Hello, and welcome to the Unluckiest Player of the Week contest!
Whether you've been playing Random Battles for a week or for years now, odds are you've found more than a few truly unfortunate and frustrating moments to call your own. That's where we come in! The Unluckiest Player of the Week project aims to provide a way to turn the frustration of missing that third consecutive Focus Blast (or fourth, or fifth) into an opportunity to win both prizes and a place in UPOWs Hall of Fame!
For our first week we’ll try to exclude as few replays as possible, but your odds of winning are best if the bad luck in your replay happens in quick succession and/or at a moment that would have been crucial to winning your game. These are not requirements, however! If you think your replay is worth sharing but does not follow these criteria, explaining why in your entry will help your case.
Rules:
- The replay has to be of a battle in the Random Battles format
- Frustration is understandable, but we will not be considering your entry if you act with outright hostility or otherwise toxic behaviour. If you think your replay reflects badly on your character, do not post it here.
- For the first week of UPOW we will only consider entries that are at most a month old (with some leniency). All future weeks, with a few special exceptions, will only accept entries that took place that week.
- Preferably you should be the unlucky player in the replay, and not the lucky one. We may run a Lucky Week every once in a while later on, though!
To participate, please comment with the following:
- A replay of the battle
- A description of the unlucky event(s)
- The turn number(s) they take place
- When this battle took place (an approximation is fine)
We will be accepting entries from monday to friday, and then take the weekend to review all submissions and decide on a winner. The first week only will run for two weeks, Monday September 22th to Sunday October 5th. The winner will be added to UPOW's Hall of Fame post [Link coming soon] and earn a Tour Token, which will allow you to request a tour of your choosing in the Random Battles room over on showdown.
This is the first Random Battles forum project that aims to document remarkable replays for future enjoyment, so if you have funny or otherwise interesting replays to share that don’t fit the mold of “unlucky” per se, you are absolutely free to share those here (provided you state as such in your entry). Entries of this nature may very well be featured in an honorable mentions/funniest replays section, though as of right now they will not be eligible for prizes. We will not be considering replays with the premise of 'I played really well this game!' or similar for this category.
The success of this project depends on community interaction and feedback, if you don't have an entry of your own and still want to leave a suggestion or comment feel free to do so!
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