Obliged Read!- The newly designed beat battle rules and regulations.
Dear WB Fam,
The last few days I have discussed the current status of the beat battle arena with the other mods and da boss himself. We talked about how the beat battle arena has been stackin' up lately and we came to the conclusion that the current rules need a new addition to them for the time being untill the new beat battle system is ready.
Read the next part carefully because from now on we will enforce these new rules without any objections. Not to come across harsh/strict or anything, but like I said before we just want everybody to participate in a good way to keep battlin' at this site alive and most of all to keep it fun!
- Regarding the beat battle rules
Well I hope the lot of you have read my thread I posted up some time ago, in which I kindly asked all of u to participate more and go over the 'beat battle arena' rules once again.
Now I can understand if the rules made your head spin somewhat.
I'll try to re-explain in a more summarized version.
- When you post up a battle you need to vote on atleast 3 battles before you (this applies to the person that posted up the battle and every other person that takes part in the battle).
- To post up a battle you need enough posts. The required post count is 20. I would like to elaborate more on this matter. Say if you called out an user on this site that has, say 3 posts and you have 123 posts, you are able to post up the battle and vote on other battles but the person you called out (the one with 3 posts) will not be able to vote on other battles. In this particular situation it iz both the responsibility of user 1 and user 2 that both will vote on 3 battles before them! This means user 1 has to get his/her post count UP. So my advice is don't battle someone who hasn't enough posts. We'll make no excuses here and again this rule will be enforced.
- When you posted up your battle you will have a 48 hour time-frame to vote on other battles. If you do not do so (and I will personally monitor this closely), your battle will be *locked*. Plain as that.
Now I will shortly summarize the terms and conditions of a victory.
- A so called 'K.O.' is when user 1 gets the first 4 votes in his/her favor, and user 2 gets 0.
- A normal win would be a situation where the first combatant reaches 5 votes in his/her favor (this applies always, either if it's a 2-, 3- or a 4-way battle).
- We abandoned the ranking system for now, since the ranking system hasn't been updated since february this year. So don't PM any of us, or make threads about the ranking system. This ranking system will possibly be implemented in the new beat battle system, but I do not want to give any guarantees about this.
Okay this was the part you already knew in a somewhat cropped version. Up to the additional features and rules.
I will adress three things here,
- The new time limit for a beat battle
- Naming your beat battle
- The voting and setting up your thread
- The new time limit
To reduce the stackin' we set up a new rule regarding the extent a battle may have. We've come to an agreement that the new time limit for a battle will be 72 hours (3 days).
Within' this rule there lies an exception. Read carefully.
- If after 3 days the battle is a close one, meaning the difference in votes is 2 votes or less, we will extent the battle with 48 hours (2 days), and whoever has the most votes after the extended time will win the battle.
- If after 3 days the battle is not a close one, meaning the difference in votes is 3 votes or more, we will close the battle and whoever has the most votes and that particular moment will win the battle.
I hope I wrote that down clear enough for everybody.
So basically these set of rules apply after a 3 day period of time. In any other situation the normal rules will be applied, because logically everything happened within the time limit.
Now I want to adress one new feature about this time limit thing as well.
If situation 1 occurs in a beat battle, and the match needs to be extended, naturally we want you to pay attention to that particular battle first. The way we are going solve this is to edit the names of the thread(s) in question. The editing of the names will be done by the mods themselves, so don't bother trying to take things in your own hands. This will look something like this:
(Situation at the time the battle was posted):
Too Integrated Vs Sabotage - Club battle
(Situation at the time the battle was extended):
[ Close Battle, Vote Now! ] Too Integrated Vs Sabotage - Club battle (extended)
Again the thing we want to achieve with this, is preventing from stackin' up the pile and keepin' the system nicely in roulation. The nice thing about this is, that we do not have to post threads in which we ask you to pay attention to the beat battle arena everytime stackin' up is imminent, because as you all know, if you post up a battle you will see your thread name on your right --> Just like the newest 5 beats that were uploaded to the beat feedback system. So using this method we can easily communicate to every user a certain battle is extended and deserves your attention first.
- Naming your beat battle
The naming of your tracks is also something we discussed and currently the way the beat battles are named can be a bit confusing sometimes (yes I do it too, I'm perfectly aware of this thank you ^.^).
Sometimes you'll something along the lines of #@r OMFG HOTNESS IN DA BUILDING..! (Too Integrated Vs 2nd Man) {Club battle}. Well we want to get rid of that.
Right now this is the proper way to name your threads/beat battles.
(I'm using the same example again here).
Too Integrated Vs 2nd Man - (Genre type)
If you forgot the genre type we will not hunt you down and break your neck, but it would be handy for other users to put it out there. Again I want to remind you, we make no exceptions here. If you still insist on trying to give the thread a different name than the rules specify, it will be *locked*.
- The voting and setting up your thread
In this part I will explain something about the voting itself, and the way you set up your thread. I will first start by the way you set up your thread. Normally when you set up a battle you go into the "Beatbattle subforum to set up your battle.
For instance I go in there and set up a new thread sayin': "Emotional Typa Battle (Who wants it?!)". Then Timbaland and Scott Storch come along and call me out. Perfectly fine. Then I go into the arena and set up the battle (according to the rules specified above) and post it up. The difference here is when you set up your actual thread, you need to specify the setting of the typa battle in the thread itself, i.e. the thread could look something like this:
Hey WB Fam,
Today we got "Emotional typa tracks" for you. blablablabla you post up the links etcetera.
The thing I'm aiming for right here is, that you specify the genre or type of tracks in the thread itself, which you used set up the battle (in the 'set-up' forum) in the first place.
Now when users vote on this battle, they should base their vote on a combination of the how much the beat battlers fitted within the specified genre that was used to set up the battle, and the normal things you always look out for at a battle (Compo, arrangement, mixing etc etc.).
Again if you do not specify the rules correctly we will close the battle immediately!
This pretty much sums it up, regarding the new rules.
Again I want to say, we are not playing petty officer (yet), but we are trying out new things to keep battlin' alive and fun for you guys here at the site, (I love battlin' here too), but we gotta work together as a team (or better to say, as a community) to keep the system running properly and in a way that we can all reap the benefits of it.
These new set of rules will go live next monday!
The current battles that are still open will now fall under the extended time rule. I will not edit these battles as of yet. I will start editing next monday on any future beatbattles that may come from now on.
If you have any questions regarding this topic just post 'em up here and I will gladly answer them if it's within' my capability.
Again I thank you for your time..!
Greetings,
T.I.
(& WB Staff)