What is JDC?

The Jazz Duelist's Challenge is an ongoing tournament in which you duel against other competitors (i.e., you play one-on-one battles). There are many advantages about JDC that you can't find in a traditional tourney:

• You can choose your own opponents.
• You can choose when you want to duel, and you can play as many games as you wish.
• You can view extensive statistics of every competitor on the JDC website.
• Main events will be hosted occasionaly for a different experience, and can increase your ranking.
• Because of the convenient self-scheduling, you are not likely to miss games.

Website Description

This site will be the mainstream to all JDC-related info; here's a short description of each section of the site:

News
- This is where you will find the most recent changes and happenings in the JDC environment.
Events
- Go here to see what big events are happening in JDC. These events are usually various multi-player concoctions, and you can host your own as well (see this page for more details).
Info
- "You are here."
Add Duel
- You can go here to submit you duel results. (You must log in but can do it directly from the page)
Verify
- Opponents must come here to validate duels. (You must log in but can do it directly from the page)
Sign Up
- If you'd like to participate in this fun experience, all you have to do is review the rules, then join up here!
NOTE! If you have EVER been in a JDC duel or event at ANY time, please do not sign up again.
Log In (Out)
- Click here to log into JDC.
Forum
- Visit the JDC forums at the JCF where tournaments and JDC is often discussed.
User DB
- This is where you can see everyone who is registered at JDC and their user information.
Statistics Window (left)
- Scrounge around in here to view detailed statistics of every player. Do you homework and see the competition you are going up aginst, or find an opponent that you might want to take revenge on, etc...

About "Seasons"

The Jazz Duelist's Challenge will be played in a sequence of seasons. In the beginning, everyone has a clean record. After a reasonable amount of dueling time, there will be some last events, then awards will be announced for high-ranking competitors as well as miscellaneous categories (Only non-officials that have participated in at least 10 duels are eligible for awards). After these events, the current season ends. At the start of a new season, the statistics will be put into a seasonal archive for reference, and everyone will start the season with a clean slate. Nothing else changes; you don't have to join up again and you may still join if you haven't yet.

About "Rounds"

A season is made up of several week-long rounds. After a round ends, your score for all the duels you played in during that round will be calculated and added to your current total of points. Each round has its own separate point value, and can be thought of as a "mini season". Every round has one main event that anyone who has signed up to JDC may partake in.

About "Points"

JDC uses points to determine a players standing in the tournament. Points can be obtained through events, or at the end of a round when your score for that rounds duels is determined. For more information on how points are obtained, see the section on scoring.

About "Events"

Events are special games that are hosted at the end of every round. Any player that participates will usually get some points for the event. The only requirements you must meet to be allowed to participate in the event are being a member of JDC and knowing the rules. Sometimes, if a player is able to arrange it, a participant can ask for an official to host an event during a round. Any game that is not a duel or a 2vs2 CTF game is considered an event.

Rules of Duels

1. A competitor (the challenger) challenges another competitor (the opponent). Competitors may do this by e-mail, instant messaging, during a JJ2 game, or any other way they can contact their desired opponent.

2. If the opponent accepts, then he/she selects the level, game type, and roast/point limit.

3. If the challenger accepts, then the competitors select a time to duel, if not immediately.

4. The competitors may agree to have one or the other host, or they may have someone else host their duel, in which case they find an official or another competitor to host.

5. At the desired time, the competitors play the duel in Battle/CTF Mode with the agreed parameters set.

6. When the duel is over, the challenger of the duel enters the duel stats into the JDC database using the Add Duel page.

Statistics must include:
- competitors' names
- who challenged who
- roasts for each competitor
- level played

- duel comments (optional, keep it appropriate) If more than one game is played, then statistics for each game should be included separately.

7. The opponent can then validate the duel by using the Verify page.

9. A 2 on 2 CTF game counts as a duel, but an official must be present (either hosting, playing, or observing) during the duel. The official will submit the scores to JDC. There is no verification process for 2vs2 CTF duels. NOTE: 3 on 3 CTF (or more) is counted as an event.

10. A player must participate in at least two duels a round.

Important: Please be honest about your scores. I am giving you the privilege to send in your own scores. If this privilege is abused, players can be restricted from submitting scores.

JDC officials have the right to remove a competitor from the tournament for any reason. Anyone found cheating through mega warp or anything else will be banned; cheating will not be tolerated.

To view the page in the proper font and have everything appear in the right size please download the Bank Gothic font and extract it to your Windows->Fonts folder.

Information On Scoring For Duels

Overview
At the end of each round your score for the duels you were in that round is added to your total score for JDC. There are many factors that contribute to the score, which are all listed here.

Roast : Fall Points
Your roast : fall ratio (and in the case of CTF duels, points your team scored : points enemy team scored) determines the bulk of the points you get for dueling. A perfect roast : fall ratio will mean that you get the maximum amount of points possible in that round for dueling. Winning duels does not contribute to points in any direct way, but a won duel is obviously worth more than a lost one.

Player Quality Points
A significant portion of the duel's point value will be based on how good the person you dueled is. Simply put, dueling highly ranked players will get you more points than dueling somebody lowly ranked in the tournament. This encourages players to not duel people worse than them so they get more points at the end of the season.

Points Per Duel
Every duel you take place in, regardless of the score, will be worth an extra point. Usually, this value is 1. Theoretically, you would be able to obtain a million points by doing a million duels this way, even if you lost every single one of those duels. That's obviously impossible to do though, and requires a lot of time to abuse. These extra points for every duel are awarded to encourage players to participate in more duels. The amount is small and seemingly insignificant, but adds up in the end.




By Syntax, Bobby and EvilMike