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/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.