Weekly 5-map Tournament

[thepenguin]

A.Rules:
Every competitor will have until Sunday evening at midnight (forum time (GMT - 5)) to set the best scores/times for these 5 maps, all linked together by their common theme, so just start playing!
The winner (best total score) gets to pick a new theme and publish the dates to be played before Monday evening at midnight (forum time).
This will ensure the winner doesn't have a major advantage and also makes sure that every player has 6 days to participate.
Last weeks winner is also responsible for determining next weeks winner by calculating/checking the total scores.
Each tournament will have its own topic (Created by the winner of the previous week's tournament) where players can post scores and discuss their progress.
B.Please note:
- It is not allowed for the same player to submit scores with different names. If done so, both names will be disqualified.
- Winners are calculated by highest total score, however, in the event that two players are tied in their scores, the lowest total time wins.
- When two players have the same total score and the same total time, the amount of individual #1 spots counts, followed by the amount of #2 spots, etc.
- When the tournament has been won by the same player as last week the runner up (#2) will pick the next theme to ensure themes & maps will be picked by different people.
- When this runner up already picked last weeks theme (same top 2 twice), the number three will pick the theme + maps
- When this number three already picked last weeks theme (same top 3 three times), the winner will pick the theme + maps again
I will keep this initial post up-to-date with a list of nominated themes and winners of kept tournaments.
C.Regarding calculating and posting the results of the tournament you won:
1. Of course the final results haven't been posted yet, but I'm sure the winner will know he has won by adding and comparing his scores.
2. Use Mopa42's Score Viewer to get totals & export table
3. It's a tradition that the winner of a tournament posts screenshots of his solutions for others to learn from. Use the backspace key to create a screenshot; it will automatically be saved in your 'documents\creeperworld2_screens' folder. When posting click 'Additional Options' to be able to attach them.
D.Regarding posting next weeks tournament theme & topic:
1. When selecting the theme yourself just pick one from the list (see first post of this thread) or think of one yourself. Please make sure it will appeal to a wide variety of players.
2. When selecting the codes of maps to be played make sure these maps haven't been played before. I would also check if you're not posting any fools mate maps (maps that can be finished without engaging the creeper at all), (also, no impossible maps (undiggable terrain surrounding an emitter) )
3. When entering the name of the new tournament topic, please use this format: "Weekly 5-Map Tournament - [theme title] - closing [date of next Sunday]".
4. Use Mopa42's Score Viewer when posting all tournament data.
5. Please provide a link to this thread, containing the overview of themes, previous tournaments, players rankings and most important: the rules!
6. No two maps in a tournament can have the same combination of size/complexity
7. if a new tournament is not posted on monday before midnight (forum time), I will supply a tournament before noon (forum time) on tuesday, in the event that no tournament is created by noon (forum time) on tuesday, anyone can create the next week's tournament
E.Previous/Current tournaments:

Tournament Nr	Theme	Gold	Silver	Bronze	GoldScore	SilverScore	BronzeScore
1.	Units	Kithros	Evil Roc	mopa42
2.	Palindrones	Fisherck	mopa42	alladin
3.	Highest Mountains	florrat	Evil Roc	jlog
4.	2011 IMO winners	Fisherck	florrat	Evil Roc
5.	World Record Running Times	Evil Roc	Lord_Farin	jlog
6.	Movies with Arnold Schwarzenegger	jlog	Katra	RichieRich
7.	A.I.s	mopa42	Katra	hegemontree
8.	Months	DethbyIT	Katra	ctuna	56414	55397	45177
9.	Authors	TheSmileyCoder	mopa42	Lord_Farin	60964	60899	59560
10.	Scifi Series	TheSmileyCoder	Lord_Farin	ctuna	58031	57010	52224
11.	Ancient Ones	zaphod	TheSmileyCoder	DethbyIT	57865	57670	56480
12.	Obscure Metal Bands	zaphod	TheSmileyCoder	DethbyIT	56843	56729	56577
13.	Ships From Alien Movies	Lord_Farin	zaphod	Durban	58574	57986	57602
14.	Stephen King Books	TheSmileyCoder	Katra	zaphod	59154	58333	58119
15.	Internet Browsers	TEST_C	testicle	Wheatmidge	59823	58085	56576
16.	Well Known Figures of Taiwan	Wheatmidge	mopa42	Amram	57446	56827	54642
17.	Characters of Final Fantasy	Amram	testicle	Katra	58625	58444	58116
18.	Ancient Quotes	Wheatmidge	mopa42	Amram	55607	55570	54665
19.	Elements	mopa42	Katra	testicle	55565	53437	52754
20.	CW2 Anagrams	Amram	Wheatmidge	zaphod	59015	58897	58538
21.	R.A. Salvatore's Novels	Wheatmidge	testicle	Amram	56298	56278	55840
22.	Dragonlance	mopa42	Amram	Katra	56257	54729	54614
23.	Extinct Languages	Kava09	zaphod	testicle	60322	59971	59679
24.	My Recent Music Findings	Kava09	zaphod	testicle	61855	61585	61399
25.	Characters from Discworld Novels	Wheatmidge	dt42	Katra	59995	59581	59315
26.	Character Classes in Diablo 3	J	Wheatmidge	dt42	57632	57574	57366
27.	Bloons in btd5	Wheatmidge	zaphod	dt42	59514	58448	57213
28.	Planets	dt42	Katra	zaphod	42179	40565	32627
29.	Cool Elements	Wheatmidge	dt42	ctuna	56961	56813	55809
30.	Blake's Poems	Cavemaniac	Katra	UoADeadeye	59332	56989	54276
31.	Famous Addresses	Fisherck	the master	Cavemaniac	59779	59734	59543
32.	Expensive Paintings	the master	dt42	Katra	58422	56623	55654
33.	Stages of the Big Bang	Martin	the master	dt42	58214	58202	57573
34.	Beautiful girl of the Whedonverse	Helper	Martin	ctuna	56299	54710	53242
35.	Semper Fidelis	Wheatmidge	dt42	Helper	58346	57762	57231
36.	Kingdom Hearts	Helper	dt42	ctuna	58971	58697	58277
37.	5 Fastest Production Cars	Helper	dt42	ctuna	59608	58329	57967
38.	The Best Of The Best	TheSmileyCoder	Helper	ctuna	22821	22012	10950
39.	Moments in Computer History	Helper	Lord_Farin	ctuna	56339	56102	54324
40.	Star Trek, the original	Helper	mopa42	TheSmileyCoder	59004	58856	58571
41.	Animal Group Names	TheSmileyCoder	Wheatmidge	mopa42	60101	60020	59955
42.	Famous Competitions	TheSmileyCoder	Helper	mopa42	60725	60153	60014
43.	"Big Bang Theory" (Wimmens)	TheSmileyCoder	Helper	mopa42	60044	59847	59819
44.	Doctor Who	TheSmileyCoder	mopa42	Wheatmidge	59619	59410	59273
45.	Codes	TheSmileyCoder	the master	Wheatmidge	58405	58370	57711
46.	Card Games	TheSmileyCoder	Wheatmidge	dt42	61157	60011	59977
47.	US Presidential election 2012	TheSmileyCoder	Helper	dt42	59588	58156	57429
48.	Coming Attractions	TheSmileyCoder	mopa42	Helper	61923	61453	61056
49.	Gravity	Wheatmidge	TheSmileyCoder	Helper	59652	59638	59007
50.	Candy	TheSmileyCoder	Helper	dt42	58537	57023	56613
51.	Fun With Names	TheSmileyCoder	florrat	Helper	61973	61971	61180

And the scoreboard:

PlayerName	Gold Medals	Silver Medals	Bronze Medals	Totals
TheSmileyCoder	14	3	1	63
Wheatmidge	8	4	3	43
Helper	5	5	4	34
mopa42	3	7	4	30
dt42	1	6	6	22
zaphod	2	4	3	19
Katra		7	4	18
Amram	2	1	3	13
Fisherck	3			12
Lord_Farin	1	3	1	11
the master	1	3		10
testicle		3	3	9
Evil Roc	1	2	1	9
ctuna			8	8
Kava09	2			8
florrat	1	2		8
DethbyIT	1		2	6
jlog	1		2	6
Martin	1	1		6
Cavemaniac	1		1	5
Kithros	1			4
TEST_C	1			4
J	1			4
hegemontree			1	1
alladin			1	1
Durban			1	1
RichieRich			1	1
UoADeadeye			1	1

(Results up to #50, supplied by Helper.)
* Won a point (or more), without finishing all maps in the tournament
G.Banned Users

User	Reason
1. Emperium	Confessed Cheating
2. ********	Unappropriate Username

H.Future (suggested) topics:
feel free to make theme suggestions as a post in this thread

• CW (1 and 2) Map names
• Names and locations of famous landmarks, like volcanoes, wonders of the world, lighthouses, large rivers
• Famous last words
• Components of a computer, like Microprocessor or Keyboard
• Fun/unique/special words in the English language, like in this list or this list
• Characters from a book (Lord of the Rings), or a comic (Calvin & Hobbes), or a movie, etc
• Cronom tournament maps
• James Bond Movies
• James Bond Actors
• Beatles Songs/Albums
• Movies

Updated with data supplied by Helper to reflect status up to tournament #50. -G.

[Fisherck]

A good idea for future tournaments is to go through CW1 map names. That would be fun.

[thepenguin]

A good idea for future tournaments is to go through CW1 map names. That would be fun.

maybe both CWs

[mopa42]

A couple topic suggestions for future tournaments:

• Names and locations of famous landmarks, like volcanoes, wonders of the world, lighthouses, large rivers
• Palindrome phrases, like Go hang a salami; I'm a lasagna hog or Mr. Owl ate my metal worm
• Famous last words
• Components of a computer, like Microprocessor or Keyboard
• Fun/unique/special words in the English language, like in this list or this list
• Characters from a book (Lord of the Rings), or a comic (Calvin & Hobbes), or a movie, etc

[thepenguin]

added

[Lord_Farin]

When will the new tournament start?

[thepenguin]

When will the new tournament start?

assuming that kithros doesen't create a new tournament by midnight (or when I wake up tomorrow) (forum time (GMT-5)), I'll create a new tournament
and as a precaution, I've added a system to the official rules

[mthw2vc]

2. When selecting the dates of maps to be played make sure these maps haven't been played before. I would also check if you're not posting too many fools mates maps (maps that can be finished without engaging the creeper at all), but that's a personal preference. (also, no impossible maps (undiggable terrain surrounding an emitter) )

1) Maps need not have associated dates. The word "code" belongs there.
2) Maps that can be finished without engaging the creeper give everyone the exact same score. They aren't funny, there had better not be any in any tournaments.

[thepenguin]

2. When selecting the dates of maps to be played make sure these maps haven't been played before. I would also check if you're not posting too many fools mates maps (maps that can be finished without engaging the creeper at all), but that's a personal preference. (also, no impossible maps (undiggable terrain surrounding an emitter) )

1) Maps need not have associated dates. The word "code" belongs there.
2) Maps that can be finished without engaging the creeper give everyone the exact same score. They aren't funny, there had better not be any in any tournaments.

fixed

[Colin]

Here is a suggestion for a tournament theme.

How about previous tournament maps from CW1? Like from one of these topics.
For that one we would do these:

May 12, 1941
January 25, 1947
May 24, 1972
August 12, 1981
January 2, 1982

either all on large/high or change them depending on the desired result.

[TonyP2000]

Here is a suggestion for contest maps: (The brackets are not apart of the contest, they are just to tell you what movie/game/comic they are from)

Evil A.I.s:

HAL 9000  (2001: A Space Odyssey)
GlaDOS (Portal)
SkyNet (The Terminator)
SHODAN (System Shock)
MODOK (Marvel Comics)

[TonyP2000]

I also have some more ideas like:
James Bond Movies (Goldfinger, The Spy Who Loved Me)
James Bond Actors (Like Danial Crag and Sean Connery
Beatles Albums (Abbey Road, White Album)
Worst Movies ever (Troll 2, Battlefield Earth)

[crazyone76]

is this still active?

[Colin]

It was fairly active before Custom Maps
were released, and I suspect it will come
back soon. 

[mopa42]

Right now I think we're waiting for someone to just make a next tournament. I think there are several people (myself included) who played the code maps before and would participate again, given the excuse/opportunity.