Worm Olympics
From Worms Knowledge Base
| Worm Olympics | |
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| Creator: | FatalFanatic & DarkOne |
| Date of launch: | 20 December 2004 |
| Link: | http://www.wormolympics.com |
The Worm Olympics (WO) are a string of tournaments hosted in a short period of time. Although hosting tournaments was not a new idea, never before was there an event organised with such a high concentration of tournaments. Just as was the case in the original olympics, wormers could win medals for their tournaments, leading to personal, country and clan standings in the end.
Creation
The idea was originally FatalFanatic's, who asked DarkOne to help in realising the idea. In this event, anyone would be able to host their own tournaments. Any scheme was allowed, leaving room for unusual schemes to have tournaments hosted. The first time they were hosted, there was no site made for it yet, so it was mainly organised through forums on BTP, CL2K and the Team17 forums. This first edition lasted for the christmas holidays and had a little over 20 tourneys hosted. In the end, M3ntal won most medals of all. Due to popular demand, the Olympics were once again hosted in December 2005, this time lasting the entire months instead of just the last few weeks. This time around, FatalFanatic was able to make a nice site for the Olympics, making it much easier to organise. People could submit their tournaments to one location, instead of having the browse through forums. This was also the first edition where participants were asked to send in their replays, to be posted on the WO site itself. About half the games ended up being sent, which made for a nice collection of replays, even though it wasn't complete. The winner of this edition turned out to be ThePIT. Since the second edition was even more successful than the first one, FatalFanatic and DarkOne decided to host the third edition of the WO in the summer of 2006. The site you currently see in the link above is the one made for this edition. Lasting for 2 months, a total of 69 tournaments were hosted and in the end, Wyvern was victorious. In the summer of 2007, attempts were made to host the fourth edition, but both FatalFanatic and DarkOne had other things going on, which resulted in a lack of a site. The resulting extra work simply cost too much time to effectively host the olympics. Despite efforts from BigBilly, who made a site to replace the actual olympics site, the fourth edition unfortunately never really got off the ground.
Current Status
The next Worm Olympics, WO2008 is held between June 28th and August 31th. Booking of the tournaments began on June 1st.
The first 2 weeks had a staggering number of 42 tourneys already, with this edition having had even more tourneys than the 2006 edition while being only halfway. At the start of August, there have been over 80 tournaments hosted, which means it's only a matter of days before the 100th WO tourney in this edition is hosted.
New features on the site unclude map previews for every replay sent in, as well as overall weapon statistics! To promote sending in replays, FFie and DarkOne decided to subtract 1 point in the standings for every missing replay. So far, it seems to have done the trick, since around 90% of the replays are now available for viewing!
