[GetDizzy]

In 15th place, a Winter '08 DoZ game (:Q labs (Old-Sckool)) with 121 / 1600 points.
In 14th place, Archer Gremory is Thirsty (A Huge Jerk (Kuddy)) with 170 / 1600 points.
In 13th place, The Dissappointingly Brief Adventures of Aquaria (Allium cepa (Malwyn)) with 468 / 1600 points.
In 12th place, Deluge (Random Team with no creative name (SmartRutter)) with 472 / 1600 points.
In 11th place, Marooned (I Can't Believe It's Not Working! (paulguy, GreaseMonkey)) with 502 / 1600 points.
In 10th place, PEE*E (BnL DoZ Team #0002 (asiekierka)) with 533 / 1600 points.
In 9th place, The Curious Case of Ash McArthur (Rokkaku Law Enforcement Division (hayashi)) with 625 / 1600 points.
In 8th place, Slaughter Down Under (TEAM POTENTIAL TEAMWORK FAILURE (commodorejohn, pyro1588)) with 866 / 1600 points
In 7th place, Drippy and the Evaporated Sea (Not a Joke Entry this time (KirbySSB, GohanSSB)) with 887 / 1600 points.
In 6th place, Superb Benthic Zone Adventures (Elevator Dentist Squad (Captain Failmore, Christian, Nedemai)) with 891 / 1600 points.
In 5th place, Ghost Busted (Jump Back, Kiss Myself (Revvy, KKairos, Wildweasel)) with 958 / 1600 points.
In 4th place, Whirlwind (Team Breaking Wheel (Maxim, Ryosuke)) with 1142 / 1600 points.

In 3rd place, Murder at MegaZeux Manor (The Suicidesketeers (asgromo, mzxgiant, CJA)) with 1159 / 1600 points.


In 2nd place, Murder on the Yellow Express (Wild Bidoof has appeared! (Logicow, Madbrain, windbladeicepuppy)) with 1172 / 1600 points.

AAAAND


In 1st place, Xin (TEAM BRO FIST (Lancer-X, Wervyn, Quasar84)) with 1256 / 1600 points.



HOSTS SPECIAL AWARDS:

THE "IGOR" AWARD: "Pronounce it Eye-gor": Wervyn of Team Bro Fist.
THE "I'LL DO IT TOMORROW" AWARD: Tecki, Judge.
THE "SKIN OF HIS TEETH" AWARD: Hidden, Team Breaking Wheel
THE "GAMING THE SCORESHEET" AWARD: Logicow, A Wild Bidoof Has Appeared
THE "HATRED OF THE COMMUNITY" AWARD: ScottVyper, Judge
THE "HOW THE HELL?!" AWARD: Deluge, Game by Random Team With No Name (SmartRutter)
THE "DRINK, SPIT, GOOD" AWARD: Archer Gremory is Thirsty, Game by A Huge Jerk (Kuddy)



Excel Sheet Here (Courtesy Ig... err, I mean, Wervyn): http://afailed.cspro...08Q4_Scores.xls

Judge Sheets: http://www.digitalmzx.com/doz/judging/

[hayashi]

I DEMAND A RECOUNT

actually, no I don't. I'm happy with my score; this wasn't a good DoZ for me.

[Wervyn]

All the judging results are mirrored on our doz archives here. An archive of the site will remain up here.

I also recommend anyone who has a commercial version of Office to look at the spreadsheet I put together. I spent a lot of time improving it over last year's, and there are a few really neat things you can do with it:

• Sort by any category or subcategory using the list collection at the top. For instance, you could see what Terryn's ranking of the games was, or which games had the best gameplay overall. The actual numbers used to represent scores in the list are normalized to fractional numbers between 0 and 1, so that sorting across different scoresheets is actually useful for comparison.
  
• Look at a comparison chart of the judges' total scores, sorted by the current order from the main spreadsheet. Here you can clearly see how much of an outlier Scott Vyper's scores were. For half of the games in the competition, his score is more than 50 points higher than the average of the other judges' scores. For two of the games his score is more than 100 points higher. And then, heh, there's Deluge.
  
• Remove a judge's scores from the calculation using a control field at the top of the sheet. You can set this to 0 (will appear as "No") to zero out all of that judge's scores, or to 1 (appears as "Yes") to reinclude them. Using this, you can quickly see what the ranking would be like if we decided to throw out a judge's scores. Don't ACTUALLY set the field to "No", or it will be read as a true value (non-empty string) and do the opposite of what it looks like it should.

One caveat: the spreadsheet uses a custom VB function to format all of the numbers, and so Excel will probably complain at you about security and viruses. Set macro security to medium and allow the sheet; this is the full content of the embedded code I added to the sheet.

' Source = [url="http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/formula.htm"]http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/formula.htm[/url]
Function GetFormula(Cell as Range) as String
   GetFormula = Cell.Formula
End Function
Function GetFormat(Cell as Range) as String
   GetFormat = Cell.NumberFormat
End Function

Anyway, enjoy. Good DoZ guys.

"Abby Normal." "Abby Normal?" "I'm almost sure that was the name."

[Dr Lancer-X]

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IF YOU DON'T POST FIVE BRO FISTS TO THIS BRO FIST THEN YOU'RE A SORE LOSER

[CJA]

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this was a great doz

[Quasar84]

Yeah, it was a solid DoZ. Congratulations to everybody, and cheers for Xin: The Best Game that Nobody Actually Liked Playing. =D

[GetDizzy]

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[Wervyn]

Yeah boy TEAM BRO FIST just FISTED UR BRO!

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...Oh god that was horrible.

"I mean ur MOM"

[Scott Vyper]

Insidious, on Jan 12 2009, 04:57 PM, said:

THE "HATRED OF THE COMMUNITY" AWARD: ScottVyper, Judge

I'd like to thank the little people I stepped on for this award. Hopefully they are re-incarnated as something bigger... so they'll make a bigger target.

As for the winners, congratulations. Good to see that Megazeux is no different from a standard gaming community... great graphics and shitty gameplay ftw!

[mzxgiant]

Scott Vyper, on Jan 13 2009, 01:24 PM, said:

As for the winners, congratulations. Good to see that Megazeux is no different from a standard gaming community... great graphics and shitty gameplay ftw!

Pot? Meet Kettle.

[SmartRutter]

Insidious, on Jan 12 2009, 05:57 PM, said:

In 12th place, Deluge (Random Team with no creative name (SmartRutter)) with 472 / 1600 points.

THE "HOW THE HELL?!" AWARD: Deluge, Game by Random Team With No Name (SmartRutter)

hooray, instead of somehow not getting last, i get a special award.

but yeah, my game sucks and doesn't deserve 12th. Other than that, great doz everyone.

[Old-Sckool]

damnit, last place again. better not make it a hat trick next DOZ.

Fun fact: The last 2 doz entries I've submitted have not received a time penalty despite submitting with like 5 mins before automatic DQ.

I learned that making a simple RPG engine is not simple this DOZ.

[Exophase]

Scott Vyper, on Jan 13 2009, 01:24 PM, said:

I'd like to thank the little people I stepped on for this award. Hopefully they are re-incarnated as something bigger... so they'll make a bigger target.

As for the winners, congratulations. Good to see that Megazeux is no different from a standard gaming community... great graphics and shitty gameplay ftw!

Why are you still here

[KKairos]

Vyper, Insid's award was more a commentary on the way the community responded than an actual statement that we hate you. (I could be wrong on this point, but I don't hate you. However, I definitely felt shafted by your scores to my team vs. the Deluge team, with all due respect to Rutter.

If you stick around and turn out to be an alright guy, which I'm guessing you are, I won't hate you.

I'm not disagreeing about graphics vs. gameplay. Graphics were definitely the strong suit of the top two entries. But the rest of the top 4 were fine on gameplay, even better than the top 2. (I'll leave it to you to judge Ghost Busted, which might not be in my best interest, but oh well.)

For the record, my judgement for best gameplay goes to Drippy and my second best goes to Murder at MegaZeux Manor. But most people already knew that if they talked to me on IRC. Also for the record, Xin's gameplay wasn't tops, but it wasn't the worst by far.

But the fact is, it's a really good idea not to make comments like the one you made to further piss off a community that, per Insid's award, was already kind of pissed at your judging and for your response to criticism.

Here I was feeling a little bad for all the crap we dumped on you; I apologize for whenever I went overboard, because such probably happened, but I do not apologize for the legitimate criticism of your judging that were made on my behalf of anyone else's. Heck, I even felt a little bad on Rutter's behalf for complaining about Deluge. And I still feel a little bad for the way we all went overboard on your ass.

And we did.

But lashing back won't help too much. Insid was just trying to lighten the mood; I guess in my opinion giving Deluge the "how the hell" award would've been enough. But oh well.y

All that said, as I usually do, I encourage you to stick around and make games so we can play your games and enjoy your company. Of course, I can't force you to, but you definitely should.

[hayashi]

If there's anything I've learned over the past two years, leaving (or threatening to leave) the community like that over something like that is a BAD IDEA.

I don't hate you, and as kkairos said, if you stick around I'm sure most of the community won't either