SuperTed

The Alterna Bowl has officially begun! There will be two sections: the Competition; and the Exhibition. Part 1-The Competition I have been doing a lot of thinking about the Newbie Tournaments. In particular, I have been mulling over the question of what the whole purpose of the tournament is. Among other things, I came to the conclusion that we are trying to match inexperienced players in order to have fun and gain experience. I believe that is generally what is taking place. However, there is one group that is being left out. I am referring to the tournament Alternates. They, like the Players, signed up to play CM with other Newbies and, by God, that's exactly what they will do! I have decided to make a secondary competition for the Alternates. This will keep all of you who "did not make the cut" involved with the process, so that you are ready to jump into the fray if it is needed. The scenarios I am designing for the Alternates will be different from the ones being used in the actual tournament (but they will provide just as many challenges). For each round, each Alternate will play one scenario against another Alternate from the same bracket. The opponents will be rotated for the first three rounds and an aggregate score will be tallied for each Alternate. The Alternates with the highest aggregate score from each bracket and a Wildcard (the highest-scoring Alternate that did not lead a bracket) will advance to the semi-finals! The time limits for completing the scenarios will be similar to that of the formal tournament. There will be six weeks alotted for each round. Since the first three rounds will involve each Alternate playing only one scenario, there should be no problem completing it in six weeks. The final round will be divided into two three-week legs. The first leg will be the semi-finals and the second leg will be the championship. If an Alternate is needed to fill a spot in the tournament, the option to do so will be given in the order in which the Alternates are listed in the brackets. If this happens, that Alternate will be eliminated from the Alterna Bowl. If an alternate Alternate cannot be found, a back-up system will be implemented for determining the winner of that bracket. Part 2-The Exhibition Now, just in case you thought there was a limit to my dedication to this tournament, I'm here to tell you there is not! As Players and Alternates are eliminated from the tournament, they will be thrown onto the Loser Pile and given the chance to get involved in the Alternate Bowl. Of course, they will not be eligible to win the coveted Alterna Cup, but they will be allowed to play the scenarios. This will be on a "for fun" basis and no scores will be recorded. There will be no deadlines enforced for completing the scenarios, but I ask that you attempt to keep things going at a decent clip. There will be five scenarios used in the Alterna Bowl (one each for Rounds 1-3 and two for Round 4). Players will be allowed to play only the scenario(s) currently or previously used by the Alternates. How do I get an opponent, you ask? Well, that's simple. When you are eliminated from the tournament, just post a message in the official tournament thread (i.e. here) and let people know you are looking to play. Once you have found an opponent for a particular scenario, please edit your post to let others know. See the first page of this thread for the match-ups and the Loser Pile. Good luck!

Announcing the Combat Mission Newbie Tournaments! “One will win all; the rest will lose one.” This is where the Newbies come to play! There are four Sub-Tournaments: The SuperNewbie Knock-Out Tournament, where players with no prior multiplayer experience duke it out; The Garden Variety (GV) Knock-Out Tournament, where players with limited prior multiplayer experience have a go at it; The Newbie Rejects (NR) Knock-Out Tournament, where players with "issues" scratch and claw at each other; and The Alterna Bowl, where alternates do whatever it is they do. The participants for The SuperNewbie Knock-Out Tournament are: Lord Dragon Humus B. Chittenbee Witko Pfc. Dunsel Zitadelle El Griz Toran29 DL Vader’s Jester Austin Bowie YankeeDog Dave H Dan Buttar SPLASH Dize Hobo DD_Rob (alternate) Dinga (alternate) R.C. (alternate) Bruce Robert (alternate) The participants for The Garden Variety (GV) Newbie Knock-Out Tournament are: vadr Chad ‘Harrison’ Leta Ligur Hawk Walker Stormhouse Von Viniga Jim Liang Chasd Commander Rucrazee Dfgardner White4 Major Catastrophe Erik Alkema Darknight_Canuck (alternate) Bad Monkey! (alternate) Armdchair (alternate) Thewood (alternate) The participants for The Newbie Rejects (NR) Knock-Out Tournament are: Flammenwerfer Bobbaro mortar Bruce Bowes CombatGeneral Asler Silvio Manuel voidhawk Bog icedog42 Sir Uber General RedBastard Donkey Hotay Newlife Vitalis DStone Andrewgy (alternate) f1shlips (alternate) Hoopenfaust 101 (alternate) Sgt Colon (alternate) If anybody is interested in following the progress of the tournaments, vadr has set up some online tournament brackets. To see what's happening, go here. Enjoy! Good luck to all!

On February 11, 2002, GameSpyDaily posted an interview with Big Time Software. What was in this interview, you ask? Well, simply stated, the discussion revolved around something called Combat Mission: Barbarossa to Berlin. To summarize, the items discussed are: -topics included in the CMBB manual; -the new interface; -major new climatic effects; -relatively unusual or rare vehicles; -unusual infantry units; -machinegun "covered arc" command; -defensive positions; and -the size of battlefields and opposing forces. So swing over to GamsSpyDaily and read the entire article. You will not be disappointed!

VJ, I agree with getting you a new playmate. It's already on my list of things to do.

Wildman, He can recruit from the twitch crowd for us...

Guys, Remember, the deadline for completing Give and Take is February 16 at 1200 hours (GMT -6:00). For those who have not started Nothing Fancy yet, I suggest you get going on it, especially if you are not going to complete the first one by Saturday.

CW, On this team, it is expected that everybody will help as needed. However, each team member has an emphasis, whether designing or testing. Designer/testers design first and test second while tester/designers test first and design second. I hope that helps.

Just in case you were wondering, here is the team roster for Boots & Tracks: Team Leader- Ted "SuperTed" Quincey Scenario Designer/Testers- "Wild" Bill Wilder Tim "Rune" Orosz Frank "Franko" Radoslovich Webmaster and Scenario Tester/Designer- Kevin "Kinch" Kinscherf Scenrio Tester/Designers- Massimo "Mad Italian" Rocca Brian "Rocky" Rock Bill "ACTOR" Valencia Keith "Buckeye" Yeates Jeff "Jwxspoon" Weatherspoon Scott "Scott B." Boston Jeff "jeffsmith" Smith Wyatt "wwb" Barnett Expect great things!

Here is my AAR for the rematch scenario I played against Hobo. The name of the scenario was "49th Recce." Okay, first I set up my troops. Then, I told them to wait and shoot stuff. For a change, I then told them to move around and shoot stuff. Then, Hobo surrendered. I'm out of breath here!

More results from the GV Newbies: Stormhouse (Canadian) defeated Eric Alkema (German), 43-27, in Give and Take. Congratulations to Stormhouse!

More results from the SuperNewbies: Witko (Canadian) defeated Hobo (German), 67-33, in Give and Take. Congratulations to Witko!

More results from the GV Newbies: Hawk (German) defeated Walker (Canadian), 86-14, in Give and Take. Congratulations to Hawk!

DFG, Thanks, man. It was my first-borne.

Don't feel bad. I was dying to start round 2, and now my opponent won't even return my e-mails! We haven't even done a set up turn yet! I asked Ted to bug'em for me, but I think my opponent has went into stasis because I don't think even Ted has gotten a responce from him yet. :mad: </font>

The team is now complete! I would like to introduce our latest member, Wyatt "wwb" Barnett. Wyatt has extensive experience playtetsing for Tim. He also has designed several of his own scenarios, some of which are being used for tournament play. So, please join in welcoming Wyatt aboard.

If the shipment of Viagra had arrived sooner, those old boys would have been unstoppable! :eek:

Dan breaks open the dam at Dan's CMBO Site.

VJ is your man! He playtested a HUGE scenario for me and did a fantastic job! He was thorough and analyzed things fairly. He is inexperienced, but has a good eye for it. You would do well to take advantage of this offer. If he added his email like this tedquincey@yahoo.com he'd have everything covered.

R22, What's that? Did you say you wanted to volunteer? Step right this way...

Mike, If there are any, I'll find them...

Jeff "Jeffsmith" Smith has joined Boots & Tracks as a tester/designer. Jeff is an experienced CM player and an experienced playtester for some upstart named Bill Wilder. He used to be a military analyst for Uncle Sam and can be categorized as "Buff but not a Grog." So, please join me in welcoming Jeff aboard. [ February 08, 2002, 11:48 PM: Message edited by: SuperTed ]

Sgt. K, The difference is this release will have substance. :cool:

Sgt. K, Check the news here.

Tom has a little treat ready at Tom's Combat Mission HQ.

BR, Man, I love roasted snipe. Who's going to get it this time?