/dev/null/nethack tournament - Revision history

Ardub23: /* Challenges */ Fixed misspelling

2024-07-21T06:26:48Z

‎Challenges: Fixed misspelling

Furey: Delete interior links into nethack.devnull.net. Mark the sitename as nowiki. Former site owner took some privacy steps, and I am respecting that.

2024-06-15T02:27:15Z

Delete interior links into nethack.devnull.net. Mark the sitename as nowiki. Former site owner took some privacy steps, and I am respecting that.

Furey: /* External links */ delete devnull.net links. archive.org says they were excluded, which probably means the site owner wants some privacy. i respect that.

2024-06-15T02:21:28Z

‎External links: delete devnull.net links. archive.org says they were excluded, which probably means the site owner wants some privacy. i respect that.

Furey: /* External links */ http -> https. update mandevil link.

2024-06-15T02:20:31Z

‎External links: http -> https. update mandevil link.

Umbire the Phantom: pothole

2024-05-22T13:44:23Z

pothole

Umbire the Phantom: lede

2023-06-20T21:46:42Z

lede

Umbire the Phantom: lede

2023-06-20T21:46:11Z

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K2: /* Results */ fix link to the NetHack Scoreboard

2022-11-30T18:12:00Z

‎Results: fix link to the NetHack Scoreboard

Umbire the Phantom at 20:29, 17 September 2021

2021-09-17T20:29:50Z

Ais523: mention TNNT

2019-06-13T23:29:27Z

mention TNNT

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 |2012
 |The Pool Challenge
-|Contributed by Nathaniel Waisbrot, requires the player to solve a life-size pool game using boulders and a pool queue before being able to push boulders around
+|Contributed by Nathaniel Waisbrot, requires the player to solve a life-size pool game using boulders and a pool cue before being able to push boulders around
 |-
 |2015

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-The '''/dev/null/nethack tournament''', also known as the '''devnull tournament''', was the second longest running gaming tournament on the Internet, having run every November since 1999.<ref>The first is Myth World Cup which began in 1998.</ref> The tournament's main website was at http://nethack.devnull.net. It ran from midnight Pacific Time (PDT with the new extended Daylight Savings Time in the USA), 1 November (Halloween night) until midnight PT, 1 December.
+The '''/dev/null/nethack tournament''', also known as the '''devnull tournament''', was the second longest running gaming tournament on the Internet, having run every November since 1999.<ref>The first is Myth World Cup which began in 1998.</ref> The tournament's main website was at <nowiki>http://nethack.devnull.net</nowiki>. It ran from midnight Pacific Time (PDT with the new extended Daylight Savings Time in the USA), 1 November (Halloween night) until midnight PT, 1 December.
 During this time, players competed for a wide range of trophies ranging from simple stars for reaching in-game goals shy of ascension to trophies for impressive multi-ascension feats.
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 ==Results==
-The official scoreboard was hosted [http://nethack.devnull.net/tournament/scoreboard.shtml on the tournament site]. The archives are incomplete, not covering any tournaments past 2008.
+The official scoreboard was hosted on the tournament site. The archives are incomplete, not covering any tournaments past 2008.
 To address this and other problems with the official website, unofficial scoreboards have been created:
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 Challenges are triggered by some action within NetHack. Upon the trigger, you may either accept the challenge, decline it for the current game, or ignore it permanently. If you accept, you are bound by the rules of the challenge until you complete it or choose to permanently ignore it via the tournament website. Challenges make NetHack harder in some way associated with the trigger until they are completed.
-The tournament web site distributes a [[patch]] that adds the challenges to the game so that you may practice at home (or [[spoiler|spoil]] the challenges). The current tournament patch as well as the server kit that they use are available for download at http://nethack.devnull.net/software/index.shtml#patch.
+The tournament web site distributes a [[patch]] that adds the challenges to the game so that you may practice at home (or [[spoiler|spoil]] the challenges).
 {|class="prettytable striped"
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 |For the very dedicated rogue-like gamer, this Challenge requires the player to complete a game of ZAPM before being allowed to wish
-This Challenge has its own scoreboard, the trophies for which can be viewed (by players who have accepted the Challenge) [http://nethack.devnull.net/tournament/ztrophies.shtml here].
+This Challenge has its own scoreboard.
 |-
 |2009

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 * [https://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.roguelike.nethack/msg/fc05c7aa49fa17a2 /dev/null/nethack Tournament 2007 Announcement]
 * [https://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.roguelike.nethack/msg/16fb560648f90d67 /dev/null/nethack Tournament 2007 Wrap-up]
 * [https://voyager.lupomesky.cz/nh/devnull/years.html Mandevil's tables of devnull tournament statistics from 2005 to 2014]
 {{featured}}
 [[Category:Patches]]
 [[Category:Tournaments]]

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 ==External links==
-* [http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.roguelike.nethack/msg/88d4a358cbc80d67 /dev/null/nethack Tournament 2006 Announcement]
+* [https://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.roguelike.nethack/msg/88d4a358cbc80d67 /dev/null/nethack Tournament 2006 Announcement]
-* [http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.roguelike.nethack/msg/fc05c7aa49fa17a2 /dev/null/nethack Tournament 2007 Announcement]
+* [https://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.roguelike.nethack/msg/fc05c7aa49fa17a2 /dev/null/nethack Tournament 2007 Announcement]
-* [http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.roguelike.nethack/msg/16fb560648f90d67 /dev/null/nethack Tournament 2007 Wrap-up]
+* [https://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.roguelike.nethack/msg/16fb560648f90d67 /dev/null/nethack Tournament 2007 Wrap-up]
 * [http://nethack.devnull.net/archive/2007/standings.shtml /dev/null/nethack Tournament 2007 final standings]
 * [http://nethack.devnull.net/archive/2008/standings.shtml /dev/null/nethack Tournament 2008 final standings]
-* [http://voyager.lupomesky.cz/devnull/ Mandevil's tables of devnull tournament statistics from 2005 to 2013]
+* [https://voyager.lupomesky.cz/nh/devnull/years.html Mandevil's tables of devnull tournament statistics from 2005 to 2014]
 {{featured}}
 [[Category:Patches]]
 [[Category:Tournaments]]

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 In the challenge level, players had three "lives"; being attacked by any of Blinky, Inky, Pinky or Clyde (roughly equivalent to the ghosts in the original PacMan) would remove one of these lives. Once all of these lives were removed, the player was forced to leave the challenge level and unable to reenter in the same game. Applying an identified life giving bonus fruit outside the challenge level would restore three lives and allow re-entry and completion of the challenge.
-The portal to the challenge level generated on the [[Oracle]]'s level.
+The portal to the challenge level was generated on [[Oracle (level)|the Oracle]] level.
 To complete the challenge, all squares of the level had to be walked on; they would seem to turn from lit to unlit. When the challenge was completed, the level had to be left using the portal also used to enter.

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 The competition was in [[NetHack 3.4.3]], with custom patches applied to provide a new optional challenge each year (except 2011 and 2013). The old challenges (going back to 2005) were all available (except for the Kingdom Of Loathing challenge, which was broken by changes to the external website it depended on). The new challenge's identity was kept secret to make things more interesting for the players. Apart from that, no features or fixes were added, so beware of splitting [[long worm]]s.
-In September 2017 the tournament organizer Krystal [https://twitter.com/devnull_nethack/status/908441635746279424 announced] on Twitter that it would be retired for good. An independent group of players held a final [[Devnull Tribute|tribute tournament]] in the tournament's usual timeslot, running all the usual challenges but updated to [[NetHack 3.6.0]] (rather than the version that was used for Krystal's tournaments, [[NetHack 3.4.3]]).  In keeping with tradition, the tournament ran on the (mostly) unpatched NetHack release, allowing (encouraging?) players to exploit various known bugs to their advantage. So, even though the [[astral call bug]] was no longer available, 3.6.0 had plenty of new material to offer in this space. From 2018 onwards, a new tournament, [[The November NetHack Tournament]], has run in /dev/null/nethack's old timeslot in November.
+In September 2017 the tournament organizer Krystal [https://twitter.com/devnull_nethack/status/908441635746279424 announced] on Twitter that it would be retired for good. An independent group of players held a final [[Devnull Tribute|tribute tournament]] in the tournament's usual timeslot, running all the usual challenges but updated to [[NetHack 3.6.0]] rather than 3.4.3. In keeping with tradition, the tournament ran on the (mostly) unpatched NetHack release, allowing (encouraging?) players to exploit various known bugs to their advantage. So, even though the [[astral call bug]] was no longer available, 3.6.0 had plenty of new material to offer in this space. From 2018 onwards, a new tournament, [[The November NetHack Tournament]], has run in /dev/null/nethack's old timeslot in November.
 ==Results==

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 To address this and other problems with the official website, unofficial scoreboards have been created:
-* [https://scoreboard.xd.cm/devnull/ Mandevil's statistics page] (does not consider clans or trophies)
+* [https://nethackscoreboard.org/devnull/ The NetHack Scoreboard] (does not consider clans or trophies)
 * [http://gunyoki.net/ Clan EIT's scoreboard] (does not consider clans, currently defunct)

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 |-
 |2006
-|The [[Grue]] Challenge
+|The [[Grue Challenge]]
 |Harkening back to Zork, players accepting this Challenge must find and figure out how to use the Frobozz Company Inter-Dimensional Portal Generator before being eaten by a Grue
 |-