The Mighty HDC Battle Royale III

[Straker]

This was the toughest and most time consuming challenge yet. Can't say it wouldn't feel like a kick in the balls having it scrapped. I'd rather lose the challenge, but have my teams effort acknowledged, than have the challenge scrapped all together. I know I wouldn't have been able to get this challenge done without a few people in my team putting in some extra time and effort.

[newb]

As a neutral observer of The Battle and also a former participant, I can testify that the challenge in question is one of the toughest of the lot. Just my 2 cents but I think it should be left as is.



now carry on with the slaughter :D

[Rayne]

Originally Posted by newb

As a neutral observer of The Battle and also a former participant, I can testify that the challenge in question is one of the toughest of the lot.

Yes, it is and it's also one of my favorites!...I love this challenge, and the crossword and word search...Ooooh, and the scrambles....and...Hmm, I guess I kinda love ALL of the challenges!...But, I'd say my top 5 are definitely:

1) Crossword
2) Screenshot (this one)
3) Looking for specific items in screenshots (we haven't done that one this time around...yet)
4) Scrambles
5) Word Search


The only one I didn't like was the essay part at the end of the first Battle Royale...But, that was kinda dropped, we didn't do it in the second Battle Royale.

I seriously LOVE this game...And the more 'challenging' a challenge is, the more I like it...I just really, REALLY like to play and compete :)


Oh...and I gotta say it one more time...

My team is AWESOME!

[ChronoGrl]

Oh, man, I loooooooooooooooooove the essays (says the former English major) - I was TOTALLY bummed that they were done away with last year - That was my favorite part of the first one (and the reason why I loved HDC Idol so much)...

After that I'd say I like the Crossword a lot... I have a tough time with word searches and scrambles, but still enjoy them in the name of Battle Royale.

The screen capture challenge is by far the hardest and most challenging, but I love it because most of these movies I haven't seen so it gets me to watch them. I've struggled with it in the past, but I think it's a good solid challenge.

And it's true - DEMON WRAITHS RULE

[Zero]

V's game - V's rules.

He's put in insane work into this and while I can honestly say i had no memory of the 'different shots' part - I respect his imagination and effort. So - you'll hear no more complaints from the monkey.

[ferretchucker]

I don't see the point in the challenge being scrapped, none of us are saying we want it to be that way. But I have to agree with Missmacabre, I just read the rules and follow them. Heck, for all we knew you could have decided to make it a little easier this year. We followed the listed rules for the Battle Royale 3 challenge 9, and so the rules of Battle Royale 1 challenge 11 shouldn't also automatically be drafted in from our own memories. And there isn't always time to get points clarified, especially ones like this. Getting the answers in fast means the difference between winning and losing.

I know at the end of the day this is just a game, albeit a very fun and imaginitive one, but it's one that we have not broken the rules off and whilst it may cause some debate there's no need to scrap it! If arguments over games were that bad then Monopoly would be outlawed by now and Ol' Moneybags would be someone's bitch in the showers as we speak.

[friday13thfan]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b93mTVukuiE

There you go Ferret :D

[Rayne]

Originally Posted by ferretchucker

I don't see the point in the challenge being scrapped, none of us are saying we want it to be that way. But I have to agree with Missmacabre, I just read the rules and follow them. Heck, for all we knew you could have decided to make it a little easier this year. We followed the listed rules for the Battle Royale 3 challenge 9, and so the rules of Battle Royale 1 challenge 11 shouldn't also automatically be drafted in from our own memories. And there isn't always time to get points clarified, especially ones like this. Getting the answers in fast means the difference between winning and losing.

The way I see it is, V had to (but shouldn't have had to) point out the fact that 1 person shouldn't do all of the work, while everyone else just copies and sends in that person's answers...The ONLY reason someone should HAVE to say "use your own photobucket"...or..."make sure the shots look different"...is so that we could at least PRETEND that people who sign on to play the game, are actually trying to PLAY THE GAME

Are you missing this integral part of the overall picture?


It would be nice if all of the people who expect someone else to play the game for them, would just refrain from signing on...

[bwind22]

I guess the huge difference of opinion some of us have is that the challenges are the fun part of the game. The fun in a game like this for me comes from the socialization, strategizing and hunting each other (all of which I dont have time for either.) The challenges are just a means to an end... A way to determine who gets to do what type of strategizing and who hunts who. I don't find it even remotely fun to check in and find a challenge that's going to require hours out of my life just to get to the part I do enjoy.

So I have a solution...

Everyone else can be declared the winner of the challenge since they all seem to have put in effort and I'll go into the hunting zone unarmed where everyone can just kill me this week (since I put in no effort and it still took me 20 minutes.) If the challenges are gonna be this time-consuming all the way throughout the game, I'm not gonna have time to play once it becomes individual anyway.

[ferretchucker]

Originally Posted by Rayne

The way I see it is, V had to (but shouldn't have had to) point out the fact that 1 person shouldn't do all of the work, while everyone else just copies and sends in that person's answers...The ONLY reason someone should HAVE to say "use your own photobucket"...or..."make sure the shots look different"...is so that we could at least PRETEND that people who sign on to play the game, are actually trying to PLAY THE GAME

Are you missing this integral part of the overall picture?


It would be nice if all of the people who expect someone else to play the game for them, would just refrain from signing on...

But that's the thing, in the challenges, this one in particular, as MM said there were countless messages over both facebook and PMs between the whole group. Near enough everybody found at least one picture and whilst some may have put in a bit more work than others we still did it. I went onto youtube, sifted through a few videos til I found that goat scene, printscreened it and saved it into paint. Whilst that wasn't the final one we used because one of better quality was found, I still put the effort in as did so many others.

All I'm saying is, like in Posher's thread about that scum family picketing the funeral, none of the listed rules were broken.