Just making this topic to ask how many people would be interested in taking part in something like this. I brought it up before after the BK face off back in early June, and thought it might be a good idea to get the community together, as well as to serve as a means of advertising the DKC-Atlas.
I'd probably try and get the event hosted through marathongamer.com; I know these guys pretty well now, since they set up gaming marathons every now and then for people to watch on weekends, but they also did a brilliant job organising the BK face off before. So it'd be cool to talk to them and see how we could organise this, perhaps get some special prizes donated by Rare since they've been extra nice to their fans lately. We could also host it here, on the main site if possible.
Anyway, before anything happens, a few things need to be sorted out.
Number one: What would the circumstances of the event be? I'd say playing through DKC for 101%. Each player would have contact with a judge and would instant message them (probably the same judge) when they had completed the game; winners would not be awarded according to their in-game time, but rather their real-game time.
Each player would have a live stream of their system up on the same page of a site, and judges would watch to make sure that nobody cheated and whatnot. Runs would need to be streamed live; no prerecording would be allowed.
Number two: How many people would be interested in competing in the event, and how many would be able to do so themselves? To compete, you will need a capture device of some sort hooked up to your computer (high quality webcam preferred with sound if possible) which would focus on your TV screen; no direct feeds allowed. Sound is better since it makes viewing more interesting. You'll also need a ustream account set up and tested before the event, and need to email details to an organiser a week prior to the event. If you're able to set something like this up for yourself and would be interested in competing, please post so we know how many people we can look forward to competing at the same time.
Also post if you would be interested in viewing. The last event had several dozen people viewing, but I think we might be able to reel in a few more with proper advertising and what not.
Number three: Prizes. Stuff that you'd like to see awarded to the top players; stuff that would make people interested in competing and practicing their game before the event. At the BK face off, several pieces of artwork were awarded, signed by concept artist Ryan Stevenson, and we ended up having three people finishing within ten minutes of each other. So something that would make competing all the more worthwhile.
That's it for now; this is just a topic for the sake of gathering interest. If enough people like the idea and would like to watch on the day then I'll try and organise something further. The event would probably happen on a Saturday at ~7.00am GMT so that viewers from all timezones could watch (that's late Friday for Americans and mid-Saturday for Australians). Hopefully this sparks some interest.
Thanks.
I'd be very interested in watching though and I'd like to help with some organising/advertising for the event.
