Posts from regarding the collection of skeletons in "Mr. Skelet Revenge".

P.S. I think point 6 of the tournament rules doesn't apply to this tournament and was included here by mistake...

I would like to express my gratitude to Alan for organizing the tournament and to Kyle for creating an interesting map with a smiling, furry creature with spiky hair in the Dungeon!

It's unlikely that the tournament organizers will allow this. In this case, we might not receive saves from many participants at all. Or everyone will send their saves on the very last day.

Why did you come to that conclusion??? Hmm... the fact that the save is submitted earlier or later doesn't change anything...
Let's say a person sees in the table that someone already has a preliminary first place... but they don't know how many skeletons that person has. So, that person (who saw the preliminary results) sends their save, it doesn't matter when (immediately or at the end of the tournament). If they have more skeletons, they will take that first place, and if not, they won't. I don't see any connection between the time the save is sent and the preliminary result.

Well, personally, I'm not against the option you're suggesting – try to convince the organizers, maybe it will work.

This requires spending extra time, not just downloading the save, but immediately checking it and editing the topic...

Then there are recognized strong players (let's say, not just in skeletons, but in general for the 3rd game) and if one of them sends their save early and everyone sees that they are in first place, then many will simply say that "it's already clear, I won't waste my time." Accordingly, the number of final saves decreases.

Again, now I can check saves in batches of 4-6, but if I receive 20+ saves on the last day...

Finished the Walkthrough. Tomorrow, if I have time, I will check everything and send the final save. Well, hold on, rivals!!!:)

Let's get back to the pressing issue... I would like to see, after the organizers accept Dmitry_A_S's save, what my result is in relation to Dmitry_A_S (at least based on the preliminary results), and then I could draw conclusions about who I should strive to emulate.

Let's say Dmitry_A_S's result is higher than yours: you see that you lost, and that's it... there's nothing more you can do, because only one save is accepted from each player in the tournament... I hope I explained it clearly.
Sincerely.

Let me explain why: for example, looking at the preliminary results, I see that Dmitry_A_S has a higher score (preliminary ranking), and let's say it's 4 points higher. Therefore, I think he collected N skeletons, while I collected M skeletons. Then, seeing these results, I, purely out of sporting interest, replay the map and collect K skeletons. After finishing, I eagerly await the exact number of skeletons Dmitry_A_S collected (let's say it's A skeletons), and then I compare K and A to see how close I got to Dmitry_A_S's result, and that's where conclusions can be drawn. This is roughly how the intrigue of a competition between players can develop during a tournament.

I would like to suggest that you add preliminary tournament results to the registration table (in the last column after the nickname), i.e., the current ranking of the person who submitted the save. And that you update these results as saves are received...

Yes, but at the same time, after significantly improving their Walkthrough, a player might want to send their save instead of the first one... since there have already been such instances on our portal, conflicts might arise, such as: "But you accepted the second save from that player, and you don't want to accept mine..." - and we don't need such conflicts... we have enough of our own. ;)
Regarding improving their result out of curiosity, this can be done even after the tournament ends... if they want to...

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The idea itself is interesting in principle, but only if you can send an unlimited number of saves... but if this rule is introduced, you can imagine how much the workload on the host will increase... I don't think any host would agree to that...
Sincerely.