The Challenge: Cutthroat - Game Over!
-
-
CuddlyCaucasian Professor of Being a Dog
- Professor of Being a Dog
- Professor of Being a Dog
- Posts: 225
- Joined: May 20, 2013
- Location: Richmond, VA
JDGA rejoins the Blue Team! The final challenge will be posted tomorrow. It will comprise of multiple segments, and you won't know the details of all of them until you begin. Some segments can be completed by individuals, while some require the entire team - the segments can be completed in separate sittings if necessary. Good luck, and prepare yourselves."CC is very [whatever the equivalent of photogenic as it applies to videos]" - racefan12
"CC is an objectively attractive person." - Crazy
"You look like a happy version of Trent Reznor." - LicketyQuickety
"Do you practice sounding like you're high all the time?" - xofelf-
-
Save The Dragons He/HimProtection unnecessaryHe/Him
- Protection unnecessary
- Protection unnecessary
- Posts: 21635
- Joined: April 26, 2004
- Pronoun: He/Him
- Location: WA, USA
-
-
racefan12 Townie
- Townie
- Townie
- Posts: 89
- Joined: April 12, 2016
- Location: Texas
We aren't merging thoughPrivateI:I wish I could bang on the home keys on my keyboard to create an appeal to emotion. It sounds so...soothing.
CuddlyCaucasian:Mafiascum: a land where pansexuality is widely accepted and understood while two people who share the same first name cause mass confusion
You have questions about me? I try to give you answers!-
-
JDGA Goon
- Goon
- Goon
- Posts: 250
- Joined: October 12, 2007
- Location: Tasmania
-
-
CuddlyCaucasian Professor of Being a Dog
- Professor of Being a Dog
- Professor of Being a Dog
- Posts: 225
- Joined: May 20, 2013
- Location: Richmond, VA
{Final Challenge}
Race to the Finish Line
Welcome to the final challenge. At this point no further eliminations will take place. Congratulations on making it to the finale! Your teams are all set and everything hinges on this final challenge. Everyone in the final will now be competing for their share of the $481,800 grand prize in the Challenge Circuit. I hope you feel comfortable with your team, because this is it. The final challenge will be conducted in phases and as a team, you must decide who will be responsible for completing each phase. Having more team members may benefit you, as you will have more players available to complete challenges. However, having more team members may also weigh you down. The team that finishes first will win The Challenge: Cutthroat.
There are three checkpoints involved in the final challenge. Additionally, there is one travel segment to demonstrate how quickly teams can move along the pathway to success. Please note that a checkpoint will require an image editing program and ability to upload a picture. Because all teams may not begin the final challenge at the same time, the overall winning team will be the team with the best overall finishing time.
Each team should discuss their availability with each other to determine the best time to start the final challenge. Ideally you will complete all checkpoints in one sitting unless there are significant availability difficulties. Once your start time has been decided, you may receive further instructions."CC is very [whatever the equivalent of photogenic as it applies to videos]" - racefan12
"CC is an objectively attractive person." - Crazy
"You look like a happy version of Trent Reznor." - LicketyQuickety
"Do you practice sounding like you're high all the time?" - xofelf-
-
randyknup Watcher
- Watcher
- Watcher
- Posts: 0
- Joined: June 11, 2017
-
-
pablito Mafia Scum
- Mafia Scum
- Mafia Scum
- Posts: 3739
- Joined: January 5, 2006
- Location: en route somewhere else
Originally the final challenge was to write "Pablito sucks" 100,000 times and uploading that.
Sup, later.-
-
pablito Mafia Scum
- Mafia Scum
- Mafia Scum
- Posts: 3739
- Joined: January 5, 2006
- Location: en route somewhere else
-
-
pablito Mafia Scum
- Mafia Scum
- Mafia Scum
- Posts: 3739
- Joined: January 5, 2006
- Location: en route somewhere else
For the final challenge, there were three sections that teams were required to complete: a travel section, a broken visual puzzle, and a step-by-step puzzle. The final checkpoints were designed to allow for different team formats - individual but whole, entire team, and individual participation. Additionally, the checkpoints were designed to call-back to various special areas of the game - challenges/banners, songs, and players/events. The team that would finish the entire final challenge with the shortest time would win The Challenge: Cutthroat.
First, as mods, we would like to apologize. We admit that there were some difficulties during the final challenge and that we were not at the very top of our game during this final challenge. I also personally apologize on my behalf for designing a final challenge that was longer and more complex than it should have been. I will take this into consideration for designing future final challenges. All complaints about the final challenge design should be directed at me. Nonetheless, all teams were troopers and made their best effort to make their best attempt to complete to their best of their ability despite timezones, personal circumstances and general life that got in the way. I applaud all of your best effort, and there's no better cast that we could have expected because no one gave up in the end. In the final challenge, there was an additional checkpoint which was completed with some players but then later removed completely. This decision was made due to inconsistencies that would have lead to an unfair disadvantage for one team. As mods, we apologize for this misstep and made this decision during the administration to rectify this. This re-calculation did not change the overall results.
Now, back to the players and the final results!
For the first step, players had to endure a flash puzzle challenge to simulate the normal gruel of The Challenge and how to endure physical tasks over a long distance of time. Carrying your teammates is not the easiest, but this is how they performed:
Purple Team...
Spoiler:
Yellow Team...
Spoiler:
Blue Team...
Spoiler:
The next checkpoint was a puzzle that was split into separate parts and teams had to individually figure out which challenges fit into which clues. They needed to work together to complete the entire puzzle as they could not see the entire puzzle in the end.
Purple Team...
Spoiler:
Yellow Team...
Spoiler:
Blue Team...
Spoiler:
The final checkpoint was a step-by-step puzzle which required the team to work together to make a drawing based on all of the steps. The entire team could work on this together. For these final results, teams were stopped if they had come to a point where it was impossible for them to win. As such, in third place was...
Spoiler:
Coming in second place was...
Spoiler:
But in the end, the first ones making it to the finish line and the champions of The Challenge: Cutthroat were...
Spoiler:Sup, later.-
-
Xalxe He/himIt's pronounced "Xalxe"He/him
- It's pronounced "Xalxe"
- It's pronounced "Xalxe"
- Posts: 4128
- Joined: January 20, 2010
- Pronoun: He/him
- Location: Bothell, WA
-
-
BROseidon Expert Marxman
-
-
Save The Dragons He/HimProtection unnecessaryHe/Him
- Protection unnecessary
- Protection unnecessary
- Posts: 21635
- Joined: April 26, 2004
- Pronoun: He/Him
- Location: WA, USA
Congrats guys that was a tough finale
Thanks mods for the fun game-
-
TheWayItEnds Jack of All Trades
- Jack of All Trades
- Jack of All Trades
- Posts: 5630
- Joined: February 11, 2011
-
-
TheWayItEnds Jack of All Trades
- Jack of All Trades
- Jack of All Trades
- Posts: 5630
- Joined: February 11, 2011
-
-
racefan12 Townie
- Townie
- Townie
- Posts: 89
- Joined: April 12, 2016
- Location: Texas
In post 737, TheWayItEnds wrote:Woooooooo!
Also I have to give a huge shout out and thank you to Randy and TWIE for finishing off the final checkpoint without me after I fell asleep during it (it was midnight my time and I had just flown back in from Vegas that afternoon, but it was even later for them and they still killed it).
And thank you to the mods for making a wonderful game and to all the players who made The Challenge live up to its name as a truly difficult challenge throughout.PrivateI:I wish I could bang on the home keys on my keyboard to create an appeal to emotion. It sounds so...soothing.
CuddlyCaucasian:Mafiascum: a land where pansexuality is widely accepted and understood while two people who share the same first name cause mass confusion
You have questions about me? I try to give you answers!-
-
Iprobablysuck Goon
- Goon
- Goon
- Posts: 104
- Joined: June 20, 2016
- Location: Pennsylvania
Damn having to replace out early hurt, this looks like it was a great game.
GJ Yellow Team, GJ Pabs and CC for making a great game that was fun to follow!ShowDo I REALLY suck? That's up to you to decide.
Retiring from LSG's and Mish Mash, for the most part. If you want to contact me, I suggest going outside and enjoying what the world has to offer, instead.
Definitely DID suck, in the end...Probably.-
-
Haschel Cedricson Mr. Know It All
- Mr. Know It All
- Mr. Know It All
- Posts: 2954
- Joined: May 14, 2007
- Location: Cascadian Subduction Zone
-
-
CuddlyCaucasian Professor of Being a Dog
- Professor of Being a Dog
- Professor of Being a Dog
- Posts: 225
- Joined: May 20, 2013
- Location: Richmond, VA
Huge thanks to everyone for playing and sticking with the game, challenge-focused games like this are by far my favorite games to run, and I'm overjoyed that people seemed to enjoy it as much as I did for the most part. We made some mistakes along the way, and we've gotten a lot of great feedback on what people liked and didn't like, and I hope that when the next Challenge game comes along in several months, we'll have a more well-oiled machine, and ideally challenges that as many people as possible will enjoy! I have to stress that this has been a phenomenal cast, and every single player was great at working with us to accommodate all the varying schedules as best as we could.
The next game in the Challenge series will be The Void, the details of which can be found in the Upcoming Game Ideas thread in this forum. It's a new format where everyone is competing to be the sole winner, and rather than duels for elimination, all members of the losing team during a team mission will enter a free-for-all battle to stay in the game. All members of the winning team in Cutthroat will have spots automatically reserved for them if they want to play, and everyone who applied for Cutthroat will be notified when The Void enters signups (it won't be for a good while).
Finally, everyone who competed in this game has been awarded virtual challenge circuit money that's totally meaningless, but check it out below if you want!
viewtopic.php?p=9512214#p9512214"CC is very [whatever the equivalent of photogenic as it applies to videos]" - racefan12
"CC is an objectively attractive person." - Crazy
"You look like a happy version of Trent Reznor." - LicketyQuickety
"Do you practice sounding like you're high all the time?" - xofelf-
-
Cheery Dog Kayak
- Kayak
- Kayak
- Posts: 8038
- Joined: June 30, 2012
- Location: OMG BALL!
-
-
Cheery Dog Kayak
- Kayak
- Kayak
- Posts: 8038
- Joined: June 30, 2012
- Location: OMG BALL!
I do get to feel special about winning the most fortresses as the only person to survive multiple visits.Holder of the Longest Continuous Weekly Mafiascum Post Record. 1 July 2012 - 16 Feb 2023
*It may be held by someone else if you discount the major downtime in 2012 and 2014, I'm not doing the research.-
-
randyknup Watcher
- Watcher
- Watcher
- Posts: 0
- Joined: June 11, 2017
BOOM!!! I am so pumped that we won this!!!!
This was my first MafiaScum competition and I want to thank everyone who was involved, even the people that threw me into the first Fortress. That made me realize that I really wanted to win and showed me what I needed to do to get that done.
Way to go RaceFan and especially TWIE for getting through that final and somehow completing that final picture!-
-
JDGA Goon
- Goon
- Goon
- Posts: 250
- Joined: October 12, 2007
- Location: Tasmania
-
-
Aurathebirb Townie
- Townie
- Townie
- Posts: 68
- Joined: March 17, 2017
-
-
Haschel Cedricson Mr. Know It All
- Mr. Know It All
- Mr. Know It All
- Posts: 2954
- Joined: May 14, 2007
- Location: Cascadian Subduction Zone
-
-
BROseidon Expert Marxman
- Expert Marxman
- Expert Marxman
- Posts: 8242
- Joined: April 18, 2013
Copyright © MafiaScum. All rights reserved.