Wiki Speed Run Tournament
Overview
This is a tournament to discover who is the fastest explorer of the world's largest encyclopedia, in the West End of Toronto.
Wikispeedruns is a browser-based game built on top of Wikipedia. The core idea is to start on one randomly chosen Wikipedia article and navigate, by clicking only in-article links, to another target article as fast and in as few clicks as possible. It turns Wikipedia’s hyperlink graph into a timed maze.
Format
Group stage — 4 groups. All players race the same route simultaneously. The first 3 finishers in each group advance to the bracket (12 players total).
Bracket stage — Single elimination. 1v1, best of 3. 5 minute time limit per round. Group winners receive a first-round bye and advance directly to the quarterfinals.
Finals — Best of 5. 7 minute time limit per round.
Randomized seeding within groups.
Ruleset
Both players receive the same randomly generated start article and target article simultaneously.
First to reach the target wins the round.
If both players have not reached the target article within the time limit, the round is null and is replayed.
Sudden death — After 2 consecutive null rounds, each player will individually attempt to complete the same route in succession. The player who reaches the target in the faster time wins. Sudden death is not time-capped.
Wikipedia only (English).
Mouse navigation + trackpad accepted.
Requirements
Enjoyer of Wikipedia
Wikispeedruns account
An eligible device to play wikispeedruns.com on
Heart of gold, abundance mindset
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