Beatnik

So, after playing on the Pyro Tennis map the past couple days and coming up with some impromptu rules for a new game, a few of us were thinking about having a weekend event some time soon, since it's extremely hard to actually play the game on an unpassworded server. We've come up with some basic rules to make pyro tennis more interesting, resulting in a game that's more a combination of baseball and tennis than plain tennis.

Here are the basic ground rules for Focused Rocketball:

1. There are 4 people on a team, 1 soldier and 3 pyros. The soldier is the Pitcher, while the pyros are...Pyros.

2. A team scores by its pyros successfully sending a bounced rocket back into the opposing team's back wall (floor, side walls and ceiling hits don't score).

3. Serving is just like in volleyball. A team serves until they miss a point. They must pitch the rocket below the feet of the opposing pitcher (i.e. below the plank that holds where the soldiers stand). This is to prevent pitches into the upper corners, out of the pyro's normal range. A pitcher can score an 'Ace' by hitting the opposing back wall with his rocket/pitch.

4. To make things more interesting, if a team manages to bounce a crit rocket back to the soldier and kill him (either on the first pitch or a subsequent bounce), that team automatically wins the match.

5. First team to 10 points wins. Ties are decided by sudden death.

That's it. It's pretty simple, but a lot of fun. If you're interested, reply in this thread. I probably forgot some gamebreaking details in this post, so I'll update the OP as necessary before the match. The point of this match is also to help us improve our compressed-air deflection skillz in a competitive game, and to do it in a smacktard free, passworded server. We'll need a minimum of 6 people to play, but ideally at least 8 people signed up will allow us to play the game right. We'll decide the tourney structure if necessary depending on how many people are interested, and pick teams at 5.

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Santa

Id be game. I would suggest that all pyros have to stay between the black square and the backboard. Not only will the game be more exciting because you have enough time to react to a rocket coming at you, but soldier-pitchers wont put the rocket directly in the middle where the pyros probably wouldnt be able to get to it.

But I wouldnt mind if its the other way either really.

jaymind

I'm game.

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IMI50AE

Sure, sounds like fun.

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If it's a choice between regular and extra crispy I want you extra crispy!

CitizenSnips

Why not? I'll play.

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juiCe

But that totally negates my strategy of running up to the line and reflecting the rocket before the pyro's air blast has cooled down. :[

Beatnik

Ok well that looks like 6 people signed up, so this event will go on. Whether it will be on the b2 version that we've all been playing on, or pyro_tennis_a1 or pyro_tennis_remade, remains to be seen.

I'll update #2 to run either a1 or 'remade' today so you guys can try it out.

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EnigmatiK

Hey Beatnik; just talked to you a few seconds ago.

Of course, as I said earlier, I'd like to join as well as write that plugin for your pub pyrotennis server.

Looking forward to this.

Beatnik

Good to see ya on the forum, dude. Feel free to PM me with any questions or issues with the pyro tennis server.

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Beatnik

Bump. The time for this evert was pushed up to 4 PM EST to accomadate scrim practice later in the evening.

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