James Beaver
Championship
- 21 December 2014
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THE ADAPTIVE OFFLINE SEASON 2014-2015 CLASSICS
CHALLENGE
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1 Intro
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Everyone is eagerly waiting for the new season and PES 2016, but fortunately there is also memory lane. In this challenge you have a chance to play through some of the classics of the 2014-2015 football season 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. If you would like to, a challenge score will be calculated for you at the end of the challenge.
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 15 minute matches with following settings: full manual, game speed 0, 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 TW: top player, winning team. That is, you will play the first match "San Lorenzo - Nacional" at PES difficulty level top player, controlling team "San Lorenzo" that won the classic.
3.3 Play your first match
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Play the topmost match in the table below at the initial difficulty level.
Notice that in many browsers, you need to scroll the code window below horizontally to see all of the columns in the table. In the table, HG refers to "home team goals" and AG to "away team goals". In order for every match to have a winner, if the match has been a tie, the away team is the designated "winner" of the match. Some of the matches designated as "final" were actually the deciding leg of a two-part final.
For players with vanilla PES 2015, mapping from PES English league names to real Premier league team names can be found at
http://pes.neoseeker.com/wiki/English_League
The Brazilian team CR Flamengo is available in PES 2015 under Copa Libertadores 2014, and its opponent Vasco da Gama is available in section "Other teams (Latin America)".
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MATCH HOME AWAY HG AG WINNER LOCAL MATCH TIME STADIUM LOCATION
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Copa Libertadores final San Lorenzo Nacional 1 0 San Lorenzo <2014-08-03 Sun 21:15> Estadio Pedro Bidegain Buenos Aires
UEFA Super Cup Real Madrid Sevilla 2 0 Real Madrid <2014-08-12 Tue 19:45> Cardiff City Cardiff
AFC Champions League final Western Sydney Wanderers Al-Hilal 1 0 Western Sydney Wanderers <2014-10-25 Sat 19:30> Parramatta Stadium Sydney
Copa Sudamericana final River Plate Atlético Nacional 2 0 River Plate <2014-12-10 Wed 21:15> Estadio Antio Vespucio Liberti Buenos Aires
North London derby Tottenham Arsenal 2 1 Tottenham <2015-02-07 Sat 12:45> White Hart Lane London
Africa Cup of Nations final Côte d'Ivoire Ghana 9 8 Côte d'Ivoire <2015-02-08 Sun 20:00> Estadio de Bata Bata
De Topper PSV Ajax 1 3 Ajax <2015-03-01 Sun 16:45> Philips Stadion Eindhoven
Choc des Olympiques Olympique de Marseille Olympique Lyonnais 0 0 Olympique Lyonnais <2015-03-15 Sun 21:00> Stade Vélodrome Marseille
Tyne-Wear derby Sunderland Newcastle 1 0 Sunderland <2015-04-05 Sun 16:00> Stadium of Light Sunderland
Manchester derby Manchester United Manchester City 4 2 Manchester United <2015-04-12 Sun 18:00> Old Trafford Manchester
Derby della Madonnina Inter Milan 0 0 Milan <2015-04-19 Sun 19:45> Stadio Giuseppe Meazza (San Siro) Milan
KVNB Cup final PEC Zwolle FC Groningen 0 2 FC Groningen <2015-05-03 Sun 18:00> De Kuip Rotterdam
Superclásico Boca Juniors River Plate 2 0 Boca Juniors <2015-05-03 Sun 22:15> Boca Juniors Buenos Aires
Coppa Italia final Juventus Lazio 2 1 Juventus <2015-05-20 Wed 20:45> Stadio Olimpico Rome
FA Cup final Arsenal Aston Villa 4 0 Arsenal <2015-05-30 Sat 17:30> Wembley London
Coupe de France final Auxerre Paris Saint-Germain 0 1 Paris Saint-Germain <2015-05-30 Sat 21:00> Stade de France Saint-Denis
Copa del Rey final Athletic Bilbao Barcelona 1 3 Barcelona <2015-05-30 Sat 21:30> Camp Nou Barcelona
Taça de Portugal final Sporting CP Braga 5 3 Sporting CP <2015-05-31 Sun 17:15> Estádio Nacional Oeiras
UEFA Champions League final Juventus Barcelona 1 3 Barcelona <2015-06-06 Sat 20:45> Olympiastadion Berlin
Clássico dos Milhões Vasco da Gama CR Flamengo 1 0 Vasco da Gama <2015-06-29 Mon 00:30> Arena Pantanal Rio de Janeiro
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.
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# level PES 2015 level winning team losing team
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15 SL superstar x
13 SW superstar x
12 TL top player x
10 TW top player x
9 PL professional x
7 PW professional x
6 RL regular x
4 RW regular x
3 AL amateur x
1 AW 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 TW (top player, winning team) to TL (top player, losing team).
- If you lost, your difficulty drops down by one; for example, from TW (top player, winning team) to PL (professional, losing team).
If you do not wish to move beyond a given level, you may determine your own highest level. For example, if you do not want to play against superstar, you may decide that your highest level is TL.
If you lose a match at the lowest level AW, you will remain there. If you win at the highest level SW, you will remain there, but we recommend that you 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 San Lorenzo - Nacional
- your difficulty level in this match; example TW
- your team in the match; example San Lorenzo
- the result; example lost 2-3
- your difficulty level in next match; example PL.
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 the winner of the next match. The result of this second match will determine the difficulty level of your third match etc.
4 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 TW, with level no 10. I then play the four matches with following results:
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result next match level next level number
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win TL 12
draw TL 12
loss TW 10
loss PL 9
My tournament score would then be the average of 12, 12, 10 and 9, that is, 10.75.
5 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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