Weekly 5-Map Tournament - Coming Attractions - closing 18 Nov 2012

[Helper]

Wow! Talk about a "Doh!" moment.
It took me exactly 5 seconds to see my major mistake for the whole game.

Very nicely done.

[SmileyCoder]

Just out of curiosity, what was it?

[Helper]

I was going for the white gem first, which takes a lot of extra seconds.
If I can get caught up on all the maps in the 'submitted' queue, I'll take another run at this one.

[SmileyCoder]

Did the Invaders map once more, to see if I could better my score, which I did manage, but must say, I am much impressed by the score by ea3401, its still 35 seconds faster then me. Must be some fancy mirror moving. I would like to see it demonstrated :)

[Helper]

 :-[
I managed to beat ctuna's time on Big Bertha...then realized that I'd forgotten an Ore remnant.

I need to go chop some firewood...or something.

[ea3401]

I can't make videos, but maybe this picture shows my "fancy mirror moving".  :)

[SmileyCoder]

Thanks for the scrennie. Better placement of Dark beam, and good idea moving in the LS. Should have though of that. Thanks

[rob3k]

Thanks for the video! Helped me get a little further, but I don't think I'll get a victory on this one in time. Realized from the video that I wasn't arming the dark beam my first several attempts. Duh.

[SmileyCoder]

To put it short, the objectives are to grab gems ASAP, and build reactors as fast as you can without starving for energy. Don't dig when you don't need to, don't make beacons unless required. Make every bit of energy count, for the first minute or 2. I would say that 80% of what determines how fast you complete a map is based on the first minute.

[Helper]

Final results below...another SmileyCoder kind of week - well done!
Special recognition to the new (and some not so new) faces that showed up this week.
These tournaments are always a case of 'the more, the merrier'.

Smiley - you're on for the next one.

Results Per Player


   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   

Rank	Name	The Island of Dr. Wall 11/11	NACDAR 11/3	Space Invaders 10/28	Digitalis 10/21	Big Bertha 10/14	Total Score	Total Time
1	TheSmileyCoder	12249	13002	11693	12261	12718	61923	22:31
2	mopa42	12103	12988	11432	12235	12695	61453	25:48
3	Helper	12087	13009	11253	11990	12717	61056	28:47
4	ctuna	12079	12821	11303	11861	12741	60805	30:33
5	dt42	12043	12700	10947	11876	12491	60057	35:22
6	UoADeadeye	10972	11909	8230	11177	11779	54067	93:01
7	inept_celt	11373	12006		10811	11972	46162
8	rob3k	10400	11893		10412	11972	44677
9	Martin	11972				12486	24458
10	ea3401			11780			11780
11	Wheatmidge			11554			11554

Best scores in Bold Blue.
Scores recorded at 2012-11-19 05:29:13 forum time.

[Helper]

For those who don't have the 'Notification' turned on, Smiley Coder has started this week's game over here:
http://knucklecracker.com/forums/index.php?topic=12005.new#new

Jump on in and join the fun.