The Factorio Olympics! Signups Are Open!
Hello Everyone! We are opening the Factorio Olympics signups today!
https://airtable.com/shrCvd6ffn9HMM1XJ
What is the Factorio Olympics?
The Factorio Olympics is a public, worldwide Factorio event where YOU, the player, are going to compete in different aspects of Factorio! There are 3 different activities for teams to compete in Speedrun, PvP and Production! For individual players, there’s solo speedruns as well as racing!
During the weekdays, we will have qualifying servers running 24h a day where you can try and try again to qualify. The best players will get to compete on the weekends where we organise, observe and stream the matches! You can find the weekend stream here: https://www.twitch.tv/factorio_olympics
What events are there?
Racing
Solo, PvP
This game is all about the driving skill of the player. You will race on a track where you compete with at most 9 other racers. The maps will have all sorts of obstacles like spitters, turrets and trees.
Command and Conquer
Team, PvP The Space Race scenario from RedMew! Launch a rocket or destroy the enemy silo to win!
Production Wars
Team
Produce the goal materials as fast as possible, based on the Factorio scenario Team Production. Your team will have to make a factory and produce the goal as quickly as possible.
Speedrun
Solo, Teams
There are 5 categories, all of which have separate ranking for solo players and teams:
Marathon: launch 10 satellites
Standard: launch 1 satellite
Reduced: make a power armour mk2
I like trains: Getting on track
Steel axe: Unlock the steel axe technology
When will the event start?
The games will start on the 21st of August and will go on till the 11th of September or maybe a bit longer.
Signups are available until 30th of August at 2359 UTC
Signup link:
https://airtable.com/shrCvd6ffn9HMM1XJ
Media:
We will be hosting streamers who will be shout casting the matches so everybody can watch these fun and challenging matches. Here a list of the streamers and our own social media platforms:
Website:
https://www.factoriogames.com
Factorio Olympics Discord:
https://discord.com/invite/pSsR4z4
Twitch:
https://www.twitch.tv/factorio_olympics
https://www.twitch.tv/jd_play5
Staff:
Are you a map maker, content creator or programmer? We are still in need of some more staff so join the discord and message Drahc (Drahc_pro#3220)!
Hope to see you all somewhere in the event,
-The Factorio Olympics organising team.
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This sounds like a really nice event. Thanks for organizing it! I just signed up, but I don't think I'll last long.
PS: I was a bit disappointed that I couldn't select "Factorio forums" in the last question.
PS: I was a bit disappointed that I couldn't select "Factorio forums" in the last question.
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Normally this has been added you can check it now if you didn't signed up now c:ickputzdirwech wrote: ↑Sun Aug 16, 2020 8:42 pmThis sounds like a really nice event. Thanks for organizing it! I just signed up, but I don't think I'll last long.
PS: I was a bit disappointed that I couldn't select "Factorio forums" in the last question.