As you may have already read in Spadge's last thread (located Here (http://forum.team17.co.uk/showthread.php?t=32603)). A Leaderboard reset is unfortunately required prior to the release of the Title Update.

Team17 would like to recognise the effort made by players during the first three months of Worms on Xbox Live by awarding prizes to those that have reached the top tiers of each Worms Leaderboard on Xbox Live Arcade.

A certificate and a piece of Worms Artwork signed by members of the team will be awarded to those Players in 1st Place (with legitimate, none exploited scores) on each of the 24 Leaderboards from the game.

Team17 will also host the top 5 Scores from each leaderboard on their website meaning that these scores will always be viewable even after the Leaderboard reset. The link to these scores will be announced on these forums shortly.

Rules
The following rules will apply to the awards:

1. The final scores will be taken at 4pm (GMT) on Wednesday 16th May 2007. At this point the leaderboards will be recorded and Leaderboard winners noted accordingly. Times submitted after this time and prior to the Leaderboard reset will not be taken into account.
2. Winners will be contacted via the Xbox Live Messaging system. A specific Team17 Gamertag will be created and announced for this use. Please do not release your contact or shipping details to any user other than this. Team17 accept no responsibility for any loses that may occur due to sharing information with other Xbox Live users.
3. Winners will be contacted by Team17 no later than Friday 18th May.
4. Exploited Scores will not be considered eligible. Team17 will discount these scores and award the next legitimate score on the leaderboard.
5. There will be a limit of one award per GamerTag. In the event that one player is in the position to receive a second award – this award will be passed to the second highest entry on the leaderboard.
6. This contest is not open to employees of Team17 Software Ltd, Microsoft or VMC Consulting Corporation.
7. All decisions made by Team17 Software Ltd are final.


May we take this oppurtunity to wish you all good luck and thank you for your patience, enthusiasm and support during the release of Worms. :D

Sounds great. Too bad I'm not number one in any of the challenges.

On some of the challenges, you have no way of knowing if someone used an exploit and even with an exploit, it still takes skill/luck to get best place. Some wormers would have had a top legit time and then used an exploit to get an even lower time (to compete with the other exploiters) and now they have no way to get a legit score (at least not until the leaderboards are reset).

I better go play the challenges while there is still time :)

Classy move T17 - having the reset is a tradegy but well handled. Pity I'm not in top 5 but nevermind (couldn't stretch it to 19th place could you?)

It is now just gone 4pm (GMT) on Wednesday 16th May 2007.

Current Leaderboards Standings are being recorded and winners will be announced and contacted shortly.

Congratulations to all winners and thanks again to all players for their support over the last three months - news of the Title Update will follow within the next few days

We now believe that the update will go live on Weds 23rd May, sorry it's not sooner.

does that mean that the contest time is extended?

No.

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You know, for the first 7 challenges...I have found that there is really only one that could benefit from the exploit. The others can be beat normally, and using an exploit (rope trick) would only waste time.

Winners have now been sent a message over the Xbox Live messaging service from our Profile "Chin Tinsel".

A list of winners and a link to the Leaderboard standings online will be made shortly

What no message??

But I had over 1.4 Billion points????

Robbed!

Right - after removing all exploited (and 1.4 billion bugged ;)) scores we now have the top 5 lists for each leaderboard available for your viewing pleasure.

Enjoy :D

Ranked Leaderboards (http://www.team17.com/images/xbla/hof_rankings.jpg)

Challenges 1-10 (http://www.team17.com/images/xbla/hof_challange_1-10.jpg)

Challenges 11-20 (http://www.team17.com/images/xbla/hof_challange_11-20.jpg)

- Ian

Good luck getting to the top again after the resets :)

I made top 5 on one of the challenges :)

FAST N BULBOUS seems to be in more top 5 lists than anyone else. I'm glad he got first place on one of them.

Why are some times missing for challenge 17 ?

I see Chin Tinsel in the list...

Yes the other times for Challenge 17 will follow shortly - minor error in the image creation process ;)

Indeed Chin Tinsel is visible - unfortuantly due to contest rules, we producers didn't bother with getting to the top of the leaderboard to claim a prize... we could have though if we had wanted to .... honest ;)

UPDATE: And as if by magic - the scores for Challenge 17 now appear correctly (sorry about that :))

Doomed to spend the rest of my life regretting being 8 tenths of a second too slow on challenge 3... I blame Hannibal - I would have beaten Dark Icemans time by a miniscule amount but for the fact that Hannibal only did 29 damage to himself. Aaaaaaaaaarrrrrrghhhhhhhhh.

Congrats to you lot who made it up though, esp Bulbous and Stubbins. If you're interested in selling your original Worms artwork PM me.

Incidentally, here's some of the awards ready to go, including AZ01's :)

Wow, thanks a lot Team17. It's rather splendid of you to do this for those who've lead the leaderboards on your Worms XBLA game, a really pleasant gesture to recognise efforts made by players.

I didn't expect to receive anything for being high-up a leaderboard on an Xbox 360 game, at least I wouldn't have foreseen it happening had it been any other developer, but you're not just any other developer, are you? ;)

Again, thanks a lot for your thoughtfulness towards the players of your game, much appreciated.

Nice going, Aazong. :p

Congratulations to all the winners.

how come on the new leaderboard im 5th yet ive played 6 and won 5... then the guy who has top has played once and already has a score of 46 thousand... same old problems?

I thought it might be because he has won 100% of his games (even if he only played one) but then I noticed some people with more points than you, who haven't won any. Perhaps they had low trueskill scores and played against opponents with high trueskill, so their kills counted for more?

btw Pickles or whoever named those files, challange != challenge :)

It appears that due to delayed geographical rollout of the update, it'll be a few days before the new scores all settle down - that's what I've been told :)

Thanks to those winners that have replied with their addresses already.

I will be posting out awards today so you can expect them to arrive sometime next week.

Ah that sucks. If i actually knew about this i would have worked to get 1st instead of 4th ;[