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The Challenge: The Void (Congratulations Cephrir!)

Post Post #0 (isolation #0) » Sun Jan 14, 2018 11:50 am

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CuddlyCaucasian and pablito present. . .


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The Friday the 13th films took 10 movies to go into space, but we've devolved into that territory on only our second installment in this franchise. If you're looking to test your mental abilities and prove you're better than 25 other players, or just have fun with some casual puzzles, this is the expedition for you.

Spoiler: Game Rules
General Rules


[A01]
This is a game. You should play to have fun, and to win. You should not prohibit others from doing the same. You should show respect to all participants at all times. We understand this is a game that deals with a lot of emotions, and you should feel free to show that emotion -- just don't push it too far. If in doubt, ask.

[A02]
This game is
non-anonymous.
All actions in the game will take place on Mafiascum. However, players are encouraged to communicate through any other means they find most convenient, such as Skype or Facebook. You are
prohibited
from sharing screenshots of your private conversations, and from sharing private messages in a way that can't be falsified, such as the quote function on Skype.

[A03]
You should not take any action which disrupts or undermines the integrity of the game. You should also not take any action that brings the game into disrepute. This includes, but is not limited to, cheating in or explicitly seeking to break challenges, communicating with players you are not permitted to, communicating information using screenshots or PM forwarding. If in doubt, ask.

[A04]
If there is a problem, or there has been a mistake made, discuss it with a mod.

[A05]
In superficially breaking one of the rules in this ruleset, an Official Warning will be given. If the breach is substantial, or a second breach of any named rule is made, discretionary sanctions will be applied. If the breach if excessive, or a further breach is made after sanctions, you will be modkilled. This is your only (unofficial) warning.

[A06]
We reserve the right at any time to implement new rules. We reserve the right to use our discretion in disciplining players as we see fit, if a situation not covered by these rules arises, using A04 as a guide. We reserve the right to refrain from disciplining players if we believe the offence is sufficiently minor. Should these rules be substantively altered at any time, you will be informed.



Game Mechanics


Format
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[B01]
This game will consist of 26 players battling it out for an
individual
grand prize. You will team up with other players at many points in the game, but in any challenge where elimination is the consequence for failure, you will be fending for yourself.
[B02]
Every round will contain 3 phases: the Team Mission, the Black Hole Vote, and The Void. Through this process, 2 players will be eliminated each round.

Missions


[C01]
To start every round, all players will be split into two teams. At the start of the game, these teams will be random, but as the game goes on, teams will be divided using a mathematical formula which takes into account performance in previous challenges. This formula is unknown to the players.
[C02]
After the teams are announced, they will compete in a Team Mission. The winning team will receive immunity from entering The Void, a battle for elimination.
ALL
members of the losing team will enter The Void.
[C03]
All outcomes of challenges are final, subject to A04.
[C04]
A range of challenge styles has been designed, to test different skills. We cannot provide for all players all the time, but we have tried our best to make challenges as level and fair as possible.
[C05]
Unless otherwise stated, the use of outside resources during any challenge is strictly prohibited. Any players found in violation of this rule will be immediately eliminated. Regardless, we have tried to craft a game where cheating is, for the most part, impossible.
[C06]
At a predetermined point in the game, Team Missions will switch over to Pair Missions, with randomly determined pairs competing each round. The winning pair will be safe from The Void, while all losing pairs will face it.

Black Hole Vote


[D01]
After a winning team is determined from the challenge, there will be a vote to send players into the Black Hole, a subset of The Void where players are much more likely to be eliminated.
[D02]
All players have 24 hours to cast a single vote privately, choosing between everyone entering The Void. Any player who was a Black Hole nominee during the previous round is ineligible from being one in the current round. You are allowed to vote for yourself if you are eligible. Despite the fact that votes are cast in private, everyone's vote will be publicly revealed at the end of 24 hours.
[D03]
Failure to cast a vote will result in you casting a vote for yourself (or if you were on the winning team, your vote being ignored). Upon a player's third failure to cast a vote, he will be immediately eliminated, and there will be no Black Hole nominees that round. You are allowed and encouraged to cast a preemptive conditional vote if you don't think you'll be able to cast one during the voting period.
[D04]
The 3 players who receive the most votes will become the Black Hole nominees. In the event of a tie preventing there from being exactly 3 players holding the most votes, the tied players in question will be safe, and the remaining players in The Void (who aren't already nominees) will be randomly selected to fill the remaining Black Hole slots.
[D05]
Starting at a predetermined point in the game, there will only be 2 Black Hole nominees every round; all other aspects of the Black Hole vote will remain the same.

The Void


[E01]
After the Black Hole Vote, every round will conclude with The Void, a challenge that all players from the losing team will compete in.
[E02]
The 2 or 3 Black Hole nominees will compete in the same challenge as everyone else in The Void, but the nominees will not be in direct competition with the non-nominees. Instead, the Black Hole nominee who performs the worst in the challenge will be eliminated from the game.
[E03]
Out of the rest of the players competing in The Void, the one who performs the worst in the challenge will be eliminated. This means that during the first round of the game, the Black Hole nominees will have a 1 in 3 chance of being eliminated, while everyone else in The Void will only be at a 1 in 10 risk of elimination.
[E04]
Rules C03, C04, and C05 apply to any Void challenge as well.

Final Mission


[F01]
At a predetermined point in the game, there will be a final mission. It will test many different skills, and at the end one player will be named the champion.



Player Contract

We are requiring all players, in lieu of other methods of rule compliance, to agree to a player contract in submitting an application. Please read it carefully. If you foresee that you will be unable to follow this contract, please discuss it with a mod: while we do want to accommodate you, we cannot accept any player who cannot obey this contract.


[Y01]
By submitting an application to play, you agree to abide by all these rules.

[Y02]
By submitting an application, you agree that you have read and acknowledged all these rules.

[Y03]
By submitting an application, you forfeit ignorance of the rules as an excuse.

[Y04]
By submitting an application, you forfeit plausible deniability of acceptable standards as an excuse. This means you may not claim that you thought your actions erred on the right side of the line.

[Y05]
By submitting an application, you agree to be active in your participation in accordance with these rules, and shall not flake.

[Y06]
By submitting an application, you accept that you are bound by the honour system, and must at all times remain bound by it.

[Y07]
By submitting an application, you accept that breaching this contract may result in replacement, modkilling, sanctions, and/or blacklisting.

[Y08]
If you are unwilling or unable to obey this contract at any time, you must notify the mods
immediately
.
Last edited by pablito on Sun Feb 25, 2018 4:36 pm, edited 9 times in total.
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Post Post #1 (isolation #1) » Tue Jan 16, 2018 12:17 pm

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{GAME STATE}




{FINAL MISSION}


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{Cephrir, Chevre, Ghug}




Spoiler: Eliminated
Real Winner:
Babar
1st Place:
Cephrir
2nd Place:
Chevre
3rd Place:
Ghug
4th Place:
Meme
5th Place:
Kublai
6th Place:
TWIE
7th Place:
MGD
8th Place:
Xalxe
9th Place:
D3f3nd3r
10th Place:
mv_gimmick
11th Place:
Fluminator
12th Place:
Radja
13th Place:
McMenno
14th Place:
VashtaNeurotic
15th Place:
DrumBeats
16th Place:
PrivateI
17th Place:
racefan12
18th Place:
zoraster
19th Place:
Vijarada
20th Place:
Iprobablysuck
21st Place:
Entreri
22nd Place:
TheHappyOne
23rd Place:
Aurathebirb
24th Place:
Drench
25th Place:
pickemgenius
26th Place:
animorpherv1
Last edited by pablito on Sat Mar 03, 2018 1:12 pm, edited 7 times in total.
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Post Post #2 (isolation #2) » Wed Jan 17, 2018 1:49 pm

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{GAME SUMMARY}


Episode 1


Meet the Cast
Mission 1: Maintenance Task Force
  • Winners:
    Aura • D3f3nd3r • Drench • DrumBeats • Ghug • IPS • Kublai • Meme • MGD • Radja • TWIE • Xalxe • Zoraster
Black Hole Vote
  • Void:
    Animorph • Cephrir • Chevre • Entreri • Gimmick • Happy • McMenno • PrivateI • Vashta • Vijarada

  • Black Hole:
    Fluminator • PEG • Racefan
Void 1: Dashboard Confessional
  • Winners:
    Cephrir • Chevre • Entreri • Gimmick • Happy • McMenno • PrivateI • Vashta • Vijarada
    Fluminator • Racefan

  • Eliminated:
    Animorph
    PEG
Episode 2


Mission 2: Obstacle Course
  • Winners:
    Cephrir • D3f3nd3r • Fluminator • Gimmick • Happy • IPS • Kublai • McMenno • Meme • MGD • PrivateI • Xalxe
Black Hole Vote
  • Void:
    Chevre • Drench • DrumBeats • Entreri • Ghug • Racefan • Radja • TWIE • Zoraster

  • Black Hole:
    Aura • Vashta • Vijarada
Void 2: Robot Mutation Chamber
  • Winners:
    Chevre • DrumBeats • Entreri • Ghug • Racefan • Radja • TWIE • Zoraster
    Vashta • Vijarada

  • Eliminated:
    Drench
    Aura
Episode 3


Mission 3: Behavior Testing
  • Winners:
    Chevre • D3f3nd3r • Ghug • Gimmick • IPS • McMenno • Meme • PrivateI • Radja • TWIE • Vijarada
Black Hole Vote
  • Void:
    Cephrir • Fluminator • Happy • Kublai • MGD • Racefan • Vashta • Xalxe

  • Black Hole:
    DrumBeats • Entreri • Zoraster
Void 3: ET Phone Home
  • Winners:
    Cephrir • Fluminator • Kublai • MGD • Racefan • Vashta • Xalxe
    DrumBeats • Zoraster

  • Eliminated:
    Happy
    Entreri
Episode 4


Mission 4: Building Constellations
  • Winners:
    D3f3nd3r • DrumBeats • Ghug • Kublai • McMenno • MGD • PrivateI • Racefan • Radja • Vashta
Black Hole Vote
  • Void:
    Chevre • Fluminator • Gimmick • TWIE • Vijarada • Xalxe • Zoraster

  • Black Hole:
    Cephrir • IPS • Meme
Void 4: Abandoned Space Station
  • Winners:
    Chevre • Fluminator • Gimmick • TWIE • Xalxe • Zoraster
    Cephrir • Meme

  • Eliminated:
    Vijarada
    IPS
Episode 5


Mission 5: The Missing Link
  • Winners:
    Chevre • D3f3nd3r • DrumBeats • Fluminator • Ghug • Gimmick • McMenno • MGD • Vashta
Black Hole Vote
  • Void:
    Cephrir • Kublai • Meme • PrivateI • Rajda • Xalxe • Zoraster

  • Black Hole:
    TWIE • Racefan
Void 5: The Brightest Constellation
  • Winners:
    Cephrir • Kublai • Meme • PrivateI • Radja • Xalxe
    TWIE

  • Eliminated:
    Zoraster
    Racefan
Episode 6


Mission 6: Stir of Echoes
  • Winners:
    Chevre • D3f3nd3r • Ghug • Kublai • Meme • MGD • TWIE • Vashta
Black Hole Vote
  • Void:
    Cephrir • Fluminator • Gimmick • PrivateI • Radja • Xalxe

  • Black Hole:
    DrumBeats • McMenno
Void 6: Space Farmers
  • Winners:
    Cephrir • Fluminator • Gimmick • Radja • Xalxe
    McMenno

  • Eliminated:
    PrivateI
    DrumBeats
Episode 7


Mission 7: Obstacle Course II
  • Winners:
    Chevre • Fluminator • Gimmick • Kublai • Meme • MGD • Radja
Black Hole Vote
  • Void:
    Cephrir • D3f3nd3r • McMenno • TWIE • Xalxe

  • Black Hole:
    Ghug • Vashta
Void 7: Cryptobeats
  • Winners:
    Cephrir • D3f3nd3r • TWIE • Xalxe
    Ghug

  • Eliminated:
    McMenno
    Vashta
Episode 8


Mission 8: Ku-Do-Su
  • Winners:
    D3f3nd3r • Gimmick • Kublai • Meme • TWIE • Xalxe
Black Hole Vote
  • Void:
    Cephrir • Ghug • MGD • Radja

  • Black Hole:
    Chevre • Fluminator
Void 8: Lost Expedition
  • Winners:
    Cephrir • Ghug • MGD
    Chevre

  • Eliminated:
    Radja
    Fluminator
Episode 9


Mission 9: Terraforming Wars
  • Winners:
    Chevre • TWIE
Black Hole Vote
  • Void:
    Ghug
    Gimmick
    Kublai
    Meme
    MGD
    Xalxe

  • Black Hole:
    Cephrir • D3f3nd3r
Void 9: Two-Faced
  • Winners:
    Ghug
    Kublai
    Meme
    MGD
    Xalxe
    Cephrir

  • Eliminated:
    Gimmick
    D3f3nd3r
Episode 10


Mission 10: Asteroid Field
  • Winners:
    Cephrir • TWIE
Black Hole Vote
  • Void:
    Chevre
    Ghug
    Kublai
    Xalxe

  • Black Hole:
    Meme • MGD
Void 10: Memory Cells
  • Winners:
    Chevre
    Ghug
    Kublai
    Meme

  • Eliminated:
    Xalxe
    MGD
Final Episode


Final Black Hole: Only Connect
  • Matchups:
    Ghug
    vs.
    Meme
    Cephrir
    vs.
    Kublai
    Chevre
    vs.
    TWIE

  • Winners:
    Ghug
    Cephrir
    Chevre

  • Elimnated:
    Kublai
    Meme
    TWIE
Final Mission: Supreme Regent of the Black Hole
  • Final Placement:
    Cephrir
    Chevre
    Ghug
Last edited by pablito on Sat Mar 03, 2018 1:02 pm, edited 12 times in total.
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Post Post #3 (isolation #3) » Fri Jan 19, 2018 4:01 am

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{Meet the Cast}




Welcome to The Void! Before we commence blastoff, let's introduce the 26 players who will be competing for their share of $650,000. You've been divided into two teams of 13. Your teams will change every round, but right now your teammates are the people you're relying on to win you safety into the top 24. Let's meet the players.



Gold Team





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TheWayItEnds. A champion from The Challenge: Cutthroat.





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D3f3nd3r. Eliminated during the final round of Cutthroat.





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Xalxe. Eliminated round 8 of Cutthroat.





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Aurathebirb. Eliminated round 5 of Cutthroat.





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Drench. Winner of Survivor: Names Are Hard and other games.





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DrumBeats. A late-gamer in Survivor: Civilization.





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Iprobablysuck. A veteran of Survivor: Civilization.





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CaptainMeme. A veteran of Diplomacy and Mafia.





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Radja. A late-gamer in many Survivor games, including One World.





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MGD. A 3-time Survivor player on other sites.





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Ghug. A veteran of Diplomacy/Survivor/Mafia on webDiplomacy.





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Kublai Khan. A long-time Mafiascum contributor.





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Zoraster. 5th place in Clash of the Mash 2016 and ruler of the world.







Purple Team






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racefan12. Our other resident champion of Cutthroat.





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pickemgenius. A member of the runner-up team in Cutthroat, and recent winner of Survivor: Lake Gaston.





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McMenno. A member of the third-place team in Cutthroat.





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PrivateI. Eliminated during Round 8 of Cutthroat.





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Cephrir. Second runner-up of Survivor: Lake Gaston and multiple-time winner of MS Survivor.





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Fluminator. A winner of Survivor on webDiplomacy, and mod of Chaos Diplomacy.





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mv_gimmick. Runner-up of Survivor: MLS.





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Vijarada. A 5-time Mafiascum Survivor player.





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animorpherv1. A long-time Mish Mash player and moderator of the acclaimed Pokemon Survivor series.





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Chevre. Another long-time MS veteran, most recently in Survivor: Civilization and One World.





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Entreri. A veteran of Survivor on webDiplomacy.





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TheHappyOne. A rookie to challenge-based games and fan of The Challenge.





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VashtaNeurotic. A top 100 ranked Diplomacy player on webDiplomacy.






Get to know your teammates now; the first challenge will begin at
7PM EST tonight.
You are not required to be around at the challenge's start. You are allowed to talk with anyone from either team, as long as you don't collude about the challenge. In a short period of time, you will receive a link to a Private Topic in which you can communicate with your team. You are also welcome to create a team skype chat or discord.
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Post Post #4 (isolation #4) » Fri Jan 19, 2018 4:16 am

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If anyone wants to spectate, I've set up an official discord for people to discuss the game! Send me a PM if you'd like the link.
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Post Post #6 (isolation #5) » Fri Jan 19, 2018 4:50 am

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Finally, the official listmod for this game is SleepyKrew. If any issues come up regarding the fairness of this game or players violating site rules, please contact him with your grievances. For any issues you have relating to players breaking the rules of this game, contact me or pablito and we will attempt to sort things out.
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Post Post #16 (isolation #6) » Fri Jan 19, 2018 10:37 am

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Everyone can just join this discord now, there are separate channels for spectators and for each team

https://discord.gg/KgqryXq
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Post Post #18 (isolation #7) » Fri Jan 19, 2018 1:34 pm

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For clarification, during part 3, you can switch directions in the middle of a word. In that way, it's much more akin to Boggle than a word search.
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Post Post #24 (isolation #8) » Sun Jan 21, 2018 1:00 pm

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Before we get into part 3, let's find out how each group did.

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The spotters for the Gold Team were Ghug, IPS, MGD, and Zoraster. They found....
9 differences!





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Fluminator, Happy, PrivateI, and Vijarada found......
10 differences!
The Purple Team will go into part 3 with a
10-second head start.






How about the Fixers?


Puzzle #1


Image VS. Image

Drench's time of
25:01
beats Entreri's time of
46:05
. 10 points for Gold.





Puzzle #2


Image VS. Image

Radja's time of
14:43
doesn't stack up to McMenno's time of
9:53
. 10 points for Purple.





Puzzle #3


Image VS. Image

TWIE's time of
8:39
defeats Cephrir's time of
14:27
. 20 points total for Gold now.





Puzzle #4


Image VS. Image

D3f3nd3r's time of
3:51
beats Animorph's time of
5:00
. 30 points for Gold.





Puzzle #5


Image VS. Image

DrumBeats' time of
5:38
is defeated by Racefan and his time of
3:23
. 20 points for Purple.





Puzzle #6


Image VS. Image

Finally, Xalxe scores a time of
1:21
, beating Vashta's time of
1:41
. The final score count is 40 for Gold, 20 for Purple.
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Post Post #26 (isolation #9) » Sun Jan 21, 2018 1:04 pm

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Full list of differences

1. Line on boy's shirt pocket
2. Strap on girl's sandal
3. Hair above boy's forehead
4. Patch on boy's left sleeve
5. Front bus seat
6. Hubcap on bus
7. Collar on girl's top is colored in
8. Boom box handle is colored in
9. Patch on girl's left leg changes position
10. Light on the bus changes position
11. Musical note on the right changes position
12. Back of skateboard changes length
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Post Post #120 (isolation #10) » Sun Jan 21, 2018 1:27 pm

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Words must be 4 letters long
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Post Post #126 (isolation #11) » Sun Jan 21, 2018 1:31 pm

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If 2 minutes pass from this point on without a new word, we'll call it.
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Post Post #127 (isolation #12) » Sun Jan 21, 2018 1:39 pm

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With that,
Gold Team
wins the challenge 134-81. 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.

{Purple Team}


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{Animorph, Cephrir, Chevre, Entreri}
{Fluminator, Gimmick, Happy}
{McMenno, PEG, PrivateI}
{Racefan, Vashta, Vijarada}




You have
(expired on 2018-01-22 20:40:00)
to vote.
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Post Post #129 (isolation #13) » Sun Jan 21, 2018 2:20 pm

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If all votes are in early, we will post the results and Void challenge early.
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Post Post #130 (isolation #14) » Mon Jan 22, 2018 8:06 am

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It's time to reveal the votes.

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Animorph voted for
Spoiler:
Racefan




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Cephrir voted for
Spoiler:
Racefan




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Chevre voted for
Spoiler:
Racefan




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Entreri voted for
Spoiler:
Racefan




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Fluminator voted for
Spoiler:
Animorph




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Gimmick voted for
Spoiler:
Gimmick




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Happy voted for
Spoiler:
Racefan

5 votes Racefan, 1 vote Animorph, 1 vote Gimmick.




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McMenno voted for
Spoiler:
Entreri




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PEG voted for
Spoiler:
Entreri




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PrivateI voted for
Spoiler:
Racefan




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Racefan voted for
Spoiler:
Entreri

6 votes Racefan, 3 votes Entreri, 1 vote Animorph, 1 vote Gimmick




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Vashta voted for
Spoiler:
Racefan




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Vijarada voted for
Spoiler:
Entreri

7 votes Racefan, 4 votes Entreri, 1 vote Animorph, 1 vote Gimmick.




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Aura voted for
Spoiler:
PEG




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Ghug voted for
Spoiler:
PEG




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IPS voted for
Spoiler:
PEG




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Kublai voted for
Spoiler:
PEG




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Meme voted for
Spoiler:
PEG




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MGD voted for
Spoiler:
PEG




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D3f3nd3r voted for
Spoiler:
Fluminator




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Drench voted for
Spoiler:
Fluminator




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DrumBeats voted for
Spoiler:
Fluminator




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Radja voted for
Spoiler:
Fluminator




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TWIE voted for
Spoiler:
Fluminator




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Xalxe voted for
Spoiler:
Fluminator




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Zoraster voted for
Spoiler:
Fluminator

The final tally is 7 votes Fluminator, 7 votes Racefan, 6 votes PEG, 4 votes Entreri, 1 vote Animorph, 1 vote Gimmick.

Fluminator, Racefan, and PEG will enter the Black Hole. Everyone else from the Purple Team will enter the Void.
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Post Post #132 (isolation #15) » Mon Jan 22, 2018 8:12 am

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{Void 01}


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Dashboard Confessional


Welcome to your first Void challenge. For each Void challenge, there will be 2 simultaneous competitions. The top 3 vote recipients within the losing team (and later 2) will be nominated for the Black Hole competition where 1 of the 3 participants will be eliminated. The remaining players in the losing team will enter the Void challenge where there is a lesser percentage change of being eliminated.

At the end of this Black Hole voting ceremony, the three players selected for the Black Hole will participate in a challenge where one player will be eliminated. These three players are:

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The remaining players of the losing team will also participate in this challenge and will compete against each other in which one player will also be eliminated:

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The first Void will test your visual acuity. On your way through space, your ship's dashboard controls have several panels, and it is important that you can read any and all of the meters within a moment's glance. Therefore you will be required to read all of the dashboard meters today to the closest hundredth of a percentage point. However, there will be no markings on these meters to help you out. Each of these meters is a pie chart that equals 100%. Each player must guess how much percent is the blue slice to two decimal points (i.e. 69.42%). Players who can read the meters the best and accurately read the panels will earn stars. The player who submits a guess that is closest to the actual hundredth of a percentage point will earn a star. Once a player has earned two stars, they will be safe. The last player remaining at the end of the competition who failed to earned two stars will be eliminated.

Each player participating in this challenge will be given a link to a google form. Once the player has entered the pertinent information in the google form, their time will start and they will be given a link to a new form. Within that form is a list of the 25 pie charts that represent your dashboard controls. The first dashboard meter will automatically be selected first. Once all submissions are entered, the player who was closest to the actual dashboard meter percentage will earn a star. That player will then get to decide which of the remaining 24 dashboard meters will be used next. As such, when you submit your entry, you will also be ranking your confidence level in each of the dashboard meters; this ranking will be referred to whenever you win a star to determine the next panel that is used. The Void and Black Hole participants will all be competing against each other for stars, even though they're not in direct competition to remain in the game.

If there is a tie to determine the winner of the dashboard meter, then the player who submitted quicker will earn the star. The challenge will continue until 2 of the Black Hole competitors have earned 2 stars (and the 3rd player failed to earn 2 stars) and until 9 Void competitors have earned 2 stars (and the 10th player failed to earn 2 stars). Once a player earns 2 stars or if they have been mathematically eliminated, they will no longer compete for more. You have
24 hours
to submit your entry, upon which the results will be posted. Be cautious with your confidence levels, as this may change the order of the entire challenge and may change the overall results.

Participants in this challenge may not collude or discuss together about this challenge. All outside sources are prohibited.


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Post Post #135 (isolation #16) » Tue Jan 23, 2018 4:58 am

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Our voyage into the depths of space will now begin, and with that means new friends and new relationships. Here are your new teams.

{Gold Team}


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{Purple Team}


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Post Post #136 (isolation #17) » Tue Jan 23, 2018 5:57 am

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{Mission 02}


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Obstacle Course


After preparing your ship and training in reading your dashboard controls, your team is now ready to lift off! Blasting off will require navigating through four various stages, and in each stage, it would be advisable to have an expert to lead you the way. On a space team, it's always great to have people in various roles, such as engineer, medic, navigator, and captain. However, as we're all starting out on this space journey, it's still tough to know where everyone's strengths lie. Make your best guess and hope that you can assess your own abilities. Being on a team means no one left behind. For this challenge, each player on your team will have to complete the obstacle course and try their best, because the slowest overall time on your team will be your team's overall score. However, experts can help "absorb" some of the poor performance on a specific obstacle by cheering on the slowest teammates.

There will be 4 obstacles which will remain unknown until you begin, and you'll need to appoint 2 experts for each obstacle before anyone can start. You'll need 2
pictures
experts, 2
logic
experts, 2
words
experts, and 2
agility
experts. A person cannot be an expert for more than one obstacle. Once you've done this, individuals must contact a moderator when they're ready to begin. They'll be given each obstacle separately when they're ready, and their time on each obstacle will be stopped once they meet its qualifications. The maximum time on each task is
30 minutes
. If you exceed that time or submit an incorrect response for a task, your time will default to the maximum.

Once everyone has finished the challenge, experts will give "assistance" on the obstacles they've been assigned to. Assuming the expert wasn't the slowest on their assigned obstacle, time will be taken off of a team's slowest member on an obstacle, while time is added onto that obstacle's fastest expert at the same rate. Once both experts on an obstacle have matching times, they'll equally split the time of the slowest member. This continues until either 1) the time of the slowest member matches the time of the expert(s), or 2) a tie is reached for slowest time on an obstacle. If the latter is true, all tied players will continue having their time reduced while the experts' times increase at double the rate (or triple if there are 3 tied players, etc.) This continues until both experts have the same time as the tied players.
The details of this process may be hard to understand, but your optimal strategy is essentially to have everyone be as fast as possible, and if your expert on an obstacle is faster than everyone else, it'll help your overall time.
Through this process, your cumulative time across all team members will remain the same on each obstacle. The only difference is that the time is being more evenly distributed.

An image editor such as Paint will be required for multiple obstacles.

No outside resources are allowed, nor is communication about the challenge once players have started on the obstacles.


Since you need all your teammates to cross the finish line, only the final time of your
slowest
member will count in the determination of the winner of this mission. The losing team will enter the Void, and 3 of its members will be sent into the Black Hole.

Once you've decided on the experts for each obstacle, everyone on your team will receive a PM containing links to start each obstacle. Once you submit a form to start an obstacle, your time will start and you will receive another form to complete the obstacle. Remember that you can give up after 30 minutes since that is the maximum time. You have
24 hours
to decide on your experts and
48 hours total
to complete this challenge.
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Post Post #137 (isolation #18) » Wed Jan 24, 2018 7:54 pm

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It was a long and arduous obstacle course, but we got through our third challenge in a row where every single player submitted for the challenge in time! A rare feat in a game with 26 participants. The captains of the ship are proud.

We'll go through each obstacle one by one and show everyone's unmodified times before the experts stepped in to help. At the end, we'll show everyone's modified times and totals in order of finish, and the first team for all its members to finish will win.

First, how did everyone do on the logic puzzle? Experts' times are highlighted in green.

Spoiler:
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3 DQs on Purple, but Cephrir's time can lighten that blow a fair bit.





How about the visual picross puzzle?

Spoiler:
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Both experts on Purple are DQed. However, the two Gold experts won't be able to make up much time for the two on their team who failed to finish.





What role did the cryptogram play?

Spoiler:
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Lots of DQs here due to the challenging nature of the obstacle, or due to some unfortunate typos. Both experts on Purple performed exceptionally well, however.






Finally, the Asteroids flash game tested everyone's agility. Did anyone falter?

Spoiler:
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The experts won't provide much help here; Vijarada makes for the only DQ on this obstacle.






We've incorporated the experts' assistance on each obstacle, and the final cumulative times are in. Below is the list of everyone in the order of finish....

Spoiler: Final Results
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With that, the
Gold Team
has lost the mission and will be losing 2 members this round. Voting for the Black Hole will commence shortly.
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Post Post #139 (isolation #19) » Thu Jan 25, 2018 3:32 am

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We've discovered a rules infraction that was made during the last challenge, and the person responsible was disqualified for that section of the challenge. It did not affect the final results. Since we believe the infraction was unintentional, we won't be imposing any penalties, but we want to reiterate:
an outside source includes anything that doesn't come as a result of your own thought or note-taking. This includes a calculator, google,
other people, etc.
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Post Post #142 (isolation #20) » Thu Jan 25, 2018 11:15 am

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Spoiler: Adjusted times
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Post Post #143 (isolation #21) » Thu Jan 25, 2018 5:08 pm

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I'll read the votes.


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Aura voted for...
Spoiler:
Chevre




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Chevre voted for...
Spoiler:
Zoraster




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Drench voted for...
Spoiler:
Entreri




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DrumBeats voted for...
Spoiler:
Entreri




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Entreri voted for...
Spoiler:
Zoraster




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Ghug voted for...
Spoiler:
Chevre

That's 2 votes each for Chevre, Entreri, and Zoraster.




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Racefan voted for...
Spoiler:
TWIE




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Radja voted for...
Spoiler:
Entreri




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TWIE voted for...
Spoiler:
Entreri




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Vashta voted for...
Spoiler:
TWIE

4 votes for Entreri, 2 votes each for Chevre, TWIE, and Zoraster.




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Vijarada voted for...
Spoiler:
TWIE




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Zoraster voted for...
Spoiler:
Chevre




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Cephrir voted for...
Spoiler:
TWIE

4 votes for TWIE, 4 votes for Entreri, 3 votes for Chevre, 2 votes for Zoraster




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D3f3nd3r voted for...
Spoiler:
Entreri




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Fluminator voted for...
Spoiler:
Zoraster




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Gimmick voted for...
Spoiler:
Zoraster




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Happy voted for...
Spoiler:
Zoraster

5 votes for Entreri, 5 votes for Zoraster, 4 votes for TWIE, 3 votes for Chevre




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IPS voted for...
Spoiler:
Chevre




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Kublai voted for...
Spoiler:
Chevre




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McMenno voted for...
Spoiler:
TWIE

That's 5 votes each for Entreri, Chevre, TWIE, and Zoraster. 4 votes left.




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Meme voted for...
Spoiler:
Zoraster




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MGD voted for...
Spoiler:
Chevre




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PrivateI voted for...
Spoiler:
TWIE




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Xalxe voted for...
Spoiler:
Entreri

That's 6 votes for Entreri, 6 votes for Chevre, 6 votes for TWIE, and 6 votes for Zoraster. Per the rules, a tie is preventing there from being exactly 3 people in the Black Hole, meaning all tied parties are safe and 3 of the remaining eligible players will be randomly selected to go in. As a reminder, Racefan is safe.

The random selection is shown below; the top 3 players on the randomized list will enter the Black Hole.




























































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Vashta, Aura, and Vijarada will enter the Black Hole.
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Post Post #144 (isolation #22) » Thu Jan 25, 2018 5:11 pm

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{Void 02}


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Robot Mutation Chamber


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Welcome to your second Void challenge. Today's Void will test your logical deduction. When you are ready to begin, fill out
this form
. Upon completion, your time will start and you will receive the link to an image. The image contains 9 lettered mutation chambers arranged in a 3x3 grid, surrounded by alien figures at the beginning and end of each row and column. Each of the 3 aliens on the left of each row passed through the 3 chambers to their right and transformed into the figure to the right of that row. The same is true for the aliens above each column: they passed through the 3 chambers below them and transformed into the figure below that column.

Each chambers affects one, and only one, alteration (including changes in head or body shape, changes in posture (standing up vs. lying down), and addition/removal of antennae or front/back appendages). Note: Some chambers in the same row or column will undo what a previous chamber has done.

It is your goal to identify how each chamber alters the aliens who pass through it. Once you think you've figured them all out, fill out the google form again, this time listing what each chamber does in the space provided. There is only one correct solution. In your descriptions of what a chamber alters, be as specific as possible. An answer such as "changes head shape" is not acceptable, but "changes head to a square shape" would be. Furthermore, if an alien standing up has arms coming from its torso, those appendages correspond to front legs on an alien that's lying down.

No outside sources may be used for preparing or completing this challenge. You may not communicate about the challenge with other players.


All competing players will be ranked based on the number of chambers they correctly identify the effect of, with time acting as a tiebreaker. The lowest-ranked Black Hole nominee and the lowest-ranked Void participant will both be eliminated from the game. You have
24 hours
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Post Post #150 (isolation #23) » Fri Jan 26, 2018 4:32 pm

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{Gold Team}


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{Chevre, D3f3nd3r, Ghug, Gimmick}
{IPS, McMenno, Meme, PrivateI}
{Radja, TWIE, Vijarada}





{Purple Team}


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{Cephrir, DrumBeats, Entreri, Fluminator}
{Happy, Kublai, MGD, Racefan}
{Vashta, Xalxe, Zoraster}
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Post Post #151 (isolation #24) » Fri Jan 26, 2018 4:37 pm

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{Mission 03}


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Behavior Testing


You know those aliens we discovered in the transformation chambers in the last Void? Well... they've followed us back to our ships and want to do some analysis on human and robot behavior, so us ship captains figured we may as well play along.

For
part 1
of the challenge, your entire team may participate. You will be using human simulator machine BrantSteele.net to simulate a season of The Challenge. By altering the abilities and other attributes in the profile page and relationships/alliances of each player, you must try and match our target results as closely as possible. Your target is shown below.
1st Place: Nehemiah Clark & Casey Cooper
2nd Place: Tyler Duckworth & Svetlana Shusterman
3rd Place: Chris Tamburello & Robin Hibbard
4th Place: Wes Bergmann & Beth Stolarczyk
5th Place: Derrick Kosinski & Diem Brown
6th Place: Brad Fiorenza & Aneesa Ferreira
7th Place: Evan Starkman & Kina Dean
8th Place: Kenny Santucci & Jodi Weatherton
9th Place: Johnny Devenanzio & Tina Barta
10th Place: Eric Banks & Paula Meronek
Once you believe you've gotten as close as you can to the target placements, take a screenshot of the "Placements" page of the simulation, with a Mafiascum tab visible. You will receive 10 points for every contestant whose placement you match exactly, 7 points for every placement that's one off, 5 points for two off, 3 points for three off, 2 points for four off, and 1 point for 5 off. Any contestants who are more than 5 positions away from their placement in the target list result in 0 points. Any member on your team can make a submission, but be sure to indicate your official and final submission; otherwise, the final submission received will be the one that is scored. You have
24 hours
to make a final submission.

In
part 2
of the challenge, which is
live
, your team will use the points you've accumulated to bid on movement options for a robot that will compete in a strategic challenge. Each team will control one robot, which will move around a 10x10 grid of tiles. After a robot has stepped on a tile, it is blacked out and can't be stepped on again. However, your robot can only operate using a set list of movement options, with each option only available to be used
once
.

Before the live portion of the challenge, the players competing for each team will have 15 minutes to deliberate and submit a list of bids for each movement option. You may bid any value of points for each option, and the cumulative total of all your bids across all items can exceed the points you have available for bidding. Once both lists are in, each option will be given to the highest bidding team, and that team will lose the amount of points they bid. This will continue until all options are given out or neither team can afford to make their remaining bids. If a team's bid exceeds the number of points they have remaining, their bid will be switched to an amount equal to all their remaining points. If neither team bids on an option, or both teams bid the same amount, neither team will receive it nor lose points. The full list of movement options is below.

Spoiler: List of movement options
  • 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 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
  • 1 space down, 1 space left, 1 space down
  • 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


The team who earned more points during part 1 will choose who goes first. After the movement options have been given out, the game will begin. The teams will take turns posting a movement option in-thread that they haven't yet used. If it reaches a team's turn and that team either has no remaining options that don't require stepping on a blacked-out tile, or the team has no remaining options whatsoever, the team loses and must face the Void. The live portion of this challenge will begin in
24 hours
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Post Post #162 (isolation #25) » Mon Jan 29, 2018 4:18 pm

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{ROUND 04 TEAMS}




{Gold Team}


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{D3f3nd3r, DrumBeats, Ghug, Kublai}
{McMenno, MGD, PrivateI}
{Racefan, Radja, Vashta}





{Purple Team}


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{Cephrir, Chevre, Fluminator, Gimmick}
{IPS, Meme, TWIE}
{Vijarada, Xalxe, Zoraster}
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Post Post #163 (isolation #26) » Mon Jan 29, 2018 4:26 pm

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{Mission 04}


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Building Constellations


Today's mission is a basic word search puzzle. But here's the catch: half the letters aren't in the puzzle yet. For this mission, each team will once again split up into two groups, this time groups of 5. Each group will complete their portion of the challenge
semi-live
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Group 1
will be figuring out what letters go into the wordsearch by answering a number of crossword clues. "Bruce Wayne's secret identity (6)" would correspond to "Batman", for example. Once your group is ready to begin, you'll be given a google spreadsheet, with one tab containing the unfilled wordsearch and one tab containing the list of clues. You'll input the answers to each crossword clue with one letter in each cell of the answer space provided. Each answer cell is linked to a cell in the wordsearch grid, meaning that as you input answers, the wordsearch will be slowly filled out. On the wordsearch tab, many adjacent cells will have the same color; this indicates that once all the clues have been answered, those cells will form a word or name that's to be found in part 2 of the challenge. You will not know the words that are meant to be found, but they all share a very similar theme. It it helpful to work back and forth, completing words in the wordsearch to help with crossword clues you can't figure out by checking the cell reference of each cell in the wordsearch.
Do not manually input letters into the wordsearch grid, as this will override the cell references.
Once you believe you've answered all clues correctly, send the list of crossword clue answers to a mod, and your time will be stopped. For every clue you answer incorrectly, 5 minutes will be added onto your time.

Group 2
will then be given the completed wordsearch grid and will be asked to find as many words or names as possible. They will not know the common theme between all words, but it is easy to deduce. Indicate the location of each word by circling it in the image provided by using an image editor. There will be 15 words to find. Your time will stop when you've posted images of all 15 words circled.

Outside sources are prohibited for this challenge. Additionally, members of Group 1 cannot communicate about any specifics of the challenge with Group 2.


Either group can begin whenever the groups have been designated within each team. The times of both groups will be combined, and the team with the shorter overall time will win. The losing team will enter the Void, where two of its members will be eliminated. You have
48 hours
to divide into groups and complete both portions of the challenge.
We recommend basing groups on who can be online at the same time.
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Post Post #167 (isolation #27) » Thu Feb 01, 2018 8:26 am

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I'll count the votes.

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Cephrir voted for
Spoiler:
TWIE





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Chevre voted for
Spoiler:
TWIE





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Fluminator voted for
Spoiler:
IPS





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Gimmick voted for
Spoiler:
IPS

That's 2 votes TWIE, 2 votes IPS





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IPS voted for
Spoiler:
Cephrir





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Meme voted for
Spoiler:
IPS





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TWIE voted for
Spoiler:
Meme

3 votes IPS, 2 votes TWIE, 1 vote Cephrir, 1 vote Meme





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Vijarada voted for
Spoiler:
TWIE





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Xalxe voted for
Spoiler:
Cephrir





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Zoraster voted for
Spoiler:
Meme

3 votes IPS, 3 votes TWIE, 2 votes Cephrir, 2 votes Meme





Image

D3f3nd3r voted for
Spoiler:
Meme





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DrumBeats voted for
Spoiler:
Meme





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Ghug voted for
Spoiler:
Cephrir





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Kublai voted for
Spoiler:
Cephrir

4 votes Cephrir, 4 votes Meme, 3 votes IPS, 3 votes TWIE





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McMenno voted for
Spoiler:
TWIE





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MGD voted for
Spoiler:
Cephrir





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PrivateI voted for
Spoiler:
IPS





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Racefan voted for
Spoiler:
IPS

5 votes IPS, 5 votes Cephrir, 4 votes Meme, 4 votes TWIE...





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Radja voted for
Spoiler:
Meme

If the last vote is for TWIE, we have a 4-way tie.





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Vashta voted for...
Spoiler:
IPS

With that, the Black Hole candidates are IPS, Cephrir, and Meme.
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Post Post #168 (isolation #28) » Thu Feb 01, 2018 8:33 am

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{Void 04}


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Abandoned Space Station





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{Chevre, Fluminator, Gimmick, TWIE}
{Vijarada, Xalxe, Zoraster}



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{Cephrir, IPS, Meme}





Today's Void will test your spatial awareness, because you know, we're in space. This Void will require you to navigate a maze. When you are ready to begin, you will click on this google form where you must provide your information to start the challenge. You are highly encouraged to use a graphic editor for this challenge to denote your maze pathway. We recommend downloading paint dot net and you may also use pixlr.com to write on an image. Upon completing the form for the "starting" option, your time will start and you will be provided with a long url link to a spreadsheet which has the link to a 3d maze (and has an imgur link to a screenshot in the title). Feel free to take a screenshot of the maze and use a graphic editor to denote your pathway. Don't forget to screenshot you should click ctrl+print screen and then paste into a graphic editor. When you feel you've solved the maze, submit your screenshot in the google form. If you submit an incorrect maze solution, your time will not be ended at that time and will only end once a correct submission is provided. Therefore, it is in your best interest to ensure that a mod is online when you finish to provide that check. If for some reason, there are multiple "did not finish" entries, the entry which has the longest correct pathway will be ranked higher.

This void takes place in an abandoned space station which has many pathways in the airways in which you may lose yourself, but there is only one pathway that will lead you to the exit. Your goal is to find the exit to the space station by wandering through the airways and moving between the three floors of the space station to exit. On the screen you will see three 20x20 grids with letters on the left denoting the rows, and numbers at top denoting the columns. Imagine that the left-most is the bottom floor of the space station, the middle one is the middle floor of the space station, and the right-most one is the top floor of the space station. Your goal is to enter the space station on the left-most grid on the bottom floor and find your way up to the exit on the right-most grid on the top floor. To go between levels you may find ladders within the airways. Each ladder will show a "^" if it goes above to the next floor or a "v" if it goes below to the below floor. Additionally, all ladders that go between the first and second floor (left and middle) will be marked in red, and all ladders that go between the second and third floor (middle and right) will be marked in blue. You will be required to go up and down ladders several times.

All competing players will be ranked based on their time to complete the maze. The lowest-ranked Black Hole nominee and the lowest-ranked Void participant will both be eliminated from the game. You have
24 hours
to complete the challenge.
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Post Post #169 (isolation #29) » Thu Feb 01, 2018 8:43 am

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You cannot use other people in the game as an outside resource
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Post Post #183 (isolation #30) » Sun Feb 04, 2018 3:01 pm

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The vote reveal will most likely be delayed by about an hour. Our sincerest apologies.
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Post Post #187 (isolation #31) » Sun Feb 04, 2018 6:23 pm

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I've got the votes right here, in my cold, trembling hands. The two players who receive the most votes will enter the Black Hole.

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Cephrir voted for...
Spoiler:
Zoraster





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Kublai voted for...
Spoiler:
Racefan





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Meme voted for...
Spoiler:
TWIE





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PrivateI voted for...
Spoiler:
TWIE

That's 2 votes TWIE, 1 vote Racefan, 1 vote Zoraster





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Racefan voted for...
Spoiler:
Zoraster





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Radja voted for...
Spoiler:
Racefan





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TWIE voted for...
Spoiler:
Racefan





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Xalxe voted for...
Spoiler:
Racefan





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Zoraster voted for...
Spoiler:
Racefan

That brings us to 5 votes Racefan, 2 votes TWIE, and 2 votes Zoraster.





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Chevre voted for...
Spoiler:
Zoraster





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D3f3nd3r voted for...
Spoiler:
Racefan





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DrumBeats voted for...
Spoiler:
Racefan

7 votes Racefan, 3 votes Zoraster, 2 votes TWIE.





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Fluminator voted for...
Spoiler:
TWIE





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Ghug voted for...
Spoiler:
Racefan





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Gimmick voted for...
Spoiler:
TWIE

8 votes Racefan, 4 votes TWIE, 3 votes Zoraster.

3 votes left.





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McMenno voted for...
Spoiler:
Zoraster





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MGD voted for...
Spoiler:
Racefan

9 votes Racefan. 4 votes each for Zoraster and TWIE. 1 vote left.





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Vashta voted for...
Spoiler:
TWIE.

Racefan and TWIE will be entering the Black Hole.
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Post Post #188 (isolation #32) » Sun Feb 04, 2018 6:28 pm

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{Void 05}


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The Brightest Constellation





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{Cephrir, Kublai, Meme, PrivateI}
{Radja, Xalxe, Zoraster}



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{Racefan, TWIE}



Due to your efforts and navigation over all this time, a new constellation has been discovered! Constellations are bright collections of stars to guide the weary travellers through the wide oceans and vast landscapes across the globe. This new discovery has uncovered the brightest constellation of them all. Now it is your turn to view this constellation through your telescope, and it's quite the doozy! For this void, players will have to look into their telescopes to watch the constellation and look at the star arrangements to count how many stars are being used overall. However, this is a tricky constellation! This constellation loves to dance and move around, so you have to watch the dynamic moves throughout its sequence. You will be watching a gif with several screens in it, each different. You will be able to notice when the gif cycle begins/ends because the first slide will have the letter A in the top left corner. Each screen will have a picture and there is an 11x10 background with yellow stars. The yellow stars in this gif are static and will not change position. You are only responsible for counting the number of stars in each screen - you do not need to pay attention to the other picture. There will be 15 screens total. You will need the use of a graphic editor for a screencap in this challenge. To begin the challenge complete the google form just like all the others you've seen before.

Once you believe you have counted all of the stars, you will then need to go to this link and play the flash game "The Endurance Test". We recommend playing on hard mode to get a high score as quickly as possible. Please install adobe flash in advance. You must complete the endurance test and end with a score of
exactly
50 x (total number of yellow stars across all screens). To complete the mission, you must enter a screencap of your score with your MafiaScum (or skype) tab in a window in the screenshot. Your time will begin once you start the form and will end once you submit your finishing form (complete with screencap). If your score is over or under, you will be penalized 1 minute for each number over or under. Therefore, before you submit your finishing form and taking a screencap, you may decide to re-do your endurance test if you believe you are off.
No outside resources are allowed - this includes programs to slow down or manipulate the gif or to affect the flash game. However, you ARE allowed to use a calculator.


The Black Hole nominee and Void participant with the slowest overall times will be eliminated from the game. And with only 2 nominees in the Black Hole, there's less room for error this time around. You have
24 hours
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Post Post #205 (isolation #33) » Fri Feb 09, 2018 9:45 am

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Xalxe voted for...
Spoiler:
Fluminator





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Radja voted for...
Spoiler:
Fluminator





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PrivateI voted for...
Spoiler:
DrumBeats





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McMenno voted for...
Spoiler:
Radja

That's 2 votes Fluminator, 1 vote DrumBeats, 1 vote Radja





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Gimmick voted for...
Spoiler:
DrumBeats





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Fluminator voted for...
Spoiler:
DrumBeats





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DrumBeats voted for...
Spoiler:
McMenno





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Cephrir voted for...
Spoiler:
Fluminator

That's 3 votes Fluminator, 3 votes DrumBeats, 1 vote McMenno, 1 vote Radja





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Vashta voted for...
Spoiler:
DrumBeats





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TWIE voted for...
Spoiler:
McMenno





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MGD voted for...
Spoiler:
McMenno

That's 4 votes DrumBeats, 3 votes Fluminator, 3 votes McMenno, 1 vote Radja





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Meme voted for...
Spoiler:
Fluminator





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Kublai voted for...
Spoiler:
McMenno





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Ghug voted for...
Spoiler:
McMenno





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D3f3nd3r voted for...
Spoiler:
McMenno

We're at 6 votes McMenno, 4 votes Fluminator, 4 votes DrumBeats, and 1 vote Radja. 1 vote left.





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Chevre voted for...
Spoiler:
DrumBeats.

McMenno and DrumBeats will enter the Black Hole.
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Post Post #207 (isolation #34) » Fri Feb 09, 2018 9:50 am

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{Void 06}


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Space Farmers




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{DrumBeats, McMenno}




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{Cephrir, Fluminator, Gimmick}
{PrivateI, Radja, Xalxe}





For today's Void, we've crash landed on a foreign planet of space farmers. We're gonna need to do a couple of tasks to convince them to help rebuild the ship.

First, you need to interpret the language in the alien radio broadcast that's being transmitted. You'll be given nine 6-12 letter words with their letters scrambled, and each set of letters will have a number of blanks corresponding to the number of letters in that word. One blank in each word will be highlighted. If you unscramble all the words and insert them in the blanks correctly, the highlighted letters from the top to bottom of the page will give you the code needed to move onto the next part of the challenge. In your web browser, type tiny.url.com/ (without the dot between tiny and url) followed by the letters in the highlighted blanks, in all capitals. After 15 minutes of attempting this portion of the challenge, if you still have not completed the anagrams, you may ask a mod to provide the first letter of 3 of the words (of your selection). After an additional 15 minutes of attempting this portion of the challenge, you may ask the mod for 3 additional letters of any of the words (of your selection). This will continue until you have found the link to bring you to the second portion.

That link will bring you to a rectangular grid of dots, with some numbers contained in the spaces between 4 dots. Some dots will already be connected. Your goal is to create a barrier for the farmers' space cows. You'll need to draw one continuous path that doesn't pass through the same dot more than once or intersect with other sections of the path. The path must create a single, connected barrier. Numbers represent the "fences" created by the path (exactly 2 edges are created around the number 2, 3 edges around 3, etc.)
You will need an image editor to complete this portion of the challenge.


Spoiler: Example Puzzle
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The use of any outside sources for this challenge is prohibited.


You'll start the challenge by completing this google form, upon which your time will start and you'll receive the list of scrambled words and blanks. Once you've finished with the barrier, submit the form again, using the space provided to link a screenshot of the completed puzzle. For every line missing from the solution, and for every line placed in an incorrect spot, 10 minutes will be added onto your time. The Black Hole nominee with the slowest time, as well as the Void participant with the slowest time, will be eliminated from the game. You have
24 hours
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Post Post #212 (isolation #35) » Sat Feb 10, 2018 10:08 am

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{ROUND 07 TEAMS}




{Gold Team}


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{Cephrir, D3f3nd3r, Ghug, McMenno}
{TWIE, Vashta, Xalxe}





{Purple Team}


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{Chevre, Fluminator, Gimmick, Kublai}
{Meme, MGD, Radja}
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Post Post #213 (isolation #36) » Sat Feb 10, 2018 10:17 am

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{Mission 07}


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Obstacle Course II


We liked it so much the first time that we're bringing it back. Just like the first Obstacle Course mission, your team will run through a course as individuals in which the time of your slowest team member determines your team's final time. However, you'll once again get to appoint "experts" to assist teammates who struggle in each task.

There will be 4 obstacles which will remain unknown until you begin, and you'll need to appoint 1 expert for each obstacle before anyone can start. You'll need a expert, a
words
expert, a expert, and a
reflexes
expert. Once you've done this, individuals must fill out a google form when they're ready to begin an obstacle. They'll be given each obstacle separately when they're ready, and their time on each obstacle will be stopped once they meet its qualifications.

Once everyone has finished the challenge, experts will give "assistance" on the obstacles they've been assigned to. Assuming the expert wasn't the slowest on their assigned obstacle, time will be taken off of a team's slowest member on an obstacle, while time is added onto that obstacle's expert at the same rate. This continues until either 1) the two players' times become identical, or 2) a tie is reached for slowest time on an obstacle. If the latter is true, all tied players will continue having their time reduced while the expert's time increases at double the rate (or triple if there are 3 tied players, etc.) This continues until the expert has the same time as the tied players.
The details of this process may be hard to understand, but your optimal strategy is essentially to have everyone be as fast as possible, and if your expert on an obstacle is faster than everyone else, it'll help your overall time.


An image editor will be required for multiple obstacles. Some obstacles will give time penalties for incorrect parts of your answer, but the maximum time on each obstacle is
30 minutes
.

No outside resources are allowed, nor is communication about the challenge once players have started on the obstacles.


You have
48 hours
due to the need to determine your experts. The team with the slowest member will enter the Void, and 2 of its members will enter the Black Hole.
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Post Post #214 (isolation #37) » Mon Feb 12, 2018 8:33 am

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Some of these obstacles proved to be a bit harder than the first time around, and at this stage in the game it's understandable if you have trouble finishing all of them. Let's see how everyone did.

Spoiler: Kakuro
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This was by far the most daunting of the 4 obstacles, but luckily the experts were both able to finish. TWIE brings all the Gold non-finishers down to 27:52, while Radja brings the Purple non-finishers down to 28:20.


Spoiler: Words
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Both experts did excellent here! D3f3nd3r brings the Gold non-finishers down to 24:36, and Chevre brings Purple non-finishers down to 25:31.


Spoiler: Bridges
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Despite a couple time penalties, everyone was able to go under 30 minutes here. Fluminator brought MGD and Kublai's times down to 10:53,
while McMenno brought McMenno and Vashta's times to 14:04.


Spoiler: Reflexes
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This was rough for a few people. Cephrir took the Gold Team's non-finishers down to 23:24, while Gimmick brought Kublai's time down to 18:24.




Spoiler: Final Placements
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The Purple Teal pulls out their first win since Mission 2! The Gold Team will unfortunately enter the Void, where two of its members will be sent to the Black Hole.
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Post Post #215 (isolation #38) » Mon Feb 12, 2018 8:37 am

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{BLACK HOLE VOTE}


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{Cephrir, D3f3nd3r, Ghug}
{TWIE, Vashta, Xalxe}



Everyone in the game has
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Since McMenno won the last Black Hole, he will automatically enter the Void.

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Post Post #216 (isolation #39) » Tue Feb 13, 2018 8:46 am

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Get ready for a subpar results post

4 people received votes.

Who voted for D3f3nd3r?
Spoiler:
Cephrir
Radja


Who voted for Vashta?
Spoiler:
D3f3nd3r
Kublai
MGD
TWIE


Who voted for Cephrir?
Spoiler:
Ghug
Xalxe


Who voted for TWIE?
Spoiler:
No one. The following people voted for Ghug:

Chevre
Fluminator
Gimmick
McMenno
Meme
Vashta

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Post Post #217 (isolation #40) » Tue Feb 13, 2018 8:48 am

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{Void 07}


Cryptobeats


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Communication has been the most important part about this game. We've communicated with aliens many times, but you're all far from mastering communication with every species in the galaxy. The Beatrots are a form of alien who only speak using sounds from a drum machine, and today you'll be interpreting their message into English.

When you're ready to begin, you'll be given a link to a sound clip. A message has been encoded using a system where every letter is replaced by a sound from a drum machine. Repeated uses of the same sound correspond to the same letter. No letter is associated with more than one sound, and no sound encompasses more than one letter. To indicate a space between words, there will be a pause with no sound. Through deduction and trial-and-error, you must decode the message and send it to a moderator to stop your time. If you are incorrect, you'll be told to keep going. 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
24 hours
to complete this challenge.

To give you some assistance in solving the cryptogram, use this video as a key. It plays 6 of the sounds that will be used for the challenge, and shows the letter that sound will represent. The sound for each letter will be played twice while the letter is showing on screen.
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Post Post #218 (isolation #41) » Tue Feb 13, 2018 9:58 am

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If multiple players in the void or if both players in the black hole fail to finish the challenge, the player with the fastest time overall will decide who from the non-finishers is eliminated.
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Post Post #219 (isolation #42) » Wed Feb 14, 2018 8:49 am

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I love music challenges, even though this was only drum sounds. Or DrumBeats, if you will, may he rest in peace. Let's get to the results.

First, we'll look at the black hole. Ghug vs. Vashta. Who came out on top?

Spoiler:
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Ghug, with a time of 1:01:12.


Meaning...

Spoiler:
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Vashta, your time in the game is up, unfortunately. You gave the game a valiant effort, and finished in 1:16:10, but we must say goodbye to you here. You did great for your first time, and we hope to see you in more games in the future, especially more social ones where you can truly shine.




Now the Void competitors. Who finished with the fastest time?

Spoiler:
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Xalxe, with a time of 33:15.


Who came in second?

Spoiler:
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TWIE, in 42 minutes.


Third?

Spoiler:
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Cephrir, with a time of 48:01.

Only D3f3nd3r and McMenno remain.


The final surviving Void participant is...

Spoiler:
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D3f3nd3r, closely behind Ceph with a time of 49:13.


Which spectator finished behind 4th place before we created the partial key?

Spoiler:
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Haschel, with a time of 57 minutes.


This means....

Spoiler:
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With a time of 1:12:02, McMenno, despite defeating the black hole last round, we've gotta set you adrift into the vacuum of space here. Maybe you can end up like that guy from the Cloverfield Paradox and get your arm taken off by a sentient wall, and then have your detached arm write everyone a message that then proves meaningless to the plot, and you eventually blow up after phantom goo makes a wall turn magnetic and attract a CO2 cannister to the wall which blows up without there even being an ignition. We hope to see you in the future.
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Post Post #221 (isolation #43) » Wed Feb 14, 2018 8:56 am

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{ROUND 08 TEAMS}




{Gold Team}


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{D3f3nd3r, Gimmick, Kublai}
{Meme, TWIE, Xalxe}





{Purple Team}


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{Cephrir, Chevre, Fluminator}
{Ghug, MGD, Radja}
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Post Post #222 (isolation #44) » Wed Feb 14, 2018 9:02 am

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{Mission 08}


Ku-Do-Su


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The neat thing about travelling the universe is seeing how different alien culture can be from ours. Did you know that most of them do sudoku puzzles with all the numbers already filled in? It's so fascinating.

This mission is
semi-live
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no outside sources are allowed for this challenge
.

Once you've assembled the puzzle pieces correctly, your time will be stopped. The team with the fastest time will win the mission, and the losing team will all enter the Void, where 2 members will face the Black Hole. You have
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Post Post #223 (isolation #45) » Thu Feb 15, 2018 4:19 pm

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The Gold Team finished in...

Spoiler:
11 minutes, 12 seconds!


The Purple Team.....

Spoiler:
Did not. The Gold Team wins, and the Purple Team is going into the Void.
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Post Post #224 (isolation #46) » Thu Feb 15, 2018 4:24 pm

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{BLACK HOLE VOTE}



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{Cephrir, Chevre, Fluminator}
{MGD, Radja}



Everyone has
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to cast a vote for someone in the Purple Team to enter the Black Hole. As he survived the previous Black Hole, Ghug is immune and will enter the Void.

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Post Post #225 (isolation #47) » Thu Feb 15, 2018 4:46 pm

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The Purple Team has now finished with a time of 45 minutes!
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Post Post #227 (isolation #48) » Fri Feb 16, 2018 1:07 pm

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I'll count the votes.

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Cephrir voted for...
Spoiler:
Fluminator




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Chevre voted for...
Spoiler:
MGD





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Fluminator voted for...
Spoiler:
Fluminator





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Ghug voted for...
Spoiler:
Chevre

That's 2 votes Fluminator, 1 vote Chevre, 1 vote MGD





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MGD voted for...
Spoiler:
Chevre





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Radja voted for...
Spoiler:
Fluminator





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Xalxe voted for...
Spoiler:
Fluminator





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TWIE voted for...
Spoiler:
Fluminator

That's 5 votes Fluminator, 2 votes Chevre, 1 vote MGD.





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Meme voted for...
Spoiler:
Chevre





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Kublai voted for...
Spoiler:
Fluminator

6 votes Fluminator, 3 votes Chevre, 1 vote MGD.





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Gimmick voted for...
Spoiler:
Cephrir





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D3f3nd3r voted for...
Spoiler:
Fluminator.

Fluminator and Chevre will enter the Black Hole.
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Post Post #228 (isolation #49) » Fri Feb 16, 2018 1:13 pm

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{Void 08}


Lost Expedition


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Decades ago, a failed expedition happened to traverse the planet. The brave and brash Captain Damon led the team, but it was clear that there have been no survivors. Such a pity too. Instead we're left with Sgt. AJ Frost instead. Anyway, there are remnants of a map that the expedition used, but it's hard to figure out where they started and where they end. Your task today, to avoid being left behind, is to organize your map to accurately record the expedition and then set your pathway to get to the end point of the expedition. I hope you find evidence of Captain Damon's career at the end of the maze, or maybe you'll just find that he just disappeared - maybe into thin air, or under the weight of his statements. It's your job to find out.

When you're ready to begin, fill out this google form. Upon entering your starting information, you'll be shown a link to an imgur gif which shows a 14x10 maze. However, the entire maze will not be shown at the same time. The outline of the entire maze will always be present, but the gif will only show you one column or row at a time for an equal amount of time. The remainder of the maze will appear blank within the outline. You should take impeccable notes (I recommend using pencil and paper or your own spreadsheet or word processing document), because your solution will not be drawn, but instead must be given using commands. The solution must be listed using commands from a first-person perspective and may enter at either entryway and must exit through the other. The possible commands are "L(eft)", "F(orward)", and "R(ight)". Each command will advance the movement one square. Left/Right turns will round a corner. The best way to imagine this is that you are starting on the grey line boundary of the square and a command will move you to the next relevant grey line boundary. Examples of movement are listed below:

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To complete the challenge, fill out the google form a second time with your letter command sequence 10 moves at a time in each question field. There will be a total of 50-60 commands required for the
only
solution. The form may be completed from either entrance or exit first - both command sequences are valid. Only the command movement sequence will be judged; you are not required to have mapped out all the dead ends or present a screenshot. The Black Hole nominee and Void participant who have entered an incorrect move the earliest in their sequence will be eliminated. If all participants in either The Void or Black Hole have correctly completed the sequence, the tiebreaker will be time. You have
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.
As always, no outside resources are allowed, especially any that will modify the .gif
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Post Post #232 (isolation #50) » Sat Feb 17, 2018 10:10 pm

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This was a close one. Let's look at the Black Hole results first.

Coming in first, and remaining in the game...

Spoiler:
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Chevre solved the maze in 24:25!


Meaning that unfortunately...

Spoiler:
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Fluminator, your time of 40:40 wasn't enough. You've been a fierce competitor in this game, and I'm sure everyone is happy they won't need to face you in the future. I hope we get to see you compete in this series again.





Coming in first of those in the Void...

Spoiler:
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MGD, with a time of 15:42!


In second...

Spoiler:
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Cephrir, with a time of 19:13!

This leaves Radja and Ghug. One will go home.


The final surviving player...

Spoiler:
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Ghug, with a time of 25:08.


Spoiler:
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Radja, you've narrowly escaped elimination in the past, but with a time of 1:08:44, you've been sucked into the deep vacuum of space and must remain there forever. It's been a blast having you in the game, and I think you surprised yourself with your performance in the word game challenges. We hope to see you again down the line.
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Post Post #233 (isolation #51) » Sat Feb 17, 2018 10:21 pm

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{ROUND 09 TEAMS}




{Gold Team}


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{Cephrir, Kublai}





{Purple Team}


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{Chevre, TWIE}





{Red Team}


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{D3f3nd3r, Ghug}





{Green Team}


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{Gimmick, MGD}





{Blue Team}


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{Meme, Xalxe}
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Post Post #240 (isolation #52) » Tue Feb 20, 2018 12:01 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:
D3f3nd3r





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Kublai voted for...
Spoiler:
Meme

1 vote D3f3nd3r, 1 vote Meme.





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Gimmick voted for...
Spoiler:
Kublai





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MGD voted for...
Spoiler:
Cephrir

That's 1 vote each for D3f3nd3r, Meme, Kublai, and Ceph.





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D3f3nd3r voted for...
Spoiler:
Cephrir





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Ghug voted for...
Spoiler:
Cephrir

3 votes Cephrir, 1 vote Meme, 1 vote Kublai, 1 vote D3f.





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Chevre voted for...
Spoiler:
D3f3nd3r





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TWIE voted for...
Spoiler:
Cephrir

4 votes Ceph, 2 votes D3f, 1 vote Meme, 1 vote Kublai





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Xalxe voted for...
Spoiler:
Cephrir





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Meme voted for...
Spoiler:
D3f3nd3r.

With 5 and 3 votes respectively, Cephrir and D3f3nd3r will enter the Black Hole.
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Post Post #245 (isolation #53) » Thu Feb 22, 2018 5:08 pm

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Let's see those results qweens

First, for the Void competitors. In 1st place was...

Spoiler:
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Meme, with a time of 33:20.




In 2nd place...

Spoiler:
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Xalxe, with a time of 36:38.





In 3rd place...

Spoiler:
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Ghug, with a time of 54:10.





In 4th place...

Spoiler:
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MGD, with a time of 59:34.

Only Kublai and Gimmick remain. One will leave.





The final survivor...

Spoiler:
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Kublai, with a time of 1:16:37. Gimmick lost with a time of 1:28:44. Gimmick, you were always such a joy on the discord and your presence in the game will be missed. We hope to see you again!





And now the Black Hole nominees. Cephrir vs. D3f3nd3r. The most frequent competitor in the Void vs. the most frequent mission winner. Who came out on top? It was...

Spoiler:
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Cephrir, with a time of 32:26! D3f3nd3r put up a valiant effort with a time of 42:53, but it wasn't enough. D3f, you were one of the toughest competitors ever, and just like Cutthroat you did phenomenal in almost every team challenge. I know we'll see you win one of these days.
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Post Post #255 (isolation #54) » Sun Feb 25, 2018 2:17 pm

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Other players do count as an outside source, and collusion is prohibited
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Post Post #257 (isolation #55) » Mon Feb 26, 2018 3:24 pm

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{Finale}


Welcome to the final six. It's been a long journey across the universe to get here, but you've finally reached the finale. The finale will take place in two parts. For part 1, everyone will be forced to face a final Black Hole. But who will face off against who? Opponents will be selected based off of how you did in the previous Void. The player that had the fastest time overall will pick their opponent from the other five players. Then, the remaining player with the fastest time will pick their opponent from the three remaining. The two leftover players will face each other.
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Post Post #258 (isolation #56) » Mon Feb 26, 2018 3:53 pm

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{Final Black Hole}


Only Connect


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Ghug vs. Meme


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Cephrir vs. Kublai


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Chevre vs. TWIE






Welcome to the Final Black Hole. Today, you'll face off in the game of Only Connect. This is a quiz show based on finding connections in seemingly unrelated things. You'll compete in one-on-one matches live in separate Discord channels.

Part 1
is the
Connections
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Part 2
is the
Sequences
round. There will be six categories in this round, with up to 3 clues in each category, and it is your objective to determine the fourth item. At the start of a category, one clue will be given, with each additional clue following in 20-second intervals. A player may buzz in at any time by posting "STOP" in the Discord channel. They will then be given 15 seconds to guess the fourth clue in the category. There may be multiple correct answers for a category, and you do not need to explain why your answer fits. If a player buzzes in incorrectly, time will resume for the other player from the point where the first player buzzed in. If 20 seconds pass after the last clue is revealed, the category will end with no one receiving points. A player who answers correctly after the first clue gets 5 points, then 3 points after the second clue, and 2 points after the third clue.

Part 3
is the
Missing Vowels
round. One at a time, words or phrases in a category will be shown with all their vowels removed and their spacing shifted. The category of each item will be given prior to the item, and there will be multiple items in a category. There is no buzzing in on this round; simply post your answer once you think you have it. A correct answer earns 1 point, and an incorrect answer subtracts 1 point from your total and allows the opponent 5 seconds to steal. An incorrect answer on a steal doesn't subtract a point. An incorrect spelling in this round counts as an incorrect answer. If no one responds to a clue after 10 seconds, we'll move onto the next one. The Missing Vowels round will consist of 15 items. In the Missing Vowels round, the letter "Y" is considered a vowel in words such as "myth" or "nymphomaniac" but it is considered a consonant in words such as "yonder" or "yeti".

All outside sources are ALLOWED during this challenge.
Please find a time during which you can complete the challenge with your opponent within the next
48 hours
.
"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
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Post Post #259 (isolation #57) » Wed Feb 28, 2018 9:34 am

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{Final Mission}


Supreme Regent of the Black Hole


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Now we come to our final obstacle before the end of journey. And everyone will be competing separately with only
one
winner. To complete our journey, we've been searching all across the universe traversing through the deep corners to find the right planet for us. We've navigated on our ships, we've learned more from alien lifeforms, and we've developed some basic foundations to be able to populate our new planet. Unlucky for us, this new grand planet already has habitants. Lucky for us, they are ruled by a familiar supreme regent. We have chosen to make Planet of the Babars our final destination.

In this Final Mission, all three competitors will engage in a drawing contest to make a drawing to present a suitable abode to our most supreme regent, Babar. For this puzzle, you must read a list of 20 steps to complete a picture. You must read all the directions carefully and draw a picture according to the instructions. Once you believe that you have drawn the correct picture, you must upload it and submit your drawing. If any of the required details are incorrect, you will only be instructed that you have made an incorrect drawing and you will earn a 15 minute penalty which will be added to your final time. You must continue until you have submitted the correct picture. In each step, you will be given three options for your drawing. The correct choice will be determined by a clue which will ask you about a fact about an episode in this game (1-10). The options for each clue will be: 1-3, 4-6, 7-10. You must determine when during the game such an event occurred. For example, if the clue asks: "When did animorpherv get eliminated from the game. If if was during episodes 1-3, draw a gold house in the picture, if it was during episodes 4-6, draw a purple house in the picture, and if it was during episodes 7-10, draw a black house in the picture." In this case, it was during episode 1, so you would draw a gold house for the correct option. You are encouraged to look back in public mafiascum threads or discord chat to attempt to figure out the answer to the clue.
No outside resources are allowed (aside from mafiascum and discord archives).


In case you have been going slow and still feel lost, after one hour (including penalties) of attempting this puzzle, every 15 minutes you will be allowed to create a list of 5 of the steps and your answers for each, and ask if you have answered correctly for all of the steps. You will only be told if the list of 5 steps is all correct or if there is a mistake in there. You will not be told which step is incorrect. Artistic quality does not count toward the final judging. Begin at Step 1 to start the challenge. Once you feel that you have completed the drawing according to the instructions, please submit your image. If your answer is incorrect, you will be told that you are incorrect and 15 additional minutes will be added to the final time.

You must schedule ASAP with a mod to find a time that works for you. Your starting time must be within the next
72 hours
.

The player with the quickest time will win this final mission and be crowned the winner of The Challenge: The Void.
"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
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Post Post #260 (isolation #58) » Sat Mar 03, 2018 12:56 pm

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Guys. You were all absolutely great to mod. This was a 26-player game with no issues involving non-submissions or flakes or quits or modkills. When does that happen? Basically, only this time. And the final three all fought
hard
to get here. Any of you would have been a deserving winner. But alas, there can only be one.

In third place...

Spoiler:
With a time...

















































of 2 hours and 18 minutes...

















































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Ghug. You beat out your fellow WebDiplomacy competitors, and you won many missions along the way. This was a tough final, and I hope you get another chance to play again and win one of these large social things in the future.


The top two were separated by 12 minutes. The winner is...

Spoiler:
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of 1 hour...



































































































and 40 minutes.....















































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Cephrir is the champion! After losing almost every team mission, you did it man. All you need to do in this game is not lose in the Void or Black Hole, and you kept winning. This is a well-deserved victory, and storywise it's a fantastic ending.

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Chevre, you doubted yourself a lot along the way, but you're an incredible competitor and human being, and on another day this could have easily shaken out the other way. You both deserve a huge round of applause, and I hope you two have made some new friends along the way. Pablito and I had a blast modding this game, and everyone treated the game with a lot of respect. Thank you to everyone for giving us such a fun competition where we never knew who would win, and keep giving us unpredictable games in the future. CC out. :cop:
"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
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