The 0.11 tournament is over. During the last 16 days, players could compete for tournament points and banners by playing 0.11 games on any of the four public servers.
The winning player was theglow, with 6739 points. Theglow won an impressive 18 games (all with distinct species and backgrounds), but even more impressively he didn’t die at all during the tournament, streaking all 18 games! In second place was jeanjacques, with 5915 points. Jeanjacques got the most tier III banners – 15 of them – and also had the win with the lowest turncount, just 17901 turns. In third place was bmfx, with 5646 points and the second-longest streak of wins: 9 games long. The first win and the win with the last start, which were also the two fastest wins at a little over two hours each, were both played by ophanim.
The clan competition was won by the hex pistols (21415 points). Margery and the Hell Knights (18011 points) and Hemipene (11839 points) were second and third respectively. There were 102 clans in all, a record high.
Here are some assorted statistics on the tournament games (with quits removed), compared with the 0.10 tournament (in parentheses):
Players with at least one game: 1545 (1568) Players with at least one game to reach XL 9: 979 (908) Players who got a rune: 400 (372) Players who won a game: 214 (183) Total wins: 473 (370) Win %: 1.18% (1.10%) Total player time: 24287 hrs (23347 hrs) Avg player time: 15.7 hrs (14.9 hrs) Proportion of players using webtiles: 71.3% (61.2%) Proportion of winners using webtiles: 59.0% (45.0%)
1. Comment by dpeg
5/Nov/2012 at 10:10
Many thanks for organising this, it’s always a great event!
If win rates keep getting better like this, expect >80% wins already in the 0.1011 tournament :)
2. Comment by MDvedh
5/Nov/2012 at 13:20
Great tournament!
Though I didn’t win, I’m waiting for the next one!
3. Comment by Jabberwocky
5/Nov/2012 at 17:08
dpeg: please don’t make crawl that easy. It’s no fun to have a game everyone can win 4/5 times.
4. Comment by Corax
5/Nov/2012 at 17:53
I could play this game for the next 20 years and still not win a game :S
5. Comment by Amethyst_Igor
5/Nov/2012 at 20:34
The 1.18% win rate is some consolation to my toasted 20 XL Spriggan Assassin. beware the fire crab!
6. Comment by CrazyArbalest
5/Nov/2012 at 22:09
Thanx for the tournament – it was great (even though I haven`t won the game)!
Thank you. I`m waiting for the next one (0.12).
7. Comment by Musaab
6/Nov/2012 at 17:35
The game should be more difficult.
8. Comment by TwilightPhoenix
6/Nov/2012 at 21:59
At the current rate of Crawl development, we should be at version .1011 by 3011, so don’t worry about the game being that easy in your life time.
9. Comment by Graham (aka Slow)
6/Nov/2012 at 22:07
Thanks for doing this. It was fun!
10. Comment by Amethyst Igor
8/Nov/2012 at 00:00
The game is only easy if you play well-rested, slowly, cautiously, and carefully, with a clear mind and lots of mental stamina, experience and knowledge.
For 98.72% of all players, Crawl is a game that can’t be won, and the statistics bear that out, although tournaments attract the strongest players, so probably more like 99.9% of all players can’t win at Crawl.
I think it’s about right though and you know what? I don’t mind dying. Except in tournaments. I wanted to win in the tournament.
11. Comment by Joehai
8/Nov/2012 at 02:43
I don’t know if this is possible, but I’d love some more tourneys in the near future! They’re pretty much the only times I play; bragging rights are a great motivator :P
12. Comment by CrazyArbalest
8/Nov/2012 at 15:55
Even though I didn`t win the game at the tourney, I think it`s just as hard as it should be. If it was easier, it doesn`t had so much fun to play. If you want it easy, play MiBe of Trog ;)
You should eventually give more time to the beginners (like four weeks for the overall tourney time instead of two; not everybody has the time to non-stop play to fill all the tourney time; some people are busy and can play only on weekends).
13. Comment by Sudarshan
11/Nov/2012 at 06:43
It seems the webtiles version has finally started attracting even experienced players :-)
14. Comment by Mandevil
18/Nov/2012 at 20:25
The DCSS tournaments are very nicely done and I enjoyed my first one — I even scored my second Crawl win for it (and it even happened to be a combo high score!)