NSFCWT round 2 is over, and it's been a tough challenge (so we were told :). There were lots of interesting and unique solutions to the problem how to kill the white warrior most effectively. The white warrior was an aggressive silk style paper which was launched after a brief bombing phase. Most challengers featured some form of multi-pass core clear (one or more spl runs followed by a dat clear) teamed up with a scanner. A brief description of the strategies is below. The winning challenger and the two runners- up are posted in the next message. twoOFaKIND Is two jmn.F scanners that scan in parallel for the white warrior body, avoiding bombs. The two parts then perform a checksum on the attack body and commit suicide when overrun by white. Multi-pass core clear code is then placed inside the found white warrior body where it is safe from attack. This proved to be the most effective strategy. v15 Is an unrolled (sne/sne/seq) scanner that bombs with a SPL carpet and finishes in a multi-pass core clear. For each bombed location, the scanner also checks 1800 addresses away, which is a likely place for white to be. blackTN Tandem sne/seq scanners bombing with spl/spl/spl/jmp and finishing with a multi-pass clear. safeclear has two redundant quickscan parts that checks for the 80 most dangerous white starting positions before a multi-pass core clear is executed. Umbrella A multi-pass core clear protected by a bomber that concentrates on the most dangerous locations. WhiteSimple Multi-pass core clear Taking Trains (;-) sne/seq scanner bombing with spl carpet Futility Two redundant multi-pass core clears Mr Speculative cmp scan/bomber with spl bomb and single dat core clear PlinyScan cmp scanner with spl bomb and multi-pass core clear so I won't lose a lotta points imp spiral Welcome to our new player Anders Scholl, it's good to have you. Now for the scores; Magnus Paulsson won this round with a comfortable lead over Steven Morrell and Paul Kline. Rank Name Author %W %L %T Score ___________________________________________________________________________ 1 twoOFaKIND Paulsson 89 5 6 2738 2 v15 Steven Morrell 73 18 8 2283 3 blackTN P.Kline 64 16 20 2128 4 safeclear Anders Ivner 61 16 23 2058 5 Umbrella Beppe Bezzi 56 12 32 1996 6 WhiteSimple John K. Wilkinson 56 14 30 1986 7 Taking Trains Maurizio Vittuari 59 32 10 1853 8 Futility M R Bremer 42 8 50 1768 9 Mr Speculative Derek Ross 45 39 16 1506 10 PlinyScan G. Eadon 41 35 24 1479 11 so i won't lose a lotta Anders Scholl 0 12 88 892 After the first two rounds, these are the points: Name pts for round 1 2 __________________________________ Beppe Bezzi 7 7 M R Bremer 7 4 G. Eadon 1.5 2 Anders Ivner 5.5 8 P.Kline 7.5 9 Steven Morrell 5 10 Paulsson 7.5 11 Derek Ross 3.5 3 Anders Scholl - 1 Maurizio Vittuari 6.5 5 John K. Wilkinson 4 6 Magnus Paulsson is leading with 18.5 points, followed by Paul Kline with 16.5 and Steven Morrell with 15 points. Good luck for round 3! Nandor & Stefan