[Dingobloo]

Birthday Month Contest #3! By Dingobloo



For our give away contests we will be handing out 6 never to be made again SC2SEA tees. The winner of each contest will receive an all expenses paid Tee courtesy of SC2SEA! The third contest begins now!

Are you puzzled by puzzles? Do your artistic talents leave too much to the imagination? This may be the contest for you: Welcome to...

The Tal'darim Time Trial!

The Tal'darim Time Trial is a four part custom map that combines Starcraft activities with SC2SEA trivia!
To succeed you will need a combination of skill, knowledge, strategy and execution.
To win the Tee you will need to race against the clock to complete the map in the best time possible and submit a link to the replay via PM to me using a site like drop.sc, replayfu.com or any other easy to access replay location.

What can I expect?


The first challenge of the map is the Warp Arena and it is relatively simple. Avoid taking damage from the zealots by any means necessary. Zealots will be periodically warped in via warp prisms on the periphery of the arena. Answering the question stops them from spawning and clears your way to the second challenge.



The Lightning Round involves avoiding psionic storm's thrown by the high templar on the edge of the gaunlet. The High Templar have a large amount of armor and shields as well as generous energy regeneration and engaging them for too long would be suicidal. Answering the trivia question opens the barrier to the third challenge.



Easily the most complicated phase of the map, you will be given access to an orbital command and some workers and tasked with destroying barriers and photon canon's to gain access to the final event. The best way to tackle this stage is up to you.

Hints:

• Success in this phase can depend heavily in your performance in previous phases.
• SCV's make a good damage buffer and are your only regenerating units.
• Gas can be gathered to acquire upgrades.
• Every ability of your Orbital Command can be useful including supply drop.
• The Canon has very high armor shields that quickly regenerate, EMP can be used to quickly damage through it.

I guess you'll find out.

How do I play?

The map is now live you can search for: SC2SEA Time Attack

All you will need to do is search the SEA Arcade for it and press Play.




When will it end?

Entries close Wednesday the 26th at 7PM AEST.

If you used hold position to block the creep your entry will not be permitted, sorry.
I'll allow a lot but it trivialises the third part too much.

Good Luck!

Wed 26th Sept 7:00 PM AEST

Quick Comments

NOM:

YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS <3

[ToRGreenArchon]

Now this will actually be fun!

[nirvAnA]

Really excited for this!

[MooZfY]

OMG can't wait to play this!!!!

[Another]

wow, looks like a lot of effort, cant wait !

[Lokth]

Awesome! Cannot wait for this!

[AxSGRiM]

This looks freaking amazing, I wanna play so bad!

[inFeZa]

Hope this doesnt include some classic nirvana riddles at the end.

Quick Comments

	nirvAnA:	lmao
	crAzerk:	+1

[Dingobloo]

Originally Posted by inFeZa

Hope this doesnt include some classic nirvana riddles at the end.

Don't worry, all answers are case insensitive.

[crAzerk]

Wow I hope this is as amazing as it sounds lol

[Dingobloo]

Updated the OP with the map name you can find it by searching: SC2SEA Time Attack

Good luck everyone!

[nirvAnA]

awesome! playing it now!

[inFeZa]

the lightning round is imba

[NvRossi]

legit great idea, going to test out the map!

[nirvAnA]

beat it 5 times, fastest i got 5min 6 seconds!

im done for now! gl everyone and thanks to dingo for making such an awesome map!

[Syn]

gona try it now! hehe

[Dingobloo]

If you're using Hold Position to block the creep and take several waves, that has been fixed and your replay will not be allowed, good luck!

[Dox]

didn't realise this had "strats" lol, replay removed
8 minutes and 55 seconds including the cinematic at the end

edit: half the trouble with this map is random stuff happening, like:

+ Show +

* half your units getting forcefielded out of the lightning lane PERMANENTLY
* banelings respawning on top of your army without warning
* 6 dt's spawning at once

edit:
6 minutes and 49 seconds this time

Quick Comments

Dingobloo:

OMG dox PM, dont want to give away your strats

[Another]

am i supposed to be unable to build units? gave up. dunno how to beat 2 550 hp 35 damage cannons and 6 DTs with only SCV and 2 marauder/handful of marine, how did you guys do it? any replays o.o

Quick Comments

Dox:

haha

[Dingobloo]

Originally Posted by IrisAnother

am i supposed to be unable to build units? gave up. dunno how to beat 2 550 hp 35 damage cannons and 6 DTs with only SCV and 2 marauder/handful of marine, how did you guys do it? any replays o.o

Not being able to build buildings with the scv's is intentional, you have to use everything else at your disposal to complete it.

Quick Comments

Another:

TT im so chobo