James Beaver
Championship
- 21 December 2014
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THE ADAPTIVE OFFLINE COPA AMÉRICA 2015 CHALLENGE
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1 Intro
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Many football leagues are basically over for this season, but fortunately Copa América 2015 is soon upon us. In this challenge you have a chance to play through Copa América 2015 in PES 2015 against the CPU (offline).
The challenge is adaptive so that the difficulty level changes according to whether you are winning or losing. If you are winning, the matches get harder; if you are losing, they become easier. You should therefore expect to experience the entire range of feelings associated with competitive sports. You will also learn a lot about the teams taking part in the Copa. If you would like to, a challenge score will be calculated for you at the end of the challenge.
I ran a similar World Cup 2014 challenge last year (with Fifa 14), and enjoyed it a lot.
2 So who will I be competing against in this challenge?
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Basically yourself. Although a challenge score will be calculated for you at the end, if you so wish, the scores are not comparable, as no particular gameplay settings are enforced.
3 How to play
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3.1 Gameplay settings
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The challenge consists of a series of exhibition matches. The gameplay setting are up to you to decide. Personally I will be playing 20 minute matches with following settings: full manual, game speed -1, advanced through ball, all visual aids off, random condition, and player emotions off.
3.2 The difficulty level of the first match
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The difficulty level of the first match is TS: top player, stronger team. That is, you will play the first match at PES difficulty level top player, with the stronger of the two teams.
3.3 Play your first match
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Play the topmost match in the table below at the initial difficulty level TS. That is, play CHI-ECU controlling the stronger team CHI, with difficulty level top player.
The 'rank' in the table is the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) rank of each country, and is used to determine which team is stronger.
Code:
match time in Chile home rank away rank stronger
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<2015-06-11 Thu 20:30> CHI Chile 16 ECU Ecuador 34 CHI
<2015-06-12 Fri 20:30> MEX Mexico 22 BOL Bolivia 92 MEX
<2015-06-13 Sat 16:00> URU Uruguay 8 JAM Jamaica 74 URU
<2015-06-13 Sat 18:30> ARG Argentina 2 PAR Paraguay 81 ARG
<2015-06-14 Sun 16:00> COL Colombia 4 VEN Venezuela 69 COL
<2015-06-14 Sun 18:30> BRA Brazil 5 PER Peru 63 BRA
<2015-06-15 Mon 18:00> ECU Ecuador 34 BOL Bolivia 92 ECU
<2015-06-15 Mon 20:30> CHI Chile 16 MEX Mexico 22 CHI
<2015-06-16 Tue 18:00> PAR Paraguay 81 JAM Jamaica 74 JAM
<2015-06-16 Tue 20:30> ARG Argentina 2 URU Uruguay 8 ARG
<2015-06-17 Wed 21:00> BRA Brazil 5 COL Colombia 4 COL
<2015-06-18 Thu 20:30> PER Peru 63 VEN Venezuela 69 PER
<2015-06-19 Fri 20:30> CHI Chile 16 BOL Bolivia 92 CHI
<2015-06-19 Fri 18:00> MEX Mexico 22 ECU Ecuador 34 MEX
<2015-06-20 Sat 16:00> URU Uruguay 8 PAR Paraguay 81 URU
<2015-06-20 Sat 18:30> ARG Argentina 2 JAM Jamaica 74 ARG
<2015-06-21 Sun 16:00> COL Colombia 4 PER Peru 63 COL
<2015-06-21 Sun 18:30> BRA Brazil 5 VEN Venezuela 69 BRA
<2015-06-24 Wed 20:30> CHI Chile 16 URU Uruguay 8 URU
<2015-06-25 Thu 20:30> BOL Bolivia 92 PER Peru 63 PER
<2015-06-26 Fri 20:30> ARG Argentina 2 COL Colombia 4 ARG
<2015-06-27 Sat 20:30> BRA Brazil 5 PAR Paraguay 81 BRA
<2015-06-29 Mon 20:30> CHI Chile 16 PER Peru 63 CHI
<2015-06-30 Tue 20:30> ARG Argentina 2 PAR Paraguay 81 ARG
<2015-07-03 Fri 20:30> PER Peru 63 PAR Paraguay 81 PER
<2015-07-04 Sat 17:00> CHI Chile 16 ARG Argentina 2 ARG
3.4 Choose the difficulty level of the next match
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Each match is played at one of the following ten difficulty levels, which have been ordered from top to bottom from the hardest to the easiest.
Code:
# level PES 2015 level stronger team weaker team
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15 SW superstar x
13 SS superstar x
12 TW top player x
10 TS top player x
9 PW professional x
7 PS professional x
6 RW regular x
4 RS regular x
3 AW amateur x
1 AS amateur x
The difficulty level of the next match is determined by the difficulty level of your previous match and the result of your previous match.
- If you played a draw, your difficulty level stays the same.
- If you won, your difficulty level moves up by one in the table of difficulty levels; for example, from TS (top player, stronger team) to TW (top player, weaker team).
- If you lost, your difficulty drops down by one; for example, from TS (top player, stronger team) to PW (professional, weaker team).
If you lose a match at the lowest level AS, you will remain there. If you win at the highest level SW, you will remain there, but you need to play the next match unassisted if you were playing assisted in the previous match.
The difficulty level numbers in the table are used to determine your challenge score.
3.5 Report your result
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If you would like a challenge score at the end of the challenge, report the result of your match by sending a message to this thread. In the message please report, for each match
- the match played; example CHI-ECU
- your difficulty level in this match; example TS
- your team in the match; example CHI
- the result; example lost 2-3
- your difficulty level in next match; example PW.
A template is provided here for you to fill in the information:
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| MATCH:
| DIFFICULTY LEVEL:
| MY TEAM:
| RESULT:
| NEXT DIFFICULTY LEVEL:
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You can naturally combine the results of multiple matches in a single message.
3.6 Proceed to the next match
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Now play the next match in the table, at the difficulty level of the next match you found above. Pay attention to which team is stronger. The result of this second match will determine the difficulty level of your third match etc.
4 Copa schedule
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The schedule of this challenge is not tied to the schedule of the actual Copa, but I will update this opening post when info on playoff rounds is available.
The group stage of Copa begins <2015-06-11 Thu> and ends <2015-06-21 Sun>. The schedule of each round in the second (playoff) stage of the Copa is as follows:
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round name num matches begins ends
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quarter-finals 4 <2015-06-24 Wed> <2015-06-27 Sat>
semi-finals 2 <2015-06-29 Mon> <2015-06-30 Tue>
finals 2 <2015-07-03 Fri> <2015-07-04 Sat>
The matches of each of these rounds will be provided for you in this opening post before each round begins. The opponents of each match in the playoff rounds will be based on results from the actual Copa.
5 The challenge score
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Only if you so wish, at the end of this challenge a score will be reported for you. This score will be the mean of your next match difficulty levels.
Let me give an example with a challenge of only four matches. I start at initial difficulty level TS, with level no 10. I then play the four matches with following results:
Code:
result next match level next level number
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win TW 12
draw TW 12
loss TS 10
loss PW 9
My tournament score would then be the average of 12, 12, 10 and 9, that is, 10.75.
6 What next?
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If you want to play through this challenge, just start playing, and keep an eye on this opening post for possible updates. There is even no need to respond to this thread unless you want to have a challenge score at the end. Most up-to-date info will always be available in this first post.
Let the games begin!
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