Merry Christmas - MA date announced

[innerSpaceman]

I'm afraid to look.

[katiesue]

It's not as bad as you think - tied for 20th.

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[belleh5]

It's offical we suck!! 30th place. I hate the heat!! Zapp & I will not be playing until Fall 2010.

[Bornieo: Fully Loaded]

Awww, we got 11th this year.

[Ghoulish Delight]

How many points was the chemistry one worth? We got it right, but apparently we were supposed to write the ride that the unscrambled phrase (toadi accelerato) referred to, not the phrase itself, so we didn't get the points for it. And since we weren't playing for keeps anyway, I have no qualms giving myself those theoretical points on that technicality. And had we not beaten the staff to TSI and managed to get the full 70 points early, rather than the consolation 30 points since the island closed...hell, I think that would have put us in 3rd place range, or there abouts! Wow, I feel a LOT better.

[innerSpaceman]

Originally Posted by Ghoulish Delight

had we not beaten the staff to TSI and managed to get the full 70 ... And since we weren't playing for keeps anyway, I have no qualms giving myself those theoretical points on that technicality.

And I have no qualms about awarding our team the same 70 points, since we didn't bother with the very last bit of the quest when they closed the island while we were rafting away from it. Going by MouseAdventure tradition which has burned my team twice in the past, we felt secure in our belief that full points for the quest would be awarded to every team ... and so we stopped wasting valuable time (we'd already spent more than half an hour on the Island).

Don't get me wrong, I'd rather MA award just half points for such closures or mishaps. But that's not what they've done in the past. And we've never been one of the teams to benefit from a quest we didn't attempt, but rather were always the team burned who got no point benefit for quests we spent significant time in getting right.

[Ghoulish Delight]

Originally Posted by innerSpaceman

but rather were always the team burned who got no point benefit for quests we spent significant time in getting right.

I'm still annoyed that you could just be handed the answer to that math one. I worked my butt off to get that right.

[katiesue]

Chemistry was 50 points.
TSI was 60 points. (which we got right which kind of sucked cause we wasted an hour for a net 30 points).

[Ghoulish Delight]

Wow, so with the theoretical points we would have been in 4th (3rd highest score). Even keeping the mental-mistake points off and just adding the 30 from TSI we rightly should have received, would have had us in 7th. I'll take a top 10.

[swanie]

Well, our sucking was equal-opportunity sucking...we each managed to goof up a big point quest. Of course we had everything we really needed to finish all of them.

I "missed" a rule in the Haunted Mansion quest, then we missed a "K" in writing down a word set in Frontierland, and then we mis-read the directions on the Fantasyland Chemistry quest. I feel better that none of them were beyond our abilities but we just didn't execute them.

That would have been 170 points right there, and add that with the net 30 points on the Island quest and it is a huge difference. Without the silly mistakes we would have been 3rd.

But, alas...we screwed up this one.

swanie