Twin Cities XNA Game Developers

April 17, 2010 5:00 PM - 47 attended

Twin Cities Fragathon 2 - Electric Fragaloo

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Come on out and join us at the 2nd Annual Fragathon. Many more details in comments below.

Microsoft
8300 Norman Center Dr, Suite 950
Bloomington, MN 55437

Bring $10 or an equal amount of canned goods, this is your entry fee and also covers pizza and refreshments.

Remember, this is a Charity Event. Don't be stingy. We're doing a FOOD DRIVE for Second Harvest Food Bank. If you are unsure what $10 worth of canned goods looks like, it's this:

NOT THIS:

PRIZES:
DJ Hero
Tony Hawk: Ride - skateboard bundle
(2) Best Buy $50 gift cards
(2) Zune HDs
Office 2007 Standard
Halo 3 Hornet (flying)
...and more...

Tournament Details & Rules

The doors open at 5PM, and the tournament starts at 5:30PM sharp!
(All details are subject to change up to the start of the event.)

The initial round will consist of 4 games. The game settings are as follows:
Game 1: Slayer on Assembly, 25 kills to win
Game 2: Oddball on Heretic, 75 points to win
Game 3: Juggernaut on Orbital, 10 points to win
Game 4: Crazy King on Blackout, 75 points to win

Each game will have 4 players. If we have a remainder of players they will be distributed into other games so there may be a couple of 5-player games. Players will be randomly selected for each game (i.e. You will probably have different opponents in each game). After the game is done, you will be awarded points based on your ranking in the game:

1st place: 10 points
2nd place: 6 points
3rd place: 3 points
4th (and 5th) place: 0 points

Ties will split the points. For example, if two players have 21 kills for 2nd place in the Slayer game, they both get 4.5 points (6 + 3 divided by 2.)

At the end of the 4 games, the top 16 players will move on to the championship round. If there is a tie for the final slots (i.e. 5 people tie for 16th place) there will be a quick tiebreaker match. The quick match will be: Slayer on Construct, 10 kills to win

There will be a semi-final game. The odd players (positions 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13 and 15) will be in one game, and the even players (2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14 and 16) will be on the other. The game settings will be: Rocketball on Citadel, 100 points to win

The top 4 players on each team will then compete in the final 8-player championship game. The game settings are: Slayer on Longshore, 50 kills to win

Good luck!

A former member
This year, we're doing things a little differently. You have your choice of making a cash donation at the door ($10) -OR- donating THREE food items (per person) of *comparable value.

*This means we don't want that 7 year old can of Cream of Mushroom Soup in the back of your mom's cabinet. Bring the good stuff.

We're definitely going to have some cool giveaways this year as well. If anyone else works for a company that would like to help sponsor (food, swag, etc) let me know soon.

Posted March 29, 2010 at 3:22 PM
A former member
Prize Alert! In addition to various other prizes, I can confirm that we'll be giving away TWO Zune HD Devices. I have them in my possession as I type this.

Posted April 7, 2010 at 12:57 PM
Raymond Mitchell
I'd love another MSDN subscription :-) I can't believe that lasted on the table until I got up there!

Posted April 7, 2010 at 1:01 PM
A former member
I haven't had much luck getting Microsoft to offer up one of those again this year.

Posted April 7, 2010 at 1:09 PM
A former member
More prizes!! Inetium is donating two Best Buy Gift Cards! (Waiting on a logo from them so I can add them as a sponsor.) Thanks guys!!

Posted April 8, 2010 at 1:26 PM
Zach Wendt
If you (like me) are not going to the final brackets in the Halo tourney, there will still be plenty to do. We'll have an xbox with a fine selection of XNA Indie Games, and a Rock Band setup with 400+ songs.

Posted April 12, 2010 at 4:53 PM
JasonBock
I'm going to send Chris the rules to the tournament tonight (with a strong emphasis on using ODST maps).

Posted April 12, 2010 at 8:09 PM
A former member
Cool mention of Charity Fragathon II at Bungie.net

http://www.bungie.net/News/content.aspx?type=news&cid...

Posted April 16, 2010 at 2:31 PM
Vladimir Kuksenko
saw it on bungie net, RSVP'ed.

Posted April 16, 2010 at 3:51 PM
Michael
Do we need to bring our own Xbox? Mine is currently being sent in to Microsoft for the RROD. And are their limitation/restrictions on who can enter?

Posted April 16, 2010 at 10:29 PM
A former member
Michael: nope. you don't need to bring your own xbox. No limitation or restrictions. As long as you have your entry fee.

Posted April 16, 2010 at 11:37 PM
Anton
is it 10 per person to get in what if the other person isnt participating

Posted April 17, 2010 at 12:26 PM
A former member
$10 (or $10 worth of food) per person. This is for charity.

Posted April 17, 2010 at 1:41 PM
A former member
Even if people aren't participating they should be paying or donating food. It's a charity event - not an entrance fee for a tournament.

Posted April 17, 2010 at 1:55 PM
A former member
Pizza, Refreshments & possibly even cake will also be provided.

Posted April 17, 2010 at 1:59 PM
Wes Preston
What? There could be CAKE??! :)

Posted April 17, 2010 at 2:35 PM
Vladimir Kuksenko
The cake is a LIE!

Posted April 17, 2010 at 2:39 PM
John Kuksenko
Master chief cake, not a lie = Delicious.

Posted April 17, 2010 at 10:57 PM
A former member
What were the titles of all the XNA games being played? There was the Zombie one that looked kinda like Geometry Wars, a space invaders one, and another that looked like you controlled a planet and controlled asteroids....

Posted April 18, 2010 at 7:09 AM
A former member
Mike: I know Zack can answer these better than I can, but the zombie game was "I MAED A GAM3 W1TH Z0MB1ES!!!1" by James Silva of Ska Studios. I think the planet one was called "Solar" (that one looked really cool too, and I'll be downloading it as well.)

Posted April 18, 2010 at 8:01 AM
David Engler
Hey guys, this is David Engler. Thanks for hosting this event. It was my first ever halo 3 tournament and it was a blast. I can't wait till the next one if there will be one. Great job on setting up everything. and when will the pictures be up?

Posted April 18, 2010 at 10:47 AM
JasonBock
Great event! I had a blast, can't wait for #3

Posted April 19, 2010 at 7:46 AM
A former member
Pictures posted in the photo albums: http://www.meetup.com/TwinCitiesXNA/photos/893114/

Posted April 19, 2010 at 8:50 PM
Zach Wendt
XNA games from Sat:
MAED A GAM3 W1TH Z0MB1ES!!!1
Solar
Miner Dig Deep
Decimation X
Zoomaroom
Along Came a Spider

Others you must try:
Carnyvale
Weapon of Choice
Biology Battle
Johnny Platform
Blow
Leave Home
Shoot 1UP

Posted April 20, 2010 at 11:15 AM
Zach Wendt
Doh! ...didn't respect my whitespace. Readable list and a thread for comments over here:
http://www.meetup.com/TwinCitiesXNA/messages/boards/threa...

Posted April 20, 2010 at 11:23 AM
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