Friday, December 13, 2013

Week 3!

The second week of our tournament featured 1000% more head-crushing and dream-crushing than the first, which is a trend we can only hope will continue. Check out the bottom of this post for all the gory evidence! But first, the third week ends at 11:59 PM on Sunday, December 22nd January 12th and features these challenges:

Stone Age: Better Huts and Gardens
Competitors have been divided into pods to attempt to reinvent the wheel on Brettspielwelt. Make an account and then hook up with your pod for some prehistoric pandemonium! Scoring for this event will be based on your placing within your pod's game; first place in each pod will be worth 4 points, second in each pod 3, and so on. In addition, one bonus point will be awarded for each non-food resource type your villagers eat during the game. 

Pod 1
SB
Pi
Aaron
Andrew

Pod 2
Jeff
Shane
Alise


Super Mario Bros Super Ironman Show
Progress as far as possible into the legendary Super Mario Bros 3 without dying. And no warping! At your first death, your run is over. Then of course submit your beautiful bean footage to me and I will cut it together with everyone else's in such a way that everyone involved looks as dumb as possible.



Week 2 Coverage


Week 2 Results
Alien Swarm:
Pod 2 (Pi, Andrew, Aaron): 39:55.30 = 5 points
Pod 1 (SB, Alise, Jeff, Shane): 43:39.17 = 1 point

Chivalry:
1st - Aaron (6 points + 3 diversity bonus) = 9 points
2nd - Andrew (5 points + 3 diversity bonus) = 8 points
3rd - Shane (4 points + 3 diversity bonus) = 7 points
4th - SB (3 points + 3 diversity bonus) = 6 points
5th - Alise (2 points + 3 diversity bonus) = 5 points
6th - Pi (1 point + 2.5 diversity bonus) = 3.5 points

Wednesday, December 4, 2013

Week 2!

The first week of competition has drawn to a close, and judging from the amount of blood on the track it must have been a success! Check the bottom of this post for all of the week 1 coverage that you can possibly stand. Looking forward, week 2 ends at 11:59 PM Thursday, December 12 and the schedule is as follows:

Alien Swarm Bug Hunt
In teams, competitors will race through the campaign of Alien Swarm (Difficulty: Easy, Friendly Fire: Normal, Onslaught: Disabled). Smash bugs, save lives, display your cooperative spirit, and unravel the mystery of whatever the hell it is that this game is about. Pick a person on your team to record your adventure so that the future space marines who find your emptied-out corpses will have something spooky to listen to! The team rosters (selected by an arcane but ultimately fair method):

Team 1
SB
Jeff
Alise
Shane

Team 2
Pi
Andrew
Aaron
An AI character of their choosing


Chivalry Duel Competition
Armor up and get ready to smash some skulls! Competitors will engage in acts of medieval brutality in a series of best-of-three Chivalry duels. A half-point diversity bonus will be awarded for each different weapon group used as the primary slaying tool in a fight, and a maximum of one bonus point will be awarded per round. Note that the diversity bonus requires the use of weapons from different groups and you will not score a diversity bonus for using multiple weapons from the same group! As always, one of the duelists should record the fight and send it to me.
The fighters have been randomly separated into two pods. Each fighter will battle the others in their pod to determine their placing within the pod. (In the event that the pod round robin fails to yield a result via the dreaded spiral, pod placement will be determined by a single free-for-all fight between all three competitors, with the winner taking first in the pod and the other two places being determined by the previous match between the second and third place competitors.) Once pod placements have been determined, each fighter will duke it out with their counterpart from the other pod for final placement; the two first placers will fight over 1st and 2nd, the two second placers will fight for 3rd and 4th, and the last two will fight over 5th and 6th. The pods are as follows:

Pod 1
Aaron
Alise
Shane

Pod 2
Andrew
Pi
SB




Week 1 Results
Super Meat Boy:
Pi - 07:38.67 (6 points) + 1 bandage (0.5 points) = 6.5 points
Andrew - 10:34.63 (5 points) + 0 bandages (0 points) = 5 points
SB - 11:41.38 (4 points) + 6 bandages (3 points) = 7 points
Aaron - 12:56.23 (3 points) + 0 bandages (0 points) = 3 points
Shane - 14:57.07 (2 points) + 0 bandages (0 points) = 2 points
Jeff - 46:14.08 (1 point) + 4 bandages (2 points) = 3 points

Spelunky:
SB - 03:50.47 = 5 points
Jeff - 04:39.07 = 4 points
Shane - 07:15.60 = 3 points
Pi - 15:16.47 = 2 points
Alise - 16:38.67 = 1 point