What you see above is a sample scorecard for the first (cue trumpets, please … )
Stately Play Neuroshima Hex Solo Challenge.
Here’s how it works, in a series of bullet points:
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You’ll play nine games of N. Hex against the AI — three apiece at the easy, medium, and hard difficulty settings. Set the AI at “random army” (the question mark).
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You’ll note your final scores, eventually arriving at sub-totals for each of the settings, and — ultimate goal — at a grand total after having played all nine games.
Example: You score a total of 3,000 points for your three easy games, 4,000 for your three medium games, and 5,000 for your three hard games. Your final score for the event would be 12,000.
(2A. Obviously, any score sheet will do. Scratch paper is fine. The actual scoresheet above is not mandatory; it’s just used for illustration purposes).
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You get one mulligan, if desired. One game can be either abandoned with no penalty, or else finished but not recorded.
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Play your games in any order; play your games at any pace. Just play exactly nine, divided up by 3/3/3.
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Feel free to report progress, post funny screen shots, etc. But be sure to post your grand total at some point.
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Although I don’t think it will take us nearly this long, let’s play it safe and allow 1.5 days per finished game. So we’ll use two weeks total (again, I think we’ll finish sooner). And if this turns out to be a format people enjoy, we can always turn around and do it again.
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SP owner @Neumannium has graciously allowed our winner to become “SP guest editor for a week.”*
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Challenge yourself! Try to use different armies. In fact, I’m trying to think of possible bonuses for anyone who plays with nine different armies …
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The competition begins on Saturday, Sept. 19 at noon (Pacific) and ends on Saturday, Oct. 3 at noon (Pacific).
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I suppose it goes without saying … but this whole thing depends on a 100 percent honor system.
TL;DR: Play nine games in two weeks; tell us your scores.
`*This is totally not true