LK tournament

[ZeN]

A credit ( and a honor of hosting it ) goes to tripsu if he is willing to do it.

I hope there will be people who are interested.

The tournament is to run LK superchests ONLY and record the amount of flawless gems you find. The purpose is threefold:

1. Have fun
2. Find those bers and surs
3. Calculate ( based on your measurements ) the average number of flawless gems per run and per hour

The rules

1. 1.10/1.11
2. RRM/RWM allowed
3. Any character ( state which one )
4. Hell difficulty only
5. 2 campfires maps only
6. Only drops from superchests count
7. Measure your playing time ( including muling )
8. 1000 runs ( or how many you manage until deadline, if it's less than 1000 )
9. /players 8 only
10. The deadline is 1st of July 2007 - (added per request - Hrus)

The prize

None, but you will sacrifice your time and body to science during that tournament.

Name           Character             Runs       Time      Gems
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ZeN            Pure Blizzard         0          0         0

Suggestions are welcomed. We will have to have at least 10 participants to have a sizable sample.

Thoughts?

The tornament starts as soon as we have 10 participants. The sign up will be closed by me at some point ( since there is no timeframe, I will have to decide on it arbitrary ). Join up!
Further clarifications here (added per request - Hrus)

[pwangsta]

Name           Character             Runs       Time      Gems
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ZeN            Pure Blizzard         0          0         0
pwangsta       Pure Lite             0          0         0

I'm in. 1k can't be that hard, can it?

EDIT: Oh dear, this Saturday? Yes, please do extend it, at least until Wednesday. I doubt I could do much of anything in the next 48 hours.

[Phosheez]

I'd do this, but I don't really collect gems and I'm doing /p5-6 runs these days to find out if the other runes can drop. The answer is....gul does but thats the only HR ive found as of yet.

[tripsu]

That all looks good to me Zen. I would suggest extending the deadline a couple days, so that people have time to get in their 1000 runs. Maybe make it 11:59 some time early next week? I know some people have more time on the weekends, and others have more time on the weekdays, so lets give both people the chance.

I'm a little busy myself for the next couple weeks, so I certainly don't mind you being in charge of the tourney. I'm just really interested in the results.

Thanks for giving me the credit though!

[ZeN]

OK. Let's extend it till next Saturday - May 5 23:59 GMT+2.

I will be on a business trip starting Tuesday, but it shouldn't prevent me from overlooking the procedures.

[noobintraining]

Sounds really cool, ZeN. My Fishymancer would certainly be up to the task, unfortunately I'm feverishly leveling up my IK Barb.

Best of luck to all participants!

[herobomberman]

Name           Character             Runs       Time      Gems
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ZeN            Pure Blizzard         0          0         0
pwangsta       Pure Lite             0          0         0
bombs          200fcr Meteorb        0          0         0

well, dont think ive even done 1000 runs b4 on anything but pindle.... so here it goes.... this better get me a HR :P

[Atil]

Name           Character             Runs       Time      Gems
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ZeN            Pure Blizzard         0          0         0
pwangsta       Pure Lite             0          0         0
bombs          200fcr Meteorb        0          0         0
Atil           Frenzy Barbarian      0          0         0

I'll have a go over the coming week, I need to get my drop rate to an acceptable level :laugh:

Just for clarification, is it only collecting Flawless, or would you include cubing lower quality to make Flawless?

[Saucy]

I'd like to try this. Just 1 question I haven't done that many LK runs. What do you mean by "2 campfires maps only". Are there other maps that would not be usable due to this rule?

Saucy

[pwangsta]

there are a significant number of LK maps w/ only one campfire, which would mean a greater number of loads for the same number of special chests, which would affect the time required in a negative way. By specifying this, at least the same number of chests are popped every run, keeping this more consistent. At least, that's the only rationale i can think of.