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The Basic Premise
This contest is based around optimizing a four room hold that consists of rooms that are (to the best of my knowledge) very difficult to optimize. I've attached it to this post and everyone has
negative 540 weeks, 4 days to optimize the hold and post demos of their best solutions (you can edit them in up until the deadline) in the submission topic that I will make pretty soon.
It's worth noting that I got mxvladi to test this hold (so be sure to thank him), which means that I have confirmation that optimizing this hold is pretty difficult and it also means that you won't directly be competing with him.
Scoring
Each player will earn a score for each room, based off of how much they optimized the room and based off of their overall rank, and the player with the highest total score will win.
Each place will get points as follows.
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×1st - 15
2nd - 13
3rd - 12
4th - 11
5th - 10
6th - 9
7th - 8
8th - 7
9th - 6
10th - 5
11th - 4
12th - 3
13th - 2
14th+ - 1
In addition all players who scored below a certain number of moves (which I've determined now but will not post until scoring) will receive points equal to the percentage of moves that they were more optimized by. The number will be 10% worse than what we believe to be the optimal solution at this point.
Rewards
20 rank points to 1st place
10 rank points to 2nd place
5 rank points to 3rd place
This is a pretty quick contest to participate in, so everybody make sure to at least try. Also, a word of warning, the rooms in this hold each have at least two different relatively competitive solutions, so be warned.
Scoring may be subject to change, but I'll try to warn you. It shouldn't stop you from trying to optimize as best you can.
[Last edited by blorx1 at 10-19-2013 09:22 PM]