Weekly 5-Map Tournament - Fun with names - closing 9 Dec 2012

[Helper]

SmileyCoder is stacked up at work and asked me to pinch-hit for this weeks game.

I grabbed some player names from last week's results (copy/paste from mopa42's scoring program) and liked the results.
The numbers appended to the names must be something to do with the way he imports the data from the site - but made for some really fun looking games.

Enjoy!


Fun with names:



   
   
   
   
   
   

Map Name:	Size:	Complexity:
ea34011229312293	Small	Low
florrat1232812328	Medium	Low
Wheatmidge111271221023337	Medium	Medium
ctuna11807116632347	Medium	High
Shawn95368182105693	Large	Medium

A few useful links:
All Tournaments
Code Map Scoreboard
Tournament Score Tool

[SmileyCoder]

Thanks for the help Helper. :)

I hope I get time to play some of the maps later this week.

[florrat]

Whoo!! Featured in a code map tournament. Too bad I'm on low complexity XD

[ctuna]

Wow! Like florrat, I'm honored to be featured - but why did mine have to have fields? I hate fields!

[Helper]

but why did mine have to have fields? I hate fields!

Ack!
A pure mistake on my part. In too much of a hurry.
I detest Fields, Phantoms, and Experimentals - but was going for some fun gravity and build directions.

Will play yours next and see how bad those <blanking> Fields are.

[Helper]

Yikes! Looks as though I should have trimmed some numbers off the game name (not to be confused with the Name Game). This chart is just a little wide.

Welcome to "Gu250" - I haven't noticed the name before. Have some fun here.

I will keep updating this post as the week goes on to keep the thread clear of clutter.

@ctuna - the Fields aren't all that bad in your namesake game. I way over-built before starting my attacks and fully expect a sub-10 minute score from the better players.
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Results Per Player


   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   

Rank	Name	ea34011229312293	florrat1232812328	Wheatmidge111271221023337	ctuna11807116632347	Shawn95368182105693	Total Score	Total Time
1	Helper	12570	12732	12786	10557	11871	60516	36:14
2	inept_celt	12148	12173	11874		10184	46379
3	Gu250	11939	12087	12126	9950		46102
4	dt42	12301	12247	12770			37318
5	Ronini	12225	12215				24440
6	ctuna	11224	12519				23743
7	rob3k	12376					12376
8	Shawn					10766	10766

Scores recorded at 2012-12-04 09:25:52 forum time.

[Helper]

Results table updated.

8 Players, 22 Scores.
Good activity going on.

So far, the 'Shawn' game is my favorite.

[gu250]

Hi I'm starting to play now, and still do not have much experience, but come on.
Thank you and good luck!

[rob3k]

Tempted to work through all 5 before others have a chance to get to them or refine their scores so I can briefly see myself in the top 3.  ;D

[Helper]

This post is for 'rob3k' - Congratulations on your second place standing!
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Results Per Player


   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   

Rank	Name	ea34011229312293	florrat1232812328	Wheatmidge111271221023337	ctuna11807116632347	Shawn95368182105693	Total Score	Total Time
1	Helper	12570	12732	12786	10557	11871	60516	36:14
2	rob3k	12376	12546	12575	10065	11402	58964	49:12
3	Shawn	12168	12028	12155	9433	10766	56550	69:55
4	inept_celt	12214	12251	11918	8817	10547	55747	82:15
5	Gu250	11939	12087	12126	9950		46102
6	dt42	12301	12247	12770			37318
7	Ronini	12225	12215	12280			36720
8	ctuna	11224	12519				23743
9	ea3401	12593					12593
10	TheSmileyCoder				11207		11207

Scores recorded at 2012-12-04 16:28:53 forum time.

[Helper]

Hi I'm starting to play now, and still do not have much experience, but come on.
Thank you and good luck!

Keep in mind that we have a whole range of players here - from very strong to very new.
If you need some help/a hint, just ask. One of us will be glad to help.

[rob3k]

This post is for 'rob3k' - Congratulations on your second place standing!

Excellent!

[SmileyCoder]

/Whopped you all on the 4th map. Tried the first one a few times, and my best score is still 13 seconds from yours. Grrr!

[Helper]

...and my best score is still 13 seconds from yours. Grrr!

Thanks for making my day.
*SmilingHelper*

Strangely, that was the first game I played this week and just ran through it to post a score - any score. No clue what I did to get it.

[asmussen]

Hi I'm starting to play now, and still do not have much experience, but come on.
Thank you and good luck!

Keep in mind that we have a whole range of players here - from very strong to very new.
If you need some help/a hint, just ask. One of us will be glad to help.

Speaking of being new, I just started playing CW recently, and I was wondering if anybody had any tips to share on how to gracefully deal with situations where you have to deal with a very large amount of creeper overrunning the places where you could possibly place a nullifier. The kinds of situations I'm referring to are the almost 50M strength emitter that was in the Smarties map from the last tournament, and the emitter in the middle of the creeper field in the ctuna map from this week's tournament. With the 50M emitter, it was difficult to bring enough firepower to bear to keep the emitter pulses from destroying my nullifier, and with the creeper field, it's not so much about the strength of the creeper, but that the field keeps sweeping around whatever creeper is in the neighborhood too often to easily get a nullifier built, or even shields up to protect the nullifier. In both cases, I managed to eventually power through using brute force, but I'm sure that there must be some more elegant techniques.

Shawn Asmussen