Wiz Kid has completed his sweep of the S.H.I.E.L.D. servers, cleaning it of any lasting H.A.M.M.E.R. infection while Amadeus Cho recovered the missing entries with field agent assistance. There were a number of Agents that helped zero in on the missing data, with over 30 Agents that were within 10 points of the missing data set. The end result is that the top Agent in the Versus simulations during the Anniversary fought a total of 726 battles. No single Agent managed to get the data point exactly, but luckily the hexadecimal value was close enough that a search for a 2D xx value and using that as a vector was enough to get at the garbled rankings. As a result, S.H.I.E.L.D. archives have been restored to full service.
In regards to awards for S.H.I.E.L.D. Agents that have been most instrumental in their assistance, command is happy to announce the following Agents will receive a stipend in addition to their normal rewards for service:
Stephen Smoke: For being the subject of our little contest! Grats on playing the most battles!
Turul: Being so exact (and close) Post
Moon Roach: For being the Owner of a Lonely Heart Post
AXP_isme: For consulting RNGesus. Who trolled, like RNGesus does. Post
Spiderham: +1 for the Press Your Luck reference. -1 because his sig is out of date. Post
(Note, despite Deadpool’s last minute protestations that Agents only be allowed to win if they “guessed closest without going over” and play “Plinko” for final prizes, it has been decided to give out the rewards to Agents closest numerically.)
Since 11 Agents tied for code receipt purposes, we will give out 11 codes instead of the 10 promised. As well, since the top 10 winners all scored within Top 3 prize tiers, we will give those higher prizes to all tied Agents.
For all winning Agents, please PM David [Hi-Fi] Moore and IceIX with the following:
In Game Name (if different than forum name)
Cover of choice if 1st place tier
Console of choice for code receipt
Congratulations to the winners and thank you everyone for participating!
Edit IceIX Update: For reference, the battles played per event were
Black Vortex 157
Class of 2015 141
Women of Marvel 129
Devil Dinosaur 109
Lightning Rounds 190
Edit IceIX Update 2: Added thread links for the honorable mentions.
Wow, I was short by almost 200. I’m doing some quick math here, but it was 7 days, some heavier than others due to lightning rounds. Let’s average it to 103 matches per day.
Based on average match time to find time spent per day for this mystery grinder:
3 mins = 5.15 hours per day
4 mins = 6.86 hours per day
5 mins = 8.58 hours per day
That’s not to mention two galactus runs and deadpool daily.
Edit: thanks for the contest, and for keeping it in universe, I like it.
LOL! My first semi-educated guess was 746. Then I noticed another player also guessed 746. So I started searching downwards for numbers not guessed. I got to 730something and got board and skipped down, landing at 684.
Wow. My estimate was 100 fights per versus event (40-ish per fight, with top scorers hitting 4000 in the bugged events) and then an additional 100 or so in lightning rounds. Way off!
No idea why, but 721 sprang to my mind the second I read the contest. I feel like Demon Cat from Adventure Time with the power of “approximate knowledge of many things”. Curse my power!
I don’t have any real way of making sure that they’d want their name/Alliance outed as the “winner” of that, so it’ll have to stay private. I’ll give a broad clue and state that it was a top player of one of the top Alliances.
And after I say that was given their contact info and confirmed that it’s alright. The top player was Stephen Smoke of XMenOne! Grats to you Stephen! Also sent along a Legendary Token for “winning” the contest in a different way.
