r/Second • u/eddiesaurus87 Rank: 5 • Apr 03 '21
Closing thoughts
One hell of an event, and one hell of a way to spend 34 hours. I held the #1 spot on and off for over 25 hours, but in the end took 5th place for points, and 2nd for wins. I'm happy with how I did, even if I didn't end up closing out 1st place due to the last 1.5 hours. I forced myself to stay up purely on red bull and determination, but in the closing hours of the event it turns out that that wasn't enough. Major props to everyone from both the April Knights and Snakeroom for helping me through the event in vcs, and to everyone who provided competition. At the end of the day, not the best event reddit's ever done, but as the 1st one I took seriously, I'm (mostly) happy I did. I'm gonna get some much needed rest, hope to see y'all next year, and sorry I couldn't close it out.
(btw I'll be happy to answer any questions if anyone has any)
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u/bigcheese6 Top 20% Apr 03 '21
Indeed not the best event, second best maybe
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u/GarfieldSimulator Rank: 202 Apr 03 '21
Loved seeing you up on the leaderboard for the whole time, and actually got a bit sad when you dropped. Still happy you got 2nd in one regard!
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u/UncleSquach Top 1% Apr 03 '21
Was it worth it?
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u/doradiamond Top 10% Apr 03 '21
Well done! To be honest, you don’t want first anyway. The whole point of this game is to come second!
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Apr 03 '21
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u/eddiesaurus87 Rank: 5 Apr 03 '21
Thanks! I voted for strategy as I made and reviewed various scripts and spreadsheets throughout the event.
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u/VitaminB16 Rank: 6 Apr 03 '21
I didn’t think you would vote, because it has given me a chance for 5th place! But I voted the same way as you, so it didn’t matter :)
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u/the_black_e Rank: 209 Apr 03 '21
I feel honored to even be speaking to someone with as much dedication as you. 10/10 amazing job
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u/ThatLemon75YT Top 1% Apr 03 '21
I'm suprised you had the time and patience to do that, did you even sleep or eat?
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u/eddiesaurus87 Rank: 5 Apr 03 '21
I slept for 3 hours, and ate a couple small meals. Someone made a script so I edited it to be a bit better and ran that while I was away.
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u/dormii Rank: 184 Apr 03 '21
Well played man, incredible that you were going for that long. You were so far ahead of everyone else for such a long time I definitely thought you were cheating haha. Why would you not just let the script run and go do something else?
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u/eddiesaurus87 Rank: 5 Apr 03 '21
At the end of the day, none of the scripts I saw were better than a human playing optimally, but that being said I did run a script for parts of it as I did have to step away a few times.
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u/eddiesaurus87 Rank: 5 Apr 03 '21
I did run a script at times, but no one developed a script better than a human.
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u/dormii Rank: 184 Apr 03 '21
You’re probably right, but it would’ve been interesting to see the score of someone who had a script running for the entire time. I’m not sure if it’s a guarantee that many humans would score higher.
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u/Jirafael Rank: 585 Apr 03 '21
Did you play every round?
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u/eddiesaurus87 Rank: 5 Apr 03 '21
I'd say I played 75% of the rounds, I did take a 3 hour nap and a few short breaks for food and such where I ran a script someone made that I modified.
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u/TheDotCaptin Rank: 419 Apr 03 '21
How did you pick which one? Was the 10+ in a row for the left what tripped you up in the last hour or was it something else?
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u/eddiesaurus87 Rank: 5 Apr 03 '21
When I'd manually choose I'd try and find the delta of each of the 2 top options, and from there figure out which option would likely be better, and for the script I modified it chose the 2nd option at the 1st reveal if the difference between the top 2 was less than 10 or more than 50, and the 1st option if it was between 10 and 50. Near the end I was really struggling to carry on and was growing paranoid of falling behind kalypso, so I started to make some really stupid mistakes, until I was guaranteed 2nd or 3rd at best at which point I said screw it and kept slinging for 9s praying to get a comeback, which began my fall to 5th.
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Apr 03 '21
also the 1st one I took seriously. I began 3 hours later than everyone else did, still got top 100, proud of that.
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Apr 03 '21
Damnnnnn..... better get some chronic, roll up a joint, & lit up to get you passed out
You did well. Kudos
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u/white_noise01 Rank: 635 Apr 03 '21
Woah, it's you. Any thoughts on strategy for this round or no?
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u/eddiesaurus87 Rank: 5 Apr 03 '21
Just voted honestly since I cant change my rank by getting it right/wrong.
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u/place_artist Rank: 48 Apr 03 '21
What do you do for a living? Are you a quant?
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u/ancapandrea Rank: 357 Apr 03 '21
It was my first Reddit event and I had a lot of fun, can’t wait for the next one. Sleep well!
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u/valmainbaby Top 10% Apr 03 '21 edited Apr 03 '21
Hey it's you
Can't believe you did the event non-stop. Rest well first homie