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Capicola

In professional tennis and golf, there are 4 'majors.' These are four very competitive events with the most talented players in the field, and the most competitors.

In tennis, for example, there is the Australian Open, French Open, Wimbledon, and the U.S. Open. To win all four of these in your career is referred to as completing a "Career Grand Slam." To win all four in the same year is simply referred to as a "Grand Slam" and is among the rarest feats in sports.

So, I ask you, if Lux had a "Grand Slam," which four events/achievements would you consider to be the most prestigious?

kude · Posted: Fri Jul 22, 2011 9:18 am Post subject:

probably first seed is top of my list. I assume we aren't counting forum games on this though. You can only get ROY once, so that's up there. if there is a forum, the hall of fame award is there. yup. that's all I got. someone add more please.

Capicola · Posted: Fri Jul 22, 2011 9:37 am Post subject:

I was thinking more talent-based achievements, rather than vote-based ones, but to each their own.

engie · Lux Dynamo Joined: 02 Aug 2010 Posts: 641 Location: Tejas

ROTY is more of a name-recognition thing rather than talent, as much as I hate to admit it :/, so I agree with Capi there.

Maybe 1st overall seed, a weekly 1st medal, a weekly 1st for WTA, and maybe overall #1 long-term seed?

Shockandawe · Posted: Fri Jul 22, 2011 12:10 pm Post subject:

1st seed, several weekly wins, Survivor win, Castle win.

Hall of Fames are usually seperate from actual career stats/achievements.

PJB · Posted: Fri Jul 22, 2011 1:49 pm Post subject:

Classic = Wimbledon
Rome = Roland Garros
Bio = US Open
??? = Australian Open

soundboy · Posted: Fri Jul 22, 2011 6:54 pm Post subject:

mazza · Posted: Fri Jul 22, 2011 8:36 pm Post subject:

If Marauder's idea was floated a long time ago, i would prolly say that an award for each of the popular maps would be an ideal Grand Slam. (Classic, Part deux, Bio, Rome).....i think Survivor and Castle maps and so forth are really good awards to win, however, they are also only available to a certain "selection" of people ie. Castles only has 6 teams with 6 players on each (only 36 participants).....if you look at Golf, or Tennis, there are always certain "wild cards" who go through a qualifying process and actually make a good shot at winning the whole damn thing, so certain "select" tourneys, i am going to leave out of my Grand Slam...in saying this, i would go for;

Weekly 1st Gold
Short-Term Seed
WTA
MOTW Gold Monkey

Personally, im prolly not completely satisfied with this as a grand slam, but in the conditions that we currently play under, i would go for this. Long-term 1st seed is the 1 here that i thought should be included, but then others would argue that WTA monthly should be included too.

jesterme · Lux Jester Joined: 29 Oct 2009 Posts: 2618

Actually I think the Golden Monkey is what I would like to have most. Other than fun forum awards, that is.

Oh, thats right, you were talking about Lux Gameplay. MONKEY MONKEY MONKEY.

Rhye · Posted: Sat Jul 23, 2011 3:27 pm Post subject:

mazza · Posted: Sat Jul 23, 2011 7:23 pm Post subject:

Yes Rhye, i would consider these 4 maps to be the 4 different "events" of a Grand Slam.........I guess if Marauder's idea was floated, then this would be the "Grand Slam" that Capi is alluding to.........a Gold in each of these 4 categories would indeed make for a grand slam.....

however, in the current environment, of course, this is only fantasy, until something is/could be implemented.

3DA · Posted: Sun Jul 24, 2011 8:33 pm Post subject:

For a long time I was very interested in winning what I thought was a Grand Slam of sorts: getting a weekly gold and a gold MOTW monkey in the same week. This was before the raw bonus skewed the MOTW wins drastically, however; once the chase became ON the MOTW MAP, it was less of an achievement.

Nowadays ... it's hard to say. Certainly a few weekly golds, a few gold monkeys are a good start. But I think what completes that Grand Slam picture is a brace of solid wins during Luxtoberfest. Bring home a couple of those special golds, beating people at their favorite maps, when they're bringing their A-games - that's something to hang your hat on.

Good thread! Very fun.

Samuel99 · Posted: Sun Jul 24, 2011 8:37 pm Post subject:

I dont think the Gold Monkeys can be in this grand Slam question .......

RogueMonk · Lux Newbie Joined: 18 Aug 2010 Posts: 168

mazza · Posted: Tue Jul 26, 2011 5:08 am Post subject:

a cholesteral one indeed

dustin · Posted: Tue Jul 26, 2011 8:21 pm Post subject:

Fun idea!

Our version of the grand-slam doesn't have to be limited to just 4 awards tho. Gathering the list of things people have mentioned, I put forward these 6 awards as the components of a Lux-slam:

It would be nice to also have specific Classic, Bio, and Rome sections, but we don't have a clear award for these.

So I'm curious: how many players have achieved all 6 of the awards listed??

mazza · Posted: Tue Jul 26, 2011 10:39 pm Post subject:

ive never won the WTA, but have the other 5.........

engie · Lux Dynamo Joined: 02 Aug 2010 Posts: 641 Location: Tejas

I don't have a golden monkey and not sure about LT seed... but got the other 4 Very Happy

gfips · Posted: Wed Jul 27, 2011 3:05 am Post subject:

mazza · Posted: Wed Jul 27, 2011 4:10 am Post subject:

http://sillysoft.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=18891&highlight=

that should tell you a bit more GFips!! Also, i hope you do know if you click on the (LT), that will actually display Long Term seeds from week to week.....

gfips · Posted: Wed Jul 27, 2011 5:05 am Post subject:

Dominator · The Man Joined: 25 Mar 2006 Posts: 1281

Despite being tied with magpie for the 3rd lowest LT seed weight ever ... I have never held the first longterm seed. GK had that locked up for quite some time.

Edit: 68 weeks to be exact

mazza · Posted: Thu Jul 28, 2011 12:09 am Post subject:

wow, you mean i have achieved something that Dominator hasnt??

I had the LT number 1 for 42 weeks, from 2009-10, having a great battle with 3DA and Dollabillz for most of that time, but could only get my weight down to 10.7....., i think the lack of chasing really screwed my chances of gettin it into single figures...... but like that saying goes, "There is no point cryin over spilt milk"

gfips · Posted: Tue Aug 02, 2011 8:35 am Post subject:

mazza · Posted: Wed Aug 03, 2011 3:36 am Post subject:

Para and 3DA are the only ones.....

I also have some wonderful stats on both LT seeds, and short term seeds, from Paranoiarodeo of course, but im not sure if he wants me to post them.......... so if anyone can convince him not to delete em if i post em, id be glad to post em.....

Hint, hint GFips......ASK HIM

gfips · Posted: Wed Aug 03, 2011 8:25 am Post subject:

mazza · Posted: Wed Aug 03, 2011 9:18 pm Post subject:

/me reminds gfips that me has 1 of them too.......

Wink

OK Gfips, he aint given me permission, but hey, im not that afraid of the "Beast of Minnesota".....the worst he can do is delete this, which means that you are prolly not reading this anyway....so, no harm done, as they say "nothing ventured, nothing gained"

(and of couse, like any good assignment, i am going to state here and now that all of the information below is not the work of yours truly, but of Paranoiarodeo himself, or the "Sultan of Statistics", as i now like to refer to him as.)

In the whole time of lux rankings........there have only been 16 people who have been privelaged enough to hold the LT seed........furthermore, only 31 peeps have been able to hold the Short-term number 1 seed......UNBELIEVABLE, you say, which is exactly what i thought.....but here we go;

gfips · Posted: Thu Aug 04, 2011 4:17 am Post subject:

Thanks Para, Thanks Mazza. Great Statistics. I think it s worth to be in the wiki and added it:

http://sillysoft.net/wiki/?HighSeeds
(/me makes it more effort for Para to delete ...)

Would be nice, if someone could keep it up to date from time to time Wink

Maybe you should also mention that Para/Ignominious are one and the same player! Else someone might believe, ozzies can't count Wink

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Dominator · The Man Joined: 25 Mar 2006 Posts: 1281