We are happy to collect what’s been going on during the last three weeks in the dungeons. Despite rather minimal advertisement, the tournament was quite successful. A little late, but not too late, did we see 0.9 Webtiles kick into action.
The winning player is theglow with 4934 points, who won 15 games, including an 8 streak! Runner up is mikee with 4653 points, who won 11 out of 13 games, including an 10 streak (actually 11 games in a row, but two wizards in the list). The competition was close, mikee might have won if his level 16 Spriggan Enchanter would not have died to an orb guardian in Zot:5. The third player to get more than 4000 points is jeanjacques with 4333 points.
Another highlight: 78291 played the fastest game, both in real time (2:32 hours) and turn count (19460), winning a Deep Dwarf of Elyvilon. He only killed 64 creatures himself, thus proving the power of pacifism.
The most successful clans were: The Adorable Catlobes with 14201 points, followed by wucad mu-tang clan aint nuthin ta fuck wit with 9074 points and Zignacio with 8276 points.
The ubiquitous numbers (in parentheses for August 2010):
Days: 16 (31) Players: 1337 (1091) Players getting a rune: 264 = 20% (229 = 21%) Winning players: 116 = 8.7% (109 = 10.0%) All games: 37593 (58428) Non-quit games: 27049 (44884) Winning games: 232 = 0.9% (321 = 0.7%) Won race/class combos: 128 (101)
Most everyone agreed that the new rules encouraged diversification. This can be seen when comparing the most popular winning combinations (three or more wins):
2011: 8xSpEn 7xMDFi 7xMiBe 6xDDNe 6xDEWz 6xKoBe 6xVpAE 5xCeWz 5xHOAr 5xHaVM 5xKoSk 5xMfIE 5xOgCj 5xTrAs 4xDECj 3xDsVM 3xGhMo 3xHECj 3xHEWz 3xMfGl 3xNaTm 3xSpDK 2010: 49xSpEn 23xDDNe 22xMfCr 18xGhFE 18xHaTm 17xSEAs 9xMfIE 7xHEWz 7xHaBe 6xHECr 5xDDCK 4xDECj 4xDSNe 4xHEIE 4xMfTm 4xSpVM 3xDEWz 3xDSAs 3xDSBe 3xDSVM 3xHEFE 3xKoCr 3xMDEn 3xSEIE 3xSpSt
1. Comment by hayenne
1/Sep/2011 at 12:25
Congratulations to the winners! Most impressive numbers, I must say! 78291 again and again wins the #1 challenge cup!
2. Comment by Grandpa
1/Sep/2011 at 19:48
Congratulations to the winners! But please, next year, PLEASE DELAY THE TOURNAMENT UNTIL WEBTILES IS READY !! It is absolutely ridiculous to give one set of players not only a week head start, but also bonus points for first win, first 15 rune win, first ziggurat clear, etc.
3. Comment by SlowGraham
1/Sep/2011 at 21:56
Congrats to the winners and much thanks to the organizers and people who run the servers!
4. Comment by dpeg
1/Sep/2011 at 22:37
Grandpa: yes, both release and tournament setup were unusually hectic (by our standards). webtiles made no exception. It wasn’t planned like this, and I’d like to apologise. Next year we’ll do better.
5. Comment by Anym
2/Sep/2011 at 08:54
While I only had time for a single game (and not a very successful one) this year, I’m glad I did as otherwise the number of players wouldn’t have been so 1337. :-)
6. Comment by Iome
23/Sep/2011 at 10:30
They should do a real tournament, not only did they cut it in half when I had my week of vacation scheduled two months in advance, but webtiles wasn’t even up for most of it. Instead of a 30day tournament I got two nights of game(1) in. Please stick to the schedule, its a schedule for a reason, some of us plan for it. Really dissapointed. I love the effort in development; but I enjoy the tournaments the most and it was like there wasn’t one =/