I am currently extremely busy in my PhD work (I've not had a single day off in 2 months), and thus falling behind in the judging realm of this site. Thus, I am putting out a request for people to volunteer to be judges. Typically, judges are required to have at least 1000 player points. However, due to the lack of interested people, I'm am relaxing that requirement.
What I'm looking for:
* A judge that can handle new platform submissions - We have a new build up of new platforms that the current judging staff is hesitant to take. Additionally, judges are required to verify that the runs playback.
* A person in good standing with the community. People who invite extreme drama will not be considered.
* A player with at least a few published runs
* A good command of the English language. It is difficult enough to communicate intention if you're a native English speaker.
Please PM me with any volunteers.
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I'd offer, but not sure how well i meat those second and third points. I do hope we can get some good judges. The wait time for windows and dolphin submissions as of late is quite unfortunate.
Good luck to anyone who wants to be a judge!
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I encourage anyone active in watching and making TASes with a little spare time to apply. I thoroughly enjoyed it for the two years that I was an active judge, and it gave me a much greater appreciation for different genres of games (other than dungeon strollers lulz). I wish that I had the time still, but it's tough once school is done and real life kicks in.
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moozooh wrote:
Randil, Aqfaq, Deign, Tompa—would any of you guys step up as well? :)
Have any of these people suggested interest in HourGlass or Dolphin TASs?
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Nach wrote:
moozooh wrote:
Randil, Aqfaq, Deign, Tompa—would any of you guys step up as well? :)
Have any of these people suggested interest in HourGlass or Dolphin TASs?
Do you mean having a submission for these platforms, or just being able to watch runs on them?
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feos wrote:
Nach wrote:
moozooh wrote:
Randil, Aqfaq, Deign, Tompa—would any of you guys step up as well? :)
Have any of these people suggested interest in HourGlass or Dolphin TASs?
Do you mean having a submission for these platforms, or just being able to watch runs on them?
Be willing (or even eager!) to watch and judge runs for them.
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I happened to have asked adelikat about it a couple weeks ago, and he said I'd be considered, if not for the fact that my player point count is currently not very high. If this rule is going to be relaxed, I suppose I could qualify.
http://www.youtube.com/Noxxa
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The idea of becoming a judge here makes me drool but since i've done squats,have a certain talent for trolling and don't plan on watching dolphin and hourglass stuff(it's not i'm against it i just happen to lack the adequate setup to emulate it or download the games),i won't even bother.
I'll just pray the poor unpopular games won't fall to the evil hands of the voting masses of TASvideos and will be saved by the new judges from above.
I want all good TAS inside TASvideos, it's my motto.
TAS i'm interested:
Megaman series, specially the RPGs! Where is the mmbn1 all chips TAS we deserve? Where is the Command Mission TAS?
i'm slowly moving away from TASing fighting games for speed, maybe it's time to start finding some entertainment value in TASing.
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moozooh wrote:
Randil, Aqfaq, Deign, Tompa—would any of you guys step up as well? :)
Sorry, no time. :(
If I had the time, I think I would have the experience to judge any Gens submission, even though I'd then need to reject some runs that I like myself.
<BrandonE> I'd love to see you as a judge, nitrogenesis
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<BrandonE> "It desynced on me, rejected"
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Normally i would say Yes, but thennI thought "its not the same hack" so ill stick with meh.
turska has volunteered to be a judge for Windows (as well as other stuff!) so he will be assigned the duty when I get a moment. Yay turska!
Nahoc, Mothrayas, I'm in favor of you both being judges, but a priority would go to the one able to handle GCN/WII submissions. In other words, I'm just desperate for at least one of you to commit to being our go-to GCN/WII judge.
Clarification: My first priority is to find someone willing and able to judge (AND VERIFY!) GCN/Wii runs. After that, I'll consider others for judges, just to help with the load.
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Nach(Plus) pointed out to me that currently in the workbench there's a good amount of PSX runs that are going unclaimed or taking long to judge because it appears many judges also don't want to pick up PSX.
Having done possibly the majority of my TASing on PSX, I'd be willing to pick up on judging for that platform, as well as other emulators which judges seem to be less comfortable with (e.g. N64, possibly also DS or Arcade and such). I could pick up on these systems too. Speaking of Arcade, do much if any judges have experience with fighting game TASes? I could probably help out much on that front too.
I think Nahoc would make for a better GCN/Wii judge than me, but I think I could help in solving the other problem, with PSX and other such platforms/emulators.
DarkKobold, what do you think of this?
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I like the idea of Mothrayas and Nahoc becoming judges.
Nahoc do you feel comfortable with judging Dolphin runs?
One thing I know is that Nahoc is comfortable with Mupen, and N64 runs pile up from time to time as well, so he'd be welcome in that sense too.
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I like the idea of Mothrayas and Nahoc becoming judges.
Nahoc do you feel comfortable with judging Dolphin runs?
One thing I know is that Nahoc is comfortable with Mupen, and N64 runs pile up from time to time as well, so he'd be welcome in that sense too.
Yes, I do feel comfortable with GCN/Wii and N64 and would be willing to judge those platforms at any time.
On the other hand, I would never verify PSX and DS TASes.
I like the idea of Mothrayas and Nahoc becoming judges.
Nahoc do you feel comfortable with judging Dolphin runs?
One thing I know is that Nahoc is comfortable with Mupen, and N64 runs pile up from time to time as well, so he'd be welcome in that sense too.
Yes, I do feel comfortable with GCN/Wii and N64 and would be willing to judge those platforms at any time.
On the other hand, I would never verify PSX and DS TASes.
Perfect. Welcome to the team.
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