Best Arcade Tournament of the Year

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Want to match your arcade skills against the best players IN THE WORLD? Compete in a team against Retro legends such as ThePro, INNUENDO, Barra, DaLar, TodayIsForgotten, redelf, Zerst, FlyHec, Captain Jivepants, Pearl, RedStar, WFLI Music, ExedExes, George Riley, Conjured Entertainment, QAOP Spaceman, some guy named Wolf and many more. You only need to be good at ONE game to make a difference, so sign up, suit up, and show the universe what BOSS Skillz you have.

YOLYMPICS returns Yolympics 2019 is open for registration and for nomination of games. Yolympics is a yearly classic arcade/MAME tournament, with 4 teams competing against each other over a 6-week period of time (or so). The best players in the universe will be battling it out, but with the team and scoring structure, all it takes is mastery of one game to make the difference. This is the perfect opportunity to dip your feet in the classic arcade tournament world:

Yolympics has returned! The tournament will run from February 1 through March 10. This will be a 4-team tournament where the top 6 scores from each team will be used to score points for that team. Please use the new Yolympics Discord server for discussions and questions. Read on for the dates, rules and more info. I hope everyone has a safe and happy holiday season.

Quick Links
Yolympics Discord
Tournament Registration
Current Game Nominations (check this before nominating games!)
Game Nomination Form

Final Game Voting (coming soon)
Final Game List (coming soon)
Team List (coming soon)

Team Captains
Barra
TIF
ExedExes
Dalar

Dates
Player Registration: Now until January 25, 12:00 AM PST.
Player Draft: January 26. (Time TBD)

Game Nominations: Now until January 9, 11:59 PM PST.
Game Voting: January 10, 12:00 AM PST, up until the start of the player draft

Tournament Start: Feburary 1, 6:00 PM PST.
Tournament End: March 10, 11:59 PM PST. This is a hard cutoff. All submissions must be received by this time.

Games
4 games each from the following range of dates for a total of 20 games:
1982 and earlier
1983-1987
1988-1992
1993-1997
1998 and later

Game Nominations and Voting
Players will nominate 1 game per time period, using this Google Form. Players will then vote on the nominations to decide the final game list. The tournament organizer reserves the right to veto shitty games. Don't pick shitty games.

Banned Games
There are NO banned games for this tournament.

Player Registration
Players must register at https://www.cagtournaments.com. The registration period is from now until January 25, 12:00 AM PST.

Rules
-Autofire is not allowed.
-Pausing is not allowed.
-Mapping multiple keys to a single input is not allowed.
-All MAME submissions must maintain an average recorded speed over 95%.
-All submissions must include an INP or link to a stream or video. Acceptable platforms are WolfMAME 0.183 or an original arcade cab. Video-only WolfMAME submissions will be required to show the startup of the WolfMAME program and the game settings.

Scoring
The top 6 scores from each team will score points for that team.