Weekly history tournament - Really tall buildings - closing Oct. 31

[UpperKEES]

This weeks theme has been selected by Siccles:

Really tall buildings

The maps to be played before Sunday October 31 at midnight (forum time) are:

Map	Completion Date	Name	Height	Floors	Country
1.	January 4, 2010	Burj Khalifa	828 m / 2,717 ft	162	United Arab Emirates
2.	December 31, 2004	Taipei	508 m / 1,667 ft	101	Taiwan
3.	August 28, 2008	Shanghai World Financial Center	492 m / 1,614 ft	101	China
4.	August 31, 1999	Petronas Twin Towers	452 m / 1,483 ft	88	Malaysia
5.	May 3, 1973	Willis Tower	442 m / 1,451 ft	108	USA

Note: it isn't really a top 5, because some buildings had to be cut out due to not finding out the exact completion dates / not being officially completed.

The winner (best total score) gets to pick next weeks theme. If we have the same winner as last week, the runner up (#2) will pick the theme. See here for the rules and an overview of themes.

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

Good luck and enjoy! :)

[Katra]

Okay; Tasonir gets this week's 'Speedy Gonzalez' award for first to complete all maps.  ;D

My scores so far

Jan   4 2010    8930    7:11
Dec 31 2004    9703    1:50
Aug 28 2008    8964    6:56
Aug 31 1999    9230    5:00
May  3 1973    9774    1:23

total score    46601

[UpperKEES]

My results:

Map	Date	Score	Time
1.	January 4, 2010	8856	7:45
2.	December 31, 2004	9732	1:39
3.	August 28, 2008	9188	5:18
4.	August 31, 1999	9401	3:49
5.	May 3, 1973	9793	1:16
	Totals:	46970	19:47

I won't have much more time this week, but hopefully I'll find a moment to improve my unsatisfying score for map 1.

[RandyTravis]

Wow... I can't even get the fools mate down to a reasonable time. This might be because I am spending sleep time playing creeperworld...

[UpperKEES]

Heheh! I know how it feels.... with lack of sleep my gameplay doesn't become better either....

[ctuna]

Map   Completion Date              Time   Score
1.   January 4, 2010                8:40   8737
2.   December 31, 2004           1:45   9716
3.   August 28, 2008               7:22   8906
4.   August 31, 1999               4:39   9280
5.   May 3, 1973                     1:22   9777
   TOTALS                           23:44  46416

Might be time for some tweaks.

[RichieRich]

My results:
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Map	Date	Score	Time
1.	January 4, 2010	8426	11:12
2.	December 31, 2004	9711	1:47
3.	August 28, 2008	8653	9:20
4.	August 31, 1999	9197	5:14
5.	May 3, 1973	9779	1:21
	Totals:	45766	28:54

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Not great times but after missing a few weeks wanted to post up something...

[Colin]

My scores:

Jan   4 2010    8271    13:01
Dec 31 2004    9564    2:44
Aug 28 2008    8819    8:02
Aug 31 1999    9056    6:15
May  3 1973    9700    1:51

Totals, SCORE:45410 31:53


Well I did pretty good on all of them except Jan 4th.... I might come back to that one later  ::)

[hi]

hi

Jan   4  2010    9362    4:05
Dec 31  2004    9729    1:40
Aug 28  2008    9382    3:57
Aug 31  1999    9559    2:46
May  3  1973    9782    1:20

Totals, SCORE:47814    13:48

The score on map 3 can still be improved a lot I think.

hi

[UpperKEES]

I decided to give it another shot after a couple of hints for map 3 by hi and I got pretty lucky in the last hour of the tournament:

Map	Date	Score	Time
1.	January 4, 2010	9372	4:01
2.	December 31, 2004	9732	1:39
3.	August 28, 2008	9389	3:54
4.	August 31, 1999	9538	2:54
5.	May 3, 1973	9793	1:16
	Totals:	47824	13:44

I'm sure I couldn't have made it without hi's tips for map 3, so I'll pick his theme for next week, which I will post after calculating all tournament results.

[Tasonir]

Okay; Tasonir gets this week's 'Speedy Gonzalez' award for first to complete all maps.  ;D

Rawr ;)  I didn't post a summation because I thought I'd take the time to actually refine my times, but then I never got around to it, so some of my times are really really high :)

15:36
02:05
12:22
06:31
04:56

total: 41:30

[Tasonir]

I decided to give it another shot after a couple of hints for map 3 by hi and I got pretty lucky in the last hour of the tournament:

I'm sure I couldn't have made it without hi's tips for map 3, so I'll pick his theme for next week, which I will post after calculating all tournament results.

Care to link/paste them here?  I don't see a thread about it, I'm curious how you could beat it in literally 25% of the time I took

[UpperKEES]

Care to link/paste them here?  I don't see a thread about it, I'm curious how you could beat it in literally 25% of the time I took

Sure. It's kind of tradition that the winner posts his/her solutions (see previous tournaments), so I'll do that after I've set up next weeks tournament.

[UpperKEES]

Tournament Results

Rank	Player	Total Score
1.	UpperKEES	47824
2.	hi	47814
3.	Katra	46601
4.	ctuna	46416
5.	mopa42	46174
6.	Richie Rich	45766
7.	Colin	45401
8.	Izz	45255
9.	RandyTravis	44442
10.	Tasonir	44151
11.	L'ythelle	44111
12.	chretip	43861
13.	Siccles	38264*
14.	Pezzle	35133*
15.	Echo51	17019*
16.	Speedwell1	08281*

* Did not finish all maps.


Next weeks theme will be: Einstein's Miracle Year (1905).

[UpperKEES]

Care to link/paste them here?  I don't see a thread about it, I'm curious how you could beat it in literally 25% of the time I took

Sure. It's kind of tradition that the winner posts his/her solutions (see previous tournaments), so I'll do that after I've set up next weeks tournament.

So here they are. Please feel free to post your own solutions as well or ask questions about mine.

January 4, 2010


December 31, 2004


August 28, 2008 (This is actually hi's solution; I was just able to shave a few seconds off.)


August 31, 1999


May 3, 1973