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Jan 28th 2008 at 07:19:14 AM
Name:  

KAmil

Best intermediate:  

NF RQP 3,3xx -> 3,049 !!!!!

Comments:  

54 3bv in 13,341s @ 4,376 3BV/s Almost sub3 Vid linked

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Jan 28th 2008 at 07:17:43 AM
Name:  

Gergő

Best beginner:  

3,323 3BV/s

Comments:  

@Zhang: Grats! Just go on this way!
@Damien: Good work! I am only able to do so in beginner
@Ronny: Nice improvement! Yesterday I blasted an est NF 2 3BV/s a few 3BVs before end on a cc. 200 board...
@all: and I exactly repeated my beg 3,323 3BV/s, but on a 19 board instead of the previous 27 board...

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Jan 28th 2008 at 04:47:51 AM
Name:  

Ronny

Best expert:  

(NF 1,690 -> NF 1,802)

Comments:  

@Damien....well maybe it's that hard because it's like a Word Record!!!!

   
Jan 28th 2008 at 01:21:13 AM
Name:  

damien

Comments:  

Finished 170 sub20 games yesterday (12, 13, 14x10...). Can't get 10 for some reason! Also got my 4th sup5 (5.13 on a 92)

   
Jan 27th 2008 at 09:05:20 PM
Name:  

Shunfei Xu

Best intermediate:  

16.38----->15.57 in 32 board

Comments:  

I'm sorry , in 32 not 33.

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Jan 27th 2008 at 09:03:16 PM
Name:  

Shunfei Xu

Best intermediate:  

16.38----->15.57 in 33 board

Comments:  

@KAmil:zhang jia shen's 11x4 is in 1 days I think. See The chinese minesweeper net:
www.saolei.net

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Jan 27th 2008 at 03:35:09 PM
Name:  

Michael

Comments:  

I'm sure I've read someone (possibly Schu) mention on this site the possibility of getting minesweeper records into the Guiness Book of Records. Well, they're launching a "gamer's edition" this year. They're holding a worldwide Guitar hero challenge and accepting entries for other stuff.

I'm not sure if minesweeper qualifies as a game (I think it should) but there's a contact page if someone wants to make an inquiry. I would do it myself, but it probably sounds better coming from an IMC member, or at least one of the big guns.

The downside is, it sounds like the feat has to be achieved in front of an adjudicator. I doubt they will accept mvf files. Maybe we could organise a short notice tournament; if we can get three or four players from the top 20 it might be worth it.

Website linked. Thoughts?

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Jan 27th 2008 at 12:14:06 PM
Name:  

KAmil

Comments:  

@Zhang: 11x4 in 2 days? or a longer time?

   
Jan 27th 2008 at 11:05:03 AM
Name:  

Zhang Shen Jia

Best intermediate:  

11x2 -> 11x6, 5.05 0-> 5.30!

Comments:  

11.42 in 33 board
11.50 in 34 board
11.67 in 38 board
11.87 in 36 board
20.62 in 104 board

now fighting for a 10...

   
Jan 27th 2008 at 11:03:28 AM
Name:  

daniel

Comments:  

ive just heard that i passed my exam in physics
one other week without minesweeper because of other exams but then ill play again
(instead of minesweeper i improved my nonosweeper scores (40 and 109) - thats not that addictive )

   
Jan 27th 2008 at 04:45:40 AM
Name:  

IMC (Christoph&Tommy)

Comments:  

The second 2008 IMC meeting did just past.

-We agreed on a penalty point system for missed meetings (to ensure better attendance to the meetings - which actually worked fine already before the system started at all; we were almost complete today)

-Beside that we discussed topics which recently arised on the GB and some other details. This resulted mainly in some technical tasks for some of us to solve in the next weeks.

   
Jan 27th 2008 at 03:26:00 AM
Name:  

fritz

Comments:  

@damien: you forgot my 15.95 on int . also the 64 daniel steinmeyer got is not yet in the world ranking.

   
Jan 27th 2008 at 03:01:01 AM
Name:  

damien

Comments:  

Zhang, I uploaded your record yesterday. Joni and I will look and see why it is not working

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Jan 26th 2008 at 05:42:51 PM
Name:  

Zhang Shen Jia

Comments:  

I try to upload avi video again, but it still doesn't work. No message, No tips, just no response, after I click "upload".

   
Jan 26th 2008 at 05:17:46 PM
Name:  

Michael

Comments:  

I think a 'zh' in Chinese is pronounced a bit like a J in English, but with pursed lips. If that makes any difference.

Bertie - to be quite honest, I'm not sure if the powerball works or not. I've used it everyday for a month now, and it did seem to be working at one point, but now my arm pain is as bad as ever. But maybe it would be worse if I hadn't used the powerball. It's difficult to say. I'll keep you updated on how I feel about it. They cost about £15 from play.com with free delivery, so it's not a massive expense if it doesn't work (and it's a fun little gadget anyway), although I'm not sure if play.com send to where you are, or how the price converts.

Also, I've just ordered the "puk" wrist rest that I mentioned on here a while ago, so in a few days I should be able to give some feedback on that.

   
Jan 26th 2008 at 03:39:20 PM
Name:  

damien

Best expert:  

Website Updated

Comments:  

@Zhang: Amazing! (Amazhang?) I knew you would beat me, but I hoped maybe next year...

@Kamil: I updated before I see your new nf record, sorry! nice. Zhang Hong has a 3.29 3bv/s on expert NF

@tam: nice 44! makes you #11 in the world.

@cristian: i updated your scores

   
Jan 26th 2008 at 02:42:45 PM
Name:  

Ronny

Comments:  

*sup

   
Jan 26th 2008 at 02:42:03 PM
Name:  

Ronny

Best beginner:  

FL 3BV/s: 3,2 -> 3,814

Comments:  

Didn't break a record for too long, so I played beginner for 5min.

@Kamil, congrats on being the first to get sub4,5

   
Jan 26th 2008 at 01:05:04 PM
Name:  

KAmil

Comments:  

@Damien: Manu got his 10 19th Jan I know u could write date 18 or 20, but I dont know y did u write 08
@Rubik's cube: my records are 32s for 3x3 cube and 3:10 for 4x4 I haven't bought 5x5 yet.

   
Jan 26th 2008 at 12:56:21 PM
Name:  

fritz

Best intermediate:  

16,46====>15,95

Comments:  

just happy.
5th sub20 today. 15.95 sec on 3BV=42@2.80. also my best RQP. now i should be back in the top100 .

@joni: i won't upload too many files in the future. just a few 100MB . well, i should think about deleting some of the MSwindows sub5 games. but there are still people who download all the arbiter sub5 files .
btw: in the news section: manu's surname is Heider not hieder

@manu and zhang: congratulations to your awesome records. i wish i could play only one time as good as you do.

@Kamil: grats to your WR . is there a record for breaking the world record the most times in the shortest time?

   
Jan 26th 2008 at 12:43:55 PM
Name:  

KAmil

Best intermediate:  

NF 4,407 -> 4,514

Comments:  

World record 81 3bv in 18,944s It's better than my flaggin record (4,44) Vid linked

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Jan 26th 2008 at 11:19:43 AM
Name:  

joni

Comments:  

@Zhang: the limit was about 250KB, since that was more or less the size of the avi files encoded with Camtasia. Now I raised the limit to a bit over 1MB as you requested, though I don't really know how much space Damien actually has... oh well we can always delete some of Fritz' games in the worst case (i'm joking of course )

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Jan 26th 2008 at 11:18:48 AM
Name:  

Bertie

Comments:  

Ok, I might be a few posts late on this horse, but I still want to give my congrats to Zhang. I'd like to watch the vid though. I hope to be up there at some time.

@Micheal: How's the powerball working for you? I'm seriously considering it, and would like to get your opinion.

   
Jan 26th 2008 at 09:35:33 AM
Name:  

fritz

Comments:  

also got a new RQP highscore: 5,76
17.28 sec on 3BV=49 @3BV/s = 3.00.

   
Jan 26th 2008 at 09:06:37 AM
Name:  

fritz

Best intermediate:  

3,811==>3,989

Comments:  

23.56 sec on 3BV=90
almost sup4 3BV/s on int. i hope it won't be the same as with my exp 3BV/s improvement (2,91->2.96->2.99)

   
Jan 26th 2008 at 08:31:31 AM
Name:  

Elmar

Comments:  

Well, for official world records you dont scramble the cube yourself. You get to look at it for 15secs and then you start solving it...
I obviously scramble it myself. but I couldnt remember a scramble of over 20 turns just like that even if I wanted to...

   
Jan 26th 2008 at 08:25:52 AM
Name:  

Michael

Comments:  

How can you have world records for rubiks cubes? Can't you just remember how you messed the cube up to start with?

   
Jan 26th 2008 at 08:17:50 AM
Name:  

Elmar

Comments:  

@Zhang: I use CFOP too, but I am nowhere near as good with averages around 40sec and PB of 26. I don't know any finger tricks and move the cube around too much, if I compare it to you.
Right now I am only playing around with the 5x5x5 though. Best time set today of 4:43min.

   
Jan 26th 2008 at 04:20:44 AM
Name:  

AreOut

Comments:  

Come on you&him didnt start sweeping when Oli did 39 :D

   
Jan 25th 2008 at 08:21:03 PM
Name:  

Tam Minh Bui

Comments:  

Amazing Zhang!! I always knew that you would be one of the first ones to sub-40

   
Jan 25th 2008 at 05:24:57 PM
Name:  

Zhang Shen Jia

Comments:  

Zhang Shen Jia-38.82(3bv122).avi [file size bigger than max allowed]

@damien:you should increase the size limit in video folder. my Exp avi video always > 500KB, Int avi video always > 200KB.

suggest:increase the size limit to 1mb for "avi" video, so Chinese player could upload their avi video(the mvf maybe don't work on many English system,isn't?).

   
Jan 25th 2008 at 04:50:16 PM
Name:  

Zhang Shen Jia

Comments:  

@Elmar: I use CFOP methods -- the most popular methods in high-class player. Now I was top5 in China, maybe top1000 in world. Jiang Gan Yuan, The top player in China, he is rank56 now.

   
Jan 25th 2008 at 04:29:42 PM
Name:  

Ronny

Comments:  

@kamil, your advice: 'play slower to get faster is finally starting to pay off work'. My left clicks have dropped, but my IOE has improved a lot, causing my 3bv/s to improve.

   
Jan 25th 2008 at 04:26:20 PM
Name:  

Ronny

Best expert:  

NF 1,690 3bvs -> 2.032 (167/183) Blasted...ouch

Comments:  

Congrats Zang, very impressive.

Today I was very quick and almost hopped on NF expert a couple of times, but blasted them all near the end. Funny thing was that I finally thought I got my flag sub100 on clone (my cursed clone!), till I realized I had forgotten to flag at least 1.

   
Jan 25th 2008 at 04:13:50 PM
Name:  

Ryo Nishihara (Leo)

Best expert:  

58

Best intermediate:  

13

Best beginner:  

1

Comments:  

Grats,Zhang Just Insane...

   
Jan 25th 2008 at 02:29:11 PM
Name:  

Elmar

Comments:  

Grats Zhang. Also nice rubiks videos. Looks like you're almost world class there as well, crazy stuff...
What method do you use? I can never figure it out from those vids, but it looked pretty efficient, petrus?

   
Jan 25th 2008 at 02:27:31 PM
Name:  

Dion Tiu

Comments:  

Congrats Zhang, very well played game!

   
Jan 25th 2008 at 02:24:52 PM
Name:  

AreOut

Comments:  

Grats Zhang

   
Jan 25th 2008 at 01:49:08 PM
Name:  

KAmil

Comments:  

Just made new NF IOS and RQP records: 51 3bv in 13,439s @ 4,1 3bv/s Funny fact is that my previous RQP and IOS record was also 13,439s but on 50 board I also got 1st from a quite long time sup 4,3 NF 3BV/s on int. I will put both vids to my folder tomorrow

   
Jan 25th 2008 at 01:15:28 PM
Name:  

Arjádre

Best expert:  

Latest blast: est 52 128/132 mehhh

Comments:  

WHOA!!!!
BIG CONGRATULATIONS TO ZHANG AND MANU

   
Jan 25th 2008 at 01:00:57 PM
Name:  

Michael

Comments:  

Saint Zhang

Very well done.

   
Jan 25th 2008 at 12:07:00 PM
Name:  

Tommy

Comments:  

Well done Zhang!

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Jan 25th 2008 at 11:11:22 AM
Name:  

Nikolaj

Comments:  

Great achievment Zhang!

   
Jan 25th 2008 at 10:57:55 AM
Name:  

aris

Comments:  

oh! and of course grats to zhang

   
Jan 25th 2008 at 10:53:27 AM
Name:  

aris

Best expert:  

66

Best intermediate:  

18

Best beginner:  

2

Comments:  

OMG!!!!!!! THAT'S THE ONLY THING I CAN SAY

   
Jan 25th 2008 at 10:04:48 AM
Name:  

Zhang Shen Jia

Comments:  

标签: 中国 扫雷 更多
Tips: China Minesweeper More

描述:
Content:

3BV122。 在Manuel Heider中级平世界记录的刺激下,连续奋战三天,成为世界上第三位高级sub40的扫雷玩家,世界排名第二!

With Manuel Heider's stimulate(He ties the World Record of Int),I fight for three days, and finally become 3rd sub40 minesweeper player in world, and ranking grow to 2nd!

sorry for my poor english:)

   
Jan 25th 2008 at 10:00:55 AM
Name:  

KAmil

Best expert:  

47FL, 49NF

Comments:  

Congrats to Zhang I've noticed that u always get new record few days after Manu gets ( As far as I remember u got 41 few days after he got)

   
Jan 25th 2008 at 09:56:24 AM
Name:  

joni

Comments:  

grats to zhang , that's crazy!
As to who might get the first place from Dion (hypotetichally speaking =P), my money is on Manu .
Btw what does:
标签:
中国 扫雷
更多
描述:
3BV122。 在Manuel Heider中级平世界记录的刺激下,连续奋战三天,成为世界上第三位高级sub40的扫雷玩家,世界排名第二!

mean? is Manuel Heider one of the tags on that video? or is it on Zhang's profile

   
Jan 25th 2008 at 09:27:53 AM
Name:  

Shunfei Xu

Best expert:  

62.53

Best intermediate:  

16.38

Best beginner:  

1.38

Comments:  

I'm a Chinese , we are so proud of zhang shen jia . And I never doubt that he will get the first soon!

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Jan 25th 2008 at 09:26:58 AM
Name:  

Zhang Hong

Best expert:  

55.20 NF

Best intermediate:  

14.57 NF

Comments:  

Congratulations to Senior Zhang!

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Jan 25th 2008 at 09:22:59 AM
Name:  

Jan Parucka

Best expert:  

57

Best intermediate:  

16

Best beginner:  

2

Comments:  

Well, although I normally don't post here, this seems like a really good opportunity to do so.
So, big congrats to Zhang from me! That game is really a huge achievement.

   
Jan 25th 2008 at 09:05:53 AM
Name:  

Zhang Shen Jia

Best expert:  

41.35 -> 41.21 -> 38.82 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Comments:  

finally sub40 in a 122 board, video is here

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Jan 25th 2008 at 04:09:11 AM
Name:  

Traian

Comments:  

Hello all.
Some of you may know me, some of you may not. Anyway, it's good to be here again, even if i'm just passing through. There are some nice memories about this guestbook and about the greatest game in the world.
I don't think I'll start playing again, but still I'll visit this website more and more often just to keep in touch with the good old days.
Greetings all and good luck!

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Jan 25th 2008 at 04:02:17 AM
Name:  

KAmil

Best intermediate:  

100 sub15

Comments:  

12x12, 13x31, 14x67 I also have some 14 on winminexp

   
Jan 25th 2008 at 03:56:38 AM
Name:  

Michael

Comments:  

Just blasted a board at 109/154, est. 48...

One day I will sub-50, I swear. The question is, will my age be sub-50 or not?

   
Jan 25th 2008 at 02:00:33 AM
Name:  

Gergő

Comments:  

@Joni: Thanks, it is working now. I'll continue my story soon. In Budapest I will surely lose my way without a map . That for Gergely was only a joke and I didn't want to hurt anybody at all...

   
Jan 25th 2008 at 12:30:18 AM
Name:  

joni

Comments:  

@Gergö: Thanx for the feedback, i applied a quick fix to that.
I guess it's us two that will be closer to 30 than to 20 soon instead of gergely, that really makes you feel old . I really don't like the way you put it .

I'm a bit late in the hungarian discussion , i still remember the meeting place at Fövam tér. I have forgotten the name of the metro station to get there though . It was an important hub with lot's of work in progress around it as i recall.

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Jan 24th 2008 at 11:10:28 PM
Name:  

Gergő

Best beginner:  

2,310

Comments:  

@Damien: The size of the player-profile window is determined and fix. If the introduction is too long (in my case, and even in your case, too), you can't roll down to the link to write on your history of development. Can you solve this problem?
@all: Yesterday I played some beg games. I broke my 3BV/s record to 3,322 @ a 27 board in 9,128... and I did 3X5 (best 3,503) and 12X4...
And (of course) I blasted an est sup 2 3BV/s on exp...

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Jan 24th 2008 at 01:28:57 PM
Name:  

KAmil

Comments:  

I lost on a guess 25/31 est 10, 37/39 est 11,6 so I think I would pass the guessing this time

   
Jan 24th 2008 at 01:26:01 PM
Name:  

Ronny

Comments:  

@kamil, too bad. BTW, the next click would have been a 50-50 guess, so you already needed a little extra luck if you hadn't made a mistake.

   
Jan 24th 2008 at 12:47:46 PM
Name:  

Cristian Gallego

Comments:  

reminder: you updated my 64.11 but not my 15.78, i have still 16.22 int the ranking i put the video in the other post

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Jan 24th 2008 at 12:17:47 PM
Name:  

KAmil

Comments:  

Just blasted 9,622 @ 27/31 est10 I'm stupid vid linked

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Jan 24th 2008 at 11:14:44 AM
Name:  

KAmil

Best intermediate:  

NF 12x11 -> x12

Comments:  

...

   
Jan 24th 2008 at 11:07:10 AM
Name:  

Bertie

Comments:  

@KAmil: Still very unlikely. And I wasn't claiming anything else. A score being a record only makes it special to the player, not in the statistical scheme of things.

   
Jan 24th 2008 at 01:25:54 AM
Name:  

Ben Drucker

Best expert:  

66

Best intermediate:  

18

Best beginner:  

1

Comments:  

For whoever runs this website these days (I assume it's still Damien unless I hear otherwise), these are my new best times. I haven't played seriously in years, but the occasional game while waiting for a download did result in these new personal records for me over the years.

   
Jan 24th 2008 at 12:57:58 AM
Name:  

Gergő

Comments:  

@Gergely: I checked it. You're right. Sorry...

   
Jan 24th 2008 at 12:28:41 AM
Name:  

WP

Comments:  

About the championship: I saw it first on Facebook, and initially I thought that it was just an extra activity for the sweepers who are on Facebook. I think that if it were to be official, Facebook wouldn't be a very good place. (people would need to sign up to participate)

And it's true that it resembles the AR...especially since points can be easily implemented in the AR. The AR that Detrusor put on his site already had a points system (the person in last place has one point, the second-last has two, etc.) So we'd need something that's more different from the AR. As for how to make it different...I'm still thinking :P

   
Jan 24th 2008 at 12:24:42 AM
Name:  

Gergely

Comments:  

Thanks Guys, but let me clear something: I'm still closer to 20 than to 30

   
Jan 24th 2008 at 12:08:07 AM
Name:  

Gergő

Best expert:  

77F, 87NF

Comments:  

@Gergely: Really... Happy b-day! You're now closer to 30 than to 20...
@all: I again blasted a record on the last square... It was 83 on exp NF... But next time I'll do it, but I told the same after my previous blasted record, too...

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Jan 23rd 2008 at 04:43:54 PM
Name:  

Zhang Shen Jia

Best expert:  

41.35 -> 41.21 !!!

Comments:  

in a 139 board.

grats to Tam,Manu,Elmar!

   
Jan 23rd 2008 at 11:17:55 AM
Name:  

KAmil

Best expert:  

NF 3,237 -> 3.276

Comments:  

208 3bv in 64,486s vid linked
Also blasted on a 50-50 guess 202/224 @ 3,380 3bv/s NF, all openings were opened so if I was fast I could beat Rogen's WR 3,404

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Jan 23rd 2008 at 08:32:36 AM
Name:  

KAmil

Comments:  

my 11th 12s Int was my biggest stupid mistake ever - If I clicked in the middle in the last move, it would be 11,8. But of course I clicked on the left, on the right and finally in the middle

   
Jan 23rd 2008 at 08:19:04 AM
Name:  

KAmil

Best intermediate:  

12x10 -> x11

Comments:  

...

   
Jan 23rd 2008 at 08:07:01 AM
Name:  

fritz

Comments:  

@ michael:
my facebook account has been disabled. i hope it will be reactivated tomorrow.

   
Jan 23rd 2008 at 07:32:07 AM
Name:  

KAmil

Comments:  

@Bertie: But as far as I remember this scores had only X,XX, not X,XXX, and probably it wasn't your record scores

   
Jan 23rd 2008 at 07:27:40 AM
Name:  

Bertie

Comments:  

@KAmil: I don't know whether you ever had a look at the Budapest results, but I had two sets of identical int times. (In 3 hours, which is quite improbable I think)

@Tourney: I like the MSlive idea best. You just need to find the optimal way of grouping the players which balances their skill while making the times as convenient as possible. I really think that MSlive gets too little attention.

@Gergely: Happy b-day! Hope you have many more.

   
Jan 23rd 2008 at 07:09:59 AM
Name:  

KAmil

Best intermediate:  

NF 12,011 x1 -> 12,011 x2 (12x10)

Comments:  

LOL, I got the same time again and it's again 35 3bv Probably I'm 1st person ever who got 100% the same time as the record again Vid linked

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Jan 23rd 2008 at 06:33:06 AM
Name:  

Andrey

Comments:  

@ Damien: after reading your last post I once again wanted to say that I don't believe in 3bv as a measure of difficulty. My understanding is that low 3bv boards have much longer perimeters of the openings, which causes your IOE drop even if you are able to keep clicks/sec at your normal level.

   
Jan 23rd 2008 at 05:16:48 AM
Name:  

Ace

Best expert:  

3.82x 3BV/s => 3.932 3BV/s

Comments:  

Almost 4!
OK, that was on a 254 3BV board, but still...
I put the youtube link in the website URL, .mvf file is there : ttp://www.planete-demineur.com/phpBB2/download.php?id=2882

And I got my 2nd 47s last week, more than 1 year after the first one.

Happy sweeping all!

Ace

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Jan 23rd 2008 at 03:04:41 AM
Name:  

Gergely

Comments:  

about the tournament issue: I think the AR is a kind of bi-weekly tournament. I don't know much about programming but the format can be changed, I think and hope
So, maybe that should be used as fundamentals. What do you think?

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Jan 23rd 2008 at 02:43:59 AM
Name:  

KAmil

Comments:  

@ tournaments: every kind of tournaments, on minesweeperlive or not, will have timezones problems. I just suggest that minesweeperlive will be most fair because of the same boards. And 2nd most important thing: tournaments should be only for int or only for exp. Some players r good only on int, some only on exp. That's stupid if we connect int with exp , because exp players will always win.
@Damien: I have 13NF on 32 and 13NF on 51. Your 32 3bv board could be just hard, that's y u got 15s

   
Jan 23rd 2008 at 12:41:21 AM
Name:  

Gergő

Comments:  

@Ronny: Let us create a tournament in a new way. The ranking depends: how many exp games do you finish in 3 days... Will you join? Besides I may have the same reason as you (and the trying of NF). But it will change (not the NF...). Let's go!

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Jan 22nd 2008 at 06:14:14 PM
Name:  

Michael

Comments:  

That's odd, it seems Fritz has disappeared from Facebook altogether. His videos have even disappeared from the other minesweeper group.

   
Jan 22nd 2008 at 05:04:31 PM
Name:  

Michael

Comments:  

I think 90 minutes might be a little small. Why not just have the whole day? That way time zones don't really matter. Whenever your clock hits midnight you can start playing. If people get to decide when during the day they'll play their 90 mins, then we won't be playing at the same time anyway.

Also, Heath Ledger is dead. Now I'll have a look for the Facebook group.

   
Jan 22nd 2008 at 03:40:24 PM
Name:  

Ronny

Comments:  

@Gergő: 1 in 90 minutes ain't so bad...it took me 23 days (~12h play) to finish 1 board a little while ago (after i spend weeks playing only int). Now i also solve only about 1 per 90 minutes.

   
Jan 22nd 2008 at 03:09:38 PM
Name:  

damien

Comments:  

arghh!!!

i start playing, and before i warm up i get a 32 board...in 15s!!! Then, two games later I get 19 on a 87 board at 4.6 3bv/s. Who can explain????

   
Jan 22nd 2008 at 01:26:26 PM
Name:  

joni

Comments:  

yep Elmar, you beat me to that, there has been one tourney on mslive already,
http://minesweeperlive.com/tourney1groups.php

As you can see there were 4 groups, 3 with five players 1 with six. Quite unexpectedly the group with 6 players was a success , despite having people in five different timezones . 3 Europeans, 2 from USA plus Kat from Australia. We managed to meet all at one time, (early morning Australia, late night Europe, afternoon USA). Here's Group 4's forum thread. http://minesweeperlive.com/forum.php?th=45
Meeting in the IRC channel before the matchups also helped.

That is to show that if there is at least one per group who tries to take some organizing responsibilities it WILL work, since everybody is in there because they want to play.

The russians have also had several minelive tournaments. And there was some talk to the admin if he could develop a feature to have the possibility to be connected as spectators to matches. If i remember right he said he didn't have time to do it before the final fase of that tourney, but he would have worked on it for the coming tourney... unfortunately there hasn't been any yet.. and i don't know if he's got the time to dedicate to that now. Anyways, the guy is really helpful

that said, playing minelive is a really different way to play minesweeper from different points of view.

   
Jan 22nd 2008 at 01:04:07 PM
Name:  

fritz

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@elmar: i've already seen that but i also read in the forum at mslive that the planned 2nd tournament starts very slowly. but what speaks against 2 tournaments? there are very few opportunities for active sweepers to compete so if the mslive tournament will start i'll take part in too.

   
Jan 22nd 2008 at 12:58:47 PM
Name:  

Elmar

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@Fritz: We have already played a tourney on MSlive. The admin had it all set up for us. Games were automatically entered into group tables and later knock out rounds. Should be on there somewhere...

   
Jan 22nd 2008 at 12:51:49 PM
Name:  

fritz

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i created a "minesweeper world cup"-group on facebook. if you want your ideas for the world cup come true just join the group and tell them on the discussion board.
i think it should be possible to start the first tournament on the first weekend of february (just to give a deadline to the discussion and to assure that the tournament topic won't get lost in space).

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=9760545676

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Jan 22nd 2008 at 07:49:14 AM
Name:  

fritz

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@kamil:
but on minesweeper live you can't see which times other sweepers achieve (e.g. i won't be able to see in which time you finish boards when you sweep against gergö) and there's also the problem with the timezones. i also think that the different board difficulties in normal minesweeper won't make it too unfair. (only my personal opinion and not to be considered in the discussion: for me the boards lost on guessings are a big part of what makrs me so addicted to minesweeper)
@gergö: i think the length and other settings of tournaments can be discussed later but there should be more than one mode.
5int+5exp in 90mins is hard but it is possible. but the exact settings for a tournament of course still need to be discussed.

   
Jan 22nd 2008 at 07:21:02 AM
Name:  

KAmil

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We can also play like in Chess tournaments: every player plays against 7 players 1vs1 (on minesweeperlive). In every round, every player plays against another player with the same number of points. Minesweeperlive would be more fair than normal tournaments because of the same board without guessings

   
Jan 22nd 2008 at 07:16:01 AM
Name:  

Gergő

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@ Fritz: Isn't 90 minutes too little? Nowadays I hardly finish an expert NF game... And I totally forgot how to flag... Or is it only my problem, as usual?

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Jan 22nd 2008 at 06:39:50 AM
Name:  

fritz

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@jon s: you described pretty good what i am thinking about

@gergő: just an example of how it might work out:
there is a tournament on day x (5int+5exp in 90mins)
the day before x you post in which time you'll play the session you'll submit.
after the day x you submit your scores
the only specified things are the day of the tournament, the required number of games and how long the session will be.
you can decide yourself at which daytime and on which clone you want to sweep.

@all who want to participate: i suppose a group on facebook is the easiest way to get this tournament started. if you think there is an easier way just tell it. otherwise i'm going to create the group in a few hours.
i'll post later about this.

   
Jan 22nd 2008 at 06:32:38 AM
Name:  

KAmil

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Just made new NF IOS and RQP records: 13,439s on 50 @ 4,02 3BV/s Vid linked

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Jan 22nd 2008 at 01:14:44 AM
Name:  

Gergő

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The online tournament is only possible with similar time zones, Fritz is right. It seems, that I'm the only poor in this community as I do not have internet at home... Once I will richer . Fritz's suggestion is correct about the biweekly tournament, but I think tournaments should not be routine events, so, monthly organisation would be better. Maybe every participant should post the five best int and exp, and the filename should consist the exact time of the game, so, timezones would become indifferent. Or do you think, Fritz, that a specified time interval should be given to everybody, e.g. 3 hours? But this tournament sounds good, and I would participate as well (if you accept, that I post my results the following weekday morning, until I will have net connection...).

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Jan 22nd 2008 at 12:24:31 AM
Name:  

AreOut

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@Gergo:"One of my friends told me, that Stunts (an ancient car-game) has meetings, when "addicts" meet each other in a weekend, just to get closer to each other, to make friends. Does it exist in Minesweeper, too? If not, we can organise such meetings. What is your opinion? Or am I too naive?"

If more ppl dont get motivated for this there are very slight chances for it :)

   
Jan 21st 2008 at 01:49:53 PM
Name:  

Jon S

Comments:  

Grats Tam and Kamil.

@Gergő:

I used to play Stunts. I also saw something on the internet about tournaments, but never really got into touch with those guys. I've made a lot of tracks if you or anyone else is interested. Lately I haven't played it much because of errr... Minesweeper

@fritz:

I might be interested in competing in a bi-weekly tournament. I can't say for sure before I know more details about how you're going to arrange it. Are you thinking that all participants should do the following:

1. Notify someone of when they're going to play
2. Play on the clone/arbiter or whatever other software that gets accepted (in the time interval that they specified)
3. In some straightforward manner document the results and submit them

If it can be arranged like that, I think I'll participate. I might not play every period unless I get hooked

   
Jan 21st 2008 at 12:29:13 PM
Name:  

KAmil

Best beginner:  

NF 1x7 -> x8

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After 5 hours wasted on playing hard Int boards , 100% with more than 7 openings, and 1 hour playing stupid expert: blasted on a guess 102/124 est 44NF - I decided to play some Beg And got my 1st 1s this year

   
Jan 21st 2008 at 10:46:27 AM
Name:  

fritz

Comments:  

@aris:
what do you think i've been doing the last 30 mins?
but i still see a little problem there:
it seems very hard to sweep against somone in a different timezone. in a bi-weekly tournament it would be therefore kinda unfair if e.g. a person from europe would sweep against someone from asia. it could easily happen that for some people it's too late and for some too early to sweep as good as possible.
you also can't see which scores others got when they played against each other

   


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