An astonishing final fight between Ian &Phil !!!

Snoopy · Post by **Snoopy** » Fri Mar 31, 2000 12:30 pm

I just wanted to say how exciting and fascinating the end of the t3 was. The fight for first place between Ian and Phil was worthy of a movie of Hitchcock. I want to congratulate Phil for his short but great victory. I guess those last hours must have been hard for him, because the number of good scores he uploaded at the last moment certainly mean that he spent most of his time struggling and fighting with his keyboard. This victory, made of courage and abnegation reminds me the greatest matches of Jimmy Connors, who used to never give up, even in the toughest moments. I also congratulate Ian, who fought greatly till the last moment, but unfortunately for him, the french warrior was finaly the best !


Snoopy

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Ben Jos Walbeehm · Post by **Ben Jos Walbeehm** » Fri Mar 31, 2000 12:30 pm

Well, assuming that none of the current scores will be disqualified,
T3 actually ended in a tie. According to the rules of the tournament,
all scores of people who did not play all 10 games will be deleted.
The unofficial results are:

247 scores processed on 10 games. 
34 players. 
21 qualified players. 
210 total maximum number of points per player. 

am br ga gh la ma ni tr xe ya 
1. Ian Sutton 4 2 2 2 3 4 4 2 3 4 ( 30) 190
(90.48%) 
1. Phil Lamat 3 3 3 5 2 2 3 4 2 3 ( 30) 190
(90.48%) 
3. Ben Jos Walbeehm 5 6 5 1 7 3 2 6 1 1 ( 37) 183
(87.14%) 
4. Tommi Tiihonen 12 4 1 10 8 1 12 1 6 10 ( 65) 155
(73.81%) 
5. boxster 10 7 8 9 10 8 11 5 4 2 ( 74) 146
(69.52%) 
5. BBH 6 8 6 4 13 7 5 9 5 11 ( 74) 146
(69.52%) 
7. Lord AxE 11 12 4 6 5 10 13 3 7 6 ( 77) 143
(68.10%) 
8. Blost 9 11 9 3 14 9 1 10 8 9 ( 83) 137
(65.24%) 
9. Sandman 7 9 12 11 6 11 10 7 9 5 ( 87) 133
(63.33%) 
10. Cicca 2 1 16 15 11 12 7 8 11 7 ( 90) 130
(61.90%) 
10. IUR Dhurin 1 10 18 8 4 6 9 11 15 8 ( 90) 130
(61.90%) 
12. Lagavulin 16 13 7 13 1 15 15 15 13 16 (124) 96
(45.71%) 
13. Donut 8 5 11 20 9 13 16 17 17 14 (130) 90
(42.86%) 
14. Game Guru 14 18 15 7 18 5 17 12 12 19 (137) 83
(39.52%) 
15. Barry Rodewald 15 19 13 12 17 19 6 14 10 15 (140) 80
(38.10%) 
16. Snoopy 17 15 10 14 15 17 8 16 18 18 (148) 72
(34.29%) 
17. gameboy9 19 17 20 18 19 14 14 13 16 13 (163) 57
(27.14%) 
18. Olivier Millardet 13 16 14 17 16 16 21 19 20 12 (164) 56
(26.67%) 
19. Julie 18 20 17 16 12 18 18 20 14 17 (170) 50
(23.81%) 
20. QueenMary 20 14 21 19 20 21 19 18 19 21 (192) 28
(13.33%) 
21. Jump_etr 21 21 19 21 -- 20 20 -- 21 20 (207) 13 (
6.19%) 

Cheers,
Ben Jos.

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walbeehm@walbeehm.com

Ben Jos Walbeehm · Post by **Ben Jos Walbeehm** » Fri Mar 31, 2000 12:30 pm

Hmm... that doesn't look too great in HTML... let's try that again:


<pre>
247 scores processed on 10 games.
34 players.
21 qualified players.
210 total maximum number of points per player.



am br ga gh la ma ni tr xe ya
1. Ian Sutton 4 2 2 2 3 4 4 2 3 4 ( 30) 190
(90.48%)
1. Phil Lamat 3 3 3 5 2 2 3 4 2 3 ( 30) 190
(90.48%)
3. Ben Jos Walbeehm 5 6 5 1 7 3 2 6 1 1 ( 37) 183
(87.14%)
4. Tommi Tiihonen 12 4 1 10 8 1 12 1 6 10 ( 65) 155
(73.81%)
5. boxster 10 7 8 9 10 8 11 5 4 2 ( 74) 146
(69.52%)
5. BBH 6 8 6 4 13 7 5 9 5 11 ( 74) 146
(69.52%)
7. Lord AxE 11 12 4 6 5 10 13 3 7 6 ( 77) 143
(68.10%)
8. Blost 9 11 9 3 14 9 1 10 8 9 ( 83) 137
(65.24%)
9. Sandman 7 9 12 11 6 11 10 7 9 5 ( 87) 133
(63.33%)
10. Cicca 2 1 16 15 11 12 7 8 11 7 ( 90) 130
(61.90%)
10. IUR Dhurin 1 10 18 8 4 6 9 11 15 8 ( 90) 130
(61.90%)
12. Lagavulin 16 13 7 13 1 15 15 15 13 16 (124) 96
(45.71%)
13. Donut 8 5 11 20 9 13 16 17 17 14 (130) 90
(42.86%)
14. Game Guru 14 18 15 7 18 5 17 12 12 19 (137) 83
(39.52%)
15. Barry Rodewald 15 19 13 12 17 19 6 14 10 15 (140) 80
(38.10%)
16. Snoopy 17 15 10 14 15 17 8 16 18 18 (148) 72
(34.29%)
17. gameboy9 19 17 20 18 19 14 14 13 16 13 (163) 57
(27.14%)
18. Olivier Millardet 13 16 14 17 16 16 21 19 20 12 (164) 56
(26.67%)
19. Julie 18 20 17 16 12 18 18 20 14 17 (170) 50
(23.81%)
20. QueenMary 20 14 21 19 20 21 19 18 19 21 (192) 28
(13.33%)
21. Jump_etr 21 21 19 21 -- 20 20 -- 21 20 (207) 13 (
6.19%)
</pre>



Cheers,
Ben Jos.

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walbeehm@walbeehm.com

phil · Post by **phil** » Fri Mar 31, 2000 12:30 pm

Thank you for all your compliments Snoopy : Jimbo was my favourite
tennis player !



This t3 should be tie (and probably will be ... I don't know exactly
if the actual leaderboard for t3 is giving the real ranking)



You're right on one point : I spent more than 14 hours playing the
last day and I'm completely exhausted ( marble is terrible for the
nerves)



I was probably the most regular but not the most impressive :
congrats to Tommi for tron , marble (even if it was hard to fight
trackball with my poor keyboard) and his recent score on gaunt2 (still
waiting impatiently your 500000, Tommi) and the unavoidable Ben Jos
who finished ghouls and smashed me on yard and xenophobe ; and of
course Ian who brought me to think that t3 was lost for me 5 days ago



This tournament was fun !
Now I gonna sleep (3:00 in the morning in France) , I need a lot of
rest ....

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plamat@club-internet.fr

Ian Sutton · Post by **Ian Sutton** » Sat Apr 01, 2000 12:30 pm

Well, whoever won it, it was a fun tourney. Hehe, I thought you might
try and make a comeback Phil so I played a little Ninja Kid on the
last day. Guess I should have played a bit more. I must admit after I
uploaded my Burnin Rubber score I thought I had it. So big
congratulations to you.



Thanks to everyone else who competed and of course the admins of MARP
for putting it all together.

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suttoni@hotmail.com

lagavulin · Post by **lagavulin** » Sat Apr 01, 2000 12:30 pm

Congratulations for the 2 great players who fight for the first place.
Great tournament !



Just for information, here are the two rankings for the 20 players who
qualify, playing all the 10 games.
First one is the "official" one, second one is based on percentage
scoring.
( I'm not particularly for this system, that's just by curiosity )



1 phil 181 1 sutton 665,2
2 sutton 180 2 bjw 658,1
3 bjw 173 3 phil 629,1
4 tiihonen 145 4 tiihonen 557,7
5 boxster 136 5 blost 441,1
5 bbh 136 6 bbh 416,7
7 lord axe 133 7 boxster 396,2
8 blost 127 8 cicca 386,4
9 sandman 123 9 lord axe 339,5
10 cicca 120 10 sandman 335
10 iur 120 11 iur 329,2
12 lagavulin 85 12 donut 247,4
13 donut 80 13 lagavulin 244,8
14 guru 73 14 guru 180,5
15 rodewald 70 15 rodewald 162,1
16 snoopy 62 16 snoopy 148,2
17 gameboy 48 17 millardet 141,5
18 millardet 47 18 julie 122,8
19 julie 40 19 gameboy 113
20 queen mary 21 20 queen mary 62,4



Oh... Just another remark : France is the winner by nation... Look at
that :
1st, 5th, 12th, 16th, 18th, 19th, and 20th !!!



Lagavulin.

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darre@club-internet.fr

Cicca · Post by **Cicca** » Mon Apr 03, 2000 12:30 pm

Well.....T3 is over....


Not a great performance from me (I was used to be 4th...

), but
we've seen a great competition : though battle for the lead, great
scores, no bitching, very promising "newbies" ....



Congrats to everybody, and expecially to Phil, after what happened in
T2, he demonstrated to be a great player !!!



Cicca

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phil · Post by **phil** » Mon Apr 03, 2000 12:30 pm

I had to return you the compliment , Cicca , because I spent the last
3 hours before 23:59 GMT trying to pass your 223000 on amidaru to get
another precious point but without any success . And Italy went on
making me suffer on saturday afternoon with rugby where Italy made a
great match against France in the 6 nations tournament ...

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plamat@club-internet.fr

Ben Jos Walbeehm · Post by **Ben Jos Walbeehm** » Mon Apr 03, 2000 12:30 pm

Congratulations to Phil. You were really dedicated this tournament
and seem to have used more or less the same tactics as I did in T2.
You must have played an awful lot and studied every game very
carefully and it showed in the results.



Congratulations next to Ian. You more or less used the same tactics
as I during this tournament: You submitted to games one by one and
the times in between were long. Really early on, I already saw you
because your average was usually a tad higher than mine, but since
you always seemed to have one less game played than I, you were still
behind me until you submitted your 10th game.



As for me, I did a lot better than I had expected, even more so
because I suffered BBH's "disease" about one week before the end of
the tournament: Burnout.

I had planned to put in a long day the
final day of the tournament, but I could only bring myself to play
games I more or less liked, and the week leading up to that, I didn't
play at all. My goal this tournament was to finish first in at least
one game. Early on, seeing how I scored relatively easily on that
game, I decided it was going to be 10 Yard Fight. I stopped
submitting on that game, but I didn't stop playing it; I played it
almost every day. In the end, I was really surprised to finish with a
total of not 1, but 3 first places. And, just having checked
Gameboy9's statistics page, I am also surprised that I scored the
most points over all 10 games combined. Funny how that was the only
overall leaderboard in which I did *not* finish first in T2, and now
it's the only one in which I *did* manage to finish first.



In a way, this was a silly tournament, because at least 4 games had
silly scoring systems:



Gauntlet II: The 8k Deaths. Killing dozens of enemies doesn't give
you anywhere near as many points as killing a few 8k Deaths. I was
happy to see that the top 2 in this game still showed a lot of skill.
Tommi's amazing score was even more amazing considering that he only
got 1k for the first 8 or so Deaths he killed, and Ian's also amazing
score was reached while leaving quite a lot of Deaths alive. I was
very impressed with both performances.



Burnin' Rubber: This game is also known as Bump 'n' Jump, but "bump"
is exactly what you shouldn't do to get a great score. Don't destroy
any enemy vehicles, and you'll get a 50k bonus for every stage you
complete that way...



Ninja Kid II: Keep hitting enemies while they're falling and your
score will skyrocket. I think I had 180k after stage 1-C, and I think
Phil even had 200k... . Fortunately, Blost still showed that skill
prevailed.



Xenophobe: With a bit of practice, it's not too hard to clear the
first two stages. After that, find the code (the piece of paper) and
order the base destruction. The game randomly puts the code in some
room, but the rest of the game is fixed. So I had drawn maps of
stages 3 through 6. I knew where to go for food and I knew where to
go to destroy the base as soon as I had found the code. I did better
than I had expected, so when I got to stage 7, even though I found
the code early on, I had no clue where to go (I hadn't drawn a map of
stage 7). The silliness of the scoring system in this game lies in
the fact that you get credited for each piece of hardware you pick up
when you finish the stage. 1k a piece. But... when finishing, you get
credited for *all* the hardware you've picked up during the entire
game so far, not just the hardware from the last stage. In other
words, by the time you finish stage 6, you'll have been credited 6
times for the hardware picked up during stage 1, 5 times for the
hardware picked up during stage 2, etc...



To Tommi: Great performance on Tron, although I didn't enjoy it too
much. I didn't have my new machine yet when I verified your recording
and since Tron doesn't run without sound, hitting F10 didn't speed it
up much, so it took me quite a while to watch your entire recording.
Couldn't you have waited a week or two until I had my new machine?

I'd like to thank Pat, Gameboy9, all the judges, and all the
participants for a pretty smooth tournament.



Cheers,
Ben Jos.

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