The Biweekly Procrastination
The Biweekly Procrastination, formerly known as the Ohio ARMS Online Biweekly, is an online biweekly ARMS tournament series organized by Frosty and LOSER. The series began in August of 2017 and is still having new events in the present. Due to this, the Biweekly Procrastination is the longest continually running online ARMS tournament series. Upon its creation, former ARMS player Azilidaz supervised the events, but after becoming uninterested in the game, he gave full control to the duo who continue to run it to this day. The tournament series is also the primary result pool for the Ohio ARMS Power Ranking.
Format
The Biweekly Procrastination typically runs double elimination brackets unless there are less than 8 entrants, in which a round robin tournament is held. On occasion an event holding 7 entrants may also be double elimination, depending on the rules at the time of the specific tournament. Players utilize Ohio ARMS' Discord server to communicate with their opponents as the brackets are ran on Challonge, a site that lacks player-to-player chat functions. In terms of the tournament's stage list, traditionally legal stages, including DNA Lab and Buster Beach among others, were chosen to be used. Today, the "Backroom" stage list is used alongside a modified version of the Backroom rule set.
Prior to its sixth installment, the Biweekly occurred on a single day of the week as nearly all other events do, but from the sixth event onwards a new format was used. This new format, dubbed the "all-week" format, allowed participants to play their sets reasonably throughout the week in which the tournament took place. The all-week format was primarily created to allow breathing room for players who have work or school and wouldn't be able to play numerous sets all in one specific day of the week.
Due to the fact that the events are ran from the Ohio ARMS Discord server as well as the event's title early on, many believed the tournament series to be locked to Ohio players only. This was never the case, in fact, the majority of the tournaments held were not region locked at all. Despite allowing European and Japanese players to enter, it was advised that all players be available at reasonable times in the EST time zone as to allow for ease on the Ohio players' part. In early 2020, the Biweekly Procrastination formally region locked to North America only as to comply with the North American Power Ranking rules. Despite this, Biweeklies occurring during the NA Power Ranking off-seasons will be open to all around the world.
From January 1st to April 1st, 2022, Dr. Coyle was banned from competitive use in any event eligible for the ARMS NA Power Ranking which included The Biweekly Procrastination. This was the first and only instance of a character being banned from the series outside of characters who were released during an ongoing event. Starting with The Biweekly Procrastination 100, stage striking rules in the series received an important new change: the lower-seeded player bans first as opposed to the higher-seeded player.
Tournaments
Trivia
- With 47 wins, PineappleFreak has the most Biweekly Procrastination wins out of all 26 unique victors.
- PineappleFreak also has the highest win streak in the series, winning 25 tournaments in a row.
- The name, Biweekly Procrastination, comes from the name of a SpongeBob SquarePants episode titled "Procrastination". This title also reflects how players often put off their open sets to play later in the week.
- Due to connection issues, certain Biweekly Procrastination sets between Ohioans have been played offline at other video game events or tournaments.
- Players who were power ranked for ARMS in Ohio were initially planned to get special events in their honor titled "Chronicles", but this was only carried out for Ohio ARMS' Season 1 Power Ranking.
- The two longest breaks in between Biweekly Procrastinations, that were not holiday related, were caused due to LOSER and Frosty being occupied with creating Ohio ARMS Power Ranking images. These gaps occurred for the Season 3 image, in between Biweekly 18 and 19, and for the Season 5 image, in between Biweekly 26 and 27.
- The Biweekly Procrastination 70 had the most participants out of any Biweekly Procrastination tournament with 22 entrants.
- The logo for the Biweekly Procrastination was created by Frosty.
- The only players to enter every single Biweekly Procrastination are its organizers, LOSER and Frosty.
- The Biweekly Procrastination is the second ARMS tournament series to reach 100 events, with Champions of the Era being the first.
- The Biweekly Procrastination 100 was initially teased on August 11th, 2022 with a teaser trailer utilizing music from The Dark Knight and imagery from SpongeBob SquarePants.[1] Then, on August 12th, a trailer for the event directly parodying the episode of SpongeBob SquarePants titled "Krusty Krab Training Video" was released.[2] This video features an abundance of references to the aforementioned cartoon alongside many nods to the series’ format and history among other details.
- The 100th event also had a unique logo created by Frosty and LOSER based directly on the title card of the SpongeBob episode "Mid-Life Crustacean". The tournament’s start time of 8:01 PM was also a reference to that episode.
- Specifically the word 'The' in said logo has extensive filigree around it as a nod to a famous scene in the episode the event series gets its name from: "Procrastination".[3]
Gameplay Videos
Ohio ARMS Online Biweekly 1 : Pwnda (Spring Man) vs LOSER (Helix)
ARMS - Ohio Online Biweekly 9 Playlist
ARMS - Biweekly Procrastination 10 Playlist
