NetHack

congratulations to clan Surly Dinos, who finished two points ahead of Team Splat. SD led on unique deaths, Medusa kills and games with all conducts broken, TS on most ascended combinations and trophies.

• recuerdo ascended 6 variants

• Merlek got a trophy in all 23 (not counting 1.3d; jientho missed Grunt)

• recuerdo and zHz ascended Un (recuerdo Elberethless)

• only 31PwnMoat entered the Bigroom in Splice.

• xdminsy ascended xnh petless, scareless, deaf, artiless

• only Merlek got the luckstone in Grunt

• recuerdo ascended Fourk E-less and splatted on Astral in FIQ

• hothraxxa got up to Gehennom in Dyna

• fitsf ascended Slash'Em with $25k

• Tangles ascended SlashTHEM

• nyri got both the luckstone and the Sokoban prize in Hack'EM

• riker ascended dnh 8 times

• nobody ascended in Splice/Spork/Grunt/FIQ/Dyna/Hack'EM/Nerf

• riker ascended dnh in 11k turns, ais523 3.4.3 in 5h, riker dnh in <3h

• Tormuse ascended with 6 conducts in 3.7, sithrin with 8 in 3.6.7, xdminsy with 8 in xnh, malor/paladin2286 with 6 in Gnoll

unique deaths: poisoned by a bad case of botulism, poisoned by Master Kaen, petrified by hobgoblin, killed by turning into a block of ice, killed by sitting on a forge, killed by inadvisable haste, killed by acid fumes, killed by a mildly contaminated potion, killed by a lichen, killed by a jet of water, killed by a iron ball collision, killed by a fog cloud, killed by a disorienting blast, killed by a charged doorknob, fell into a chasm, killed by a water elemental, while vomiting (dNetHack), killed by a soldier ant, while vomiting (DynaHack), killed by a fire elemental, while improvising a tune (dNetHack)

weird that it happened twice:

• suffocated by a gelatinous cube (EvilHack)
• pounded by hailstones (CrecelleHack)
• killed by her own pick-axe (NetHack 3.6.7, FIQHack)
• choked on an ape corpse (NetHack 3.7.0)
• blasted himself with a wand of light (EvilHack)

The ascensions per day plot has a curious 2-day pattern in the first half.

Least played variants: spork, 1.3d, THEM, Fourk. Most played: Splice (3.4.3 was 14th out of 24)

most trophies: recuerdo 169, zHz 42 in one game, dedal zero in 33 games

Please advise. A sleep ray hit the mino to the right (and the resistant lich). I can't dig down in there. I can't teleport myself. The wand called atk2 is fire. The trap 2 to the east is an anti-magic field. Ideas: teleport the left minotaur (but what about the lich?), scare it with the bugle (waking up the other one). This is version 3.6.7.

In vanilla, dwarven Cavemen are way ahead with an ascension ratio of 4%. Elven wizards are scummed to hell with 0.1% (3.4 million attempts). Rangers are also successful around 2%, but also among the rarest played (all races 120k), so probably experienced attempts. Most ascended (absolute) are again elven wizards at 3463, rarest are the 306 gnomish Rangers.

unique:

• killed by boiling water
• killed by a(n) stepping on poison spikes
• killed by Geryon
• killed by sitting on lava
• killed by a(n) naginata
• turned to slime by a(n) imperious order [throne?]
• drowned in a(n) milk substitute [hallucinated liquid?]
• turned to slime by a(n) Keystone Kop

weird that it happened twice:

• killed by bumping into a(n) tree -petrified by a(n) green slime
• petrified by a(n) Medusa
• killed by a(n) war hammer
• killed by a(n) luckstone
• petrified by a(n) scroll of genocide

The number of participants stayed the same. There were 2722 more tournament games than last year, the proportion of all games played went up 6.6%. 9 fewer people ascended 13 fewer games, with a higher ratio of 2.9 asc/player. There was only 1 ascension in Fourk, Dyna and 1.3d. 81% of games were scummed, 58% of all scums that month, basically split 2:1 between 31PwnMoat (again) and hecatonheir (last year it was dedal). Medusa was killed 87 more times, again mostly by Valkyries, but also dwarven Anachrononauts. 3.7 was played even more, dnh gained 7 ranks (+3.9%p), Un lost 4th place to HackEM (-4.9%p), Splice stayed in 3rd place, Spork/Fourk were played least, but 1.3d shot up 4 ranks from last place. On the australian hardfought server 8x more games were played.

Clan scores to follow.