The annual Crawl tournament took place during August. Thanks to the folks running the servers (CAO and CDO) for their awesome help.
Click here for the official tournament web page,
Some interesting numbers (those in brackets refer to the 2009 and 2008 tournaments):
Games played: 44884 (28306, 13771) [excluding quitters] Number of players: 1091 (737, 385) Number of winners: 109 (90, 50) Numbers of wins: 321 (286, 169)
(For comparison, the Nethack devnull 2009 tournament had 11910 games by 354 players with 292 ascensions. These numbers seem suspiciously low, so here are the 2008 figures as well: 22812 games by 1305 players with 300 ascensions.)
The winner of the Crawl tournament 2010 is elliptic with 4121 points and 17 wins. The runners-up are Jaeger (3351 points, 17 wins) and 78291 (3274 points, 10 wins).
The best clan is Team Kiku, they dominated the competition.
Some fancy records achieved during the tournament:
Longest streak: elliptic with ten wins in a row!
Fastest win: qwqw won a SpEn in 14318 turns!
Quickest win: 78291 won another SpEn in less than 72 minutes!
For the next year, it may be desirable to have another North American server. The load was quite heavy during the first week.
Apart from that, there is talk of shortening the tournament to cover only 16 days. For comments on that, and also on the scoring, please comment here.
Congratulations to all winners and thanks to everyone involved, including all players and the good souls announcing this event on boards and forums!
The Crawl devteam.
1. Comment by Timbermaw
9/Sep/2010 at 19:17
Hoho, i didn’t play again! Mostly due to lag issues, but asking for a south american server would seem a bit demanding.
Aside from that, why not host 2 tournaments per year? 15 or 16 days each? one for summer/spring and one for winter/autumn?
“the annual crawl spring tournament will be hosted..”
2. Comment by Ret
10/Sep/2010 at 00:55
Changing the length of the tournament sounds good. 16 days is about the time I start crying and quit crawl forever.
3. Comment by dpeg
10/Sep/2010 at 00:58
Great to hear that you are fine with shorter duration. For some reason (perhaps because of the Nethack tournament tradition?) we expected this to be a controversial issue.
Regarding more tournaments. why not? We hope that players will start organising tournaments on their own :) For example, each new Sprint map could be celebrated with a minitournament dedicated to it. See the wiki link about tournaments for details (and comment there!).
4. Comment by PigVomit
10/Sep/2010 at 16:30
Haha, agree with Ret above (seems to be the case with many players actually)
I would like to see shorter duration, and separation of sprint from main tourny. Otherwise this years tourny was much fun, thanks to all players and organizers!
5. Comment by coyo7e
27/Oct/2010 at 19:02
I’d like to see more tourneys more often, or possibly just an unofficial tourney system that was left on so you could more easily reference players online. I had a blast in the tourney and played (and learned more about ) more Crawl than ever before.