**Game Boy Weekly Contest Leaderboard & Rules 2019/2020**

[Red | 449]

Hello and welcome to the VGS Game Boy weekly contest!  It's like the Sega Master System weekly contest from last year, except the games will be on a system you actually care about.  This will be a ten week event.

SCHEDULE:

December 1 to December 8: Super Mario Land (Link)

1. 170,400 (0xDEAFc0DE) +11
2. 169,960 (koifish) +10
3. 167,100 (acromite53) +9
4. 166,540 (arnpoly) +8
5. 146,820 (Bertsampson) +7
6. 141,480 (Link) +6
7. 138,510 (Splain) +5
8. 134,540 (Gloves) +4
9. 122,520 (Ausden) +3
10. 77,110 (Eugene) +3

December 8 to December 15: Bubble Ghost (Link)

1. 268,450 (0xDEAFC0DE) +11
2. 263,200 (arnpoly) +10
3. 241,130 (acromite53) +9
4. 205,630 (Splain) +8
5. 194,300 (koifish) +7
6. 93,780 (bertsampson) +6
7. 93,730 (ecmyers) +5
8. 79,640 (barrels) +4
9. 77,550 (Ausden) +3

December 15 to December 22: Battle Unit Zeoth (Link)

1. 2,623,900 (0xDEAFC0DE) +11
2. 2,620,800 (bertsampson) +10
3. 2,618,200 (koifish) +9
4. 2,617,200 (arnpoly) +8
5. 2,616,200 (acromite53) +7
6. 718,900 (ecmyers) +6
7. 716,100 (Splain) +5
8. 404,000 (Ausden) +4

December 22 to December 29: Game & Watch Gallery (Link)

1. 2,614 (acromite53) +11
2. 2,233 (koifish) +10
3. 1,903 (arnpoly) +9
4. 1,669 (Splain) +8
5. 1,412 (0xDEAFC0DE) +7
6. 94 (ecmyers) +6
7. 93 (Ausden) +5

December 29 to January 5: Dead Heat Scramble (Link)

1. 1,339,780 (0xDEAFC0DE) +11
2. 1,336,880 (BriGuy82) +10
3. 867,300 (arnpoly) +9
4. 790,660 (koifish) +8
5. 676,940 (Splain) +7
6. 229,000 (ecmyers) +6
7. 102,000 (Ausden) +5

January 5 to January 12: Revenge of the Gator (Link)

1. 1,854,740 (0xDEAFC0DE) +11
2. 1,162,930 (acromite53) +10
3. 1,106,570 (BriGuy82) +9
4. 606,620 (koifish) +8
5. 538,400 (Splain) +7
6. 472,610 (arnpoly) +6
7. 456,980 (Link) +5
8. 375,010 (ecmyers) +4
9. 341,330 (Ausden) +3

January 12 to January 19: Sneaky Snakes (Link)

1. Game Cleared - 88,350 (0xDEAFC0DE) +11
2. Level 13 - 253,250 (arnpoly) +10
3. Level 7 - 58,150 (ecmyers) +9
4. Level 5 - 41,800 (Splain) +8
5. Level 3 - 23,175 (BriGuy82) +7
6. Level 3 - 34,825 (Ausden) +6

January 19 to January 26: Amazing Penguin (Link)

1. 188,920 (0xDEAFC0DE) +11
2. 183,210 (arnpoly) +10
3. 74,010 (BriGuy82) +9
4. 64,070 (Splain) +8
5. 35,890 (ecmyers) +7
6. 21,900 (Ausden) +6

January 26 to February 2: Mercenary Force (Link)

1. 79,550 (0xDEAFC0DE) +11
2. 77,550 (arnpoly) +10
3. 76,180 (BriGuy82) +9
4. 72,840 (Philosoraptor) +8
5. 64,380 (Splain) +7
6. 51,180 (Ausden) +6
7. 50,800 (ecmyers) +5

February 2 to February 9: Tetris (Link)

1. 442,109 (arnpoly) +11
2. 323,414 (Splain) +10
3. 293,727 (mbd39) +9
4. 286,360 (0xDEAFC0DE) +8
5. 265,697 (bertsampson) +7
6. 232,805 (BriGuy82) +6
7. 162,895 (Philosoraptor) +5
8. 83,059 (Ausden) +4
9. 12,568 (ecmyers) +3

 

GENERAL CONTEST RULES

-Contest is open to all members of Video Game Sage.

- In order to submit a score for the contest, take a picture of your score with your Video Game Sage user name written or typed on a piece of paper, which must be present in the picture. Your Video Game Sage user name MUST be in the picture or the score will be invalid.  The entire Game Boy or TV screen MUST be in the picture for the score to be valid.

- Previously obtained scores are not acceptable as submissions.  You must play the game during the week it has been selected.

- When posting a new score, please begin your post by typing out your score.  Larger font (18pt) is preferred.

- If you are posting an updated score, please create a new post with your new score and delete the picture from your previous post with the old score.  You may also edit your initial post with the new photo and score.

- It is highly encouraged to play with original software on original hardware, if possible.

- This is a contest of skill, so using any sort of device or feature that would give you an advantage over another player is prohibited.  Examples include, but not limited to, cheat devices, save states, altered ROMs, remapped controllers, and turbo functions.  The use of glitches to alter your score is also not allowed.  Any other glitches will be examined on a case-by-case basis to determine whether or not they will be permitted.  Any glitches discovered by participants must be reported and approved for use before submitting a score using them.

-Although not required, I would encourage participants not to practice a game in advance.

- Points will be awarded each week as follows:

1st – 11 points
2nd – 10 points
3rd – 9 points
4th – 8 points
5th – 7 points
6th – 6 points
7th – 5 points
8th – 4 points
9th and lower – 3 points

LEADERBOARD:

1. 0xDEAFc0DE (103 points)
2. arnpoly (91 points)
3. Splain (73 points)
4. ecmyers (54 points)
5. koifish (52 points)
6. BriGuy82 (50 points)
7. acromite53 (46 points)
8. Ausden (45 points)
9. Bertsampson (30 points)
10. Philosoraptor (14 points)
11. Link (11 points)
12. mbd (9 points)
13. Gloves (4 points)
13. barrels (4 points)

 

Edited February 10, 2020 by Red

[arnpoly | 205]

I am going to try and compete in this.  Thanks for the list in advance, looks like I have a few carts to pick up!

[RH | 5,237]

You expect me to play games from my (near) complete set?

 Ok.

Seriously, though, I'll see what I can do.  Do you have to beat these titles, or just show your best scores, cause I suck at games.

[Splain | 2,722]

I'm in. SML will be interesting because you can easily cheese your way to 999999 points. Is it a low-score contest?

[Red | 449]

9 hours ago, RH said:

You expect me to play games from my (near) complete set?

 Ok.

Seriously, though, I'll see what I can do.  Do you have to beat these titles, or just show your best scores, cause I suck at games.

Nope, you won't have to beat any of them to participate.

8 hours ago, Splain said:

I'm in. SML will be interesting because you can easily cheese your way to 999999 points. Is it a low-score contest?

High score, but I have a rule set that will prevent that from being a problem.

[Red | 449]

The first round has begun!

 

[Ausden | 323]

@Red you missed my score for Bubble Ghost. 77,550.

[Red | 449]

4 hours ago, Ausden said:

@Red you missed my score for Bubble Ghost. 77,550.

Fixed.  Sorry about that.

[Ausden | 323]

Well done @0xDEAFC0DE, and thanks @Red for putting this together!

[Splain | 2,722]

Yeah that was awesome, thanks @Red. Those were good games.

0xDEAFC0DE's a beast! Sorry I couldn't offer more competition, lol.

[0xDEAFC0DE | 1,277]

Thanks Red for picking the games and running the tournament. Before it started I literally only owned 2 GB games (SML 1 and 2), so it was cool to try some other games. Plus it made my 2* 1 hour train commute much more bearable. 

[arnpoly | 205]

I'll chime in with my own thanks to Red.  It was a fun contest and nice to compete again.  This filled my need to do a contest for awhile.  Happy to be on break now! 

[ecmyers | 100]

Indeed, thanks for introducing me to some neat GB games! I wish I'd had more time to be a bit more competitive, but I was already pretty far out of my league here. It was just fun to participate, and I appreciate all the effort that goes into coordinating and maintaining one of these competitions.

[Red | 449]

Glad you guys had fun.  I enjoyed putting it together and would like to run another contest some time (likely at the end of the year again).  I'm not sure if it would be another Game Boy one or something else yet.