+KaeruYojimbo Posted August 17, 2004 Share Posted August 17, 2004 Seeing the popularity of the Atarilympics got me thinking about an idea I had a while back for an ongoing, team-based league. The league would consist of teams of five. Every week, five games would be chosen at random and each player on each team would play one of the games. Teams would be paired off and the player who scores higher at his or her game would earn a point for their team. The team with the most points wins the match. I don't want to start he league right away and take away from the Atarilympics, but I would like to guage any interest in doing something like this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan Iacovelli Posted August 17, 2004 Share Posted August 17, 2004 thats good idea I'm thinking of doing the same thing for my clubs competions we have but it will cover 2600 to Jagaur. this won't happen until january 2005 when Iget all the rules straightened out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malc74 Posted August 17, 2004 Share Posted August 17, 2004 It's an interesting proposition, but I can see problems because everyone will be required to play every single week. Just take a look at the HSC and you'll see that most people take weeks off, lose interest, miss the start and come in later, etc. It'll require dedication from a large number of players to be a success - looking back at the earlier weeks of the HSC (or at the signup thread) there were a lot of people who said "Yeah! What a great idea! I'll join!" and haven't been heard from more than once or twice (if at all) since. You could, I suppose, have some kind of 'substitutes bench' with reserve players who could be called upon by any team member who couldn't play that week, but that makes things even more complicated, especially if you run out of reserves - then you're faced with cancelling matches or awarding walkover points, which kind of negates the purpose of the whole league. Damn, I'm sounding like a right old grumpy git but I think a lot of people will prefer the 'informality' of the HSC compared to the demands of a permanent league. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goochman Posted August 17, 2004 Share Posted August 17, 2004 I think it will require too much effort for most of the players here. However, With the success of the Olympics maybe say in Oct or Nov you could run a contest for a month with teams again on 5 or 10 games just for that month. My $0.02 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+KaeruYojimbo Posted August 18, 2004 Author Share Posted August 18, 2004 I was thinking of something like a 10 week season followed by a playoff. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
homerwannabee Posted August 18, 2004 Share Posted August 18, 2004 What I thought would be cool to have is an atari racilympics. we could do something like this around either the Datona 500 or The Indy 500. And instead of having countries we represent, we would represent race teams. Like team Earnhart Jr, or team Gordon. This would also work because a lot of the race games like dragster, grand prix, are timed as well. Just my two cents. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ze_ro Posted August 18, 2004 Share Posted August 18, 2004 One idea I've been toying with was to have special events based around other real-life sporting events... like when the Superbowl came around, have a big tournament where people play Super Football against each other... or Activision's Ice Hockey during the Stanley Cup playoffs and other such stuff. Since we're all over the globe though, this probably wouldn't work very well. Are there any 2600 emulators that support network play? --Zero Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NintendoDieScreaming Posted August 18, 2004 Share Posted August 18, 2004 Are there any 2600 emulators that support network play? --Zero No, but it would be HELLA COO' if there was. Im all for the AtariLeauge idea. I'm loving the Atarilympics. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NintendoDieScreaming Posted August 18, 2004 Share Posted August 18, 2004 Are there any 2600 emulators that support network play? --Zero No, but it would be HELLA COO' if there was. Im all for the AtariLeauge idea. I'm loving the Atarilympics. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan Iacovelli Posted August 19, 2004 Share Posted August 19, 2004 One idea I've been toying with was to have special events based around other real-life sporting events... like when the Superbowl came around, have a big tournament where people play Super Football against each other... or Activision's Ice Hockey during the Stanley Cup playoffs and other such stuff. Since we're all over the globe though, this probably wouldn't work very well. Are there any 2600 emulators that support network play? --Zero Pcaewin2.6 has net support via kaillera(,but it is hard to find since the guy who id the pcae stopped doing it. also it's very hard to connect to server. Itried a couple times and it crashed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maibock Posted August 19, 2004 Share Posted August 19, 2004 Are there any 2600 emulators that support network play? --Zero No, but it would be HELLA COO' if there was. Im all for the AtariLeauge idea. I'm loving the Atarilympics. There was one which advertised as such, but after a good effort by myself and BeerGnome, we were never able to connect and play. In fact as we were organising the event, other gamers suggested that they also had tried to no avail. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maibock Posted August 19, 2004 Share Posted August 19, 2004 One idea I've been toying with was to have special events based around other real-life sporting events... like when the Superbowl came around, have a big tournament where people play Super Football against each other... or Activision's Ice Hockey during the Stanley Cup playoffs and other such stuff. Since we're all over the globe though, this probably wouldn't work very well. Are there any 2600 emulators that support network play? --Zero Pcaewin2.6 has net support via kaillera(,but it is hard to find since the guy who id the pcae stopped doing it. also it's very hard to connect to server. Itried a couple times and it crashed. Yeah PCAEWin was the one we tried. It supported other emulators as well which I believed worked, but no the VCS Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan Iacovelli Posted August 19, 2004 Share Posted August 19, 2004 One idea I've been toying with was to have special events based around other real-life sporting events... like when the Superbowl came around, have a big tournament where people play Super Football against each other... or Activision's Ice Hockey during the Stanley Cup playoffs and other such stuff. Since we're all over the globe though, this probably wouldn't work very well. Are there any 2600 emulators that support network play? --Zero Pcaewin2.6 has net support via kaillera(,but it is hard to find since the guy who id the pcae stopped doing it. also it's very hard to connect to server. Itried a couple times and it crashed. Yeah PCAEWin was the one we tried. It supported other emulators as well which I believed worked, but no the VCS that was you maibok that we tried do network play on it thats was awhile back (I barely remember it). yeah too bad it didn't work because it would be cool,now John D. who made Pcae is gone and thre are no more updates to it. (even though classicgaming.com has the older version of pcaewin but not the current one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maibock Posted August 19, 2004 Share Posted August 19, 2004 One idea I've been toying with was to have special events based around other real-life sporting events... like when the Superbowl came around, have a big tournament where people play Super Football against each other... or Activision's Ice Hockey during the Stanley Cup playoffs and other such stuff. Since we're all over the globe though, this probably wouldn't work very well. Are there any 2600 emulators that support network play? --Zero Pcaewin2.6 has net support via kaillera(,but it is hard to find since the guy who id the pcae stopped doing it. also it's very hard to connect to server. Itried a couple times and it crashed. Yeah PCAEWin was the one we tried. It supported other emulators as well which I believed worked, but no the VCS that was you maibok that we tried do network play on it thats was awhile back (I barely remember it). yeah too bad it didn't work because it would be cool,now John D. who made Pcae is gone and thre are no more updates to it. (even though classicgaming.com has the older version of pcaewin but not the current one. Has the current version been tried yet? I have no clue which version we tried before, but that must have been at least a year ago.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+KaeruYojimbo Posted August 19, 2004 Author Share Posted August 19, 2004 One idea I've been toying with was to have special events based around other real-life sporting events... like when the Superbowl came around, have a big tournament where people play Super Football against each other... or Activision's Ice Hockey during the Stanley Cup playoffs and other such stuff. Since we're all over the globe though, this probably wouldn't work very well. Are there any 2600 emulators that support network play? --Zero The only really fair way to do anything like that would be to somehow implement 10 Yard Fight-style scoring. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan Iacovelli Posted August 21, 2004 Share Posted August 21, 2004 One idea I've been toying with was to have special events based around other real-life sporting events... like when the Superbowl came around, have a big tournament where people play Super Football against each other... or Activision's Ice Hockey during the Stanley Cup playoffs and other such stuff. Since we're all over the globe though, this probably wouldn't work very well. Are there any 2600 emulators that support network play? --Zero Pcaewin2.6 has net support via kaillera(,but it is hard to find since the guy who id the pcae stopped doing it. also it's very hard to connect to server. Itried a couple times and it crashed. Yeah PCAEWin was the one we tried. It supported other emulators as well which I believed worked, but no the VCS that was you maibok that we tried do network play on it thats was awhile back (I barely remember it). yeah too bad it didn't work because it would be cool,now John D. who made Pcae is gone and thre are no more updates to it. (even though classicgaming.com has the older version of pcaewin but not the current one. Has the current version been tried yet? I have no clue which version we tried before, but that must have been at least a year ago.. the last version of pcaewin is 2.6 and thats what I have it came out about 3 years ago (the date on it is 2001) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+KaeruYojimbo Posted August 29, 2004 Author Share Posted August 29, 2004 I've set up an AtariLeague website with a little more information. http://atarileague.my100megs.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kemsted Posted August 30, 2004 Share Posted August 30, 2004 that sounds like a great idea, sign me up please. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HermChase Posted August 30, 2004 Share Posted August 30, 2004 I really like the logo. I can picture shirts with that on it... Atari Jerseys?? *ponders* -------- Chase Hermsen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gamemaster_ca_2003 Posted August 30, 2004 Share Posted August 30, 2004 Sign me Up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jedijeff Posted August 30, 2004 Share Posted August 30, 2004 Sounds like it could be fun. Sign me up. Jeff Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keilbaca Posted August 30, 2004 Share Posted August 30, 2004 i'm up for it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+KaeruYojimbo Posted August 30, 2004 Author Share Posted August 30, 2004 I think I'm going to have to knock it down to 3-man teams. I have thought about selling some t-shirts with the logo through cafe press if there seems to be enough interest. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan Iacovelli Posted August 31, 2004 Share Posted August 31, 2004 I'm going to have pass on this, the atari Ylpmics took up most of my free time and now Ihave to get back to work on my website (getting the AVC News Stand ready for it grand opening this week) as well as the working on getting the next issue of the atari zone done. good luck to everybody on this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ze_ro Posted August 31, 2004 Share Posted August 31, 2004 Alright, I guess I'm game for this. It'll be interesting to see how this turns out... How are the teams going to be worked out though? Are we just going to be assigned randomly or what? Also, you mention that teams will be "paired off" each week... does this mean that if I'm competing on one game, then I only have to beat the score of whoever is on the opposing team in that game? Or will the scores of all the teams be factored in somehow? --Zero Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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