Dead Nation Results

Shambling our way out of a a fantastic year for competitions and community gaming on TSA, the last competition we ran in 2010 was for Housemarque’s brilliant twin stick shooter, Dead Nation.

Before we get to the top results, some TSA points go to some outstanding achievements in the field.

• First and foremost Beelzie14, who really got into the spirit of things and slaughtered more zombies than anyone else! He also maintaining an average of 662 kills per entry, with a competition high of 667 achieved twice.
• From the highest to the lowest, Icuyesido went all out for his frankly bizarre speed runs attempts, securing a 3:22! He’s even in action on Youtube.
• Spooferbarnabas for the highest multiplier, at 1100x.
• Boomshanks & Qurx and Beelzie14 for collecting the most loot in a single round at 94%.
• Matty & Spoof and Boomshanks & Qurx for getting the best bonus percentage at 59%.

Your TSA points are in the mail. Also on the way are the T-shirts that were provided to us by the lovely chaps at Sony and Housemarque. Drawn at random from all the entrants, the three winners are Beelzie14, TSBonyman and Matty. Congratulations to the three of them.

We move on to the overall winner, and boy did it get close at the top. In the last 48 hours the score changed hands several times, and we raced past 20 million! In third place, DrNate86 showed up with his brother for a solitary effort with 19,343,394, but it wasn’t good enough. Spooferbarnabas was already ahead on 22,595,358, with an excellent run on Grim difficulty, but Boomshanks & Qurx were able to step it up a gear, playing on Morbid to nail 23,121,264.

Excellent work from the pair of them, and it was a pleasure to receive their entries, each time improving leaps and bounds over their last. So the only thing to still be addressed is whether or not we hit our target of 53,596 kills!

I knew for a fact that several unnamed individuals had entries which hadn’t been sent in. Perhaps they were overrun by the remaining 8,905 zombies? Maybe they were simply too chicken to venture outside in the first place? Who knows, but it left me to scout around and I managed to unveil another 12 entries. These added 7,495 to the total, and left us on 52,186. Agonisingly close to our total!

Since we got so close, and the excellent efforts put in by those at the top of the pile, it’s only fair that we reward Boomshanks & Qurx with The Walking Dead regardless. They’re supposedly good friends, so sharing this book will be a little test of this. As a consolation prize to Spooferbarnabas, we saved him a Dead Nation T-shirt.

So it just leaves me to say congratulations to the winners, commiserations to the dead, un-dead and re-dead, and we’ll see you at the next Apocalypse.

Post-Apocalypse, TSA remains up and running, so keep checking in on the Community, Competitions and Meets sections of the site, as well as following @thesixthaxis and @TSACom on twitter for more alerts on the status of the undead in your area.

This post was written by Teflon.