Games Master Challenge 2012
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[edit]
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 | |
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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[edit]
Day 1: November 20, 2012[edit]
Random Challenge | Prize |
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Pirate & Ninja: Five Faves
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My Favourite Things | |
Game Challenge | Prize |
Pirate: Loosen Your Belt...
Ninja: Some Assembly Required...
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Rainbow Jelly Chomby |
Day 2: November 21, 2012[edit]
Game Challenge | Prize |
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Pirate: Chute To the Top!
Ninja: A Towering Achievement...
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How Not to Topple | |
Mystery Challenge | Prize |
Pirate & Ninja: Stumped Yet?
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Turmac Roll Garland |
Day 3: November 22, 2012[edit]
Game Challenge | Prize |
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Pirate: Bounce To The Top!
Ninja: Bounce To The Top!
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Jelly Blumaroo Jelly | |
Timed Challenge | Prize |
Pirate: Hit The Beach!
Ninja: Anti-Gravity Propulsion
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Zurroball Grundo Plushie | |
Mystery Challenge | Prize |
Pirate & Ninja: Don't Get Swamped!
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Bearclops |
Day 4: November 23, 2012[edit]
Mystery Challenge | Prize |
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Pirate & Ninja: Think Outside The Box!
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Dark Faerie Cloud Racer Helmet | |
Game Challenge | Prize |
Pirate & Ninja: Don't Lose Your Cool!
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Igloo Ice Cream Cone | |
Game Challenge | Prize |
Pirate: Keep On Swinging!
Ninja: It Takes A Thief...
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How to Survive |
Day 5: November 24, 2012[edit]
Mystery Challenge | Prize |
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Pirate & Ninja: Take Your Best Shot!
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Bullseye Fascinator | |
Game Challenge | Prize |
Pirate: Now You See Them, Now You Don't...
Ninja: It Takes A Thief...
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Ready, Set, Aim! | |
Game Challenge | Prize |
Pirate: Get The Best Of Those Pests!
Ninja: In Neopia, The Cooties Get You!
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Petpetpet Poison Slushie | |
Game Challenge | Prize |
Pirate & Ninja: Sandans Rock!
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Angry Bori Foreman Action Figure |
Day 6: November 25, 2012[edit]
Game Challenge | Prize |
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Pirate: Rock & Roll
Ninja: Take The Plunge!
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Recycled Metal Projects | |
Random Challenge | Prize |
Pirate & Ninja: Qualifying Quintet
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Pile of Snack Foods | |
Timed Challenge | Prize |
Pirate & Ninja: Flee Outbreak
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Neovia Potion | |
Mystery Challenge | Prize |
Pirate & Ninja: Pad Your Stats...
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Unique Pond Rocks Foreground |
Day 7: November 26, 2012[edit]
Mystery Challenge | Prize |
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Pirate & Ninja: Give It A Snot!
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Snot Frame | |
Random Challenge | Prize |
Pirate: Get In The Action!
Ninja: How Puzzling...
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The Popularity Book | |
Game Challenge | Prize |
Pirate & Ninja: In Space, No One Can Hear You Play...
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Space Fashions | |
Game Challenge | Prize |
Pirate: Sailin' Sidekicks
Ninja: It's A Snap!
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Unfair Seesaw Toy | |
Game Challenge | Prize |
Pirate & Ninja: Four Scores and 56 To Go...
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Not Enough Sleep Wig |
Qualifying games[edit]
Only games from the following list could be played as part of the challenges:
Neocash activity[edit]
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 |
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Prizes[edit]
Release day | Team Brains | Team Brawn |
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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 |
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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[edit]
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 | |||
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Behind the scenes[edit]
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[edit]
Day seven's challenges originally all required a score of 5 to complete, rather than the scores they actually asked for.
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