Weekly 5-Map Tournament - Extinct Languages - Closing 2012-04-30

[mopa42]

Sorry for the delay; here is this week's tournament - Extinct Languages. There are more than 7000 languages currently spoken in the world, but linguists estimate that up to 90% of them could become extinct by 2050, as native speakers die without passing on their language to their children. Many languages have become extinct in the past century, including these five (from List of languages by time of extinction).

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Map Name:	Size:	Complexity:	Extinction Year:
Aka-Bo (India)	Medium	Medium	2010
Akkala Sami (Kola Peninsula, Russia)	Small	High	2003
Wappo (California)	Large	High	1990
Yavitero (Venezuela)	Medium	High	1984
Sened (Tunisia)	Small	Medium	1968

Cutoff is midnight on Sunday, forum time.

[Katra]

   Akkala Sami (Kola Peninsula, Russia)  Small  High
 

I keep getting squashed in a vise. Overflow from the surface emitter on the right or run over by the drones escaping from the left. (1 layer decaying terrain) Usually both at once.

[Wheatmidge]

Akkala Sami (Kola Peninsula, Russia) was harder than I expected. High health drones are annoying. My advice would to be to only grab only one of the anti-creeper resource things the 20 minerals is better spent on 4 more reactors. With a maker and a single blaster you can stop the right pool from expanding. and build a bunch of shields for when the left breaks open, and 3 blasters will be able to safely stop the drones.

[deety42]

That map is killing me too.  I tried getting the emitter on the right first, and managed to kill it a couple minutes in, but then the drones emerge from underneath and take me out.  By then, drones from the left have killed off my reactors and then it's just like watching a train wreck...

[bram]

Akkala Sami (Kola Peninsula, Russia), was a hard map, but managed it with the tips from Wheatmidge. Only without the anti-creeper. Just used 2 blasters to the right with shields and 3 blasters to the left with shields, to keep it stable and suplied.

[mopa42]

That does it for this week's tournament.
Results Per Player


   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   

Rank	Name	Aka-Bo (India)	Akkala Sami (Kola Peninsula, Russia)	Wappo (California)	Yavitero (Venezuela)	Sened (Tunisia)	Total Score	Total Time
1	Kava09	12302	12674	11791	11554	12001	60322	36:58
2	zaphod	12283	12661	11777	11529	11721	59971	39:29
3	testicle	11831	12767	11702	11420	11959	59679	42:04
4	Wheatmidge	12170	12469	11379	11365	11715	59098	46:41
5	mopa42	11938	11859	11476	11351	11760	58384	52:26
6	dt42	11917	11380	11154	11163	11054	56668	65:13
7	Bram	11418	10839	10489	10685	10452	53883	92:02
8	obvious cheater	12688	12952	11892		12325	49857
9	Amram	12054	12335	11393	11275		47057
10	Katra	12049		11207	11221	11287	45764
11	UoADeadeye	11033		9958	9523	10240	40754
12	inept_celt	10723		9084	9188	9755	38750
13	ctuna			10369	10623	11411	32403

Best scores in Bold.
Scores recorded at 2012-04-30 01:05:33 forum time.

Good job Kava09! You get to pick the theme for next week.
I am certainly curious to see how everyone handled map 2. I certainly had a lot of room for improvement on that one.
Also, to the "obvious cheater" - don't bother posting scores if you are cheating, and if not, please tell us your amazing strategy to get your very quick (but not unbelievably fast) times.

[bram]

Congratulations Kava!