Marked for Death: A Rational Naruto Quest
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- naruto rationalist romance armageddon is looking better and better damn you kishimoto explosions everywhere explosives solve everyone if in doubt surrender to the mercy of zabuza it seemed like a good idea at the time looks like a really bad case of being a jōnin my god. where does the lore end? precommitting is the winning plan screaming in kagome screw the rules i have explosives something bad might still happen sometimes you gotta sociopath stabby zabby subsection c of paragraph 9 should include we can weaponize this so hard
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Funny story, Ikemoto, you were actually going to get into the tournament if you hadn't dropped out. With 488 points you would have seeded #7.
Yes.
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How absolutely delightful that both Leaf and their longtime ally have a strong showing in the chuunin exams.
It's just sad that we'll have to knock them out in the first round of the tournament. Alas. You can hear my howls of sorrow all the way from wherever you are, I'm sure.
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Fixed now, thanks.
Those who said they would drop out are listed as dropped out -- look all the way down at the bottom. Those aren't actually their scores, I just put an arbitrary "subtract 10,000 points if they said they would drop out" in order to force them to sort to the bottom. They actually did quite well. Had they not dropped out they would have been seeded #7,8,10.
Currently undecided. None of us are really sportsball guys, so it would be great if someone wanted to figure it out. (Just...please don't take advantage, okay? It makes us grumpy.
)Oh damn. That's actually hilarious.
"Support THIS!" (wrecks everything with a water tentacle)
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Entire Event's?
Nonono, you don't get it. Their entire Exam was invalidated because of us. Every piece of work they put into making the tournament was invalidated because we metaphorically (and possibly literally) flipped the table at the last moment. The only reason anyone made the tournament was because they were our friends or our friends' teammates. Or us, obviously.
- ISC? Our friends.
- Kurenai? Our friends*.
- Mugiwara? ISC teammates.
- Doigama? Our teammate.
- Sand girls? ISC teammates.
- Ito Airi? ISC teammate.
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It matters.
Keiko is a summoner. She's already understood to be a baddass. Hazou is a sealmaster training under Jiraiya. Everyone already knows he's a future high-priority village resource.
But Noburi is the medic chakra-battery.
Just there to make the people next to him look good.
Right?
SIKE!
*proceeds to slaughter the entire tournament*
Emstar
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That apostrophe was in the wrong place.
Basically: We became the Shonen Protagonists we always wished to be, if only for a fleeting Exam Arc.
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Why because Keiko has already proven her awesome?
Emstar
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What @MadScientist said.
It would help Noburi's self esteem too. That we can actually increase by a fair bit here. Even if we have Keiko win she'll probably rationalize it as "Noburi and Hazou let me of course."
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So...there are three ways we could do this.Currently undecided. None of us are really sportsball guys, so it would be great if someone wanted to figure it out. (Just...please don't take advantage, okay? It makes us grumpy.
- One way is to use a pre-seeded system, in which we assume higher seeding wins their round and all the rounds are seeded. We'd get something like this.
- Another way is to continue using seeding, but have it reset every round. So Shikamaru, if he wins R1, would face the lowest seed among everyone who won; Ino, assuming she wins, would face the second lowest seed, etc..
- A third way is to just RNG everything. Have seeding for the first round, but all the matches after R1 is from luck of the draw. You'd probably want to assign a randomizer or something, but that's easy to do.
Emstar
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The only thing thats weird with the pre-seeded one (as is normally done) is that this was not meant to distinguish between large piles of people with essentially the same track record. We have huge chunks of people at a tie score-wise. Doesn't happen in sportsball IRL like that.
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Hazo winning the tournament in Ami's name gets them married more quickly. I am pretty sure that's how tournaments work - at least those of the middle ages.
E: It also makes sense narratively that Hazo has to first defeat the younger sister to get to the older sister.
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I am quite happy with the results, but can't quite reconcile some of the Event 5 R2 scores.
We have 290-150=140 points, accounting for 24 prisoners, like we thought.
The spared teams were ISC R1 teams and Kurenai. However, the sand team has 320-495... i.e. an ISC R1 team that was not spared in R2.
It looks like ISC's R2 teams were spared by mistake. I thought that ISC were going to eat a few prisoner penalties in the agreement they made.
Additionally, I thought our R1 teams would not be injured/unconscious at the end of R2. Because only ISC turned in, I'd expect one/two set of R2 Blue scores to be -150 (-25*6) - and the rest -225 depending on whether ISC turned in their docs or not. However, there are no -150 scores in the list.
I'll spend a bit of time tonight seeing if I can reconcile the lists, unless someone points out my error.
Don't have a problem generally - just want to be sure of things.
I am quite happy with the results, but can't quite reconcile some of the Event 5 R2 scores.
We have 290-150=140 points, accounting for 24 prisoners, like we thought.
The spared teams were ISC R1 teams and Kurenai. However, the sand team has 320-495... i.e. an ISC R1 team that was not spared in R2.
It looks like ISC's R2 teams were spared by mistake. I thought that ISC were going to eat a few prisoner penalties in the agreement they made.
Additionally, I thought our R1 teams would not be injured/unconscious at the end of R2. Because only ISC turned in, I'd expect one/two set of R2 Blue scores to be -150 (-25*6) - and the rest -225 depending on whether ISC turned in their docs or not. However, there are no -150 scores in the list.
I'll spend a bit of time tonight seeing if I can reconcile the lists, unless someone points out my error.
Don't have a problem generally - just want to be sure of things.
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Personally would vote for this
fictionfan
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Well I do like the idea of having him be the star of the show. Might cause his trouble to change.
Cariyaga
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According to MMKII, the way my bracket is laid out is the way it usually happens.Thats how brackets are usually seeded.
Assume straight numerical dominance.
Then in Round 2 we should have
1 vs 8
2 vs 7
3 vs 6
4 vs 5
Continue onwards.
I dont like it either
Edit: Although I didn't check to make sure it was good after round 2.
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Past March Madness Brackets - NCAA Tournament History
At least, this is the way they do it in Mens College Basketball (one of the only two sportsball tournaments I ever watch).
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Not exactly. In college basketball and football there is a commitee that's seeds teams. This is based on win loss record, strength of schedule and conferences championships coming into play. In the NBA you have teams divided into two conferences with the top 8 from each conference getting in. The NFL gives slots to the best performing team in each division with 2 wild card slots. I believe the NHL reseeds after every round
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Yeah, I am assuming that the score is essentially determining the seed. And that we aren't divvying stuff up in conferences/divisions.
Didn't know that about the NHL. Interesting. I should watch more stickpuck, I suppose.
fictionfan
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What I would normally expect is for seeding to be claimed to be random, but actually orginazed to favor the hosts as much as possible. However leaf is dominating so much that there really isn't any seed I can think of that makes that relevant.
Whatever happens, the important thing is that we only ever lose to each other, and the last one left wins the finals.