1. A participant's highest remaining time on any of the levels #1, #3, #5 will count as their score for "the first level" and likewise for levels #2, #4 for "the second level". The person with the highest combined remaining time on these two levels wins! There may be a tie in overall score.
   
2. This competition is primarily meant for MS rules. You may send in a Lynx solution too and we'll try to combine all the scores in one category in a reasonable way.
3. Please send your solutions (either the tws file or avis) to my own email valeosote at hotmail dot com. I will strive to respond to your message by a confirmation that your score has been recorded.
4. The levels aren't incredibly hard to solve and picking the easier versions makes them even easier. Don't be afraid to send in your solutions even if you sense they aren't perfect, and simple casual solutions are also appreciated. You may enter if you solve at least one of the levels, but solving both will obviously place higher.
5. Submission deadline is May 3rd, 2017 where you live. I will judge the submissions without warning during the following days but will accept submissions until I do. If you need a more specific time, you can always ask. To avoid losing on time (it is a time trial after all), get your solutions in early rather than later! You can send in improvements while the competition is running, so there is no downside to sending in something you know might not be your best effort if you had forever to work on it.
6. This is part of the 2017 season of the Chip Cup. The winner will be awarded 15 points, second place 12, third 10 points, and so on. If you win a competition here for the first time, you receive the "You're Winner!" award. All participants who haven't participated in a Time Trial earlier receive the "Run, Chip, Run" award.
7. The designer of the levels may enter the competition, but won't.
8. The levels may receive an update within the first week of their release. This will only be done if there is some significant problem with the first versions of the levels. Please contact me if you suspect something is off. First level updated!
   
9. Do not post your solutions or solution times or share them with others before the competition results are announced. All times will be published at the same time, and the quickest solutions will eventually be released.
10. As an exception to the above rule, a participant may 'freeze' their scores at some point after submitting their own solutions. They will not be able to submit any more updates after this, but they may talk about the levels and their times with other people who have frozen their entry. I may update a public list of people who have frozen their score.
    
    

I learned now that if I have a level that is simply too complex like the first one here, and I try to make a simpler version of it, I really need to make a simpler version. I like the idea that a simpler version can exist and be part of a competition, but it really means the original level could be simpler to begin with and the second level should be even more simple than I first think. Like if you look at the simpler version of the second level (Simply Dissenter, #4), you'll see I could still have made it a bit easier, and the middle version of the first level was also pretty pointless.
I made these levels at least a year apart from each other and it tickles me a bit to now look back and see how similar the concept ended up. Both were based on previous Time Trial levels with a heavy random component. Both were trying to do something non-random with the underlying structure. Clearly, the second level worked out much better. What I tried to do with it was to take the structure of the chips in the rooms and see how they could be picked up the quickest. The interesting bit about this was that doing so required as many turns between the rooms as possible, that is going through the rooms in a straight line always lost some moves. So I mapped out a path that I thought was good and then started adding obstacles into the rooms in such a way that the timing of the planned route was not affected. This is the first time I designed a level around a route instead of the other way around! So this is the main reason why I couldn't participate on this level, and you will find my original route that scores 247 MS in the second video below