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 Coverage
Super Meat Boy Combined Coverage Video
The 5 Stages of Shane Playing Super Meat Boy
Playlist of everybody's scoring Super Meat Boy run
Spelunky Pod 1 Race (Pi, Shane, SB)
Spelunky Pod 2 Race (Alise and Jeff)

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