DickNervous,
I started this new thread based on the questions you asked on the Car Wars Arenas Box Set thread (see below).
SJ Games used to have a links to a few Car Wars gaming groups on its Unofficial Car Wars Resources Web Page. The SJ Games Car Wars Web site has been significantly reorganized, therefore most of those links are gone.
I used to have a list of Car Wars Gaming Groups on my Web site. Few gaming groups were playing Car Wars regularly therefore I deleted the page. I list gaming groups that play Car Wars occasionally on my Car Wars links portal.
SWAT HQ - Car Combat Game Links - Car Wars
http://ift.tt/1GA5SDH
If there is interest, I can create a new Car Wars Gaming Group Registry on my Web site. It would not have any official connection to SJ Games but it might be useful.
You asked for online rankings for Car Wars players to compare themselves to other autoduellists around the country. The WADA Car Wars League did that when it was in operation. The year-long tournament was based only on championship points, however the information I collected permitted the presentation of the data below.
Rank
Points Total
Points Behind
Player Name
Affiliation
Total Number of Opponents Faced
Total Number of Events Entered
Wins
Kills
Winning Percentage
Average Number of Opponents Per Event
James Barton, Ph.D., former High Velocity Duelling Editor, created a set of cool graphics to track the number of kills and wins. I can upload them along with an example of WADA statistics to my Web site.
The AADA Sanctioned Tournament Rules and Regulations were first printed in ADQ 9/1. They were available as a separate Web page on the SJ Games Web site a few years ago.
Having a standard set of rules for a Car Wars player ranking tournament is a good idea, but in my experience with the WADA Car Wars League, allowing participants to select what rules they wanted to use worked well. It is difficult enough to get people to play Car Wars. I did require a few basic rules (like a minimum of four players), but I was comfortable with players deciding on how they wanted to turn each other into scrap metal and plastic.
The WADA Car Wars League points system appeared to work well. Small groups who played regularly competed against against large groups who played infrequently. The best duellists were those players who played several times in a year. Those best duellists often did not have the highest winning percentages.
Car Wars Arenas Box Set
http://ift.tt/1GA5TaS
DickNervous
March 20, 2015
Quote:
Originally Posted by sdharing
4. The AADA will exist in the game-world background, but if you're talking about clubs and tournaments and world championships . . . I don't know if that's something I can wrap my mind around.
Thanks for the questions.
I can understand that. Actually coordinating something like that must have taken a huge amount of effort back at the height of Car Wars popularity, and while it would probably be easier today with the Internet, it's still a big thing.
(Please forgive me if this particular topic has been beaten to death already and point me to where to find the discussion)
What I am really looking for are two things:
1. What do you need to do (if anything) to "register" an "Officially Sanctioned AADA Dueling Club"? Even it is simply submitting a post to a sticky forum thread here announcing that you have done so.
2. Published Rules and Guidelines for running an "Officially Sanctioned AADA Event." I know that there is a lot of this in various existing publications, but it would be nice to have a single authoritative document that lays it all out. It doesn't need to be complicated. Heck, it could be simply stating that you should use the Divisions for grouping drivers, make sure everyone is using the same rule set (Classic, Compendium, or UACFH), and stuff like that. (Actually those could be the different "Leagues", but I digress)
But, what I think it really needs to include is how to rank and score the drivers. This way if I am running monthly events (one of my goals) at my local store and have regulars who compete, I can provide them with rankings based on performance. Then if say, the folks at SWAT, SPARK, or any other club are doing the same thing, and posting the results on their own website, members of any club could compare their performance to not only locals, but people from around the country (or even globe?). Heck, we could even make overall rankings by computing average points per event to see who the "best driver" in the country is.
Having a common framework like that would be the "seed" to building a new AADA type umbrella organization if it grows big enough. If not, it at least would make us all feel like we are part of something "bigger".
Or, if Steve Jackson Games isn't going to get involved for whatever reason, then simply state that. Perhaps then some of the folks here can collaborate on the forums to come up with a structure and rules we can all agree upon to use and present it to the overall community to "ratify" it. :)
I started this new thread based on the questions you asked on the Car Wars Arenas Box Set thread (see below).
SJ Games used to have a links to a few Car Wars gaming groups on its Unofficial Car Wars Resources Web Page. The SJ Games Car Wars Web site has been significantly reorganized, therefore most of those links are gone.
I used to have a list of Car Wars Gaming Groups on my Web site. Few gaming groups were playing Car Wars regularly therefore I deleted the page. I list gaming groups that play Car Wars occasionally on my Car Wars links portal.
SWAT HQ - Car Combat Game Links - Car Wars
http://ift.tt/1GA5SDH
If there is interest, I can create a new Car Wars Gaming Group Registry on my Web site. It would not have any official connection to SJ Games but it might be useful.
You asked for online rankings for Car Wars players to compare themselves to other autoduellists around the country. The WADA Car Wars League did that when it was in operation. The year-long tournament was based only on championship points, however the information I collected permitted the presentation of the data below.
Rank
Points Total
Points Behind
Player Name
Affiliation
Total Number of Opponents Faced
Total Number of Events Entered
Wins
Kills
Winning Percentage
Average Number of Opponents Per Event
James Barton, Ph.D., former High Velocity Duelling Editor, created a set of cool graphics to track the number of kills and wins. I can upload them along with an example of WADA statistics to my Web site.
The AADA Sanctioned Tournament Rules and Regulations were first printed in ADQ 9/1. They were available as a separate Web page on the SJ Games Web site a few years ago.
Having a standard set of rules for a Car Wars player ranking tournament is a good idea, but in my experience with the WADA Car Wars League, allowing participants to select what rules they wanted to use worked well. It is difficult enough to get people to play Car Wars. I did require a few basic rules (like a minimum of four players), but I was comfortable with players deciding on how they wanted to turn each other into scrap metal and plastic.
The WADA Car Wars League points system appeared to work well. Small groups who played regularly competed against against large groups who played infrequently. The best duellists were those players who played several times in a year. Those best duellists often did not have the highest winning percentages.
Car Wars Arenas Box Set
http://ift.tt/1GA5TaS
DickNervous
March 20, 2015
Quote:
Originally Posted by sdharing
4. The AADA will exist in the game-world background, but if you're talking about clubs and tournaments and world championships . . . I don't know if that's something I can wrap my mind around.
Thanks for the questions.
I can understand that. Actually coordinating something like that must have taken a huge amount of effort back at the height of Car Wars popularity, and while it would probably be easier today with the Internet, it's still a big thing.
(Please forgive me if this particular topic has been beaten to death already and point me to where to find the discussion)
What I am really looking for are two things:
1. What do you need to do (if anything) to "register" an "Officially Sanctioned AADA Dueling Club"? Even it is simply submitting a post to a sticky forum thread here announcing that you have done so.
2. Published Rules and Guidelines for running an "Officially Sanctioned AADA Event." I know that there is a lot of this in various existing publications, but it would be nice to have a single authoritative document that lays it all out. It doesn't need to be complicated. Heck, it could be simply stating that you should use the Divisions for grouping drivers, make sure everyone is using the same rule set (Classic, Compendium, or UACFH), and stuff like that. (Actually those could be the different "Leagues", but I digress)
But, what I think it really needs to include is how to rank and score the drivers. This way if I am running monthly events (one of my goals) at my local store and have regulars who compete, I can provide them with rankings based on performance. Then if say, the folks at SWAT, SPARK, or any other club are doing the same thing, and posting the results on their own website, members of any club could compare their performance to not only locals, but people from around the country (or even globe?). Heck, we could even make overall rankings by computing average points per event to see who the "best driver" in the country is.
Having a common framework like that would be the "seed" to building a new AADA type umbrella organization if it grows big enough. If not, it at least would make us all feel like we are part of something "bigger".
Or, if Steve Jackson Games isn't going to get involved for whatever reason, then simply state that. Perhaps then some of the folks here can collaborate on the forums to come up with a structure and rules we can all agree upon to use and present it to the overall community to "ratify" it. :)
Car Wars Player Rankings
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