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Event ideas

If you have an idea for an event, I'll look at it here and consider the possibilities of it. Initially, we only had 4 or 5 types of events. We now have quite a few, and a diverse selection of games for those challenges so I am not looking to add too many more. But I do have some ideas leftover that have not been fleshed out:

Challenge match vs. me specifically; 1 segment on the wheel. Odds of me being good at any random TB are moderate/high because I've played most of these games, and more importantly, tested most of the submissions. 20 points for victory. Not sure if team battles or single challenge contest would work better for this. The Singles would increase my ability to win.

My hesitation on this game is it's basically just saying 'let me play instead of the other team, actually' which is less fun for the guests, possibly more entertaining for the crowd. It would be a rare event at best.

Some sort of family-feud style event where they guess popular answers in such a manner (which would require some crafty new form to collect the information properly). There are a number of ways to go with this, and its appeal is a 'vs. the audience' sort of thing.

Posted Jul 21, 2016, 4:02 PM UTC

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Bearded_Jacket_Man•

The you vs team battle could work if you have both teams participate. It would work like a normal team battle but if a team beats you and wins they get bonus points in addition to the 20 for winning a team battle (like 10-15). If you want to be less strict with points, any team that beats you gets the bonus points regardless if they win.

The screen setup could be similar to the final team battle. The representatives from the red and yellow teams on the top corners. You and the chat would be on the bottom two corners.

A family feud type game would be fun but the hardest thing would be getting the information for it. Unfortunately, I don't have any ideas on how to accomplish that.

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ampillion•

I think this might be the best way to handle it. Let both teams go up against you at the same time.

Maybe make it more of a points swing-sorta deal, since Hustle isn't getting used to steal much as of late?

Basically, there's always points up for grab. If both teams beat you, its 20 points. If one beats you, but you beat the other team, that 20 points to the winner comes from the loser. If you beat both, just take 20 from both! Though I think people tend to want to avoid the events where they might lose points, so this may be more of a punishment game a la Sad in that sorta format.

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Trivial-Man•

Test Your Smite, as you called the event on Twitter, is a good idea. But yeah, limiting it to once a game (maybe once or twice more if they spend a Feelin' Saucy) is super critical. And keep in mind that this is a show, so a treat for the audience even at the expense of the guests is ok so long as it's rare.

The Family Feud question thing would be great, but also sounds like a nightmare to implement. If your programmers are up to the task all you would really need is another Google form where you put up a question and people are allowed to submit a single response. Put up like 10 of them to start and gather responses for a few weeks until you have a ton, then every time one is used put up a replacement. The tricky part is then parsing and organizing all those responses into something you can use. That'd probably have to be done by hand so that people who put in "Blue shell" and "The blue shell from Mario Kart" and "Blu eshell" all get counted as the same thing even though stupid computers would think they're different.

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ExtremeZeroII•

Bowser's Wheel of Fate: Inspired by the Bowser space in Mario Party, this event should be rare to get on the wheel.

A seperate wheel pops up that has the following events:

Bowser's Challenge: Difficulty 4-5 Grab Bag for the Players

Bowser's Feeling Sad: Feeling Saucy event for the Players

Bowser's Gift: Opponents get VG Hustle

Bowser's Luck: Opponents get Doubler

Bowser's Quiz Show: Quizzler Blitz but with a twist (Lose 5 points for each question wrong)

Bowser's Revolution: Splits the points evenly among the teams.

Bowser's 'Charity': Gives team one point

Bowser's Evil Test: Drawbage but with a twist (Lose points if team fails to get the prompt right)

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A_Galvantula•

I feel like Bowser's Feelin' Sad should give Feelin' Saucy to the other team.

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g0m•

some kind of quiz round where multiple contestants have a chance to answer [possibly with buzzers]? could work for the uh quizzler deluxe

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TackyRackyOr0dd1•

Seconding everything in Trivial Man's reply.

My suggestion for an event: Both teams have to play the same One-Player Challenge. If both teams either complete or fail the challenge, nobody is awarded points. If only one of the teams manages to complete the challenge, they end up receiving a set amount of points.

This might need to be restricted to challenges that either have a time limit or can be completed relatively quickly, so as not to spent too long on a single game.

Tentative name: All For One. (Can't think of a better name at the moment.)

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g0m•

Gamebler: Ambidex Edition

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ampillion•

How about some tweaks?

I'd kind of like to see there be a little added incentive for people to choose something other than the Quizzler Blitz for their wildcards. Maybe add a double or nothing feature for Screencrap and Sound Test?

I also thought maybe having some sort of 'hidden doubler' on Gamebler/Hustle challenges might be cool, as a bit of a potential reason to pick unknown games, or just choose one of the two options with the wildcard. A doubled bet at only half the cost on a loss, or a hustle that really puts the pressure on the other team to defend 40 points.

Then again, I'm not sure making things more complex will necessarily make them better, either.

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tymestalker•

I like the idea of "Test your Smite", as was commented below, but here's my thought. It's a normal random Team Battle, so they get 20 points if they win against the other team, but they get 20 bonus points if they can beat you as well?

Also, I brought this up before, but I was thinking of tweaking it in light of learning more about the games, but what about a Gauntlet-style space where it's 2 or 3 random level 3 challenges for one player on the team, but they have to beat all of them to earn any points? And the player is chosen by some sort of coin flip for the team that gets it?

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Skunkrocker•

A variation on Quizzler and VG Hustle, proto named Trivial Dispute, where instead of the team answering a question they pick off the Quizzler board like VG Hustle and force the other team to answer. If the other team gets it right they get nothing, but if they get it wrong they lose ten points. Obviously it needs workshopped.

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