Tournaments troubles. Bad news.

Many of you have noticed and reported problems with tournaments not starting or not ending or otherwise being screwy. Well, I just went to GuitarHero.com and found out the player profile pages have changed COMPLETELY, most likely due to GH:WT release.

Since the Angry Edison system was setup and programmed to use the (now) old GH.com profile pages, the scores are not being collected accurately and the PPTs are otherwise out of whack entirely. Fixing this will require (would could be) a complete rewrite of the AE system, which will take time and, at this point, will probably not happen any time soon.

I'm not sure exactly what to do with all this trouble. For lack of a better term, Angry Edison tournaments are pretty much shut down until further notice. Other resources on the site will remain active.

Wanted: New Angry Edison tournament manager

I've gotten a few comments and mails asking about public tournaments. For a while now the site has been a private tournament playground, which I think is great, but obviously the lack of public tournaments keep some people out of playing if they're not part of a tour group.

What I need to get public tournaments back to a regular schedule is help. I'm looking for someone that is interested in managing & scheduling public GH3 tournaments on Angry Edison.

This isn't a hard job but it can take some time out of your day if you want to schedule things right and select a good set list. If you're interested, please send mail to stickers@angryedison.com and tell me why you want to be a tourney admin. I'll review the submissions and pick one person for the job.

There is a very simple interface for scheduling the tourneys. You basically pick the date, time, three songs and you're done. No, you won't get to offer prizes for tournaments, sorry. But you'll be able to schedule as many* tournaments as you want throughout the week.

I just don't have the time or passion to really give Edison all the love it needs. So rather than let it waste away, I'd rather see someone who has excitement and passion for the game to take up the reins and let it play...it may also motivate me (and give me time) to look into expanding Edison (ie, GHA).

Tournaments back on-line 10/27

UPDATE (10/27): We found a temporary remote server for our system scripts and everything seems to be running again as normal. I will keep an eye on the log over the next few days. But everyone can schedule tournaments and they should start/stop as normal. Sorry again for the hiccup.
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UPDATE (10/26): Our remote server is still offline and not sure when it will be back. I have access to another at work but won't be able to get that setup until Monday or Tuesday. Thus, all tourneys for Sunday (10/26) have been suspended. More soon.
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After a few reports from folks, I discovered the remote server we use to start/stop tournaments is having problems and is currently offline. This is why scheduled tournaments are not starting.

My apologies for the trouble and confusion, this has totally caught me off guard. I'll investigate a replacement as soon as possible and post here with more details.

I will be removing all PPTs from the system for Saturday (10/25) and hope to have a replacement by Sunday (10/26).

Thanks for the your patience. Sorry again.

The long overdue update

An update is long overdue, I admit. But schedules, vacations, and other things have kept things on the low burner for a while. Fact of the matter is I think GH3 has peaked and with GH4 and other new releases coming very soon, things will be changing and people will be moving on to newer games.

That's not say we're closing shop or anything. I'll keep things running until there's no point or no players. But with less people playing it means less scheduled tourneys. I'll still be putting up brackets for the weekends, but weekday tourneys will probably suffer. Sorry to all you after-work rockers.

I think the PPTs are still strong and offer a great way for those still playing GH3 to enjoy some tournament-based action.

I haven't made any system changes in a long while and probably won't anytime soon. But that being said everything is working just fine and should continue to do so. But there's just no time for any updates considering they would last well into the holiday shopping season, just in time for people to get all the new games and shelf GH3.

Keep an eye out for weekend tournaments and for more prize tournaments as the budget allows. Your weekends can still rock here at Angry Edison.

Does anyone care about non-prize tournaments?

I've noticed a pattern that isn't too surprising...nobody is playing non-prize tournaments. I realize it's fun to play and get something, but is there no fun in playing in tournaments just to win? If most folks are only interested in playing for goodies then I'll reduce the number of non-prize tournaments and it will make my life a whole lot easier.

Or if we went back to the standard leaderboard...would that motivate folks to play when there's nothing at stake? Do bragging rights mean anything?