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SDA speedrunning Championship 2003 : Contest Six

  1. The contest is being run on this map, specially made for this championship by Ivan "JMad" Vladev. It's a brightly lit, button-pressing, slope-jumping, damage-boosting speed fest that ANYONE can, and should, enjoy... :-)
  2. All four disciplines are once again being contested. Easy Run, Easy 100%, Nightmare Run and Nightmare 100%.
  3. The Winner in each category will be the person who exits in the fastest time.
  4. Name your files in this format: c6_er/eh/nr/nh_yourname.dem, c6_er/eh/nr/nh_yourname.txt. For example, a nightmare run demo might be called c6_nr_richard.dem
  5. Entries should be sent to sda_contest@planetquake.com, not the regular SDA e-mail address. Any mail sent to this address should generate an automatic reply informing you we have received your demos. IF YOU DO NOT RECEIVE A REPLY THEN CHANCES ARE WE HAVEN'T RECEIVED YOUR DEMO! If this is the case then either try again, catch one of us on ICQ, go to our IRC channel or post something in the forum.
  6. All standard rules apply.
  7. Deadline is Midnight CET, Sunday October 12th 2003.
  8. Any questions or queries, mail us.
  9. Good luck and happy running!
Results : Easy Run

RANK PLAYER TIME CP
01. Anders Nordensten 0:33.59 15
02. Timo Nieminen 0:33.75 12
03. Robert Axelsson 0:36.11 9
04. Basil de Vries 0:36.34 7
05. Ivan Vladev 0:38.22 6
06. Ripah 0:38.62 5
07. Dane Plachetta 0:38.70 4
08. Michael Hudson 0:40.41 3
09. Marek Bartoszek 0:44.00 2

Damned dogs!

Yes indeed, that was the cry that echoed throughout the world as speedrunners everywhere tried to get a good time on this tricky little map. Some gave up, nine didn't. Of those brave nine Anders Nordensten narrowly beat Timo to take the win with Robert leading the pack over the finish line just behind them. I don't think there's a single pair of identical routes in these entries and none of the routes I played with (best time 0:49 :-/) were the same as these either.

Incidentally, Timo only had time to work on one demo for this contest so he chose the Easy 100% and entered that for the Easy Run as well. He got second here, I wonder how he'll do in the Easy 100%...

All Easy Run demos available HERE.



Results : Easy 100%

RANK PLAYER TIME CP
01. Timo Nieminen 0:33.75 15
02. Dane Plachetta 0:40.36 12
03. Ripah 0:40.695 9
04. Anders Nordensten 0:40.698 7
05. Robert Axelsson 0:41.21 6
06. Basil de Vries 0:41.22 5
07. Ivan Vladev 0:41.98 4
08. Marek Bartoszek 0:51.00 3

...and what do you know, Finnish bad-ass Timo Nieminen blew everyone out of the way with his beautifully run demo. Aussie bad-ass Dane took a well deserved second just ahead of Norwegian bad-ass Ripah.

This was an incredibly close discipline with six of the eight demos seperated by less than two seconds!

All Easy 100% demos available HERE.



Results : Nightmare Run

RANK PLAYER TIME CP
01. Basil de Vries 0:33.88 15
02. Anders Nordensten 0:34.70 12
03. Ripah 0:36.65 9
04. Robert Axelsson 0:37.60 7
05. Ivan Vladev 0:39.39 6
06. Marek Bartoszek 0:44.19 5

Most of those that completed both the Easy and Nightmare sections of this contest agreed that the Nightmare half was the more fun. And watching Basil de Vries's stunning display of quad-boosted air control you will see why. His demo could have been even faster but he was having such a good run that his bottle went and he decided not to do the final, very risky quad-boost. Anders rolled up a second behind him and Ripah got himself some more of that big point action with third.

Great runs from everyone involved! :-)

All Nightmare Run demos available HERE.



Results : Nightmare 100%

RANK PLAYER TIME CP
01. Basil de Vries 0:44.95 15
02. Ivan Vladev 0:45.06 12
03. Robert Axelsson 0:45.47 9
04. Anders Nordensten 0:48.11 7
05. Ripah 0:53.80 6
06. Marek Bartoszek 1:04.57 5

Go Basil go! Once again Mr de Vries, the man that put the "weed" into "spweedrunning", romped home with a comforatable (well, half a second) win over Ivan and Robert.

All Nightmare 100% demos available HERE.

Congratulations to Anders, Timo and Basil and a huge well done and thank-you to everyone else that took part.

A special big thank-you, of course, to Ivan Vladev for making the map. Good work that man!

How has this left things on the 2003 Championship Scorecard? I guess you'd better go and have a look!

That brings Contest #6 to a close. We'll be back with contest #7 in a week or two (hopefully). That's plenty of time for you all to recharge your speedrunning batteries and psyche yourselves up for a strangely familiar, yet alarmingly fresh challenge...

The winning demos are available HERE and, finally, all demos can be downloaded HERE.