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Final standings posted. All hail the puzzle king @mbd39! He puzzled like no one else in 2023! For the champion, the laurels! And @PII is our 2023 NES VGS WEEKLY CONTEST CHAMPION! HOORAY! He put in a strong run in the last weeks to diminish Gloves massive lead and finally overtook him! Congratulations!

I will update this all tomorrow with all the final results, but... life... huh... finds a way. There is a long path ahead of me, but my dead left hand will no longer be needed after I master this.

Current standings posted. The decisions regarding the championship will be made during this next week. It may not happen in October.

Geral and genre standings posted. @Gloves still retains the 1st position on the geral scoreboard, 3 points ahead of @PII @Bearcat-Doug secured the 2023 Beat'em up crown! Hooray!

Final standings posted. With this result, @Bearcat-Doug is our 2023 Beat'em up champion with 29 points over @PII 24 points!

I don't have that data, so no.

More respect for Lang! She is Chun Li's senior by 7 years!

Rules amended to make it a more suitable challenge for a normal week round.

Sounds like this rule set would be more suited for tournament play. I went for it based on the skill level I saw on Dr. Mario World Championship top 8 streams and videos. I will tune them back down to make it more palatable for a normal round.

You can only start at level 20. When I decided to change from 30 to 26, I edited the level at the wrong places. It is too hot here for me to think properly. So you're playing levels 20, 21, 22, 23, 24 and 25.

Fixed it. I was considering level 30, but settled for level 26 to allow for more runs and less time lost by resetting if one gets a poor field to start.

After we finish this season, I will put all my excel file results into a database so I can consolidate data about our players performance through my tenure as the organizer of the VGS NES Weekly Contest, alongside with @guillavoie It will be fun to remember champions of the recent past and elevate our current champions with their mighty results!

1st PII 127,600 2nd mbd39 111,400 3rd BlackVega 107,200 4th Gloves 95,800 5th G-type 93,400 6th NESfiend 77,200 7th SuperJimtendo 22,000

LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, welcome to the final week of our 2023 VGS NES WEEKLY CONTEST! A week that will define CHAMPIONS! The puzzle genre and the Geral championship are up for grabs this week! This' a week where our players will have to show that they have true grit to conquer the virus at DR MARIO! Here are the rules: Play on virus level 10. Play on speed medium Play till level 16 or till you game over, whichever happens first Take your picture at the start of level 16 or at the game over screen You have very little time to take your picture at the start level 16. You can pause and prepare to take your picture. If there is at most two pills in the field, the picture will be accepted. Highest score wins Genre: Puzzle The puzzle genre standings have @Glovessitting in 1st with 20 points, @mbd39 and @Dr. Morbis tied in 2nd with 19 points. Only the victory matters for these three valiant players! May the most puzzled one win! The contest ends Sunday, 10/01/23 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. Regarding the tournament, we will discuss if we will postpone it for the start of the year or how we will proceed. All I can state for sure at this point is that the rules there will follow what I have been doing lately. Focusing on shorter runs to allow people with limited time to play and manage to be competitive.

Geral and genre scoreboards updated. @PII is our 2023 VGS NES Weekly Contest Arcade champion. The arcade competition was fiery, with several players reaching the last week with a shoot for the title! @Gloves is still top 1 in the Geral leaderboard, with a 7 points lead over @PII. @Bearcat-Doug comes third with 94 points.

Final standings posted. With this result @PII secures the 2023 VGS NES Weekly Contest Arcade championship with 22 points, over @Gloves and @Bearcat-Doug 17 points. @wongojackdebuts in the VGS NES Weekly Contest with a very solid 3rd place!

Planning for the tournament has begun.

Exactly. I am allowing you all to do it. Just don't overdo the point pressing on those fighters.

A 5 fireball limit means a set amount of points. A timer limit forces one to consider how many fireballs they can hit in that time span and still beat the opponent.

I am trusting the honour code here. It is either that or "Your run ends if you hit a fireball or star for points". Allowing some point pressing there can allow the winner to best optimize it.

Added a rule that you have 1 full minute to beat Tao, so some point pressing will be allowed at stages 2, 7 and 12.

Someone may have a cart with it, sadly, so outright banning it would be a problem. I put in a ruleset to try to disallow that glitch. If that makes rev 1.2 players to have a disadvantage for not being able to use the flying kick, then so be it.

Yes, 3 loops.

1st PII 137,800 2nd Bearcat-Doug 123,100 3rd Gloves 110,900 4th BlackVega 63,100 5th SuperJimtendo 23,400 6th G-type 21,100