Okay, in all honesty I don't feel like waiting on Groudon to satisfy his Guitar Hero 3 urges. It's one of those things that you think'll last a day, but stretches out into a week.
Up until now, there have been 21 points available in the tournament. Submissions for extra points would trickle into me on rare occasions - usually when Rick, Spinny, and RPG got into a war for the lead. I didn't receive much from those about to be eliminated, which struck me as strange. This semi-final round should change that, as it gives you the opportunity to almost triple that 21 - there's a whopping 40 points available to every player this round.
First off, everybody will have the exact same challenge assigned to him, but there will still be more than one challenge provided, and there will be no time limits. As before, the final round will commence after each player submits for that assigned challenge. The other challenges, however, will be worth a whopping five points each. Therefore, if you don't go out of your way to do extra challenges, you'll fall far enough behind that your odds of winning with the final are slim.
The theme for this round's unassigned challenges is... well, I don't really have a catchy name for it. Basically, as most of you know, the ROM I sent for the Round 2 tiebreaker was from a four-person project I was once part of, but was evicted from (and after this, another member voluntarily left). The remaining pair recently released what they have now. I set up the ROM I sent for this tourney, so it'll be the basis for most of these, but I modified one challenge from its original plan to accommodate the new release. The unassigned challenges are:
- In the old ROM, in Lush Lagoon 1 after pressing B at the title screen, collect 30000 points within a minute game time. End-of-act bonuses count.
- In the old ROM, in Lush Lagoon 3 after pressing B at the title screen, become invincible within 15 seconds. Do not become vulnerable again until destroying (delivering eight hits to) the boss.
- In the old ROM, in Marble 1 after pressing B at the title screen, finish the act having collected 275 non-regenerating rings. (I will watch the runs carefully for rings collected twice, and subtract them from the total).
- In the
new ROM, clear Angel Lake 1-3 in 4:00 game time.
For your assigned challenge, which is worth up to TWENTY POINTS, consort with the following in chat to get the details. Each person reflects who you screwed over the most.
- Spinny should check with genus.
- Rick should check with JB.
- RPG should check with Sondow, who is subbing for PPA due to his leaving the Internet except to post doodles. I know RPG never played PPA... things just didn't pair up very smoothly. :P
- The winner of the Achlys / Groudon tiebreaker obviously screws over the loser, so I'll give the details to the loser when that tiebreaker ends. You can do the other challenges in the meantime.
