Final Standings
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CONGRATULATIONS TO
Mihai Badoiu from Bucharest Romania!
WINNER OF THE AIMLESS POTM !!!!
Andre' Wilhelmus wins the Tournament of Champions crown
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Here's the results of the final run:
Mon Sep 2 00:41:50 EDT 1996
57 entered
440 asked for details.
1121 are on the mailing list!
WE HAVE A WINNER ... Thanks to all who participated, your results are
listed below. More details forthcoming in the next few days!
CONGRATULATIONS TO: Mihai Badoiu from Bucharest Romania!
There were three buildings in the finals: amaze.me, multiplicity,
and the evil potm.building ... each had its own foibles!
Below are the final scores ... the ranking is based on the TOTAL
STEPS, UPS, and TIME (SECONDS) summed over all three runs. Also shown
are the total STEPS and UPS for each of the three buildings.
<--- TOTAL ---> <------- INDIVIDUAL ------->
ENTRY STEPS UPS SECS amaze.me multiplic potm.buil AUTHOR
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stalker 22862 4612 1398 5732/911 8212/1547 8918/2154 Mihai Badoiu
mowing3D 22564 2410 1408 5636/696 8018/965 8910/749 Bob Hall
Ripple 22016 3694 1788 5464/940 7768/1257 8784/1497 Emerald Chung
I_want_a_guide 21468 3392 1665 5144/900 7972/1216 8352/1276 Kurt VandenBranden
Get_Back 21302 5672 595 5116/1235 7642/1791 8544/2646 Tim Ruhl
Willie_Wundes 21290 4123 1374 5196/703 7594/1196 8500/2224 Dave Peterson
antFarm 21170 4478 1802 5162/1099 7756/1492 8252/1887 Glenn Bradford
son_of_Sot 20734 5962 1770 4980/1051 7630/2052 8124/2859 Bob Ashenfelter
Witless 20716 3900 1154 5408/700 7152/1449 8156/1751 Alex Popiel
janitor 20482 3653 1843 4920/397 7386/790 8176/2466 Greg Youngdahl
Round+Round 20422 4415 1650 5290/1029 6908/1345 8224/2041 Daniel vanderZee
rookie 19596 5447 1642 4156/1198 7314/1812 8126/2437 Paul Nelson
blind 18572 3529 915 2490/442 8008/1365 8074/1722 Carlos Valenzuela
Minos 18242 3718 1758 3130/709 7068/1278 8044/1731 Didier Barzin
strider 15766 5823 0 2844/1105 5974/1944 6948/2774 George VanAusdall
boom 15724 5783 2 3000/1157 6062/1997 6662/2629 R.Ang I.Soehardjo
Protein 15254 2605 1710 6/0 7180/1379 8068/1226 Kroum Savadjiev
sagan 15022 2520 24 6/0 6898/1070 8118/1450 Douglas Zongker
Wandering_Plane 14950 2420 0 6/0 6880/1088 8064/1332 Raj Singh
Save_The_Worm 14908 3822 34 6/0 6830/1447 8072/2375 Vance Heron
Plima 14868 2401 0 6/0 6904/1215 7958/1186 Zeljko Zahtila
zigzag 14718 2143 0 6/0 6776/989 7936/1154 Mark Kuczynski
proto1 14478 2399 1796 6/0 6584/1119 7888/1280 P.Frants S.Pieterse
Where_to? 13224 1440 1280 5504/634 7718/806 2/0 Markus Sabadello
pastaiga 12866 2335 260 5304/1081 7562/1254 0/0 Krists Boitmanis
Red29erDevils 8714 3434 1969 2798/1078 0/0 5916/2356 Nils Magnus
DownAndOut 8394 849 742 464/92 0/0 7930/757 Jim Eadie
Marketroid 8068 1290 895 6/0 0/0 8062/1290 Steven Burnap
Run_A_Muck 5268 574 1953 5268/574 0/0 0/0 Jim Wright
YAIA 5266 998 1312 5262/998 2/0 2/0 Emery Lapinski
SeeMyThumb 4820 1161 44 4816/1161 2/0 2/0 Brace Stout
CheeseHead 3856 886 1777 1694/386 2162/500 0/0 Mike Buchmann
LostSoul 372 64 1785 6/0 110/11 256/53 Byon Garrabrant
ROGUE 82 6 469 6/0 0/0 76/6 Michael Strauch
XaaShuffle 28 0 603 18/0 4/0 6/0 Mark Huizer
Maze_Master 6 0 0 2/0 2/0 2/0 Ertugrul Tabak
RoamAndRamble 6 0 0 2/0 2/0 2/0 Russ Cox
Swifter_Drifter 6 0 0 2/0 2/0 2/0 Scott Everett
CARAMBA 6 0 666 6/0 0/0 0/0 Ralph Meira
vasco_da_nada 6 0 1365 2/0 2/0 2/0 Salman Nawaz
Crazy_Scheme 6 0 2004 6/0 0/0 0/0 Mike Mossey
AmazingStories 4 0 671 0/0 2/0 2/0 Ruud deJong
WalkAbout 4 0 932 0/0 2/0 2/0 Charles Roberson
CrazyWalk 0 0 0 0/0 0/0 0/0 Wim Decroix
Ramblin_Man 0 0 0 0/0 0/0 0/0 Vince Wolodkin
TheExtraStep 0 0 0 0/0 0/0 0/0 Jeffrey Pogodzinski
Wanderer 0 0 0 0/0 0/0 0/0 John Hitchcock
dalmation 0 0 0 0/0 0/0 0/0 Ken Weinert
delver 0 0 0 0/0 0/0 0/0 David Wells
ImLost 0 0 774 0/0 0/0 0/0 Michael Goldshteyn
legume 0 0 1324 0/0 0/0 0/0 Mark Schnitzius
LuckyBlindDrunk 0 0 1980 0/0 0/0 0/0 Ray Cole
Mr_Magoo 0 0 1987 0/0 0/0 0/0 Justin Legakis
pathbreaker 0 0 1992 0/0 0/0 0/0 John Williams
======== And now ... the Tournament of Champions for past POTM winners
======== (since past winners cannot win again, they compete separately!)
<--- TOTAL ---> <------- INDIVIDUAL ------->
ENTRY STEPS UPS SECS amaze.me multiplic potm.buil AUTHOR
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Spelunker 23084 3645 1771 5768/942 8320/1316 8996/1387 =Andre Wilhelmus
sundew 22246 4194 1477 5600/584 7886/952 8760/2658 =Fred Hicinbothem
Harley_Hamilton 21948 5871 1568 5330/1158 7772/1777 8846/2936 =Chad Hurwitz
Congratulations also to Andre Wilhelmus for winning the Tournament
of Champions with the best overall entry (Spelunker).
There were three buildings used (they were picked about two weeks ago):
(I'll circulate them to the participants shortly)
o amaze.me is a collection of 2D mazes - one per floor
o multiplicity was designed to have many, many alternative paths
o potm.building was designed by looking sideways at the problem
and trying to create sneaky stuff - the result
is tunnels, chimneys, and some hidden messages.
ALSO: Look for the consolation prizes, and the collecions of the program
descriptions from all the participants ... if you sent a program you'll
get these without asking. They will also be posted on the web pages
in a few days ... along with the source code of a few of the top entries.
Thanks for your support and participation .... if you entered then please
send in your program descriptions so I can circulate them to all!
=Fred
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