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Reply #240 - May 22nd, 2012 at 7:43pm
 
stephan, on which side are you? Tongue jk, i'm confident that my top5 d1 streak will last for at least one more week.
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Reply #241 - May 22nd, 2012 at 9:15pm
 
I'm only on my side, of course Grin. Would have been happy to win at least one T in this season. But as I won't be able to play between Thu and Mon, I'm likely to stay at 7.81, so you have lots of chances to beat me (and Harryck as well, perhaps).

But I agree that normally, you should stay in top5 even with 8.46 - only Nikolaj and Maruda have better historical bests on this board. But be aware of Luca. His best of 9.33 is from 2007, and he should have high motivation as it is a big board Wink.
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Reply #242 - May 27th, 2012 at 10:20pm
 
Stephan wrote on May 22nd, 2012 at 9:15pm:
...but be aware of Luca. His best of 9.33 is from 2007, and he should have high motivation as it is a big board Wink.


This is a physical big board but the time needed to finish it is less than 10 sec once again.  Sad

By the way, even with "important" efforts, I can't approach my 2007 results.
You, Harrick and EWQ are from another planet.
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Reply #243 - Jun 4th, 2012 at 7:30am
 
Harryck and EWQM. are from another planet for me on most grids either. Thank you guys for giving me the opportunity to win T1 Wink.
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Reply #244 - Jun 4th, 2012 at 8:58am
 
Congratulations Stephan.
But now we should have some boards similar to expert and genius level.
Probably there would be more competition. At least with Maruda..
Please!  Cheesy
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Reply #245 - Jun 4th, 2012 at 4:09pm
 
and yet another stupidly simple level :/ i'd like more >15s boards and a nice >100s challenge would be nice as well.

congrats to stephan. even if i had had as much time to play as usual, i can't imagine myself finising t1 in under 19s like you did.
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Reply #246 - Jun 11th, 2012 at 3:27am
 
Yes, I agree there should be more challenges boards. Boards like these is hardly a measure of skill. Just fast clicking. Maybe Yariv should allow for more big strategy boards. Congrats on your time on the last board Stephan.
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Reply #247 - Jun 12th, 2012 at 6:05pm
 
we asked for more challenging boards and there we go. (un)fortunately the first board i completed might have already been the last one this week.
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Reply #248 - Jun 30th, 2012 at 11:13pm
 
what a stupid board

everything that takes less than 10s to complete shouldn't be considered for tournaments anymore!
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Reply #249 - Jul 1st, 2012 at 5:30am
 
TBDMfan wrote on Jun 30th, 2012 at 11:13pm:
what a stupid board

everything that takes less than 10s to complete shouldn't be considered for tournaments anymore!


Yes,  Iagree. I play for a few hours and get board with a 2 3 in the top row it happened to be 5 empty square in a row. Anyone can get fast time if they find board like this

Easy board >10 seconds should show up, but not all the time. There needs to be much more board of moderate and high difficulty. Maybe once per tournament or even less.
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Reply #250 - Jul 2nd, 2012 at 9:51am
 
In my opinion there should be more 40 sec tournaments similar to expert or genius levels that occupy half of the normal ranking.
I remember that the first seasons worked in that way.
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Reply #251 - Jul 9th, 2012 at 8:37pm
 
Hi guys,

I've written a mail to Yariv, pointing out the current situation in the forum about the tournament board choices.

Don't know what he thinks about this, but I suggested to change the T board choice as follows:

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My suggestion for the eight T boards within one season (order during season randomly, of course):
1. Big board with extremely high mine density >95% (e.g. 40x25/988 mines)
2. Large medium board with medium-high density 50-80% (e.g. similar to expert style, but a little bit easier to make it solvable for everyone competing in tournaments)
3. Medium board, both sides 8, 10, 12 or 15, with medium-high density 50-80% (e.g. similar to intermediate style)
4. Long rectangles (proportions greater than 4:1 or 1:4) with high density 66-85% (e.g. 6x25/115 mines)
5. Big board, both sides 15+, with low density <10% (e.g. 20x20/20)
6. Small board, but no parameter below 5 (minimum would be 5x5/5)
7. Any board with odd rows and odd columns (e.g. 11x7 or 15x13), medium density 50-75%
8. Any board out of category 1 to 7.
--- quote ---

Hope, you feel well with my proposals. We would definitely have more boards - with categories 2, 3, 4, 7, and partly 8, a quite guaranteed half of tournaments - that need 10-40 seconds. Category 2 would also cover boards in "easy genius" style that require playing times between 100 and 400 seconds.

@EWQM.: I refused to suggest banning sub-10s boards completely. These are a special category that require different skills than e.g. intermediate or expert style boards, and not all of them are pure luck.

But let's see what Yariv will decide to do.
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Reply #252 - Jul 9th, 2012 at 11:39pm
 
a step into the right direction. maybe 8 could be a really tough board, like 50% mines density with >200 squares
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Reply #253 - Jul 24th, 2012 at 2:37am
 
I hold my first nono record, I made the most d2 appearances without ever getting to d1, I now have played 66 weeks in d2, Richard had 65, Rincewind 53, Daniel and HMP 47, my best finish in d2 is 4th, so I need like 8 of you to quit so I have a chance lol.
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Reply #254 - Jul 24th, 2012 at 3:23pm
 
well done mike

sorry @ fellow d1 players. the 5 was an insanely easy board.
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