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Minesweeper Facebook Page
<keywords content="facebook, minesweeper, fan, page" /> The Minesweeper Facebook Page is a Fan Page dedicated to Minesweeper using the social network platform Facebook. Anthony Grazian created the page 24 Jun 2008, offering sweepers to share their best times via the page. About one month later, Luke Sullivan and name removed joined Anthony as Admins of the page. Until Facebook blocked their publishing rights in summer 2009 the page included a Ranking, with more than 280 submitted scores, a regularly updated News Feed, and regularly hosted Minesweeper tournaments.
History
Anthony Grazian created the Minesweeper Fan Page on 24 Jun 2008, asking sweepers, who eventually find the page, to post and compare their best times in Minesweeper:
- "If anyone has any suggestions for this page please tell me. Post them somewhere, or message Anthony Grazian."
- "Feel free to post videos and photos of your best times."
Soon, sweepers from everywhere in the world began to share their highscores on the page's wall. Anthony Grazian, who was the only admin of the page at the time, made lists for all scores that sweepers should claim on the page's wall asking to provide a screenshot as evidence for all claimed scores below 60s on Expert.
This rule was first used when Dante Ting claimed to have 2+20+59 on 9 Jul 2008.
- "Dante can we get a screenshot of that 59 second game?"
Until today, this decision on claimed scores below 60s hasn't changed, though it is only a formality now as sub60s scores are in the ranking that have not been proven by a screenshot.
On 22 Jul 2008 name removed suggested to run tournaments via the page:
- "why is metanoodle.com/minesweeper still listed here? it isn't active anymore, everything's on msinfo (same guy runs both sites)
- what do you tink of having a weekly or monthly tournament here?
- don't worry, i wouldn't take part, i'm close to retireing atm :(."
As Luke and Anthony didn't think they have been around in the Minesweeper community for long enough, they decided to ask name removed to join the team of the page's Admins. After 5 days of intense discussions, the 3 Admins announced a first 1-level-tournament to gain an overview on how many people are interested in Minesweeper tournaments.
On 27 Jul name removed announced the first tournament on the page's wall:
- "we decided to do a one week testing tournament now.
- it starts immediately and you will have time to submit your best scores untill 2nd of august 18:00 gmt, when the real tournament and the 1st tournament season will start.
- please help us testing our tournament mode and take part in the testing tournament just like it was part of the real tournament which will be starting next saturday, 2nd of august at 18:00 gmt.
- the size for the testing tournament is 14x14 with 30 mines.
- good luck and have fun trying your best on that level.
- may the best and fastest sweeper win the testing tournament."
After 7 days 8 scores for the testing tournament level have been uploaded to the page
On 2 Aug 2008 the 1st of 4 tournaments of the first season of tournaments started. Until 30 Aug 2008, 25 Players took part. After 28 days of tough competition the winner of the first season was found: Aryeh Drager. Though he didn't win any of the 4 single tournaments, Drager still placed best throughout the whole season.
On the very same day Season 2 of the tournaments started, again containing 4 single tournament levels. Because of a lack of clarity about the ranking mode for this season, very few people took part in these 4 tournaments.
WP Yeoh won season 2 with Aryeh Drager as runner-up. Luke Sullivan placed 3rd as he did in season 1.
In between the one month break between Season 2 and 3, Anthony Grazian added the "FBML"-application to the page, giving it it's current interface.
By the middle of November the page had reached 20,000 fans. At this time, in the Admins' internal discussion, name removed suggested adding a News Feed to the page. The goal of the News Feed is to easily keep people who are interested in Minesweeper informed about the most important issues happening in the Minesweeper community, through short articles. On 23 Nov 2008, the News Feed Launched with "Moscow Open Minesweeper Tournament", "Minesweeper Tournament on Facebook (Season 3)" and "'Chasing Dion Tiu'" as its first 3 articles.
As it was announced in the article about Season 3, the next tournament started on 23 Nov 2008. Season 3 had only small changes to the mode of Season 1 which led to a big participation. Luke Sullivan won Season 3 being the first non-top 100-ranked sweeper to win one of the Tournaments.
On 18 Dec 2008, Damien Moore added a link to the Minesweeper Page to the list of the best active Minesweeper-related pages.
Rankings
The rankings on the fan page are largely based on the trust and honesty of the people claiming to have achieved the scores they have submitted. There are three separate rankings for each of the three standard Minesweeper levels: Beginner, Intermediate, and Expert. All scores that are on these three rankings have been explicitly posted on the fan page (scores are not taken from any other sites).
Since the creation of the page the rules for the rankings haven't changed:
- Become a fan and post times somewhere on this page to be added to this list
- If you have decimal scores please provide them
- Integer ties will be ranked by decimal scores
- Expert times below 60 seconds require proof (Screenshot posted in fan photos, or link to another ranking)
Among the three admins of the page Anthony Grazian is the one who regularly updates the Rankings.
Tournaments
On 22 Jul 2008, name removed suggested to host tournaments through the page. In the same week, the rough idea was developed into the mode the tournaments now have.
The rules of the tournament as explained on the page:
- Every week you will be given a new tournament level with new settings for height and width of the tournament minesweeper grid and new number of mines
- You have the whole week time to finish that board in the lowest time you can. Whenever you should beat your best time on the current tournament level you take a screenshot and upload it to our group in fan-photos-section and leave us a note on our wall.
- At the end of each week the participants will be given points for their rank in the current tournament level. the formula for the points will be as follows: (number of points) = (total number of participants in the last week) + 1 - (your rank in the last tournament level).
- That means if (i.e.) 10 people take part 1st will get 10 points, 2nd get 9, 3rd 8, ... etc.
- One tournament season will be 4 weeks long that means 1 season has 4 single tournaments.
- Also we, the admins, may sometimes request video validation in the case that any score should appear suspicious to us (for an experienced minesweeper player it is relatively easy to find out when the xyzzy cheat has been used on a board...). This affects only screenshots from windows minesweeper, since the clones are safe from cheating.
- For that reason we highly recommend that you use one of the clones which are accepted by the International Minesweeper Committee (IMC), which are: Minesweeper Clone, Minesweeper Arbiter, Minesweeper X.
- You can download these clones for free on this page.
- However, tournament scores made on windows minesweeper will of course be accepted too.
In the following parts tournaments are abbreviated as SX-TY - S (season), T (tournament), X (number of the season), Y (tournament within the season)
In the week before the start of S1 a testing tournament was launched consisting of only one level.
Testing Tournament
S0-TT was a 14(h)*14(w) grid with 30 mines
Level was played: 27.07.2008 - 02.08.2008
Results:
- 15s - Luke Sullivan
- 16s - Anthony Grazian
- 21s - Gus Buchanan
- 23s - Michael Mountain
- 25s - Mohammad Rashad
- 26s - Bushra Hattab
- 27s - Toni Trograncic
- 54s - Janna Hoskin
Season 1
- 4 tournaments, each 1 week
- 25 participants
- 1 points was given for every sweeper behind one in the tournament rankings
S1-T1
S1-T1 was a 25(h*16(w) grid with 25 mines
Level was played: 02.08.2008 - 09.08.2008
Results:
- 21 points - 3s - Liad Pollak
- 20 points - 4.18s - Theodore Sin
- 19 points - 4.34s - Luke Sullivan
- 18 points - 4s - WP Yeoh
- 17 points - 4s - Aryeh Drager
- 16 points - 4s - Milica Milovanovic
- 15 points - 5.01s - Anthony Grazian
- 14 points - 5.52s - Francesco Minnucci
- 13 points - 5s - Guðmundur Valgeir Þorsteinsson
- 12 points - 5s - Mike Chernev
- 11 points - 6s - Nicky Curtis
- 10 points - 7.99s - Michael Mountain
- 9 points - 7s - Gus Buchanan
- 8 points - 7s - John Liu
- 7 points - 7s - Julien Fritsch
- 6 points - 7s - Michael Dunlop
- 5 points - 8s - Bushra Hattab
- 4 points - 8s - Brianna Sieber
- 3 points - 10s - Mohammad Rashad
- 2 points - 11s - Sam Micallef
- 1 point - 13s - Mahmoud Abuzayed
- 0 points - 31s - Bernardo Alejandro Parra Flores
S1-T2
S1-T2 was a 12(h)*12(w) grid with 30 mines
Level was played: 09.08.2008 - 16.08.2008
Results:
- 14 points - 13.02s - Rupert Foggo McKay
- 13 points -13s - Mike Chernev
- 12 points - 14.56s - Aryeh Drager
- 11 points - 15.80s - WP Yeoh
- 10 points - 15.86s - Francesco Minnucci
- 9 points - 17.78s - Anthony Grazian
- 8 points - 17.82s - Guðmundur Valgeir Þorsteinsson
- 7 points - 17s - Milica Milovanovic
- 6 points - 17s - Tomer Pollak
- 5 points - 17s - Theodore Sin
- 4 points - 18.34s - Luke Sullivan
- 3 points - 20s - Mohammad Rashad
- 2 points - 26s - Michael Dunlop
- 1 point - 28s - Nicky Curtis
- 0 points - 37s - Julien Fritsch
S1-T3
S1-T3 was a 25(h)*29(w) grid with 120 mines
Level was played: 16.08.2008 - 23.08.2008
Results:
- 9 points - 53.97s - Manuel Heider
- 8 points - 66.15 - Aryeh Drager
- 7 points - 66.68s - Rupert Foggo Mckay
- 6 points - 74s - WP Yeoh
- 5 points - 80.03s - Luke Sullivan
- 4 points - 81s - Liad Pollak
- 3 points - 86,76s - Milica Milovanovic
- 2 points - 89.79s - Theodore Sin
- 1 point - 93,30s - Anthony Grazian
- 0 points - 114.91s - Francesco Minnucci
S1-T4
S1-T4 was a 9(h)*30(w) grid with 30 mines
Level was played: 23.08.2008 - 30.08.2008
Results:
- 8.70s - 6 points - Rupert Foggo McKay
- 9.61s - 5 points - Aryeh Drager
- 10.38s - 4 points - Guðmundur Valgeir Þorsteinsson
- 11.61s - 3 points - Milica Milovanovic
- 11.95s - 2 points - Luke Sullivan
- 11s - 1 point - Liad Pollak
- 17.44s - 0 points - Anthony Grazian
S1 Final
S1 Final Ranking
Positions from 1 to 8 qualified for Division 1 in Season 2,
positions from 9 to 16 qualified for Division 2 in Season 2
and positions from 17 on qualified for Division 3 in Season 2.
- 44 points - Aryeh Drager
- 41 points - WP Yeoh
- 31 points - Luke Sullivan
- 30 points - Milica Milovanovic
- 29 points - Rupert Foggo McKay
- 27 points - Liad Pollak
- 27 points - Theodore Sin
- 26 points - Guðmundur Valgeir Þorsteinsson
- 26 points - Anthony Grazian
- 25 points - Mike Chernev
- 24 points - Francesco Minnucci
- 12 points - Nicky Curtis
- 10 points - Michael Mountain
- 9 points - Gus Buchanan
- 9 points - Manuel Heider
- 8 points - John Liu
- 8 points - Michael Dunlop
- 7 points - Julien Fritsch
- 6 points - Tomer Pollak
- 6 points - Mohammad Rashad
- 5 points - Bushra Hattab
- 4 points - Brianna Sieber
- 2 points - Sam Micallef
- 1 point - Mahmoud Abuzayed
- 0 points - Bernardo Alejandro Parra Flores
Season 2
Season 2 had, unlike the other seasons, divisions with 8 sweepers in each, in which points were given 8-6-5-4-3-2-1-0 for the respective rank in each tournament.
S2-T1
S2-T1 was a 12(h)*16(w) grid with 25 mines
Level was played: 30.08.2008 - 06.09.2008
Results:
Division 1:
- 7.512s - 8 points - Aryeh Drager
- 10.11s - 6 points - Luke Sullivan
- 10s - 5 points - Liad Pollak
- 11.221s - 4 points - WP Yeoh
- 12.10s - 3 points - Guðmundur Valgeir Þorsteinsson
- 13.53s - 2 points - Theodore Sin
Division 2:
- 12.635s - 8 points - Anthony Grazian
Division 3:
- 6.018s - 8 points - Jon Simonsen
- 7.784s - 6 points - Dennis Lütken
- 8.84s - 5 points - Bertie Seyffert
- 13s - 4 points - Michael Dunlop
- 15.49s - 3 points - Steven Smith
S2-T2
S2-T2 was a 17(h)*29(w) grid with 66 mines
Level was played: 06.09.2008 - 13.09.2008
Results:
Division 1:
- 29.943s - 8 points - WP Yeoh
- 32s - 6 points - Liad Pollak
- 33.19s - 5 points - Luke Sullivan
- 35s - 4 points - Aryeh Drager
Division 2:
- 50.930s - 8 points - Anthony Grazian
- 65.26s - 6 points - Nicky Curtis
Division 3:
- 27.051s - 8 points - Dennis Lütken
- 27.417s - 6 points - Jon Simonsen
- 28.26s - 5 points - Bertie Seyffert
- 29.621s - 4 points - Alex Niswander
- 37.63s - 3 points - Steven Smith
S2-T3
S2-T3 was a 9(h)*25(w) grid with 45 mines
Level was played: 13.09.2008 - 20.09.2008
Results:
Division 1:
- 22.747s - 8 points - WP Yeoh
- 23.1s - 6 points - Aryeh Drager
- 28.51s - 5 points - Luke Sullivan
Division 3:
- 20.076s - 8 points - Jon Simonsen
S2-T4
S2-T4 was a 15(h)*9(w) grid with 33 mines
Level was played: 20.09.2008 - 27.09.2008
Results:
Division 1:
- 19.640s - 8 points - WP Yeoh
- 21.7s - 6 points - Aryeh Drager
- 23.96s - 5 points - Luke Sullivan
Division 3:
- 15.993s - 8 points - Jon Simonsen
- 18.145s - 6 points - Dennis Lütken
S2 Final
S2 Final Ranking
Division 1:
- 1st - 28 points - WP Yeoh
- 2nd - 24 points - Aryeh Drager
- 3rd - 21 points - Luke Sullivan
- 4th - 11 points - Liad Pollak
- 5th - 3 points - Guðmundur Valgeir Þorsteinsson
- 6th - 2 points - Theodore Sin
Division 2:
- 1st - 16 points - Anthony Grazian
- 2nd - 6 points - Nicky Curtis
Division 3:
- 1st - 30 points - Jon Simonsen
- 2nd - 20 points - Dennis Lütken
- 3rd - 10 points - Bertie Seyffert
- 4th - 6 points - Steven Smith
- 5th - 4 points - Michael Dunlop
- 6th - 4 points - Alex Niswander
Season 3
The mode used to rank scores was similar to the one used in Season 1. The only difference in this season was that everyone received one point more. This resulted in the last position receiving 1 point instead of 0.
S3-T1
S3-T1 was a 12(h)*12(w) grid with 10 mines
Level was played: 23.11.2008 - 30.11.2008
Results:
- 1.19s - 28 points - Luke Sullivan
- 1.57s - 27 points - Guðmundur Valgeir Þorsteinsson
- 1.66s - 26 points - Tanvi Prakash
- 1.672s - 25 points - Jan Peša
- 1.673s - 24 points - James Mckenzie
- 1.72s - 23 points - Aryeh Drager
- 1.82s - 22 points - Traian Nitu
- 1.849s - 21 points - Marketa Dubska
- 1s - 20 points - Anthony Grazian
- 1s - 19 points - Tyler Fraser
- 1s - 18 points - Matina Papadia
- 1s - 17 points - Edouard Martin
- 1s - 16 points - Steven Smith
- 1s - 15 points - Katie Garland
- 2.02s - 14 points - Edouard Cros
- 2.210s - 13 points - Dennis Meng
- 2.22s - 12 points - Scott Hammond
- 2.94s - 11 points - WP Yeoh
- 2s - 10 points - Brandon Herlig
- 2s - 9 points - Marc Pacios Vilellas
- 2s - 8 points - Christiam Mateus
- 3.71s - 7 points - Rémy Deltombe
- 3.71s - 6 points - Ashley R. Bullard
- 3.97s - 5 points - Chris Kwolek
- 4s - 4 points - Bivek Suval
- 4s - 3 points - Wally Powell
- (missing score) - 2 points - John Fries
- (missing score) - 1 point - Jackson Walsh
S3-T2
S3-T2 was a 14(h)*28(w) grid with 56 mines
Level was played: 30.11.2008 - 07.12.2008
Results:
- 23.062s - 20 points - Alvin Manay
- 23.116s - 19 points - WP Yeoh
- 24.991s - 18 points - Luke Sullivan
- 26.541s - 17 points - James Mckenzie
- 30.34s - 16 points - Steven Smith
- 30.38s - 15 points - Guðmundur Valgeir Þorsteinsson
- 35.024s - 14 points - Anthony Grazian
- 36.015s - 13 points - Katie Garland
- 36.628s - 12 points - Dennis Meng
- 38.20s - 11 points - Scott Hammond
- 38s - 10 points - Marc Pacios Vilellas
- 40s - 9 points - Marketa Dubska
- 41.810s - 8 points - Jan Peša
- 43.825s - 7 points - Tyler Fraser
- 48s - 6 points - Hoe Teck Kheng
- 51s - 5 points - Marko Andjelkovic
- 67.19s - 4 points - Chris Kwolek
- 74.37s - 3 points - Tanvi Prakash
- 99.46s - 2 points - Rémy Deltombe
- 152s - 1 point - Jordan Reid
S3-T3
S3-T3 was a 23(h)*19(w) grid with 84 mines
Level was played: 07.12.2008 - 14.12.2008
Results:
- 52.162s - 21 points - WP Yeoh
- 53.626s - 20 points - Luke Sullivan
- 54.784s - 19 points - Alvin Manay
- 58.06s - 18 points - Steven Smith
- 58.208s - 17 points - James Mckenzie
- 63.16s - 16 points - Matina Papadia
- 67.072s - 15 points - Anthony Grazian
- 68.267s - 14 points - Katie Garland
- 75.02s - 13 points - Scott Hammond
- 82s - 12 points - Tanvi Chitnis
- 84s - 11 points - Marc Pacios Vilellas
- 85.600s - 10 points - Dennis Meng
- 87.599s - 9 points - Jan Peša
- 87.618s - 8 points - Tyler Fraser
- 89.78s - 7 points - Guðmundur Valgeir Þorsteinsson
- 110s - 6 points - Hoe Teck Kheng
- 138s - 5 points - Philip M
- 139.22s - 4 points - Chris Kwolek
- 156.94s - 3 points - Tanvi Prakash
- 184s - 2 points - John Lustrea
- 233s - 1 point - Jason Cotrell
S3-T4
S3-T4 was a 10(h)*10(w) grid with 20 mines
Level was played: 14.12.2008 - 21.12.2008
Results:
- 7.48s - 14 points - Traian Nitu
- 7s - 13 points - Nicolas Durussel
- 8.639s - 12 points - WP Yeoh
- 9.208s - 11 points - James Mckenzie
- 9.400s - 10 points - Luke Sullivan
- 9.626s - 9 points - Alvin Manay
- 10.72s - 8 points - Guðmundur Valgeir Þorsteinsson
- 11.78s - 7 points - Steven Smith
- 11s - 6 points - Ahmad Saeed Kamal
- 13.43s - 5 points - Scott Hammond
- 13.934s - 4 points - Dennis Meng
- 14.265s - 3 points - Katie Garland
- 14s - 2 points - Marc Pacios Vilellas
- 16.755s - 1 point - Jan Peša
S3 Final
S3 Final Ranking
- 76 points - Luke Sullivan
- 69 points - James Mckenzie
- 63 points - WP Yeoh
- 57 points - Steven Smith
- 57 points - Guðmundur Valgeir Þorsteinsson
- 49 points - Anthony Grazian
- 48 points - Alvin Manay
- 45 points - Katie Garland
- 43 points - Jan Peša
- 41 points - Scott Hammond
- 39 points - Dennis Meng
- 36 points - Traian Nitu
- 34 points - Tyler Fraser
- 34 points - Matina Papadia
- 32 points - Tanvi Prakash
- 32 points - Marc Pacios Vilellas
- 30 points - Marketa Dubska
- 23 points - Aryeh Drager
- 17 points - Edouard Martin
- 14 points - Eduard Cros
- 13 points - Chris Kwolek
- 13 points - Nicolas Durussel
- 12 points - Tanvi Chitnis
- 12 points - Hoe Teck Kheng
- 10 points - Brandon Herlig
- 9 points - Rémy Deltombe
- 8 points - Christiam Mateus
- 6 points - Ashley R. Bullard
- 6 points - Ahmad Saeed Kamal
- 5 points - Marko Andjelkovic
- 5 points - Philip M
- 4 points - Bivek Suwal
- 3 points - Wally Powell
- 2 points - John Fries
- 2 points - John Lustrea
- 1 point - Jackson Walsh
- 1 point - Jordan Reid
- 1 point - Jason Cottrell
Season 4
The mode used to rank scores was the same as used in Season 3.
S4-T1
S4-T1 was a 12(h)*14(w) grid with 16 mines
Level was played: 02.01.2009 - 09.01.2009
Results:
- 1.95s - 42 points - Traian Nitu
- 2.27s - 41 points - Kamil Murański
- 2.351s - 40 points - James Mckenzie
- 2.56s - 39 points - Guðmundur Valgeir Þorsteinsson
- 2.77s - 38 points - Arsen Balishyan
- 2.954s - 37 points - Derik Pearson
- 3.16s - 36 points - Michele Buschello
- 3.220s - 35 points - Luke Sullivan
- 3.480s - 34 points - Nicolas Durussel
- 3.67s - 33 points - Aryeh Drager
- 4.23s - 32 points - Gabriele Simontacchi
- 4.82s - 31 points - WP Yeoh
- 4.86s - 30 points - Roel Wouters
- 4.873s - 29 points - Eduard Cros
- 4.893s - 28 points - Alvin Manay
- 4s - 27 points - Matina Papadia
- 4s - 26 points - Tanvi Chitnis
- 5.196s - 25 points - Anthony Grazian
- 5.773s - 24 points - Dennis Meng
- 5s - 23 points - Gemin Bang
- 5s - 22 points - Александар Терзић
- 5s - 21 points - Nowrin Anwar
- 5s - 20 points - Bertie Seyffert
- 6.18s - 19 points - Scott Hammond
- 6s - 18 points - Ryosuke Takahashi
- 7.032s - 17 points - Nicole Sanders
- 7.26s - 16 points - Rémy Deltombe
- 7.416s - 15 points - Anita Cavalletto
- 7.92s - 14 points - Julien Fritsch
- 7s - 13 points - Doodz Abrazado
- 8.82s - 12 points - Tareq Imam
- 9.39s - 11 points - Athene-Nanette Idiabor-Moses
- 9s - 10 points - Gert-Jan Dugardein
- 10.65s - 9 points - Alisha Newton
- 11s - 8 points - Geoffrey Chan
- 12s - 7 points - Fariya Rahman
- 13s - 6 points - Jeba Tepas
- 14s - 5 points - Stefanie Haghedooren
- 16s - 4 points - Maria Lambova
- 17s - 3 points - Uroš Stanojević
- 18s - 2 points - John Lustrea
- 22s - 1 point - Irene Andreína Oropeza Bongiorno
S4-T2
S4-T2 was a 15(h)*20(w) grid with 52 mines
Level was played: 09.01.2009 - 16.01.2009
Results:
- 16.75s - 23 points - Kamil Murański
- 18.65s - 22 points - Bertie Seyffert
- 23.41s - 21 points - Arsen Balishyan
- 24.00s - 20 points - Traian Nitu
- 25.841s - 19 points - WP Yeoh
- 25.97s - 18 points - Aryeh Drager
- 26.502s - 17 points - Derik Pearson
- 27.72s - 16 points - Michelle Buschello
- 28.72s - 15 points - Luke Sullivan
- 29.270s - 14 points - Alvin Manay
- 31.453 - 13 points - Nicolas Durussel
- 35s - 12 points - Tomer Pollak
- 39.20s - 11 points - Gabriele Simontacchi
- 40s - 10 points - Tanvi Chitnis
- 41.29s - 9 points - Nowrin Anwar
- 42.196s - 8 points - Anita Cavalletto
- 43.69s - 7 points - Guðmundur Valgeir Þorsteinsson
- 46.535s - 6 points - Michael Rabich
- 49.114s - 5 points - Nicole Sanders
- 74s - 4 points - John Lustrea
- 75.30s - 3 points - Tareq Imam
- 82s - 2 points - Marcela Galarza
- 200.85s - 1 point - Athene-Nanette Idiabor-Moses
S4-T3
S4-T3 was a 22(h)*22(w) grid with 75 mines
Level was played: 16.01.2009 - 23.01.2009
Results:
- 26.486s - 23 points - Kamil Murański
- 33.508s - 22 points - Reid Sinclair
- 34.3s - 21 points - Arsen Balishyan
- 35.95s - 20 points - Michele Boschello
- 36.34s - 19 points - Bertie Seyffert
- 39.010s - 18 points - Aryeh Drager
- 39.696s - 17 points - Derik Pearson
- 39.71s - 16 points - Luke Sullivan
- 40.4s - 15 points - Eduard Cros
- 47.84s - 14 points - Traian Nitu
- 48.702s - 13 points - Nicolas Durussel
- 55.02s - 12 points - Nowrin Anwar
- 58.35s - 11 points - Scott Hammond
- 59.48s - 10 points - Guðmundur Valgeir Þorsteinsson
- 64.13s - 9 points - Michael Rabich
- 67.465s - 8 points - Anita Cavalletto
- 70.932s - 7 points - Nicole Sanders
- 97s - 6 points - Inna Bekler
- 120s - 5 points - Marcela Galarza
- 127.46s - 4 points - Tareq Imam
- 142s - 3 points - Filip Vilicic
- 174s - 2 points - Akriti Rimal
- 239.82s - 1 point - Athene-Nanette Idiabor-Moses
S4-T4
S4-T4 was a 11(h)*9(w) grid with 20 mines
Level was played: 23.01.2009 - 30.01.2009
Results:
- 5.087s - 34 points - Kamil Murański
- 6.971s - 33 points - Reid Sinclair
- 7.30s - 32 points - Aryeh Drager
- 7.86s - 31 points - Traian Nitu
- 7.96s - 30 points - Arsen Balishyan
- 8.68s - 29 points - Bertie Seyffert
- 9.14s - 28 points - Guðmundur Valgeir Þorsteinsson
- 9.352s - 27 points - Nicolas Durussel
- 9.90s - 26 points - Luke Sullivan
- 10.5s - 25 points - Eduard Cros
- 10.608s - 24 points - WP Yeoh
- 11s - 23 points - Tomer Pollak
- 11s - 22 points - Ivan Kokot
- 12.69s - 21 points - Gabriele Simontacchi
- 12.979s - 20 points - Anita Cavalletto
- 12s - 19 points - Laurel George
- 13.434s - 18 points - Emma Warburton
- 13.881s - 17 points - Michael Rabich
- 14.22s - 16 points - Nowrin Anwar
- 14.25s - 15 points - Jan Mouček
- 14.50s - 14 points - Scott Hammond
- 16s - 13 points - Rob Hendry
- 18.675s - 12 points - Nicole Sanders
- 21.12s - 11 points - Tareq Imam
- 24s - 10 points - Gal Dorenfeld
- 25s - 9 points - Kantawan Utragool
- 27s - 8 points - Marcela Galarza
- 28s - 7 points - Inna Bekler
- 30s - 6 points - Rubi Meyer
- 32s - 5 points - John Lustrea
- 33s - 4 points - Lisa Terrence
- 35s - 3 points - Akriti Rimal
- 56.79s - 2 points - Athene-Nanette Idiabor-Moses
- 68s - 1 point - Stefanie Greussing
S4 Final
S4 Final Ranking
- 121 points - Kamil Murański
- 110 points - Arsen Balishyan
- 107 points - Traian Nitu
- 101 points - Aryeh Drager
- 94 points - Luke Sullivan
- 90 points - Bertie Seyffert
- 87 points - Nicolas Durussel
- 84 points - Guðmundur Valgeir Þorsteinsson
- 74 points - WP Yeoh
- 72 points - Michele Buschello
- 71 points - Derik Pearson
- 69 points - Eduard Cros
- 64 points - Gabriele Simontacchi
- 58 points - Nowrin Anwar
- 55 points - Reid Sinclair
- 51 points - Anita Cavalletto
- 44 points - Scott Hammond
- 42 points - Alvin Manay
- 41 points - Nicole Sanders
- 40 points - James Mckenzie
- 36 points - Tanvi Chitnis
- 35 points - Tomer Pollak
- 32 points - Michael Rabich
- 30 points - Roel Wouters
- 30 points - Tareq Imam
- 27 points - Matina Papadia
- 25 points - Anthony Grazian
- 24 points - Dennis Meng
- 23 points - Gemin Bang
- 22 points - Александар Терзић
- 22 points - Ivan Kokot
- 19 points - Laurel George
- 18 points - Ryosuke Takahashi
- 18 points - Emma Warburton
- 16 points - Rémy Deltombe
- 15 points - Athene-Nanette Idiabor-Moses
- 15 points - Marcela Galarza
- 15 points - Jan Mouček
- 14 points - Julien Fritsch
- 13 points - Rob Hendry
- 13 points - Inna Bekler
- 13 points - Doodz Abrazado
- 11 points - John Lustrea
- 10 points - Gert-Jan Dugardein
- 10 points - Gal Dorenfeld
- 9 points - Alisha Newton
- 9 points - Kantrawa Utragool
- 8 points - Geoffrey Chan
- 7 points - Fariya Rahman
- 6 points - Jeba Tepas
- 6 points - Rubi Meyer
- 5 points - Akriti Rimal
- 5 points - Stefanie Haghedooren
- 4 points - Maria Lambova
- 4 points - Lisa Terrence
- 3 points - Uroš Stanojević
- 3 points - Filip Vilicic
- 1 point - Irene Andreína Oropeza Bongiorno
- 1 point - Stefanie greussing
Season 5
The mode used to rank scores was the same as used in Season 3 and 4.
S5-T1
S5-T1 was a 15(h)*10(w) grid with 25 mines
Level was played: 07.02.2009 - 14.02.2009
Results:
- 6.598s - 34 points - Kamil Murański
- 8.69s - 33 points - Arsen Balishyan
- 8.858s - 32 points - Reid Sinclair
- 9.38s - 31 points - Luke Sullivan
- 9.39s - 30 points - Bertie Seyffert
- 9.44s - 29 points - Aryeh Drager
- 9.98s - 28 points - Traian Nitu
- 11.487s - 27 points - Nicolas Durussel
- 11s - 26 points - Niusha Jokar
- 13.34s - 25 points - WP Yeoh
- 13.751s - 24 points - Michael Rabich
- 13.96s - 23 points - Md. Faizus Salehin
- 14.88s - 22 points - Nowrin Anwar
- 14s - 21 points - Tomer Pollak
- 14s - 20 points - Rob Hendry
- 15.27s - 19 points - Sylvain Rouch-Seize
- 15s - 18 points - Chris Dodge
- 16.136s - 17 points - Rosa Sáiz Larrinaga
- 16.42s - 16 points - Shlomi Salman
- 16.571s - 15 points - Laurel George
- 18.12 - 14 points - Scott Hammond
- 18.54s - 13 points - Mattias Kahlin
- 18.344s - 12 points - Jorge Rivas Prieto
- 19.62s - 11 points - Mitch Beniabon
- 20.891s - 10 points - Anita Cavalletto
- 22.29s - 9 point - Liaw Ying Hui
- 23s - 8 points - Marcela Galarza
- 24.71s - 7 points - Namitha Gs
- 25.39s - 6 points - Jan Mouček
- 26.11s - 5 points - Diego Giannandrea
- 27.99s - 4 points - Pierre Arquier-Allano
- 29.64s - 3 points - Tareq Imam
- 29s - 2 points - Lisa Terrence
- 30s - 1 point - Sonja Kr
S5-T2
S5-T2 was a 20(h)*30(w) grid with 74 mines
Level was played: 14.02.2009 - 21.02.2009
Results:
- 22.593s - 33 points - Kamil Murański
- 25.970s - 32 points - Reid Sinclair
- 28.06s - 31 points - Arsen Balishyan
- 29.46s - 30 points - Traian Nitu
- 30.82s - 29 points - Bertie Seyffert
- 32.11s - 28 points - Luke Sullivan
- 33.82s - 27 points - Aryeh Drager
- 37.708s - 26 points - WP Yeoh
- 42.672s - 25 points - Nicolas Durussel
- 42.68s - 24 points - Md. Faizus Salehin
- 43s - 23 points - Chris Dodge
- 45.886s - 22 points - Emma Warburton
- 46.114s - 21 points - Michael Rabich
- 46.767s - 20 points - Jorge Rivas Prieto
- 47.049s - 19 points - Rosa Sáiz Larrinaga
- 48.57s - 18 points - Rob Hendry
- 49.20s - 17 points - Sylvain Rouch-Seize
- 49.85s - 16 points - Scott Hammond
- 50.31s - 15 points - Nowrin Anwar
- 51.903s - 14 points Laurel George
- 52.02s - 13 points - Shlomi Salman
- 58.86s - 12 points - Mitch Beniabon
- 67.247s - 11 points - Wasik Mursalin
- 70.36s - 10 points - Mattias Kahlin
- 75.57s - 9 points - Namitha Gs
- 80.44s - 8 points - Tareq Imam
- 80.81s - 7 points - Liaw Ying Hui
- 80s - 6 points - Dome Ri
- 86.21s - 5 points - Pierre Arquier-Allano
- 95s - 4 points - Marcela Galarza
- 100s - 3 points - Sonja Kr
- 121s - 2 points - Lisa Terrence
- 135.59s - 1 point - Kayvan Najafzadeh
54-T3
S5-T3 was a 12(h)*10(w) grid with 25 mines
Level was played: 21.02.2009 - 28.02.2009
Results:
- 7.372s - 28 points - Kamil Murański
- 8.689s - 27 points - Reid Sinclair
- 9.85s - 26 points - Bertie Seyffert
- 10.625s - 25 points - Luke Sullivan
- 11.19s - 24 points - Arsen Balishyan
- 13.22s - 23 points - Traian Nitu
- 14.229s - 22 points - Nicolas Durussel
- 15.14s - 21 points - Md. Faizus Salehin
- 15.70s - 20 points - Aryeh Drager
- 15.948s - 19 points - Laurel George
- 15s - 18 points - Theodore Sin
- 15s - 17 points - Tomer Pollak
- 16.781s - 16 points - Emma Warburton
- 16s - 15 points - Chris Dogde
- 17.440s - 14 points - Michael Rabich
- 17.724s - 13 points - Rosa Sáiz Larrinaga
- 18.16s - 12 points - Sylvain Rouch-Seize
- 18.27s - 11 points - Nowrin Anwar
- 19.38s - 10 points - Namitha Gs
- 19s - 9 points - Aubrey Rose Alvarez Rodriguez
- 20.27s - 8 points - Scott Hammond
- 21.85s - 7 points - Shlomi Salman
- 24.51s - 6 points - Tareq Imam
- 22.80s - 5 points - Mitch Beniabon
- 25.36s - 4 points - Liaw Ying Hui
- 33s - 3 points - Marcela Galarza
- 34.351s - 2 points - Pierre Arquier-Allano
- 36s - 1 points - Lisa Terrence
S5-T4
S5-T4 was a 20(h)*20(w) grid with 40 mines
Level was played: 28.02.2009 - 07.03.2009
Results:
- 7.721s - 21 points - Reid Sinclair
- 8.053s - 20 points - Kamil Murański
- 10.27s - 19 points - Traian Nitu
- 11.49s - 18 points - Luke Sullivan
- 11.72s - 17 points - Arsen Balishyan
- 13.187s - 16 points - Nicolas Durussel
- 13.328s - 15 points - WP Yeoh
- 13s - 14 points - Bertie Seyffert
- 15.029s - 13 points - Rosa Sáiz Larrinaga
- 17.55s - 12 points - Md. Faizus Salehin
- 17.74s - 11 points - Theodore Sin
- 17s - 10 points - Chris Dodge
- 18.70s - 9 points - Sylvain Rouch-Seize
- 18.717s - 8 points - Laurel George
- 19.747s - 7 points - Michael Rabich
- 22.98s - 6 points - Namitha Gs
- 23.46s - 5 points - Tareq Imam
- 24.26s - 4 points - Shlomi Salman
- 36.63s - 3 points - Pierre Arquier-Allano
- 37s - 2 points - Lisa Terrence
- 37.90s - 1 point - Liaw Ying Hui
S5 Final
S5 Final Ranking
- 115 points - Kamil Murański
- 111 points - Reid Sinclair
- 105 points - Arsen Balishyan
- 102 points - Luke Sullivan
- 100 points - Traian Nitu
- 99 points - Bertie Seyffert
- 90 points - Nicolas Durussel
- 80 points - Md. Faizus Salehin
- 76 points - Aryeh Drager
- 66 points - Michael Rabich
- 66 points - Chris Dodge
- 66 points - WP Yeoh
- 57 points - Sylvain Rouch-Seize
- 56 points - Laurel George
- 49 points - Rosa Sáiz Larrinaga
- 48 points - Nowrin Anwar
- 40 points - Shlomi Salman
- 38 points - Rob Hendry
- 38 points - Emma Warburton
- 38 points - Tomer Pollak
- 38 points - Scott Hammond
- 32 points - Jorge Rivas Prieto
- 32 points - Namitha Gs
- 29 points - Theodore Sin
- 28 points - Mitch Beniabon
- 26 points - Niusha Jokar
- 23 points - Mattias Kahlin
- 22 points - Tareq Imam
- 21 points - Liaw Ying Hui
- 15 points - Marcela Galarza
- 14 points - Pierre Arquier-Allano
- 11 points - Wasik Mursalin
- 10 points - Anita Cavalletto
- 9 points - Aubrey Rose Alvarez Rodriguez
- 7 points - Lisa Terrence
- 6 points - Jan Mouček
- 6 points - Dome Ri
- 5 points - Diego Giannandrea
- 4 points - Sonja Kr
- 1 point - Kayvan Najafzadeh
The end of the Tournaments
All tournament levels up to Season 5 and Season 7 were planned by name removed, so that he was the only person barred from taking part in these tournaments because of UPK concerning the board settings. Kamil chose levels for Season 6. After Season 7 Facebook blocked the page admin's publishing rights, claiming the terms of use for Facebook pages have been violated. No attempts at resolving this problem have ever been answered by Facebook. Since then the admins mainly focus on answering Minesweeper-related questions and giving tips.
News Feed
By 23 Nov 2008, the page Admins launched a News Feed in which all recent news that is related to Minesweeper is to be presented to the broad Minesweeper community. Luke Sullivan regularly writes short notes and articles about topics like Minesweeper competitions, important highscores, and also interesting Minesweeper videos. After one month, the News Feed has been updating, on average, at the rate of one article every three days.
Articles include:
- Moscow Open Minesweeper Tournament
- Minesweeper Tournament on Facebook (Season 3)
- "Chasing Dion Tiu"
- Tournament has succesful first day
- Kamil Muranski Breaks World Record
- 1st Tournament of Season 3 Highly Competitive
- Thomas Kolar (Austria) Achieves 41 Seconds On Expert Level
- The Minesweeper World Championship Documentary
- "Authoritative Minesweeper" Has A New Forum
Timeline
2008:
- 24 Jun: Anthony Grazian creates a Fan Page for Minesweeper on Facebook
- 09 Jul: Anthony Grazian adds Luke Sullivan as an Admin of the page
- 22 Jul: name removed suggests running Tournaments via the page
- 26 Jul: Anthony Grazian adds name removed Löhr as an Admin of the page
- 27 Jul: A testing tournament is launched
- 02 Aug: Season 1 starts
- 30 Aug: Season 2 starts
- 23 Nov: News Feed launches
- 23 Nov: Season 3 starts
