Devonin's Critical Thinking Tourney Two - COMPLETED

[Tasselfoot]

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after 8700+ days on this planet, you'd think that by now you'd have learned that it becomes the next day at midnight. <3.

[devonin]

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Having thought about it for a minute, I found exactly where the problem is:

I generally go to bed at about 4-6am, and don't parse it as the next day until after I've slept and woken up.

If I get up on Wednesday, and have to do something at 2:00am, I think of it as "Tonight at 2:00am" not "Tomorrow at 2:00am" and I suspect that most of you do that as well.

So to me, the 2:00am round isn't going up "On Sunday morning" it's going up "On Saturday Night"

[smartdude1212]

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I do that habitually too...

Mais oui...

[devonin]

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Updated to here.

[PlayTrumpet]

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Gee. I definitely won't stay third for long. =P

=(

[jonathanasdf]

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Besides, I'd say that anyone hardcore enough to get up at 4 AM for a mental challenge deserves to do well.

Yeah. I agree with you there.

oh well. Itd be good if we can see a credits layout xD

[Tasselfoot]

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what if we stay up til 4am normally? plus, with PST... the only weird time rounds for me are 9/10, which are 5am and 7am. everything else is within my normal awake time.

[jonathanasdf]

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well i don't care about getting 5000+ cause I can never beat anyone here at PA..

So I played random songs, so heres my 4000 something score. Meh i don't care if i didn't choose songs. i just chose random (too lazy to figure out best PA / time ratio)

[devonin]

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Updated, and a reminder, the next round starts at 12:00 midnight "tonight" EST, Friday May 2nd. 8 hours, 40 minutes from now.

[devonin]

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Alright, it's 8:00pm EST, 4 hours before the start of the round, but I'm going out. I should with about 95% certainty be back well in advance of the start of the round, but since I might not be, I'm going to do a number of things:

1/ I'm going to post the song portion of the round early, since there's no bonus for speed of completion, so that you have something to do with regards to the tournament if I'm late

2/ If I -am- late, I will put the bonus portion of the round of as soon as I'm back (I'm not going to take the other alternative, which is reschedule the bonus for some number of hours away) which I can't see any possible way to be more than 30 minutes past 12.

3/ If I -am- late, anybody who posts in this thread between 12:00 Midnight EST and my posting of the round will recieve 100 bonus points by way of compensating you for being here at the scheduled start time.

I think 100 points if you're here right at 12 and I'm not is a fair compensation for the possibility that someone showing up 20 minutes later and catching my post as soon as it goes up might beat you out of some bonus points.

Round 5's Song component:

Get as close to 500 boos on one song as you can without going over.
Since this would be trivially easy with autofail: no use of autofail. You
must complete the whole song for the score to count. Score will
be ranked by fewest number of boos under 500

[Tasselfoot]

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got 500 exactly. 1 try. passed the song. so simple.

[jonathanasdf]

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... :S

I think i might be able to do it.... but of course song needs at least 500 notes...

[PlayTrumpet]

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I just... suck.

I'll get 500 later. =P

[Tasselfoot]

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needs 492+, actually...

[devonin]

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got 500 exactly. 1 try. passed the song. so simple.

So simple if you're a cheater. Just to clear it up for people, you may not use an AHK or other keymapping script to make each arrow press register twice or any other sneaky way of trying to cheat the obvious intention of the round, namely that you need to kep track while playing and passing a song, of your boo count and stop as close to 500 as possible.

Edit: Also, I'm back with plenty of time to spare, so the round will be going up properly as normal at 12:00 EST. More other also, I'm never going back to that establishment again. Seriously, no free refills on iced tea? Barbarians.

Also, since I hadn't really parsed exactly how that interaction of life bar to boos worked, the official round is going to require a number of boos that is not equal to the number of total steps in a song. Apologies to anybody who already started on the round, but since the round hasn't actually started yet anyway, *shrug*