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Postby Yoshi Boo 118 » July 26th, 2015, 9:49 pm

Legit question: why is the deadline for each event set to 7am GMT? Because on the east coast that's 3am and still pretty early for a lot of Western Europe.

Not that I think it's that big a deal though, I just find it interesting that events end and start at this weird time schedule. It also seems inopportune for the guys hosting the event because I don't think it's noon for you guys.
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Re: Runolympics 2015 Discussion

Postby Doram » July 26th, 2015, 10:58 pm

It's set for midnight PST, out of tradition, because Runouw lives in California, LDCs, and everything always end at midnight PST.
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Re: Runolympics 2015 Discussion

Postby Supershroom » July 26th, 2015, 11:32 pm

Doram wrote:Poor Star king. I'm totally just staying up a little late, and he's responding even though it's seriously the wee hours of the morning over there. I should let him sleep, but the deadline...

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Re: Runolympics 2015 Discussion

Postby Asterocrat » July 26th, 2015, 11:36 pm

Supershroom wrote:If a team really fails to find a representative, better choose the rep randomly between those who haven't been a representative yet instead of disqualifying the team, or not?

that's obvious
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Re: Runolympics 2015 Discussion

Postby Yoshi Boo 118 » July 27th, 2015, 5:09 am

Another, more random, question: The 5 triangles that represent the Runolympics...are we calling those rings? I want to put a name to them for....reasons.
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Re: Runolympics 2015 Discussion

Postby NanTheDark » July 27th, 2015, 6:09 am

Yoshi Boo 118 wrote:Another, more random, question: The 5 triangles that represent the Runolympics...are we calling those rings? I want to put a name to them for....reasons.


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Re: Runolympics 2015 Discussion

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Postby Megar » July 27th, 2015, 6:14 am

WHY WERE THEY EVER CALLED SQUARES
ITS LIKE
THEY'RE NOT SQUARES THEY'RE TRIANGLES
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Re: Runolympics 2015 Discussion

Postby Doram » July 27th, 2015, 9:57 am

In the first LL, in the theme of this being in an alternate universe, Runouw decided to call them squares. It seems to have been switched to the more logical triangles as of Null Space, and the work on LL3, but there are a number of us that will refer to them occasionally as "squares", because we have been playing since the very first versions of LL. I am personally calling them tri-rings, just within the context of the Runolympics, but I suppose it could be made a more general term.
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Re: Runolympics 2015 Discussion

Postby Asterocrat » July 27th, 2015, 10:29 am

Wait there aren't called squares anymore?
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Re: Runolympics 2015 Discussion

Postby Doram » July 27th, 2015, 3:14 pm

Well, I had read so many things that referred to them as triangles, (many of which were officially sanctioned like walkthroughs), that I thought there had been an official name change, and I was right, but it wasn't to triangles. Here's an official post from one of the developers:
lulzaraptor on Thu Jul 16, 2015 10:36 pm wrote:We're phasing out some of the names. "Tri-coin" is an intuitive name for a currency shaped like a triangle.

(And that was in reference to this entry in the LL WIki)
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