BeaIank

1st Gloves 129,073 2nd Dr. Morbis 117,406 3rd nesmaster14 109,248 4th NESfiend 79,479 5th Richardhead 60,766 6th PII 59,858 7th BlackVega 50,246 8th mbd39 50,038 9th RH 45,047 10th docile tapeworm 43,753 11th G-type 39,407 12th 8bitdontquit 32,685 13th JamesRobot 29,309 14th SuperJimtendo 22,210 15th Krunch 19,668 16th a3quit4s 15,318

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the 2nd round of the 2023 VGS NES Weekly Contest! This week we visit the Arcade genre with a very classic Arcade game! Coming all the way back from the year 1982, we have Millipede!!! This week our players are in for another round of fast and furious action. The rules they will have to follow are belo: Player 1 player mode B Play till you lose your first life You can't point press the millipede by not killing it for more than 3 minutes per round till round 10. After round 10 you can farm it freely... if you can. When you die, pause the game and take your picture as you respawn Participation: 5,000 points Genre: Arcade May the best insect killer win! The contest ends Sunday, 04/09/23 at 11 PM VGS time. Your user name MUST be written or typed on a piece of paper and be in the picture for your score to be valid. The entire TV screen, or computer monitor if you are playing on an emulator, MUST be in the picture for the score to be valid. No partial screenshots will be considered or accepted. No screenshots by hitting "print screen" on a computer will be allowed. You must take a picture of your computer monitor. There may be instances where this will be acceptable, but it will be at the discretion of myself and the contest organizers. Also, the use of turbo controllers is forbidden, as well as any cheat codes, Game Genies, slow motion functions, or save states if playing on an emulator. Also, we will only be using NTSC systems for the contests. The use of PAL systems will NOT be allowed. Good luck everyone and have fun.

Current standings posted. I hope everyone is having fun with this rules set!

Eh, it is bearable. But ain't no dead bone nor cracked bones that will get in the way of my vroom vroom time. I have the driving line on so I can take "looking for the braking marks" out of my mental stack while I learn how to do this.

That is correct and I cracked the scaphoid and the triquerium while working out because I was an idiot that thought my left hand would be able to handle the same weights my right hand even with the lunate bone dead at this point. Now I am operating with only one arm for pretty much the rest of the year because after the two bones heal I will have surgery to excise the dead lunate bone before it becomes and even larger problem! Fun times!

Fun times ahead.

Because you can kick it, wait for it bounce and kick it backwards. I won't mind if you end up kicking it forward once more during that.

This' why I am focusing on rules set like this this year for most games. Even if you are short on time, you can put in a quick run for a score.

You can hop the turtle two, three times without a worry. You can't stop there and keep hoping on the poor thing.

This is correct. You can't hop on a turtle or beetle continuously. Doing it twice or thrice is fine, but you can't keep killing the clock while racking points with the hop. Without that ruling, this week would become a hop bore fest.

Always great to have new blood join us here. Welcome aboard and have fun!

If I don't ban the turtle hoping loop, then this week will become a bore fest of turtle hoping instead of level optimization that tries to achieve lightning fast completion while maximizing point scoring opportunities.

Nay. If you die your run is invalid. You MUST make it to 2-1 for your score to be valid.

1st PII 148,150 2nd BlackVega 146,050 3rd Gloves 144,750 4th Dr. Morbis 132,750 5th JamesRobot 129,350 6th Richardhead 125,450 7th docile tapeworm 125,300 8th NESfiend 121,950 9th RH 114,850 10th nesmaster14 109,750 11th Krunch 105,700 12th mdb39 104,200 13th TriHart 103,300 14th Abner Stomps 102,400 15th TWarwick07 100,650 16th SuperJimtendo 99,550 17th Murray 67,050 18th G-type 66,700 19th a3quit4s 65,550

Ladies and gentlemen, @guillavoie and proudly present the 2023 VGS NES Weekly contest, continuing with the tradition that is over a decade long! We will have a shorter season this year to not burn out our players with games usually focusing on fast and furious rulesets to allow our competitors to quickly try again and again to get that winning score! Expect too see fierce competition, drama, epic rivalries and great scores all through the season! Our skilled players will put the best of their skills to the test! And what a better game to start this season than the classic of all classics SUPER MARIO BROS? DO THE MARIO!!! Without further ado, here are the rules for Super Mario Bros: Beat World 1 in one life and take your picture at the start of World 2-1 You are only allowed one loop of turtle hoping. You must hop the turtle or beetle till you get the 1up then stop and not repeat it. Anyone caught doing more than one loop of turtle hoping will have their score disqualified. Highest score wins. In case of a score tie, highest amount of coins wins. It is good to be back! Let's have a grand season! "Faster than a vanishing clog! More powerful than an electric drainsnake! It's Super Mario!" The contest ends Sunday, 02/04/23 at 11 PM VGS time. Your user name MUST be written or typed on a piece of paper and be in the picture for your score to be valid. The entire TV screen, or computer monitor if you are playing on an emulator, MUST be in the picture for the score to be valid. No partial screenshots will be considered or accepted. No screenshots by hitting "print screen" on a computer will be allowed. You must take a picture of your computer monitor. There may be instances where this will be acceptable, but it will be at the discretion of myself and the contest organizers. Also, the use of turbo controllers is forbidden, as well as any cheat codes, Game Genies, slow motion functions, or save states if playing on an emulator. Also, we will only be using NTSC systems for the contests. The use of PAL systems will NOT be allowed. Good luck everyone and have fun.

Thank you @spacepup

Thank you @Jeevan

If I make to the end of March in one piece or alive, it will be already great. Things are... complicated here.

Why would you make such a mistake?

Congratulations @docile tapeworm

GERAL SCOREBOARD 1st PII 118 2nd Gloves 115 3rd Bearcat-Doug 101 4th mbd39 87 5th Richardhead 73 6th Dr. Morbis 72 7th NESfiend 55 8th docile tapeworm 44 9th BlackVega 33 10th SuperJimtendo 26 11th G-type 23 12th RH 17 13th Red 10 14th JamesRobot 9 15th 8bitdontquit 7 15th nesmaster14 7 17th wongojack 6 17th a3quit4s 6 19th Murray 2 19th Krunch 2 21st TriHart 1 21st Abner Stomps 1 21st TWarwick07 1 21st Kguillemette 1 GENRE SCOREBOARD PUZZLE 1st mbd39 26 2nd Gloves 24 3rd Dr. Morbis 19 3rd PII 19 5th Richardhead 9 6th Bearcat-Doug 7 7th BlackVega 6 8th NESfiend 5 8th G-type 5 10th SuperJimtendo 4 11th 8bitdontquit 2 11th RH 2 13th a3quit4s 1 13th JamesRobot 1 ACTION 1st PII 31 2nd Gloves 22 3rd mbd39 14 4th BlackVega 11 5th Dr. Morbis 10 5th Richardhead 10 5th Bearcat-Doug 10 8th NESfiend 9 9th SuperJimtendo 5 10th JamesRobot 3 10th G-type 3 10th RH 3 13th docile tapeworm 2 14th nesmaster14 1 14th Krunch 1 14th TriHart 1 14th Abner Stomps 1 14th TWarwick07 1 14th Murray 1 14th a3quit4s 1 SHOOTER 1st docile tapeworm 34 2nd Gloves 28 3rd mbd39 14 4th Dr. Morbis 13 5th Bearcat-Doug 10 6th PII 9 6th NESfiend 9 8th Richardhead 7 9th SuperJimtendo 5 10th G-type 4 11th RH 3 12th JamesRobot 2 13th a3quit4s 1 BEAT'EM UP 1st Bearcat-Doug 29 2nd PII 24 3rd Gloves 16 4th BlackVega 14 5th NESfiend 13 6th Richardhead 9 7th mbd39 8 8th SuperJimtendo 5 9th 8bitdontquit 4 9th G-type 4 11th Dr. Morbis 3 12th a3quit4s 1 12th Kguillemette 1 12th Murray 1 12th RH 1 ARCADE 1st PII 22 2nd Gloves 17 2nd Bearcat-Doug 17 4th mbd39 16 5th Richardhead 12 6th Red 10 6th Dr. Morbis 10 8th RH 7 9th nesmaster14 6 9th NESfiend 6 9th wongojack 6 12th G-type 4 12th SuperJimtendo 4 14th BlackVega 2 14th JamesRobot 2 16th docile tapeworm 1 16th 8bitdontquit 1 16th Krunch 1 16th a3quit4s 1 SPORTS 1st Bearcat-Doug 28 2nd Richardhead 26 3rd Dr. Morbis 17 4th NESfiend 13 4th PII 13 6th mbd39 9 7th Gloves 8 8th docile tapeworm 7 9th SuperJimtendo 3 9th G-type 3 11th a3quit4s 1 11th RH 1 11th JamesRobot 1

Welcome to the 2023 VideoGameSage NES Weekly Contests! Weekly Contest Moderators @BeaIank @guillavoie GENERAL CONTEST RULES Please read these rules carefully before you submit a score. Failure to comply with the rules may result in your score being disqualified. If you're new to the contests, please take a few minutes to read over the rules to make sure you submit your scores correctly. Posting Scores - In order to submit a score for the contest, take a picture of your score with your VGS user name written or typed on a piece of paper, which must be present in the picture. Your VGS user name MUST be in the picture or the score will be invalid and not accepted or considered. - The entire TV screen, or computer monitor if you are playing on an emulator, MUST be in the picture for the score to be valid. No partial screenshots will be considered or accepted. No screenshots by hitting "print screen" on a computer will be allowed. You must take a picture of your computer monitor. There may be instances where this will be acceptable, but it will be at the discretion of the contest organizers. - Old scores from past contests are not acceptable as submissions. You must play the game during the week it has been selected for the contests. Anyone suspected as passing off an old score as a new one will have their score disqualified and asked to resubmit a new one. - 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 edit your initial post with the new photo and score. You can still create a separate new post as a bump to notify you edited your score if desired. Editing your original post makes it much easier for the contest organizers to tally up the scores at the end of the week and also ensures that we don't make a mistake and credit you for the wrong score. - For speed runs contests, we will be requiring video to show your progress time, baring cases were a speed run may take over 1 hour of recording time. Systems - NTSC systems will be the only consoles allowed for the contests. PAL systems and games will not be allowed. There are some PAL games that are optimized to run at the same speed and difficulty as NTSC games. These will be allowed for use in the contests, but you MUST contact contest organizers first before using such a game so that we can investigate it. Failure to contact us first could result in your score being disqualified. Emulators - Emulators ARE allowed to be used in the weekly contests. However, anything that may give a player an advantage with an emulator over playing on the system is NOT allowed. This includes, but is not limited to, save states, Game Genie codes, altered ROMS, and turbo controls. It is preferred if everyone plays on a console. - There may be some weeks where emulator use will not be allowed. If we choose not to use emulators for a specific week, it will be noted in the rules. This means NO emulators can be used whatsoever and the game MUST be played on a console. If we play a game and emulators are forbidden and someone still submits a score using an emulator, the score will be ignored.. PowerPak - A PowerPak IS allowed to be used in the competition with the same regulations as with emulators. You may not use save states, Game Genies codes, altered ROMs or anything else that would give you an advantage over playing with the regular cartridge. Points and Leaderboards - Each week the top 8 players who submitted scores will earn points as follows: 1st - 10 points 2nd - 7 points 3rd - 6 points 4th - 4 points 5th - 2 points Participation - 1 - Anyone who finishes below 5th place will earn 1 participation point. - There will only be 1 regular leaderboard throughout the year, which will lead right up to the tournament. The leaderboard style will be the same as 2022 and all points on the leaderboard will be cumulative. - There will still be genre leaderboards for 2023. The genre for the 2023 contest will be: Action Arcade Beat 'Em Up Puzzle Shooter/Shoot 'Em Up Sports - All games played in the 2023 contests will be reflective of those genres. The genre leaderboards will use the same point system as the regular leaderboard, and whoever finishes atop each leaderboard prior to the start of the year-end tournament will win that genre and will be rewarded with a VGS Charms. - The genre leaderboards are just for fun and will not impact anyone's standing in the tournaments. So, if you feel you excel at Beat 'Em Ups, go for the Beat 'Em Up Charms. - For 2023, we reduced the number of rounds from 5 to 4 to not burnout our players too much. Rules for the games will also focus more on shorter, faster to do runs. Participation Score - There may be instances where the rules of a game will require you to attain a minimum number of points in order to earn participation points for that week. For example, if we play Double Dragon, you may be required to score at least 50,000 to earn participation points toward the leaderboard. Participation scores will be noted in the rules if they will be used for a specific week. In the event we set a participation score, any scores submitted that do not meet the minimum amount of points will be ignored. Controllers - Turbo Controllers are NOT allowed to be used. Neither are any controllers that give you any advantage over regular controllers, such as slow motion or turbo ability. - If anyone is suspected of using turbo functions, slow motion abilities, etc from a controller, your score will be disqualified and you will be banned from further competition. Cheating - Cheating will NOT be tolerated in any form. This contest is based on trust and honor. Anyone found cheating will be banned from further competition. - The use of point glitches to intentionally increase (or in the case of a low score contest, decrease) your score are frowned upon and not allowed in the contests. If a point glitch is discovered that can create an unfair advantage, the rules for the game will be altered to ban the glitch. Anyone suspected of using point glitches will have their score disqualified. - If there is suspicion of a participant cheating, the contest moderators will review the case and the member may be asked to present further evidence of their score. Further evidence includes, but is not limited to, video recordings and/or extra pictures. - If you suspect another participant of cheating, do NOT call them out in the contest threads. Please send a PM to the contest organizers and we will review the score. Posting accusations in the contest threads creates unnecessary drama and stress for all involved and will NOT be tolerated. Sportsmanship and Overall Conduct - Please be a good sport while playing in the weekly contests. While smack talk and the occasional vent are fine, please do not get carried away with it. This includes, but is not limited to, name calling, excessive venting/complaining/whining, excessive profanity, cocky attitudes, arguing with contest moderators, accusations of cheating, cluttering threads with nonsense posts, etc. Participants who cannot be good sports will receive a warning from me. If your overall conduct is still considered to be in poor taste, you will be banned from the contests. - Disrupting of the weekly contests in any way will NOT be tolerated. This includes, but is not limited to, trolling, name calling, unauthorized prize giveaways, unnecessary drama, etc. Anyone who disrupts the weekly contests in any form will be reported to a site moderator. Tournament - There will be one tournament played this year and that will be hosted in a matter of weeks after the end of the regular season. - The number of competitors will be based on how many people participate and will be announced prior to the start of the tournament. - Anyone who earns a spot in the tournament will receive a PM asking for them to confirm their tournament spot prior to the start of the competition. Those who can't or are unwilling to participate will have their spot forfeited to the next available person. RANDOM PRIZES - Random prizes will be given out throughout the year whenever we have a prize to offer. These will be announced at random with no particular dates set in stone. More than likely, anyone who participates in a particular contest will entered into a drawing for a chance to win a prize. These prizes will be video game related in some way. - To make it fair for everyone who plays in the contests, you can only win one random prize for the year. - If anyone is interested in donating prizes to the weekly contests, please contact contest organizers first so arrangements can be made. Do not feel compelled to have to donate to the weekly contests, but if you really want to, feel free to do it. - If anyone wants to give away a prize on their own time for a particular contest, you must contact the contest organizers first to get authorization to do so. Any unauthorized giveaways will NOT be allowed. - In the event you win a prize, whether it be a random drawing or a tournament prize, we will send you a PM requesting your mailing address. When giving your mailing address, please give your full name (first and last name) and not just your first name or VGS user name. We want to ensure you receive your prize quickly and safely. .Once your package leaves our hands and is submitted to the post office, we will be not responsible for any lost, late, misdirected, mutilated, or returned packages. If you are afraid something may happen to your prize, please request insurance. UPCOMING GAMES FOR 2023 26/03/2023 Super Mario Bros Action 02/04/2023 Millipede Arcade 09/04/2023 Mendel Palace Puzzle 16/04/2023 Isolated Warriors Shooter 23/04/2023 Double Dragon 2 Beat'em up 30/04/2023 Ice Hockey Sports 07/05/2023 14/05/2023 Popeye Arcade 21/05/2023 1943 Shooter 28/05/2023 Palamedes Puzzle 04/06/2023 Renegade Beat'em up 11/06/2023 Ninja Gaiden 2 Action 18/06/2023 Ski or Die Sports 25/06/2023 02/07/2023 Solomon's Key Puzzle 09/07/2023 Battletoads Double Dragon Beat'em up 16/07/2023 Mike Tyson's Punch Out Sports 23/07/2023 Legendary Wings Shooter 30/07/2023 Pinball Arcade 06/08/2023 Tiny Toon Adventures Action 13/08/2023 20/08/2023 Guardian Legends Shooter 27/08/2023 Rad Racer Sports 03/09/2023 Yo! Noid Action 10/09/2023 Spy Hunter Arcade 17/09/2023 Yie-Ar Kung Fu Beat'em up 24/09/2023 Dr Mario Puzzle 01/10/2023 08/10/2023 15/10/2023 Tournament NOTE: This list may be revised with or without notice. In the event we are not playing a game for a specific week, it will be noted as such on the schedule. The genre for each game is listed after the game title. Games per Genre: Action Super Mario Bros Ninja Gaiden 2 Tiny Toon Adventures Yo! Noid Arcade Millipede Popeye Pinball Spy Hunter Shooter Isolated Warriors 1943 Legendary Wings Guardian Legends Beat'em up Double Dragon 2 Renegade Battletoads Double Dragon Yie-Ar Kung Fu Puzzle Mendel Palace Palamedes Solomon's Key Dr Mario Sports Ice Hockey Ski or Die Mike Tyson's Punch Out Rad Racer For an example of how the rules will usually go and to allow our players to start practicing, here's the rules for our very first game, Super Mario Bros: Beat World 1 in one life and take your picture at the start of World 2-1 You are only allowed one loop of turtle hoping. You must hop the turtle or beetle till you get the 1up then stop and not repeat it. Anyone caught doing more than one loop of turtle hoping will have their score disqualified. Highest score wins. In case of a score tie, highest amount of coins wins. May this be a grand year of competition and fun!

Sent a line up suggestion to @guillavoie and I am waiting on his input so we settle on it. We will have news for y'all soon. Point distribution will also change due to the participation numbers seen last year.

Sorry for the lack of updates. The mid to the end of January was full of family medical emergencies and I couldn't coordinate everything with @guillavoie We will be starting on March, 26th and this season will only have 4 rounds instead of 5. The list of games will be released in the next week or so.