RZX recordings disquialified

This is a warning to every SpeccyTour player, especially to new players... Some recordings may be disqualified if you don't follow these rules:

• Use official snapshots.
• Make recording using External Snapshot.
• Make recording in Tournament mode.

It's very easy to save your games following those instructions, so if you don't want to get annoyed because you got a great score but your recording is not valid, please, follow these rules.

Galactic Trooper hi-score

At my last post I said the final score will be 70k-75k points... Obiously I was wrong!. Last Saturday I saw a Rebufo's score of 84,900 points, so I decided to play some games and try to improve my score of 64,600 to climb some places... After viewing his game and confirmed it, I played some games and got 87,740, so I was impressed by myself, because before that I was unable to do more than 56k... But I realize I could do it better, so 15 minutes after I got 97,100, losing some stupid lives, but now I was at first place!. The magic figure of 100k was very close to me...

Rebufo was still playing, and got 106,820 points, so I couldn't give up, so I played again until I got my current score of 107,900... But a winner is a winner, and Rebufo didn't give up too... Now the first place it's his again with 116,040 points...

These kind of wars are the things I like of SpeccyTour, and these wars encourage players to get the games to its limits.
How much time will that record survive?, which will be the max score for Galactic Trooper when the tournament ends?

First impressions

First two weeks have passed, and I've played eight of the games. As I said before, I have no much time, but this year I'll play until the end, I don't know if I'll be able to fight for the victory, but I'm going to try it...

Some comments about the games I've played for now...

• Daley Thompson's Decathlon: I've played very few games and got a good record, but it'll be beated.
• Turmoil: This is one of I like most. I've not played too much, but I think I'll reach last stage.
• Gotcha: Frustrating game, you have to play hundreds of games to control it right. I think this game is getting crazy to more than one player :).
• Galactic Trooper: Another good game. I like it!, but it's true that playing at 50k points it's hard... As I said to Alex, final score will be 70-75k.
• Beaky: I've only played four games, and got first place, so I think I won't be at top too much time.
• Android 2: One of my favorites, it seems very hard at first 50 games... and it is!. I have to train a lot...
• Uridium: Zoran has got a very good score, I'm at 2nd place but I think this week I'll be 4th or 5th.
• Dictator: It seemed strange to me at first glance, but it's not bad game... and its timing has let me play it while I'm looking after my daughter :)

There are another two games I've not played at all. Lotus and Codename Mat... may be they will have some chances...

Who will be the Speccy Master?

Today I feel chatty, may be because I've a meeting with some old friends I didn't see some time ago... :). Well, I think this blog can't be abandoned as it was last years... So I'd like to hear opinions of players and followers of Speccy Tour (because I know there are people that don't play but follow the tournament).

There are known players, who do you think will be the winner of this edition?. Seeing last editions, rebufo is the man, because Metalbrain has told me that he couldn't have time to play, but we have some Speccy Tour winners... nlucas.zx (humitsec) and me, but I think I won't be a real candidate because this year I've been father and don't have too much time to play....

Anyway, have you realize that there have been only 3 Speccy Tour winners? Alexandar Lukic, Néstor Lucas and me... but I think there are other players that who can win this tournament. Well, this is your tournament!. You must think that this is a real and serious tournament, people can't cheat, poeple like to compete, and this is THE TOURNAMENT for Sinclair ZX Spectrum players.

More Special Rules

If you have read the scrolled message at Speccy Tour main page, you'll have realized that Special Rules for Turmoil have changed. Now it's not only important the stage completed, also the time wasted to reach it. So if a player complete the 5th level in 20 minutes, and another player did it in 15 minutes, faster players will have more points.

Talking about Galactic Trooper, egomezpe asked me a which level must choose before start. It doesn't matter you can select what you want, although I advise you to start at level 1 ;).

Speccy Tour starts tonight!

Here we are!, one more year SpeccyTour is going to start tonight at 0:00 GMT+0, it means that players from Denmark, Italy, France, Serbia and Spain, are able to submit recordings at 1:00 GMT+1, and Uruguayan player at 21:00 GMT-3.

I think this edition will be amazing or at least different because of new scoreboard system, that will give more chances to regular players, so you don't need to be a monster to have good points. And don't get frustrated if a game seems hard at first plays, I asure you that you'll get to be a good in a game if you play it regulary.

Well, games (snapshots) are available to download here. I'll put the link at blogs's right side too. Remember to read first the special rules (also translated to Spanish)since if you avoid some of them, your recordings will be disqualified. Also it's important to say again that recording at last two weeks will need a code that you'll have use, but we will calculate that code when time arrives...

About demos... It has been problems with Codename Mat demo, I can't replay it, so the video is unavailable, Dictator's demo is 30 minutes long, so you have to view it through RZX file. The rest of video demos (Gotcha and Galactic Trooper) are uploaded at our Video Channel.

Good luck to signed up players:

• Michael Bruhn aka Frankie from Denmark.
• Pablo Gómez Yanguas aka rebufo from Spain.
• Eduardo Yáñez Parareda (me) aka eyp from Spain.
• Federico Jerez aka abusimbel from Spain.
• Zoran Vucenovic from Serbia.
• Richard Burton aka RB from England.
• David Muriel aka dmuriel from Spain.
• Paul French aka Spaceman from England.
• Aitor Gómez García aka SpArK from Spain.
• Santiago Eximeno aka eximeno from Spain.
• Bitz from England.
• Iván Ruiz Etxabe aka Sabre from Spain.
• Mike Mayers from Spain.
• Ruffy Pérez Cordón from Spain.
• Sergio Baldovi aka tinkle from Spain.
• Jaime Tejedor Gómez aka Metalbrain form Spain.
• Enrique Gómez Pérez aka egomezpe from Spain.
• Alessandro Grussu aka Gazzosa from Italy.
• Javier Basulto aka javibasu from Uruguay.
• Néstor Lucas Martínez aka nlucas.zx, humitsec from Spain.
• Venerable Stack from France.
• stcube from Spain.
• Mark D from England.
• Joe Mackay aka yomlogs from England.

(Sign up is open until 2nd Nov.)

Some players doesn't have their name complete, there's a bug in profile's editor, but you can solve it. Edit your profile, fill your name again and submit. If you come back again to that form, to change something, you have to fill your name again.

Enjoy!

Sign up date extended

It's only to inform you that the last day to sign up is 2nd November instead of 26th October. As always, you can follow those changes in the calendar