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Shambler Hell (Re-visited)

This contest will mark the first time we've re-visited one of our old contest maps. The map in question is Shambler Hell, made by Evan Wagner. We originally contested this map back in February 2001. For that particular contest, only the Easy 100% were being contested with a total tally of 14 demos and eventually won by Thomas Stubgaard. For this contest though, we'll be running the Easy Run instead.

  1. This contest will end Midnight CET, Wednesday, July 29th, 2009.
  2. Send your demos to our contest email address.
  3. Name your demo and the accompanying textfile in the format wot_playername.dem/txt. Someone named Cornelius may send in wot_cornelius.dem, for example.
  4. QdQstats must be used to get the exact time.
  5. Remember, only the Easy Run (skill 0) discipline is being contested. The one with the lowest decimal will win (as always).


19 entries, not bad! Even some oldtimers felt obliged to contribute to this contest. The competition was fierce, with Jozsef Szalontai claiming the grand prize, followed closely by Daniel Hansson and Adam Lewandowski. Only a sniff of air seperated top three (and the rest of the field for that matter). Rumors has it that someone recorded a 2.88, but we never received that demo, unfortunately.

It wasn't intentional by any means, but it soon became apparent this contest would turn into a hard-fought duel based on the different Quake engines. It seems WinQuake had the edge by a small margin compared to, say, JoeQuake. We're talking tenths of a second - which normally doesn't sound like a whole lot - but for a short run like this, it's the difference between success and failure. Some would claim a bit of unfairness is involved in this contest - and we agree - so that's why we've divided the tables into three categories based on the finishing time, the duration of the demo, and the start-time (when the demo starts recording). The time that truly counts is the finishing time though, and we've based the results on that.

Results : Finishing Time (exit)

RANK PLAYER TIME
01. Jozsef Szalontai 0:02.9184
02. Daniel Hansson 0:02.9222
03. Adam Lewandowski 0:02.9439
04. Thomas Bergendorff 0:02.9466
05. Pif de Mestre 0:02.9508
06. Mathias Thore 0:02.9606
07. Thomas Stubgaard 0:02.9627
08. Karol Urbanski 0:02.9667
09. Paul Davies 0:02.9723
10. Mattias Öman 0:02.9831
11. Rutger Baks 0:02.9833
12. Flavio Quadros 0:02.9983
13. Jaakko Alakopsa 0:03.0187
14. Rui Neto 0:03.0337
15. Mads Peter Stubgaard 0:03.1315
16. Laurent Mertens 0:03.1476
17. Anders Nordensten 0:03.2003
18. Marek Bartoszek 0:03.2161
19. Philip Chute 0:03.4205

Results : Duration (actual playing time)

RANK PLAYER TIME
01. (---) Jozsef Szalontai 0:01.5930
02. (---) Daniel Hansson 0:01.6018
03. (12th) Flavio Quadros 0:01.6087
04. (---) Thomas Bergendorff 0:01.6113
05. (3rd) Adam Lewandowski 0:01.6250
06. (5th) Pif de Mestre 0:01.6252
07. (6th) Mathias Thore 0:01.6262
08. (11th) Rutger Baks 0:01.6333
09. (---) Paul Davies 0:01.6374
10. (7th) Thomas Stubgaard 0:01.6406
11. (13th) Jaakko Alakopsa 0:01.6412
12. (8th) Karol Urbanski 0:01.6528
13. (10th) Mattias Öman 0:01.6665
14. (---) Rui Neto 0:01.6817
15. (---) Mads Peter Stubgaard 0:01.7390
16. (17th) Anders Nordensten 0:01.8144
17. (16th) Laurent Mertens 0:01.8198
18. (---) Marek Bartoszek 0:01.8292
19. (---) Philip Chute 0:02.0007

Results : First-time (time when demo starts recording)

RANK PLAYER TIME
01. (8th) Karol Urbanski 0:01.3138
02. (10th) Mattias Öman 0:01.3166
03. (---) Adam Lewandowski 0:01.3189
04. (2nd) Daniel Hansson 0:01.3204
05. (7th) Thomas Stubgaard 0:01.3220
06. (1st) Jozsef Szalontai 0:01.3253
07. (5th) Pif de Mestre 0:01.3255
08. (16th) Laurent Mertens 0:01.3278
09. (4th) Thomas Bergendorff 0:01.3352
10. (6th) Mathias Thore 0:01.3344
11. (9th) Paul Davies 0:01.3349
12. (11th) Rutger Baks 0:01.3499
13. (14th) Rui Neto 0:01.3520
14. (13th) Jaakko Alakopsa 0:01.3775
15. (17th) Anders Nordensten 0:01.3859
16. (18th) Marek Bartoszek 0:01.3868
17. (12th) Flavio Quadros 0:01.3896
18. (15th) Mads Peter Stubgaard 0:01.3925
18. (---) Philip Chute 0:01.4197