Summer Spectacular Prizes/food for thought

[lawrawrrr]

RIGHT SO you all probably think I'm doing this because I'm bitter etc etc but I think this is a genuine point that I'd make even if I had 0 points.

The way prizes are at the moment, the top 3 on the Red team will get MASSIVE prizes, and the top 3 on other teams will get much smaller prizes.

This way, the top scorer of another team, lets use me as an example, although being 2nd overall, will only receive 50c, whereas someone with less points than me will get 300c.

Now if you think about it, that doesn't seem particularly fair, right? It basically means that I'm being deprived of 250c because my team weren't active, didn't play, we didn't have as many members etc (for the record, this is not what I think happened, this is purely hypotheticals).

So, say the Red team had 41 members, and the black team had 21, and the top player in each team got 400 points, and every other player got 100 points, then the Red team would have 4400 points, whereas the Black team would have 2400. So the Red team would win, get tons of points even though the Black team top scorer pretty much equalled the Red team top scorer.

So, this is how I'd suggest prizes are done (and how I think they have been in the past - at least for other tournaments)

Top scorers in each team
1st place: 50c
2nd place: 30c
3rd place: 20c

Top scorers overall
1st place: 500c
2nd place: 300c
3rd place: 100c

I mean, obviously, numbers can change here.

SO, if we use this year as an example, Graham and myself would both receive 50c for being the top scorer in our team but then he would get an additional 500c, whereas I'd get the 300c for being 2nd overall. I think that makes logical sense because otherwise you're penalising my efforts because of the effort of the rest of my team.

NOW, I just want to point out here I am NOT posting this because I am greedy and I am under NO impressions they'll change it for the awards ceremony (that would be great js but I really don't mind) - I just don't think it's particularly fair the way it is run.

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Ok onto the second bit.

This is another idea I've had. It helps with team numbers.

If someone new to Habbox, or doesn't play HxSS, wins an HxSS (or other tournament) event, simply don't give them points. Don't LET them choose a team, because it's hard enough to measure if teams are balanced enough, but when you have 20 newbies on one team (lets say green) plus the active players, that team could have 40 members and LOOK massive on the leaderboard, whereas other teams might have 40 active players, therefore it's not balanced but very hard to pick up unless you're literally at every event and have an amazing memory.

So my suggestion here would be to create a fifth team - not one that counts, just for leaderboard purposes, a yellow team or something, where newbies would have their points added to so they wouldn't count towards team totals but they could still change their mind and join a proper team afterwards, if they kept playing. I guarantee most of the players on the 'Yellow' team would only have 100 points max though, from winning one event and not coming back. I mean, if someone new to Habbox was to play, win, have their points added to Yellow and then keep playing at Habbox, then their points could be transferred to a team of their choice.

This just relies on hosts saying "Do you belong to a HxSS team?"

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I think that's it. Let me know what y'all think

[sex]

Isn't a whole point of HxSS teams though, you're suppose to work together with your team to try come out top. Someone could join a crap team (green) and easily become top point scorer on the team because they would have no competition. If you're doing it the way you suggested it there may as well be no teams and just have it as everyone against everyone else.

[lawrawrrr]

Isn't a whole point of HxSS teams though, you're suppose to work together with your team to try come out top. Someone could join a crap team (green) and easily become top point scorer on the team because they would have no competition. If you're doing it the way you suggested it there may as well be no teams and just have it as everyone against everyone else.

Well as much as working with a team is great, you cannot FORCE your team to play. Especially when teams are divided into departments the way they are, you'll only ever have 1 totally active team maximum.

The thing with HxSS is that it is a mixture of team effort and singular effort.

I mean you could change it so it's like this:

3 top scorers overall receive the big prizes

then

1st Place team
1st scorer: 100c
2nd scorer: 75c
3rd scorer: 50c

2nd Place team
1st scorer: 75c
2nd scorer: 50c
3rd scorer: 20c

3rd Place team
1st scorer: 50c
2nd scorer: 25c
3rd scorer: 15c

4th Place team
1st scorer: 25c
2nd scorer: 15c
3rd scorer: 10c

But I still think that you should reward individual's efforts because it's not the individual's fault that their team isn't active.

[geo]

i actually think this would be a really good idea especially with the additional yellow team (i never understood why there was a black team and not yellow??) for the people that just come to the events, win and never come back or something. also think the prizing is still good. you're being rewarded for doing well in your team and doing well overall.

plz laura's idea for next year although i'll hopefully stay clear from hxss lol

[Calum0812]

Prizes I'm not too sure about but the yellow team is a fantastic idea!

[-Nick]

Agree on both ... @lawrawrrr; for GM

[lawrawrrr]

Agree on both ... @lawrawrrr; for GM

hahahahah unlikely

[LiquidLuck.]

hahahahah unlikely

yes you for GM and then make me leader of the noobs team plz, it's where I belong LOL

Anyway not that I was here for HxSS, but you have a point and I agree with the second way you posted

[-Nick]

hahahahah unlikely

The Gummy Monster is an avaible job so yes

[Samantha]

What I don't understand is why it was set prizes in the other teams, in previous years it was Thrones and Credits for the top winner of each team, yeah they were for the top scorer, but really it's not too hard to reduce that a little bit to make it for the top 3?