Yep, it's back, and this time it's...oh hell with it, let's just get into the nitty gritty.
We vote on what scene is best, but some scenes are hard to compare. What is better? The scene that is a powerful dramatic moment, or a scene that made you laugh your ass off? If you say the former, does not all scenes of the latter get put at an unfair advantage? You get the idea. As such, again, we have DIFFERENT CATEGORIES!
Drama: The scenes that are well done based on serious writing, execution, plot developments, etc. It's the scenes that stand out to you in some serious manner. It could be a majorly uplifting heroic moment where the main delivers a powerful speech, or a famous death scene with strong emotions. Basically, anything that is "Serious" goes here.
If this division was a Movie, this would be your "Best Picture" award bait movies.
As a side note, the nature of this division has MANY spoilers involved. If you want to justify why the scene is, either spoiler tag it, or don't specify events.
Humor: The scene is good because it is funny. Well, ok, there may be scenes that qualify here that aren't "Funny" but shh! The idea is the scene was made to make you laugh, or at least crack a smile, and it succeeds gloriously at this. I must emphasize this: This is intentional humor, not ironic, "So Bad It's Good", etc. humor.
If this division was a Movie, this would be your comedies, your parodies, etc.
Style: This is where all those "Bad Ass" "Cool" "Awesome" and all that jazz. These are the things that appeal to you on a shallow level. It's not necessarily serious but not quite humorous; more just kind of "man, that was great!" moments.
If this division was a Movie, this would be your action flicks, super hero movies, etc.
Wrong: There comes a time where you see something that you like but know you shouldn't. You see something done so bad it is suddenly amazing. Something happens that you know wasn't intended to be taken a certain way, but you can't help but love it for that wrong reason. That's this division. This is NOT about how bad the scene is, this is about how unintentionally awesome it is.
If it were a movie, this would be your Plan 9 From Outerspaces, and all that.
Fail: New category! Simply put, THE WORST OF THE WORST. Scenes are awful, and you can't believe they exist, and they actively make the game worse. You know the drill. In this division, you are voting on what scene is worse.
And yes, some scenes MAY cross into two divisions, as there are blurred lines. I get that, however, I am adding a rule I didn't have this tournament:
A scene can only get into one division. It can be nommed for multiple, but if it gets into a division, it is disqualified from the others. Last tournament, it was getting ridiculous where people we'd have a scene up one week, then the following week that same scene would come up, and there was a sense of Anti-voting the scene.
Also, nom scenes, not a sequence of events. No, just because they all happen consecutively does not make them the same scene. Case in point, nomming "Don Corneo's Mansion" is not a scene. There are multiple scenes that happen in this area. Now, saying "Don Corneo Interrogation" is an isolated scene. Also, chopping up one scene into smaller parts I will not allow this time. None of this "I nom Yunalesca's rant about anti-hope!" when someone nommed "This is the time!" speech from Auron. They're the exact same scene, they both qualify. Feel free to give any reason you want of course!
ALSO, THE FOLLOWING SCENES ARE BANNED:
Drama: Ferid/Arshtat (Suikoden 5)
Humor: Man Festival (Shadow Hearts Covenant)
Style: Evil Overlord Lesbian Asellus (SaGa Frontier)
Wrong: Chu-Chu Died For your Sins (Xenogears)
Fail: Anything from Xenosaga 3.
Why are they banned? They won the previous tournament, so I feel it's only right they get "Retired."
As far as Fail goes, I banned Xenosaga 3 as to avoid over-saturation. Whoever wins Fail will face off against what people agree is the worst scene in that game...how I decide that is something I haven't quite figured out yet...
...and yes, I think I did forget to announce winners of previous tournament so consider that "Retired" list me announcing the winners like 4 years late or something <_<;
Also, I ask you to please consider the people voting on this. There is one franchise, which I will not specify here, that got a large number of scenes in, which got god awful vote draws every single time, and it was a legitimate turn off to some people. I urge you, PLEASE consider that before hand. This is especially important in Drama, where both spoilers are a big deal, so people don't watch in hopes to avoid that, AND sometimes context is a big deal, and the scenes loses everything without knowing the context.
Additionally, make sure you can find a means to illustrate the scene. If the scene can't be found on Youtube, or the script is unavailable, or whatever, do not nom it. I can make exceptions for really well known scenes that no one needs to watch because they all know it, but don't assume yours qualifies. If you nom a scene and I can't find an example of said scene, it is not getting in.
Lot of rules? Yes, yes there are! Just get to nomming 4 to 6 per division, and I urge you to have a bit of variety in your noms; no oversaturizing with one game please.
EDIT: Forgot to note this, but Non-RPGs are allowed.
