The Veteran's Contest is Online

[DarkCloud]

Thanks for the praise Ming, et. al.

Ecthelion- with trip, it's almost all demogames posts

With all those DemoGames questions hlf of it might as well be titled "Apolyton N00b quiz". Some of the stuff really goes a long way back into the mists of time, though, doesn't it

Heck, there's only about 6 demogame questions And There's at least that many OT questions And you have to admit, in the last year, demogames have truly taken over apolyton- getting more posts in them than the OT for its period, I believe.

Nice to see you around Ecthelion

[DarkCloud]

oh and Ming, didn't know that OT thing was going through... I'm looking forward to it- hope I don't miss it
(I need to spend more time in the OT )

[FrustratedPoet]

Originally posted by Ming
Again... nobody was really meant to know all the answers. And yeah, the Demo games are well represented, because they are an important part of the forums. DC did his best to balance it.

Originally posted by Darkcloud
Heck, there's only about 6 demogame questions And There's at least that many OT questions And you have to admit, in the last year, demogames have truly taken over apolyton- getting more posts in them than the OT for its period, I believe.

Just for the record: I wasn't complaining, but merely commenting that something titled "Veteran's Contest" included a lot of questions about very recent additions to the forums (like DemoGames).

It's certainly a good thing, but I wonder if the title is putting newer posters off playing?

[DarkCloud]

Hmm... Possibly.
We'd have to know who has submitted their scores in the on-topic to be sure of that

Then again, a lot of newbies probably didn't even look at the Apolyton at 5 feature, since it probably didn't relate to them.

But who can tell.

Anyways, most of the questions did predicate at least 2 years at apolyton for you to have a good chance... that's not saying that a newbie couldn't get 10-15 correct, but it is highly unlikely that anyone registered after 2001 will get more than 25 right... especially since I can't get 25 or more right and I'm supposed to know about 'everything'

[Ming]

Originally posted by DarkCloud
And you have to admit, in the last year, demogames have truly taken over apolyton- getting more posts in them than the OT for its period, I believe.

Not even close DC... The numbers you see on the forum main page are misleading. MarkG moved a bunch of threads from the OT to the archives... that isn't done for the demo games, so the numbers don't tell the true story. Over half of the last years OT posts are not counted in the totals you see, since they are now in the archive

[Ming]

As a side note... the last thread in the "active" OTF that isn't in the archive is from april of this year

So yes, you are totally wrong with that assumption DC

[Jon Shafer]

That was rough.

I'm aiming high for 10 on this one.

[Ming]

Heck... many of the answers were being discussed in the staff room... and it's STILL TOUGH

[Jon Shafer]

I'm contented in knowing that no one can know all of them, or probably many over half of them.

[Ming]

I Knew way more than I thought I would... but I'm into MP games and not the Demo games, so there were some I had absolutely no clue on.

[Makeo]

I knew hardly any at all. Was there a mp question? I can't recall.

[DrSpike]

I got quite a few....................but I was also stumped on a lot. Do we get a score if we don't win?

[DarkCloud]

So yes, you are totally wrong with that assumption DC

Okay then

I got quite a few....................but I was also stumped on a lot. Do we get a score if we don't win?

I don't know. I volunteered to do stats for it, but Dan hasn't taken me up on it- I assume he's doing the stats himself

I Knew way more than I thought I would...

It's good to know that Ming at least got one right
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MP Questions- I think there's one... although It's on Succession Games.

[Rhothaerill]

That was more difficult than I thought it would be. I guessed on over 3/4 of the questions.

EDIT: and despite my Feb2003 join date, I've actually been around 'Poly for about 2 1/2 years.

[Ben Kenobi]

Educated guesses on most of them, the most obvious poster is likely the red herring. Still I knew far to many for being here less than a year.