The Challenge: The Void (Congratulations Cephrir!)


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Post Post #17 (isolation #0) » Fri Jan 19, 2018 12:59 pm

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{Mission 01}


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Maintenance Task Force


Welcome to the first team mission of the game. Today, you'll be splitting up into specialty groups to show off what you're best at. We can't begin our space voyage yet, as there are some minor repairs that need to be done on each of your ships.

Each team will split up into 3 groups. Group 1 will contain 4 players, and are known as the Spotters. The Spotters on each team will split up into two pairs, and each pair is given a different image of the ship's construction schematics. However, these images have 12 small differences between them, and you'll need to find as many of them as possible by describing the images via text. You are
prohibited
from sharing the image or any portion of the image, and doing so will result in disqualification from the mission. Every difference you find and describe gives your team a 10-second head start in part 3 of the mission; every difference you incorrectly submit will give the opposing team a 10-second head start.

Group 2 will contain 6 players, known as the Fixers. Several important parts of the ship have been shattered, and the Fixers need to put them back together as jigsaw puzzles. Every Fixer on your team will pick a different jigsaw puzzle, numbered #1-#6 based on difficulty, with #1 being the hardest and #6 being the easiest. Attempts at each puzzle are unlimited, but everyone is required to submit a screenshot of their best time by the deadline. The team who achieves the fastest time in each puzzle will receive 10 additional points in part 3 of the mission.

You have
24 hours
to determine who will be your Spotters and who will be your Fixers. The two groups can start whenever you make the official designations. In
48 hours
, part 3 of the mission will begin and the Spotters and Fixers will be stopped.

Group 3 are the Coders, consisting of 3 players on each team. Part 3 of the challenge will be live around 7pm EST Sunday evening, and all Coders will participate. When everyone is ready, a 12x12 grid of letters will be posted. Coders must find words by traveling between adjacent cells horizontally, vertically, and diagonally, and claim a word by posting the coordinate of the first letter followed by the complete word. A single letter block can't be used more than once within the same word. Once a player has claimed a word, the first letter of the word will be removed from the grid, and a blank space will be left, which can no longer be used to form words and can't be skipped over. Each word must be at least 4 letters long. There will be blocks containing "Qu", but for the purposes of scoring and length requirements, a "Qu" only counts as one letter. The challenge ends when no more words can be formed. A new post must be made for every new word, but there are no time restrictions for posting words. If you post a word that isn't recognized by dictionary.com as a common English word, or you post a word that can't be formed with the given grid, your team will lose 5 points. A team scores a point for every letter in each valid word posted.

The team with the most points at the end wins, with ties broken by which team had a greater head start. The grid will be presented and updated using a Google spreadsheet. This will be a fast-moving game, with letters constantly being removed from the grid, so you need to be extremely careful to avoid receiving the 5-point penalty. The losing team will enter the Void, and a vote will be held as for which 3 members of the losing team will enter the Black Hole. 1 person from the 3 entering the Black Hole will be eliminated from the game, while 1 player out of the remaining 10 will also be eliminated.

Gold Team

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Purple Team

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Post Post #134 (isolation #1) » Mon Jan 22, 2018 10:47 pm

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Results are in!

The first graph was

Spoiler:
19.25%


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and the closest was...

PrivateI 19.03
Entreri 19.50
Racefan 18.92

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picks F next


Next was F

Spoiler:
74.77%


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and the closest was...

Fluminator 74.83
Cephrir 74.99
Chevre 75.00

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picks G next


Next was G

Spoiler:
48.93%


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and the closest was...

PrivateI 48.94
PEG 48.88
Happy 49.01

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has won two stars and is safe! He picks K next


Next was K

Spoiler:
19.06%


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and the closest was...

Fluminator 18.75
Vashta 18.69
Racefan 19.55

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has won 2 stars and is safe! He picks H next


Next was H

Spoiler:
9.52%


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and the closest was...

Racefan 9.62
Cephrir 9.67
PEG 10.34

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picks V next


Next was V

Spoiler:
75.87%


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and the closest was...

PEG 76,13
Chevre 76,32
Racefan 75.42

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Both PEG and Racefan have 1 star - the next one to earn a star will be safe and the other will be eliminated.
PEG picks L next


Next was L

Spoiler:
52.29%


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and the closest was...

McMenno 52.34
PEG 52.59
Entreri 52.88

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McMenno picks D next


Next was D

Spoiler:
3.54%


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and the closest was...

Vashta 3.47
Gimmick 3.33
Entreri 3.32

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Vashta picks T next


Next was T

Spoiler:
11.88%


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and the closest was...

Vashta 12.03
Entreri 12.05
McMenno 12.12

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Vashta has earned 2 stars and is safe! He picks Y next


Next was Y

Spoiler:
45.98%


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and the closest was...

Racefan 46.02
Happy 45.76
McMenno 46.46

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Racefan has earned 2 stars and is safe! This means that unfortunately PEG has been eliminated from the Black Hole. Racefan picks B next


Next was B

Spoiler:
24.94%


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and the closest was...

McMenno 24.33
Cephrir 24.28
Gimmick 24.00

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McMenno has earned 2 stars and is safe!
He picks I next


Next was I

Spoiler:
80.34%


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and the closest was...

Chevre 80.11
Cephrir 81.44
Vijarada 82.49

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Chevre picks O next


Next was O

Spoiler:
15.55%


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and the closest was...

Cephrir 15.55!!!
Gimmick 15.00
Animorph 16.28

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Cephrir picks C next


Next was C

Spoiler:
68.32%


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and the closest was...

Entreri 69.50
Chevre 69.69
Vijarada 69.81

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Entreri picks X next


Next was X

Spoiler:
91.22%


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and the closest was...

Cephrir 91.41
Chevre 90.88
Happy 91.67

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Cephrir has won two stars and is safe! He picks E next


Next was E

Spoiler:
26.71%


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and the closest was...

Happy 26.45
Gimmick 27.00
Animorph 26.12

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Happy picks J next


Next was J

Spoiler:
69.09%


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and the closest was...

Gimmick 69.00
Happy 69.69
Vijarada 70.12

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Gimmick picks W next


Next was W

Spoiler:
35.18%


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and the closest was...

Chevre 35.48
Animorph 35.68
Entreri 34.09

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Chevre has won two stars and is safe! He picks U next.


Next was U

Spoiler:
67.22%


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and the closest was...

Entreri 67.66
Happy 66.63
Animorph 65.08

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Entreri has won two stars and is safe! He picks M next.


Next was M

Spoiler:
31.63%


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and the closest was...

Happy 31.05
Gimmick 30.00
Animorph 35.30

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Happy has won two stars and is safe! He picks N next.

There are only 3 players remaining Animorph, Gimmick, and Vijarada. Gimmick has the only star at this point. Happy picked N next.


Next was N

Spoiler:
36.87%


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and the closest was...

Gimmick 35.00
Vijarada 40.49
Animorph 43.29

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Gimmick has won two stars and is safe! It is now a battle between Animorph and Vijarada and both need to earn 2 more stars. Gimmick picks S next.


Next was S

Spoiler:
43.25%


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and the closest was...

Vijarada 46.02
Animorph 46.83

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Vijarada has 1 star and Animorph has 0 stars. Vijarada selected P next.


Next was P

Spoiler:
68.59%


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and the closest was...

Vijarada 67.35
Animorph 74.24

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Vijarada has 2 stars now and is safe! This unfortunately means that Animorph has lost in the Void this time.


Next was R

Spoiler:
This means that the 2 eliminated in this first round are

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Sorry to see you both go so soon.


Next challenge will be posted later today and has a deadline of 48 hours. You will need to schedule times with a mod in the next 48 hrs for this next team mission. Teams to be announced at mission start.
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Post Post #138 (isolation #2) » Wed Jan 24, 2018 8:06 pm

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Purple Team has won and therefore
Gold Team
will be entering the Black Hole and the Void. Within the next 24 hrs, everyone in the game will now privately cast a single vote for one member on the
Gold Team
who they want to send into the Black Hole. The 3 players who receive the most votes will go in.
All
remaining members of the losing team will enter the Void challenge, where the worst-performing Black Hole nominee and worst-performing Void participant will be eliminated from the game. Please be advised that you are
not
allowed to vote for Racefan this round as he had won in the Black Hole last round. This benefit only lasts during this round. The vote candidates are shown below.

{Gold Team}


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{Aura, Chevre, Drench, DrumBeats}
{Entreri, Ghug, Radja}
{TWIE, Vashta, Vijarada, Zoraster}


Racefan goes directly to the Void

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You have
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Post Post #148 (isolation #3) » Fri Jan 26, 2018 4:26 pm

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Results!

First the results for the Black Hole, because when you're going into the Black Hole with 0 votes, you want to know that first. This was a well-fought competition and these three gave it their all.

First is Aurathebirb
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Spoiler:
Aura completed the challenge with 9 correct and a time of 17:27


VashtaNeurotic
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Spoiler:
Vashta completed the challenge with 9 correct and a time of 14:12.
Vashta is safe!


Vijarada
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Spoiler:
Vijarada completed the challenge with 9 correct and a time of 13:18!
Vijarada is safe! Unfortunately this means that Aurathebirb has been eliminated. Such an unfortunate way to go as well. It wasn't due to effort and not due to being voted in.


Now for the Void participants, starting with those that had gained votes:

Zoraster
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Spoiler:
Zoraster completed the challenge with 9 correct and a time of 7:37!


TWIE
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Spoiler:
TWIE completed the challenge with 9 correct and a time of 8:47!


Entreri
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Spoiler:
Entreri completed the challenge with 9 correct and a time of 19:07!


Chevre
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Spoiler:
Chevre completed the challenge with 9 correct and a time of 6:24!


Racefan
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Spoiler:
Racefan completed the challenge with 9 correct and a time of 7:17!


Ghug
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Spoiler:
Ghug completed the challenge with 9 correct and a time of 10:39!


Radja
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Spoiler:
Radja completed the challenge with 9 correct and a time of 5:08!


Drench
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Spoiler:
Drench completed the challenge with 8 correct and a time of 8:36!


DrumBeats
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Spoiler:
DrumBeats completed the challenge with 9 correct and a time of 4:52!


Final Results:

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This means that our two eliminated contestants are Aurathebirb and Drench. This was a well fought Void and you were both intense competitors. I'm sure that you would've been feared down the line for your challenge prowess. It sucks to see you both go soon and we hope to see you again with guns blazing.
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Post Post #153 (isolation #4) » Sat Jan 27, 2018 4:39 pm

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Results:

Purple Team got 188 points and Gold Team got 189 points!

Purple had Kina/Jodi and Derrick/Brad switched. Gold had Eric two slots earlier and the other guys bumped one down each.



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Teams now have 15 minutes to deliberate and provide a bid list to the mods. Please let us know if you have questions.

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Post Post #154 (isolation #5) » Sat Jan 27, 2018 5:09 pm

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Bids are in. Instead of putting everything in individually, I'll just say what happened.

Gold voted 8 on everything and won the first 23 moves. That left them with 5 points left.

Purple was outbid on the first 23 and then tied exactly with Gold for the next 7 moves. No teams lost points, but no one earned them.

Gold then took 1 space down, 1 left, 1 down with their last points.

Then Purple takes the remainder.

Gold:
1 space up
1 space down
1 space left
1 space right
2 spaces up
1 space up, 1 space left
1 space up, 1 space right
2 spaces down
1 space down, 1 space left
1 space down, 1 space right
2 spaces left
1 space left, 1 space up
1 space left, 1 space down
2 spaces right
1 space right, 1 space up
1 space right, 1 space down
3 spaces up
2 spaces up, 1 space left
2 spaces up, 1 space right
1 space up, 2 spaces left
1 space up, 2 spaces right
1 space up, 1 space left, 1 space up
1 space up, 1 space left, 1 space down
1 space down, 1 space left, 1 space down

Purple:
1 space down, 1 space left, 1 space up
1 space down, 1 space right, 1 space down
1 space down, 1 space right, 1 space up
Stay in place for one turn
Jump over the space above you to move 2 spaces up
Jump over the space below you to move 2 spaces down
Jump over the space to the left to move 2 spaces left
Jump over the space to the right to move 2 spaces right

Tied (unused):
1 space up, 1 space right, 1 space up
1 space up, 1 space right, 1 space down
3 spaces down
2 spaces down, 1 space left
2 spaces down, 1 space right
1 space down, 2 spaces left
1 space down, 2 spaces right
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Post Post #156 (isolation #6) » Sat Jan 27, 2018 5:39 pm

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Post Post #158 (isolation #7) » Sat Jan 27, 2018 5:45 pm

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Gold Team
has won! Everyone in the game will now privately cast a single vote for one member on the
Purple Team
who they want to send into the Black Hole. The 3 players who receive the most votes will go in.
All
remaining members of the losing team will enter the Void challenge, where the worst-performing Black Hole nominee and worst-performing Void participant will be eliminated from the game. The candidates are shown below. Players have 24 hrs from this post to privately submit their vote.

{Purple Team}


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{Cephrir, DrumBeats, Entreri, Fluminator}
{Happy, Kublai, MGD}
{Racefan, Xalxe, Zoraster}


Vashta goes directly into the Void and cannot be voted due to winning last Black Hole.
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Post Post #159 (isolation #8) » Sun Jan 28, 2018 4:51 pm

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I'll read the votes.

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Cephrir voted for...
Spoiler:
Zoraster


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DrumBeats voted for...
Spoiler:
Entreri


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Entreri voted for...
Spoiler:
DrumBeats


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Fluminator voted for...
Spoiler:
Zoraster


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Happy voted for...
Spoiler:
Zoraster

That's 3 votes Zoraster, 1 vote DrumBeats, 1 vote Entreri


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Kublai voted for...
Spoiler:
Entreri


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MGD voted for...
Spoiler:
Entreri


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Racefan voted for...
Spoiler:
Zoraster

That's 4 votes Zoraster, 3 votes Entreri, 1 vote DrumBeats


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Vashta voted for...
Spoiler:
Zoraster


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Xalxe voted for...
Spoiler:
Fluminator


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Zoraster voted for...
Spoiler:
Entreri

That's 5 Zoraster, 4 Entreri, 1 DrumBeats, 1 Fluminator


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Chevre voted for...
Spoiler:
DrumBeats


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D3f3nd3r voted for...
Spoiler:
Fluminator


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Ghug voted for...
Spoiler:
Fluminator


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Gimmick voted for...
Spoiler:
DrumBeats

That's 5 Zoraster, 4 Entreri, 3 DrumBeats, 3 Fluminator


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IPS voted for...
Spoiler:
Entreri


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McMenno voted for...
Spoiler:
DrumBeats


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Meme voted for...
Spoiler:
DrumBeats

That's 5 DrumBeats, 5 Entreri, 5, Zoraster, 3 Fluminator


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PrivateI voted for...
Spoiler:
DrumBeats


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Radja voted for...
Spoiler:
Happy


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TWIE voted for...
Spoiler:
Fluminator


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Vijarada voted for...
Spoiler:
DrumBeats

The final tally is 7 votes DrumBeats, 5 votes Entreri, 5 votes Zoraster, 4 votes Fluminator, 1 vote Happy.

DrumBeats, Entreri, and Zoraster will enter the Black Hole. Everyone else from the Purple Team will enter the Void.
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Post Post #160 (isolation #9) » Sun Jan 28, 2018 5:01 pm

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{Void 03}


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E.T. Phone Home


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We've been away from Earth for so long, I'm really starting to miss my family. We've designed the next challenge to help us all cope with our homesickness.

When you're ready to begin, fill out this google form. You'll be given an empty crossword puzzle grid, as well as a list of institutions. Each institution will have a number in parentheses beside it, indicating the number of digits in its phone number. You'll need to look up the phone number for each of these places, and insert them into the grid using an image editor. There is only one way all the phone numbers will fit into the grid.

To complete the challenge, take a screenshot of the finished puzzle and place a link in the form, submitting it again to stop your time. For every incorrect digit in your answer, one minute will be added onto your time. The Black Hole nominee and Void participant with the slowest times will be eliminated from the game. You have
24 hours
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Post Post #161 (isolation #10) » Mon Jan 29, 2018 4:06 pm

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Results!

This was a well contested contest and those in contention put in a lot of effort with their telephone minutes. Good thing, you all have the intergalactic roaming contract on your phones.

First the Black Hole contestants:

In first was...

Spoiler:
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DrumBeats was first with a time of 18:40! DrumBeats cannot go into the Black Hole next time.


Also surviving was...

Spoiler:
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Zoraster, who successfully completed in 21:06! Zoraster cannot go into the Black Hole during episode 4 either.


This means that the eliminated Black Hole contestant was...

Spoiler:
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Entreri who did not finish before Zoraster's final time. Good effort and we've loved having you here. Sorry to see you go. Webdip is great to have you and we hope to have you too in the future. You've been a great asset and it's been fun to see you evolve here. Hope to see you next time.


Onto the Void.

The first to finish was...

Spoiler:
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Cephrir with a time of 12:59!


In second was...

Spoiler:
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Fluminator with a time of 14:59!


In third was...

Spoiler:
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Xalxe with a time of 16:50!


In fourth was...

Spoiler:
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Racefan with a time of 17:00!


In fifth and in the bottom half was...

Spoiler:
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Kublai with a time of 18:39!


In sixth was...

Spoiler:
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Vashta with a time of 22:23! This means that Happy and MGD are the final two. Unfortunately, we'll lose one of our best Challenge fans :(


In seventh and still safe is...

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MGD with a time of 25:49!



This means that our eliminated contestant from the Void is...

Spoiler:
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Happy with a time of 42:01. You've been a happy one and brought in a lot of Challenge humor to our game. As a big fan of the Challenge, it's sad to see you go. Unfortunately for being Fresh Meat, you're leaving more of a Ryan than an Aviv. But we hope that you come back enough to become an Ev, Cara Maria or Laurel.
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Post Post #164 (isolation #11) » Wed Jan 31, 2018 8:47 am

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Results:

Group 1 for each team required knowledge related to several clues. Some clues were obscure so the players were able to look at how the crostic inserted letters into the word search. This helped ensure that they were using the correct word, especially as both teams prefer iceberg to romaine.

Gold Team
(D3f3nd3r, DrumBeats, Ghug, PrivateI, Vashta) had a time of:
Spoiler:
12:00


Purple Team
(Cephrir, Gimmick, Meme, Xalxe, Zoraster) had a time of:
Spoiler:
9:17


Group 2 required players to find words/names related to a theme without being provided the word list. Both teams quickly deduced that they were looking for U.S. Presidents. Thank you State of the Union for your impeccable timing. Speaking of timing...

Gold Team
(Kublai, McMenno, MGD, Racefan, Radja) had a time of:
Spoiler:
11:56


Purple Team
(Chevre, Fluminator, IPS, TWIE, Vijarada) had a time of:
Spoiler:
16:15


This means that the overall scores are:
Spoiler:
Gold Team
23:56
Purple Team
25:32.
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Post Post #165 (isolation #12) » Wed Jan 31, 2018 8:47 am

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Gold Team
has won! Everyone in the game will now privately cast a single vote for one eligible member on the
Purple Team
who they want to send into the Black Hole. The 3 players who receive the most votes will go in.
All
remaining members of the losing team will enter the Void challenge, where the worst-performing Black Hole nominee and worst-performing Void participant will be eliminated from the game. The candidates are shown below. Players have 24 hrs from this post to privately submit their vote.

{Purple Team}


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{Cephrir, Chevre, Fluminator}
{Gimmick, IPS, Meme}
{TWIE, Vijarada, Xalxe}


Zoraster goes directly into the Void and cannot be voted due to winning last Black Hole.
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Post Post #170 (isolation #13) » Thu Feb 01, 2018 10:20 am

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Due to one of the trivia questions being difficult to even google to confirm a final answer, I have determined that I had made the trivia portion needlessly difficult. As a result, the trivia portion has been scrapped and you are now only required to compete in the maze portion. Because others have already attempted the trivia portion, it was determined that the fairest result would be to remove trivia entirely. Apologies to those that have already attempted.
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Note: if you wish a mod to check your solution immediately, just submit the ending form before asking.

Also, ladders stay in the same exact row/column, but you switch only between levels. Ie: a ladder at A1 would switch you from A1 on level 1 to A1 on level 2.
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Post Post #172 (isolation #15) » Fri Feb 02, 2018 7:43 am

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Results!

Apologies again for the change in challenge. I think it's clear from the results and feedback that it was the best decision. Now onto our eliminations.

First the Black Hole contestants:

In first was...

Spoiler:
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Meme was first with a time of 9:09! Meme cannot go into the Black Hole next time.


Also surviving was...

Spoiler:
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Cephrir, who successfully completed in 12:50! Cephrir cannot go into the Black Hole next time.


This means that the eliminated Black Hole contestant was...

Spoiler:
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IPS. You did a great job winning the first three missions and then you were voted in the first time you were vulnerable. I know that maze was difficult, but you put in so much effort and you're a fighter. Hope to see you next time.


Onto the Void.

The first to finish was...

Spoiler:
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Both Chevre and Fluminator finished at a time of 5:30!


Next was...

Spoiler:
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TWIE with a time of 5:49!


Next was...

Spoiler:
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Xalxe with a time of 7:46!


Next was...

Spoiler:
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Gimmick with a time of 19:27!

This leaves only Vijarada and Zoraster, one of which will be eliminated.


The final surviving player was...

Spoiler:
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Zoraster with a time of 22:30!


This means that our eliminated contestant from the Void is...

Spoiler:
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Vijarada. You've been a great player this go around and you kept going at it despite knowing what your weaknesses were (ie: mazes). You did a fine job and you should be proud of how well you managed. Hope to see you next time.
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Post Post #174 (isolation #16) » Fri Feb 02, 2018 7:53 am

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In post 173, Cephrir wrote:the first post has vijarada twice in this episode instead of vashta
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Post Post #175 (isolation #17) » Fri Feb 02, 2018 7:58 am

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{ROUND 05 TEAMS}




{Gold Team}


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{Chevre, D3f3nd3r, DrumBeats}
{Fluminator, Ghug, Gimmick}
{McMenno, MGD, Vashta}





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{Cephrir, Kublai, Meme}
{PrivateI, Racefan, Radja}
{TWIE, Xalxe, Zoraster}
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Post Post #176 (isolation #18) » Fri Feb 02, 2018 8:06 am

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{Mission 05}


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The Missing Link


Johnny Bananas is quite the adventurer and quite the classic representative of the Challenge. Obviously he must be the missing link in evolution, because one - that forehead, two - that arrogance, three - eats bananas. But one thing that Johnny Bananas does not do so well is puzzles. So now that we've found the way out of that abandoned space station, we have to piece together the broken panel and find the missing pieces to complete the puzzle. Lucky for both teams, you should've learned to expect tangrams to show up in a challenge, because how many final missions on the tv show have featured this type of puzzle? Tangrams is a puzzle that features 7 shapes that can be manipulated to fit within a larger outline. However, these tangrams will be a little different.

Within
24 hours
your teams must be split into 3 duos, plus a final group of 3 players. The 3 duos will participate in
part 1
of the challenge and the final trio will participate in
part 2
of the challenge. It is advised that you split teams into pairs that have similar online availability. When a pair/trio participates in this challenge, the group will be given a link to a Google Drawing. If you are not familiar with this program, feel free to test it out in advance at https://docs.google.com/drawings/. You will only be required to know how to manipulate shapes by moving and rotating. Rudimentary instructions can also be found at the bottom of this page.
Please note that the colored outlines shown for the target tangram are not drawn to scale.


Part 1

Duo 1 - Red and Green - 2 players
Duo 2 - Orange and Purple - 2 players
Duo 3 - Blue and Yellow - 2 players

Part 2

Trio - 6 missing pieces are used - 1 of each color.

For
part 1
of the challenge, each of the 3 duos will be given 2 tangrams to solve. A duo must be online simultaneously to compete. Duos should work together to work on their set of 2 tangrams. Normally in a tangram puzzle, there will be 7 pieces used to complete the outline. However, in each set of these tangrams, one of the 7 pieces will be missing. The same style of piece will be missing for each tangram in the duo. To complete part 1, the duo in each group must successfully arrange the tangrams to match the solution, as well as identify the missing piece tangram and place it within the "missing piece" box in the google drawing. Within your duo, this piece should be identical in shape and size. To submit your entry, you may either take a screencap of your google drawing, or may alert a mod to view your solution. You must notify the mod to stop your time either way. Once all 3 duos have completed part 1 successfully, the trio in part 2 may then initiate their portion of the challenge. Only the slowest duo's time will be counted in your team's overall score. This time will be added to the time in part 2 of the challenge.

In
part 2
of the challenge, the final trio will start after all 3 duos have completed their portion. Therefore, it is in your best interest to ensure that your team has scheduled your duos well enough so that you have enough time to complete part 2. The final trio during part 2 must use the 6 missing pieces from part 1 (2 missing pieces from each duo from part 1), to solve one final tangram. The trio will be given a full set of each of the six colors to start. The final trio must use the correct color of the missing pieces in the final tangram as communicated by their teammates. The trio's final time will be added to the slowest duo's time in part 1 to create the team's overall time. The fastest overall team time will win the challenge and the losing team will be headed to the Black Hole voting ceremony, where from now on
only TWO players will be voted into the Black Hole
. The entire challenge must be completed within
48 hours
. As per usual, no outside resources allowed.

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You should only need to use the arrow tool the entire time. For the duos, you should see the colored outlines at the top of the page with two "missing piece" squares on both sides. Below you should see two squares with all of the 7 tangram pieces. If you click on one of the individual pieces, you should see an outline with blue squares at the vertices and sides of the shape. On one of the blue squares, there should be a circle and line jutting out. If you click on the blue circle jutting out of the line, the arrow will turn into a "+". If you click on the blue circle and drag it, it will rotate the piece. If you click the shift button before you drag the blue circle, it will only rotate the piece along 15 degree intervals, the new rotated shape outline will show. Once you let go of the mouse button, it will have rotated the shape.

By clicking the middle and dragging a shape, it will move the piece around, when you are still holding the mouse button, red lines may appear to show you alignment to other reference points in the overall drawing. This may help you align the shape better.

To finish the puzzle, you must drag the unused piece to the square that says "missing piece", the remainder of the pieces must all be used to create the outline. You will only need to move or rotate pieces to fill the outline. Even though your 7 pieces are set in a square, you will be able to manipulate each piece individually.

For the trios, you will have six squares of each color with all of the pieces showing. You must determine which was missing from the duos and then use those six pieces to complete your puzzle. You do not need to do anything with the other pieces.
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Post Post #177 (isolation #19) » Sat Feb 03, 2018 4:53 pm

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Results:

Google Drawings is amazing everybody. Cooperative drawing is something I never knew I needed in my life. Hope you enjoyed.

First Pairs:
Gold Team
(DrumBeats and McMenno) had a time of:
Spoiler:
18:08


Purple Team
(Radja and Zoraster) had a time of:
Spoiler:
31:45


Second Pairs:
Gold Team
(Fluminator and Ghug) had a time of:
Spoiler:
12:31


Purple Team
(Cephrir and Xalxe) had a time of:
Spoiler:
41:49


Third Pairs:
Gold Team
(Gimmick and MGD) had a time of:
Spoiler:
25:30


Purple Team
(PrivateI and TWIE) had a time of:
Spoiler:
1:05:24


This means that the current times are
Gold Team
: 25:30 and
Purple Team
: 1:05:24. These will be added to the Trios in Phase 2.

Trios of Phase 2:
Gold Team
(Chevre, D3f3nd3r and Vashta) had a time of:
Spoiler:
9:47


Purple Team
(Kublai, Meme, and Racefan) had a time of:
Spoiler:
13:08


This means that the overall scores are:
Spoiler:
Gold Team
35:17
Purple Team
1:18:32.
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Post Post #178 (isolation #20) » Sat Feb 03, 2018 5:00 pm

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Gold Team
has won! Everyone in the game will now privately cast a single vote for one eligible member on the
Purple Team
who they want to send into the Black Hole. The
TWO
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All
remaining members of the losing team will enter the Void challenge, where the worst-performing Black Hole nominee and worst-performing Void participant will be eliminated from the game. The candidates are shown below. Players have 24 hrs from this post to privately submit their vote.

{Purple Team}


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{Kublai, PrivateI, Racefan, Radja}
{TWIE, Xalxe, Zoraster}


Cephrir and Meme go directly into the Void and cannot be voted due to winning last Black Hole.
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Post Post #189 (isolation #21) » Mon Feb 05, 2018 6:37 pm

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Results!

Ayyyyyy....Dab-bar what did you do? You got people stuck in the universe for minutes? Hours? Days? Oh no, what penalties have you wrought?

First the Black Hole contestants. It was Racefan vs. TWIE. Who came out on top after all the penalties?

In first was...

Spoiler:
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TWIE was first with a time of 1:18:52! TWIE cannot go into the Black Hole next time.


This means that the eliminated Black Hole contestant was...

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Racefan with 148:35:02. You were a fighter and you were one of the biggest targets for having won last time. And for having lost so many missions, it was only a matter of time until you succumbed to the black hole and now here we are. Thanks for returning and hope to see you next time.


Onto the Void. So many penalties.

The first to finish was...

Spoiler:
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Kublai with a time of 29:54!


Next was...

Spoiler:
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Xalxe with a time of 7:07:21!


Next was...

Spoiler:
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Cephrir with a time of 8:50:28!


Next was...

Spoiler:
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PrivateI with a time of 27:02:55!


Next was...

Spoiler:
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Meme with a time of 34:48:30!

This leaves only Radja and Zoraster, one of which will be eliminated.


The final surviving player was...

Spoiler:
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Radja with a time of 78:02:47!


This means that our eliminated contestant from the Void is...

Spoiler:
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Zoraster with 798:24:15. You were a great competitor and it was great to see you battle onward against your vendettas but this time a very tough void got you down and out. It took a difficult one to take you out which just goes to show how tough you are in all challenges. Hope to see you next time.
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Post Post #190 (isolation #22) » Mon Feb 05, 2018 6:52 pm

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{ROUND 06 TEAMS}




{Gold Team}


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{Chevre, D3f3nd3r, Ghug, Kublai}
{Meme, MGD, TWIE, Vashta}





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{Cephrir, DrumBeats, Fluminator, Gimmick}
{McMenno, PrivateI, Rajda, Xalxe}
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Post Post #192 (isolation #23) » Mon Feb 05, 2018 7:02 pm

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{Mission 06}


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Stir of Echoes


Yeah, so we're having a bit of trouble with our communication systems. Life support is still in tact, shields are go, and so are phasers, but those pesky little communicators are what's down this time. As such, we're going to need to use relay systems to figure out how to communicate with each other. As such, this challenge will be live, in which all of your team members are encouraged to be online at the same time. Otherwise you probably won't beat the deadline.
Please fill out this link to determine when you can all be online at the same time. Only fill out for highlighted times in the next 72 hrs. Please budget a minimum of 1 hr at least. Please contact mods if your have difficulty with scheduling. We are giving more time than usual because of the live element.


For this mission, all 8 members of your team will be sitting in the circle. Each person on the team has been given 3 words that must be guessed before time is up. To do this, we will be playing a game similar to "Password". Normally in "Password" one team member will give a one-word clue and the other will guess, and we would continue in this fashion until one team gets a point. However, this time all 8 members of your team will take turns and may either A) Provide a clue for their own word or B) Provide a guess for someone else's word. This will continue until all 24 words have been guessed. Turns will continue in a clockwise fashion around the team
and each turn will have a 2-minute time limit.
With each turn, you must denote whether you are giving a "Clue" or "Guess". To provide a clue, you must say "Clue: {hint}" and enter your one-word hint where it says {hint}. You may not use any form of the word in your hint, you may not use more than one word in your hint, and you must use a word that can be found in the dictionary. If you fail to provide a clue that meets all of these rules, this will incur a five turn penalty each time, which will be added at the end of competition.
If you aren't sure whether a clue breaks the rules, ask a mod first.
If you are making a "Guess" please be sure to mark which player's word you are guessing. Once a player's word has been guessed correctly, they're allowed to start giving clues for their next word once it's their turn. If a player's words have been guessed, the only option they have on their turn is to make guesses. There is no penalty for a wrong guess other than adding onto your overall number of turns.
Once the mission has started, the only posts you can make are your one-word clues and guesses. No strategy discussion can take place after words are given out. No outside resources allowed.


The team who takes fewer turns to get all 24 words will win, with first tiebreaker being fewest failed guesses and second tiebreaker being time used in total. If a team fails to successfully guess all 24 words before the end of the challenge, this will count as a disqualification. If both teams fail to successfully guess all 24 words before deadline, the team that made the most progress (with less time being a tiebreaker) will win this mission.

You have
96 hours
to complete the entire mission due to the need to schedule. The team with the most turns taken will enter the Void, and 2 of its members will enter the Black Hole.
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Post Post #193 (isolation #24) » Thu Feb 08, 2018 8:51 am

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Results:

Gold Team finishes with a total of:
Spoiler:
88 turns...with penalty.


Purple Team finishes with a total of:
Spoiler:
99 turns with 0 penalties.


This means that the winner is:
Spoiler:
Gold Team
has won with a final score of 93. Everyone in the game will now privately cast a single vote for one eligible member on the
Purple Team
who they want to send into the Black Hole. The
TWO
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All
remaining members of the losing team will enter the Void challenge, where the worst-performing Black Hole nominee and worst-performing Void participant will be eliminated from the game. The candidates are shown below. You may vote for any purple player. Players have 24 hrs from this post to privately submit their vote.

{Purple Team}


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{Cephrir, DrumBeats, Fluminator, Gimmick}
{McMenno, PrivateI, Rajda, Xalxe}


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Post Post #210 (isolation #25) » Sat Feb 10, 2018 10:02 am

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This was a tough void. Plus you are all great competitors. We're getting down to the best of the best. Its like this is invasion of the champions and you've made it to the oasis. Or in terms all you non challenge watchers, you've made jury except you don't get to vote, there is no ponderosa, and I don't care of you watch any tribal councils, because we don't have them. Surviving today means you make the halfway mark. All times include penalties.


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{DrumBeats vs. McMenno}

Who wins the black hole?

Spoiler:
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With a time of 40:45 McMenno wins and cannot be voted into the black hole next episode.


This means we say goodbye to:

Spoiler:
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DrumBeats with a time of 58:01.
You were quite the formidable opponent the entire game. You were well rounded and quite easily a threat to win the entire thing. I'm definitely sad to see you go, but I'm glad you're in the community now!


Onto The Void.

In first is:
Spoiler:
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Fluminator with a time of 39:17.


Next was:
Spoiler:
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Cephrir at 41:33.


Next was:
Spoiler:
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Gimmick with 58:01


Next was:
Spoiler:
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Xalxe at 1:05:41. This leaves Radja vs. PrivateI.


Final person safe is:
Spoiler:
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Radja with a time of 2:01:46


This means the person leaving us is:
Spoiler:
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PrivateI at 3:02:01 post-penalties. This saddens me because you are a star after Survivor meet 2. Its been great to see you grow and you've always been great at challenges and it sucks to see you go this time. You've been like my edgic winner since episode 1. Hope to see you next time.
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Post Post #229 (isolation #26) » Fri Feb 16, 2018 9:52 pm

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Just a note, there is more than one pathway solution to the maze. As stated before, you can begin from either opening in the maze. Additionally, there has been an additional 12 hrs added on top of the original deadline.
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{Mission 09}


Terraforming Wars


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So now that we've been traversing the universe and learning more about alien lifeforms, it's about time that we create a planet based on The Challenge, because the universe deserves a place that is all Bananas vs. Wes all the time. Any other civilization would be less civilized. Therefore, we need to create this challenge planet. Maybe we can call it Teej-land. Before we can create this new civilization, we need to create buildings for this new place. To do so, we need to analyze and see how those Earthlings did it first.

Today's mission is all about skyscrapers. This mission will
not
be played in teams. You will be placed into 5 different pairs based on the algorithm. It will be a pair mission and both members of the pair should be online at the same time to complete this mission. Both members can compete in both sections of the mission. The pair who wins this mission will be immune and
all other players
will be eligible for the Black Hole vote. There will continue to be 2 players selected for the Black Hole, and the other 6 will go into the Void.

If you're familiar with the skyscraper type of puzzle, then congrats! This mission is not about solving Skyscraper puzzles. This mission has already been solved and we have the heights of all the buildings all set. However, all the clues are missing! Usually the clues will direct you to how many buildings are visible within your sightline for that row or column. This time you will have all the skyscrapers visible to you within a 5x5 grid on a Google Drawing (view-only) page. However, each cell in the grid will have the google map screencap for a skyscraper in the world. If you click on any cell in the grid, it will open up a larger screencap. The grid has cropped 100x100pixel images, and the larger version is 550x500pixel and has included a larger footprint and has more contextual clues.
The images are not identical, therefore, it is highly recommended to click on each of the cells to see a better image.
You will have to use outside resources to identify the skyscraper and its height (preferably in feet). Once you have identified the heights of all 25 cells, you will be able to figure out which buildings will be visible within a specific row and column. At that point, you will be able to figure out from 1-5 how many buildings are visible for each clue (named A1-A5, B1-B5, C1-C5, and D1-D5).
You are allowed to use outside resources for the skyscraper puzzle only.


Once you have these 20 clues determined, this will help you to figure out what is the ideal size for the buildings you will building your new home planet. Using the 20 digits (A1-D5) from part 1, you will be able to complete part 2. You will plug in all of these numbers into an equation that will be provided to you in the Google Drawing (ie: A1-B3 + D5). Once your pair has completed the equation, you must submit the answer. The team that submits the correct answer in the least amount of time will win the challenge.
You are not allowed to use outside resources (aside from arithmetical functions on a calculator) for this part of the challenge.
The losing pairs will all enter the Black Hole vote, where 2 individuals will face the Black Hole and the remainder will face the Void. Only the winning pair will be safe. Despite working in pairs, you will only vote for individuals in the vote, and any 2 eligible individuals may be voted into the Black Hole despite the pairings. You have
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Post Post #236 (isolation #28) » Sun Feb 18, 2018 3:59 pm

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Each incorrect equation submission will incur a 10 minute penalty.
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Post Post #237 (isolation #29) » Sun Feb 18, 2018 5:11 pm

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Because skyscraper heights can be varied, we are using the following standards from this website: http://www.skyscrapercenter.com. Please use this website to check for heights.

1) Use buildings that are either completed or architecturally topped out. Do not include planned or "on hold" buildings.
2) Use the standard of "Tallest Architectural Feature" - which on that website is listed as: Height - Architectural
3) If you see more than one building in the same screenshot, assume that we are including the tallest of the bunch in the complex. Also be sure to check where the red pin is for exact location.
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Post Post #238 (isolation #30) » Mon Feb 19, 2018 4:46 pm

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Apologies for this challenge. Referring to real life things make things a little bit out of control. Especially when google maps doesn't want to cooperate all the time. Mods had watched along the way in this challenge, and there were hiccups along the way, because this was a very tough challenge. Nonetheless, due to a mod error which impacted the solution, a time credit was given to the first team to go. This error was corrected in all further runs of the challenge and did not affect any other team. This time credit will be reflected in the final results. Anyway, it's time for results.

Gold Team
(Cephrir and Kublai) finished in:
Spoiler:
Did not finish. Gold Team was stopped after their first incorrect submission, as they had already surpassed the leader's time.


Purple Team
(Chevre and TWIE) finished in:
Spoiler:
47:44! Purple Team is currently in first.


Red Team
(D3f3nd3r and Ghug) finished in:
Spoiler:
Did not finish as well. Red Team was stopped, as they had already surpassed the leader's time.


Green Team
(Gimmick and MGD) finished in:
Spoiler:
Did not finish. Green Team was stopped as well, as they had already surpassed the leader's time. This means that either Purple or Blue will win. Who earned first?


Blue Team
(Meme and Xalxe) finished in:
Spoiler:
51:17! Unfortunately that was not enough so the
Purple Team
has won!

Chevre and TWIE are immune and are not eligible for the vote.
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Post Post #239 (isolation #31) » Mon Feb 19, 2018 4:49 pm

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{BLACK HOLE VOTE}



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{Cephrir, Kublai, D3f3nd3r, Ghug}
{Gimmick, MGD, Meme, Xalxe}



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Post Post #241 (isolation #32) » Tue Feb 20, 2018 12:09 pm

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{Void 09}


Two-Faced


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{Cephrir vs. D3f3nd3r}

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{Ghug, Gimmick, Kublai}
{Meme, MGD, Xalxe}




Sarah and Bananas were rivals, and I'm sure they'd hate to be stuck together for the rest of eternity. You know, since they were both a bit two-faced with each other. Now that we have pairs challenges, sometimes you, too, are being stuck together and your fate depends on it. I'm sure there would be certain players you wouldn't want to be stuck with for eternity. Luckily, this void is played as individuals, so don't worry.

Aliens have created technology to fuse two individuals into one body. Thus creating two-faced and two-headed people. For this challenge, you will be given access to edit a Google Drawing which has a set of merged avatars of the 26 players that have played in The Void. You will see a set of morphed images of various combinations of the 26 players. Some player avatars may be used more once and some may not be used at all. Each image is a combination of exactly two player's avatars. However, in this challenge, the goal is not solely to identify the two players avatars in the image. In this challenge you will be given several clues. Each clue will connect to two different adjacent squares. In each square you must place a merged avatar from the choices available. The merged avatar you select must apply BOTH sets of clues to the pair of players in the merged avatar. For example, if a square connected to the two clues said "Modded 'Survivor: One World'" and "Watched '13 Reasons Why' together", then a potential answer may be a merged avatar of CuddlyCaucasian and pablito. However it is is important to note that the "Modded Survivor: One World" will likely connect to another clue on the other side, so you should also look for a merged avatar that may include one of the other combinations of CuddlyCaucasian, OhGodMyLife, pablito and SummerInWonderland. Please note that each clue refers to a pair of people and when the word "together" is used in a clue, it will only refer to the pair inside the merged avatar. Therefore for "Watched '13 Reasons Why' together" you must look for the CuddlyCaucasian/pablito merged avatar. For example, if hiplop and SummerInWonderland had also watched together, you would not look for hiplop/pablito or CuddlyCaucasian/SummerInWonderland cominbations. Clues will refer to the pair in the merged avatar and only refers to events prior to Mission 9 within The Void thread in the LSG forum. No answers require discord information. Some squares may have more than one answer possible, but there is only one way to place all of the answers. Each merged avatar will be listed with a letter to help you organize. Not all merged avatars that are provided will be used in this puzzle. You will need to leave some of them out. To begin, please notify a mod, who will give you the link to a google drawing. To finish, you must correctly place all merged avatars and your time will not complete until you have completed the puzzle correctly. You must provide your answer by giving the number of the squares and the letter of the avatar that you have chosen (especially if the mod is on mobile). You must notify a mod to check your answers to end your time. There is a
5 minute penalty per incorrect submission
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The player in the black hole with the slowest time, as well as the player in the void with the slowest time, will be eliminated from the game. You have
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In preparation for the next requirement for the game, all players should submit your answers to this http://whenisgood.net/4x9dzci so that we may schedule live for the next game event.
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Post Post #246 (isolation #33) » Thu Feb 22, 2018 5:35 pm

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{ROUND 10 TEAMS}




{Gold Team}


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{Ghug, Kublai}





{Purple Team}


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{Cephrir, TWIE}





{Red Team}


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{Chevre, Xalxe}





{Green Team}


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{Meme, MGD}
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Post Post #247 (isolation #34) » Thu Feb 22, 2018 5:48 pm

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{Mission 10}


Asteroid Field


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Navigation is important, especially when there's a lot of crap floating around in this galaxy. Even more with all the drama in this game. This challenge will test your pair's ability to maneuver through tight spaces. For this mission, you will all be working in pairs again and this challenge will be completed live between the four pairs. At this point you may discuss strategy with your partner but
you may no longer strategize with opposing teams for the remainder of the challenge.
Based on the schedules that you completed, we will begin this challenge at Saturday 8pm EST ((expired on 2018-02-24 20:00:00)). It will continue until completed. Remember that only the winning pair will be immune and the rest will fight it out where 1 of 2 will be eliminated in the black hole and 1 of 4 will be eliminated in the void. This is a classic strategy challenge called Blokus.

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GAME RULES

The game will be played on a 20 by 20 square board. Each of the four pairs will receive 21 game pieces, the shapes of which are shown below.

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Each pair gets to place one piece per turn. Teams may be put on a time limit. The goal of the game is to play all your pieces eventually. Each pair should begin in a separate corner and works inward from there. After the first turn, you can play anywhere on the board, as long as it is a valid move. Either member of a pair may post on your turn, but if both post during the same turn, only the first post will count. Only one member of a pair is required to be online during the challenge.

The most important and ONLY rule of Blokus - the piece you play must touch the corner of at least one of your other pieces and should never touch the side of any of your own pieces. See the figures below. You can touch the sides of other players' pieces.

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The game ends for a pair when he or she is unable to place any more pieces on the board using a valid move. The game itself ends when no one can place any more pieces on the board.

SCORING

After the game ends, count the number of pieces each pair was unable to place on the board. Each square in the tiles that are not placed counts as a negative point. For example, if one 4-square tile is not placed on the board, that would give the pair a score of -4. A bonus of 15 points is awarded to a pair if all of his/her pieces got placed on the board. An additional 5 points are awarded if the 21 pieces were placed on the board and the last piece placed is a single square.

The pair with the highest score will win, while the three other pairs will head to the Black Hole Vote.

The game will take place using this google spreadsheet. In order to play a tile, either player in the pair may post in-thread the number under that tile in the image of the tiles shown above, as well as the coordinates for the cells the tile will cover up. For example, if I wanted to play Tile #8 in the top left corner, I would give the coordinates A1-B1-A2-B2. Starting positions have been randomized.

Please let us know if you have any questions.
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Post Post #248 (isolation #35) » Sat Feb 24, 2018 4:34 pm

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Here is the final board:
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Purple Team
wins!

This means that Cephrir and TWIE are immune and the rest will go up for the Black Hole Vote where 2 players will go into the Black Hole and the other 4 will be in The Void
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Post Post #249 (isolation #36) » Sat Feb 24, 2018 4:37 pm

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{BLACK HOLE VOTE}



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{Chevre, Ghug, Kublai}
{Meme, MGD, Xalxe}



Everyone has
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Post Post #253 (isolation #37) » Sun Feb 25, 2018 1:37 pm

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I'll reveal the votes. The two players with the most votes will enter the Black Hole. In the event of a tie preventing there from being exactly two players going in, all tied players will be safe and people will be randomly selected to fill the remaining slots.

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Cephrir voted for...
Spoiler:
Ghug





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Chevre voted for...
Spoiler:
Ghug





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Ghug voted for...
Spoiler:
Meme

That's 2 votes Ghug, 1 vote Meme





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Kublai voted for...
Spoiler:
Meme





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MGD voted for...
Spoiler:
Xalxe





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TWIE voted for...
Spoiler:
Chevre

That's 2 votes Ghug, 2 votes Meme, 1 vote Chevre, 1 vote Xalxe





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Xalxe voted for...
Spoiler:
Xalxe





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Meme voted for...
Spoiler:
Meme

3 votes Meme, 2 votes Ghug, 2 votes Xalxe, 1 vote Chevre.

We have an interesting voting situation. With 3 votes and being the top vote-getter, Meme will go into the Black Hole. Because we cannot put either Ghug or Xalxe into the Black Hole second spot, they now become immune from the Black Hole, and we randomize from the remaining 3 players (exclude Meme, Ghug and Xalxe).

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There were 3 items in your list. Here they are in random order:

MGD
Kublai
Chevre
IP: 97.xx.xx.xx
Timestamp: 2018-02-26 00:36:04 UTC


This means that MGD will face-off against Meme in the Black Hole.
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Post Post #254 (isolation #38) » Sun Feb 25, 2018 1:50 pm

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{Void 10}


Memory Cells


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{Meme vs MGD}

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{Chevre, Ghug, Kublai, Xalxe}

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{Cephrir, TWIE}


This final void is a fun one. We know how much you all enjoyed Ku-Do-Su, but we hated how it took away the opportunity for you to solve a sudoku yourselves. Therefore, everyone will now be solving a sudoku from scratch. And by "from scratch", we mean you'll start with no numbers in the grid at all.

When you're ready to begin, fill out this google form, upon which your time will start and you will receive a list of clues relating to events from during the game, each one listed next to a cell coordinate. Use this clues to enter numbers into the blank sudoku grid below, and once you believe you have enough numbers, solve it and submit a screenshot of the full grid in the google form. You will not be required to guess at any point, and there is only one solution.

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If your submission is incorrect, you will have 5 minutes added onto your time for each number you have wrong. However, a mod will let you know how many cells you have wrong after you submit, so it is in your best interest to complete the challenge while a mod is online and to let one know immediately after you submit. If you eventually solve the puzzle correctly, time penalties from previous attempts will be ignored.

You are allowed to reference game information in this thread or the Discord, but you are PROHIBITED from using outside sources to solve the sudoku.


The Black Hole nominee and Void participant with the slowest times will be eliminated from the game. But that's not all - the players with the best times overall will be given an advantage at the start of the next round. Therefore,
all players will participate in this challenge.
Obviously, the members of the winning pair from this round's mission are still safe from elimination. You have
24 hours
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Post Post #256 (isolation #39) » Mon Feb 26, 2018 3:08 pm

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Resultados por favor. All times have penalties (if applicable) included.

We have Meme vs. MGD in the Black Hole.

In first was...
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Meme with 1:25:46!


Therefore the eliminated player is...
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MGD who conceded and did not finish.

Sad to see you go MGD, especially going in a Black Hole after not getting a vote. You played a very Sandy-esque game. In the end, randomization sucks. You're a great The Challenge fan and we deserve our Monthly Melissa, even on every Sunday. Thanks for playing! Can't wait to see you in another game!


First in the void was...
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Ghug with a time of 0:55:56!


Second in the void was...
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Kublai with a time of 1:06:27!


Third in the void and surviving was...
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Chevre with a time of 1:26:46!


This means that the eliminated player was...
Spoiler:
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Xalxe who did not finish. Xalxe, for all the times you were eligible to go in, you managed to escape the black hole every single time. You're a fighter through and through. Your social game was great, but it can't save you from The Void. Away to the Void you will go, along with all knowledge of the pronunciation of your name. Thanks for playing, it's a pleasure as always.


Also, we need to know Purple Team's times to figure out who won the advantage for next round!

TWIE's time was:
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2:54:53. Good you had immunity there.


Cephrir's time was:
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1:23:51. Good enough for 3rd place.

Ghug is in first, Kublai in second, Meme in fourth, and Chevre in fifth.
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Post Post #261 (isolation #40) » Sat Mar 03, 2018 1:06 pm

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Congrats! Thanks all for sticking around and getting everything within deadline. Great cast here :dabar:
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