apterous.org

Notes from the organizer: Welcome to Revolver, an on-going set of Apterous challenges for you to try as much as you like. I set a challenge once every five days, and each one runs for 20 days so four challenges run at any time. This one is mixed-round, and the challenges rotate through letters, numbers, conundrums and a mix of all three.

You can play whichever challenges you like, as much as you like; all you need to do is sign up to one on its round page (signing up is optional but it's helpful as feedback if nothing else) and get started on it. Every challenge has an objective you need to complete, with extra points available depending on how you do it. These points then get converted into final scores as follows:

1st place: 100 points
2nd place: 80 points
3rd place: 70 points
All others: scaled between 20 and 60 points
In the event of ties points get split equally, so if two people tie for second they get 75 each.

The tournament has an overall leaderboard https://sites.google.com/site/apterousrevolver/leaderboard which is the total of all these final scores you've achieved.

So, here's the latest one, numbered M4 because it's mixed-round challenge 4.

Name: HEAD START

Objective: giving yourself a two-point head start per second you reduce the round time by, beat or equal any current 15-round high score.

Variant/format: Any format with 15 rounds that appears on the high scores http://www.apterous.org/statland.php?section=highscores, and has letters, numbers and conundrums. You can set the round time to whatever you want, but make sure the correct scoring is used for custom games. Note that a Bullet 15 (for example) is an Old 15 with 27 seconds less.

Scoring: 10 points for equalling a record, +2 for every second under the usual round time, -1 for every point under. So if a record is 100 in a 30-second format and you score 82 in 20 seconds, that's 10 (base) minus 18 (difference between score and record) plus 20 (for 10 seconds less) to make 12. This score has to be at least 10.

If you complete the challenge and want me to know about it, COMMENT ON THIS PAGE with a link to your game. If you better it, comment again and that will replace your previous game. After every few completions I'll put up a table of who's scored what.

Hopefully that's all clear, but if not let me know. Good luck everyone!

Ran from: 31 May – 19 June 2014. Format: 15 Rounder. Matches: One-off. Approved.

Fixtures: 4. Completed: 4.

Results and fixtures

Key. Green: winner. Red: loser. Grey: tie. (Stripes: provisional, match in progress.)