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tastyspleen.net / TS500 2021 Edition

« on: July 19, 2021, 10:02:18 AM »

I didn't want to let this sit too long, considering that a TS500 was already tentatively being planned for around this time. This one has always been one of the best expressions of this community, and a good chance to say hi to people who don't check in too often. This is just one of the many ways I want to celebrate the memory of quadz.

That said, I'm wondering if we can currently accomplish this event with the current level of access we have to the servers. At a minimum, we need to be able to:

a) set a map on the ts500 server
b) restart the map at the beginning of the event

If this ends up being rough on the actual ts servers, then maybe claire's new efforts could come in handy.

Tentatively, I was thinking the 31st of August. Does that sound like enough prep time for everyone?










Round 1: 13 ET - campcity
Round 2: 16 ET - predm1
Round 3: 19 ET - spogsp1

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Community Events / PRE-CUP TS500!

« on: August 04, 2020, 12:30:29 PM »

Wow, these are really speeding up, aren't they?

What's speeding towards us is Quakecon 2020, which is remaining indoors this year with a massive amount of community events flying the banner of QCON@HOME. Our part will be 3 TastyCups across Doom 2, Quakeworld, and Quake II. Details and signups for all these cups can be found here:

https://challonge.com/users/jehar/tournaments

Special thanks to Sooint for his pre-tourney donation, bringing the current Q2 prize pool to 200 USD.

On top of that, we'll be running a TS500 before the cup on Sunday in order to get everyone's hyperblasters greased up. No signups here, just get on the ts500 server at the appointed time, and play until your eyes, fingers, or spleens bleed!

The map this time around: city64!

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Community Events / TS500 2019!

« on: December 09, 2019, 04:51:13 PM »

It's back, and I hope you are too!

For those who are unfamiliar, the TS500 is a 500-fraglimit FFA held on a map large enough to contain a player count large enough to justify this madness. No signups, brackets, or any nonsense - just get in and get playing!

DATE: Dec 15 @ 7pm ET
SERVER: tastyspleen.net:27999  (GOTO TS500)
MAP: predm1

See you there, and make sure to use the shitter beforehand.

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Community Events / Mutant Message Monday! 3/26

« on: March 25, 2018, 07:21:43 AM »

Eyooo - it's been a while since we've seen a lot of bodies on the perennial mutant server, so a few of us BTF dudes are going to pile in there and hope the sweet smell of gibs attracts others.

As far as joining, there's nothing to it, it's the default port on tastyspleen.net. We're thinking of starting around 8est and going until we've seen every map on the server (except match1).

So yeah, be there or be a convex ngon.

http://tastyspleen.tv

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Quake / Announcement: Quake II 20th Anniversary Duel Cup Series

« on: September 05, 2017, 03:19:22 PM »

Starting on the 16th of September, we'll be running 3 weeks of back-to-back NA/EU duel cups! Signups are below, and everything will be covered live on tastyspleen.tv
I'll be attempting to put together some funds for each week's top3 - I'm down on income at the moment, so that may turn into a donation drive.

http://challonge.com/summerq2_eu2 - EU Week 2 Signups
http://challonge.com/summerq2_na2 - NA Week 2 Signups

Format:
Double Elim
If we have more than 16 players, UB matches until UB Semis will be Bo1
Grand Final will be played in a 2xBo3 format.

Server settings:
OpenTDM, all fixes.
10 minutes, 2min OT
Powerups OFF
Tastyspleen/Packetflinger will be used in NA, EDL allowed servers used in EU.

Map Pool:
q2dm1
q2dm3
ztn2dm3
q2rdm2
q2duel1

Map Picks:
High seed picks first, then low seed. Remaining map is low toss/high toss.

Match Streaming:
One server will be selected for streaming matches over the course of the cup. An admin will coordinate match delays in order to secure matches in this server back-to-back. If you are asked to delay for this reason, please comply. Other servers may be streamed in order to meet latency demands.

Prize Distribution:
1st Place Week 1: $50 USD
1st Place Week 2: $50 USD
1st Place Week 3: $100 USD

Additional prizemoney may be donated to jehar@tastyspleen.net - 100% of donations will go directly to the next week's prize pool, in a 50/35/15 split once the pool reaches more than $100 USD.

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Community Events / The TS500 Returns!

« on: June 15, 2017, 02:29:07 PM »

I won't even count how many years it's been since the last one, but seeing Q2 has gotten the big 20, it's about damn time. Deets below.



Get in here!

Server: tastyspleen.net:27999 (or type `GOTO TS500` from any Q2 server where WallFly is present)
Map: city64
Fraglimit: 500
Timelimit: none (usually takes about 90 minutes)
Gametype: Standard FFA, first to 500 wins
When: Saturday, June 24th, 8 PM Eastern (5 PM Pacific, 1 AM London)
Time Zone Calculator: http://everytimezone.com/#2017-6-24,720,cn3

Haven't played Q2 in awhile?

For Windows users, we have Elysium's "1-click" installer at http://q2s.tastyspleen.net/ which will get you back online with Q2 in a snap.

city64

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Community Events / Tonight: OMGFFA in Doom II

« on: August 08, 2014, 09:01:20 AM »

http://www.esreality.com/post/2635716/n-a/#pid2635716

Hey all, almost forgot to post here! Pasty pasty:

Join Tastyspleen.tv on Friday night as we dive head-first into some boom-stick head-smashing DOOM 2 ACTION. We'll be moshing around in OMGMAPS, a set that is as classic as it is retarded. Just supply your own spam, and we'll bring the beans. First to 50 wins each map, we'll go through the entire wad, so don't blow yours before we're done!

Date: Friday August 8th
Time: 9pm EDT
Port: Odamex (http://odamex.net/)
Server: 66.170.3.5:10667
Wads: doom2.wad, omgmaps.wad
Stream: tastyspleen.tv

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Community Events / TS500

« on: July 04, 2014, 04:25:40 PM »

I'm not even sure which one this would be. Oh well. You all know what's up. If you don't, see the image below:



Now all that's to be decided is the map. I'm kinda partial to city64 myself. Thoughts?

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Tastycast - tastyspleen.tv / Calling all community representatives!

« on: May 13, 2011, 10:24:29 AM »

Man, what a crazy couple of years this has been. Since starting up a little shoutcast server on quadz' provided space, the community has been involved in the coverage of quakeworld, urban terror, warsow, doom, quake ii... and that's the short list. There have been enough people willing to see the potential of a multi-game, community-run broadcasting group, and the result has been better hardware, more polished content, and a wider variety of games. I really can't thank all of the supporters, both materially and motivationally, enough.

The question at this point, however, is how to keep growing without turning into something that we'd all hate. I've learned through other broadcasting projects that sticking to the community is something that takes a lot of work, and it's too easy to fall into the trap of running towards the spotlight all the time.

I've attempted to expand the staff before, to limited success. Part of the issue is that TS.tv does so much that it's difficult to take on a particular role and expect to stay on top of everything. So, I've decided to approach staffing from another angle:

per-game representatives.

I want to stress that this is not in any way going to stub the toes of all of the people who come to us to discuss events. Simply put, I just want to have people who are willing to act as extra eyes and ears for the community, and relay that info. I'm hoping that this will allow people to go from "what the hell am I supposed to do" to something more like "yeah, that's me!".

Responsibilities would include keeping an eye on events from your respective areas (not like you don't do that already!), attending weekly meetings, and providing information so that events can be scheduled.

Feel free to use this thread to discuss any potential pitfalls this plan may have, but I'm asking that applicants either PM me on irc, here in the forums, or email me at jehar@tastyspleen.net

To help clarify things, the below space will be filled out as positions are filled.


Doom Community Liason: Position open!
Quake/world Community Liason:  Position open!
Quake II Community Liason: Position open!
Quake III Community Liason: Position open!
Warsow Community Liasion: Position open!
Urban Terror Community Liasion: Position open!

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Registration / Announcing: AQO Action Quake 3v3 Teamplay Weekend Tourney (with prizes!)

« on: June 08, 2010, 09:03:12 AM »

ACTION QUAKE ONLINE
TeamPlay 3v3 WEEKEND TOURNEY

It has come to our attention that Dino has been a busy bee: actionquakeonline.com has been launched with links to a score of brand new Action Quake2 servers - from FFA to 3-way TDM Darkmatch. This guy has put a lot of work into Building It. Now it's time for us to Come. (insert laughter)

So, we're going to give running some events a shot.

What: Action Quake 2 3v3 Teamplay. If you don't have AQ2 yet, get it HERE (version 0.6b) .
    Random team seeding
    15 min rounds
    Double-elim bracket
    Bo3
    Grand final double-bo3
    Map pool: TBD.
Where: 209.119.117.202:27929 (teamplay servers up to port 27935) - hosted by Dino of AQO.
When: Saturday the 19th of June, 2010. Checkin will begin at 2pm EDT, and games will start at 3pm EDT on the specified servers.

If you'd like to participate, reply to this thread in one of two ways:
1) Your team name, and the names of your teammates. They will be contacted on IRC (#tastyspleen on ETG or #tastycast on GlobalGamers) in order to confirm partnership. If at check-in a player is missing, he/she may be substituted.
2) You by yourself, whereas you will be put into the Pickup Pool to be teamed at random with others in the Pool 24 hours prior to the event (Friday, 3pm EDT).

SPONSORED BY:

FIRST PLACE TEAM TO RECEIVE ONE $25 THINKGEEK GIFT CERTIFICATE PER MEMBER

TEAMS:
Erica<3xRDVx
  peewee_RotA (ninja_peewee, sheriff_peewee)
  Erica
  xRDVx

nomnomnom
  GandalfehtGrE3n
  bambi
  wizardext

  henrull
  Pan
  iv3r

OVALEE
  OVALEE
  Skanda
  Grimmy

PICKUP POOL:
TehSandwich
playboy
Flic

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Discussion / What State you from?

« on: February 20, 2010, 09:28:03 AM »

Just out of curiosity...

Okay, this is going to be completely experimental, and a little redundant since I know there's things like that google map plugin and stuff, but here goes:

If you'd be interested in participating in locale-based Tastyspleen tournaments, list your state here. I've been more and more convinced that North America needs more state/region based tournaments. I have no idea what this is going to result in, but I'd like to take the current pulse of where tournament-interested people are geographically. List away!

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Tastycast - tastyspleen.tv / Current KOTH Stats

« on: February 12, 2010, 05:20:06 PM »

Until we get a proper ladder system set up, I'm going to start tracking things by hand. Since this is only a weekly event, this shouldn't be too difficult.

Current king is: 187.Slugs (Lava gets honorable mention)  

Past Kings:[/size]

kyuss
scobby
meathook.sodomy
Justin
Bozia
IsBjorn
adren
ma5
kyuss
[BTF]Defiant!
Chm0d

[/size]

Current players on record, ranked by hill position (updated with changes and new players each week):
187.Slugs
97
Travolta
meathook.sodomy
[BTF]Defiant!
VaeVictis
Kyuss
0r4ng3
Justin
[BTF]DeadBeat
[BTF]5antana
Mandigo
[RB]Torch
Bonzai
[BTF]SquareHimself
[RB]Vital
Peewee_ROTA
[Q2C]James
SkiesOfBoredom
Fneb
[RB]Crow
TGA
xRDVx
Erica
RawBurt


Players are not ranked on wins, but instead on who they can beat during the event. Winning will move you up a position. This kind of leap-frog ladder is rather standard, and shouldn't produce any problems.

When do I get to play?
If you have played in KOTH before:
You will play in order according to your current rank.

If you have not played in KOTH before, but show up before the event:
You will be asked to place yourself in 1 of 3 groups: New, Intermediate, or Advanced. You will then play at the beginning of that group. Each group has priority for 1 hour. For example, all New matches will be played during the first hour, and so on.

If you have not played in KOTH before, and show up during the event:
You will play in the order of your join time at the next group.

If you have played in KOTH before, but don't show up until after your group:
You will be placed in order of join time at the next group.

If you are called up, and are not connected to the server, you will be given 30 seconds to reconnect, at which time we will move on to the next player.

I realize some of this is still ambiguous, but I wanted to lay out some explanation of the way I see things. Feel free to comment on this current setup, and this post will be modified as improvements are made.

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Tastycast - tastyspleen.tv / New Tastyspleen.tv Feature: 24/7 Movie channel

« on: February 01, 2010, 03:05:15 PM »

If you've always wanted a place where you could just tune into some frags and zone out, then we have just the thing.

http://tastyspleen.tv/?page_id=693

This is a HD-streaming (thanks to quakeunity.com) playlist comprised of the best of the best frag movies made by the various communities over the years. I'll be adding 10 films a day to the playlist in an effort to provide a wide variety and berth to the content.

Also, in the future, look for quake-relevant advertisements, a la the radio ads.

Feel free to drop any comments or suggestions here.

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Discussion / Help Us Organize Tasty Leagues - Part 2

« on: January 14, 2010, 10:08:19 AM »

So, keeping things rolling along, we've come to the next topic of discussion: tourney size. I think we're all pretty much happy with the idea of smaller, 12-person divisions for shorter tournaments, probably single-elim, over a weekend, etc. Keep things tight, open to everybody, and fast-paced. So there isn't really a question I have this time around, just looking for some opinions on how we want to run this when it comes to size and duration.

Personally, I'd like to see 2-3 divisions, to ensure that newer players play with newer players and all that happy fluff. Also, again with the goal of keeping it quick and simple, this would probably be a duel tournament at first, just because we all know how much more coordination it takes to get people to get their team together.

My only real concern is how realistic it would be to get all of the matches in over a weekend. Maybe dropping it down to 8 player brackets, two divisions, would be the fastest solution?

Leaving it open to debate, so debate away!

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Tastycast - tastyspleen.tv / Tastycast Playlist opinions?

« on: January 14, 2010, 09:59:33 AM »

Just looking for a general feel of the current tastycast playlist, since the radio isn't actually tuned into that much. Maybe people don't like shoutcast stations any more? No way to know without asking, so just looking for what would make you tune in more.