UPSB v3
General Discussion / World Cup '10 Qualifications - Information
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Date: Fri, Oct 16 2009 15:26:23
So I've talked to Crash and we've set the final details on the WC10 qualifications!
The website will be up next week.
1. Qualification stage
The qualification stage is designed to determine the top 8 teams who will take part of the main event. It consists of a collab battle.
1.1 Collab battle
Each community registered will have to produce a collab. Each collab will then be published publicly simultaneously. The collabs will then be ranked and the communities of the top 8 collabs will advance to the main event.
1.1.1 Collab specifications
The collab should contain:
1- 6-10 videos from 6-10 spinners (one video per spinner) from the community.
2- Each video should have a minimum length of 10 seconds, maximum length of 25 seconds.
3- The maximum length of the collab is 4 minutes, including the introduction and credits.
4- The collab should be edited by someone from the same community.
5- The collab should include an introduction and credits.
6- You cannot alter the speed of the videos (speed up or slow down).
It is important to note that the spinners in the collab do not necessarily have to be the same spinners that will be in the team for the main event.
1.1.2 Collab objective
The collabs will be watched by pen spinners all around the world. Each community’s objective with the collab is to showcase its local talent and prove to the world that they have enough talent to deserve a spot in the main event. Each community needs to make a collab which will impress people and make the audience want to see them take part in the World Cup.
The collab can be seen as an answer to the question “Why does your team deserve to participate in the World Cup?â€
The qualifications are comparable to cities making a presentation to convince the IOC that they are the best candidate for the next Olympics.
1.2 Collab judging
All the collabs are revealed publicly. Each community must then decide how they will rank collabs from the other communities. The suggested method is to form a committee of trustworthy members from the board. Each community will then designate a spokesperson for the community who will send the decision of the community to the competition organizers.
Each community then needs to come up with an ordered ranking of the top 8 collabs, excluding their own. The ranking should be justified by a comment and defensible.
The collabs should be judged based on the objective above (1.1.2). While evaluating the collabs, the judges should ask the following questions:
1- Which collab impressed me more?
2- Who deserves a spot in the World Cup?
3- Who has shown they have the necessary talent to form a team for the World Cup?
The focus should be on the combos itself. Editing should be factor only to break a tie, if necessary.
The rankings are collected from each community and published publicly.
Each team then scores point for the rank on each list it appears. The points are distributed as follow:
1st place 10 pts
2nd place 8 pts
3rd place 6 pts
4th place 5 pts
5th place 4 pts
6th place 3 pts
7th place 2 pts
8th place 1 pt
Summing points will produce the final rankings for the teams. The top 8 teams are qualified to the main event.
1.3 Schedule
Communities will need to confirm their participation to the qualification event. You can either post this confirmation in this thread or send a PM to Zombo or an e-mail to Crash.
The deadline for sending the collab is November 7th, 2009.
The results will be revealed November 28th, 2009.
The month of December can then be used to split ties if necessary and allow enough time for communities to prepare their teams. However, it is recommended that communities select their team even before the results of the qualifications are revealed if they need more time to make that decision. -
Date: Fri, Oct 16 2009 15:28:47
list of communities confirmed via this thread:
GPC : Steffen
SPC : Huy
FPSB : Picool
TWPS : x1213
BRPSB : ~L~
BPSC : Gisele8
THPSC : Sathonmig
PSH : Ayysolo
HKPSA : Winky
PPP : RarkaSPSC : Freeman
Others I know confirmed:
KPSA : Joshy
JEB : coco_a
VNPSB : Angelbaby07
UPSB : JC -
Date: Sat, Oct 31 2009 14:55:58
Collabs are due Saturday next week
you can send your videos to Crash ([email protected]) or me ([email protected] or PM)
you should include download link. but if you have a youtube link include it also. -
Date: Thu, Nov 5 2009 14:50:46
When is the exact due date/hour and which timezone? Is it OK to send video to Crash at 11:59 pm on Saturday gmt+0?
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Date: Thu, Nov 5 2009 23:55:52
What im interested in is how we are going to choose who makes up our teams for the WC. But we have the rest of november and all of december to decide that.
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Date: Fri, Nov 6 2009 14:05:45QUOTE (Rarka @ Nov 5 2009, 09:50 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>When is the exact due date/hour and which timezone? Is it OK to send video to Crash at 11:59 pm on Saturday gmt+0?
the official deadline is midnight in Crash's timezone, but often he will wait until he wakes up sunday morning. i don't know when he wakes up though.QUOTE (Mystic @ Nov 5 2009, 06:55 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>What im interested in is how we are going to choose who makes up our teams for the WC. But we have the rest of november and all of december to decide that.
we'll see later, we might not even make it. -
Date: Fri, Nov 6 2009 19:32:04
Awwww, don't be like that zombo. We'll make it in, just behind thpsc, psh, twps, fpsb, and others
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Date: Sat, Nov 7 2009 16:10:54
what im interested in seeing is how the results of qualifications affect the composition of teams.
in theory, the only requirement for a spinner to be part of a tea is to be a member of that community, but the definition of member is open to interpretation for each team.
i can imagine multiple "sibling" communities have a lot of cross members that will form a united team if they don't all qualify.
in fact, UPSB also has a lot of cross members like that, we will see how we handle it. I guess it depends on our priority: maximize our chances of winning, or increase exposure of UPSB spinners. -
Date: Sat, Nov 7 2009 18:28:04
AFAIK
everybody has submitted except PPP, PSH, HKPSA and UPSB
I haven't contacted Crash to see what he got, so its possible he got some of them.
oh btw I made a mistake in my email address
it is [email protected] -
Date: Sat, Nov 7 2009 19:43:47
submitted for PSH just now to both Zombo and crash
plz confirm -
Date: Sun, Nov 8 2009 12:29:54
How strictly will a breach of the rules be punished? E.g. too long collab, altered speed of combos.
~Huy -
Date: Sun, Nov 8 2009 14:38:03
if there really is a problem maybe some collabs will be forced to re-edit, or there will be a point penalty.