ClaytonW
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Ooh! Count me in for the contest! I'll waste all of you!

Ahem, I mean, Cool! People are getting excited about this. I'm terrified that someone's going to beat this thing in 15 minutes though. Erik said he doesn't want to say how many rooms or floors there are in my Contest Hold, so I'll just say that my focus wasn't on the size of it, just how difficult it was (but I don't think I went overboard with that, either).

DiMono, yeah, I'll probably post it on the Architecture or Holds board after the contest.

AND... For everyone's convenience, here is an online Time Zone converter (24-hour format):

Time Zone Converter

DiMono
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sims5000 wrote:
not everyone's in the same timezone

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jdyer
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Hm, high noon for me , I should be able to make it. Count me in.

Mattcrampy
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Yeah, we covered this as well.

Although I think it's 8pm in Austria when this starts. Still, it's a Saturday, so there probably won't be any problems with staying up late. You don't have to get up in the morning.

As mentioned, Australia and Asia are the ones who are really screwed, although there's not as many of us as there are Europeans, and I can't participate anyway.

Matt

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Koro
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Does not knowing your time zone and how it relates to Greenwhich Time strike anyone as sort of like not knowing your zip code, or what state you live in, or the planet you are on?

This isn't pointed at anyone imparticular. I just playin'!

However, there is a moral to this story: watch more television! It is here that one obtains valueable practice converting from Pacific Time.

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Mattcrampy
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Except if you don't live in the US, so you get all your times at local time.

Matt

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Scott
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Yes oddly enough no matter how much TV I watch theres never any mention of pacific time.

Phweengee
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Any chance you could offer a very rough guess of approximately how long you think it'll take the winner to win? I definitely plan to play, but if you really think the best players are gonna take several hours or something, then I think I'm not quite up for that time commitment

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Scott
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I believe Erik already said in the first post 3 hours.

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My bad. Thanks

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TripleM
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Its already been said that for the official competition, its going to have to be measured by the time since the hold is released for a winner etc, but seeing as I'm from New Zealand, and some of you probably will have similar difficulties, how about we also have an unofficial competition where we time how long (not including breaks, so its ok to have a break and come back later) that it takes us to do? Of course people could cheat but I doubt people would do that..

swann_88
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I will be trying it

a suggestion for next time
since people are having trouble with the time would be to award a prize to least number of moves since you will have the demos

[Edited by swann_88 on 03-06-2004 at 04:57 AM GMT]

The_Red_Hawk
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But then people could cheat by trying it over and over again.

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Ooooh a competition. I will be in around 7pm GMT so I'll grab a copy, but I'm off to a ball tonight so won't get much chance to play for over 12 hours - darn it!

Still, I'll give it a shot...completing it even late will be an achievement.

Agent Icarus

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The_Red_Hawk
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Two minutes to go..... Best of luck, everybody! May the best smiter win!

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The_Red_Hawk
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Uh...can someone help me out? I can't get the hold because the page is a meaningless string of gibberish. Can someone maybe post it as an attachment here?

[Edited by The_Red_Hawk on 03-06-2004 at 07:07 PM GMT]

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File: ContestHold.hold (6.8 KB)
Downloaded 70 times.
License: Other
From: Unspecified

I can't help you, but I can attest that it works well for me (though I can't participate in the contest because I helped playtest the hold). What OS/browser are you using?

You know, to save you valuable time, an attachement is a good idea - I added it (everyone else is free to take it from here too, of course).

[Edited by eytanz on 03-06-2004 at 07:08 PM GMT]

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The_Red_Hawk
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Windows 98. Thanks for the attachment!

[Edited by The_Red_Hawk on 03-06-2004 at 07:09 PM GMT]

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I added it as an attachment in the above post in case you missed it.

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Zaratustra
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ARGH

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Is it meant to be Anyone-Edit?

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Oops, Anyone-edit permissions on it is my fault, but it doesn't matter TOO much. You still have to upload victory demos.

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Wow. I just downloaded it and started in on the first room, and I can't even beat THAT. Good thing I don't have any time, or I'd spend my entire day playing this hold, I'm sure of it.

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Nillo
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DiMono wrote:
Wow. I just downloaded it and started in on the first room, and I can't even beat THAT.

You're not the only one. Oh well, I can play the other rooms in the editor.

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in just over an hour I have managed to get up to killing 40 of 60 roaches in the first room

jdyer
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One hour later, and I have the first room. At this rate, it will take...well, longer than 3 hours.

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You managed the first room? omg...I've gotten down to 8 roaches left... after this contest is over I want to learn how the roaches cluster, because there are certain spots where I've managed to kill 8 or 9 without the line advancing with just q and w, but I can't tell why...

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The secret word is .

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Since I can't beat the firstroom, I have to say, I love the concept in one west, and definitely will be hurting myself on that if I ever can find my way to the gate. Thought it was a timer at first, but something far more interesting




...and playtesting took me about 5 minutes to beat... which has renewed my hope... back to room 1


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The secret word is "mayhem"

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