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Signups started a few days earlier this year than they have been. We have an insane amount of time before we start actually playing for points.

As always, I have joined the Rooligans. Got another RI frame and...


I don't know how much I'll play after the fiasco of last year. We'll see what I feel up to, I guess.

ETA: Also, apparently Dacardia isn't an option after all (despite all the info that they were supposedly going to be)...but they got a NC item anyway? Really confused by this... (But at the same time, I'm not surprised that they didn't end up with an actual team.)

I know I'm double posting, but I feel this deserves its own post and to not be clumped in with the first post.




ETA Wed May 24, 2023 1:02 pm:

....does this mean all the shadow bans have been removed?!?! I'll be watching for confirmation, but it sure sounds like it.


ETA2:

As of now, the bans are still up. Maybe that'll change before the cup starts?

Interesting. I don't think I'm shadow-banned, but I don't know how you would know. If you were, I guess you would just play for prize points and send minimum scores in all the games, since you don't matter to your team, then.

Thu May 25, 2023 9:47 am :

I was given the impression that some of the team "leads" from last year were given a list of names of those on their team who were banned by the person who identified that there were bans.

I have no idea if I was banned, either. I certainly didn't make it to quad all-star - apparently the majority of those who did were on the ban list, but so were many others. Sigh.

I'm actually hoping they go back to captchas this year. Whatever nonsense they were using last year....I'm starting to get flashes of remembrance of the frustration of my scores not going through for so many of the games...ugh. I'd rather deal with a captcha semi-often than have multiple scores in a row not go through!

Update 5/28: According to our friendly source, the bans are cleared!

I too went Roo. Easier than making new signatures

ETA: Tempted to buy the Roo Popcorn in the NC Mall. After the recent(?) NC giveaways, I have a lot of NC to spend.

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Anyways, just wanted to share. Last day of sign-ups is today, AC starts tomorrow!

I wish it were half (and a quarter for SlSl). 25% doesn't actually make even numbers, so I wonder what the new caps will be. Hopefully they round down for the total number needed -- and adjust the number of games needed for ranking accordingly, too!

EDIT: PLEASE BE CAREFUL AND CHECK THE BOARDS BEFORE PLAYING! One or more of the games are counting for plays but NOT for rank points (and it's different for everyone). So please check after every game that your work is counting.

Also, AS has been reduced to 6600 rank points (if you can earn them).

I'm focusing on dailies and other real life stuff so I can game when this stuff is fixed.

Working theory on caps (but not proven due to the current issues):
YYB: 34
SOSD & MSN: 301 (may be 299?)
SS: 65


Regarding the score submission mess:
The current theory on the boards is that somehow last year's numbers are still in the system. So, if you maxed out, for instance, on SOSD, you're already maxed out for it for today and no more scores count. If you played say, 300ish SOSD, you're maxed out already as well, as that's where the new cap would be. But if you only played 50 SOSD, you'd be able to get in like 250ish, as you're under the cap.

If the above theory is correct, I won't be able to play ANY SOSD, since I believe I maxed out every (or nearly every) day last year.

Hopefully TNT will get this fixed sooner than later. I haven't started playing yet, but my kiddos have, and the one that did have an account and played last year is running into trouble with scores not counting. I'm with you, Siniri, dealing with other stuff first, and then I'll revisit this later in the day.

What a mess.

ETA: It might be fixed? I'm giving it some time. The kiddos want to watch HP4 (since LLP just finished reading it this morning) so we'll do that before any of us try again.

I quad maxed one day last year. Can't remember if it was the last day, but most likely, so... I'm definitely waiting until it's fixed!

I think your theory makes a lot of sense because a lot of people seem to have to play their least favorite games.

BLP attempted another YYB game but he's still stuck at the same number of sends...which is now 11 lower than the number of games he's actually played. Sigh. Looks like it's only fixed for some people, but not others. Hopefully TNT gets their act together sooner than later and fixes this.

ETA:
Just now saw this. Kids are off at TKD so I'll have BLP check when he gets back to see if it's working again. Maybe it actually is? Neoboard users are giving mixed reports of it actually being the case, despite being over an hour later now.

What a mess!

For what it's worth, I was in zero danger of being maxed out from last year.

Pickles, it wasn't automatic for some, so they had to send in a ticket to get theirs reset. TNT is handling them as fast as they can.

Like Blue, I'm not at huge risk of hitting the max, except for SOSD.

Sigh. BLP tried again and no such luck. I put in a ticket for him. Here's hoping he gets all the games back that he put in....but I'm not counting on that. Sigh. Poor kiddo. Rough start for him. Younger two had zero issues because they didn't have accounts last year.

Since I waited until later in the day, it would appear that my account got cleared out of the potential issue before I started playing. One time I'm glad I didn't try to get stuff done earlier in the day.

Yeah, my account seems to be okay, too. I surpassed where I should have been blocked in SOSD. I think this is the most I've done in a Cup on Day 1; somehow, the caps being lower has made me more enthusiastic.

From what I've heard, the games that you played beyond the max weren't really captured, so they were wasted. If your scores were cleared early enough in the day, you could go ahead and redo them (I know someone who ended up having to redo 23 YYB games because they're in Europe and rushed to play games before work, and they seemed to be counting).

Hopefully BLP was able to play some of the other games and get some rank scores that way. (Do you know about holding down the right letter in MSN, so you only have to tap the left one? If you alternate fingers as you tap, it's not so terrible. Definitely send minimum scores.)

Hopefully TNT cleared out all the scores for the other days as well while they were at it. This kind of mistake should be embarrassing for their biggest event of the year. Here's hoping it's the worst one this year (I'd say only, but let's not set ourselves up for inevitable disappointment).

Edit: just heard that some people had to clear cache/cookies to get their scores to count again. Just in case it's still an issue tomorrow...

Yeah, I was afraid he'd lose the extra games that didn't show up. One person claimed they got theirs back, but I think it's more that they didn't realize that the side tally no longer updates while you play (like it used to before they updated to the new site format for the AC). I had him do a hard refresh on all the different pages, too, but that didn't make a difference. We'll go to clearing the cache, etc, tomorrow, if there's still an issue.

I did suggest he try some of the others, but I'm not sure how much heart he put into it after losing so many YYB games. I'll recommend the trick for MSN to all my kiddos...and give BLP extra time on the computer tomorrow so he can max out on YYB if he wants. We're not starting school back up until next week, so he's got a little time to recoup the loses from today.

These seem to be the caps (though I'm not sure Slushie Slinger has been confirmed - pretty sure the others have been at this point)

YYB: 35
SOSD & MSN: 301
SS: 65

I expect the inevitable disappointment. This was a really bad start for the year. If it'd started with the cap reductions alone, I'd be a lot more optimistic, but today's scoring mess...yeah, that was totally messed up. And them saying it affected everyone equally...technically it did, but they're not accounting for the fact that those in different time zones missed out on playing if they were affected and went to bed before things were fixed.