Huh ! I actually agree with you😳
 

I will hold on it till the contest is finalized instead, in order to respect Brock's wish of tier 1 playing in a vacuum.  

Last minute score snipes have almost done me in twice in a row. It's perfectly legit, and my own fault if I choose to sit comfortably on a score while other gamers are grinding at it, though. Several times this year, I've either lost track of time, or had some other catastrophe at home to deal with prevent me from posting on Sundays, so I've tried to be more proactive and get my score in earlier in the week. Eh, it's just the ebb and flow of a friendly competition. The only guarantee is to just do your best and post it.

In all fairness, the last score post (that I'm aware of anyways) from Tier 3 came in from Red at 8:22 so there were still 2.5 hours left.  I hear you though, it's a gambit.  Do you post the scores early and have others use that as a benchmark or wait until the last moment and lower the boom?  Either way, I wish you good fortune!

 

The springboards work differently in this game from how they are in AI2. That threw me off at first. The jumping controls are weird at first as well. If you don't hold down B when you jump straight up, you just do a little hop. What's up with that?

Well, I meant "last minute" fairly loosely. As in, the last part of the week long event. Rereading my post it looks like I'm implying it like a very last second poach on an Ebay bid, lol. 8:22pm still left a very generous amount of time to post, I'm just tucked in for the evening at that point. 

Honestly, I got lazy the past two weeks. Been dealing with a bunch of stuff at home, so I got what I thought were solid scores, put 'em up, and walked away. I'm very confident I could have scored higher, but I figured it was good enough to stay in the runnings, and I've comes THIS(makes tiny gesture with thumb and index finger) close to getting bumped out. I'm going to have to work my ass off this week. I'm a completely green noob to AI, and this is the finals. I think I'll come up with an OK score, but the odds aren't in my favor. 

No matter what happens, I want to say that I've had a blast participating in the weekly contests this year, and look greatly forward to next year's games. I have seen some absolutely insane scores from you guys, and I feel like a better gamer just for having participated. Thanks for having me!
 

And thanks for this fine piece of work👍



Anyone that doesn't have something from him should probably check out his store😜
 

Ugh, slowly memorizing the game through trial and error

As much as I know I should have been practicing high score I was more focused on beating the game with one life(which I did)! Now I may be fucked!😁
 

Oh my god. Richard is going to be the champion. The horror...

I can fly through the game no problem, the problem becomes that I can't get past stage 3 with one life while trying to get all the fruit and hidden areas!

Don't get the fire in 1-1😜
 

But I want to!

While training I died 100 times trying to beat 7-1. Nevermind 1-life'ing the game

Tier 2 - 553,460
Tier 2 - 474,360
Tier 2 - 422,900
Tier 2 - 391,990
Tier 2 - 306,570




At last... spent the whole morning playing, but got to beat the game without dying. This is all I got.
Now to wait for Richard to beat this.


Managed to beat world 7 this time around... only to die at 8-1 because I didn't have one second more worth of life to get that bottle of milk!
ARRRGH!!!! I need to stop being so terrible at this.
Back to it. Again... I want to beat this bloody thing without dying.

Did a bit better. Made to 6-1 with about 350K points, missed it's bonus stage but made to world 7-2 (I beat 7-1 at my very last sliver of life bar) then died a stupid death.
I don't think I can do better than this, but I will try again Sunday.
Died at stage 7-1. I did the cobra trick at World 1-3, but clearly not as well as Richard did, for I only had 320K points at the start of 6-1.
Oh well... No idea HOW I will get past 7-1 in one life... but tomorrow I will try again.
And I couldn't even crack 400K points. I am so bad at this game.  
Died at stage 6-1, the shame.  

And noticed middle way of the run that I didn't start OBS to record it. >.<
I will give it another spin tomorrow and hope I won't do so poorly then.

DON'T DO IT!
 

Your skinny mind games won't work one me!

In theory, the shorter range of the axe makes it better to kill the frogs and the other monsters, but the fire can destroy rocks and boulders... which makes it far more useful later on.

The dropping platforms keep getting me. Seriously why did they have to include those things?

Don't say I didn't warn you!😜

Tier 1 - 212,720


 

So, reach out to Tom?  Got it
 

I'm almost positive that Richard and Brock will take the top two spots so I'm going for third.

I'm kind of rooting for Richard. I love big upsets. Richard takes a long absence from the contests. Returns. Wins tournament. That's a great story.

Oh no! Krunch is a badass! It me and you batteling it out for 3rd😜
 

This is my "OH" face!