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From top left, clockwise: Classic Mario Revamped by Myst (5th place, 15.25/20), Realm of the Heavens by Volkove (2nd place, 16.08/20), Mushrooms Edge by NanTheDark (4th place, 15.31/20), In The Pipe by Asterocrat (3rd place, 15.75/20), My 14th LDC Entry by MICrophone (6th place, 15.19/20).
Winner (centre): Goomba Valley by King (16.19/20).

LDC Details

• Number: 14th LDC
• Name: Pure Platformer
• Thread link:: here
• Vault Link: here
• Awards post: here
• Run by: MessengerOfDreams R - awards by Doram W R L
• Number of Entrants: 24 (plus 6 disqualified)
• Number of Pages of Posts: 66
• Contest Started: July 8th, 2011
• Final Overall Deadline: August 14th, 2011 (37 days)
• Awards Posted: September 1st, 2011 (18 days from overall deadline)
• Judges:
  1. MessengerOfDreams R
  2. Yoshi Boo 118
  3. Doram W R L
  4. Volkove

Of course, due to the special theme, this contest comes with its own set of special rules. (Oh yay!) Generally, the goal was supposed to be a straightforward level from A to B, without path splittings and puzzle / maze sections and alike. Nothing in terms of a storyline, signs may only be used for instructions. No red coins or silver stars. No miniseries and no collaborations between designers. No glitches (manipulations of code, such as disabling, invincible bullet bills or large signs) as well. Too huge loading times and too much lag means disqualification, to make sure the levels aren't too crazy and can be properly judged. Midway checkpoints and HTML tags for instruction purpose are allowed. Slight violations of the rules (e.g. a few non-instructive signs) result in point deductions in Other. Heavy violations result in disqualifications, as stated below.

Final Levels by Score

Place	Score	Level	Designer
1st	16.19	Goomba Valley	King
2nd	16.08	Realm of the Heavens	Volkove
3rd	15.75	In the Pipe	Asterocrat
4th	15.31	Mushroom's Edge	NanTheDark
5th	15.25	Classic Mario, Revamped	Myst
6th	15.19	My 14th LDC Entry	MICrophone
7th	15.13	Follow The Butterflies	~MP3 Amplifier~ R L
7th	15.13	World 9 - Ghost House	Buff_ (Buffooner)
8th	14.83	Easy as ABC	Doram W R L
9th	14.75	The Haunt	Oranjui W R L (Oranj)
10th	14.58	Finis	MessengerOfDreams R
11th	14.5	The Other Side of Forgotten Land	Koopa Yoshi
12th	14.33	The Great Sanctuary	Republic
13th	13.75	Danger Pyramid Pt. 1	GMDragon11
14th	13.63	Grass Zone	~Yoshi~ (Yoshi999)
15th	13.56	Killer Castle	Zacky
16th	13.5	Platform Hills	MushYoshi (mushroomario)
17th	12.31	Molta Tunnels	Karyete
18th	11.81	Fire Zone	Nwolf (Nworlds)
19th	11.69	Blocky!	JSlayerXero
20th	11.44	The Road in the Sky	Nero the DemonSlayer
21st	11.19	Progression	SuperMIC
22nd	10.25	Pyramid of Time	paperluigi
23rd	9.5	Around the World	Jellonator

Disqualifications

Now, due to the special rules, there was a lot of disqualifications. Aside from unfinished levels (Avo and Panik!), these are:

Level	Designer(s)	Reason
PlatformAWESOME	Mr_SaxMan	Enormous size and lags at many places, simply too large.
Scardy's Trap Cave	ScardySquaril	also too large, as well as being more puzzle-based than a platformer
(level deleted)	Arturia (General Bogdan)	unloadable and various LD rules not followed in general
Bullet Dodge	Chessplayer	massive lags and bullet bill spam
Mario Classic	000YoshiStar000	Lag due to coin blocks and goombas, and the path splitting mid-way
The 3 Challenges of the Shine	skjung2034	various plot-wise violations of the specific rules, e.g. at the snow maze

Trivia

• The intention behind the amount of special rules was to ensure that levels are kept simple and not over-worked, to have both faster judgings and less complications with people not finishing their levels. It was an incredibly grand success: Without disqualifications, we got a total of 30 entrants, probably a record for eternity.
• Due to the huge run on the stakes, the original 1st, 2nd and 3rd place trophies were expanded by our common 4h, 5th and 6th place ribbons. They were also awarded in retrospect to the runner-ups of the previous contests. The new medals were designed by Asterocrat and added by Suyo.
• This contest also marks a cesura in history because this was the first time we've stored entries in a separate topic, the LDC Vault. No more rummaging through all pages and no more round-up posts are needed since then. Thanks to Oranjui who came up with this idea.
• King became quite a surprise winner with straightly winning the first LDC he took part in. It was the last time to have someone win as a debutant.

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