Games Master Challenge 2011

2011's competition pit Brains against Brawn.

The sixth annual instalment of the Games Master Challenge began on November 21, 2011 and ended on November 30, 2011.

As in previous years, Aristotle A. Avinroo challenged players to complete Games Room-related tasks each day of the event. However, the format of the challenge was different this year: there were two teams, Brains and Brawn, competing with each other to see who could complete more challenges. Players could choose which of the teams to join.

The two teams received some different challenges to each other: Team Brains, led by AAA, received more puzzle and strategy game challenges, while Team Brawn, led by Abigail, received more action and adventure game challenges. This was the first time Abigail had featured in the Games Master Challenge events.

Teams

In order to participate in this event, users were required to join one of the below listed teams. As a reward for joining a team, users were given an exclusive signup bonus item corresponding to the team that they choose.

Aristotle and Team Brains
Oh good! You can help me prove my brilliance - I mean, our brilliance. Intelligence is really underrated these days, especially by certain people. Let's trounce them utterly, shall we?
	Root for Brains Wooden Sign
Abigail and Team Brawn
Oh brother. AAA is all fired up about this brains vs. brawn thing. I just want to play some games. Since my brother won't listen to reason, let's beat him just to prove how lame he is.
	Root for Brawn Wooden Sign

Challenges

Some of the challenges released each day were the same for both teams. For others, players received a different challenge depending on what team they were on, but would earn the same prize as members of the other team.

Day 1: November 22, 2011

Random Challenge	Prize
Brains & Brawn: Picking Favourites is as Easy as 1, 2, 3! Add three different qualifying games to your Favourites List.
	Box of Mismatched Game Pieces
Game Challenge	Prize
Brains: Match Wits with Kikos Send a score of 100 in Kiko Match II. Brawn: Need... More... Usukis!!! Send a score of 500 in Usuki Frenzy.
	Broken Hourglass

Day 2: November 23, 2011

Game Challenge	Prize
Brains: It's snowing! Get the Catapults Send a score of 45 in Snow Wars II. Brawn: Just Keep Flying, Just Keep Flying Send a score of 134 in Volcano Run II.
	Dual Duels Part Deux
Mystery Challenge	Prize
Brains & Brawn: Altador Calls for Your Aid! Send a score of 723 in Crisis Courier.
	Potted Cypress Tree

Day 3: November 24, 2011

Game Challenge	Prize
Brains & Brawn: The Battlefield Awaits Your Legend Send a score of 17624 in Neopian Battlefield Legends.
	Have Fun! Card
Mystery Challenge	Prize
Brains & Brawn: Did Someone Call for a Stampede? Send a score of 18024 in Kookia.
	Winged Kookith
Timed Challenge	Prize
Brains: Our Princess is Not in the Castle Send a score of 35 in The Search for Princess Lunara. Brawn: Careful, That Last Step is a Doozy Send a score of 34083 in Shenkuu Warrior II.
	Mists of Shenkuu

Day 4: November 25, 2011

Game Challenge	Prize
Brains: Picnic with the Meepits Send a score of 617 in Meepit Juice Break. Brawn: Count Your Neggs Before They Hatch Send a score of 225 in Meerca Chase II.
	Negg Juice
Game Challenge	Prize
Brains & Brawn: Scraps from the Table Send a score of 138 in Sophie's Stew AND send a score of 285 in Hungry Skeith.
	100 Jelly Recipes
Mystery Challenge	Prize
Brains & Brawn: Ketchup and Mustard, BFF! Send a score of 2684 in Hot Dog Hero.
	Hero Hot Dog

Day 5: November 26, 2011

Game Challenge	Prize
Brains: Water you Waiting for? It's Snow Time Send a score of 1454 in Snowmuncher AND send a score of 170 in Petpet Plunge. Brawn: A Whole Mess of Petpets Send a score of 167 in Barf Boat AND send a score of 650 in Mop 'n' Bop.
	Soiled Mop and Bucket
Game Challenge	Prize
Brains: This Device is Programmed to Respond, Arf! Send a score of 237 in Bumble Beams. Brawn: Robbin' the Rich Send a score of 285 in Jumpin' Gem Heist.
	Robot Sandan Plushie
Game Challenge	Prize
Brains: A Gem in the Hand is Worth Two in the Sand Send a score of 1024 in Sutek's Tomb AND send a score of 1748 in Piper Panic. Brawn: May the Best Petpet Win Send a score of 203 in Meepit vs. Feepit AND send a score of 350 in Chariot Chase.
	Chasing Tombs: A Story
Game Challenge	Prize
Brains: Breaking New Ground Send a score of 573 in Gwyl's Great Escape. Brawn: Easy as Rolling off a Log Send a score of 305 in Turmac Roll.
	Gem Roll-Ups

Day 6: November 27, 2011

Timed Challenge	Prize
Brains: Break the Mould Send a score of 232 in Lost in Space Fungus. Brawn: Victory is Written in the Stars Send a score of 42689 in Nova Defender.
	The Day Defence Was Lost
Random Challenge	Prize
Brains & Brawn: Easy as Gaseous Moonpie Send scores for 3 different qualifying games from your Favourites List.
	My Favourite Grundo Plushie
Game Challenge	Prize
Brains & Brawn: Sloth Won't See This Coming! Send a score of 3106 in Spacerocked!.
	Black Eye Makeup (Oww, A Rock Hit Me!)
Game Challenge	Prize
Brains: Double Trouble... in Space! Send a score of 419 in Escape to Kreludor AND send a score of 168 in Moon Rock Rampage. Brawn: Galactic Juggling Act Send a score of 12 in Zurroball AND send a score of 218 in Evil Fuzzles from Beyond the Stars.
	Fuzzle and Moon Mobile

Day 7: November 28, 2011

Game Challenge	Prize
Brains: We're Just Bubbling Along Send a score of 243 in Faerie Cloud Racers AND send a score of 1708 in Spinacles AND send a score of 250 in Super Hasee Bounce. Brawn: Faerie, Faerie... Hasee? You're it! Send a score of 200 in Extreme Faerie Cloud Racers AND send a score of 146 in Faerie Bubbles AND send a score of 160 in Hasee Bounce.
	Hasee in a Bubble Racer
Random Challenge	Prize
Brains: Hope You're Not Afraid of Heights Send a score for 3 different qualifying games from Shenkuu. Brawn: No Time for Cold Feet Send a score for 3 different qualifying games from Terror Mountain.
	Snow Covered Lantern Garland
Random Challenge	Prize
Brains: Puzzle Master Send a score for 3 different qualifying puzzle games. Brawn: Action Hero Send a score for 3 different qualifying action games.
	Puzzling Actions: A Story of Action Puzzle Games
Random Challenge	Prize
Brains & Brawn: When the Going Gets Tough Send a score for 3 different qualifying games with a difficulty of 4.0 or higher.
	8-Bit Staff
Game Challenge	Prize
Brains & Brawn: I Knew I Should Have Started Earlier Send a score in 60 different qualifying games.
	Dazed and Confused Glasses

Qualifying games

Only games from the following list could be played as part of the challenges:

List of qualifying games

200m Peanut Dash Advert Attack Attack of the Gummy Dice Barf Boat Berry Bash Biscuit Brigade: Hagan's Last Stand Bouncy Supreme Bruno's Backwoods Breakaway Bumble Beams Carnival of Terror Chariot Chase Chemistry for Beginners Cooty Wars Crisis Courier Dar-BLAT!!! Darigan Dodgeball Destruct-O-Match III Dice of Destiny Dubloon Disaster Dungeon Dash Edna's Shadow Escape to Kreludor Evil Fuzzles from Beyond the Stars Extreme Faerie Cloud Racers Extreme Herder Extreme Herder 2 Extreme Potato Counter Eye of the Storm Faerie Bubbles Faerie Cloud Racers Feed Florg Flycatcher Freaky Factory Gadgadsgame Ghost Bopper Goparokko Gwyl's Great Escape Hasee Bounce Hot Dog Hero Hungry Skeith Ice Cream Machine Igloo Garage Sale - The Game Imperial Exam Itchy Invasion Jolly Jugglers Jubble Bubble Jumpin' Gem Heist Kass Basher Kiko Match II Kookia Korbats Lab Kou-Jong Legends of Pinball Let It Slide Lost City Lanes Lost in Space Fungus MAGAX: Destroyer II Magma Blaster Maths Nightmare Meepit Juice Break Meepit vs. Feepit Meerca Chase II Moon Rock Rampage Mop 'n' Bop Mutant Graveyard of Doom II Mynci Beach Volleyball Neopian Battlefield Legends Neverending Boss Battle Nimmos Pond Nova Defender Petpet Plunge Piper Panic Pterattack Ready to Roll Revel Roundup Rink Runner Roodoku Ruins Rampage S.M.E.L.T. Scourge of the Lab Jellies Shenkuu Warrior Shenkuu Warrior II Slorgs in Space Smug Bug Smite Snot Splatter Snow Roller Snow Wars II Snowball Fight Snowbeast Snackrifice Snowmuncher Sophie's Stew Spacerocked! Spellseeker Spinacles Splat-A-Sloth Stowaway Sting Super Hasee Bounce Sutek's Tomb Swarm - The Bugs Strike Back TNT Staff Smasher Techo Says The Great Desert Race The Great Qasalan Caper The Haunted Shootery The Search for Princess Lunara The Usul Suspects Time Tunnel Top Chop Trouble at the National Neopian Tubular Kiko Racing Tug 'O' War Turmac Roll Tyrannian Mini Golf Ugga Drop Ugga Smash Ultimate Bullseye II Usuki Frenzy Volcano Run II Wheeler's Wild Ride Whirlpool Wicked Wocky Wobble Wingoball Wrath of the Snowager Zurroball

Neocash activity

During this event, users could join Lulu's Room Raid, where Lulu raided her cousins' bedrooms for exclusive Neocash wearable prizes.

Each day, Lulu and the player could find two prizes, one in Aristotle's room and one in Abigail's. In order to raid one of the bedrooms, players had to purchase the key to the room from the NC Mall for 700 NC. There were two keys to buy - one for each of the rooms - and buying one of the keys allowed the player to earn all the wearables from that room for the entire event.

Activating the keys awarded the player a bonus background wearable.

Date	AAA's Room	Abigail's Room
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	Lulus Room Raid: AAA Room Key	Lulus Room Raid: Abigail Room Key
Activating key
	AAAs Room Background	Abigails Room Background
22 November
	Games Master Cape	Handmade Galactic Costume Wig
23 November
	Gaming Helmet	Soft Magical Hair Usuki Plushie
24 November
	Hannah and the Ice Caves Background	Rainbow Field of Daisies Background
25 November
	Handy Neocola Serving Machine	Sporty Tennis Dress
26 November
	Abigails Custom Drawn Dreamy Hanso Diary	Artwork Display Garland
27 November
	Extra Special Gaming Blankie	Stars and Glitter Face Paint
28 November
	Gamers Costume Staff	Open Book of Tales

Prizes

Release day	Team Brains	Team Brawn
Brains vs. Brawn Stamp	Brains vs. Brawn Frame	Fabulous Paper Cone Hat

At the end of the event, players were awarded a certain trophy depending on how many challenges they had completed and which team they played for. A different item was awarded at each prize tier. Players received the item for their tier and all the tiers they had passed - e.g. a player who had completed five challenges would receive the second tier trophy, as well as Brain & Brawn - Working Together and Super Food Platter.

Players who completed all 23 challenges on the day of release received an additional prize, the Brains vs. Brawn Stamp. Players for Team Brains, who earned more points in total than Team Brawn, received a Brains vs. Brawn Frame, while members of the losing team, Team Brawn, received a Fabulous Paper Cone Hat.

Team Brains	Team Brawn	Tier prize
Complete 1 challenge		Super Food Platter
Complete 5 challenges		Brain & Brawn - Working Together
Complete 10 challenges		Quill Sword
Complete 15 challenges		Cheering Pom Poms
Complete 23 challenges		Weighty Thinking Foreground

Bonus prizes

After completing a challenge once, users could repeat the same challenge up to four more times to earn points for their team. Every time a user finished one of these Bonus Plays, they were rewarded with one item randomly selected from the below list:

Bonus prizes

Advanced Learning Asparagus Powered Ray Gun Battle Eyrie Action Figure Battle Spade Beefy Cheesy Hot Dog Blue Slorg Calculator Book of Chemical Reactions Brain Hot Dog Brain Ice Cream Brain Kebab Brain Muffin Brain Stew Brainy Blumaroos Brilliant Blade of Brightvale Chalk Board Math Book Club And Rock Game Difficult Equations Elixir of Intellect Extra Meaty Sandwich Galactic Protein Shake Genius Negg Giant Grarrl Burger Golden Book of Spelling Hand Weights Hissi Exercise History of the Strength Potion Kacheek Exercise King Hagan Garden Statue Korbat Calculus Oversized Maractite Rune Sword Protein on the Go Pull-up Bar Ridiculously Heavy Battle Hammer Rubber Power Axe Run Scroll of Knowledge Scroll of the Scholar Sinsis Puzzle Book Square Roots-n-More Strength Serum Strong Berry Java Strong Forever Glue Unleashed - The Great Lupe Escape Word Problems Workout Bench