Hello everyone and welcome to the final round of the 2016 Weekly Contest Tournament and our very final contest of the year!  Everyone has come a long way to reach this point, and in the end, the top 3 scores in each tier will emerge as victors and win a prize.  The final challenge for our participants this year is going to be Adventure Island.  Participants, please read the rules carefully for your tier to make sure you play by the correct rules.  Failure to play by the correct rules can result in your score being invalid.  Participants, please make sure to include your tier number when you post your score.  It will make it easier to calculate the final results at the conclusion of the contest.  First off, here are the participants:


Tier 1
Brock Landers
Krunch
mbd39
Richardhead

Tier 2
barrelsAndRivets
Bea_Iank
EgasKrad
laddersandcakes

Tier 3
Jandrem
Red
Stryphos
tablew/chairs


And here are the rules:


Tier 1

• 1 life only
• Highest score wins

Tier 2

• 1 life only
• Highest score wins

Tier 3

• 1 life only
• Highest score wins

The contest ends Sunday, 11/13/16 at 11 PM NA time.  Your user name MUST be written or typed on a piece of paper and be in the picture for your score to be valid.  The entire TV screen, or computer monitor if you are playing on an emulator, MUST be in the picture for the score to be valid.  No partial screenshots will be considered or accepted.  No screenshots by hitting "print screen" on a computer will be allowed.  You must take a picture of your computer monitor.  There may be instances where this will be acceptable, but it will be at the discretion of myself and the contest organizers.  Also, the use of turbo controllers is forbidden, as well as any cheat codes, Game Genies, slow motion functions, or save states if playing on an emulator.  Also, we will only be using NTSC systems for the contests.  The use of PAL systems will NOT be allowed.  Good luck everyone and have fun  

It's a real shame Seppatoni didn't make it. This is his game.

Oh well... not too keen on the highest score bit. Would have preferred further progress, but so be it.
Maybe I can try to figure out how to stop sucking at this game and actually beat it in one life instead.

OFFICIAL SCOREBOARD
Adventure Island (Action/Platformer)
Tier One
Place	Score	Username
1	375,340	Richardhead
2	370,360	Brock Landers
3	335,510	Krunch
4	212,720	mbd39
Tier Two
Place	Score	Username
1	553,460	Bea_Iank
2	159,800	EgasKrad
3	150,170	barrelsAndRivets
4	45,100	laddersandcakes
Tier Three
Place	Score	Username
1	355,570	tablew/chairs
2	258,750	Stryphos
3	257,170	Red
4	17,140	Jandrem

Thanks.   Too bad to be so close and didn't make into the final round.
But honestly I never expected to be even part of the tournament, so I'm still happy with my performance. 

Good luck to every one.



 

Tier 1: 96,850 
102,490
375,340

Time to get into study mode to figure out the eggplants position and the hidden bonus areas.
Hopefully I will stop being so bad at it tonight and somehow make past world 6-4 in one life.

Pfft 1 life?!?!?!? Oh man, reserved post for future dismal score ...  

That's all she wrote.  I'm done with this game for awhile.  I can honestly say I unhestitatingly and unequivocally loathe frogs.

Will it be good enough to place higher than 4th?  Who knows ...

Tier 3 - 258,750

Congratulations to everybody that made the finals! Good luck!!

Thanks, I think we'll all need it  

I noticed that the 1 life rule was for all tiers, so I bet there will be some really competitive scores across the board. I'd play along this week too if I had the time to give it a solid effort, but I don't know Adventure Island well enough to put up a score that would be worth posting in a handful of attempts.

 

This is where I'm at as well.  I still might give it one shot just to see what abysmal score I can feel bad about.   

 

updated
 

If I have time to get an attempt or two in, I might post it, but this is going to be a really busy week so I'm not sure if I'll get much of a chance to play at all.

I'll be giving it a go for fun, bragging rights, maintaining my 2nd place for AI2 score. Something

lmao I'm toast this time around. Gave it a few swings this morning, couldn't break 4 digits. Gonna read up a little on this one and try to learn its quirks, like the wonky jumping, why most stuff kills you in one hit while others don't, etc.

I remember skinny saying that SMB2J would be in the tournament. We might as well be playing that. This is like that level of difficulty and with weird controls, shooting enemies instead of jumping on them, and fruit that you have to keep eating or you die.

I'm still working on the first world.

If this was a regular weekly contest, I'd probably post a lazy participation score like I did with AI2 and call it a day. But now the stakes are higher.

BTW, I'll probably never post another fake score as I did with Palamedes. All of my scores from now on are legit attempts. A well executed snipe near the end of a contest is fun, but I would rather that people trust what I post and not be like skinny where you can't believe anything they say.

I always posted my scores right as I got them. I know there's some strategy in posting a decoy score, but for anybody that knows me, I was always they type to say "Here's what I've got, let's see if you can beat it". I'd rather put legitimate pressure on the competition early on with them knowing what I've got instead of keeping them guessing.

I also always post my scores as I get them, and too often actually telling how I got it so other people can have a fairer chance at beating it.
Tonight I will do my first run and I will try to record a video of the gameplay to post along it.

 

I'd like tier 1 to be playing in a vacuum, but I suppose there won't be anything in your vid that anyone couldn't figure out

 

Yeah... you might want to save posting your video until after the contest.

On the other hand, there's plenty of AI on Youtube already for anyone who wants to look it up.

Very well.
I will hold the video for the end of the contest then.
I wanted to allow people to see and try to emulate it to get higher scores or even beat mine by a mile, but I will keep it to myself then.  
 

^ If you do a bit.ly link, will it expand it here...?

http://bit.ly/2eg0275...

OK, that test confirms it. If you're dying to link it, maybe use bit.ly to shorten, then include it, in case folks want to watch? It won't embed, so it'll be less tempting...