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(I wanted to name this thread European Speedster Assembly 2014 - Thät's nævêr håppëñed bèføré, but the forum wouldn't let me.) Summer is here, and that means speedruns! Wait, I already used that intro for the SGDQ thread. And I guess summer has been here for a while. Okay, let's start over. It's once again time for a bunch of nerds to gather in a small space to play games fast! And this time, those of you who have liked the goofy accents whenever a non-US runner has showed up to play at a *GDQ, boy are you in for a treat. At ESA, we all have goofy accents! Well, comparatively. All for charity - the charity is the same as SGDQ, Doctors Without Borders (Médecins Sans Frontières). European Speedster Aseembly 2014 will thusly be brought to you by Team Ludendi from Skövde, Sweden, starting on Sunday, July 27th and going on until Sunday, August 3rd. A week full of Scandinavians, Dutchies, Brits, Germans, and so on and so forth. And, of course, speedruns. This year, ESA tries out that thing that's been discussed sometimes for *GDQ in the past - two concurrently running streams. The blue stream is mostly the primary stream, whereas the yellow stream features some non-speedrun content and open blocks where it'll be decided on site what'll be played. Links for you The all-important schedule: http://www.europeanspeedsterassembly.com/schedule - and as a first for ESA, automagically time zone adjusted. Woo, progress! Watch it at: The main website, which finally has been updated from last year's information, can be found at http://www.europeanspeedsterassembly.com/ - here both streams are set up on one page, together with a Quakenet webchat client. *GDQ watchers have had some success with Livestreamer, but that might get iffier with two streams. Chatting: Gotta chat up them watchers and runners, no? But as always, stay the hell away from twitch chat. IRC is the way to go! If you're watching from the main ESA website, you have the channel right there, but you might want to go IRC client instead, in which case you go to: Server: irc.quakenet.org Channel: #esamarathon Direct link Quakenet Webchat (Mibbit is a no-go) And as always, the SA speedruns IRC channel: Server: irc.synirc.net Channel: #speedruns Direct link Mibbit Webchat ============= So about that ESA European Speedster Assembly is a speedrunning marathon that started in 2012 as an attempt to do something similiar to AGDQ and SGDQ in Europe, due to there being a lot of really good speedrunners over here that might not have the means to make it to a marathon over in America. In 2012, ESA collected about $3000 for the charity organization Hand in Hand, and in 2013, about $20,000 for Doctors Without Borders. Just as with *GDQ, all participants in ESA have paid for their own travel and living expenses. All money donated goes directly to the charity, with no cut being taken by anyone involved with the event. A distinction to be made is that where the *GDQ marathong are first and foremost charity events, ESA has more turned out to be a speedrun marathon that also happens to be for charity. As such, ESA tends to have a slightly more "relaxed" attitude, if that makes any sense. ============= Donations, how do they work ESA uses the same donation system as the *GDQs do, coded by SMK after ChipIn crashed and burned horribly during AGDQ2013. With every donation you do, you can leave a comment. In recenter *GDQs, getting your donation read on stream has been less and less likely, but as ESA tends to get less, combined with there being donation readers on both streams, there's a much higher likelihood that you'll get yours read out on stream during this marathon! Rules for comments are likely to be essentially the same as for *GDQs, though, so any donation under a dollar or anything offensive will get filtered out. ============= Reasons to donate! (other than charity if that's not enough for you you cheap bastard) Of course, ESA has donation incentives and prizes as well. At the time of this writing, the prizes aren't really neatly listed anywhere, and the incentive list isn't complete either. But you'll be able to find them on the trackers once they've all been put in, which should hopefully be before the streams go live - Blue tracker and Yellow tracker. Donation incentives are things like naming characters, bidding for different options, sometimes even adding short bonus runs or glitch showoffs that aren't part of the regular run. ============= FAQ: (yes it's the *GDQ FAQ again) Q: What runs should I watch? A: There is no one answer to this question. Anyone you ask will give a different answer. Read the schedule, they'll all be great. Tune in for any game you're interested in. Some of the runs that turn out to be the most amazing will be listed in the second post eventually. If you think a run should be in that post, let me know. Q: Will ____ be there? A: Check the schedule. If they're not listed as a runner or commentator, it doesn't really matter if they're there or not. It's probably a wise idea to avoid bringing up some of the more controversial runners/commentators. Q: Why isn't ____ on the schedule? A: Even with two streams, there's not room for everything. But keep track of the open blocks on the yellow stream, and stick around after the marathon for the bonus stream too! Q: Why didn't they read my donation comment? A: Either there were too many comments happening at the time or your comment broke the rules. Something like that. Q: Where is this happening? A: Nyeport, a community center in Skövde, Sweden. ============= Så det så.
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This here post reserved for things in the future.
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Also, for shameless self-promotion, the Bionic Commando Rearmed 100% run is going to be extra awesome now since there's been new stuff found. Before new techs, I've only done that sub-hour once, but now there's a legitimate possibility that I'll be able to sub-hour live. That would be really nice to get. I mean when I've named one of the new techs "PJ grapple", you know it'll be something special!
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Alright then, arrived at the event, sweaty as all hell.
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Going live in about 35 minutes!
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So I'm gonna be on the couch for Battle Kid race and pretend I know about the game! Also need to hunt down Greenalink and borrow his DS Phat so I can practice Umihara Kawase Edit: Also, tales from the practice room! Xbox 360 of dude sitting next to me red-ringed, so there's a possibility that mine is the only working one in the house at the moment. We're hoping there'll be no X360 games on blue and yellow streams at the same time before we secure more of them. KennyMan666 fucked around with this message at 08:08 on Jul 28, 2014 |
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Jul 28, 2014 07:41
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CURRENTLY IN THE PRACTICE ROOM: Building a game controller out of watermelons. Pictures eventually.
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Jul 28, 2014 11:52
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About to play Umihara Kawase on the blue stream, running low on energy. I'll make it work.
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Jul 29, 2014 06:02
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One-death run of that path holy poo poo
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AccountingNightmare posted:Thanks for the runs! That game looks finicky as hell to control but you breezed through it. I also didn't know there was a DS port. DS port has the definitive versions of both the original game and the sequel and is also region-free so yeah it's the version to get for anyone who wants to own the game.
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Alright, after Tetrisphere it's my BCR run! :D
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So hi guys I'm gonna try to power through all of Majora's Mask on the donation station.
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