Congratulations to tourist for winning Grand Finals of Lockout 0 over Um_nik with a score of 800-300! The round had 5 problems, but with a special 1v1 twist: only the first person to solve each problem got points for it! After the first 10 minutes of the match, the 3 easiest problems were all solved and the contestants were tied at 300 points, so both contestants just needed to race to finish the 500 point problem first. With some impressive coding and frenzied debugging, tourist managed to eke out the win! The final scoreboard was:
Lockout 0 Grand Finals (Video)
| tourist | 800 — 300 | Um_nik |
|---|---|---|
| 1:51 (submission) | 100 (ARC 068 D) | — |
| 8:11 (submission) | 200 (ARC 069 D) | — |
| — | 300 (ARC 069 E) | 5:00 (submission) |
| — | 400 (ARC 068 E) | — |
| 45:46 (submission) | 500 (ARC 068 F) | — |
Also congratulations to all contestants in the Lockout 0 tournament! The full bracket is at https://challonge.com/lockout0. The final standings are:
On stream, we also ran two more 2v2 team-Lockout exhibition matches! These matches used 9 problems with distribution 100 — 100 — 100 — 200 — 200 — 200 — 300 — 300 — 400, so 1000 points were needed to win.
Match 1: tourist+Um_nik vs scott_wu+ecnerwala (Video): Congrats scott_wu+ecnerwala for winning 1000-400!
Match 2: tourist+Um_nik vs neal+ecnerwala (Video): Congrats tourist+Um_nik for winning 1200-400!
We got to see a few different strategies in these matches: some teams opted to solve several easy problems before moving onto the hard ones, while others just solved two easy problems before jumping right into the hardest 400 point problem. What did you think worked best?
Finally, thank you all for tuning into the stream! Our total viewership was over 3000 people! You can find the full VOD on YouTube at https://youtu.be/Dk-nWqwyE8g.
We'd love your feedback on this new contest experience! Do you think the 1v1 or 2v2 format is more exciting? How could we make the spectating experience better? Are you excited to play yourself? Please let us know in the comments!
