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**Dingobloo** · Sun, 23rd-Sep-2012, 6:54 PM

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 · Sun, 23rd-Sep-2012, 7:27 PM

Now this will actually be fun!

**nirvAnA** · Sun, 23rd-Sep-2012, 8:57 PM

Really excited for this!

MooZfY · Sun, 23rd-Sep-2012, 8:58 PM

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

Another · Mon, 24th-Sep-2012, 3:12 AM

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

Lokth · Mon, 24th-Sep-2012, 5:15 AM

Awesome! Cannot wait for this!

AxSGRiM · Mon, 24th-Sep-2012, 5:28 AM

This looks freaking amazing, I wanna play so bad!

**inFeZa** · Mon, 24th-Sep-2012, 10:38 AM

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

Quick Comments

	nirvAnA:	lmao
	crAzerk:	+1

**Dingobloo** · Mon, 24th-Sep-2012, 10:41 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by inFeZa

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

Don't worry, all answers are case insensitive.

crAzerk · Mon, 24th-Sep-2012, 11:24 AM

Wow I hope this is as amazing as it sounds lol

**Dingobloo** · Mon, 24th-Sep-2012, 4:39 PM

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

Good luck everyone!

**nirvAnA** · Mon, 24th-Sep-2012, 4:41 PM

awesome! playing it now!

**inFeZa** · Mon, 24th-Sep-2012, 5:19 PM

the lightning round is imba

NvRossi · Mon, 24th-Sep-2012, 5:47 PM

legit great idea, going to test out the map!

**nirvAnA** · Mon, 24th-Sep-2012, 5:48 PM

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 · Mon, 24th-Sep-2012, 5:49 PM

gona try it now! hehe

**Dingobloo** · Mon, 24th-Sep-2012, 5:57 PM

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** · Mon, 24th-Sep-2012, 6:16 PM

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 +

edit:
6 minutes and 49 seconds this time

Quick Comments

Dingobloo:

OMG dox PM, dont want to give away your strats

Another · Mon, 24th-Sep-2012, 7:31 PM

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** · Mon, 24th-Sep-2012, 7:32 PM

Quote:

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

xGKingdelete · Wed, 26th-Sep-2012, 6:16 PM

congrats pinder, wp

**Dingobloo** · Wed, 26th-Sep-2012, 6:18 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by xGKingdelete

congrats pinder, wp

OMG, that replay was unfortunately minutes too late, if it's any consolation the replay time says 3m 06s so unfortunately it wouldn't have won by a second even if I could have accepted it, but i'll edit it in.

Quick Comments

xGKingdelete:

yeah i know, it's okay, pinder deserves the win anyway

**nirvAnA** · Mon, 24th-Sep-2012, 7:34 PM

delete is so amazing!!!! was watching his stream when he clocked his record time

**Dingobloo** · Mon, 24th-Sep-2012, 8:04 PM

Fixed a few small oversights, hopefully nothing that affects deletes strat or others trying to improve on it.

+ Show +

Quick Comments

Dox:

love your work

NvPinder · Mon, 24th-Sep-2012, 8:35 PM

What is the best time so far? are we allowed to know?

**Dingobloo** · Mon, 24th-Sep-2012, 8:39 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by NvPinder

What is the best time so far? are we allowed to know?

Yes, in the spirit of competition it's

Pinder - "I'm currently winning. by a lot"
Delete - 4m 21s
Dox - 6m 49s

No one else has submitted replays yet.

NvPinder · Mon, 24th-Sep-2012, 8:40 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dingobloo

Yes, in the spirit of competition it's

Delete - 4 m 21 s
Dox - 6m 49 s

No one else has submitted replays yet.

In the spirit of me being a lamer, I'm not submitting mine till the end so people have no idea if they're beating my time or not (hint; I'm currently winning. by a lot.)

**inFeZa** · Mon, 24th-Sep-2012, 8:43 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by nvpinder

in the spirit of me being a lamer, i'm not submitting mine till the end so people have no idea if they're beating my time or not (hint; i'm currently winning. By a lot.)

damn you guys and ur times

**Dingobloo** · Mon, 24th-Sep-2012, 8:41 PM

Well, you make things interesting, can't wait.

x5.Revenant · Mon, 24th-Sep-2012, 8:52 PM

I love you too.

xGKingdelete · Mon, 24th-Sep-2012, 11:11 PM

Still a few problems with the maps (yeah I'm still playing).

The first storm of the lightning round sometimes still hits my units as soon as they walk up next to the forcefield.

I don't think the end works anymore. I answer the trivia question and then it says "correct!" and then nothing happens and the 3 colossus kill me.
Or I answer the question and nothing happens at all. I was going for a more cheesy approach to the game this time, and didn't kill the pylon or dts so maybe that is an intentional feature of the game. Would have been about 3:45 if it worked, though...

crAzerk · Mon, 24th-Sep-2012, 11:13 PM

Quote:

The first storm of the lightning round should never be on the position closest the forcefield

This just happened to me ><

SmirkToT · Mon, 24th-Sep-2012, 11:28 PM

http://i.imgur.com/5lwSt.jpg
whut?

btw just answered the question.

jayaiwhy · Tue, 25th-Sep-2012, 8:40 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by SmirkToT

http://i.imgur.com/5lwSt.jpg
whut?

btw just answered the question.

What's so whut about this...?

**Dingobloo** · Tue, 25th-Sep-2012, 8:43 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jayaiwhy

What's so whut about this...?

He sent me the replay, he answered the question, but it didn't trigger due to a bug and he just played legitimately well to get to that point/time. Should be fixed now.

Quick Comments

jayaiwhy:

oic

**Dingobloo** · Tue, 25th-Sep-2012, 7:55 AM

Sorry! I broke the final question accidentally while fixing the cut scene, it should be fine now along with the storms, though I only got to test a few times this morning.

**inFeZa** · Tue, 25th-Sep-2012, 8:42 AM

Yeah those storms were so annoying!

get the question right, then walk through and BAM 2 storms in a row and im in the middle of them, either way to run is a no go, all my marines die. gg

Quick Comments

Dingobloo:

This can still happen, it's random, just the spot closest to the forcefield wont storm on the first round of storms

**Dingobloo** · Wed, 26th-Sep-2012, 4:20 PM

Entries close in under 2 hours, if you have a replay and want to get it in please do so.

TCPKerO · Wed, 26th-Sep-2012, 5:40 PM

Damn, somehow I've missed this one

, won't get to put an entry in sadface

xGKingdelete · Wed, 26th-Sep-2012, 6:06 PM

so depressing.. my internet died and i think i have a strat to get sub 3mins

**Dingobloo** · Wed, 26th-Sep-2012, 6:10 PM

And here are the final standings:

Pinder - 3m 05s
FaDeSynx - 3m 19s
Delete - 4m 21s (Delete also submitted a 3m 06s submission but it was unfortunately sent minutes after this post)
SmirkToT - 4m 55s (End Cutscene didn't trigger because of a bug)
nirvAnA - 6m 21s (DQ - Using the creep blocking strategy but for posterity)
Dox - 6m 49s

Congratulations to Pinder on the winning entry, and thank you to everyone who played the map even if you didn't submit a replay.

I had a lot of fun making it and watching people playing it and I'll be doing up a post-mortem write up as a blog where I go into a bit more detail about making it and my thoughts on the submitted replays you can find it over here.

Another · Sat, 29th-Sep-2012, 3:14 AM

watched these guys play, in the storm section for me there was like twice as many storms and i never got through with anything more than 2 maraudarer and a ghost. i dont get what i did wrong