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TCB52: The potholer

Challenge #199, Viewed 5142 Time(s)

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Name: TCB52: The potholer
Type: TTRR
Moderator: Netherlands DarkOne

Started: February 13, 2013, 12:13 AM
Expire time: March 18, 2013, 12:30 AM

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You can still submit your time. But you won't recieve the 4 points as it is not the current challenge anymore.

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Scheme File(s): scheme TCB52

Description:
What happens if you buy second hand ropes at the jumble sale? Exactly, the release mechanism gets stuck all the damn time. And that sure can shape up as a disadvantage when you're trying to crawl through a convoluted grotto system!

Rules and objectives:

- Start by placing one worm anywhere vertically above the "Start" sign.
- End by drowning the worm to the right of the "Finish" sign.
- You may use only one rope per turn. After you use it, skip go or deliberately lose your turn by hitting the ceiling, etc.
- I will count your final time as followed: total turn time + 5 seconds for every turn you used.
- You may not use a shortcut by going over the map.
Name: CurvyBoomRace by Wyvern
Best Record: 404.42 by barman
Pending times: 0
Number of members participated: 8
Number of Records: 16

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Downloaded 463 time(s)
Recorded Country Player Recorded Groups Record Replay Map Points Posted Overall Points Overall Rate Info
1st Poland barman Q WAR FoS 404.42s 20 February 16, 2013, 12:20 PM 1,790 Competent
2nd Canada Drumstick iC 496.62s 15 March 15, 2013, 11:44 AM 1,298 Rookie
3rd Netherlands DarkOne TdC WQDB NfBX 524.96s 10 February 13, 2013, 02:28 AM 1,343 Novice
4th Russian Federation _ssm_ iNf 541.14s 5 February 15, 2013, 07:03 AM 7,600 Elite
5th Finland Husk TdC b2b ea 552.78s 4 February 15, 2013, 05:19 PM 5,159 Elite
6th Poland lacoste RoH b2b REM 568.08s 3 February 13, 2013, 02:49 PM 1,087 Beginner
7th Hungary Balee UT WAR 586.72s 2 February 21, 2013, 02:25 AM 1,058 Absolute Beginner
8th United States Deadcode 608.42s 1 March 17, 2013, 09:41 PM 1,234 Rookie

Statistics of this challenge

Points Overall Points Overall Rate
Poland barman 25 1,790
Canada Drumstick 20 1,298
Netherlands DarkOne 15 1,343
Russian Federation _ssm_ 10 7,600
Finland Husk 9 5,159
Poland lacoste 8 1,087
Hungary Balee 7 1,058
United States Deadcode 6 1,234

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Challenge #199, TCB52: The potholer
« on: February 13, 2013, 11:28 AM »
Zzzz dunno if the scheme file is original, but its damn frustrating. Isnt it better to have unlimited turn time/rope count and give big penalty for using a rope? Skip every 2 attaches blows. On the other hand it might be frustrating to count all these attaches xd
« Last Edit: February 13, 2013, 11:32 AM by lacoste »
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Re: Challenge #199, TCB52: The potholer
« Reply #1 on: February 13, 2013, 11:47 AM »
On the other hand it might be frustrating to count all these attaches xd

ae I dun think we need to count the attaches...

edit: just count ur turntime + 5 sec for every turn used

Re: Challenge #199, TCB52: The potholer
« Reply #2 on: February 13, 2013, 01:01 PM »
Zzzz dunno if the scheme file is original, but its damn frustrating. Isnt it better to have unlimited turn time/rope count and give big penalty for using a rope? Skip every 2 attaches blows. On the other hand it might be frustrating to count all these attaches xd

What would be the point of calling it a challenge then? The trick to save time is to find ways to end your turn quickly and by the look of barman's time, I'd say he's quite good at that :)
This challenge tests your ability to manouver your rope with extends, flagpoling and flings through narrow spaces.

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Re: Challenge #199, TCB52: The potholer
« Reply #3 on: February 18, 2013, 03:39 AM »
Damn, that's a sweet run.

Re: Challenge #199, TCB52: The potholer
« Reply #4 on: February 24, 2013, 10:06 AM »
I'm away for a couple of days, but I'll check all replays once I get back :)

Offline Drumstick

Re: Challenge #199, TCB52: The potholer
« Reply #5 on: March 15, 2013, 10:48 AM »
It just occured to me ^^

if you right click on the replay and export the log, the total turn time is there for you, at the end of the log. All you need to do, for this challenge, is count the number of turns, multiply it by 5, and add this to the total turn time ;)

Re: Challenge #199, TCB52: The potholer
« Reply #6 on: March 15, 2013, 08:57 PM »
Indeed :)
Unfortunately, windows 8 has stolen my ability to export logs :( (or do any of the other right click options)

Offline Husk

Re: Challenge #199, TCB52: The potholer
« Reply #7 on: March 15, 2013, 09:21 PM »
Indeed :)
Unfortunately, windows 8 has stolen my ability to export logs :( (or do any of the other right click options)

I had that with windows 7... I have no experience of windows 8. do u think the same solution that worked for win7 would work for win8?


Offline Husk

Re: Challenge #199, TCB52: The potholer
« Reply #9 on: March 16, 2013, 06:07 PM »
it had something to do with choosing the default program for replay files

Offline Deadcode

Re: Challenge #199, TCB52: The potholer - TA replay
« Reply #10 on: March 17, 2013, 03:29 AM »
Here is my 180.70 second tool-assisted run of this challenge, done in 18 turns.
2013-03-13 05.48.39 {TA} 2013-03-12 02.42.59 [TCB Challenge 52 - 180.70 sec] 0xDEADC0DE.WAgame
There are some annotations in this replay, at the beginning (basically a copy of the following paragraph) and during one of the turns.

This run is the culmination of 28 hours of work across 5 days, with 6570 total rerecords (backtracks to an earlier point in the replay). Two of these backtracks were to the very beginning of a finished run, resulting in 3 complete runs that started from scratch (or nearly so - the second fresh run kept the first 3 seconds of the first run). The 180.70 second run took 2514 rerecords in 11.2 hours to do from scratch (the last three turns, the product of 399 of these rerecords in 1.7 hours, were copied from the end of the 186.06 second run).

Here is the complete archive of all of my TA runs of this challenge, the first of which was 221.94 seconds (in 21 turns) and took 1003 rerecords and 4.4 hours to do.
TCB Challenge 52 - The potholer - TA runs by Deadcode, 2013-03-07 to 2013-03-13.7z
« Last Edit: March 17, 2013, 04:22 AM by Deadcode »

Offline franz

Re: Challenge #199, TCB52: The potholer
« Reply #11 on: March 17, 2013, 05:07 AM »
damn Deadcode, sick work

Re: Challenge #199, TCB52: The potholer
« Reply #12 on: March 17, 2013, 07:55 AM »
it actually doesn't look like a TA run, more like the weird Peja's roping xD

awesome :D


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Re: Challenge #199, TCB52: The potholer
« Reply #13 on: March 17, 2013, 10:31 AM »
You didn't touch the finish, doesn't count! :P

Re: Challenge #199, TCB52: The potholer
« Reply #14 on: March 17, 2013, 12:03 PM »
RoH seems to have trouble reading challenge descriptions :P