Altador Cup 2011 (AC6) - The Games have begun!

[Blue]

It's that time again... The 2011 is here!





Currently in the game playing stage... Pick your team and PLAY!! http://www.neopets.com/altador/colosseum/


Games are underway!

[Siniri]

Woohoo! Real play starts tomorrow. Rooligans FTW!

Actually, I kind of hate the AC. But I shall play, as much as I can make myself, because I like prizes.

[Daze]

Really, really hate the auto-select for players and the key only controls......I have no co-ordination and with the auto-select, I am always running in the opposite direction when the nearest player is selected.

I can see no reason why TNT changed the game play to such a awful setup. I definitely wont be playing too many games this year.

Team Virtupets ! (can't stop the pattern of picking a different team each year).

[lemonade]

TNT have ruined the altador cup. I can't see many people reaching those top trophies this year unless they lower the boundaries. I hope they change it soonish.

[shapu]

Good heavens, I hate the new format. Hatehatehatehatehate.




hate.

[Daze]

Sigh! and the glitches keep on rolling in.

First up the side games don't update correctly until you go to the main game page, now the Standings page isn't tabulating properly.

The results show up on the properly on the Schedule/Results page, but on the Standings page and the Home page it doesn't.

Blah to TNT! Ruins a good game and then completely breaks the coding in the process.


....aaaannnnddd another thing...... TNT have "tweaked the game" (and we've tweaked the AI a bit to help with the player switching and speedy opponents.) So now it is impossible to steal the ball from the goalie and smack it into goal. (Which was the only way I was winning games).

TNT you are disappoint.


EDIT: TNT have finally fixed the Standings.


On a brighter note:

Free item:

Code: Yooyuball2011

Grundo Warehouse:
http://www.neopets.com/space/warehouse/prizecodes.phtml

[lemonade]

At least they haven't changed shootout showdown. I can still pump out over 200 games of that per day, so very easy.

[Siniri]

I think I may actually like the new YYB better. There's more skill involved than Pacman-style memorization of patterns. I think there are still a few glitches to work out, but the player switching is not quite as bad now.

Of course, there's still the sheer monotony of it, which I don't think they'll ever fix. I was hoping they'd have the challenges like they did last year, because they gave me mini-goals to work towards. I'm not going to try very hard this time; I spent a ton of time for less than 10k worth of prize points last year. I could have earned the NP to buy everything I wanted in less than half that time.

[Daze]

I still hate this YYB with a passion, but at least I have the hang of it and have now leveled to Rank 3.

[Blue]

I agree with you, Daze. I really do not like this new version of YYB.

[Jacob]

Kreludor for the win! We haven't lost a Yooyuball game yet! Tied with Virtupets at this point, so it's looking like Space is the Place.

[Daze]

The Altador Cup Staff Tournament is now open for voting! Build your very own Yooyuball "dream team" with your favourite Neopets staff members! Based on how well your team does each week, you will earn points to redeem prizes at the end!

[lemonade]

Lost desert are doing terrible this year. It's all those glory supporters weighing us down.

[domo_hello_kitty]

Does the Cup end at the end of the month? I can't do anything at the moment; darn school...

[Siniri]

It goes a bit into July, I think. You should at least sign up for a team, play a game (any game, maybe SoSd?), and enter the staff tourney.

Results from Round 1 of the Staff Tourney are up; Jelly Neo has a nice summary of the scores. If you want to pick the top scorers for Round 2, they'd be Jimmy James, Night Owl*, Breik, Mr. Insane*, and Snarkie*. *'ed players had close competitors (Comastar, Bancha Ninja, and Socktastic, respectively), but the rest of the field seemed comparatively weak. That's assuming their scores were based solely on their performance, and not weighted by how many people picked them. I've never played fantasy sports before, so I'm just assuming here.