Games Master Challenge 2012

This Games Master Challenge featured the rivalry between pirates and ninjas.

The seventh annual Games Master Challenge began on November 19, 2012 and concluded on November 26, 2012. Each day users were given several Games Room related challenges by Aristotle A. Avinroo to complete.

As in Games Master Challenge 2011, this year's challenged featured a competition between two teams players could join. This year, they were pirates versus ninjas. Players could either join Team Pirate, led by Captain Three Legs, or Team Ninja, led by the Techo Master. At the end of the event, the team which had completed the most challenges won.

The challenges issued to each user changed depending on which team they joined. The challenges for Team Pirate focused more on action and adventure games, while the challenges for Team Ninja focused more on puzzle and strategy games. In the NC Mall, Lulu returned to raid bedrooms for Neocash wearables - this time, the rooms of Captain Three Legs and the Techo Master.

Teams

In order to participate, users first had to join a team. As a reward for joining a team, users were given an exclusive sign up bonus including 100 NC and a wearable based on the corresponding team that they chose.

Captain Three Legs and Team Pirates
Ye should be joinin' Team Pirate! We've got the strength to defend our homeland from the Krawken, the determination to rebuild our island and the creativity to be givin' it a lovely makeover, as well as the athletic prowess to bring home the Altador Cup! Plus, The Golden Dubloon be servin' the finest meals in all the land!
	Pirate Cutlass
The Techo Master and Team Ninja
Team Ninja's the team for you! We are wise beyond our years, and through tireless training have perfected the art of being swift and deadly. If you are prepared to learn the way of the master, then joining us is a must - especially since our finely tailored apparel is far superior to the rags of those slovenly swashbucklers...
	Shirasaya Sword

Challenges

Day 1: November 20, 2012

Random Challenge	Prize
Pirate & Ninja: Five Faves Add five different qualifying games to your Favourites List.
	My Favourite Things
Game Challenge	Prize
Pirate: Loosen Your Belt... Send a score of 175 in Hungry Skeith. Ninja: Some Assembly Required... Send a score of 204 in Freaky Factory.
	Rainbow Jelly Chomby

Day 2: November 21, 2012

Game Challenge	Prize
Pirate: Chute To the Top! Send a score of 55 in Warf Rescue Team. Ninja: A Towering Achievement... Send a score of 125 in Wicked Wocky Wobble.
	How Not to Topple
Mystery Challenge	Prize
Pirate & Ninja: Stumped Yet? Send a score of 284 in Turmac Roll.
	Turmac Roll Garland

Day 3: November 22, 2012

Game Challenge	Prize
Pirate: Bounce To The Top! Send a score of 246 in Super Hasee Bounce AND send a score of 500 in Bouncy Supreme. Ninja: Bounce To The Top! Send a score of 152 in Super Hasee Bounce AND send a score of 500 in Bouncy Supreme.
	Jelly Blumaroo Jelly
Timed Challenge	Prize
Pirate: Hit The Beach! Send a score of 80 in Mynci Beach Volleyball. Ninja: Anti-Gravity Propulsion Send a score of 10 in Zurroball.
	Zurroball Grundo Plushie
Mystery Challenge	Prize
Pirate & Ninja: Don't Get Swamped! Send a score of 150 in Sophie's Stew.
	Bearclops

Day 4: November 23, 2012

Mystery Challenge	Prize
Pirate & Ninja: Think Outside The Box! Send a score of 275 in Faerie Cloud Racers.
	Dark Faerie Cloud Racer Helmet
Game Challenge	Prize
Pirate & Ninja: Don't Lose Your Cool! Send a score of 2950 in Ice Cream Machine AND send a score of 643 in Igloo Garage Sale - The Game.
	Igloo Ice Cream Cone
Game Challenge	Prize
Pirate: Keep On Swinging! Send a score of 200 in Caves and Corridors: Mystery Island. Ninja: It Takes A Thief... Send a score of 100 in Ruins Rampage.
	How to Survive

Day 5: November 24, 2012

Mystery Challenge	Prize
Pirate & Ninja: Take Your Best Shot! Send a score of 50 in Ultimate Bullseye II.
	Bullseye Fascinator
Game Challenge	Prize
Pirate: Now You See Them, Now You Don't... Send a score of 439 in Flycatcher AND send a score of 4500 in Goparokko. Ninja: It Takes A Thief... Send a score of 100 in Ruins Rampage.
	Ready, Set, Aim!
Game Challenge	Prize
Pirate: Get The Best Of Those Pests! Send a score of 560 in Itchy Invasion. Ninja: In Neopia, The Cooties Get You! Send a score of 410 in Cooty Wars.
	Petpetpet Poison Slushie
Game Challenge	Prize
Pirate & Ninja: Sandans Rock! Send a score of 26650 in Jumpin' Gem Heist.
	Angry Bori Foreman Action Figure

Day 6: November 25, 2012

Game Challenge	Prize
Pirate: Rock & Roll Send a score of 450 in Barf Boat AND send a score of 400 in Ready to Roll. Ninja: Take The Plunge! Send a score of 630 in Bumble Beams AND send a score of 600 in Jubble Bubble.
	Recycled Metal Projects
Random Challenge	Prize
Pirate & Ninja: Qualifying Quintet Send scores for five different qualifying games from your Favourites List.
	Pile of Snack Foods
Timed Challenge	Prize
Pirate & Ninja: Flee Outbreak Send a score of 925 in Bruno's Backwoods Breakaway.
	Neovia Potion
Mystery Challenge	Prize
Pirate & Ninja: Pad Your Stats... Send a score of 540 in Nimmos Pond.
	Unique Pond Rocks Foreground

Day 7: November 26, 2012

Mystery Challenge	Prize
Pirate & Ninja: Give It A Snot! Send a score of 15,000 in Snot Splatter.
	Snot Frame
Random Challenge	Prize
Pirate: Get In The Action! Send a score for 5 different qualifying top 10 action games. Ninja: How Puzzling... Send a score for 5 different qualifying top 10 puzzle games.
	The Popularity Book
Game Challenge	Prize
Pirate & Ninja: In Space, No One Can Hear You Play... Send a score of 1834 in Assignment 53 AND send a score of 500 in Evil Fuzzles from Beyond the Stars AND send a score of 560 in Moon Rock Rampage.
	Space Fashions
Game Challenge	Prize
Pirate: Sailin' Sidekicks Send a score of 434 in Petpet Cannonball. Ninja: It's A Snap! Send a score of 966 in Top Chop.
	Unfair Seesaw Toy
Game Challenge	Prize
Pirate & Ninja: Four Scores and 56 To Go... Send a score in 60 different qualifying games.
	Not Enough Sleep Wig

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 Assignment 53 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 Caves and Corridors: Mystery Island Chariot Chase Chemistry for Beginners Cooty Wars Crisis Courier Dar-BLAT!!! 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 Eye of the Storm Faerie Bubbles Faerie Cloud Racers Feed Florg Flycatcher Freaky Factory Gadgadsgame Ghost Bopper Goparokko Hasee Bounce 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 Cannonball 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 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 Warf Rescue Team Wheeler's Wild Ride Whirlpool Wicked Wocky Wobble Wingoball Wrath of the Snowager Zurroball

Neocash activity

During this event, users could join Lulu's Masterful Plundering, 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	Captain Three Legs' Quarters	The Techo Master's Abode
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	Captain Threelegs Room Key	Techo Master Room Key
Activating key
	Captain Threelegs Quarters Background	Techo Masters Abode Background
19 November
	Pirate Knots Shirt	Ninja Star Wig
20 November
	Island of Buried Treasure Background	Ninja Shadow Attack
21 November
	Ship Hat and Wig	Elaborate Ninja Dress
22 November
	Set Anchor Staff	Timely Smoke Bomb
23 November
	Oversized Compass	Training Equipment Background
24 November
	Fetching Pirate Stubble	Sword Collection Garland
25 November
	Surrounded by Swords Foreground	Techo Master Cane Sword
26 November
	Giant Oversized Pawkeet Plushie	Spiked Ninja Bracers

The Techo Master Cane Sword NC item looked a lot like the Shirasaya Sword Neopoint item. Because of this, The Neopets Team gave out an additional prize to people who had activated the Techo Master's key:

Tranquil Meditation Tree

Prizes

Release day	Team Brains	Team Brawn
Threelegs vs. Techo Master Stamp	Victory Sign	Defeat Sign

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.

Players who completed all the challenges also received a Threelegs vs. Techo Master Stamp. By the end of the event, Team Ninja had earned more points than Team Pirate. All members of Team Ninja were rewarded with a Victory Sign, while all members of Team Pirate received a Defeat Sign as a consolation prize.

Team Pirate	Team Ninja	Tier prize
Complete 1 challenge		Pirate Bento
Complete 5 challenges		Pirates vs. Ninjas: The Novel
Complete 10 challenges		Throwing Cutlass
Complete 15 challenges		Ultimate Battle Garland
Complete 23 challenges		Warrior Wig

Bonus prizes

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

Bonus prizes

Behind the Mask Bound Darkness Scroll Black Belt Usuki Set Black Cherry Tea Black Fan of Shenkuu Black Leather Helmet Blue Eyrie Hair Brush By the Seashore Capn Threelegs Training Sword Captain Threelegs Cobrall Training Darigan Krawk Collectable Figurine Dark Faerie Darts Dark Nova Dark Vine Potion Five Dubloon Coin Flying For Eyries Jade Staff Kikos Darkside Kougra Chocolate Dubloon Krawk Pirate Ship Kyrii Chocolate Dubloon Mag Codestone Mystery Island Monthly Mystery Island Paperback Book Mystery Island Pop-Up Book Mystery Island Training School Background Pirate Eyrie Plushie Pirate Jetsam Plushie Quintilc Throwing Star Red Eyrie Plushie Shadow Ogrin Plushie Shadow Usul Pinata Ship Ropes Garland Ship Ropes Handheld Simple Wooden Fighting Staff Sho Codestone Skeith Chocolate Dubloon Sunset On Mystery Island Techo Master Hand Puppet Techo Master Plushie Techo Master Tactics Ten Dubloon Coin The Shadowy Shoyru The Techo Adept Toy Pirate Sword Training School Myths Twenty Dubloon Coin Two Dubloon Coin Vial of Beach Wooden Dubloon Toy Wooden Practice Staff

Behind the scenes

The theme for this challenge plays on both the internet meme of pirates versus ninjas as well as there being two rivalling training schools on Mystery Island and Krawk Island - the Mystery Island Training School and the Swashbuckling Academy.

The titles of the challenges also referenced other works:

• It Takes a Thief... is part of a proverb about catching thieves. It is also the name of of two TV series, one beginning in 1968 and one beginning in 2005.
• Now You See Them, Now You Don't... refers to the title of a 1972 film, Now You See Him.
• In Space, No One Can Hear You Play... is a play on the tagline for the 1979 film Alien, "In space, no one can hear you scream."
• Four Scores and 56 To Go... is is a play on the phrase "four score and seven years ago", from Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address.

The Neopets Team reported that complaints about the trophies they received this year led them to make one set of trophies silver and the other set gold in the following year's challenge.

Bug

Day seven's challenges originally all required a score of 5 to complete, rather than the scores they actually asked for.