I'll be hosting a single day Tournament on the Vizzed.co Minecraft server on Wednesday, 2/26/2020, at 4 PM central time. The tournament will be no more than 1 hour long and anyone can join at any point even after it's already started.





How to Join
All you have to do is log on to the Vizzed Minecraft server, using the IP address Vizzed.co, and you'll be invited to the Maze world. I'll be making a separate thread and announcement shortly before the event starts. Even if you join late, you can still join.

How the Tournament Works
Users will navigate through a series of mazes. This isn't broken up into rounds like last time, it'll be a single marathon of mazes. You finish 1 maze, you immediately go on to the next maze.

Prizes
1st Place = 50,000 Viz (or 5 Raffle Tickets)
2nd Place = 30,000 Viz (or 3 Raffle Tickets)
3rd Place = 10,000 Viz (or 1 Raffle Ticket)

How to Spectate
If you can't participate, you can still join those who are spectating it. Foxyman1113 and I will be co-hosting the event on Twitch here:
http://www.twitch.tv/davideo7/

If you can't make it to the live stream, I'll be uploading an edited version of the event to my YouTube channel here:
https://www.youtube.com/user/davideo7

More Information
For more information, or if you have questions and feedback, go here:
https://www.vizzed.com/boards/thread.php?id=102782

I put together a video showcasing the Super Mario Bros Speedrun Parkour stream from last week and uploaded it to YouTube for those who missed out:



I plan to do a part 2 to this at some point for the remaining worlds 5-8 if enough users are interested. If anyone is interested, let me know in the video or in this thread.

The Super Mario Bros Speedrun Parkour on the Vizzed.co Minecraft Server is now live:
https://twitch.tv/davideo7/

Anyone can join at any time by going to the IP address: Vizzed.co for a chance at winning US $25. For more information, refer to this thread:
https://www.vizzed.com/boards/thread.php?id=102714

Be sure to download the Resource Pack before joining:
https://www.vizzed.com/files/minecraft/Nintendo%20NES%20(1.0).zip

If you have any questions, go here:
https://www.vizzed.com/boards/thread.php?id=102748

Hey everyone, this is here to serve as a last reminder that in about 2 hours from this message (4 PM Central Time) we will be hosting a competition on our Minecraft Server! There are no signups, just visit our server (IP = vizzed.co) and you'll be able to join!

It will be a Mario themed parkour competition, with a prize of US $25!
Hope to see some of you there, or watching through David's stream

https://www.twitch.tv/davideo7

I'll be hosting a single day Tournament on the Vizzed.co Minecraft server on Wednesday, 1/29/2020, at 4 PM central time. The tournament will be no more than 1 hour long and anyone can join for a chance of winning US $25.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqPn18LdaHM


For more information, go here:
https://www.vizzed.com/boards/thread.php?id=102714

These will be the 2 admins for the 1st half of 2020:
Minuano
Furret

https://www.vizzed.com/boards/thread.php?id=102431

The last Tour de Vizzed introduced new card styles for the Vizzed GO game. If you don't plan to compete in the TdV, it's still worth visiting the site daily to try and catch those who are competing.


The Summer Tour de Vizzed discussion thread can be found here:
https://www.vizzed.com/boards/thread.php?id=102424


Each day there will be 4 Jerseys you can compete for:
Yellow Jersey: Most words in a day
Blue Jersey: Most posts in a day
Red Jersey: Most CP in a day
Green Jersey: Most CP actions in a day


Hall of Fame page can be found here:
https://www.vizzed.com/boards/tourdevizzed-halloffame.php

You can find the current Tour de Vizzed results page here:
https://www.vizzed.com/boards/tourdevizzed.php

It's time to elect the 2 users who will be admins of the site in 2020 from January - June. Only 3 of the 4 Global Moderators are running for the 2 Admin positions. You can vote for 2 Admins. They're listed below, click them to see their application:

EX Palen

Furret

Minuano


For more information and to vote, go here:
https://www.vizzed.com/boards/thread.php?id=102416

I wanted to wish everyone a Merry Christmas



7 Days of Vizzed Christmas
You'll all be rewarded a nice Christmas gift when you come to the site on Christmas (server time). Additionally, you'll be rewarded a random amount of Viz for each day that you come to Vizzed from the 25th until the end of the year, the '7 Days of Vizzed Christmas'. Be sure to visit the site each day to claim your random Viz gift!



Christmas Games in the Retro Game Room
The Retro Game Room has 40+ Christmas games. You can find them all here:
//www.vizzed.com/playonlinegames/index.php?sort=best&search=Christmas&searchBy=theme



Christmas Video Game Music Stream
I'll be streaming Christmas / Wintery themed video game music 24 hours a day from tonight until Christmas is over. You can find the stream here:
https://www.twitch.tv/videogamemusicradio


Christmas Video Game Music
I put together a big playlist of Christmas themed and Winter themed video game music:
//www.vizzed.com/videogames/music.php?playlist=4



Retro Christmas Game Montage
A few years ago I put together a video highlighting 12 Christmas games (non hacked):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcbh8UIMMj8



Any questions, comments or feedback? Or do you simply want to wish everyone a Merry Christmas? Do so in this thread:
https://www.vizzed.com/boards/thread.php?id=102411

I spent many hours putting this together, which is why I had to delay it as long as I did. I wanted to capture not only the growth of the site but its community as well. I also wanted it to feel authentic so I did a lot of research in order to represent what it would have felt like using the site during the represented time periods (finding archives and using old internet browsers).

All of the users represented in the video are users with at least 10 posts. A special thanks to the users who went out of there way to put together a video/audio file that I could place in the video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2iIk20_IQc8

Be sure to comment on the video and also like it

I spent many hours putting this together, which is why I had to delay it as long as I did. I wanted to capture not only the growth of the site but its community as well. I also wanted it to feel authentic so I did a lot of research in order to represent what it would have felt like using the site during the represented time periods (finding archives and using old internet browsers).

All of the users represented in the video are users with at least 10 posts. A special thanks to the users who went out of there way to put together a video/audio file that I could place in the video


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvVGwkC-iE8

Be sure to comment on the video and also like it

I’m going to start this out by letting everyone know that I’m still working on the 15 Year Anniversary Video but it’s a little behind. It should be up within a week though, and I’ll make a separate announcement for it. You can get a sneak peak of what to expect here (the video will be based on the events listed on that).

After a lot of bold and controversial decisions made at the end of 2018 involving a complete staff restructure, 2019 started out really strong. It slowed down a bit but I think that was just a temporary phase and I believe the site is on track to start growing again. 2018 was the rock bottom for the site and 2019 was the beginning of the gradual incline that follows.

2019 was also a really busy year as far as development goes. I said I would dedicate 2019 to working on features that benefit the forum and its community and that’s exactly what I did. I spent very little time working on the Retro Game Room and mainly focused on fixing, finishing and expanding things on the forum. The biggest project of course was Rebuilding the Entire Post System, which I think makes the forum worthy of a Vizzed Board 2.0 status? I also completely rebuilt the Private Message System from the ground up. Both of those projects were some of the biggest projects I’ve tackled in years but they weren’t the only forum related things I worked on.

I restructured the Log System which made the site more secure and faster, made a ton of different cosmetic updates (for example, Input Fields), developed a ‘Vizzed GO’ game as an April Fools prank that caught on and was kept, finally added a Post Quoting feature, made a New Memberlist page, made a New Active Users page, and so much more.

I did work on the Retro Game Room and Video Game Room a little though. I upgraded the version of RetroArch that we use countless times. I rebuilt the Game Editor to make the lives of the staff easier, I completely revamped the way Screenshots are handled and displayed, fixed the Game Streamers page, etc.

And then to some, the biggest thing that happened in 2019 was the Vizzed Minecraft Server Revival!

One of my more favorite features that I made was the Site Statistics page. It lets you see just about any type of statistic on the site with an endless amount of filters. All of the stats for the awards below were generated from that page (in previous years, I had to execute queries in the database) so be sure to click the ‘Source’ links to see those results in action.

Another big thing that happened in 2019: My Bomberman ’94 Tournament streak was finally broke by Foxyman1113! I had been the reigning champion for 5 years. Again, congrats Foxyman1113, it was nice to finally have that streak broken and it was well earned

Expect to see less features in 2020 compared to previous years but more involvement in the actual community. In 2020 I’ll be spending far less time doing development work on the site and far more time just being part of the community, which will include more posting, hosting more events, more streams with the members of the site, more PM reading, more Notification reading, and just more involvement with the community and staff in general.

You can find all of the awards and additional information here:
https://www.vizzed.com/boards/thread.php?id=102393

I'm putting together a YouTube video for the Vizzed Channel which will show the evolution of this site and its community in the form of a timeline. The timeline will list all of the significant events (in order) and will show various statistics. It will also list the different users who have been staff and users who have had an impact on the site in some way.

The video will probably be around 10 minutes long. Throughout the video, I'd like for clips of Vizzed users to play so this is where you guys can help out.


Submit Your Video/Audio
I wanted to have the involvement of Vizzed users in this video.

Qualified users can send me an audio or video clip in the following ways:
1. Email it to me at
2. Upload it to YouTube (as unlisted) for me to download
3. Upload it somewhere on the internet

You qualify if any of the following apply to you:
1. You've been a member for 5 or more years
2. You have more than 1000 posts (or 100,000 post words)
3. You have more than 10,000 CP

The Video/Audio Clip should:
-Be no more than 15 seconds long
-Start out with you saying your Vizzed username (or names)
-Be good quality if at all possible
-Sent to me before December 3rd

Then answer 1 (or both) of the following questions in the clip:
1. How has Vizzed impacted your life?
2. What is your greatest Vizzed memory?


If you have any questions, reply here:
https://www.vizzed.com/boards/thread.php?id=102365

I'm doing another Vizzed Black Friday this year which starts today, November 29th, and ends at the end of the day on Monday, December 2nd. Except this year, I'm doing the biggest discount I've ever offered!

During this time, everything (except stuff sold by other users) will be discounted by 33% in the Vizzed Market which includes all game codes and Vizzed items. Users will also earn double Viz for donating to the site.

Enjoy

As mentioned in this thread, I'm planning on putting together a timeline video of Vizzed.

I'm putting together a timeline feature which I'll be using to help "render" the timeline video and also to have a platform where I and others can submit events. You can see the timeline I'm putting together here: Vizzed History Timeline.

Staff has the power to add events to it. I can also give users the power to add events to it if others are interested in helping out. At the moment you can only add events, I haven't got around to adding the option for editing and removing events. Also note that the date of the events have to be in timestamp format (for the time being) so you can use a website like this to find the timestamp of a date.

What Events Should Be Added?
Feel free to suggest events that should be added. While the timeline will contain a few non Vizzed events (such as game systems and popular video game releases), all suggestions should be Vizzed related. Events can be something on Vizzed that happened which had a huge impact on the site or its community, when certain features got added, it can be various milestones, etc.

Post your suggestions here:
https://www.vizzed.com/boards/thread.php?id=102380

Vizzed Board turns 15 years old on December 6th so you guys have a little more than 2 weeks to vote for whoever you think deserves any of the awards below. Voting will end on December 5th and the awards will be given out on December 6th. There are 25 awards you can vote on, 20 user awards and 5 thread/post awards.

You can cast your votes here:
https://www.vizzed.com/boards/thread.php?id=102364

It was down for a few years but the Vizzed.co Minecraft Server is finally back online (and working great)! Well technically it's been up for a few weeks now but a lot of that time was used to install necessary plugins, maintenance, migrate old data, and prepare it for its grand opening!

Anyone with the Java version of Minecraft can join using this as the IP address:
Vizzed.co


I've created an entire directory on Vizzed dedicated to our Minecraft server. It contains plenty of resources, information about every user, world and claim, and so much more. I've also got huge plans to continue expanding it with features so that the site and our minecraft are more integrated with each other. Anyways, the Vizzed Minecraft "site" can be found here:
https://www.vizzed.com/minecraft/


Be sure to take a look at the rules thread before using our server to avoid getting yourself banned. You can find the rules here:
https://www.vizzed.com/boards/thread.php?id=102259


I do a weekly Twitch Stream on Mondays at 1 PM central time where the staff and I discuss the server, our plans with it, any current events and more. If you're interested in it, check it out here:
https://www.twitch.tv/davideo7/
(be sure to follow my channel to get notifications)


For more additional information about the server, or if you have any questions, comments or feedback, go here:
https://www.vizzed.com/boards/thread.php?id=102313

Every Monday from 1 PM until 2 PM (central time zone) the Vizzed.co Minecraft Server staff and I will be doing a weekly meeting where we talk about the server, discuss our plans and allow users in the Twitch chat to give us feedback. It'll also involve a lot of general MC discussion and an opportunity to show off the server, the users of the server, and their creations.

The stream will be taking place on my Twitch Channel here:
https://www.twitch.tv/davideo7/
(be sure to follow my channel to get notifications)

The time and day of the week for our weekly meeting will more than likely change in a month. We'll make any adjustments needed for this so that it can involve as many users as possible.

If you have any questions or feedback, go here:
https://www.vizzed.com/boards/thread.php?id=102237

The Final Matchup of the 2019 Bomberman Tournament is Live here:
https://www.twitch.tv/davideo7

For more information, refer to the previous announcement.

It's a little late but the final matchup of the Spring Bomberman Tournament has finally been scheduled along with the special "Beat Davideo7 and Foxyman1113" event that takes place soon afterward!

Both events will take place on July 25th, Thursday, from 2 PM - 6 PM central time. Read below for more information.



Defeat Davideo7 and Foxyman1113 & Win US $500 Worth of Digital or Steam Games! Event starts at around 4:00 PM central time on Thursday, 7/25/2018
As soon as the Bomberman Netplay Tournament ends, there will be a special Bomberman event that'll take place right afterward (just like the last few years). You'll form a team with anyone and take us on in a 2 vs 2 match and if you can beat us, you and your teammate get to share the $500 worth of Digital or Steam games! (or 500,000 Viz if you want that instead). Basically you'll be given 50 Raffle Tickets which you can use to redeem here (also click that to see the list of games that you can get which includes more than just Steam games).

If you're interested in challenging us, read the full details and respond to this thread here:
//www.vizzed.com/boards/thread.php?id=102183

This event will be live streamed on my Twitch Channel here:
//www.twitch.tv/davideo7
(be sure to 'Follow' my channel so you don't forget)



2019 Spring Bomberman Tournament = Final Matchup at 2:00 PM Central Time on Thursday, 7/25/2019
The final matchup of the Bomberman '94 Tournament ends on July 25th with the final matchup taking place at 2:00 PM central time. The tournament started at the beginning of April and began with 25 of some of the best Bomberman players. It is now down to 5 players; here are those players and their overall rank (which will determine their player order):
P1. Davideo7
P2. Foxyman1113
P3. ruanito
P4. Barathemos
P5. brandon101101


Here's how the final matchup will work. At the end of each round, the user (or users if there is a tie for last) with the lowest trophy count will be eliminated. We keep doing this until only 1 user stands, which will be our winner. If you miss the stream, I'll be uploading the video to my personal YouTube account here:
https://www.youtube.com/user/davideo7/videos

The matchup will be live streamed on my Twitch Channel here:
//www.twitch.tv/davideo7
(be sure to 'Follow' my channel so you don't forget)

The final matchup will last anywhere between 45 minutes and 90 minutes. Here are the results and uploaded streams of all the previous years:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChJzR73boek
2018: 1st. Davideo7, 2nd. Foxyman1113, 3rd. nakina, 4th. DavidMcC1989, 5th. Vanelan


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gg_FQvpPiU8
2017: 1st. Davideo7, 2nd. Linkums, 3rd. Foxyman1113, 4th. gamerforlifeforever, 5th. Barathemos


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSMe6sghQXA
2016: 1st. Davideo7, 2nd. Foxyman1113, 3rd. AceShock, 4th. Linkums, 5th. mvhupsel


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5zZOQmapM8
2015: 1st. Davideo7, 2nd. Foxyman1113, 3rd. Linkums, 4th. deg2000, 5th. lilwildwolf21


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlhE2Lhzr-w
2014: 1st. Davideo7, 2nd. madison, 3rd. AceShock, 4th. Koda, 5th. Forest Dragon

I'm still the reigning champion at this tournament and I kinda hope Foxyman1113 can take me down finally this year. He beat me in our 1 vs 1 matchup a few weeks ago (but he also did that last year).

If you have any questions or feedback, go here:
https://www.vizzed.com/boards/thread.php?id=102184