It's a Knockout! 2017/18: Quarter-Finals - Apidya

[Graham Humphrey]

It's a Knockout! 2017/18: Quarter-Finals - Apidya

Starts: 00:01 December 24 Finishes: 23:59 December 30

Rules

Rules are available here. Super League rules are here.

Set the options as: Level - Normal, Lives - 5, 1UP - at 8000.

Tied scores will be separated by whoever submitted their score first.

No cheating (including save states) - anyone caught cheating gets disqualified.

Good luck to all involved - may battle commence...

Downloads

- Disk 1, Disk 2
- WHDLoad-installed

Extras

- Lemon thread
- Super League Round 2 threads: EAB, Lemon

Final Scores

john4p - 196,210 v. capehorn - 0

steef-online - 102,475 v. jPV - 102,730

LinesMachine - 52,270 v. Joni - 19,010

ED-209 - 98,064 v. mipe - 44,880

[Graham Humphrey]

Wow, that first tie is a bit of a corker. Capehorn is, of course, the defending Knockout champion and has a brilliant record in this competition in recent years - but being unseeded in this draw has proven to be a headache. It's first versus third in terms of the final placings in the League round earlier this year but with quite a big gap in terms of score.

Mind you, Lines vs Joni is second versus fourth in that regard so that's certainly not a lightweight battle either.

[john4p]

196,210

Screwed up but the score is better than it would have been if I had finished the game without losing a life...

Lines vs Joni surely will be interesting.

[vagrant]

75,670
Took a while submit something, but it's obviously a busy week (merry xmas to all )
I was reminded of the flickering sprites & slowdown on whd version.. found this out the hard way
Easiest solution is to just disable cycle exact, no need for jit etc.

[vagrant]

98,064
First time I've seen the "techno level".. it didn't last long.

[capehorn]

Well this is embarrassing...

I can't really complain about getting drawn against John4p. I had improved my score a little bit on Supercars but it was such a small improvement and I was a bit frustrated about how I managed to lose on the final race (I started the last lap in 2nd and finished a pixel behind the car in 3rd) and I must have forgotten to post it. Only a small improvement, but it would have been enough to keep me top of the group and get me a much better draw.

So on to Apidya, and I guess I should be thankful to John4p for posting a beatable score when he probably easily could have got 250,000+. John's score was interesting because it is almost exactly the same as the best score I've ever got on Apidya which made me think I could just about do it. If I could just get past level 4-2 then the milking possibilities were there to get me over 200,000 points. But the best score I ever got was after 5 weeks of straight play and I only had a few hours today to brush up and try to match it.

I've had loads of plays but kept failing at different parts of 4-1, and once a single life goes, you have no chance.

I got something like 110,000 but didn't take a screenshot as it wasn't enough.

Good luck in the next round John.

[Graham Humphrey]

And it's all over.

Well done to the four winners. Special mention to jPV who won his tie today by a mere 255 points. That is remarkably tight.

Pleasingly we've got a 50/50 split in terms of EAB and Lemon players for the semi-finals. Draw coming up...

[john4p]

Originally Posted by capehorn

Good luck in the next round John.

Thanks m8!

It was still bad luck for you with the draw. Now with LinesMachine I got the worst possible draw for Pac-Mania.

Hope you'll participate a bit more in the league again.