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A few useful links:
All Tournaments (wiki) (http://knucklecracker.com/wiki/doku.php?id=cw2:weekly_5_map_tournament)
Code Map Scoreboard (http://knucklecracker.com/creeperworld2/viewscores.php)
Tournament Score Tool (http://knucklecracker.com/forums/index.php?topic=7477.0)

Theme:
Monty Python Players



   
   
   
   
   
   

Map Name:	Size:	Complexity:
John Cleese	Small	Medium
Michael Palin	Medium	Medium
Graham Chapman	Small	High
Terry Gilliam	Medium	High
Terry Jones	Large	High

Results Per Player


   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   

Rank	Name	John Cleese	Michael Palin	Graham Chapman	Terry Gilliam	Terry Jones	Total Score	Total Time
1	ea3401	11981	11755	11655	11813	11388	58592	32:04
2	asmussen	11623	11180	11265	11331	10421	55820	54:52
3	Martin	11733	11223	11008		10486	44450
4	Marley	11006	10581	10733		9389	41709
5	inept_celt	11212	10605	9836		9282	40935
6	MizInIA	11008	10084	10034		8790	39916
7	dhc	9174	9664	9726		7799	36363
8	Ekira84	9256	7744	8860		7788	33648
9	ctuna	11779	11308	11399			34486
10	Atomicfrog			11509		11277	22786
11	NinjaDude	11327					11327
12	Ultraexactzz		10532				10532

Scores recorded at 2013-08-18 23:15:31 forum time.

I guess I'll be the first to ask - what was the secret to the Terry Gilliam map?

No secrets, just energy management. You have to pick up the white gem, when field is convenient.

New tournament here: http://knucklecracker.com/forums/index.php?topic=13833.0 (http://knucklecracker.com/forums/index.php?topic=13833.0)

Picking up the white gem isn't absolutely essential, but it does help. My first play through of the map was done without grabbing the diamond until after I'd killed the first emitter, but I realized that the fields would allow me to grab it earlier on my second run. You can also take advantage of the fields keeping the creeper out of the way to nullify the first emitter at around the 1:30 mark without needing to build any shields to protect it. The main thing is to get the first two shields into place so that the creeper never erupts above ground level, and then you can build up on the left side first, including grabbing all of the gems over there and building up infrastructure. You can start collecting gems and get some reactors built before you have to build a 2nd set of shields to contain the creeper after it breaks the first set, and then you just build some blasters to handle the drones when they break out, finish building up your infrastructure and from there it's fairly routine.