Devonin's Critical Thinking Tournament (COMPLETED)

[Tasselfoot]

while it may be in my benefit to switch to a new scoring system, i'm against the concept of switching any scoring system mid-tournament... you started with 1 system, you got to stick with it. not fair otherwise.

[dabigpig]

i agree with tass, you shoulud keep the same system throughout (even though the new one gives me a bigger lead )

[devonin]

Originally Posted by ryanisadouche

Also, I'm not really a fan off speed-based tournaments, but for this tournament it works quite well, except that there's no one set time that everyone will agree on for a new round too start.

A possible solution could be, in your first post, put a section where it says if you're ONLINE or OFFLINE. Then, once a day or so, you could set it too ONLINE ROUND ONE, etc. (when you're around the forums) and then, when participants feel they have adequate time to attempt the puzzle, they could pm you saying "send me the round".

Once you read this pm you would right away send the round, and then they would pm the answer once solved. This gives a timestamped start and end point for comparing everyones speed. Of course it would require a lot more committment on your part, but if you were willing i think it would work out good.

This sounds like you're advocating a ranking based on "How long it took you to solve"? Like, if you ask for the round at 12:00 and solve by 12:15, you have a 15 minute time, and score better than someone later who asks for it at 3:30 and solves by 4:00?

That -could- work except for a) it would require me to be around a LOT over the course of the tourney and b) You could arrange with someone for you to ask for the round, and then give them the problem to solve on their own time, so that when they asked for it, they could always be the fastest solver.

I mean, that happens now where you could all be bribing dabigpig to give you answers, but i think there'd be a lot more incentive to do it under that system.

[ryanisadouche]

True but i think most people realize that tournaments like this one or Rubix's are no fun at all if you just cheat, and in the spirit of competitivness probably wouldn't help each other anyways. As a precaution, you could also make individual puzzles, where you just change around a few numbers/words, keeping the same template. Still this would probably require way to much time/effort to be feasible.

Anyways, is the new round up tonight or tomorow?

[devonin]

Tonight, as in, updating it right now

[dore]

12. Switch the And the O

huh?

[devonin]

Fixed. A and the O, thus my typo.

[dore]

That's what I figured, but I was just making sure.

[ryanisadouche]

does the final solution give actual words? I got something very similar to words, but i'm still lost

[dore]

Tass you're a douche

[Tasselfoot]

a big and sexy douche.

[ryanisadouche]

someone called?




AND WOW i swear this is the hardest song to PA...I get goods for NO REASON on just single notes....never again

[Fractal_Monkey]

Okay, if I lived in LA, I'd be much better off in this tourney. It actually took me longer to play the song and upload a screenshot than it did to solve the riddle.

Ah well. My score for this round:

[Tasselfoot]

Platypus was definitely harder than GR2R to AAA. lol.

[devonin]

Updated to here.

[Tasselfoot]

fyi. only 12 for dabigpig on ffr points, not 13.

[devonin]

dammit, again?

[dabigpig]

lmao it seems like the numbers secretly want me, the guy who sucks badly at ffr, to win

Edit: and heres my score

[dore]

Originally Posted by dore

sup

EDIT Also:

[devonin]

Originally Posted by dore

sup

Yo

Edit: Also, a new AAA for you, hooray!