QuantumChaos's month long GRID competition

[quantumchaos]

i'm canceling this competition and starting a fresh one so disregard what you see below except for archiving purposes.



ATTENTION FELLOW GRIDDLERS. i will be hosting a series of 4 contests over the next 4 weeks. each of which will have a total prize value of 5 million gold a week.
they each have a theme and shall test the skill and endurance of all players that choose to participate.
however that being said i must make a few things clear before hand.
obviously myself will not be included in the running for prizes of these competitions
but i shall have to insist that anyone with 3 wizards or more sit out of the competition as well,
everyone else however can join any of the competitions throughout the month long series free of charge.

week 1 will be battle of the farmers.
week 2 will be the great city construction
week 3 will be population overload
week 4 will be its hip to be squares

week 1 starts today right now
the battle of the farmers is quite simple build as many farms as possible before midnight est(eastern standard time) of each day.
this is based on total farm growth not total farms on the grid per day. i have taken a snapshot of everyone's farms currently and it will be used to chart the progress of those participating throughout the week.
i am asking everyone on the grid including those not participating in these events to please not burn at all during this week.
if someone tells me of a burning or i see one for myself that days portion of the competition will be void and no prizes will be awarded. it will also effect the outcome of the grand prize for the week so please do not ruin it for the rest of the grid.
each day at midnight i will tally the progress of all players participating and will award the largest growth in farms 500,000 gold
this will go on for 6 days
the 7th day there will be 3 winners. 1st 2nd and 3rd place based on the total progress of the week from day 1
1st place will receive 1 million gold
2nd place will receive 500k gold
3rd place will receive 500k gold
also any winner of the 6 day competitions will have to have at least double the amount of increased farms of the 2nd highest farm increase for the next days competition else you will forfeit the winning position to the 2nd highest.ie if you win day 1 and day 2 the 2nd highest farm increase is say 30 farms you have to have increased at least 60 farms to win a 2nd day in a row. this only applies to touching days if there's a gap between days won there's no problem.



i may not be able to catch every single night during this competition for w/e reason if i do not tally for a night i will tally from the next available hour that i can screenshot from.
all winners will receive their prize money the next available time that i see them online.
anyone that would like to donate to this month long competition or any future competitions i might come up with don't hesitate to let me know and i will tell you when its safe for a transfer.
i know that the new grid is approaching and since i do not know exactly when we all will be transferred i hope that the themes i picked will easily be doable in the new grid as well however when its here if they are not i will reapply however many weeks are left with new competitions to better match the new grids abilities.

day 0 snapshots
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day 1 winner is jes with a farm growth of 200 farms going from 66 to 266
day 1 snapshots
top i206.photobucket.com/albums/bb80/quantumchaostheory/week1day1picup.jpg
bottom i206.photobucket.com/albums/bb80/quantumchaostheory/week1day1picdown.jpg

day 2 winner is krossfire with a growth of 120 farms going from 188 to 308
day 2 snapshots
top i206.photobucket.com/albums/bb80/quantumchaostheory/week1day2picup.jpg
bottom i206.photobucket.com/albums/bb80/quantumchaostheory/week1day2picdown.jpg

day 3 winner none due to io burning the grid back quite a bit.
i gave a mini game for the day in hopes of splitting 250k between everyone in the contest if they were able to put 50 rebels on ioiooiioio before midnight but it didn't happen.
day 3 snapshots
top i206.photobucket.com/albums/bb80/quantumchaostheory/week1day3picup.jpg
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day 4 winner is some grey guy with a growth of 212 farms from 135 to 347
day 4 snapshots
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[quantumchaos]

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[quantumchaos]

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[quantumchaos]

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[krossfire]

but... if you have 0 farms, it is a lot easier to make 100 farms than it is to get to 200 farms from 100 farms...

[ourjake]

but then after the first day that you win you are back on even ground. also, adding another farm usually costs approximately twice what it adds per turn. so regardless, you can generally add a farm every two turns if you concentrate on it and don't gamble

[succat]

Cool, the first official Grid competition! Also, I don't think the changes in the new Grid will interfere with the contest except only in the sense that the site may be down briefly when the old Grid turns into the new Grid, but that shouldn't be a big deal.

[krossfire]

ok, so day 3 was voided, does that mean I still have to double 2nd place's to win day 4?

[Dubber]

Using myself as an example,
Day 0 = 105 Farms
Day 1 = 170 Farms
Day 2 = 181 Farms
Day 3 = voided
Day 4 == do I need to make another 76 or more, or just have the largest increase?
(and is the increase from Day 0, 1, 2, or 3?)

[quantumchaos]

the 2 days dont touch so no
and for dubber i have day 3s snapshot so thats what will be the starting point for tonites winner based on tonites snapshot

[Dubber]

Cool, but what was my starting Farm count? That's what I need to know...

[quantumchaos]

i'm postponing the rest of the competition until these sever issues are resolved i cannot focus on keeping my cash stocked for prizes and im sure the rest of you are not doing to well in building/maintaining farm squares under these conditions.

[krossfire]

So, will you use day 4 screenshots for day 5's growth? or will you just take a new one at the beginning of day 5?