Knuckle Cracker

The them I've picked for this week is:

Radiohead (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiohead) birthdays

The maps to be played before Sunday November 21 at midnight (forum time) are:

Map	Radiohead member	Birthday	Instruments
1.	Thom Yorke	7 October 1968 (http://knucklecracker.com/creeperworld/viewscores.php?missionGroup=chronom&month=9&day=7&year1=1&year2=9&year3=6&year4=8)	vocals
2.	Jonny Greenwood	5 November 1971 (http://knucklecracker.com/creeperworld/viewscores.php?missionGroup=chronom&month=10&day=5&year1=1&year2=9&year3=7&year4=1)	guitars, keyboards
3.	Ed O'Brien	15 April 1968 (http://knucklecracker.com/creeperworld/viewscores.php?missionGroup=chronom&month=3&day=15&year1=1&year2=9&year3=6&year4=8)	guitars
4.	Colin Greenwood	26 June 1969 (http://knucklecracker.com/creeperworld/viewscores.php?missionGroup=chronom&month=5&day=26&year1=1&year2=9&year3=6&year4=9)	bass
5.	Phil Selway	23 May 1967 (http://knucklecracker.com/creeperworld/viewscores.php?missionGroup=chronom&month=4&day=23&year1=1&year2=9&year3=6&year4=7)	drums

Interestingly, despite their being my favourite band, I didn't know they were all around 40-something. I expected them to be about 5 years younger. I also thought that from the Greenwood brothers, Jonny was older.

See here (http://knucklecracker.com/forums/index.php?topic=4621.0) for the rules, an overview of themes and previous tournaments and the overall ranking.

Please post your progress/total scores in this topic to ease the calculations at the end of the week.

Good luck!

My scores so far.

Oct 7     1968   9761   1:27
Nov 5     1971   9518   3:02
Apr 15    1968   8589   9:51
June 26  1969   9679   1:59
May 23   1967   8759   8:33

total score  46306

edit - corrected typo.

O_e

i actually watched a southpark episode yesterday with radiohead in it...

So far I did manage to achive these maps :

Map	Date	Time	Score
1.	7 Octobre 1968	2 min 29 sec	9602
2.	5 Novembre 1971	9 min 13 sec	8668
3.	15 Avril 1968	12 min 51 sec	8236
4.	26 Juin 1969	2 min 12 sec	9646
5.	23 Mai 1967	14 min 43 sec	8030
TOTAL		44182

By the way, Katra, the last date in your table is not correct ...

Hope to improve it before sunday.

Here are my scores, I don't think I can improve them much more, but here they are.  ;)

Map	Date	Time	Score
1.	7 October 1968	1:16	9793
2.	5 November 1971	2:10	9651
3.	15 April 1968	5:30	9160
4.	26 June 1969	1:41	9727
5.	23 May 1967	6:13	9061
TOTAL		16:50	47392

Well I quoted the table, but hopefully I'll be able to learn how to make my own eventually.  ;D

Oh, and Wally, "5.   23 Mai 1967   14 min 437 sec   8030" don't you mean 43 seconds? ;)

Map   Date                  Time    Score 1   October 7, 1968      1:17    9790 2   November 5, 1971    2:14    9641 3   April 15, 1968          6:55    8966 4   June 26, 1969         1:47    9711 5   May 23, 1967          7:29    8891    TOTALS                 19:42   46999

Maybe the best I can do - tried some way too many times - as usual, I'm missing some (maybe) simple concept.

Looks like you'll be picking next weeks tournament theme Colin! :) Better start thinking about it, so you can send Kapoios a PM in time. Please consider this when doing so:

Quote from: UpperKEES on September 06, 2010, 04:58:19 PM
2. When selecting the theme yourself just pick one from the list (http://knucklecracker.com/forums/index.php?topic=4621.0) or think of one yourself. Please make sure it will appeal to a wide variety of players.
3. 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.
4. Try to include some interesting data about the selected events/dates, see previous tournaments for an example.

Well, it is a little bit early to declare victory, but I will decide on
what the next themes will be in the event that I take second place.  ;)

Sorry, I forgot about hi of course, but it never hurts to be prepared.

Quote from: UpperKEES on November 20, 2010, 10:33:49 AM
Sorry, I forgot about hi of course, but it never hurts to be prepared.

What about Ctuna?  :o

Oh, I hadn't forgotten about him, but:

Quote from: ctuna on November 19, 2010, 07:21:07 PM
TOTALS                 19:42   46999

Maybe the best I can do - tried some way too many times - as usual, I'm missing some (maybe) simple concept.

My scores:

Map   Date                  Time    Score
1   October 7, 1968      1:21      9779
2   November 5, 1971    1:59    9679
3   April 15, 1968          5:04    9221
4   June 26, 1969         1:54     9692
5   May 23, 1967          4:00    9374
   TOTAL                47745

That'll be my final scores this week.
On map 3 a huge improvement ist still possible. But I'm not so certain about map 5 (It should be possible to cut 30 secs or so off...).

Wow, great times hi! 8) *reminds himself to never ever forget about hi participating*

That will keep Kapoios busy for a few more hours....

Quote from: Colin on November 19, 2010, 04:30:36 PM
Oh, and Wally, "5.   23 Mai 1967   14 min 437 sec   8030" don't you mean 43 seconds? ;)

Thanks ;)

Quote from: UpperKEES on November 21, 2010, 10:53:27 AM
Wow, great times hi! 8) *reminds himself to never ever forget about hi participating*

That will keep Kapoios busy for a few more hours....

Heh, I was actually planning to replay those two. I knew they both had potential for massive improvement. I meant, however, to do that a bit earlier in the week. They can still be improved significantly (especially that 5'00'', but I don't like that map), so I apologise, hi, for posting them so late. I didn't mean to snipe.

So, here are my scores. I will most likely not play the maps more. Though you never know.

Map	Date	Time	Score
1.	7 October 1968	1:16	9793
2.	5 November 1971	1:57	9685
3.	15 April 1968	5:00	9230
4.	26 June 1969	1:38	9734
5.	23 May 1967	3:52	9394
TOTAL		13:43	47836

Quote from: UpperKEES on November 21, 2010, 09:07:54 AM
Oh, I hadn't forgotten about him, but:

Quote from: ctuna on November 19, 2010, 07:21:07 PM
TOTALS                 19:42   46999

Maybe the best I can do - tried some way too many times - as usual, I'm missing some (maybe) simple concept.

Thanks for considering me, gang, but I seem to have hit a wall, of sorts. Maybe next week. Always glad to learn from my betters.

I meant to try to beat hi's scores, but I didn't have enough time today.

@ Ctuna: Maybe next time Ctuna, getting first place all the time is a bad thing,
because when you win, you don't learn as much as when you loose!  :)

@ Ctuna: Maybe next time Ctuna, getting first place all the time is a bad thing,
because when you win, you don't learn as much as when you loose!


If that's true, I must be learning loads. :)

Well, that was an exciting final day of the tournament again!

I'll update the rankings in the overview topic (http://knucklecracker.com/forums/index.php?topic=4621.0) when the final results have been posted. :)

Woohoo! I'm the winner again! Here are this week's results:


Tournament Results

Rank	Player	Total Score
1.	Kapoios	47836
2.	hi	47745
3.	Colin	47392
4.	CTUNA	46999
5.	Pezzle	46621
6.	Katra	46299
7.	mopa42	45618
8.	Izz	45521
9.	Wally	44182
10.	chretip	43746
11.	Tasonir	37578*
12.	IcEcAt	22685*

*   Did not finish all maps.

As I was the winner of last week as well, the runner up, hi, gets to choose this week's theme and maps. hi, please PM me your choice and dates or start a thread for this week.

PS.: I'll post screeshots of my solution in an hour or two as I'm a bit busy now.