This is the Northern European division of the Half Life Battlefield Dodgeball Meet Up, and I partially got the idea from reading about the Fallout meetups, but ours could still be something unique, such as possibly including a dodgeball event using a set of rules inspired by the NES Super Dodgeball game, and more. I’ll be open to discuss any suggestions or modifications to the sample of the plans.
The image attached to this post shows a potential location for the meetup, set on about 437 acres in Norway. We can use this location as an example, since the official location is TBD and of course we could find a much cheaper location.
You can choose 1 of 6 Factions:
Resistance
Xen
The Combine
Aperture Science
The Employers
Race X
I'm a former member of the USA Dodgeball Team, and I first began playing at age 14 in 2001, and to make this a fun meet up, we can have a competitive dodgeball series with one team per faction featuring a video series inspired by Extreme Dodgeball from Game Show Network, which could be used as a way to help advertise the Half Life Meet Up.
4 Potential Half Life Meet Up Options:
HEADCRAB OPTION: €50 (1,625 people per faction goal)
Full access to the video series inspired by Extreme Dodgeball from Game Show Network, with one team for each faction, and the top players selected from tryouts to represent each faction.
HOUNDEYE OPTION: €100 (813 people per faction goal)
Attend the event, play recreational dodgeball, and try to break a world record of largest dodgeball match. Includes HEADCRAB OPTION.
BULLSQUID OPTION: €100 (813 people per faction goal)
Attend the event, tryout for the competitive dodgeball series, and try to break a world record of largest dodgeball match (with the recreational players). Includes HEADCRAB OPTION.
STRIDER OPTION: €1,000 (82 people per faction goal)
Get a vote in the new organization in the decision making process and get the chance to have your voice heard. Includes HEADCRAB OPTION and either HOUNDEYE or BULLSQUID OPTION.
We will have a limit to how many people can attend the first event depending on the location, so we'll be sure to let everyone know that if they miss the limit, they can support the project and save their ticket for one of the following years.
If this is the most recent record info, "The largest game of dodgeball involved 6,084 participants and was achieved by the University of California, Irvine at a game organised by UC Irvine students and NLA Sports (both USA) in Irvine, California, USA, on 25 September 2012" then we can aim to find a place that will allow for over 6,000 people for world record attempts.
CONQUEST DODGEBALL (official name TBD) -
6 teams per match
6 control points
12 acres playing area
100 people per team
600 people per match
Rough draft rules:
Only 1 ball per team and 4 refs per ball, with 1 of the 4 refs holding a camera.
Hitting a player eliminates them from that round, but a catch only awards ball possession.
Players must stay a certain amount of feet away from other players if they have the ball.
Control points could be disc golf goals which would be in a neutral zone where players can’t throw / dodge / catch in for safety reasons. After a point is scored, a 3 minute timer is set until another point can be scored at that location.
If successful, we can create multiple locations for the series to try to allow more people the chance to participate in the events.
€2,300,000 / 6 Factions = €383,333 / 4 options = €95,833 / cost of each option below to show how many people are the goal.
HEADCRAB OPTION: €50 (1,917 people per faction goal)
HOUNDEYE OPTION: €100 (960 per faction goal)
BULLSQUID OPTION: €100 (960 per faction goal)
STRIDER OPTION: €1,000 (96 per faction goal)
Judging by the numbers above, the number of people who choose options to attend the event:
6 factions x people for HOUNDEYE = 5,760 people +
6 factions x people for BULLSQUID 11,520 +
6 factions x for STRIDER = 12,096 people / 8 year plan (can be less years for smaller goals with new potential locations) =
1,512 people for the first event goal
Read more details about it on a potential Southern European division post I made for the meet ups at https://lemmy.world/post/35749413
I won't make anymore new Lemmy posts with these plans unless we have any big updates, but I've also organized everything into a public FB group if you'd like to check it out on the link below
facebook.com/groups/halflifebattlefielddodgeballmeetup
That's a title. I thought it was a random scrabbled sentence at first
I feel like I understand most of the words and phrases and am still struggling to make sense of it
My apologies. Maybe I should copy and paste more info from the link I mentioned at the top that includes more details https://lemmy.world/post/35749413 but I'll try to rephrase it to make it more convenient for people. Just a sample of the plans anyways to see what type of response I'd get, and working on the next organizational stages of the plans now. Edit: Updated, but will still try to come back later to edit more.