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Jedo the Jedi · Paragon in Training

The race has now encountered a bottleneck close to that at the start of the race. The racers are traveling at a snail's pace on the Interstate. Cannibal

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raekuul · Lives under a bridge & tells stories.

Which interstate?

Jedo the Jedi · Paragon in Training

Well, there were four on I-78 together, but they are all moving toward I-81 and may potentially be joined by two others. How does 16 mph on the interstate sound? Cannibal

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lex* · Guest

route resubmitted

lex* · Guest

er...your email didn't work. Can you PM me your email address and I'll send it once I'm home?

Jedo the Jedi · Paragon in Training

Was there something wrong with it, or is this a response to my previous request? If the latter, I already worked it out by recopying it like I did my own, so I should have the correct thing. (I was very meticulous. Wink

) If the former, I fixed my email tag. It's just gmail instead of yahoo.
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Jedo the Jedi · Paragon in Training

I've had a lot of extra chores/errands to prepare for our camping trip this weekend and the computation is really becoming tedious, so this won't be finished until probably next week.

It's still going along pretty well though. There have been two cannonball hits and three near misses. One person seems to have a significant lead, but I believe they are about to become very slowed by following traffic and give up the lead to a driver on a different route. Enthusiastic Grin

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Quailman · His Postmajesty

Jedo the Jedi · Paragon in Training

I'm still only about halfway finished with the calculating, but there seems to be a clear winner. I'll of course wait until I've finished everybody, but it's a little less enthusiastic now.
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Jedo the Jedi · Paragon in Training

So, I'm finally working on this again, and I just made a significant mistake. I can easily undo back to another point, but that's an hour or more of work I have to repeat. Ugh.

This may be a good time for a lunch break.
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Jedo the Jedi · Paragon in Training

RESULTS!

1st - Quailman (33h 49m 27s)
2nd - lexprod (51h 53m 45s)
3rd - MattV (57h 58m 34s)
4th - Courk (59h 33m 32s)
5th - Monk (61h 36m 07s)
6th - Jedo (61h 57m 09s)
7th - raekuul (66h 19m 55s)

Cannonballs (successes:hit):
Quailman - 1:0 (lex)
lexprod - 2:1 (MattV x2)
MattV - 0:2 (It's remarkable he still finished 3rd!)
Courk - 0:0
Monk - 0:1
Jedo - 2:0 (Monk, raekuul)
raekuul - 0:1

It was a crazy race. There were at least two points (I-70 and I-15) where there were 5 people on the same road causing them to travel 20 mph. This killed those people's times. As you can guess, Quail wasn't among those. Wink

Additionally, there were some near misses on the cannonballs. I barely missed lex's other one, and rae dodged one of Quail's on a technicality discussed by MNO and myself. If either of those had hit, it could have drastically changed the outcome of the game. (Well, Quail probably still would have won, but the rest would have been significantly different.)

Here is the spreadsheet. As you can see, I transcribed each turn of the route with the mileage from Google Maps. At points where there were overlapping, equal-value roads, I had to put markers and measure how long and at what point in the route. (This usually wasn't too difficult since it was usually just before a turn on GM.) After I finished all of that, I used MNO's velocity website. I would mark the first duplicate road between two people and work toward that. Once there, I would change the speed and calculate out until the next slot or one of them turned off the road. In some cases, I would need to calculate the distance at a certain speed until the time at which somebody else would join the road. This was the most difficult part, but there weren't actually very many instances of that.

Anyway, it was definitely fun and ultimately pretty easy using my method. I probably won't do another one, but I'm glad to have finished this one and finally know the winner.

Congrats, Quailman!
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MNOWAX · 0.999... of a Troll

Wow, Congrats Quailman!

Thank you so much for taking this over, Jedo, The original way I had done it was WAY more complicated than your method and it seems like it caused cannonballs that weren't going to hit to hit, which was very nice.

i'm never doing this again, Simple as that.
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MatthewV · Daedalian Member :_

Congrats Jedo!

And Quailman.

lexprod · NOT not a title

Wow, 2nd! Congrats Quailman on whooping me by almost a full day (even if you did had to resort to petty weaponry Cannibal

). Also sorry MattV for hitting you twice! You gotta do what you gotta do.

Sidenote: I wasn't allowed access to the spreadsheet, so I requested using the form.
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I'll have a P please...

Jedo the Jedi · Paragon in Training

Yeah, I wasn't sure if it would work. I just did it by Google Docs, but I've never shared something by that method. I think I fixed it though.
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raekuul · Lives under a bridge & tells stories.

Bleh, next time I'm taking a more direct route through Maine.

Congratulations, everybody who placed better than me!

MNOWAX · 0.999... of a Troll

if anyone cares, This was my route. http://goo.gl/maps/M16k

I chose that route for two reasons: It goes by my house ( loive abotu hundred feet from the NYS thruway in upstate NY) and it goes through Vegas.
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Jedo* · Guest

I thought about asking you for one, but I figured it was too late.

MNOWAX · 0.999... of a Troll

i was doing mine, and it just turned into such a mess that i dropped mine totally, then i just said screw it after a while. My route wouldn't have won anyway. while looking at the results, even if my entire route was all highways and no one else was on it ( most of it was, but not all) I still wouldn't have won as my route was 3400+ miles long.
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MatthewV · Daedalian Member :_

I had to make the hard choice not to visit Fairbanks or Kodiak.

I can't wait to get out of here.... mmmm October 1st come sooner!

MNOWAX · 0.999... of a Troll

Quailman · His Postmajesty

w00t!

When I saw that so many were going to be on US 81, I thought I'd get bogged down more, since I followed it south to get to US 40 through Knoxville, Nashville and Little Rock. I figured there'd be at least one other taking the southern route, especially when MattV also used Staten Island to get out of NYC. My route was 3,020 miles, and went through El Paso, along the Texas-Mexico border.