The Ancient Pindlecow Triathlon! - A casual mf tournament.

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Greetings and wo kommen to - afaik - the first Ancient Pindlecow! :balloons:
Everybody is welcome to participate. The only items you'll receive are from artificial intelligence. This tournament will take place between the dates of Septemeber the 24th and October the 14th.

Rules rule. (Mostly retrieved from previous Pindlethons.)
1) Each phase of the triathlon is unlimited. Run as little or lot as you like! *rule change*
2) Each phase will be one week. Beginning at 0001 each Monday and ending 2359 that following Sunday. (Your timezone.)
3) You may use any player settings.
4) After you finish the your runs, by the Monday after the week started (Oct 1st, 8th, and 15th), you should post your best 5 items with full readouts. It could be uniques, jewels, runes, rares, magic items, anything. The voting for winner that week will be based on these 5 items. *rule change*
5) The winner is the one who gets the most votes. *rule change*
6) Voters will name 3 participants in order of preference. Top participant gets 3 points, next best gets 2, and the third in the list gets 1 point. Points will be added up and the one with the most is the winner. In case of a tie in any event, something magical may happen.
7) This is a 1.13d tournament. If you happen to be from the past, you may join in the fun, must you must out yourself and let us know what time period you are from.
8) You are strongly encouraged to post a few your finds as you go along. The Pindlethon doesn't use a scoring system like the MFOs, so there's no telling whether aparticular find is going to get someone votes. Posting finds tends to encourage everyone.
9) After you finish your runs, by the Monday after (1st, 8th, 15th), post your 5 best items in a code box with full readouts. (If you wish to participate for the weekly winner) *rule change*
10) [highlight](highlight)[/highlight] Your name and what you are submitting at the top of the code box.
Code:
[highlight]coju
code box example[/highlight]

Example 1
Ring 
Required Level: 21 
Fingerprint: 0xb930fe19 
Item Level: 59 
Version: Expansion 1.10+ 
+30 to Attack Rating 
2% Mana stolen per hit 
+5 Maximum Stamina 
Lightning Resist +13% 
Poison Resist +11% 
Damage Reduced by 2 
+3 to Light Radius 

Example 2 
Ring 
Required Level: 21 
Fingerprint: 0xb930fe15 
Item Level: 59 
Version: Expansion 1.10+ 
+3000 to Attack Rating 
28% Mana stolen per hit 
+25 Maximum Stamina 
Lightning Resist +34% 
Poison Resist +91% 
Damage Reduced by 92 
+39 to Light Radius
11) All characters allowed. All skills allowed. All FAM allowed.
12) No haxmapz, dropcheats, skillmoderators, etc.
13) Votes must be highlighted.
14) Please only highlight text when directed by the rules!



Pindleskin rules!
1) Only acceptable items are from Pindleskin and his brothers. Graveyard friends NOT allowed.
2) Unlimited runs!
3) Only run between the dates September 24th and 30th.
4) By October 1st you need to have your 5 items posted.
5) Must be active during Pindleskin week to vote for participants. *rule change*

No, Ancient Tunnels rule!
1) Only acceptable items are from the Ancient Tunnels.
2) Unlimited runs!
3) Run dates are October 1st and October 7th. Your timezone.
4) Items must be submited by October 8th.
5) Must be active during Ancient Tunnel week to vote for participants. *rule change*

I love cows! Said by no one after 1.09.
1) Only acceptable items are from the Cow King's Grassy Meadows.
2) Unlimited runs!
3) You may use another character to open the portal to kill the king.
4) You don't have to follow cow rule number 3. I'd advice against following this rule, though.
5) Your top 5 items from the cow lands must be submitted by Monday, October 15th.
6) Must be active during Cow week to vote for participants. *rule change*

Hurrah!
1) After you submit all that you wanted before, you may post your top 3 items. These will determine the overall winner!
2) Tie has a special set of rules to be decided in the case of a tie.
3) The final prize varies and will be handed out to the winners once they win.
4) To vote you must have participated in 2 of the 3 events. *rule change*
5) Voting will begin after the tournament is over.
6) In order to vote for the individual event winners, you must have participated in that event. *rule change*


glhf!
 
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Re: The Ancient Pindlecow Triathlon! (A casual mf tournament.)

Only people with 1000 cow runs in a week are allowed to vote for the Cows section?

Edit: That corresponds to a cool 14 hours a day for most people participating, fwiw.
 
Re: The Ancient Pindlecow Triathlon! (A casual mf tournament.)

Only people with 1000 cow runs in a week are allowed to vote for the Cows section?

Edit: That corresponds to a cool 14 hours a day for most people participating, fwiw.

its limited to 2000 runs, so dont even think about running 28 hours a day :p
 
Re: The Ancient Pindlecow Triathlon! (A casual mf tournament.)

I'd scratch the "at least 1000 runs per event" thing - for Pindle, it's reasonable (1000 runs equaling around 4-7 hours of playing time), for AT it's already more than I can probably manage in a week (around 16 hours of playing time over 7 days), for cows it's suicide :crazyeyes:

May I ask why you switched back to the 2000 runs instead of unlimited run time/limited run time? At least that was what you proposed in your last posts in the "Another Pindlethon?" thread...
 
Re: The Ancient Pindlecow Triathlon! (A casual mf tournament.)

Oh. Forgot about that. I did the rules three times since user error deleted the first two drafts. I'll fix it to unlimited runs and change the voting rules.

Thank you fabian for the cow analysis, rules changed accordingly.

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Edited rules. Fixed? Everything look better?
 
Re: The Ancient Pindlecow Triathlon! (A casual mf tournament.)

Rule #1 still says 6k runs, 2k each.

No way I would have participated with 2k AT and cow runs. I do like to do other things than playing D2 also. ;)

I'm in with unlimited runs though. I'll lose, but who cares. :)
 
Re: The Ancient Pindlecow Triathlon! (A casual mf tournament.)

I think the time for votes is too short... can't we just vote at the end of the tournament for all categories? Over a period of some days? 24 hours to look through all posted items and vote for them isn't going to happen in my books, esp. since we should be already running the next category...

just my 2 cents :)
 
Re: The Ancient Pindlecow Triathlon! (A casual mf tournament.)

I think the time for votes is too short... can't we just vote at the end of the tournament for all categories? Over a period of some days? 24 hours to look through all posted items and vote for them isn't going to happen in my books, esp. since we should be already running the next category...

just my 2 cents :)

You would be correct. Voting for all changed to the end of the tournament. You still have to have your top items posted by that Monday though.
 
Re: The Ancient Pindlecow Triathlon! (A casual mf tournament.)

So, uh ... who's in? I'll be starting in a few minutes...
 
Re: The Ancient Pindlecow Triathlon! (A casual mf tournament.)

Im in as long as the prizes are non trading prizes ... However if they are if I would be lucky enough to land a top 3 place I would happily pass my prize down to 4th place? Does this sound ok?

However it is I am in each way! GL with AT!
 
Re: The Ancient Pindlecow Triathlon! (A casual mf tournament.)

AFAIK there is no taking prizes like in the MFO - else everyone would need a trade profile :)


btw, some of my first finds from the first 500 or so runs:

[strike]Gheed's[/strike] Poor Man's Charm
Lucky Grand Charm of Greed
Grand Charm
Required Level: 14
Fingerprint: 0x99342dbb
Item Level: 86
Version: Expansion 1.10+
Unidentified
39% Extra Gold from Monsters
1% Better Chance of Getting Magic Items

Gale Circlet
Tiara
Defense: 87
Durability: 15 of 25
Required Level: 67
Fingerprint: 0x41677d89
Item Level: 86
Version: Expansion 1.10+
+2 to Assassin Skill Levels
+7 to Maximum Damage
+72% Enhanced Defense
+18 to Dexterity
All Resistances +17


And a perfect ED% rare...with the best secondary mods ... lacking:


Demon Razor
Balanced Knife
Throw Damage: 30 - 55
One Hand Damage: 5 - 40
Quantity: 74
Required Level: 48
Required Dexterity: 51
Fingerprint: 0x3851dc32
Item Level: 86
Version: Expansion 1.10+
+2 to Combat Skills (Barbarian Only)
400% Enhanced Damage
+153 to Attack Rating

If it only had at least IAS...then I'd make a thrower barb with them...but as it is...
 
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Re: The Ancient Pindlecow Triathlon! (A casual mf tournament.)

Cant wait to get home and hit it AT up!

How many bosspacks does your AT map have grisu? And how far away from wp is it?
 
Re: The Ancient Pindlecow Triathlon! (A casual mf tournament.)

pssst! It's Pindle this week... :wink:

My AT map has 5.24 boss pack on average and I can run it in 1'05'' at p5 or just under one minute at p3. It's 2 Teleports from the WP.

Yours?

btw, running Pindle with my pure Lightning sorc atm at p5.
 
Re: The Ancient Pindlecow Triathlon! (A casual mf tournament.)

pssst! It's Pindle this week... :wink:

My AT map has 5.24 boss pack on average and I can run it in 1'05'' at p5 or just under one minute at p3. It's 2 Teleports from the WP.

Yours?

btw, running Pindle with my pure Lightning sorc atm at p5.


Errmmm yeeaahh I knew that...

Well for pindle I'll be using my full tal blizz sorc and running at p/3 or p/5 depends on run time difference.

Same character will be used for AT too and the current map is 4 teles from wp and has 5-6ish boss packs although alot of the time atleast 2 of the packs seem to be champion packs. Quite a big map too so I may reroll for a better one some point this week.

Cow killer will be the classic old javazon if you must know ;)
 
Re: The Ancient Pindlecow Triathlon! (A casual mf tournament.)

Code:
[highlight]coju
code box example[/highlight]

Example 1
Ring 
Required Level: 21 
Fingerprint: 0xb930fe19 
Item Level: 59 
Version: Expansion 1.10+ 
+30 to Attack Rating 
2% Mana stolen per hit 
+5 Maximum Stamina 
Lightning Resist +13% 
Poison Resist +11% 
Damage Reduced by 2 
+3 to Light Radius 

Example 2 
Ring 
Required Level: 21 
Fingerprint: 0xb930fe15 
Item Level: 59 
Version: Expansion 1.10+ 
+3000 to Attack Rating 
28% Mana stolen per hit 
+25 Maximum Stamina 
Lightning Resist +34% 
Poison Resist +91% 
Damage Reduced by 92 
+39 to Light Radius

Gieb this sweet ring, that is all.
 
Re: The Ancient Pindlecow Triathlon! (A casual mf tournament.)

I'm in, even if I can't compete with you folks' crazy run times nor numbers. Will have to go by sheer luck.
 
Re: The Ancient Pindlecow Triathlon! (A casual mf tournament.)

I'm participating! Should we do one of those codeboxes or something official? I haven't started yet but I am now!
 
Re: The Ancient Pindlecow Triathlon! (A casual mf tournament.)

An official table of entrants ? It may get complicated with there being 3 weeks each being a different target, are we posting builds, version status, level, mf etc?
 
Re: The Ancient Pindlecow Triathlon! (A casual mf tournament.)

No need for official tables for people playing.
You only need to post your top 5 items in a code box like the example pyrotechnician posted by each Monday.
 
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