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Knights Game History

2006-04-16T22:12:30Z

Mkzelda: /* Team somethingsomething */

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= First Round (seed round) =

We play all teams this round. We'll just have a subsection to note each game and if it's been played yet. Games that haven't been played should be on the [[Knights Game Schedule|schedule]]. If they're not, try to contact a player from the other team to schedule the game.

== Lobster Mafia ==

Best 2 of 3 matches: Knights of Ni win first two matches and the game is decided in their favour.

'''Scores'''
Lobsters Knights
Round 1: 36 106
Round 2: 62 106
Round 3: 48 100

We won all three matches. We let them take an extra player that's not "officially" part of the team to try to even it out. Played all 3 matches even though the game was won at 2, it was fun. :) --[[User:Lucifer|Lucifer]] 01:34, 8 April 2006 (CDT)

[[:Image:lobster.aarec.zip|Game Recording]]

== Team somethingsomething ==

We lost bad. A big thanks to wrtl knob and bigmac for helping us out. bigmac and knob are welcome on our team anytime. (unsure if they want to be affiliated with us though)--[[User:Your mom|Your mom]] 15:49, 16 April 2006 (CDT)

We lost as miserably as the scrimmage.

Things worth noting:
* We had 2 regular Ni players, possibly due to...
* There were some inaccurate time conversions listed here. Mom fixed them just before the match
* Normally my timezone (EDT) is -5gmt but it is now -4? Daylight savings time mixup? Possible contribution to aforementioned time conversions
* All matches were 7v6
* Something Something has fantastic pings (< 75) to our (mostly > 150's)

Round 1 screenshot [http://www.mkzelda.com/downloads/screenshot_3.png here.] | Round 2 screenshot [http://www.mkzelda.com/downloads/screenshot_6.png here.] | My recording is [http://www.mkzelda.com/downloads/ni.vs.somesome.rec.bz2 here.]
-mkzelda (dookatee)

:EDT is always GMT-6. Before daylight saving time you were in EST which is GMT-5. It was probably a bad idea to start the spoon right at the beginning... --[[User:Wrtlprnft|Wrtlprnft]] 16:20, 16 April 2006 (CDT)

Well you learn something every day. I'd always known I was in EST, but I'd never heard of EDT until all this. Now I understand, and hopefully we can make things clearer in the future :)

*Eastarn time is -4 gmt during daylight savings and -5 when daylight savings is not in effect, one of my jobs is to make these calculations every day, for every time zone in the US, Did u not look at the time zone conversion chart we placed on the schedule page? Glad this is only a seed round! You are incorrect in your time zone assumptions above!, So now i ask, why was the game played at the wrong time? Or was the original schedule incorrect on the scheduling page in zulu time, or did someone f'up the conversion. I went back and looked and the coversion is correct now, whoever did it. Cray Supercom--who is upset because was going to play in this game!

As I said before, Mom fixed the times just before the match. Therefore, those who referred to the time zone conversion chart did not see the correct time. You can check the history of the edits. --mkzelda

== fe Clan ==

The fe clan did not show and hence forfeited, Game is counted as win for Knights

== Xzl.Accel Clan ==

n/a

== Anarchic Wanderers ==

I think the best way to describe that game is that it was a battle of attrition. AW had to fight dearly for each gain, but in the end they whould whittle us down each time.

Anjori and Cray were sliding badly, but Manta was actually fine so not sure what was going on there. ??
AW asked Zop to join AW as a temporary player to make it a 5 vs 5 game. His low ping was a definite plus for their team.

'''Scores'''
Knights Anarchic Wanderers
Round 1: 52 108
Round 2: 76 100
Round 3: --- ---

== MBC Clan ==

Best 2 of 3 matches, Knights of Ni win first two matches and the game is called with Ni being the winner.

:Was a fun game, MBC had a good showing and played well --[[User:manta|manta]] 20:44, 7 April 2006 (PDT)

:It went of 4 vs 4 and you won. --[[User:Wrtlprnft|Wrtlprnft]] 22:26, 7 April 2006 (CDT)

'''Scores'''
Knights MBC Clan
Round 1: 100 30
Round 2: 100 34
Round 3: --- ---

== Crazy Tronners ==

Only 2 Knights showed up against at least 8 Crazy Tronners, so we had to forfeit due to lack of players.

Apr 08 01:26:35 <anjori> i'll try and be there, but no guarantees
Apr 08 01:27:39 <Manta> I won't be able to make them all ether but I guess thats why we have 9 people on the team
...
Apr 08 01:43:42 <Lucifer_arma> yeah, tht's why we have 9 people on the team :)

= Playoffs (knockout rounds) =

Well put stuff here as it makes sense to do so.

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Knights Game History

2006-04-16T22:06:50Z

Mkzelda: /* Team somethingsomething */

{{ Template:Knights_of_Ni }}

= First Round (seed round) =

We play all teams this round. We'll just have a subsection to note each game and if it's been played yet. Games that haven't been played should be on the [[Knights Game Schedule|schedule]]. If they're not, try to contact a player from the other team to schedule the game.

== Lobster Mafia ==

Best 2 of 3 matches: Knights of Ni win first two matches and the game is decided in their favour.

'''Scores'''
Lobsters Knights
Round 1: 36 106
Round 2: 62 106
Round 3: 48 100

We won all three matches. We let them take an extra player that's not "officially" part of the team to try to even it out. Played all 3 matches even though the game was won at 2, it was fun. :) --[[User:Lucifer|Lucifer]] 01:34, 8 April 2006 (CDT)

[[:Image:lobster.aarec.zip|Game Recording]]

== Team somethingsomething ==

We lost bad. A big thanks to wrtl knob and bigmac for helping us out. bigmac and knob are welcome on our team anytime. (unsure if they want to be affiliated with us though)--[[User:Your mom|Your mom]] 15:49, 16 April 2006 (CDT)

We lost as miserably as the scrimmage.

Things worth noting:
* We had 2 regular Ni players, possibly due to...
* There were some inaccurate time conversions listed here. Mom fixed them just before the match
* Normally my timezone (EDT) is -5gmt but it is now -4? Daylight savings time mixup? Possible contribution to aforementioned time conversions
* All matches were 7v6
* Something Something has fantastic pings (< 75) to our (mostly > 150's)

Round 1 screenshot [http://www.mkzelda.com/downloads/screenshot_3.png here.] | Round 2 screenshot [http://www.mkzelda.com/downloads/screenshot_6.png here.]
My recording is [http://www.mkzelda.com/downloads/ni.vs.somesome.rec.bz2 here.]
-mkzelda (dookatee)

:EDT is always GMT-6. Before daylight saving time you were in EST which is GMT-5. It was probably a bad idea to start the spoon right at the beginning... --[[User:Wrtlprnft|Wrtlprnft]] 16:20, 16 April 2006 (CDT)

Well you learn something every day. I'd always known I was in EST, but I'd never heard of EDT until all this. Now I understand, and hopefully we can make things clearer in the future :)

*Eastarn time is -4 gmt during daylight savings and -5 when daylight savings is not in effect, one of my jobs is to make these calculations every day, for every time zone in the US, Did u not look at the time zone conversion chart we placed on the schedule page? Glad this is only a seed round! You are incorrect in your time zone assumptions above!, So now i ask, why was the game played at the wrong time? Or was the original schedule incorrect on the scheduling page in zulu time, or did someone f'up the conversion. I went back and looked and the coversion is correct now, whoever did it. Cray Supercom--who is upset because was going to play in this game!

As I said before, Mom fixed the times just before the match. Therefore, those who referred to the time zone conversion chart did not see the correct time. You can check the history of the edits and see for yourself.

== fe Clan ==

The fe clan did not show and hence forfeited, Game is counted as win for Knights

== Xzl.Accel Clan ==

n/a

== Anarchic Wanderers ==

I think the best way to describe that game is that it was a battle of attrition. AW had to fight dearly for each gain, but in the end they whould whittle us down each time.

Anjori and Cray were sliding badly, but Manta was actually fine so not sure what was going on there. ??
AW asked Zop to join AW as a temporary player to make it a 5 vs 5 game. His low ping was a definite plus for their team.

'''Scores'''
Knights Anarchic Wanderers
Round 1: 52 108
Round 2: 76 100
Round 3: --- ---

== MBC Clan ==

Best 2 of 3 matches, Knights of Ni win first two matches and the game is called with Ni being the winner.

:Was a fun game, MBC had a good showing and played well --[[User:manta|manta]] 20:44, 7 April 2006 (PDT)

:It went of 4 vs 4 and you won. --[[User:Wrtlprnft|Wrtlprnft]] 22:26, 7 April 2006 (CDT)

'''Scores'''
Knights MBC Clan
Round 1: 100 30
Round 2: 100 34
Round 3: --- ---

== Crazy Tronners ==

Only 2 Knights showed up against at least 8 Crazy Tronners, so we had to forfeit due to lack of players.

Apr 08 01:26:35 <anjori> i'll try and be there, but no guarantees
Apr 08 01:27:39 <Manta> I won't be able to make them all ether but I guess thats why we have 9 people on the team
...
Apr 08 01:43:42 <Lucifer_arma> yeah, tht's why we have 9 people on the team :)

= Playoffs (knockout rounds) =

Well put stuff here as it makes sense to do so.

{{ Template:Knights_of_Ni }}

Knights Game History

2006-04-16T21:27:47Z

Mkzelda: /* Team somethingsomething */

{{ Template:Knights_of_Ni }}

= First Round (seed round) =

We play all teams this round. We'll just have a subsection to note each game and if it's been played yet. Games that haven't been played should be on the [[Knights Game Schedule|schedule]]. If they're not, try to contact a player from the other team to schedule the game.

== Lobster Mafia ==

Best 2 of 3 matches: Knights of Ni win first two matches and the game is decided in their favour.

'''Scores'''
Lobsters Knights
Round 1: 36 106
Round 2: 62 106
Round 3: 48 100

We won all three matches. We let them take an extra player that's not "officially" part of the team to try to even it out. Played all 3 matches even though the game was won at 2, it was fun. :) --[[User:Lucifer|Lucifer]] 01:34, 8 April 2006 (CDT)

[[:Image:lobster.aarec.zip|Game Recording]]

== Team somethingsomething ==

We lost bad. A big thanks to wrtl knob and bigmac for helping us out. bigmac and knob are welcome on our team anytime. (unsure if they want to be affiliated with us though)--[[User:Your mom|Your mom]] 15:49, 16 April 2006 (CDT)

We lost as miserably as the scrimmage.

Things worth noting:
* We had 2 regular Ni players, possibly due to...
* There were some inaccurate time conversions listed here. Mom fixed them just before the match
* Normally my timezone (EDT) is -5gmt but it is now -6? Daylight savings time mixup? Possible contribution to aforementioned time conversions
* All matches were 7v6
* Something Something has fantastic pings (< 75) to our (mostly > 150's)

Round 1 screenshot [http://www.mkzelda.com/downloads/screenshot_3.png here.] | Round 2 screenshot [http://www.mkzelda.com/downloads/screenshot_6.png here.]
My recording is [http://www.mkzelda.com/downloads/ni.vs.somesome.rec.bz2 here.]
-mkzelda (dookatee)

:EDT is always GMT-6. Before daylight saving time you were in EST which is GMT-5. It was probably a bad idea to start the spoon right at the beginning... --[[User:Wrtlprnft|Wrtlprnft]] 16:20, 16 April 2006 (CDT)

Well you learn something every day. I'd always known I was in EST, but I'd never heard of EDT until all this. Now I understand, and hopefully we can make things clearer in the future :)

== fe Clan ==

The fe clan did not show and hence forfeited, Game is counted as win for Knights

== Xzl.Accel Clan ==

n/a

== Anarchic Wanderers ==

I think the best way to describe that game is that it was a battle of attrition. AW had to fight dearly for each gain, but in the end they whould whittle us down each time.

Anjori and Cray were sliding badly, but Manta was actually fine so not sure what was going on there. ??
AW asked Zop to join AW as a temporary player to make it a 5 vs 5 game. His low ping was a definite plus for their team.

'''Scores'''
Knights Anarchic Wanderers
Round 1: 52 108
Round 2: 76 100
Round 3: --- ---

== MBC Clan ==

Best 2 of 3 matches, Knights of Ni win first two matches and the game is called with Ni being the winner.

:Was a fun game, MBC had a good showing and played well --[[User:manta|manta]] 20:44, 7 April 2006 (PDT)

:It went of 4 vs 4 and you won. --[[User:Wrtlprnft|Wrtlprnft]] 22:26, 7 April 2006 (CDT)

'''Scores'''
Knights MBC Clan
Round 1: 100 30
Round 2: 100 34
Round 3: --- ---

== Crazy Tronners ==

Only 2 Knights showed up against at least 8 Crazy Tronners, so we had to forfeit due to lack of players.

Apr 08 01:26:35 <anjori> i'll try and be there, but no guarantees
Apr 08 01:27:39 <Manta> I won't be able to make them all ether but I guess thats why we have 9 people on the team
...
Apr 08 01:43:42 <Lucifer_arma> yeah, tht's why we have 9 people on the team :)

= Playoffs (knockout rounds) =

Well put stuff here as it makes sense to do so.

{{ Template:Knights_of_Ni }}

Knights Game History

2006-04-16T21:04:13Z

Mkzelda: /* Team somethingsomething */

Knights Game History

2006-04-16T21:02:25Z

Mkzelda: /* Team somethingsomething */

Knights Game Schedule

2006-04-08T08:11:03Z

Mkzelda: /* Can you show up? */

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= Game Schedule =

{|
! Game || Opponent || At a glace || Datetime GMT || Datetime EDT || Datetime CDT || Datetime PDT || Datetime Australia || Datetime Sweden ||
|-
| Scrimmage || Team somethingsomething || Saturday going on Sunday || April 1, 0 GMT || April 1, 7pm || April 1, 6pm || April 1, 4pm PST || April 2, 10am || April 2, 10am ||
|-
| Seed Round || Clan MBC || April 6, Thursday Night - April 7, Friday Morning || April 7, 5 UTC || April 7, 1am || April 7, 12am || April 6, 10pm || April 7, 3pm ||April 7, 7am||
|-
| Seed Round || Lobster Mafia || April 7-8, Friday Night/Saturday Morning || April 8 5:00 UTC || April 8, 1am || April 8, 12am || April 7, 10pm || April 8, 3pm ||April 8, 7am||
|-
| .
| colspan="6" | '''This game isn't happening. They're still figuring out when to play, the entry is left here so we can just change it instead of create a new one when the game does get scheduled, if it gets scheduled.''' '''''Edit: looks like they showed up and we played anyway'''''||
|-
| Seed Round || Anarchic wanderers || April 8-9, Saturday Night/Sunday Morning || April 8 22:00 UTC || April 8, 6pm || April 8, 5pm || April 8, 3pm || April 9, 8am || April 9, 12am (midnight) ||
|-
| Seed Round || Crazy Tronners || April 9-10, Sunday Night/Monday Morning || April 9 22:00 UTC || April 9, 6pm || April 9, 5pm || April 9, 3pm || April 10, 8am || April 10, 12am (midnight) ||
|-
| Seed Round || Team somethingsomething || April 16, Sunday || April 16, 20:00 UTC || April 16, 1pm || April 16, 3pm || April 16, 4pm || April 17, 6am (Sydney) || April 16, 10pm ||
|-
| || ||
|-
|-
| colspan="7" | ''Scrimmage Notes: This is a practice game. Tourney rules will be followed for the most part, but the purpose is to give both teams some practice. So we may play with as many players as show up, rather than the tourney reg 5 players.''
|}

= Practice Schedule =

Tentative practice schedule is two practices a week, try to make at least one of them. Each practice should last about an hour. If you only make one, try to get in an hour of practice on your own some other time during the week. If you can't make either, then try to get 2 hours on your own, obviously. Practice should be with physics settings that are the same as what the tourney plays with.

We should practice these days:
* Saturday
* Wednesday

At this time:
* 5am GMT
* 10pm Pacific
* 12am Central
* 1am Eastern
* 8am Stockholm (and it's Sunday and Thursday for Stockholm)
* 6pm Sydney (and it's Sunday and Thursday for Sydney)

= Can you show up? =
experimental, no is default, please update if you know you can make it, or at least think you can

{|
! Game || Luci || tank || dook || cray || hang || mom_ || anj_ || hank || manta ||
|
|-
|MBC || m || n || n || m || y || m || n || n || y ||
|-
|Lm_ || n || n || y || m || y || m || n || n || y ||
|-
| Aw || n || n || y || y || n || m || n || n || y ||
|-
| CT || n || n || y || y || n || m || n || n || n ||
|-
|??_ || m || n || y || y || y || m || n || n || y ||
|-
| colspan="10" | leave a y for yes, n for no, and m for mabey ||
|-
|}

*games that start on a weeknight at midnightCDT, will be difficult, at the min. i will be late!
if at all possible, please try to make it at 12:30, that way i have a better chance of making it!Cray
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Knights of Ni

2006-03-29T20:52:29Z

Mkzelda:

This is a team put together by Lucifer. Membership is closed except to personal invites from the team. There are other teams that need players and have an open membership thing going, unless you've been personally invited by a member of this team, you should look it over. We don't want to be too greedy. :)

* anjori - Hours often vary, but usually between 10pm-3am PT. Or catch me on IRC (#armagetron on irc.freenode.net) and ask.
* Cray Supercom - Hours vary but usually M-T 10pm-3am CST W-F 12:10am-4am Weekend Free,
* hank - anytime after 10 pm PST. i'll post IM stuff in a bit...
* Lucifer - Hours vary, but weekends from 10pm-3am CST. I'm on irc too, pm me through the forums to give me an IM in case of a match presenting itself.
* Manta (from the team list)
* mkzelda (dookatee) - Often online from 9pm-2am EST (0200-0700 GMT). Unavailable M-F ~4pm-9pm EST (1900-0200 GMT), SAT 9am-5pm (1400-2200 GMT). I'm available on #armagetron on freenode.
* Tank Program aka guru3
* Your_mom (from the team list)
* hang3r - I'm available anytime pretty much, so long as you give me warning.
You can look at the other teams on the [[Team List]]

= The Ongoing Name Thing =

Ok, here are the names so far suggested. Try not to add to the list unless you really hate all the names. Otherwise, please add your signature (using <nowiki>~~~~</nowiki>) next to the names you like. Don't be shy, vote for as many as you'd like.

* Fighting Smegheads
** Votes:
* Knights of Ni
** Votes: <nowiki>Manta</nowiki>
* Brute Squad
** Votes: [[User:Anjori|Anjori]] 11:37, 25 March 2006 (CST)
**--[[User:Your mom|Your mom]] 18:16, 25 March 2006 (CST)
* Electric Mayhem
** Votes: <nowiki>Manta</nowiki>
* Don't Care, i.e. I'll be happy with any of them
** [[User:Lucifer|Lucifer]] 03:44, 25 March 2006(CST)
** [[User:mkzelda|Dookatee (mkzelda)]] 13:26, 25 March 2006(CST)
** [[User:Cray Supercom|Cray Supercom]] 10:48, 26 March 2006(CST)

= IRC Channel - MUST READ =

For our own organizational purposes, I created an irc channel on freenode for us called #armaknights. It probably won't get renamed if we rename the team, I don't know, up to you guys. I put the armabot in there as mod, so register with the bot when you get there so we can leave messages to each other.

Some of us will be lurking there whenever we're around. When it's time to organize games and stuff, we'll need to use it as a staging area for ourselves, and we'll invite other teams to use it for our games.

To join:

* Download an irc client if you don't have one already. The firefox family has one, there's also Konversation if you use KDE, most open source IM programs support irc.
* Set it up to connect to freenode with your preferred nickname.
* irc.freenode.net is the name of the server, if your irc client doesn't already know who freenode is
* Set it up to automatically open #armaknights if you want to lurk there.

Bot commands of importance:

Bot commands all must start with #, like so:

<code>
#armaservers
#news
</code>

Here are commands that are important to us:

#message <person> <your message>
#news
#news <item number>
#armaservers
#teamlist

'''''Note: Teamlist should contain everyone's IRC name so that when there's a game brewing, it can be typed to trigger notifications for teammates that are lurking and get their attention. So before the games start, try to find out what you need to do to receive those notifications (besides lurk, which is obvious).'''''

'''''After the competition starts, make sure you lurk on this channel when you are available to play. Being in this channel doesn't have to mean you're available, but naturally if you're not, nobody expects you to be there. :) But when you are available to play, this is where we'll look. We might look around a bit if we have to to muster up another player, but no promises. The only promise is that notifications will come through this channel.'''''

Periodically, when it makes sense, I'll send announcements. The armabot sits on 3 channels, #armagetron, #armagetronteams, and #armaknights. When there's a game that I know about that's staging, I will probably announce it through the bot, so all channels will get the announcement. Currently, I've seen dookatee, anjori, Your_mom, guru3, Manta, and Cray all in #armagetron. So we still need hank.

== The Purpose of the IRC Channel ==

Sorry if this isn't well organized, but there's been some question what the purpose of this channel is. :) It's not to reform anybody's online habits, that's for sure. In a nutshell, joining this channel means you're ready to play a game. That's not all it's for, but that's a lot of it. The competition itself isn't yet completely organized, when it is I'll be putting more specific instructions here, but the way it's looking right now we're going to have to schedule our own games with the other teams. Then we're going to have to meet somewhere when it's time to play. To coordinate all of our schedules and stuff, we need some non-passive way to communicate. Now, I don't want to collect everyone's telephone numbers and call them (especially inconvenient since at least one of our players is on dialup anyay), but we need something like IM conferences. So we can use IM if that's better for us, but right now we're planning to use IRC.

The armabot is there to allow us to send messages and post passive information. There's a news plugin running so we can post scheduled games when we need to. We'll also have a page here on the wiki for scheduled games, and I'll probably make it in a few days. You should all subscribe to the wiki page when it's made. But that's a side point. The main point is that when the games are scheduled, which will hopefully be at least 3-4 days in advance of when we're supposed to play them, there will be a news item that appears in the channel. You'll type #news to see it.

Starting about half an hour before game time, teammates who intend to play in that game should arrive in the channel. I'm hoping that "game time" will be a range, like 2-3 hours, instead of a specific time, but that will depend a lot on what the other teams think. I know from experience that even with a hard-coded game time we should expect to wait 30-45 minutes after that time to have enough players, it's just the way these things work. To eliminate that problem as much as possible, we should each plan to be in the irc channel at least half an hour before game time. If the arrangements with the other team involve any additional steps, we'll take them, but for our own purposes, we'll always plan to meet in the channel first.

In the channel we'll work out our lineup, provided the tourney game rules allow us to spend some time setting up. We'll work out what order we'll join the server so that everyone arrives in the position they should be in, how we'll handle moving around in the lineup so that we don't have to play any rounds short a player, that sort of thing. We'll settle who will start as goalie and who will start as center, who will make break calls if we use them. This is all stuff we want to work out away from the other team if possible.

Now, when it's time to take a break (my last post tried to push rules that included a 10 minute break between matches in a best 2 of 3 game), we can huddle in the channel and talk tactics and stuff. Any changes to the lineup can be made there, and for those of us who don't have any problems running irc client and the game, we can use it to deal with the fact that spectators can't chat, in the case that we have alternates waiting on the sidelines.

So what kind of commitment to irc do you need to make? Very little. Try to install an irc client, join the channel, and get some familiarity with a few commands with armabot. When it's time to meet for the game, join the channel. If you have problems running an irc client while playing the game, then by all means turn the sucker off when it's time to join the game! If you're going to start as an alternate, keep it on so you can chat with us if need be. Remember, though, that a lot of us play fullscreen and won't see what you're saying. If you don't have these problems, then you should stay in the channel until the game is over. Maybe we'll have some post-game discussion afterwards, and if you quit your client to play the game, you should rejoin the channel.

Since we're going to hang so much important communication on the irc channel, you should make sure you familiarize yourself with it a bit before the games start. Currently I'm expecting them to start on April 1. So make sure you've identified with freenode if you want (required for /msg to work for you), make sure you can send and receive messages from armabot, and that you can check the news. It's neat if you learn more about the bot, it's got some useful plugins loaded (and some fun stuff). Also, visit the #armagetron channel, make sure you know about the #armagetronteams channel.

We should generally try to get other teams to meet us in #armagetronteams. If they don't want to use IRC for some reason (a possibility), then we'll work something out. Otherwise we'll try to get them into #armagetronteams. If all else fails, we'll offer our own channel for all players to meet in. We might start a side channel to have our own conference before the game.

= During Play -- Who's in charge? =

I don't really know the answer. You all know I have a tendency to take charge, but you also know that we have a good team assembled. If there's any question, and I'm there, I'll probably take charge to settle it. So when we have our pregame conference and setup the line, I'll probably ask everyone what they want to do and then dictate a lineup and say "Any objections to this?" It should be fairly simple. During the game, you should make sure you tell the team what's going on, like if you suddenly have to go run out to the yard to get your kid, a simple "afk" will suffice so we know to deal with it. That stuff you already know.

But who decides when an alternate comes in? Without knowing how it will go, I suspect tht we'll only pull in alternates between matches, and except for the center player, we won't need to change the lineup much, if any, during a match. In that case, I'll probably make the call if nobody else does. I'd rather folks volunteered to be relieved by an alternate, but if nobody volunteers and it needs to be done, I'll say something.

If I miss the game for some reason, then y'all should probably designate someone as being in charge under the same kind of loose structure. You know, not dictatorial, but enough so that decisions can be made quickly. I don't need to remind any of you that on the grid there's no time to discuss this with the committee. :)

Knights of Ni

2006-03-29T19:16:22Z

Mkzelda:

This is a team put together by Lucifer. Membership is closed except to personal invites from the team. There are other teams that need players and have an open membership thing going, unless you've been personally invited by a member of this team, you should look it over. We don't want to be too greedy. :)

* anjori - Hours often vary, but usually between 10pm-3am PT. Or catch me on IRC (#armagetron on irc.freenode.net) and ask.
* Cray Supercom - Hours vary but usually M-T 10pm-3am CST W-F 12:10am-4am Weekend Free,
* hank - anytime after 10 pm PST. i'll post IM stuff in a bit...
* Lucifer - Hours vary, but weekends from 10pm-3am CST. I'm on irc too, pm me through the forums to give me an IM in case of a match presenting itself.
* Manta (from the team list)
* mkzelda (dookatee) - Often online from 9pm-2am EST (0200-0700 GMT). Unavailable most weekdays 4pm-9pm EST (1900-0200 GMT). I'm available on #armagetron on freenode.
* Tank Program aka guru3
* Your_mom (from the team list)

You can look at the other teams on the [[Team List]]

= The Ongoing Name Thing =

Ok, here are the names so far suggested. Try not to add to the list unless you really hate all the names. Otherwise, please add your signature (using <nowiki>~~~~</nowiki>) next to the names you like. Don't be shy, vote for as many as you'd like.

* Fighting Smegheads
** Votes:
* Knights of Ni
** Votes: <nowiki>Manta</nowiki>
* Brute Squad
** Votes: [[User:Anjori|Anjori]] 11:37, 25 March 2006 (CST)
**--[[User:Your mom|Your mom]] 18:16, 25 March 2006 (CST)
* Electric Mayhem
** Votes: <nowiki>Manta</nowiki>
* Don't Care, i.e. I'll be happy with any of them
** [[User:Lucifer|Lucifer]] 03:44, 25 March 2006(CST)
** [[User:mkzelda|Dookatee (mkzelda)]] 13:26, 25 March 2006(CST)
** [[User:Cray Supercom|Cray Supercom]] 10:48, 26 March 2006(CST)

= IRC Channel - MUST READ =

For our own organizational purposes, I created an irc channel on freenode for us called #armaknights. It probably won't get renamed if we rename the team, I don't know, up to you guys. I put the armabot in there as mod, so register with the bot when you get there so we can leave messages to each other.

Some of us will be lurking there whenever we're around. When it's time to organize games and stuff, we'll need to use it as a staging area for ourselves, and we'll invite other teams to use it for our games.

To join:

* Download an irc client if you don't have one already. The firefox family has one, there's also Konversation if you use KDE, most open source IM programs support irc.
* Set it up to connect to freenode with your preferred nickname.
* irc.freenode.net is the name of the server, if your irc client doesn't already know who freenode is
* Set it up to automatically open #armaknights if you want to lurk there.

Bot commands of importance:

Bot commands all must start with #, like so:

<code>
#armaservers
#news
</code>

Here are commands that are important to us:

#message <person> <your message>
#news
#news <item number>
#armaservers
#teamlist

'''''Note: Teamlist should contain everyone's IRC name so that when there's a game brewing, it can be typed to trigger notifications for teammates that are lurking and get their attention. So before the games start, try to find out what you need to do to receive those notifications (besides lurk, which is obvious).'''''

'''''After the competition starts, make sure you lurk on this channel when you are available to play. Being in this channel doesn't have to mean you're available, but naturally if you're not, nobody expects you to be there. :) But when you are available to play, this is where we'll look. We might look around a bit if we have to to muster up another player, but no promises. The only promise is that notifications will come through this channel.'''''

Periodically, when it makes sense, I'll send announcements. The armabot sits on 3 channels, #armagetron, #armagetronteams, and #armaknights. When there's a game that I know about that's staging, I will probably announce it through the bot, so all channels will get the announcement. Currently, I've seen dookatee, anjori, Your_mom, guru3, Manta, and Cray all in #armagetron. So we still need hank.

== The Purpose of the IRC Channel ==

Sorry if this isn't well organized, but there's been some question what the purpose of this channel is. :) It's not to reform anybody's online habits, that's for sure. In a nutshell, joining this channel means you're ready to play a game. That's not all it's for, but that's a lot of it. The competition itself isn't yet completely organized, when it is I'll be putting more specific instructions here, but the way it's looking right now we're going to have to schedule our own games with the other teams. Then we're going to have to meet somewhere when it's time to play. To coordinate all of our schedules and stuff, we need some non-passive way to communicate. Now, I don't want to collect everyone's telephone numbers and call them (especially inconvenient since at least one of our players is on dialup anyay), but we need something like IM conferences. So we can use IM if that's better for us, but right now we're planning to use IRC.

The armabot is there to allow us to send messages and post passive information. There's a news plugin running so we can post scheduled games when we need to. We'll also have a page here on the wiki for scheduled games, and I'll probably make it in a few days. You should all subscribe to the wiki page when it's made. But that's a side point. The main point is that when the games are scheduled, which will hopefully be at least 3-4 days in advance of when we're supposed to play them, there will be a news item that appears in the channel. You'll type #news to see it.

Starting about half an hour before game time, teammates who intend to play in that game should arrive in the channel. I'm hoping that "game time" will be a range, like 2-3 hours, instead of a specific time, but that will depend a lot on what the other teams think. I know from experience that even with a hard-coded game time we should expect to wait 30-45 minutes after that time to have enough players, it's just the way these things work. To eliminate that problem as much as possible, we should each plan to be in the irc channel at least half an hour before game time. If the arrangements with the other team involve any additional steps, we'll take them, but for our own purposes, we'll always plan to meet in the channel first.

In the channel we'll work out our lineup, provided the tourney game rules allow us to spend some time setting up. We'll work out what order we'll join the server so that everyone arrives in the position they should be in, how we'll handle moving around in the lineup so that we don't have to play any rounds short a player, that sort of thing. We'll settle who will start as goalie and who will start as center, who will make break calls if we use them. This is all stuff we want to work out away from the other team if possible.

Now, when it's time to take a break (my last post tried to push rules that included a 10 minute break between matches in a best 2 of 3 game), we can huddle in the channel and talk tactics and stuff. Any changes to the lineup can be made there, and for those of us who don't have any problems running irc client and the game, we can use it to deal with the fact that spectators can't chat, in the case that we have alternates waiting on the sidelines.

So what kind of commitment to irc do you need to make? Very little. Try to install an irc client, join the channel, and get some familiarity with a few commands with armabot. When it's time to meet for the game, join the channel. If you have problems running an irc client while playing the game, then by all means turn the sucker off when it's time to join the game! If you're going to start as an alternate, keep it on so you can chat with us if need be. Remember, though, that a lot of us play fullscreen and won't see what you're saying. If you don't have these problems, then you should stay in the channel until the game is over. Maybe we'll have some post-game discussion afterwards, and if you quit your client to play the game, you should rejoin the channel.

Since we're going to hang so much important communication on the irc channel, you should make sure you familiarize yourself with it a bit before the games start. Currently I'm expecting them to start on April 1. So make sure you've identified with freenode if you want (required for /msg to work for you), make sure you can send and receive messages from armabot, and that you can check the news. It's neat if you learn more about the bot, it's got some useful plugins loaded (and some fun stuff). Also, visit the #armagetron channel, make sure you know about the #armagetronteams channel.

We should generally try to get other teams to meet us in #armagetronteams. If they don't want to use IRC for some reason (a possibility), then we'll work something out. Otherwise we'll try to get them into #armagetronteams. If all else fails, we'll offer our own channel for all players to meet in. We might start a side channel to have our own conference before the game.

= During Play -- Who's in charge? =

I don't really know the answer. You all know I have a tendency to take charge, but you also know that we have a good team assembled. If there's any question, and I'm there, I'll probably take charge to settle it. So when we have our pregame conference and setup the line, I'll probably ask everyone what they want to do and then dictate a lineup and say "Any objections to this?" It should be fairly simple. During the game, you should make sure you tell the team what's going on, like if you suddenly have to go run out to the yard to get your kid, a simple "afk" will suffice so we know to deal with it. That stuff you already know.

But who decides when an alternate comes in? Without knowing how it will go, I suspect tht we'll only pull in alternates between matches, and except for the center player, we won't need to change the lineup much, if any, during a match. In that case, I'll probably make the call if nobody else does. I'd rather folks volunteered to be relieved by an alternate, but if nobody volunteers and it needs to be done, I'll say something.

If I miss the game for some reason, then y'all should probably designate someone as being in charge under the same kind of loose structure. You know, not dictatorial, but enough so that decisions can be made quickly. I don't need to remind any of you that on the grid there's no time to discuss this with the committee. :)

User:Mkzelda

2006-03-25T18:27:17Z

Mkzelda:

If you can read this, your breath stinks.

Knights of Ni

2006-03-25T18:26:43Z

Mkzelda: /* The Ongoing Name Thing */

Knights of Ni

2006-03-21T04:40:08Z

Mkzelda:

This is a team put together by Lucifer, which is probably why it only has one member. If you're interested in playing on a team with Lucifer in the tron competition stuff, please put your name down here and what hours you'll be available. Put your time zone too, of course.

* anjori - Hours often vary, but usually between 10pm-3am PT. Or catch me on IRC (#armagetron on irc.freenode.net) and ask.
* Lucifer - Hours vary, but weekends from 10pm-3am CST. I'm on irc too, pm me through the forums to give me an IM in case of a match presenting itself.
* mkzelda (dookatee) - Never on any consistent schedule. Most often on from 9pm-2am EST. I'm available on #armagetron on freenode.

Knights of Ni

2006-03-21T04:37:15Z

Mkzelda:

This is a team put together by Lucifer, which is probably why it only has one member. If you're interested in playing on a team with Lucifer in the tron competition stuff, please put your name down here and what hours you'll be available. Put your time zone too, of course.

* anjori - Hours often vary, but usually between 10pm-3am PT. Or catch me on IRC (#armagetron on irc.freenode.net) and ask.
* Lucifer - Hours vary, but weekends from 10pm-3am CST. I'm on irc too, pm me through the forums to give me an IM in case of a match presenting itself.
* mkzelda - Never on any consistent schedule. Most often on from 9pm-2am EST. I'm available on #armagetron on freenode.