2021 Platypus Party
Rules & Guidelines
Welcome to the 2021 FFR Winter Platypus Party! This is a celebration of the veteran players in our community to have a fun little tournament and teach new players some tricks!
The Basics of the Tournament
The format for this tournament will be a series of three weekly races during the Duckling Boot Camp stream. All non-duckling players are invited to participate.
The Tournament is being organized as a joint effort of the Platypus Party Bosses, any questions can go directly to them either via PM or a question in the public Discord discussion chat #2022-platy-party-discussion.
Flagsets will be Week 4-6 of the boot camp; these will be revealed 30 minutes before the race begins.
Tournament Schedule
All 3 races will be restreamed live during the boot camp at the following times:
- December 12th, 8:30pm
- December 19th, 8:30pm
- December 26th, 8:30pm
Point System
The point system will be a hybrid of a few styles. The winner of each race gets two times the amount of points as the number of initial entrants. The second place finisher gets 10% fewer points (rounded up). The next finishers all get a cumulative 5% fewer points (rounded up) until 66% of the winner’s points are reached. Points then decrease by 1 per finisher until a minimum of 40% of the winner’s total is reached. All subsequent finishers will receive that amount. It is possible that there will be a different number of entrants in each group. Since each group is considered independent, one group's scoring will not affect the other. Initial calculations for points will be used throughout regardless of drops from the tournament. In case of finishers being within 3 seconds of each other, a retime will take place. If 2 or more racers finish within 1 second of each other, they will all be considered tied and will receive the same amount of points.Before the first week of the Party, the updated scoring example for each group will be posted and pinned on the discord.
For a tie, the following tie breakers will be followed:
- Best place earned
- Total Time of all 3 races (DNQ or forfeits count as 200 minutes)
- Coin flip
Table 1: Point System Breakdown - 20 Participants Example
| 1st - 40 points | 2nd - 36 points | 3rd - 34 points | 4th - 32 points | 5th - 30 points |
| 6th - 28 points | 7th - 26 points | 8th - 25 points | 9th - 24 points | 10th - 23 points |
| 11th - 22 points | 12th - 21 points | 13th - 20 points | 14th - 19 points | 15th - 18 points |
| 16th - 17 points | 17th - 16 points | 18th - 16 points | 19th - 16 points | 20th - 16 points |
Requirements for Participants
- Because the Platypus role is open to interpretation (and this is for fun) we are commanding that any player who does not have the duckling role nor has won a major singles tournament (not including previous duckling derbies) is eligible.
- All races must be streamed and recorded (either on Twitch, locally, etc). Your race cannot be recorded ahead of time but must be raced live, on stream, at whatever designated time your race is scheduled.
- A stream delay of 10 minutes (600 seconds) will be required for all racers participating in this event. If you need assistance setting this up, please contact a Duck Derby Boss via Discord PM.
- However, as always, cheating is not tolerated. As such:
- Players may not hang out in any chat other than their own. Do not be in the broadcaster network’s chats/streams at the time of your race.
- Players may not hang out in the opponent’s stream or chat during the race.
- Players’ own chats must be set to “emote only”.
- If any player in a race somehow gains outside assistance during a race, they will be disqualified from the Platy Party.
- Do not post spoilers in racetime.gg chat during or after the race - please use the #post-race-spoiler-discussion in the public Discord. Please limit any post in the chat to ggs and serious questions/reports of technical difficulty.
- If you experience technical difficulty during the race, message the racetime.gg chat and a Platypus Party Boss will communicate with you via Discord PMs.
- Matches will be conducted on racetime.gg. Players will be required to have a racetime.gg account and be in the racetime.gg rooms 30 minutes before their race to allow for setup time of the stream.
- Players must have a timer on screen for synching and timing of the races (in case of a “photo finish”).
- The “Tournament Safe ROM” flag will be on for this tournament, so all players must use a ROM that will pass the verification of this flag.
- While on stream, and in interviews afterwards, players must comport themselves and act to the expected standards for on-air behavior. This includes, but is not limited to: no cussing, no rants about the other player, no rants about the tournament, no rants about the format, no rants about the streaming service. This extends not only to the on-air portion of the event but to Twitch chat and public-facing Discords as well. Anyone that acts in a manner counter to the professional attitude and bearing we expect from our players at this event will be disqualified from the tournament.
- Finally, following the completion of your race, you may be asked to join the broadcast for an interview. Despite the outcome of the race, please compose yourself in a professional manner. There are no hard feelings - we are all here to have fun. If you find yourself unable to behave with good sportsmanship during the post-race interview, you will be removed from the broadcast booth. Also, bear in mind, our broadcast partners have policies against swearing or use profane language on their stream.
- All participants must be on the FFR discord for the duration of the Party
If you are selected for the restream the following additional conditions apply:
- If the sprites are not recognizable as the traditional heroes of the game, the players must name their characters after the classes being used (i.e., FI, TH, BB, RM, BM, WM).
- Spell damage and tile flickers must be turned off
If you do not want to follow these rules do not volunteer for a restream. You can participate in the tournament without taking part in the restreams - with the exception of the finals.
Some players have asked what they will be allowed to use in the tournament. Of the concerns raised so far, the tournament will allow:
- Reset buttons (hard and soft reset) may be mapped to controllers.
- Players may use their fun graphical hacks for their game. That is, of course, with the caveat that the ROM must pass the “Tournament Safe” flag, so players will really only be able to edit their light warrior sprites. And, of course, character names, and hero sprites, must conform to the above standards listed (so no swear words for character names, and no offensive sprites of any kind, etc.).
- Autotracking for both key items and the map
- You can not use the turbo button or bind it to any buttons on a controller
If you have any questions about these rules, please DM a Party Boss for clarification.