Thank you.
Another basic question. It might just have been chance but the first set of general questions I saw seemed much harder to me than usual, the special topic questions on a par with past sets. is there an attempt to make all the Level 10 questions harder than the normal sets (or maybe just the unstarred sets?].

My impression had been that at level 8/9 literature and humanities questions, to name but two categories, switched from moderate to very hard. I haven't tried anything but the starred sections yet on L10 so don't know about them yet.

Double asterisks have a mostly fixed difficulty - you will almost certainly play them more often at high levels than on low ones.

I definitely agree that having a app would be beneficial, if possible. There is a whole generation out there that uses apps constantly that rarely visits sites.

We have 30 new Immortals

(unless I've counted wrong, which is entirely possible ).

I just came to post the same. I get thirty as well, so unless we've both run out of fingers...

Have counted 35.
Has something gone wrong?

Only players in normal mode count. The game has to be stopped manually, so needs Terry to see this thread.

I count 31 new Immortals in Normal mode as of this writing.

Great, this is the last set. GC closes in 2 hrs.

Thumbs up from me for 4 months of obsessive fun. When does the next start?

Global Challenge final results are now up.

Special thanks to Wesley for compiling them - huge help.

All the badges are now in the hands of their rightful new owners. Please congratulate the winners:

Hardcore Immortal (7)
sandiego0711
coaster1
Knave
gme24
rhosyn
gruffybear
Lottie1001

Hardcore Winner (10)
sandiego0711
coaster1
Knave
gme24
rhosyn
gruffybear
Lottie1001
johnnycat777
kino76
boombaby

Immortal (31)
Radain
dolly_llama
luckypierre
garrybl
AnalogLLC
jah12345
Sidcups
katytusa
pippette
SecondTenor
metry_mudbug
mitzilava
logcrawler
cbushman
wendelien
gogetem
chang50
Smudge111
Gallardos04
fluffyjo
shemum
KevinWagner
sr71lives
rubytops
alythman
jbartlet827
modedo
GinaRina
Pam1239
Archania
bddjohnson

With 92 regular and 18 Hardcore Immortals, this round was the first to threaten running into the 100 limit. The large number of Immortals was also caused by it being one of the slower rounds in history, finishing at 1506 games.

The race for the normal mode medals was a really close one with only 9700 points separating the gold from the bronze. In the end, bubbles20 narrowly took first place in front of Ampelos and postcards2go.

In Hardcore, rossian edged out MikeMaster99 and TriviaFan22 for the top spot.

Bubbles20 and TriviaFan22 are first time visitors to the podium, Ampelos claims his second medal and the other three are regulars.

BTW for the next game we will be adding an additional end-of-game condition going forward:

If at any time the top 100 normal players are Immortals, the game will immediately end, regardless of how many new players have actually earned the badge.

Basically an automatic enforcement of the 100 rule. I like it - will it still end at end of set however? Might be unfair otherwise.

This round would have had a different winner if it had ended mid-set.

Yeah. Too complicated to do anything mid-set anyway.

It was rather hard at times but highly fulfilling in the end.

Wesley, I'm sorry but the final stats on the GC 30 results page (here)
http://www.funtrivia.com/minigame/hall/30-toprated.html

don't match the actual final stats after the last set of games (here)
http://www.funtrivia.com/minigame/globstats.cfm

Thanks for correcting this.

PM would have done the job - I sent Terry a new file.

Do you mean when all 100 of them reach the Immortal stage?

Yes, once the Normal top 100 page is all Immortals, the game will end. This is a backwards compatible rule change as of this round (it would never have changed anything in the past).

It was announced somewhere around Division 6 this game, but now it'll be implemented in the code, so it can't run over.

Thanks Wes!

So, just for clarity, is it correct that in the event of a logjam around #100, if a player or players makes level 10 in that last set but lands outside the top 100, they would not get the immortal badge?

They do get it. It would just possibly be more effort to award it: I pulled and saved the top of Div 9 a day before the close this time; if we had run over, I would have used that to check.

Of course in case that gets forgotten, it'll be a bit of a hunt!

Hi - Why does it still say "Global Challenge - Highest Division Reached: (8) The Newtonian Club" from years ago on my profile? I've reached Div 9 and now 10 since then. Please correct. Thanks!