Shock wrote on 10/21/12 at 06:08:04:


Just a reminder that the deadline is now in 5 hours and 45 minutes, and I still need a time from Lafungo and Mr. Nosey I think. Lafungo, you can send me an e-mail if you'd like, you can find the email address on my timesheet profile. Not the MB profile.

Forgot to mention I sent you an e-mail a couple hours ago Shock.

-Christophe.

It's late so I'm not going to worry about the formatting too much...

Week 3 challenges:

Challenge 1 (to be completed by Shock, BPA, Lafungo):

It's our turn to do a Quick Run. 3 laps, items ON, coins OFF. 150cc. Whichever character suits you best. MKSC Rainbow Road. The twist: you must go backwards for 1 lap at some time or another. You could immediately go backwards in lap one or you could wait until you hit the final lap before you decide to turn around and do one lap backwards. (Reach the point where you last had zero or negligible forward momentum. If you don't clearly reach the point where you last had forward momentum, don't count it.) You are free to use any items as many times as you want, taking any shortcuts with shrooms as you want.

Submit the time difference between yourself and last place. If you finish 8th, you didn't successfully complete the challenge and cannot submit a negative score.

Challenge 2 (to be completed by Mick, flo233, Mr.Nosey):

Time trial mode with any character. Go to Lakeside Park. There is a lake behind and to the left of you at the start. You must race around the perimeter (the shallow water area) of this lake 2 times at some point in your time trial. The complete outside, shallow water portion twice. Note that of course you can do slightly more than twice if that is strategically advantageous. If you fall out of bounds or into the water for too long, basically if Lakitu grabs you, your run is disqualified.

You may use shrooms like a normal time trial. Like usual though, and same for those attempting challenges 1 and 3, no ZZMTs.

Challenge 3 (to be completed by Etch, TvK, Butterfree):

You also have a time trial with any character you please. Go to Broken Pier. The twist: this course to my knowledge has 3 "invisible" bridges. (They glow faintly and blue from time to time.) Go across each "invisible" bridge in the reverse direction. (i.e., go from the end of the bridge back to the beginning. You're basically going to be driving in loops.) To keep the challenge from being overly difficult, do not use any shrooms.

NOTE: THIS IS A DOUBLE POINTS WEEK. Even if your team is in last place, if you do well this week, you can win it all for your team if you complete a superior performance.

Last week's results and a couple video demos will be up tomorrow at some point.

Everyone have fun doing a lot of going backwards this week.

Utter wrote on 10/22/12 at 03:15:52:


No, maybe in future competitions though.



Challenge 1:

Shock: 21"40 (No video available, sorry. Set this time in the airport.)
BPA: 21"75 - 0.9839
Lafungo: 25"13 - 0.8516

Challenge 2:

Mick: 1'11"11 (Video)
flo233: 1'16"76 - 0.9264
Mr.Nosey: 1'18"38 - 0.9072

Challenge 3:
Etch: 18"18 (He says it's recorded, didn't send me a video though.)
TvK: 13"11 -0.7500 (Actual score around 0.72)
Butterfree: 12.58 -0.7500 (Actual score around 0.69)

Totals for week 2:

Team Etch-a-shock: (1.000 * 3)(1.000) = 3.0000
Team von Flow: (0.9839 + 0.9264 + 0.7500)(1.0337) = 2.7500
Team Free Noses: (0.8516 + 0.9072 + 0.7500)(1.1453) = 2.8733

Grand Totals:

Team Etch-a-shock: 6.0000
Team Free Noses: 5.8037
Team von Flow: 5.6521


Don't forget that this week is double points week! Even if your team is behind by a margin, it is possible to come back and take the whole challenge still if you perform very well and try hard!

Wait, according to that picture, Mick was along a blue path the whole way though?

Edit:

Quote:

Only BP seems to mention going backwards is forbidden.

One can easily make the argument that this is allowed on other tracks briefly to aid in lining up a shroom cut or jump.  Like others have mentioned the rules really should get an overhaul in terms of explaining what is specifically allowed or not.  Ironically, this route is useless as far as the site goes since you should be shrooming directly towards the finish line anyway.

As for my challenge, I have had quicker runs so it really depends on having slow computers.

Cheese Land
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0UB67DO9CU

flo233 wrote on 10/23/12 at 03:20:15:

^This.
I was a bit iffy with the strat at first too, I mean it is a very big strat change, but this is only the first test-run team challenge, so it's cool by me.

I don't think it would be fair to disqualify your time Mick since I didn't say anything when I saw your video - the thought that it might break site rules didn't occur to me at the time.

I think it would be fair though if I gave flo and Mr.Nosey an additional period of time to resubmit their scores on this challenge with the knowledge that your strategy is in fact allowed.

If there aren't any objections then:

flo233 and Mr.Nosey:

You have been granted an additional 24 hours from the time of this post to resubmit your challenge from last week (Sky Garden). Whether or not you take advantage of this bonus is up to you.

I think it's better if I copy my original reaction that I typed on mibbit:
<Hutch>: WHAT THE FUCK DUDE SHOCK
<Hutch>: diiiiiiiiick
<Hutch>: I didn't see his post until now
<Hutch>: I can't tt tomorrow at all
<Hutch>: I have an 8:15 lecture, then at 1:30 I travel for 3 hours to go skiing in a snowdome, and I get back past midnight
<Hutch>: how fucking shit is that.


Bad timing, but yeah I'd feel guilty too sort of editing my strat and having extra time (I just spent two hours tt'ing sg normally after getting motivated from the challenge too). Yeah there is a little controversy, but as I said, it's cool, the strat is clever and this is only a testrun so things are good as they are.

I'm cool with it, I don't mind you just leaving it as it is. If everyone else feels the same as me, then just carry on please

Do not skip portions larger than one kart's width into the deep water; in other words, keep at least a portion of a tire above shallow water at all times. You can hit the outside grass as much as you want, so long as Lakitu doesn't come and grab you for going out of bounds.

Okay, that can be the exception then... forgot about that part.