And here's the moment you've all been waiting for...
Over the past seven weeks, I have challenged you to do things you never believed possible, and you have invented new and crafty ways of meeting my objectives. But in the end, there can only be two winners... (one for each league >_>)
And a SURPRISE LATE SUBMISSION TURNS THE TABLES YET AGAIN...
Round 9
Challenge 21
League 1: No submissions
League 2: SBW (20:11) def MK (no submission)
Points: RPG 0, Aitamen 0, SBW 12, MK 0
Challenge 22
League 1: yoshifan (15:02) def Nelspike (no submission)
League 2: Judgement (22:56) def digitrev (no submission)
Points: yoshifan 8, Nelspike 0, Judgement 10, digitrev 0
Challenge 23
League 1: eredani (15:47) def SJ (17:58)
League 2: No submissions
Points: eredani 8, SJ 3, Achlys 0, MaxFirestorm 0
Challenge 24
League 1: Quartz (17:04) def SkyL (18:25)
League 2: No submissions
Points: Quartz 8, SkyL 3, Strong Bad 0, genus 0
Round 10
League One:
Aitamen - no submission
Nelspike - no submission
RPG - no submission
SkyL - DQ
eredani - no completion
SJ - 326920
Quartz - 388650
yoshifan - 508880
Points: yoshifan 10 (+1), Quartz 7, SJ 5
League Two
Strong Bad - no submission
MaxFirestorm - no submission
genus - no submission
digitrev - no submission
MK - no submission
Judgement - no completion
SBW - 167020
Achlys - 213960
Points: Achlys 10, SBW 7
Bonus Challenge
Achlys - 1:59
SJ - 1:58
Quartz - 1:48
yoshifan - 1:28
eredani - 1:28
yoshifan and eredani will each receive the five points!
And now, the fruits of your seven weeks' labour will be sown... The Final Table is as follows:
League One
Player | W | L | FFA1 | FFA2 | FFA3 | Bonus | Total
yoshifan%| 7 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 11 | 7 | 82
Quartz | 6 | 1 | 3 | 10 | 7 | 13 | 81
eredani% | 5 | 2 | 10 | 6 | 0 | 17 | 73
SJ | 3 | 4 | 7 | 7 | 5 | 16 | 59
SkyL | 2 | 5 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 16 | 36
RPG | 1 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 22
Aitamen | 1 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 9
Nelspike | 0 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2
League Two
Player | W | L | FFA1 | FFA2 | FFA3 | Bonus | Total
SBW | 5 | 2 | 11 | 5 | 7 | 29 | 92
Achlys | 5 | 2 | 0 | 10 | 10 | 17 | 77
Judgment | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 63
Max | 4 | 3 | 7 | 8 | 0 | 2 | 49
MK | 1 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12
genus | 0 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 8
SB | 0 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4
digitrev | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4
% - indicates five points for winning the Bonus Challenge
Congratulations to the winners! Prizes will be forthcoming shortly.
Let me just say that I've had a fantastic time running this tournament. It's always fun to see the skills of the best players on show, and once again all my expectations have been surpassed. Except one... the amount of submissions I'd get every week. I think it started with 13 in the first round, and slowly thinned its way down to the last round turnout of merely 7. Players seemed to be less likely to complete challenges when it became apparent they couldn't win (RPG I'm looking at you >_>) so we need to think of some way to make sure that doesn't happen.
I don't think the League Two additional points experiment worked too well either, particularly with Aitamen and Nelspike being no-shows pretty much all tournament. I think it will work if we can consistently get eight League One players every week, but see the previous paragraph for the problems we face there.
And on that note, an interesting idea was presented to me by... I think yoshifan in the last week. He said that the existing TSC players should be in League One, and any new recruits gained by the tournament scheme should go to League Two. That was certainly the original idea I had in mind, and it ended up being that SBW, Achlys and Judgement were far too good for the rest of the competition - not really an ideal scenario.
One last announcement. I know I said I enjoyed running the tournament but I think I might enjoy competing in one even more. As such, I am stepping down from the role of tournament co-ordinator, and am leaving the position open to all takers. Any new tournament won't be held until March at the very earliest (and probably not until June), so we'll have plenty of time to sort that out.
Congratulations to all the competitors (especially the ones that stuck it out until the end), and hopefully you'll come back and do it all again!
~mike89