The Autumn Tour de Vizzed is here! You can find last season's results here:
https://www.vizzed.com/boards/thread.php?id=99427


Here's some brief TdV info:

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

If you get 1st place in a Jersey for a day, you get to "wear" that Jersey the following day. To "wear" it means that the background of your username will have a unique background graphic. Only the top 5 places of each Jersey gets points, 1st gets 5 and 5th gets 1. Whoever has the most points for any Jersey at the end of the competition gets to wear that Jersey for the entire next month. If you have more than 1 jersey, your jersey receives stripes for each jersey color you own.

Along with the Jerseys are Banners that change your username color. They basically represent who has the most points total:
Rainbow Banner: Whoever has the most points so far in the competition
White Banner: New member who has the most points so far in the competition (anyone who has signed up in the past 3 months)

Here's a link to the Tour de Vizzed Hall of Fame:
https://www.vizzed.com/boards/tourdevizzed-halloffame.php

Here's a link to the Tour de Vizzed Results page:
https://www.vizzed.com/boards/tourdevizzed.php

Brief results can also be found on the forum index page.



Tour de Vizzed Rules:

You'll be DQ'd if:
-More than 25% of your daily posts are made in one of the following forums: Crazy House, Vizzed Market, Polls and Questions, Video Game Craziness, Newbie Forum (unless posts are made in your own thread then it's 50%)
-You copy content from other websites or other posts
-You use the "tabbing" technique to make a bunch of posts in a short amount of time
-You're caught cheating or unfairly earning Contribution Points
-More than 25% of your daily posts are made in the same thread (your own thread and staff threads are an exception)
-If 50% or more of your daily words are posted in the final hour of the day
-Staff members are not allowed to feature their own reviews during the Tour de Vizzed

Additionally:
If you get DQ'd just once from a Jersey, you can no longer get points for that Jersey for the rest of the month. We will be very strict from now on with the Tour de Vizzed. Only CP actions which you earned CP off of count toward the Green Jersey.

If you get DQ'd from too many Jerseys in too many TdV competitions, you'll be DQ'd from the TdV forever. Also, if you get DQ'd from a single Jersey in too many competitions, you'll be DQ'd from that specific Jersey forever.

Also, if 50% or more of your daily words are posted in the final hour of the day, you'll be DQ'd from the Yellow Jersey. Too many users have waited until the end of the day to submit a bunch of reviews to the site and that's unfair to users competing.

Moving Ebay Listings for the time being does not count toward any of the Jerseys. The price guide feature hasn't been retrieving ebay listings in nearly 2 years because of ebay updating their scripts and me not finding the time to update my own scripts to reflect that so what I've been doing instead is, every few months, I buy a price guide from PriceCharting.com and batch add the data to the games. There's no reason to allow it to count since it's not beneficial to the site at all since all of those ebay listings are very outdated and those prices no longer reflect what's current.



Additional Tour de Vizzed Info:

Some CP actions only count as 1 per day. In other words, any action in the below list can only increase your Green Jersey points by 1:
Forum Navigation, Review Rated, User Referral Posted, Video Rated, Post Spell Checked, Visiting Vizzed, Screenshot Rated, Post, Game Commenting, Thread, Thread Reply, Chat Room Minute, Staff Forum Post, Staff Forum Thread and Screenshot Details Added.

These CP actions do not count toward the Green Jersey: Game Content.

Each day there will be a specific CP action which will be worth doubled the points which benefits the Red Jersey competition. Below is a list of which actions are worth doubled on which days this month:
1. None
2. Video Submission
3. Screenshot Submission
4. Moving Ebay Listing
5. Character Adding
6. Review
7. Walkthrough
8. Article
9. Post
10. Thread
11. Donation
12. Screenshot Rating and Screenshot Rated
13. Review Rating and Review Rated
14. Video Rating and Video Rated
15. Post Rating and Post Rated
16. Game Rating and Game Rated
17. Screenshot Details Added
18. Playlist Rated and Playlist Rating
19. Song Rating
20. Donation
21. Game Streaming
22. Video Submission
23. Screenshot Submission
24. Moving Ebay Listing
25. Character Adding
26. Review
27. Walkthrough
28. Article
29. Post
30. Thread


Let the games begin!

I'm oddly excited about this!

I have no intention of actually competing in the strictest sense of the word. If I get points from posting and what not then so be it but I don't see myself writing a review every day or doing anything else CP wise in order to win but who knows. That might be a clever lie to make people not take me seriously

Still, I am hoping that posting will pick up this month because I do plan to post a LOT more often than I have been.

I have no idea what my plans are this time since I've been in my usual inactivity that comes with the 1st months of school. I kinda won everything I wanted last time so I don't plan on anything big XD

What I do know is I plan on cheering on some users and participating casually. I fell away from posting last month so I have some catching up to do.

SacredShadow : Wait, haven't I seen this before? Oh right, you had the rainbow banner with your old username. It looks just as great on your newer one!

Just as leaves change colors in Autumn, Vizzed users change their colors as the season progresses, a cyclical process that happens once every three months lasting for 30 days, after which the proud winners showcase their colors in another period of 30 days.

National Geographic aside, I'll be casually doing my thing, which will mean a few Red points every week and let's see if I don't end up getting a daily jersey for it if competition is nearly dead. Other than that, my wordy nature can work the magic and maybe get me in the top 20 for total points by the end of the season.

Let the best player win, and just like geeo returned let's hope we have a White Banner holder again even if it's just temporarily!

How often does this kind of event go on? i would be lucky if i can at least snag a blue Jersey at the end of the month
with very little being online doesnt really go well for me but we will do our best

10-01-17 Results

Yellow Jersey
SacredShadow : 1378 (1)
geeogree : 1273 (2)
EX Palen : 906 (3)
Khfan_D98 : 556 (4)
m0ssb3rg935 : 523 (5)

Blue Jersey
geeogree : 21 (1)
SacredShadow : 14 (2)
EX Palen : 6 (3)
Boured : 6 (4)
Eirinn : 5 (5)

Red Jersey
Yuna1000 : 62 (1)
SacredShadow : 46 (2)
no 8120 : 40 (3)
geeogree : 31 (4)
EX Palen : 19 (5)

Green Jersey
no 8120 : 42 (1)
Yuna1000 : 41 (2)
SacredShadow : 31 (3)
geeogree : 24 (4)
walterpigeon : 14 (5)

Monthly Results

Yellow Jersey
1. SacredShadow : 5
2. geeogree : 4
3. EX Palen : 3
4. Khfan_D98 : 2
5. m0ssb3rg935 : 1

Blue Jersey
1. geeogree : 5
2. SacredShadow : 4
3. EX Palen : 3
4. Boured : 2
5. Eirinn : 1

Red Jersey
1. Yuna1000 : 5
2. SacredShadow : 4
3. no 8120 : 3
4. geeogree : 2
5. EX Palen : 1

Green Jersey
1. no 8120 : 5
2. Yuna1000 : 4
3. SacredShadow : 3
4. geeogree : 2
5. walterpigeon : 1

Monthly Overall Results

All Users
1. SacredShadow : 16
2. geeogree : 13
3. Yuna1000 : 9
4. no 8120 : 8
5. EX Palen : 7
6. Boured : 2
7. Khfan_D98 : 2
8. Eirinn : 1
9. m0ssb3rg935 : 1
10. walterpigeon : 1

Today's Double CP Action is Video Submission.



SacredShadow starts out with the lead.

I really don't even plan on seriously competing, yet I was able to get a good amount of points off of a few brief posts. If I am able to grab a few points here and there each day, then that's good enough for me. 

KillerLatias : The Tour de Vizzed occurs once every three months, since it is still very early in the competition, it is entirely possible for you to earn a jersey/jerseys. In past TDVs, the first day featured very fierce competition and activity (oftentimes 50-100 posts was necessary to secure a high amount of points). Based on yesterday's results and how little effort I put into posting, there's a solid chance you could get a decent amount of points just by making 5-10 posts each day. Getting a jersey might require a little more work, but not much.

Despite my general inactiveness, I might take a shot at "competing" this season. I don't really expect to go very far, but I haven't really posted super actively in like a few years at this point, so I figure to give this a shot and see where I end up.

pacman1755 : that's kind of how I won a year and a half ago. I didn't really intend to compete but started posting when one started and then got into about 5 days in and basically took over when everyone else slowed down. It was a lot of fun to do and I was glad to finally win one.

SacredShadow : yeah, the last couple of years the TdV has not been the same level of competition as it was when it first started.

Still, it's nice to get extra activity on the site during the month.

10-02-17 Results

Yellow Jersey
SacredShadow : 1620 (1)
pacman1755 : 890 (2)
MoblinGardens : 653 (3)
EX Palen : 580 (4)
geeogree : 539 (5)

Blue Jersey
pacman1755 : 20 (1)
SacredShadow : 14 (2)
geeogree : 6 (3)
Davideo7 : 4 (4)
EX Palen : 4 (5)

Red Jersey
no 8120 : 60 (1)
SacredShadow : 60 (2)
Yuna1000 : 57 (3)
Davideo7 : 42 (4)
geeogree : 40 (5)

Green Jersey
no 8120 : 48 (1)
Yuna1000 : 45 (2)
SacredShadow : 43 (3)
pacman1755 : 22 (4)
walterpigeon : 14 (5)

Monthly Results

Yellow Jersey
1. SacredShadow : 10
2. EX Palen : 5
3. geeogree : 5
4. pacman1755 : 4
5. MoblinGardens : 3

Blue Jersey
1. SacredShadow : 8
2. geeogree : 8
3. pacman1755 : 5
4. EX Palen : 4
5. Boured: 2

Red Jersey
1. no 8120 : 8
2. SacredShadow : 8
3. Yuna1000 : 8
4. geeogree : 3
5. Davideo7 : 2

Green Jersey
1. no 8120 : 10
2. Yuna1000 : 8
3. SacredShadow : 6
4. walterpigeon : 2
5. geeogree : 2

Monthly Overall Results

All Users
1. SacredShadow : 32
2. geeogree : 18
3. no 8120 : 18
4. Yuna1000 : 16
5. pacman1755 : 11
6. EX Palen : 10
7. Davideo7 : 4
8. MoblinGardens : 3
9. Boured: 2
10. Khfan_D98: 2

Today's Double CP Action is Screenshot Submission.



no 8120 barely grabs 2 Jerseys.

woo! Still tied for 2nd place! I'm on a roll!

Although based on how slow things have been I don't see me keeping 2nd. Not going to put much effort into red or green which limits how many points I'll get overall.

I'm getting up there in the Blue Jersey, that is the one I'm the best at. Hopefully I do good at that Jersey.

pacman1755 : I hope we both grab a decent amount of points this month! Both pac's have won the TdV so we might as well both keep going. I really want to get back to posting but school has made me push that aside. Maybe on Friday I'll have an opening, which would be a great way to relax after such a demanding week.

Well, one night I got 11 points and that was enough for a top 5 finish. And I didn't even get a title card! Wow, David.

Nah, it's pretty good to get 2 jerseys instead of just one, so good on no 8120.

Pacman+Mariofan : We can probably take over the TdV if we had a lot of free time tbh.

Kind of surprised I've managed to score in the first couple days of the month, but seeing how slow things have been I guess it's not that surprising. I was more active these past two days than probably half of September, which goes on to see how dead things were the past month.

Daily numbers aren't very high, but that opens the chances of close battles for a jersey and it more or less compensates. No one is really trying, but you never know when will someone pop up and vandalize this harmony dominate the competition by putting in some effort.

Competition is looking pretty fierce.

All joking aside, I thought it was pretty impressive for pac to come out of nowhere and manage to effortlessly snag 11 points and come in the top 5. I haven't been all that busy lately as far as school goes, but I can easily see myself losing steam/interest and falling behind. I know I have a few big assignments and projects coming up...I don't know though, I'll just have to see how things play out from here. It would be nice if I could keep things as they are.

I'd love to see 3 or 4 people (or more) stay close together through most of this competition and see it come down to the last couple of days.

I doubt it will happen but maybe everyone involved this time around is going to be casual enough that no one will build a huge lead early on.

pacman1755 : I agree with you. If I had less homework I could probably win this TdV too, but I didn't want to ever go for the rainbow banner again. But I especially don't want to go for the red jersey again. That battle was so intense and I'm surprised I didn't lose much sleep over it.

10-03-17 Results

Yellow Jersey
geeogree : 1664 (1)
SacredShadow : 977 (2)
Davideo7 : 948 (3)
pacman1755 : 759 (4)
MoblinGardens : 645 (5)

Blue Jersey
pacman1755 : 19 (1)
geeogree : 16 (2)
Boured : 15 (3)
SacredShadow : 11 (4)
Davideo7 : 5 (5)

Red Jersey
no 8120 : 90 (1)
Yuna1000 : 83 (2)
Tark : 77 (3)
SacredShadow : 63 (4)
Davideo7 : 51 (5)

Green Jersey
no 8120 : 75 (1)
Yuna1000 : 60 (2)
SacredShadow : 39 (3)
geeogree : 31 (4)
pacman1755 : 27 (5)

Monthly Results

Yellow Jersey
1. SacredShadow : 14
2. geeogree : 10
3. pacman1755 : 6
4. EX Palen: 5
5. MoblinGardens : 4

Blue Jersey
1. geeogree : 12
2. SacredShadow : 10
3. pacman1755 : 10
4. Boured : 5
5. EX Palen: 4

Red Jersey
1. no 8120 : 13
2. Yuna1000 : 12
3. SacredShadow : 10
4. geeogree : 3
5. Davideo7 : 3

Green Jersey
1. no 8120 : 15
2. Yuna1000 : 12
3. SacredShadow : 9
4. geeogree : 4
5. pacman1755 : 3

Monthly Overall Results

All Users
1. SacredShadow : 43
2. geeogree : 29
3. no 8120 : 28
4. Yuna1000 : 24
5. pacman1755 : 19
6. EX Palen: 10
7. Davideo7 : 9
8. Boured : 5
9. MoblinGardens : 4
10. Tark : 3



no 8120 grabs 2 Jerseys again.

This might be, once again, the chance for a non-staff member to win the competition. That would be great, because we'd have 3 out of 4 TdV this year to have been won by non-staff and we started the year with the last 10 competitions won by staff members.

On the other hand, we could probably see no 8120 crowned the winner by focusing in just two jerseys but scoring high everyday. That's something we almost saw with Ferdinand back in time (you're never forgotten, no matter where you are), though now whoever performs well on a regular basis has a serious shot at the win and he seems like he can perfectly keep this pace all month long.