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RE: Christmas Competition

sushila — Fri, 22 Dec 2006 18:51:00 GMT

My personal best is 628,343...I have to be content with this...see y'all in the new year!Happy Holidays!

RE: Christmas Competition

Ronald San Juan — Thu, 21 Dec 2006 13:59:00 GMT

Merry Christmas! ß Click Here

RE: Christmas Competition

sushila — Thu, 21 Dec 2006 05:39:00 GMT

Merry Christmas back Mike!

My vacation doesn't start until Saturday so I get some more time to at least try and beat Ron if no one else!

Enjoy your party and the hols - "see you around" in the New Year!

RE: Christmas Competition

Mike Metcalf — Thu, 21 Dec 2006 04:57:00 GMT

absolutely, last day at work today so the moral's have been put to one side so they don't affect the party this afternoon

Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good night

RE: Christmas Competition

sushila — Thu, 21 Dec 2006 04:23:00 GMT

tsk! tsk! How quickly are the mighty fallen...are you sending your morals on a mini-vacation ?!?!...

RE: Christmas Competition

Mike Metcalf — Thu, 21 Dec 2006 02:00:00 GMT

LOL, keep up the hard work and im sure you'll get there.

and if not then i am open to bribes

RE: Christmas Competition

sushila — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 17:22:00 GMT

600K is pretty impressive....for the past half hour I haven't been able to get beyond 60K...will try once again tomorrow else Mike can crown you SSC King for 2006...

RE: Christmas Competition

Ronald San Juan — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 14:34:00 GMT

Got up to 600K! Like how many times did those guys try?!? Hahaha!

RE: Christmas Competition

sushila — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 14:24:00 GMT

Frustrating isn't it ?!

After I head home from work I'm going to have a few more goes at it!

RE: Christmas Competition

Ronald San Juan — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 14:18:00 GMT

Hahaha! I counted the digits as Sushila said. It has seven digits!

RE: Christmas Competition

Ronald San Juan — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 14:13:00 GMT

Hihihi!

Got up to 400k on it! Haven't seen it reflected on the scoreboard though.

Merry Christmas! Cheers!

RE: Christmas Competition

Mike Metcalf — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 06:53:00 GMT

Absolutely true, all of them

We're well renowned for being shy retiring folk that keep themselves to themselves and never partake of the evil drink.

no wait, thats the brady bunch

RE: Christmas Competition

sushila — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 06:47:00 GMT

..so pick up that gauntlet then...

I'll refrain from commenting on your beliefs Mike...with your high morals I doubt that "fun" would have any part to play...so the reputation you Newcastlelites have is true then..?!?!

RE: Christmas Competition

Mike Metcalf — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 06:26:00 GMT

Them's fightin words...

but as I always say, make love not war

LOL

RE: Christmas Competition

sushila — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 06:17:00 GMT

............

Alright...you hang on to them morals Mike and be all righteous and....and...DULL!

RE: Christmas Competition

Mike Metcalf — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 06:03:00 GMT

but that would be immoral, so would hacking the DB

RE: Christmas Competition

sushila — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 05:26:00 GMT

Why don't you hack it so that I'm on top...I'll try and get my fun other ways....

RE: Christmas Competition

Mike Metcalf — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 04:33:00 GMT

I could always hack the DB so that I was on top, but where's the fun in that

RE: Christmas Competition

Mike Metcalf — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 04:32:00 GMT

You're welcome

If it makes you feel better then my highest score is just over 700,000, I was on the leader board for just 5 mins before getting kicked off.

I have no idea how anyone can get a couple of million, neither do our developers that wrote the game

It must have kept going for 10-15 mins

RE: Christmas Competition

sushila — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 04:25:00 GMT

sigh - as always don't know whether to thank you or to rail at you Mike....I look at my personal best which's been 407665 and I wait for the leaderboard to update with the new reigning first...then I look closer and realize all the names up there already have 7 digits...SEVEN....

RE: Christmas Competition

Mike Metcalf — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 01:57:00 GMT

Lol, zim zalla bim, your wish is granted

www.happy-christmas.co.uk/4Projects

not that I can even get onto the scoreboard this year

Merry Christmas,

Mike

RE: Christmas Competition

sushila — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 19:59:00 GMT

Ron - you must've read my mind...have been meaning to ask Mike this for some time now...and of course now it's (almost) too late...

RE: Christmas Competition

Ronald San Juan — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 17:16:00 GMT

Hey, aren't we making this a year end tradition???

RE: Christmas Competition

sushila — Wed, 11 Jan 2006 10:39:00 GMT

Thanks Mike - and 192nd out of 20,000 does make me feel better!Went back for a last dekko at Santa and saw a top score of 1900 - tell me that that's data manipulation and not skill with the mouse...Before we lay Santa to rest completely, could you pleeeeeeeeeeease find out what "path" Santa must traverse for the score to go over the 1000 mark...I'm dying to know and I'll never find out by trying on my own...

RE: Christmas Competition

Mike Metcalf — Wed, 11 Jan 2006 10:08:00 GMT

You are more than welcome, and happy birthday too

If it makes you feel better you came out 192nd out of around 20,000 people, so i wouldn't be too disheartend

Mike

RE: Christmas Competition

sushila — Wed, 11 Jan 2006 10:04:00 GMT

Also forgot to add that today is my b'day - which started becoming really depressing after I turned ## - - so thanks for that mood perk!!!

RE: Christmas Competition

sushila — Wed, 11 Jan 2006 09:56:00 GMT

WOW!!! - what a nice way to start the new year - splly. since I'd forgotten all about Santa and kicking him across rooftops - I did give him a fleeting thought a couple of days ago but had too much work to "catch up" to indulge in frivolities.....Though the sad truth is that I'm the winner not because I was the best but because there were not enough competitors, I won't let it detract from the joy of winning...ps: Mike - I saw this movie called "Goal" on the flight back from Spain and thought of you immediately.... - have you seen it ?!?!pps: Hope you had great hols!

RE: Christmas Competition

Mike Metcalf — Wed, 11 Jan 2006 09:13:00 GMT

Well, as promised the results are in and the winner of the furthest Santa Toss is .....

drum roll please...

sushila

I was a bit disappointed at the take up but what the hell, it's not like you had to do it

I'll be in touch in a couple of days to sort out the prize, or if you can't want PM me and i'll do it sooner

Mike

Christmas Competition

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Christmas Competition

Mike Metcalf — Fri, 16 Dec 2005 03:14:00 GMT

Hi All, hope you don't mind me double-posting for this

In one of the other threads we've been discussing an online game that one of our sister companies has produced (read about it here http://www.sqlservercentral.com/forums/shwmessage.aspx?forumid=61&messageid=239913&p=1)

Anyway, because it's christmas i've decided to open up a competition for people at SQLServerCentral, details are below in the extract from a post i made on the 3rd page.

Here's a nice thought that i've just had; i propose we have a competition for people on this site (away from everything else that's going on). To enter send me a PM with your login and the email address that you used to register the game and after the new year (coz i'm off till then) i'll produce a leader board just for the entrants, with the winner getting a small prize (something internet gift voucher related, i'm open to suggestions)

I just hope i'm in the top 10, and higher than certain other people in the forum