Doesn't look like I'll be able to take the gray.
Which I noticed a day or two ago, why am I not on the grey leaderboard, but I'm on the overall?

thing1 : You won the Gray Banner the last TdV. The system malfunctioned a bit as it didn't have you registered as winning it (and it can only be won once I'm pretty sure). 

I managed to get 23 points yesterday, which was huge for me. By picking up the two 7-pointers in the final 10 minutes or so I was able to bring my average needed over the remaining 3 days down to 13.67 points per day, as others have mentioned. Basically I need 14 points two of the days, and 13 points one of the days. Very doable, and at this point I will consider it a pretty embarrassing failure if I don't break 500.

Furret : No, I think it's that you can't win it back to back.
I had no idea that I had won it last go around. Well, at least I can say I'll probably try to keep my streak of top 10 finishes alive, and onto 3, and 4 of the last 5.

I'm going to start working a "History of the TdV" page. I think that would be an interesting project.

Update: By picking up 18 points yesterday, I now only need to average 11.5 points per day over the last 2 days to reach 500. I could potentially do it tomorrow, if I can get a couple of 7-pointers and get 23 total points.

Also, some more information worth noting. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe the current points record is help by Yuna1000, when she reached 492 points in Spring 2017. I am definitely on track to break that record, but many have pointed out that I have one extra day to work with. However, if I get 15 points today I can tie the record in the same amount of days, and if I get 16 points today I can break it in the same number of days. I'd be very happy if I could do this, because then I wouldn't have to deal with the "it doesn't count because 31 days" argument

Well I broke 400 and officially secured Red, so a great day in general. After today I'll have officially secured Green as well which makes the Gray and White banners the only things still up for grabs. And realistically speaking it looks like Gray will be secured after today as well.

Will a new person show up to claim white last second or will this be the third TdV without a White banner winner.

01-29-19 Results

Yellow Jersey
tgags123 : 1240 (1)
Furret : 1108 (2)
Light Knight : 724 (3)
thing1 : 569 (4)
gamerforlifeforever : 503 (5)

Blue Jersey
tgags123 : 30 (1)
Furret : 27 (2)
gamerforlifeforever : 17 (3)
thing1 : 16 (4)
SacredShadow : 6 (5)

Red Jersey
Furret : 213 (1)
tgags123 : 134 (2)
Yuna1000 : 91 (3)
deggle : 52 (4)
no 8120 : 47 (5)

Green Jersey
Furret : 193 (1)
tgags123 : 157 (2)
Yuna1000 : 148 (3)
no 8120 : 42 (4)
thing1 : 33 (5)


Monthly Results

Yellow Jersey
1. tgags123 : 129
2. Furret : 81
3. zanderlex: 39
4. Lexatom: 25
5. Sonicmcmuffin: 24

Blue Jersey
1. tgags123 : 130
2. Furret : 88
3. zanderlex: 51
4. thing1 : 33
5. Lexatom: 32

Red Jersey
1. Furret : 125
2. tgags123 : 104
3. zanderlex: 36
4. Yuna1000 : 35
5. Lexatom: 24

Green Jersey
1. Furret : 122
2. tgags123 : 114
3. Yuna1000 : 38
4. no 8120 : 37
5. zanderlex: 28


Monthly Overall Results

All Users
1. tgags123 : 477
2. Furret : 416
3. zanderlex: 154
4. Lexatom: 98
5. Yuna1000 : 73
6. Sonicmcmuffin: 67
7. no 8120 : 59
8. thing1 : 53
9. gamerforlifeforever : 52
10. Barathemos: 44

New Users
(no one has placed yet)

Veteran Users
1. Sonicmcmuffin: 67
2. geeogree: 35
3. yoshirulez!: 18
4. NovemberJoy: 12
5. tyranit: 12
6. deggle : 9
7. Light Knight : 8
8. Minuano: 6
9. Maguc: 3
10. mlb789: 3

Today's Double CP Action is Thread.



The end is near.

Everything is clinched, except for green, which Furret can clich with 6 (or 7, not sure who would get the tie breaker) points over the next 2 days, if tgags managed to get 7 pointers both days.

Well done, everybody.

I mean, I guess the top 10 isn't concrete yet, but still, all the major stuff is.

Well, I think I'm going to try and get to the 9,500 post mark today. Hopefully that would be enough for me to get my 50th blue jersey.

Oh shoot, I was so focused on my quest for 500 points and breaking Yuna's record that I didn't even realize I clinched the Rainbow Banner. That's pretty cool I suppose lol. First time I've won it, and unlike in 2014, a latecomer wasn't able to steal it from me in the final days of the competition

Ugh, I keep forgetting that I'm extremely limited on places I can post now... Well, I hope I can figure something out at least for tonight.

gamerforlifeforever : Join the club dude lol. Me and Furret can tell you all about it.

tgags123 : You know what, I'm not motivated enough to keep posting like this with such limited threads. You win for the night. I've met 1 half of my goal for the night anyways.

gamerforlifeforever : Yeah man, I know the feeling. Congrats on 9500 posts! 10K is so close!

tgags123 : Mathematically, you are the winner of this month's TdV, Furret could get the maximum 28 points and you don't have to score a single point, and you'll still end up winning this month's TdV, but knowing you, just winning TdV isn't enough, your mindset is that 500. I know you'll do it at the end,

As for a "latecomer", Furret almost pulled that same trick on you this month, but after you learned from Summer 2014, you're not playing that game again lol

IgorBird122 : I lost my chance at the title the moment zanderlex stopped competing the same day I had an off day due to an exam. I needed them to split the points in Yellow/Blue while I could dominate Red and get 7 pointers in Green for me to really catch up. I still came fairly close despite of that.

Also I woke up to compete the last 2 hours because I figured competition had died down enough, but here is Yuna at 300 CP and actions lol. Not much I can do about that anymore so I'll let her have those jerseys, she's been working hard the past week or so and I often ended up having to pass her in the last hour (something I really hate doing).

That said, her being so dominant does mean that I've practically secured Green as there's no way I can see tgags catch up with her.

Yuna1000 : I do want to add that the first half of this month really was difficult. There were so many days where you'd have 2 or 3 users go all the way up to 130 ish posts to even score a Blue jersey, and up until that point nobody was really dominating the CP jerseys day in and day out like in the past (users like Ferdinand, no 8120, even yourself).

2017 was also a way more post friendly time, even without the forum game threads that are being allowed in this one. 2018 was the lowest point in Vizzed history and going into this TdV everyone would've been burned out from posting like 5 days in and would have to scavenge the depths of the forums to get a few posts in. There are just not enough threads right now for things to really get competitive.

The second half of the month as been all tgags and myself, but that's probably because nobody at that point would've been able to catch us anymore.

Yuna1000 : Just meant that you were bumping me down from my usually 2nd place for red and green to 3rd place by doing a lot of actions.

I wasn't around from 2010 to 2012, where I imagine the TdVs were rather difficult, but I competed in 2013 and 2014, when the TdV was far more difficult than it has ever been since then.

When I said that this TdV was more difficult than the one you won, that was back on the 15th of the month, before the activity started to die. We had numerous days where multiple people broke 100 posts, submitted two or three reviews in a day, posted massive walkthroughs, and so on. When I posted it, this TdV was undoubtedly the hardest TdV since 2014/2015ish. Since that post, the activity has dropped dramatically, and it has basically just been a battle between me and Furret. However, I'd still say it is more difficult than Spring 2017.

Looking at the results from that Tour de Vizzed, I could've picked up 7-pointers in blue pretty much every day. Most days the blue jersey winner didn't even have 15 posts. I also could've won the yellow jersey almost every day. Sure, the red and green were harder because of the cheating, but without his participation, the competition would have been a joke. It would have been like if Furret was missing from this TdV. I could have 7-pointers in at least 2 jerseys every day. So yes, it's annoying that you had to deal with that. Yes, you would have had more points if he didn't cheat. Yes, the competition has gotten easier since I made that post. But to say that a Tour de Vizzed where you could consistently win the blue jersey with 15 posts is more competitive or difficult than this one because you lost some points to a cheater is just not true. Also, it is nearly impossible for me to do more than 300 CP actions in a day because of lower daily limits and lack of staff actions.

We both had things going for us and against us, making it easier or harder for us. There's really no point in talking hypotheticals like this. There are tons of "what ifs" on both sides. "What if you didn't have to deal with a cheater? What if I had higher daily limits and more actions available like you did? What if you had to deal with this competition, and I had to deal with the Spring 2017 competition? What if certain threads were open or closed?" The results would undoubtedly be different depending on those what ifs, but there's no way of knowing how they would be different. I'd also like to add that the addition of 7-pointers completely screwed over all of those that won the TdV before they existed.

I understand what you are saying, but I don't agree with your conclusion. Each Tour de Vizzed competition is very different from the last. Because of that, comparing them isn't always fair. But that doesn't make one record more or less legitimate than the other, because there's no way of knowing how things would have changed if scenarios were different, or if roles were reversed.

I don't mean any offense by this post obviously, so I hope you don't take it that way. I'm also not trying to get into a petty argument about a not-that-important record or anything. Just trying to counter some of the things you said, because I don't necessarily agree with them.