The Decathlon is a speedrun challenge.
It consists in learning 10 speedruns from January 18th to May 17th and participating in tournaments (on this website), restreamed in French on Twitch de l'Ultime Décathlon and in English on one of Speedgaming Twitch channel, to possibly qualify for the Ultimate Final, last tournament of UD8, live at the Stunfest. Most of the information is provided on Discord
Learn 10 speedruns with the community, submit your times on the website leaderboard, and participate with other runners in organized races or tournaments. Each game has specific rules that can be found in the resources. Record your speedruns and submit your best times as you go. You must register in advance for tournaments. Information about streaming are in the resources. Every week, join us for events on Mondays and/or Wednesdays, Fridays, and especially on Saturday afternoons for the UD8 tournaments.
Games are announced at the beginning of the season, with specific categories. The list is varied in genre and duration, as in previous seasons. Each game follows a set of rules that can be found in the resources.
The Ultimate Decathlon is free and open, everyone can participate. When you exceed 100 points on a game, your runs must be recorded (with OBS, for example), locally or on Twitch, and if possible uploaded to YouTube. The related tools are also free of charge and the relevant technical details will be provided on the website. The players and organizers are also here to help you! It is essential to be able to stream for tournaments. When you complete a run, simply submit it to the website. The time will then be validated by a moderator, and your score will appear on the championship.
Speedruns must be done on the correct versions of the games, following the specific rules of each event.
UD8 is split into three periods :
Each period is separated from another by a decathlon and is distinguished in several points, detailed at the time of the start of a new phase.
Regarding the first period, "the Discovery", it consists in a preliminary approach to learn the 10 games within 6 weeks (for the most active and assiduous players). Thus, the games will appear gradually during the Saturday tournaments until the appearance of the 10th game during the first decathlon of the season, on February 29th. In addition, each game will be showcased during Monday and/or Wednesday evenings of each week. This will give the keys to start learning each speedrun, through tips and tricks, as well as a commentary of the World Record. These evenings will be hosted as much as possible by a specialist in the game.
The second period will start after the decathlon on February 29th.
The third period will start after the decathlon on March 28th.
At the end of the third period will start the final stages of the season, with :
UD8 is based on a points system made to reflect the level of players on the complete collection of games:
Each game has a maximum time above which the speedrun will score no points at all. (We encourage you to submit these times on the website anyway!).
Between 1 and 100 points, the points follow a logarithmic rule. Therefore, you need to save more time to go from 1 to 2 points than to go from 99 to 100 points.
Beyond 100, each point corresponds to a gain of 3 to 20 seconds depending on the duration and difficulty of the game.
The 200 points represent a very good time on each game, chosen so that the World Record at the start of the UD is between 210 and 220 points.
Games are capped at 220 points.
There are two separate rankings: Grind and Race.
The Grind ranking is the main ranking of the UD, where your PBs are found. To do this, submit each of your PBs so that you have a clear view of your progress. For a PB above 100 points, it will be important to send it with a video to allow the moderators to validate it.
You will be able to submit your PBs until the end of the UF.
The races ranking gathers all your best times achieved during the official races. Namely the Saturday tournaments, the decathlons, and any other race organized within the official framework of the UD. You will not have to submit these times which will automatically be filled in the ranking.
The UD8 tournaments are commented and broadcasted live on the Ultime Décathlon's Twitch channel. They are open to everyone and bring the community together around a common event. Individually, it will also be a matter of evaluating one's progress in racing conditions.
These tournaments will take place every Saturday, starting at 3pm. The 10 best players in a tournament will be awarded a star that will be of importance for the "Star Wars". During the decathlon, the 20 best players will be rewarded.
The classic tournaments will be divided into two parts, each consisting of 3 games. Players will be rewarded for each game, but also for the whole tournament. Therefore, if a player participates in the full tournament and finishes each game among the top 10, he will be rewarded with 3 stars, according to the ranking below.
Saturday Tournament Rewards:
Decathlon Rewards:
Throughout the season it will be necessary to collect stars to get the maximum points and qualify directly for the Grand Finals (the qualifying conditions will be announced at the start of the third period). This is known as the stars competition.
The races will have a maximum duration of 100 points for each game. Therefore, in order to open tournaments to as many players as possible, the completions will make their comeback (races only) so that nobody ends up with 0 points at the end of a game.
To be able to participate in a tournament, runners must register on the site before the start of the tournament. It is impossible to add a latecomer once a tournament has started. The restreams of the official tournaments will go through the UD server. You will find in the resources the necessary explanations to be able to be a restream during a tournament.
In order to have an optimum re-stream, players will be asked to stream towards the UD server 15 minutes prior the start of the tournaments.
Race starts will be given on discord, in specific channels in the #live-races category. Runners will have to submit their race time on the website, in the tournament tab.
Achievements are an important tool in the UD8. They will be with you throughout the season to offer additional challenges in the games. It is a way to do something different from speedrunning while making it possible to improve specific skills.
They will be divided into 3 sets: Easy, medium and difficult. Each corpus will be announced alongside each new period. A document is made available to runners to view and report completed challenges. Runners are trusted to fill in the form for each achievement. However, a video should be attached (by adding it in "comment" on its cell in the document). It is mandatory for difficult achiements, but you can also attach a video to the challenges of lesser difficulty so that it can serve as an example for other players who may need it.
If an achievement is already validated before its release (but still during the UD8 season), it is obviously considered as already done by the runner and therefore validated.
For each validated achievement, a black star (which will have no impact on Star Wars) will be added to the player's card. This can also impact one of the icons on the card. In addition, a reward awaits any player who completes all the achievements of the season.
The other icons on the cards will reward players who reach certain levels in grind and race.
The arrow for each game will be obtained when the score reaches 203 points, the double arrow at 206 points.
All games in the UD are played on a PC for cost and accessibility reasons. If you have the original console (and the correct version of the game) and you have the ability to capture your gameplay, you can play on the original console.
For emulators, it is mandatory to only use those explicitly allowed in the detailed rules for each games.
It is forbidden to use a turbo controller and make macros. Key bindings must follow this simple rule: one key per action, one action per key. Example: the A button on the NES controller must correspond to a single key on your controller, and this key on your controller must not be associated with any other key on the NES controller.
All the information is transmitted through the website. There is also an open Mumble server that all participants are encouraged to join. The UD is essentially based on its community, do not hesitate to ask questions, interact on Discord, Mumble and Twitch! The event gets its visibility from twitch, so don't hesitate to stream your progress as well!
Be sure to get all the information from the site first. Especially in the resources. One of the most critical is the schedule, with weekly details of all the streams and tournaments that are planned.
Feel free to practice all ten games as you see fit. Talk about your difficulties, your progress and your discoveries to other runners. The important thing is to learn speedruns and to be part of a community. Don't hesitate to organize races on the games you play, to motivate people to run with you, to do tutorials or coaching on the games you know. Search the resources for tutorials and explanations, and do not hesitate to ask questions.
You can find the UD android app made by Butters Dickinson on Google Play or install it without source repository by downloading the apk.
There may be a delay to adapt it to the new seasons. There is no version available for IOS at the moment.
Code of conduct:
We want our community to be as respectful as possible, so that viewers can watch our streams and our participants be integrated into the community, without feeling disturbed or shocked by the behavior or vocabulary used. In the work environment as on the Internet, certain behaviors or words convey certain relationships of domination (reflecting a factually unequal society) or are in themselves discriminatory. The Ultime Décathlon should not be "like elsewhere", but "better than elsewhere", and for that reason we invite you to become aware of a certain number of problems and to make efforts to overcome them. We also know that many members of the community are already sensitive to these issues.
Concerning behaviors, we have nothing to complain about at the moment. However, we prefer to take the lead by specifying that every participants are expected to maintain a friendly environment and to be respectful of others and their differences. We cannot forbid taunt or trash talk but we would like to remind you that it has to happen with the acceptance of those concerned: make sure that others accept the way you approach them. To keep the overall atmosphere pleasant for everyone, it is better to encourage and support each other rather than to denigrate others. The Ultime Décathlon must remain an event of conviviality and surpassing oneself. Even if the competition has an important place in the event, it must remain strictly within a playful environment, where cheating and harsh rivalry have no place.
Regarding vocabulary, we noticed the use of oppressive and violent terms. We focus on oppressive language, not oppressive people. It is not because you are not disturbed by your own remarks that others are not: sexism, racism, transphobia, homophobia, validism, psychophobia, rape culture... Discriminating remarks must stay in the private sphere and have no place whatsoever on Mumble, Discord, nor on the Ultime Décathlon stream or chat. We encourage you to apply the same rules to your streams.
We hope to be heard and understood and we thank you for your efforts to maintain a pleasant and respectful environment. For those who do not follow this Code, measures/sanctions will be taken and may go as far as the definitive exclusion of the Ultime Décathlon. If you have any problems with any of the participants, or if you have any comments about the Code of Conduct, please contact the team.
Remerciements :
Semaine du 19 janvier au 25 janvier
Lundi: Soirée autour d’un jeu : Action Henk (Début à 22h)
Mercredi: Soirée autour d’un jeu : Magical Quest (Début à 22h)
Vendredi: Récap’ (21h - 22h)
Samedi : Duel d’orgas entre Contos et FrapZC !! :o
Semaine du 26 janvier au 1er février
Lundi: Soirée autour d’un jeu : F-Zero (Début à 22h)
Mercredi: Soirée autour d’un jeu : Bubble Ghost (Début à 22h)
Vendredi: Récap’ (21h - 22h)
Samedi : Tournoi #1 : Bubble Ghost , Action Henk , F-Zero // Magical Quest , F-Zero , Bubble Ghost
Semaine du 2 février au 8 février
Lundi: Soirée autour d’un jeu : Extricate (Début à 22h)
Vendredi: Récap’ (21h - 22h)
Samedi : Tournoi #2 : Extricate , Bubble Ghost , Magical Quest // Action Henk , Extricate , F-Zero
Semaine du 9 février au 15 février
Lundi: Soirée autour d’un jeu : Battleblock Theatre (Début à 22h)
Mercredi: Soirée autour d’un jeu : Another Perspective (Début à 22h)
Vendredi: Récap’ (21h - 22h)
Samedi : Tournoi #3 : Magical Quest , Another Perspective , Action Henk // Extricate , Battleblock , Bubble ghost
Semaine du 16 février au 22 février
Lundi: Soirée autour d’un jeu : Skyblazer (Début à 22h)
Mercredi: Soirée autour d’un jeu : Heavy Bullets (Début à 22h)
Vendredi: Récap’ (21h - 22h)
Samedi : Tournoi #4 : Battleblock , F-Zero , Heavy Bullets // Another Perspective , Skyblazer , Action Henk
Semaine du 23 février au 29 février
Lundi: Soirée autour d’un jeu : Color Symphony 2 (Début à 22h)
Vendredi: Récap’ (21h - 22h)
Samedi : Décathlon #1
Semaine du 1er mars au 7 mars
Mercredi: Tournoi fun : Extensions et extras, sur Extricate, Action Henk et Battleblock Theater (Début à 21h)
Vendredi: Récap’ (21h - 22h)
Samedi : Tournoi #5 : Color Symphony 2 , Bubble Ghost , Heavy Bullets // Another Perspective , Magical Quest , Extricate
Semaine du 8 mars au 14 mars
Lundi: Soirée (re)découverte : Sonic the Hedgehog (Début à 21h)
Vendredi: Récap’ (21h - 22h)
Samedi : Tournoi #6 : Skyblazer , F-Zero , Color Symphony 2 // Extricate , Battleblock Theater , Action Henk
Semaine du 15 mars au 21 mars
Mercredi: Tournoi fun : Difficulté augmentée (Début à 21h)
Vendredi: Récap’ (21h - 22h)
Samedi : Tournoi #7 : Another Perspective , The magical Quest , Extricate // Skyblazer , Bubble ghost , Heavy Bullets
Semaine du 22 mars au 29 mars
Lundi: Soirée (re)découverte : Battleblock Theater - coop (Début à 21h)
Vendredi: Récap’ (21h - 22h)
Samedi : Décathlon #2
Dimanche : Finale du tournoi par équipe
Semaine du 30 mars au 5 avril
Lundi: Lancement du premier pack de tournois éliminatoires sur : Extricate , The magical Quest , Battleblock Theater
Vendredi: Récap’ (21h - 22h)
Samedi : Tournoi #8 : F-Zero , Action Henk , The magical Quest // Another Perspective , Battleblock Theater , Color Symphony 2
Dimanche : Finales à 15h des tournois éliminatoires de la semaine
Semaine du 6 avril au 12 avril
Lundi: Lancement du second pack de tournois éliminatoires sur : Bubble Ghost , Color Symphony 2 , F-zero , Action Henk
Vendredi: Récap’ (21h - 22h)
Samedi : Tournoi #9 : Bubble Ghost , Skyblazer , Color Symphony 2 // Battleblock Theater , Extricate , Heavy Bullets
Dimanche : Finales à 15h des tournois éliminatoires de la semaine
Semaine du 13 avril au 19 avril
Lundi: Lancement du dernier pack de tournois éliminatoires sur : Another Perspective , Heavy Bullets , Skyblazer
Vendredi: Récap’ (21h - 22h)
Samedi : Tournoi #10 : Action Henk , Color Symphony 2 , Another Perspective // F-Zero , The magical Quest , Bubble Ghost
Dimanche : Finales à 15h des tournois éliminatoires de la semaine
Semaine du 20 avril au 26 avril
Mercredi: Tournoi fun #3
Vendredi: Récap’ (21h - 22h)
Samedi : Tournoi de la Dernière Chance
Semaine du 27 avril au 3 mai
Lundi: Tournoi fun #4
Vendredi: Récap’ (21h - 22h)
Samedi : Grande Finale : jour 1
Dimanche : Grande Finale : jour 2
Semaine du 4 mai au 10 mai
Vendredi: Récap’ (21h - 22h)
Samedi : DécaFUn en duo
Semaine du 11 mai au 17 mai
Vendredi: Récap’ (19h) puis lancement des Showmatchs
Samedi : Demi-Finale
Dimanche : Ultime Finale
Les tournois éliminatoires sont des tournois qui se centrent sur un seul jeu et se joueront tout au long de la semaine.
Le premier tour se lancera le lundi à partir de minuit. Le reste du tournoi se déroulera en fonction du nombre d’inscrits ci-dessous :
Entre 9 et 16 inscrits :
Entre 17 et 32 inscrits :
Entre 33 et 64 inscrits :
Chaque tour se déroule en 1 vs 1 par élimination directe. Il faudra donc s’organiser au plus vite avec votre adversaire pour trouver un horaire commun où jouer votre race avant l’heure max.
En cas de problèmes d’organisation, contactez FrapZC au plus vite pour trouver une solution.
Chaque race se fait en une seule manche. En cas d’égalité, il faudra jouer une seconde manche pour vous départager.
Chaque tour passé vous permettra d’obtenir des étoiles. Ainsi vous aurez des étoiles blanches cumulatives pour chacun des premiers tours passés, une étoile de bronze (en plus des blanches cumulées avant) en cas de qualification pour les Demi Finales, puis étoiles d’or et d’argent respectivement pour le vainqueur et le finaliste malheureux.
Si un des finalistes ne pouvait être disponible pour la finale, les demi-finalistes malheureux devraient s’organiser pour jouer une petite finale, afin que le vainqueur se qualifie pour la Finale.
Les PB races seront comptabilisés au classement race.
Les différents tournois éliminatoires se dérouleront sur Challonge, aux liens ci-dessous :
Première semaine :
Seconde semaine :
Troisième semaine :
La période d’inscription aux tournois sera ouverte du vendredi 20h au dimanche 20h.
Le tableau définitif, après mélanges des participants, sera dévoilé à l’expiration des inscriptions, le dimanche à 20h.
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The elimination tournaments are tournament about only one game and will happen along a week
First round will start monday at midnight. Hours are all in CEST timezone. The schedule of the other part depend on how much participant we have, we detailed it below:
Between 9 & 16 participants :
Between 17 & 32 participants :
Between 33 & 64 participants :
Each round will be a 1v1. You need to talk to your opponent to find a common time when you can race to respect the planning
If you have any organisation problem, contact FrapZC at soon as possible to find a solution.
Each race will be a BO1. In case of equality, you’ll need to start an other race to find a winner.
Each round passed, you’ll gain starts.You’ll have white stars for each first round you win, a bronze star (plus the white stars you already have) if you qualify to semi finals, silver star for the finalist, and gold star for the tournament winner.
If one of the finalist can’t be available for the final, the 2 semi finalist will battle for the final place.
PB race will count for this tournament
Each tournament will be on Challenge, which you can see the link below :
First week :
Second week :
Third week :
The subscribe period for the tournaments is opened till friday (8pm) to sunday (8pm)
The final schedule of the tournaments, after the mix of all the participants will be set on sunday at 8pm.
Le tournoi par équipe débutera le vendredi 13 mars, à 21h et s’achèvera avec la finale le dimanche 29 mars.
Une semaine de tournoi va du vendredi 21h au vendredi suivant à 20h (heure grand max de lancement de la dernière race possible).
Lors des récap’ du vendredi auront lieu deux tirages au sort. D’une part les équipes qui vont s’affronter en duel, et d’autre part, les 3 jeux de la semaine sur lesquels les équipes vont effectuer leurs races. Ces 3 jeux seront alors retirés de la liste pour le tirage au sort de la semaine suivante.
Le dernier jeu restant à l’issu des 3 semaines sera d’office en première place des jeux de la finale. Les autres jeux étant tirés au sort entre chaque race de la finale.
Les équipes vont ensuite devoir s’organiser entre elles pour effectuer leurs races en affrontement live avec leurs adversaires. Il n’y a aucune obligation de faire cela en une seule fois.
Chaque équipe doit être constituée de 4 joueurs. Chaque joueur pourra faire un maximum de 2 jeux par semaine et il ne peut y avoir que 2 joueurs d'une même équipe par jeu. Ainsi, si un des joueurs d’une équipe devait être absent une semaine, les 3 autres membres pourront sans problème palier à son absence.
Les équipes ne s'élimineront pas entre elles, mais pour chaque jeu (au cumul des deux joueurs de l’équipe) où une équipe aura l’avantage sur l’équipe opposée, elle recevra 10 points bonus.
A l’issu des 3 semaines de tournoi, les 4 premières équipes au classement (au cumul des points) seront qualifiées pour la finale le dimanche 29 mars à 15h.
Des étoiles seront à gagner pour les finalistes.
Le tournoi par équipe étant un tournoi officiel, ses races entrent en compte dans le classement race.
Voici le lien pour s’inscrire et/ou rentrer ses scores et informations sur votre team
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1V1H6HNRte7FuAtc9Fp-OtW8NNy_MVcTUVvzgpbCaZXU/edit?usp=sharing
The team tournament will begin on Friday, March 13, at 9:00 pm and will end with the finals on Sunday, March 29.
A tournament week runs from Friday 9pm to the following Friday at 8pm (last call for the last race).
During Friday's recap two draws will take place. Firstly, to pick the teams who will compete in duel, and secondly, the 3 games played during the week. These 3 games will then be pulled from the list for the following week's draw.
The last remaining game at the end of the 3 weeks will be the first game of the final. The other games will be randomly drawn between each race of the final.
The teams will then have to organize themselves to perform their races in live matches against their opponents. There is no requirement to do all this at once.
Each team must be made up of 4 players. Each player will be able to play a maximum of 2 games per week. So, if one of the players of a team is absent during a week, the 3 other members will be able to make up for his absence easily.
The teams will not eliminate each other, but for each game (total of the two players of the team) in which a team will have the advantage on the opposite team, they will receive 10 bonus points.
At the end of the 3 weeks tournament, the first 4 teams in the ranking (cumulated points) will be qualified for the finals on Sunday, March 29th.
Stars will be earned by the finalists.
Here is the link to register and/or enter your scores and information about your team
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1V1H6HNRte7FuAtc9Fp-OtW8NNy_MVcTUVvzgpbCaZXU/edit?usp=sharing