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	W:A replay: Building Convention match with TheMadCharles playing against himself
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Roping among the girders.

Building Convention or BuildConv is a scheme with many similarities with Roper, since the scheme is played with Ninja Rope, Bazooka, Grenade, Mine as main weapons, only Health Crates spawning every turn and on cave maps with indestructible border, including Water drops (2% water level, which gives the same mechanic of weapons sinking, but Worms not). The difference is that the map doesn't consist of twin islands, but hand drawn lines in the middle, there are 1 Girder Starter Pack and infinite Girder (Power 255; no radious limitation, girders can be placed anywhere, even far away), that contribute with the map design during the game. There are also some Shopper elements, like the CAK rules. Some different rules such as "No Blocking" and "Use Tele" are present too. The terrain is destructible and the scheme has thirty seconds of turn time.

Rules

1st turn - Use Girder Pack

No timeouts, no moving, you have to use all 5 girders.

2nd turn - Use Tele

No timeouts, no moving, you have to use it.

3rd turn - Weapons unlocked

Weapons will not have delays anymore, so you'll be able to rope and attack. It's now that the real game begins.

Crate Before Attack (CBA), or Wall to Wall (W2W) during Sudden Death

If you didn't collect a crate before attacking, you are not allowed to attack next turn. However, you may place a girder.

Like Roper, after Sudden Death has begun and no crates remain available to collect, players must touch both walls (left and right borders) instead (termed "Wall To Wall (W2W)" or "Touch Both Walls (TBW)"). If you didn't do that, you are not allowed to attack next turn. However, you may place a girder.

Attack From Rope (AFR) or Chute (AFC)

If you didn't attack from Rope or Parachute, you are not allowed to attack next turn. However, you may place a girder.

Kill The Leader (KTL)

If you didn't attack the team with the most health, you are not allowed to attack next turn. However, you may place a girder.

Crate Bomb Allowed

If there is a health crate still on a map and you've collected one already, blowing one up and damaging the opponent with it is allowed.

No Blocking

The opponent must have access to at least 1 crate and the team with most health, even if they are far, far away. If you do block someone from either of these, you aren't allowed to attack next turn and they have to unblock themselves, even if it means attacking your worm from the ground and without a crate collected. Of course, you can place a girder but don't block objectives again.

Observations

• Another thing to note, you don't have to attack every turn. You can place a girder or run out of time on purpose.

• If you break the rules 3 times in total, the game is voided or given to the victim.

How to make maps

Take any Roper style map (2% water level and all borders on), clear it and draw whatever you want, don't draw very thick walls, though. Brush sizes 2-4 should be fine, since in this scheme the drawn terrain needs to be pierced, opened with one single shot, the same way girders can be.

Tactics

• Place the girders wisely, delaying and difficulting attacks of the opponents while hiding your worm better.
• Teleport to health crates during the second turn. Since in this turn you cannot attack, at least you can get some health in the beginning. Note that this is not necessary, depending on the spot the crate spawned, teleporting to that place might be dangerous, and initial girders can be used to make hideouts.

Variations

Modifications with relatively small detail changes to the scheme.

BuildConv Pro

Same as the original, Bazooka, Grenade and Mine are still the only weaps available, but this time there are no land objects. That's because the worms sliding in fire would deal too much damage (heavy punishment for a mistake), reducing the chance of a comeback.

This variation was submitted to TUS on 15th July 2018 by TheMadCharles.

BuildConv Funner

Same as original, but there are more weapons: x2 Dynamites (delay 7), x1 Holy Hand Grenade (delay 15), x1 Old Woman (delay 21), x2 Mad Cows (delay 30), x8 Petrol Bombs (delay 4), x2 Sheeps (delay 11).

This variation was submitted to TUS on 30th May 2020 by TheMadCharles.

History

Building Convention was created by TheMadCharles, being released on TUS on 10th August 2016 (updated on 30th May 2020). The scheme also represents the community of scheme creators Proof of Concept.

The initial scheme upload happened around the Fortnite / Battle Royale genre booming internationally somewhere around 2017, which was the main inspiration behind the scheme - taking an existing format and adding its own twist (building) to it.

The decision of the rules

• The "No Blocking" rule was implemented because TheMadCharles wanted to make sure that no matter the skill cap, an attack was always possible.
• The first couple turns were chosen to players be able to influence over the map, beyond what the map author already made, by letting them place 5x girders each. This also makes sure players actually place girders, ever, in case there would be battles with players that intend to never place girders in the game. Since crates can spawn during the placement of the girders, letting them place worms again makes sure that players can start wherever, emulating manual placement, avoiding bad positions (near Oil Drums for example) in the beginning.

Trivia: fun facts

• The original scheme's TUS page ID is 2137, which is a polish meme number referencing the hour of death of John Paul II, the first polish pope and also the first non-italian one.
• About the teams of the replay, check the replay file page.

Similar ideas

Before this scheme

Beam-Shopper

A player named Monolith + Worm = I posted a topic on 27th May 2011 written in Russian language on WoRmS.oRg.Ua saying he was developing a Pod Shopper-like scheme with girders placed by the players on the first turns. The scheme remained incomplete on that topic, and it was probably never published.

After this scheme

Girder Shopper

A very similar idea named Girder Shopper was released on 15th June 2021 by Kradie. This variant uses Extended Scheme Options such as Crate Shower (only weapon crates) and Weapon Use Doesn't End Turn. It also has different rules: Girder and Attack (players must place a girder on the map before attacking), blocking is allowed, Attack From Rope is not mandatory (you can attack from ground if you want) and Crate Before Attack rule is inexistent (you don't need to necessarily collect crates before attack each turn). Sudden Death has Water Rise with Anti Sink. The map is completely empty (still with all borders) and is played with 2-4 worms without Water drops.

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