This forum serves 2 main purposes:


Contests / Tournaments
All contests and tournaments that I and others host from now on will be held in this forum. With all of the contests/tournament threads, it makes sense to have them all in their own forum, especially since they were crowding the Retro Game Room forum previously. I'm hoping this also draws more attention to the various Contests and Tournaments that I host.

Netplay
This forum can also be used as a place to discuss and set up times to play games online with others. The netplay and lobby are one of the most exciting features on Vizzed but it's also one of the most underused feature. Hopefully this forum encourages users to play with other users online.

Netplaying Retro Game Room games with others will be the primarily focus, you can also use this forum to find users to play non-RGR games online with including Xbox, PlayStation, 3DS, Steam, etc.


Moderators : Could someone move all of the threads from the following 2 sub-forums to this forum? Thanks.
https://www.vizzed.com/boards/forum.php?id=12&sub=Tournaments
https://www.vizzed.com/boards/forum.php?id=12&sub=Contests

That's very good that they get their own forum. I can not agree more with that. Its not always nice to have one crowed forum. This way it makes things easier.

Eniitan : Yeap especially since it means 9 less stickied threads in the Retro Game Room forum. That forum has always had far too many stickied threads but all of the stickies were necessary so this is also a great way to make that forum less overwhelming for new users.

Yeah, this forum is awesome! Will be nice to have a place focused on handling these contests and conversations about Netplay games and whanot.

Great job David! Thanks for adding it.

Jordanv78 : It's also worth pointing out that some of the contests I host now aren't Retro Game Room oriented so that's another reason why having a forum dedicated to this stuff works out great. I sometimes host Video Game Room contests and every month from now on I also host contests utilizing the Video Game Music Room.

So, is this the final result of the Let's Play Online idea you had?

It does look good to have the tournaments and contests on their own forum, either official or unofficial. Nice to see new forums getting added as well.

Davideo7 : I'll get right on it.
It shouldn't take me too long to move everything.

Edit:
Tournaments is done.
I can't imagine how many notifications you got from that, David. ^^;

I'll get Contests later today or tomorrow.

EX Palen : Yeap. The other day I kinda got sick of how unorganized the the contests and tournament threads were and I've had users tell me multiple times that they can't find the contests and tournament threads. When I decided to make a forum for it, I figured doing a multi-purpose forum like this was the best way to go, especially since tournaments involve netplay.

Vanelan : Thanks!

Well, I was hoping that the Let's Play Online forum could also be used for streaming purposes, like setting up a time for very big streams or a multiplayer game. The second option still stands, as it goes under the "Netplay" part, but the first one will have to use another forum (if someone ever planned on making a previous "announcement" of an upcoming big stream, which I plan to do if I manage to get my forum going).

Also, should we move here all the unofficial tournaments or contests going on? This one, for example, could get very benefitted from being in a more specific forum: https://www.vizzed.com/boards/thread.php?id=89569

EX Palen : That specific thread could probably go in either forum so in situations like that, it can be up to the thread creator to choose a forum.

Oh good, I've been thinking we had too many stickied threads. It looks so messy and offputting to see several stickied threads in a forum, plus it actually destroys the point of stickying a thread. Perfect example: I missed the first Local Mod election thread because I've become so accustomed to seeing so many stickied threads that I completely skip over them usually. So in the end, this serves two great purposes.

Eirinn : Yeah to be honest, I sometimes overlook the stickied threads too. I think having too many stickied threads in a forum results into users overlooking them. There should definitely be a limit of probably 10 sticky threads per a forum.

I'll go ahead and say this right now, this is the best of the new forums added today. I used to go the the RGR forum all the time just for the RGR contests and netplay. Now that they're separate forums, if I go view the RGR forum, I'll be more inclined to look at the other threads there, instead of just the contests and stuff.

Vanelan : How's the migration going?

gamerforlifeforever2 : Hopefully the same happens to everyone else.

Davideo7 : Sorry, been a bit busy and didn't get a chance to do much of the other Contests category.
I'll get to it soon.

Hey mods, you can help me doing this too. ^^;

Vanelan : *atchoooo* I have the feeling someone's talking about me... Oh, look, a butterfly!

EX Palen : You know, it's a good way to get CP and make that quota. :3

Davideo7 :
We got it done. All the contest and tournament threads have been moved.

EX Palen :
Thanks for the help. :3