the Speed Gamers here as an example but we can change something if we're okay with it:

- Do not post the same thing repeatedly
- Do not type in all Caps
-Do not make very long posts
-Do not swear
-Be respectful
- Never give out or ask for any personal information

[darkeye14]

I'd definitely like being a mod for the chat. My Ustream name is the same name that I use on the forums.

Do not swear

This may be unnecessary with Ustream's auto-censor, unless we'd want to ban all forms of cursing outright. I'd be fine with that decision, but the commentators would have to live up to that same ruling if we banned all swearing.

[BlueStarReturns]

I say we just try to make it kid-friendly for the charity's sake. Acting mature, at least in terms of language, seems to work well for The Speed Gamers, plus it helps bring in donations. People aren't going to want to donate if they see people cussing like sailors.

I ,personally, swear like this in offline life, but when it comes down to what we're doing this for (the charity), it's probably best to talk normally. We can express ourselves differently. God, I feel sappy after saying that, but I'm sure most will agree.

Also, I posted this on the SDA topic that SD2 made, but I'll ask it here, too:

I notice that the games each have their own time slot. My question deals with completing each game before the time slot is up. Are we going to be strict with the schedule or are we just going to play it by ear? If a game is not completed before the next game is scheduled to start, I think we should put the previous game on hold and start the next one. This could work as long as we don't have this happen for each game.

I ultimately think that the runners will do fine getting the games done on time, but we should make a backup plan, just in case.

[Slowking]

- Pick a charity

I thought we had decided on childsplay....

[Slowking]

MARATHON SCHEDULE
V0.2

**starts Fri at 9PM EST
9:00PM - 10:45PM LTTP
10:45PM - 3:45AM ORACLES
---------------
3:45AM - 7:45AM PH
7:45AM - 2:35PM ST
2:35PM - 7:20PM TP
7:20PM - 8:20PM LOZ
8:20PM - 10:30PM MM
10:30PM - 12:10AM LA
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12:10AM - 1:20AM AOL
1:20AM - 1:50AM FS
1:50AM - 5:20AM FSA
5:20AM - 7:45AM TMC
7:45AM - 3:15PM WW
3:15PM - 4:35PM OOT
4:35PM - 9:00PM races

**all times are EST

I thought we intended to start on a friday so peoplecan find us at work.Nobody is going to work at 9PM. It's the worst slot to start a marathon on, imo. It's called deathslot for TV shows for a reason.

And I still think we should play LA and ALttP with warpglitches.We want a great time to attractmore viewers. We can play them in full after the main marathon is through.

I notice that the games each have their own time slot. My question deals with completing each game before the time slot is up. Are we going to be strict with the schedule or are we just going to play it by ear? If a game is not completed before the next game is scheduled to start, I think we should put the previous game on hold and start the next one. This could work as long as we don't have this happen for each game.

I ultimately think that the runners will do fine getting the games done on time, but we should make a backup plan, just in case.

That's not how marathon works. In a marathon one game should be played after the other. The shedule is just a guideline. So if we are 3 hours in front of the shedule on day 3 that's just the way it is... we could slide games around to keep more popular games in arimetime slotbut that's about it.

[BlueStarReturns]

MARATHON SCHEDULE
V0.2

**starts Fri at 9PM EST
9:00PM - 10:45PM LTTP
10:45PM - 3:45AM ORACLES
---------------
3:45AM - 7:45AM PH
7:45AM - 2:35PM ST
2:35PM - 7:20PM TP
7:20PM - 8:20PM LOZ
8:20PM - 10:30PM MM
10:30PM - 12:10AM LA
---------------
12:10AM - 1:20AM AOL
1:20AM - 1:50AM FS
1:50AM - 5:20AM FSA
5:20AM - 7:45AM TMC
7:45AM - 3:15PM WW
3:15PM - 4:35PM OOT
4:35PM - 9:00PM races

**all times are EST

Central time would be one hour behind this, right? I'm just asking because I'm in Central time and I want to make sure I start watching at the right time. Anybody who's also in Central time or who knows the time difference, please answer.

Thanks!

[aleckermit]

Central time would be one hour behind this, right? I'm just asking because I'm in Central time and I want to make sure I start watching at the right time. Anybody who's also in Central time or who knows the time difference, please answer.

Thanks!

I'm Central Time. 4:00pm EST = 3:00pm CST.

[SD2]

Slowi:

We can't start the marathon any earlier, or we put Ocarina of Time in a terrible timeslot.  And I don't know about you, but I'd prefer to go out with a bang instead of with some game that nobody wants to watch.  We could start later, but we go too late and we lose viewers in EST and AST timezones.

I know Tompa plans on doing both a glitched run and a regular run with his aLttP timeslot (if he still runs them), but LA is so damn luckbased it'll be pretty much impossible to do a decent run.  You go a frame late on one screenwarp and you're done, simple as that.  I could do attempts after the marathon, but it'll likely take well over an hour to pull out a completed run, let alone a good one.

Just FYI: my testrun for the LA screenwarping run took over 100 attempts to finish because I would die to the boss, get stuck trying to screenwarp, or messing up some other screenwarp, causing the final boss to not play the way I want it to.

[BlueStarReturns]

That's not how marathon works. In a marathon one game should be played after the other. The shedule is just a guideline. So if we are 3 hours in front of the shedule on day 3 that's just the way it is... we could slide games around to keep more popular games in arimetime slotbut that's about it.

Slowi:

In the first place, I wasn't talking about being ahead of schedule. I was talking about being behind schedule. If one game is taking too long to finish due to problems outside our control (stream going out, connections dropping, etc), we'll never get to the next game. We have to stay on time or else we won't make our 48-hour goal. Not to be rude, but I really wish you would've read what I wrote more carefully.

Of course, if we finish a game early, then we move on. It's a good thing if that happens. I'm just saying that we should allow for inconveniences that might happen.