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Offline stella_blue

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Re: Wildcard players odds?
« Reply #15 on: March 13, 2013, 11:15:14 pm »

I have a few thoughts on how things might go, but I'd rather not make an official prediction.  I don't want to place any additional pressure on a player by selecting them as a favorite (not that it would); nor do I wish to offend someone by not selecting them.

I'm just hopeful that everyone has a chance (or several chances) to surpass his/her personal high score during the event.

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Re: Wildcard players odds?
« Reply #16 on: March 13, 2013, 11:43:23 pm »
Stella you're high score at 18-2 is pretty impressive. My score was at such a weak pace that I was at 20-1. I was just running boards on my game.
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Re: Wildcard players odds?
« Reply #17 on: March 14, 2013, 12:37:57 am »
Stella you're high score at 18-2 is pretty impressive. My score was at such a weak pace that I was at 20-1. I was just running boards on my game.

Thank you for the kind words.  Earlier this week, I came within 3200 points of a new personal best (final score: 754,300).  The game ended during Level 18-1, one stage earlier than my current PB.  I jumped a barrel while running left along the 4th girder, just as a wild barrel was released.  I landed on the girder, the barrel landed on me, end of story.  Obviously, I was disappointed to have come that close and fall short, but I wasn't unhappy with the score, for 2 reasons:
  • Level 1-1 was the only barrel stage where I grabbed the bottom hammer
  • I got almost nothing for my deaths; the total points awarded were negligible
I'll have to play back the INP file to determine my overall pace, as I rarely pay attention to it while playing.  I suspect it's close to 950k.

Oh well, there's always next time.

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Re: Wildcard players odds?
« Reply #18 on: March 14, 2013, 07:04:52 pm »
Yeah. You're doing really good pace. What's your average usually after 4th level? I'm usually non pressing 95 to 100k. Pressing usually 110-130k. I've had 500k runs with 1 million point pace but nothing ever came too close.
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