Why didn't you participate?

[Thais]

I only have internet access from work, which aside from the obvious issue (I'm at work) also leadt to a couple of follow up issues like not really having much capability as far as the only competitions I was ever likely to compete in, the photoshopping one, and not being able to load/run/play games at all.

Also...the picture results were fun, but I really...just wasn't all that thrilled with the options for the things that I probably could have done, much less with the idea of devoting a week's worth of time to them.

 

[Zak Frost]

I didn't like the fact that each event didn't go on for the entire week(there wasn't even a board for it the entire week), that seemed weird, seeing as this is the internet, so I was unaware of most of the events, even now I am hearing about Game trivia for the first time. And then there was the whole not liking/being good at any of the events.... and the photoshop one was because of the selection of pictures, I can only do joke pictures when I am struck with an idea. I think you should have things like: More trivia, a internet scavenger hunt(I'm sure you could come up with some stuff to find, like a 4chan picture with an attractive girl in it and 5 responses where no one says any swear words) and some of the stuff that khell said. But the main reason why I didn't compete is sheer laziness.

 

[Spinwhiz]

Okay, because this has come up a lot about there being no event list , http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/366.67641

This timeline was posted 3 days BEFORE the GamerLympics started and was updated daily while the GamerLympics was running.

 

[Spartan Bannana]

Didn't have enough time

 

[dalek sec]

I wasn't really aware that it was going on. In fact, I'm still not sure exactly what it is. Maybe you could have sent all users a private message advertising it? I only noticed it because I saw some users had badges that stated they won this-and-that place in something, and I assumed it was over already.

(Quoting Yahtzee.) ^ Pretty much that.

Same here as well.

 

[dalek sec]

4 reasons:

1, I would lose, no contest
2, I can't stand failure
3, Barely knew they were on
4, I'm terrible at almost everything and would easily be outpaced by some of our more literate/creative/insane contributors.

Wow.. same here as well man, glad to know I'm not the only who's terrible at being creative!

 

[s0ap sudz]

I didn't really understand what it was until it was too late.

Same here...

 

[TheGhostOfSin]

I have no discernible talent over the internet.. I can barely use paint.

 

[Lord Krunk]

I was so close to joining... but I was on a camp during the events that I was planning on joining.

Sucks to be me.

EDIT: I wouldn't have stood up to the "Portal Goat" pic, anyways. But I would have loved to have written a Haiku.

 

[ike_luv]

Because I didn't sign up on time!! I tried but it didn't work, I also wondered how it even worked!!

 

[LivemeLifefree]

The actual game parts didn't intrest me, and the other categories I would've failed at.
Also, if Star Craft then there needs to be a War Craft 3. And for old games, Counter-Strike 1.6, ofcourse.

 

[Susan Arendt]

I am floored by the rampant defeatist attitude here. "Oh, I would've lost, so why bother?" I'm stunned by the number of people who are convinced of their failure before they even try.

 

[TomBeraha]

I frankly didn't know it was happening, I generally don't browse the forums thread by thread anymore, as it's gotten too big for that. I occasionally read the top 5 most active threads when I visit to read this weeks articles. I'm not sure I would have competed, it would have depended on whether or not I had to work while it was going on, (real world concerns take precedence) Otherwise it sounds like fun.

 

[kinch]

At the risk of sounding bitter, the winners of the photoshop contests were not the best works of art, they were the ones with the cleverest or funniest idea. Similarly, the winner in the comic competition repeated the same Portal screen shot four times. Whoever made that is a lazy little sod.

When I said I lack the ability to create good photoshops, that also includes coming up with original ideas and content ;-)

Without being totally sure that it's what people are saying, wouldn't an online tournament be restricting players to that particular network/game/console ? I appreciate that the online browser games are what everyone's complaining about, because they're all hardcore gamers, but they are much easier to get everyone to participate.

The way I figure it, gamerlympics should be about choosing the talented or devoted from amongst the wide variety of gamers. But doing that without holding countless online tournaments (across all genres and games) proves quite a challenge. Knowledge, memory, hand-eye co-ordination, reaction, these are all some of the traits that games test. But basing a gamerlympics around just these would probably exclude the 90% of us who suck, and play games for fun. Pretty difficult to find a balance for that.

The only thing I can think of is to have a subset of games that anyone could win, perhaps with topics that are very diverse (country/region specific questions for example) and allow anyone at least a fighting chance to get a medal.

 

[Saskwach]

1.Something about the 24-hour-long competitions soured me; I usually need more than a day after something has opened up to talk myself into it.
2.Small flash-based games are my drugs: I can't afford to take the chance.

 

[werepossum]

I am floored by the rampant defeatist attitude here. "Oh, I would've lost, so why bother?" I'm stunned by the number of people who are convinced of their failure before they even try.

Well, I'm a pretty good loser (read: lots of practice), but I do like to be competitive. I played racquetball for several years with two guys who were both better than me, lost probably three-quarters of the games and still loved it. But I don't like to drag the level of the competition down, and doubly so if it's team based. My reflexes are no better than fair, and my eyes aren't so good anymore either. It takes me longer to resolve things - even the script on The Escapist gives me problems. Given that, although I don't mind losing, I don't like to think I might pull the quality of the competition down and make things less interesting for others.

 

[wordsmith]

I kinda didn't really get into it seriously until the final 2 weeks... Still didn't do badly

 

[NewClassic_v1legacy]

Showed up too late. I probably would've had I been around/known about it. But alas, too new around here. Next year, definitely, if anyone will remind me or lemme know about it.