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bernieh · 5 years ago

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Announcing the QUIPOCALYPSE: the Quiplash 2 Tournament of the End Times

Update: The Results and archived broadcast!

Here’s the final results! And below is the YouTube export of the stream (Twitch version here). Thanks for playing everyone!!

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On Saturday night, March 28, 2020, if the world hasn’t ended yet, we’ll be hosting a live Quiplash 2 tournament at https://www.twitch.tv/berniehou starting at 9pm ET, and you’re invited to either compete with some of the best Quiplash players around, or just watch and vote for your favorite jokes!

ALL the prompts* in the tournament will be original content written by me, your host, Bernie! WOW 👀

The Format

This will be a single-elimination, 3-round tournament of at most 32 total players, where all the games will be 8-player games, with the top 4 finishers of each game advancing to the next round, until there are 8 players left, who will compete in the Championship game (i.e. the third round). There’ll be 4 games in the 1st round, 2 games in the 2nd round, and then the 8-player Championship game. The winner of the Championship Game is our overall winner.

What is Quiplash 2?

Oh man it’s so great. It’s a party game where you write funny answers to funny prompts, and then the answers are put up 2 at a time, and everyone votes on which one they like better. Whoever gets the most overall votes wins. That’s really it! Here’s the official trailer I found of Quiplash 1 (the gist is the same):

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How to Enter to Play in the Tournament

Space is limited, so there’s no guarantee we can fit you in, but if you love playing Quiplash, sign up and maybe you’ll get in or at the least be a standby!

Tell me that you’d like to commit to play in the tournament.

Provide proof that you’ve played Quiplash before, e.g. a link to a past stream or saved video you were on. If you can’t do this but think you can convince me anyway, give it a shot. Sorry but we don’t want to be explaining how the game works to players during the event.

Give me the best way to contact you, whether it’s by whisper on Twitch, Discord DM, email, whatever.

How to Just Watch Instead

The Quipocalypse will be just as much fun to watch as it’ll be to play in! That’s because every audience member gets to vote on every head-to-head matchup of player jokes, which directly determines who wins. They also get to write jokes of their own to special audience answers, which don’t count in the game, but show up on the screen for the everyone else in the audience.

You can just watch and not be part of the audience, in which case you can use any device and go to https://www.twitch.tv/berniehou when the broadcast is live (or use the Twitch app and find me at berniehou). Click to follow me there on Twitch to get notified when we’re live.

To watch and be in the audience at the same time, you’ll either need to be on a computer with 2 web browser windows open, or have 2 devices. One will be tuned in to the stream as in Step 1, the other will be on the jackbox.tv website. All you’ll do there is type in a short room code which you’ll be given when each game is about to start, and then you’ll be able to easily vote on player answers and/or type in answers to the audience prompts.

Who Am I?

My name’s Bernie, I’m just this guy, you know? I created the popular webcomic Alien Loves Predator back in the day. I’m not affiliated with and don’t work for Jackbox Games. I’ve been playing their games on our Twitch channel every week (Thursdays, these days) with my best pals for over 3 years now, and, along with some awesome friends we’ve met on Twitch, we’ve gotten pretty good at these games.

Some Extra Details and Rules

The tournament, its prompts, and player answers are rated R. Adult language and themes are permitted, but we draw a very hard line at racist, misogynistic, homophobic, etc. references. Offenders will be quickly censored and banned. We’ll make sure the “VIP” of each game is also a trusted moderator of our channel, who will be able to deal with any possible trolls.

An intended schedule of which competitors are assigned to which games will be posted the day of the tournament.�� Keep in mind that the schedule will have to be flexible, because if one or more players fail to join a game they are assigned to, other players will be pulled from a subsequent game to fill their spot(s).

If a player fails to join a game they were assigned to, they aren’t necessarily disqualified, if they can join a later game in the same round. If all games in that round are complete, though, then they will be disqualified.

We can’t be responsible for any technical difficulties any player experiences on their end, but if a game gets interrupted due to a Jackbox server problem, or a disconnect on my end, we’ll do everything possible to resume in the fairest way possible to all players, including efforts to preserve the scoring of the last completed round.

In the event that we don’t have 8 official competitors to fill out a given game, we’ll use Fillers - people who will play but will not count in the standings - to fill it to 8. If we have, say, 12 competitors left in a given round, we’d divide them into 2 groups of 6, and add 2 Fillers to each to bring both games up to 8 players.

I won’t be playing as an official contestant, as I’ll have written all the prompts. But it’s possible that I might join a game as a Filler if needed.

It’s gonna be so fun you guys!

But only if you’re there. So sign up to play today, and see you there!

Confirmed Contestants

last updated: Fri, 3/27, 2:40pm ET

mean_dean

teradome

Stux42

ethel_merben

lise-a-beth

rocketrobobear

mollymcdeath

uberkarnie

Coolvamp_coco

electricbootselectric

dalmuti

zoofo

jwilli81

MindTip

4rv1l

kateisjustgr8

kauersaut

yoddledayoddle

Pooladin (standby)

M3Times

Poopnacho (maybe)

moonlightmirage

thunderandiron

jojosbizarrehead

MoogleTroop

goombalax

epicalamaster

rachel

adrian

juancenaa69

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