Vectrex Tournament: Vector War XIV (26th Oct -2nd Nov 2024)
Sept 21, 2024 15:48:29 GMT -5
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Post by hcmffm on Sept 21, 2024 15:48:29 GMT -5
Status:
Vector War XIV is over.
Score code:
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Highscores (click once or twice to enlarge a bit):
Points Table:
Welcome to Vector War XIV!
Glad you found your way here and thank you for your interest in the Vector War. The Vector War is a yearly Vectrex game tournament. Vectrex players all over the world play at home and submit their scores online. This year's Vector War XIV (VW14) lasts one week and will take place from Sat 26th October till Sat 2nd November 2024.
Please note that the Vector War is for both beginner and expert players. In the Vector War you can compete with other players. It's also a good opportunity to play the Vectrex games more extensively and get to know new games. BTW, 1st November is the Play Your Vectrex Day (PYVD) so on that day you've got even two good reasons to play your Vectrex.
Please note that the Vector War is for both beginner and expert players. In the Vector War you can compete with other players. It's also a good opportunity to play the Vectrex games more extensively and get to know new games. BTW, 1st November is the Play Your Vectrex Day (PYVD) so on that day you've got even two good reasons to play your Vectrex.
Below, please find all details about the Vector War XIV. If something shouldn't be clear, do not hesitate to ask here in this topic or send me a PM.
Games list:
Please note that for qualifying only 6 out of 13 games need to be played. In round braces you'll find the threshold score (=minimum score that you have to achieve). For some games level and/or a maximum are specified.
GCE/MB
1. Bedlam (5000)
2. Clean Sweep (5000, maximum: 65000)
4. Polar Rescue (7500)
5. Pole Position (20000)
3. Rip Off (1000)
6. Star Castle (5000, maximum: 75000)
Homebrew:
1. Crush of Lucifer (2000)
2. Every Day Is Halloween (3000)
3. Marine Fox (3500)
4. Release (2500)
5. Thrust (Normal, 3000)
6. Unicorn Galaxy (750)
7. Vectrexagon (Easy, 25:00)
Note: Section "Availability of Games" below might also be of interest.
Info and Rules:
Begin of Contest: Saturday, 26th October 2024
End of Contest: Saturday, 2nd November 2024
Qualification and Participation:
To qualify for the contest you must play and submit scores of 6 games of the above game list.
To submit a score:
- Check here what the current score code is.
- Play a game and try to achieve a score which is higher than the threshold score of the appropriate game. The threshold score of a game is the number in round braces in the above game list.
- Take a picture of your score including the current score code and the name of the game on-screen (if possible) and post it here:
a.) Upload your picture to a free file hoster, see topic Free file hosting.
b.) Click on the "Reply" button and place the link provided by the free file hoster. Please use the "Preview" and check your posting and the correct display of your highscore image. If everything is fine you click on "Create Post" button.
Notes:
- You can submit an arbitrary number of scores per day.
- If a game can be marathoned (i.e. played for more than one hour), players are asked to report this. Then, a maximum score will be set by the organizer to avoid endless playing.
- Once you are qualified, your overall rank will be calculated and kept up-to-date.
Score code:
Whenever you take a photoproof of your highscore, make sure you include a small paper with the current score code in the photo. Only photoproofs with visible and correct score code will be valid. Score codes change during the tournament, so make sure that you first lookup the current score code before playing and taking a photo.
Gaming Rules:
- Games must be played on an original Vectrex console. You may use a maximum of three different controllers:
1 original Vectrex controller plus 1 type of alternate analog controller plus 1 type of alternate digital controller. Not allowed are spinner controllers, paddles or sensitivity-adjustable controllers, autofire dongles, or autofire joysticks. - To make things simple, photoproofs are sufficient to submit a score. Players are trusted to play fair and without cheating (no autofire dongles, game cheats, manipulating source codes or screenshots, and so on).
- You get points for your rank per game. The better your rank in a game the more points you'll get. 1st rank is always 100 points, points of all other ranks are lower and depend on the number of qualified players, see points table above for details. Only the highest points from six games you have played will be considered. This means that the maximum number of points a player can score is 600.
- Default precision of scores is 1 point. If there should be a draw between two players with a price winning rank, the points of the 7th, 8th, ... game will be compared till the draw is resolved.
- Vector War is a tournament that lasts for one week. For this reason, on the last day of the Vector War no new players may participate.
Prizes:
1st to 4th Winner: 1 prize A, B, C, or D + Vector War T-Shirt
Prize A - An aluminum Vectrexagon shell donated by Tony (fruktodlaren)
Prize B - A Vector War bezel overlay donated by Ralf (vectrexoverlays)
Prize C - A digital copy of the Trilogy "The Untold History of Japanese Game Developers" by John (Sketcz)
Prize D - A Vectrex Pin "VECTREX Expert"
== Prize drawn in a prize lottery:
Prize R1 - A special edition of Every Day Is Halloween donated by Chris Malcolm (Binarystar)
Prize R2 - A special edition of Unicorn Galaxy donated by Chris Malcolm (Binarystar)
== (Second) last not least:
Prize X - A wooden spoon prize donated by Tony (fruktodlaren ).
Availability of Games:
For qualifying in Vector War XIV you have to play 6 games listed in the game list above. It can be a bit of an advantage if you have more than 6 or even all 13 games at hand.
A ZIP archive with all free binaries is available. You'll need a flashable cartridge like VecMulti, PiTrex, or VecFever.
Games that are not included in the ZIP archive:
- Vectrexagon is donationware and can be downloaded for some donation or even free via www.sdwdevelopments.com/
- Crush of Lucifer is a commercial game available via www.vectrexmulti.com/ *
- Unicorn Galaxy is a commercial game sold by game author Chris Malcolm at ebay *
*Depending on your location, it's probably too late for order Crush of Lucifer and/or Unicorn Galaxy.
All original GCE/MB titles can be found on various multicartridges (e.g. Sean Kelly 60-in-1, AC 72-in-1, Madtronix Multicartridge 72-in-1 Classic (M1) , ...).
Game manuals
For some games it's good to have a manual at hand to understand game play and/or scoring.
- Vectrex Game manuals@Digitpress
- Vectrex manual²s
Previous Vector Wars
VectorX has kindly gathered a lot of interesting information about the past Vector Wars in the Vectrex Wiki.
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