Well, if someone would have told me that a player could collect almost 100% (actually 96%) of the theoric top score on a 5 games run......
What can I say, TRB_MetroidTeam crushed this tournament. Four 1st and a 2nd place.
Sorry TRB, with five 1st places you would have seen the hidden stage (
lol)Krj rises to a powerful 2nd place, happy to see another strong player here on MARP.
And SFChampion takes the 3rd place.
I'll try to summarize my thoughts about this experience.
First of all, I do love speedruns. In my opinion they give their best in platform games, sometimes on shooting: in fact when I run for TT coordination my first ideas where Pitfall2 and Outzone. Then I explored my memory to find suitable games of other genres, all games I really enjoyed playing with.
I know that not all of you liked my choices, but think about this: you really risked a 100% platform tournament
Outzone have made me fear to have exceeded in difficulty: yes, when you finally get that purple ball it becomes easier, but I've never run all the game without taking a pause, or leeching a bit, before now. Perhaps a 5 stages goal would have been enough, but a game like this deserves a complete speedrun. Even if in a week it's impossible to obtain a perfect time, I'm pretty satisfied of the result.
Pitfall2, the best speedrun of the tournament. You all guys found so many little things to gain frames here and there, that seeing them all together in a single run makes me really happy.
Power Drift, a hard challenge for you (and me). I've been in doubt until the beginning of its week if really use it, or switch to my second driving choice. But I always found it so funny (on real arcade) that I put apart my fears for technical possible problems like configuration setup or awful nvram risks. The only bad thing was the extra-stage thing, too many times I missed it for a little error in a prevous stage, this could have been nasty.
The King Of Dragons, pretty easy goal to strenghten time-cutting efforts. These kind of games usually aren't so oriented to speedrunning, because you can't avoid enemies, only kill them all faster. This one is quite easy (comparing to other games of the genre, like FinalFight or Knights of the Round): I could have put a 1CC goal, but it wouldn't have been a good time trial challenge anymore. Anyway this is another game that deserves a complete speedrun, so I hope someone will like to run it to its end.
Pacmania. After an easy game, a rather difficult one, at least when grey ghosts starts to jump around. Man, I do suck in these maze games. Perhaps the less speedrun-able of the group, but at least I found a nice maze that didn't give space to repetitive patterns.
It has been a long work for me, and fortunately I didn't have too many strange/unexpected things to take care of.
I really liked this tournament, THANK-YOU to all the players that joined-in!
FINAL SCOREBOARD
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Pos. PLAYER TOTAL Out Zone Pitfall II POWER DRIFT KOD PACMANIA
1 - TRB_MetroidTeam 120 25 25 25 20 25
2 - Krj 75 13 16 20 16 10
3 - SFCHAMPION 58 4 9 7 25 13
4 - Giro-x 53 16 8 8 13 8
5 - TheBSM 44 0 0 13 11 20
6 - Paulo Valmir 39 8 20 11 0 0
7 - Shahbaz 36 7 10 9 10 0
8 - CrazyKongFan 35 0 7 4 8 16
9 - DaLar 32 0 2 10 9 11
10 - Franco Benedetti 24 11 13 0 0 0
10 - nii-san 24 20 4 0 0 0
12 - Kernzy 23 6 1 16 0 0
13 - Agodzilla 20 1 5 5 0 9
14 - Beejay 16 5 11 0 0 0
15 - nibbler69 12 0 6 6 0 0
16 - Chrono256 10 10 0 0 0 0
17 - Sawys 9 9 0 0 0 0
18 - Colman Paolo 5 2 3 0 0 0
19 - BDFil 3 3 0 0 0 0
20 - Phil Lamat 0 0 0 0 0 0
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