Race to a Billion

[大見解]

topic change saved you. I was gonna call you a hypocrite, based off of your post in the denouement signup thread.

[999_Springs]

Less than fifteen minutes of Saturday remaining. Heh, last-minute dash.

After working out who's still active and semi-active and inactive and bombed out and unavailable, random.org made three choices from five available players for Round 20, in addition to bhz for winning Round 19. We have:

- ChrisE
- ENT474
- Pikman
- bhz

And the blammo gets placed by me because I was the last to be actually bombed out. Which means I'm going to place it in the most evil place possible to ruin your future financial careers.

There are going to be some new squares in this round... just watch this space.

Oh, and I mentioned this earlier, but anyway. I'm going to take revenge on you this round by filling the board with a very large number of non-orientation-preserving squares to mess with your weak minds. Especially Pikman. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED.

Go.

[ENT474]

Why do I have to suffer? What did I do?

[999_Springs]

Nothing. Blame Pikman and all his evil antics in Round 19, not me.

Also, you still owe me a PM.

[999_Springs]

I withdraw. I'm lame.

29403 replaces ChrisE for this round. (Sorry Daik, random.org doesn't like you.)

[大見解]

ah well. at least i'm not getting revenge taken on.

although you can't blame me for getting out of blur. I wasn't even in the hs competition.

[999_Springs]

Daik: No idea what you mean. I'm still in BLUR. (Even though vankusss doesn't like it.)






Board's the right way up for now. But not for long.

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<    Player     > <      Money      > <AVx> <  This Round   > <   Rank   >
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<29403          > <£   -762,319.2398> <  1> <£          0.00> < 3rd->16th>
<ENT474         > <£    143,000.00  > <  1> <£          0.00> < 9th->10th>
<Pikman         > <£  1,794,850.00  > <  1> <£          0.00> <       6th>
<bhz            > <£    536,048.00  > <  2> <£          0.00> <       8th>

First pick starts game.

[ENT474]

Numbur 24

[Pikman]

I'll take 12 after him.

[bhz]

Reserve 2...

[999_Springs]

ENT474 picked square 24.

Guess what happened. Go on, guess. Look at the board below for a hint.



Pikman picked 12.

Oh wow, here's a new one! I bet you didn't expect this coming...



bhz picked 2.

Well, well. What have we here?



Looks like imgnook is quite good. A little slow, but otherwise I don't see any problems.

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<    Player     > <      Money      > <AVx> <  This Round   > <   Rank   >
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
<29403          > <£   -762,319.2398> <  1> <£          0.00> < 3rd->16th>
<ENT474         > <£    143,000.00  > <  1> <£          0.00> < 9th->10th>
<Pikman         > <£  1,794,850.00  > <  1> <£          0.00> <       6th>
<bhz            > <£    536,048.00  > <  2> <£          0.00> <       8th>

CTRL+ALT+DOWN ACTIVATED - DEACTIVATED
CTRL+ALT+LEFT ACTIVATED - DEACTIVATED
CTRL+ALT+DOWN ACTIVATED

[29403]

Excellent.

11

[999_Springs]

Well well well. What have we here? Square 11.



*Insert silly noises here*

What was behind the blammo?


Oh, a normal square for once. But anyway.

Here you go.

[upside-down]

[/upside-down]

Pick the one that'll lead you to your doom.

edit: FUCK YOU IMGNOOK.

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<    Player     > <      Money      > <AVx> <  This Round   > <   Rank   >
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
<29403          > <£   -762,319.2398> <  1> <£          0.00> < 3rd->16th> BLAMMO!!!
<ENT474         > <£    143,000.00  > <  1> <£          0.00> < 9th->10th>
<Pikman         > <£  1,794,850.00  > <  1> <£          0.00> <       6th>
<bhz            > <£    536,048.00  > <  2> <£          0.00> <       8th>

CTRL+ALT+DOWN ACTIVATED - DEACTIVATED
CTRL+ALT+LEFT ACTIVATED - DEACTIVATED
CTRL+ALT+DOWN ACTIVATED

[29403]

All those buttons look mighty nice but I'm just gonna have to go with Bark in the Dark.

[999_Springs]

[upside-down]


[/upside-down]

... Wow.

29403 is out. Again.

edit: FUCK YOU IMGNOOK.

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<    Player     > <      Money      > <AVx> <  This Round   > <   Rank   >
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
<29403          > <£   -812,319.2398> <  1> <£    -50,000.00> < 3rd->16th> BLAMMO BOMBED
<ENT474         > <£    143,000.00  > <  1> <£          0.00> < 9th->10th>
<Pikman         > <£  1,794,850.00  > <  1> <£          0.00> <       6th>
<bhz            > <£    536,048.00  > <  2> <£          0.00> <       8th>

CTRL+ALT+DOWN ACTIVATED - DEACTIVATED
CTRL+ALT+LEFT ACTIVATED - DEACTIVATED
CTRL+ALT+DOWN ACTIVATED

[ENT474]

Ohwowno.

9zoz

[999_Springs]

Square 9...

Wow congratulations. You managed to make the board go the right way up again. *applause*

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<    Player     > <      Money      > <AVx> <  This Round   > <   Rank   >
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<29403          > <£   -812,319.2398> <  1> <£    -50,000.00> < 3rd->16th> BLAMMO BOMBED
<ENT474         > <£    143,000.00  > <  1> <£          0.00> < 9th->10th>
<Pikman         > <£  1,794,850.00  > <  1> <£          0.00> <       6th>
<bhz            > <£    536,048.00  > <  2> <£          0.00> <       8th>

CTRL+ALT+DOWN ACTIVATED - DEACTIVATED
CTRL+ALT+LEFT ACTIVATED - DEACTIVATED
CTRL+ALT+DOWN ACTIVATED - DEACTIVATED

[Pikman]

Silly board-switching squares. I'll go with square 3.

[29403]

You gotta admit they're fun but making squares for it -'s my free time |:/

Blast it, I always lose

[999_Springs]

Square 3.



Wait, WHAT

I swear I didn't intend this to happen. YOU'RE AHEAD OF ME NOW DAMMIT!! GAHRAGRAGHRGH!!!2

I'm sooooo tempted to deduct money off your score because you linked me to an image hosting site that isn't actually working now so I can't see any previous boards in this thread at the moment. Grrr.

[tinypic]

[/tinypic]

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<    Player     > <      Money      > <AVx> <  This Round   > <   Rank   >
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<29403          > <£   -812,319.2398> <  1> <£    -50,000.00> < 3rd->16th> BLAMMO BOMBED
<ENT474         > <£    143,000.00  > <  1> <£          0.00> < 9th->10th>
<Pikman         > <£  2,044,850.00  > <  1> <£    250,000.00> <       5th> Damn you and your silly image-hosting sites that DON'T WORK.
<bhz            > <£    536,048.00  > <  2> <£          0.00> <       8th>

CTRL+ALT+DOWN ACTIVATED - DEACTIVATED
CTRL+ALT+LEFT ACTIVATED - DEACTIVATED
CTRL+ALT+DOWN ACTIVATED - DEACTIVATED
IMGNOOK DEACTIVATED

[Pikman]

So imgnook was down for 24 hours. Big deal. Looking at the past month, that's much better uptime than imageshack's servers. Also, anything uploaded on Oct. 16 and 17 got deleted, according to the same statistics. The uploader is fine now.

Yay for getting the first actual square?

[bhz]

18?

[999_Springs]

So imgnook was down for 24 hours. Big deal. Looking at the past month, that's much better uptime than imageshack's servers. Also, anything uploaded on Oct. 16 and 17 got deleted, according to the same statistics. The uploader is fine now.

Erm, if it's down for 1 day and it deleted everything I uploaded in the past 2 days then that's probably even worse than being down for 3 days. A quick Google search suggests it was down on the 5th, too. So yeah, this imgnook thing isn't up to required standards.

Square 18.



Yes, it's one of the new squares and it's called ZAP. And what does it do?

*checks notes*

Oh, it's meant to reset your "This Round" value to zero. But it's already zero. Whatever. I should've used it on Pikman.

Oh and I almost forgot. The "Zap" square also has the unfortunate effect of changing your name to "Zap" for the rest of the round. So from now on bhz will be called "Zap" until the round's over.

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<    Player     > <      Money      > <AVx> <  This Round   > <   Rank   >
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
<29403          > <£   -812,319.2398> <  1> <£    -50,000.00> < 3rd->16th> BLAMMO BOMBED
<ENT474         > <£    143,000.00  > <  1> <£          0.00> < 9th->10th>
<Pikman         > <£  2,044,850.00  > <  1> <£    250,000.00> <       5th> IMGNOOK = FAIL
<Zap            > <£    536,048.00  > <  2> <£          0.00> <       8th>

CTRL+ALT+DOWN ACTIVATED - DEACTIVATED
CTRL+ALT+LEFT ACTIVATED - DEACTIVATED
CTRL+ALT+DOWN ACTIVATED - DEACTIVATED
IMGNOOK *PERMANENTLY* DEACTIVATED
ZAP ACTIVATED

[ENT474]

14+0

[29403]

God you have an unhealthy obsession with that word