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TCB 63: Longcat's shotgun

Challenge #218, Viewed 6049 Time(s)

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Name: TCB 63: Longcat's shotgun
Type: Misc
Moderator: Netherlands DarkOne

Started: April 03, 2013, 12:59 AM
Expire time: April 24, 2013, 01:30 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.

Challenge maps:
Scheme File(s): scheme TCB63

Description:
Does your worm have the perseverance to climb to infinity? Find out if you can exceed the altitude of the great Longcat on his day out paddling in the Pacific ocean!

Rules and objectives:

- Start by placing one worm on one of Longcat's feet.
- End by standing your worm on one of Longcat's ears.
- Use shotguns to build a path to the finish.
- You have 40 turns to complete this challenge.
Name: Longcat's shotgun by Bloopy
Best Record: 27 by van, _ssm_, Statik, barman, Incog
Pending times: 0
Number of members participated: 11
Number of Records: 16

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Recorded Country Player Recorded Groups Record Replay Map Points Posted Overall Points Overall Rate Info
1st Poland van RoH 27t 20 April 03, 2013, 03:10 PM 1,119 Beginner
1st Russian Federation _ssm_ che 27t 20 April 05, 2013, 08:23 AM 7,832 Elite
1st Russian Federation Statik dt sm fp 27t 20 April 08, 2013, 06:33 PM 5,908 Elite
1st Poland barman AeF rM FoS 27t 20 April 14, 2013, 06:54 PM 1,790 Competent
1st Spain Incog RS 27t 20 April 22, 2013, 04:03 PM 1,371 Novice
2nd Netherlands DarkOne WQDB TdC NfBX 28t 15 April 03, 2013, 01:31 AM 1,343 Novice
3rd Serbia Ramone b2b 28t 10 April 07, 2013, 12:55 PM 1,093 Beginner
Bulgaria Worm_gamer che dS pd 28t 0 April 22, 2013, 05:01 PM 3,906 Elite
4th Finland VoK TdC FwB 30t 5 April 06, 2013, 03:13 PM 1,068 Absolute Beginner
5th Finland Husk TdC b2b 32t 4 April 03, 2013, 07:17 PM 5,239 Elite
6th Italy Sbaffo 69 WM pd 33t 3 April 03, 2013, 10:57 AM 1,957 Veteran

Statistics of this challenge

Points Overall Points Overall Rate
Poland barman 25 1,790
Poland van 25 1,119
Russian Federation Statik 25 5,908
Spain Incog 25 1,371
Russian Federation _ssm_ 25 7,832
Netherlands DarkOne 20 1,343
Serbia Ramone 20 1,093
Bulgaria Worm_gamer 20 3,906
Finland VoK 15 1,068
Finland Husk 10 5,239
Italy Sbaffo 9 1,957
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Offline Deadcode

Re: Challenge #218, TCB 63: Longcat's shotgun
« Reply #15 on: February 24, 2017, 08:02 PM »
Back in 2008 I did a tool-assisted run of this challenge, and was disappointed to see that it only resulted in a 27 turn run, just like the top non-tool-assisted replays. At the time I thought it was impossible to do better than 27 turns.

When this challenge was hosted here on TUS and there was a 5-way tie for first place at 27 turns, that only confirmed my belief that 27 was the best possible.

I was wrong. Here it is TASed in 23 turns: 2017-02-24 19.39.24 {TA} 2017-02-24 18.27.41 [TCB Challenge 63 - 23 turns] 0xDEADC0DE.WAgame

The trick is
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to shoot from outside the cat, standing the left or right edge of its long belly. That way, the shotgun crater can be much higher, relative to the highest crater so far, than it could be when only shooting at the top edge of an existing shotgun crater from inside the cat.
« Last Edit: February 24, 2017, 08:11 PM by Deadcode »
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Offline Korydex

Re: Challenge #218, TCB 63: Longcat's shotgun
« Reply #16 on: February 25, 2017, 05:56 AM »
sweet :D
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Offline Masta

Re: Challenge #218, TCB 63: Longcat's shotgun
« Reply #17 on: September 20, 2020, 07:58 PM »
« Last Edit: September 19, 2022, 06:39 PM by Masta »
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Online XanKriegor

Re: Challenge #218, TCB 63: Longcat's shotgun
« Reply #18 on: September 21, 2020, 05:06 AM »
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