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Tournament Roundup

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We've got several tournaments going on right now on InstantAction (rather, sign ups are happening now) so if one of these interests you, go ahead and click the link.

Legions DeathMatch Tourney

Standard Deathmatch with a 10 minute time limit and 50 kill score limit.  Prizes for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd places.  Broken up into Eu, NA, and Australia.  Sign up deadline: October 15th.

Galcon Noob Tourney

This is still up in the air but if there are at least 7 people that are interested before October 10th, it could be a reality.  The noob part of tourney just means that it's a very relaxed tournament for fun.  If you are interested, click the link above and sign up.

Rokkitball Multiple Goal Challenge

In this competition it will be required to do multiple shots in 1 video.  You'll be given a task, earn point on your video and winners will be determined.  Prizes are still TBD.  Check it out!

That's all I've got for now.  DrWiley out.

Galcon Ladder Tournament

Community member IRT015 is starting up a ladder for Galcon and are looking at 2v2 and 1v1 matches.  If this is something that might interest you then sign yourself up (or your team).  The ladder will be held on cybergamer.com.au

There's quite the discussion going down on the InstantAction Forums as well.  So head on over and for the full rundown of the rules and to join in the conversation.  You'll also find all other pertinent links on this forum thread.

Here's hoping to some quality competition coming out of this.

-Dr Wiley

Tournaments - Galcon and Aces

In this post I'll be going over a tournament that has ended and a tournament that is starting up.  So if you want to earn yourself some tokens, then continue reading the entire post for the full scoop.

Aces Tourney

The Advanced Team Dogfight Tournament has come to a close and I'm here to announce the winners.  The S1 Squadron (comprised of Briandginther, dobbal, Zaynick, and cherokee) took first place earning each of their members 1000 ActionTokens. 

Coming in second is RFC team 1 (comprised of Badboy7889, Swindell, linas08, and jakewylie197) earning each member 300 ActionTokens. 

Congrats to the winners and thanks to everyone who participated.

GALCON Tourney

Chi-Ro is hosting a Galcon tournament on August 1st starting at 4 PM (Eastern Time).  Prizes will be attached to this tournament in the amounts of 1000 ActionTokens for first place, 500 ActionTokens for second place, and 300 ActionTokens for third place. 

For full rules and to sign yourself up to compete against the Galcon crew, head on over to the forum and sign yourself up to compete in the Community run Galcon Tournament forum thread.

Good luck to everyone who participates.

-Dr Wiley

Limited Edition Galcon Avatars

People have been asking for Galcon avatars for a long time now, and you can finally celebrate.  For a limited time you can have your exclusive Galcon avatars.  All you need to do is log into InstantAction between now and June 12th, so get 'em before they're gone. 

Galcon Tournament Results

The Galcon tournament went down last weekend and I'm here to present the results.  We had a couple different tournaments for those across the pond and the people here in the US so here are the results for each tournament.

European Tourney:

1st place - PaperPlanes
2nd place - teixeira10
3rd place - PurpleZ

US Tourney:

1st place - Stguy045
2nd place - Guitee
3rd place - ZanteWarrior


US Eastern Tourney
The winners each received some ActionTokens and 1st place will also be receiving InstantAction t-shirts.  Congrats to the winners and thanks to everyone who participated.

-Dr Wiley

Galcon Tournament

That's right, a Galcon tournament is up and running accepting sign-ups.  Hosted by Chi-Ro this tournament will take place on April 4th.  Whether you are new to Galcon or a veteran of the game, head on over to the forums to get your name all signed up. 

Some of the details are still being worked out, but expect ActionTokens for the winners of the tournament.  Head on over the tournament announcements page for all the details so far. 

-Dr Wiley

Galcon Gets Free Plays

Friday everyone received 3 free plays per day for Galcon, so if you didn't notice get in there and get to the playing of Galcon.  We're releasing different payment models in several steps; we're experiment so be patient with us and we ARE listening to your feedback along the way.  So please keep posting your thoughts in the appropriate forum. 

Also, here's a small picture of Phil Hassey's (Galcon Developer) goat.

 

Cuzco

Four-way Action in Galcon

The interns over in New York are extremely busy...as you can see in this video.  Just kidding of course, I'm sure this was done on their lunch break.  Either way, enjoy some four player action in a friendly game of GalCon!  Then get in there and play a game of your own.

A GalCon Battle from David Sugarman on Vimeo.

Now I'm tempted to join one of their games to show 'em what's up.  I think I could take them...

-Dr Wiley.

The Awesome that is Galcon

Galcon is now available to the public through InstantAction and as extremely addictive as ever.  "Galcon is an awesome high-paced multi-player galactic action-strategy game. You send swarms of ships from planet to planet to take over the galaxy." 

You've got the choice on how dedicated you want to become.  Firstly, you can drop a measly 10 tokens to play the game, it's like an arcade payment system.  Secondly, once you get hooked you can rent the game for a month or a year at 500 ActionTokens and 1400 ActionTokens respectively.

With more game modes coming soon, it's gonna be awesome.  Get in there so you can destroy me in multiplayer.

-Dr Wiley

On Galcon: An Essay In Two Parts

Spacemen are bad to the bone, let no one tell you otherwise!

The guys here at the NYC office have fallen in love with a little game called Galcon. For those of you who haven't been graced by the almighty, holy light that bleeds through your screen when the game is being played... I'm truly sorry.

Get on that, like ASAP.

We've started ending every day (and beginning most) with at least one game. I'm pretty sure the boys from Bryn Mawr missed their train home one day because we couldn't stop playing. Who knew that triangles flying through space to fill colored circles could be so addictive?

"Not I," said the pig.

We just got a ton of new interns today and we're trying to break them in with a few 4v4 bouts (we've never played more than 3v3 before today). Sadly, I wasn't able to play (and it doesn't look like I'll be able to play at the end of the day either) because I'm currently using Ben's (djbmel1212) MacBook Pro. Oh well, I'll be working from home for the rest of the week anyways (the office is so crowded with all the new guys, it's insane).

Anyway, back to the glory that are colored triangles.
It's not the easiest game to pick up right away (unless you're amazing at games like Risk [by the way, another awesome game to play when your internet is down]), but once you start getting the hang of managing multiple planets... it's just pure bliss. Every time we're getting hit hard there are cheers and jeers, and every time someone is going down fast there are yells of "guys, send me some guys now!"

I'm really not sure how our co-workers put up with all the noise we make.

I swear, if this keeps up we're going to start skipping meals in favor of ruling outerspace.
Who needs food anyway?

~Joe~

Galcon is coming soon to InstantAction