Sonic goes Back to School [TPA2] [Hath WINS]

[sonicsteve]

edit: mc29. This Tournament has been rescued by DaveH

Scores and updates can be found here: Scores and Updates




This is a Tournament Players Association (TPA) event, and is governed by its rules, guidelines, and judgments. All are welcome to join and participate in the association. You need do nothing more than join one or more of the TPA events that will be announced each Monday.

Tournament Players Association Year 2

This is a Premier Event.

Sonic goes Back to School

Headmaster Sonic here; welcome to orientation. This is the start of a brand new season of the TPA, so what better way to begin than with a ‘back to school’ tournament.

This tournament will consist of SIX 6-player games with Escalating Terminator Automatic Chained Sequential Sunny settings in each round. The terminator element is possibly a reflection on my own schooldays. I will keep this available to freemiums by issuing a maximum of 2 games per player. If you are freemium you will need to keep 2 slots available to avoid missing classes.

How to Enter

You will need to pick 6 (and only six) subjects from the 12 First Year subjects listed in the Year 1 spoiler below. If you simply can’t choose then just say “Sorting Hat, please” instead of listing subjects on your registration form and random.org will decide for you. Please fill in a school registration form like this sample one, which you can copy (or plagiarise I believe they call it nowadays) and paste into the thread below:

School Registration Form
Name: sonicsteve
Subjects: English, Economics, Maths, French, Sports, Astronomy.
Declaration: I have read the school rules and agree to abide by them. I accept that if the class I apply for is oversubscribed, I shall study an alternative subject picked for me by the sorting hat.

The majority of applicants should get all of the subjects they apply for, since (with 72 entrants) there will be an average of 6 classes per subject, the most popular subjects will get more classes, and I would expect students requesting the sorting hat option to fill most of the gaps.

If you try to enter with “in, please” or something similar I will know you have not read the rules.

Year 1 subject list

Year 1 subjects and corresponding maps are:

Art – Doodle Earth
Astronomy – Space
Beekeeping – Hive (note that beekeeping classes will be first on the timetable and unlimited forts will be available in this subject only)
Classics – Peloponnessian War
Economics – Age of Merchants
English Language - England
French – France
Geography – Classic
History – Flanders 1302
Maths - Random
Spanish – Iberia
Sports – Cricket

scoring, GA medal and TPA scoring

Pupils will be awarded marks according to how long they lasted before being terminated by a fellow student.

Knocked out 1st – 1 point (dunce)
Knocked out 2nd – 2 point
Knocked out 3rd – 3 point
Knocked out 4th – 4 point
Knocked out last – 6 point
Game winner – 8 points (star pupil)

One bonus point will be awarded for each student you terminate, so a clean sweep is worth 13 points.

I have had a GA medal approved for this tournament. It will be awarded to the pupil who terminates the greatest number of unique students.

I have applied for and been granted 2 further GA medals

lindax already approved a medal for most kills across 3 rounds.

On reflection I think it is a pretty decent accomplishment to top the leaderboard for Round 1 and 2, out of 120 and 80 players respectively. DJ Teflon agreed, so there will be a GA medal for the winner of each of the first two rounds.

TPA scoring will be based on player positions in the final league table in accordance with the system described in the main TPA Year 2 thread

Moving on at the end of Year 1. Once all pupils have studied all 6 subjects, a league table will be prepared and the worst performing students in the bottom third of the table (i.e. the 40 students with the lowest marks) will leave the school. Tied places will be decided by a game on CCU with the same settings as the main tournament, but only where necessary to determine who leaves the school.

Year 2 details

Year 2. 8 advanced subjects will be available for study, and again you will choose 6 lessons or be placed in the sorting hat.

Year 2 ‘advanced’ level subjects and corresponding maps will be:

Advanced Astronomy – Solar System
American Studies – First Nations North America
Arabic – Middle East
Environmental Science – Extreme Global Warming
French History – France 1789
Geography 2.1 – World 2.1
Modern History – WWII Poland
Statistics – Random

At the end of year 2, half of the remaining students will leave the school (i.e. a further 40 students will leave), again this will be decided by their place in the league table. Tied places will be decided by a game on CCU with the same settings as the main tournament, but only where necessary to determine who leaves the school.

Year 3 details

Year 3. 4 ‘University’ level subjects will be available, so in this year you may specialise by nominating the same subject as your ‘major’ up to 3 times. You will still need to make a total of 6 nominations.

Year 3 subjects will be:

Business Studies – City Mogul
Media - Woodboro
Politics – US Senate
Psychology – Random

At the end of year 3, the player with the best overall academic record (i.e. the most points in their final year) will win the tournament.

Other

If a player drops out of the tournament, their class size will be reduced to 5 and the student terminated first shall earn 2 points, etc. The student making the final kill will be deemed to have swept the board and will earn a kill point for the missing student.

I will usually make three attempts to get a student into class before continuing the lesson without them

[sonicsteve]

School Timetable - Year 1:

Students will be allocated into classes of 6 by random.org. Each student will take part in a maximum of two lessons at once, invitations will be sent only when all students in the class have a free slot.

ART - 10 classes. All underway
ASTRONOMY - 12 classes.
BEEKEEPING - 2 classes. COMPLETE
CLASSICS - 6 classes. COMPLETE
ECONOMICS - 8 classes. COMPLETE
ENGLISH - 13 classes.
FRENCH - 15 classes. All underway
GEOGRAPHY - 13 classes. COMPLETE
HISTORY - 9 classes . COMPLETE
MATHS - 15 classes. All underway
SPANISH - 12 classes. 9 underway
SPORTS - 5 classes. All underway


Cells in the table below marked in Black show lessons which have not yet started. Cells in Blue are lessons in progress and cells in Green show the final mark achieved in a lesson which has now ended.

[sonicsteve]

These are the current leaders for the 'Most Unique Kills' throughout the 3 school years (up to date at 26th October). The winner of this will get a GA medal:

osujacket 12
Leehar 10
Hath 9
hiloopy 9
ianphull 9
macbone 9
whakamole 8
Pixar 7
Bones2484 6
kennys777 6
TheMissionary 6
uckuki 6

[sonicsteve]

Leehar - 64
Hath - 56
hiloopy - 52
Darin44 - 49
osujacket - 49
Risky_Stud - 48
Pixar - 48
Zorbas - 46
Tripitaka - 46
kennys777 - 45
whakamole - 45
Bleed_Green - 45
JJ41375 - 41
chemefrreak - 40
ItzPetey - 40
ianphull - 39
Nicho - 39
macbone - 39
Dako - 39
ThrushAAX - 39
Shoop76 - 38
uckuki - 38
Timminz - 37
Coconutt - 35
I_AM_BOGEY - 35
spidey - 34
Kinnison - 34
Deadpool - 34
TheMissionary - 33
lurkerleader - 33
freyme - 33
Araldite - 33
irlLordy - 33
xman5151 - 32
Xtremejeep88 - 32
Charle - 32
tokle - 32
blitzkreig2 - 32
RedBaron0 - 32
vykingsfan64 - 31
Eternal Shadow - 31
Evil Semp - 31
drake_259 - 31
GreenBaize - 31
deantursx - 30
Theldin - 30
maasman - 29
Tammy DeLee - 29
Willo.Kings - 29
totalacid1 - 29
mcshanester29 - 29
phantomzero - 29
redbugal - 29
mwaser - 28
dorsettrob - 28
magneto_acolyte - 27
rjhankey - 27
dumhic - 27
dowian2 - 27
Bones2484 - 27
Ishihara - 27
Dukasaur - 27
Gifton - 26
dazza2008 - 26
callmecommander - 26
kuma32478 - 26
mviola - 26
ChrisBeerens - 26
Risk_Averse - 26
Aaron234 - 25
BunnRee - 25
sonicsteve - 25
Fuzzy316 - 24
LLLUUUKKKEEE - 24
ubcman64 - 24
Count Belisle - 24
Mr DooM - 24
amazzony - 23
darth emperor - 23
wilkinc - 23
darkbluesky - 23
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dittoeevee88 - 22
morleyjoe - 22
koontz1973 - 21
Enormastitz - 21
Krissan - 21
musicalmaven - 21
chapcrap - 20
MudPuppy - 20
thekidstrumpet - 20
evilkingjay - 19
angola - 19
Gilligan - 19
Moonchild - 19
jonty125 - 17
Serbia - 16
zissou2 - 15
Night Strike - 13
bristow47 - 13
cgblack - 10
theheadholes - 10

[sonicsteve]

reserved

[sonicsteve]

reserved

[sonicsteve]

School Registration Form
Name: sonicsteve
Subjects: English, Economics, Maths, French, Sports, Astronomy.
Declaration: I have read the school rules and agree to abide by them. I accept that if the class I apply for is oversubscribed, I shall study an alternative subject picked for me by the sorting hat.

[Leehar]

Name: Leehar
Subjects: Astronomy, English, History, Sports, Maths, Economics
Declaration: I have read the school rules and agree to abide by them. I accept that if the class I apply for is oversubscribed, I shall study an alternative subject picked for me by the sorting hat.

[mcshanester29]

School Registration Form
Name: mcshanester29
Subjects: Art, Astronomy, English, French, Geography,Math
Declaration: I have read the school rules and agree to abide by them. I accept that if the class I apply for is oversubscribed, I shall study an alternative subject picked for me by the sorting hat.

[Night Strike]

Score!!


School Registration Form
Name: Night Strike
Subjects: Astronomy, Economics, French, History Maths, Spanish
Declaration: I have read the school rules and agree to abide by them. I accept that if the class I apply for is oversubscribed, I shall study an alternative subject picked for me by the sorting hat.

[deantursx]

Name: Deantursx
Subjects: English, Maths, French, History, Arts, Spanish.
Declaration: I have read the school rules and agree to abide by them. I accept that if the class I apply for is oversubscribed, I shall study an alternative subject picked for me by the sorting hat.

[amazzony]

Can't miss this!

Name: amazzony
Subjects: Astronomy, English Language, French, Geography, Maths, Spanish
Declaration: I have read the school rules and agree to abide by them. I accept that if the class I apply for is oversubscribed, I shall study an alternative subject picked for me by the sorting hat.

[davedbates]

School Registration Form
Name: davedbates
Subjects: Art, English Language, French, Geography, History, Spanish
Declaration: I have read the school rules and agree to abide by them. I accept that if the class I apply for is oversubscribed, I shall study an alternative subject picked for me by the sorting hat.

[Tupence]

This looks great!

School Registration Form
Name: Tupence
Subjects: Art, Astronomy, Economics, English Language, History, Maths
Declaration: I have read the school rules and agree to abide by them. I accept that if the class I apply for is oversubscribed, I shall study an alternative subject picked for me by the sorting hat.

[Krissan]

inininininininININININ!

Name: Krissan
Subjects: Maths, Geography, Spanish, History, French, Astronomy
Declaration: I have read the school rules and agree to abide by them. I accept that if the class I apply for is oversubscribed, I shall study an alternative subject picked for me by the sorting hat.

[Gilligan]

Name: Gilligan
Subjects: Astronomy, Maths, Art, French, History, Economics
Declaration: I have read the school rules and agree to abide by them. I accept that if the class I apply for is oversubscribed, I shall study an alternative subject picked for me by the sorting hat.

[dazza2008]

School Registration Form
Name: dazza2008
Subjects: Art, French, Geography, Maths, Spanish and History.
Declaration: I have read the school rules and agree to abide by them. I accept that if the class I apply for is oversubscribed, I shall study an alternative subject picked for me by the sorting hat.

[ItzPetey]

School Registration Form
Name: sonicsteve
Subjects: Astronomy, Beekeeping, English, French, Geo, Spanish.
Declaration: I have read the school rules and agree to abide by them. I accept that if the class I apply for is oversubscribed, I shall study an alternative subject picked for me by the sorting hat.

[MudPuppy]

School Registration Form
Name: MudPuppy
Subjects: Astronomy, Economics, French, History, Maths, Spanish.
Declaration: I have read the school rules and agree to abide by them. I accept that if the class I apply for is oversubscribed, I shall study an alternative subject picked for me by the sorting hat.

[Hath]

School Registration Form
Name: Hath
Subjects: English, Economics, Geography, French, Spanish, Astronomy
Declaration: I have read the school rules and agree to abide by them. I accept that if the class I apply for is oversubscribed, I shall study an alternative subject picked for me by the sorting hat.

[Bones2484]

School Registration Form
Name: Bones2484
Subjects: Astronomy, Maths, Economics, Classics, Geography, Sports
Declaration: I have read the school rules and agree to abide by them. I accept that if the class I apply for is oversubscribed, I shall study an alternative subject picked for me by the sorting hat.

[redbugal]

School Registration Form
Name: redbugal
Subjects: Art, Astronomy, Classics, Economics, English Language, Geography
Declaration: I have read the school rules and agree to abide by them. I accept that if the class I apply for is oversubscribed, I shall study an alternative subject picked for me by the sorting hat.

[sonicsteve]

I'm in will choose classes later

You need to paste the form, matey - or choose the 'Sorting Hat'

Recorded everyone else to here.

[barterer2002]

School Registration Form
Name: barterer2002
Subjects: Economics, Maths, History, Spanish, Sports, Geography
Declaration: I have read the school rules and agree to abide by them. I accept that if the class I apply for is oversubscribed, I shall study an alternative subject picked for me by the sorting hat.

[Willo.Kings]

School Registration Form
Name: willo.kings
Subjects: Art, Maths, Astronomy, Geography, Spanish & French
Declaration: I have read the school rules and agree to abide by them. I accept that if the class I apply for is oversubscribed, I shall study an alternative subject picked for me by the sorting hat.