Chip's Challenge Level Pack 3

Chip's Challenge Level Pack 3, often called CCLP3, is the third official level set of 149 levels for Chip's Challenge. The levels are taken from the many user-created level sets available on the Internet. Unlike Chip's Challenge Level Pack 2, this set is compatible with both the MS and Lynx versions of the game. The set definition of compatibility is when neither the MS or Lynx solution is significantly different or more difficult than the other. ^[1] CCLP3 levels were first accepted for submission in September 2006, but official announcements about CCLP3 itself did not begin until February 12, 2010. As with the CCLP2 voting, two categories are defined on the ballot: fun and difficulty. The 147 levels voted most fun are in the final set, while the distribution of votes for difficulty will be the general order of CCLP3, with slight alterations as deemed necessary. On December 13, 2010, the release date was confirmed for December 24 at midnight GMT and on 18 december, CCLP3 Leaks were announced. The set has since been released.

List of designers

Name	Number of Levels
Tyrethali Ansrath	1
Jeffrey Bardon	1
Joshua Bone	15
Daniel Bouwmeester	3
Derek Bowser	2
Dino Brewster	1
"CCLP3 Staff"	1
Gavin Duncan	5
Blake Ebert	1
Scott Feeney	1
Grant Fikes	2
"Firefly"	1
Andrew Gapic	2
Jeanne Hoffman	1
David Knight	1
Mike Lask	9
John Lewis	33
Peter Marks	3
Dan Miller	1
Tom Patten	3
David Pinkston	2
Wes Powers	4
Roger Quick	1
Andrew Raykowski	1
Rolf Redford	2
Bill Reid	1
Ida Roberthson	10
Tom Rowe	6
Eric Schmidt	1
Madhav Shanbhag	8
Jacques Smith	1
Tyler Sontag	7
James Spriggs	3
David Stolp	9
Jimmy Vermeer	1
Craig Vilbig	1
Alice Voith	4

List of CCLP3 levels, in chronological order

Level 1 Contest

Unlike CCLP2, the first level of CCLP3 was voted on separately, and is expected to be a review of the basic, and some advanced, concepts of Chip's Challenge. There were eleven levels in this ballot, each of which were nominated by other Chipsters. Its voting began on April 30.

The level in Bold won the contest. Levels with Italics are the ones that still got into CCLP3 through the regular voting process.

#	Title	Designer	Source Set	Original Level #
1	GET A CLUE	Alice Voith	AliceV1	4
2	STRAIGHT FORWARD II	Craig Vilbig	CCTLFC3-lynx	7
3	Learn	Jacques Smith	JacquesS2	74
4	TAKE A WALK (Every Trick in the Book)	John Lewis	JL1	94
5	NUTS AND BOLTS II	Josh Lee	JoshL	27
6	WELCOMING	Andrew Raykowski	AndrewR1	1
7	WALK IN THE PARK	Tom Patten	TomP3	2
8	Review (Entrance Examination)	Tyler Sontag	TylerSubmissions	1
9	Obstacle Course (Jumble)	Tyler Sontag	TylerSubmissions	27
10	Lots of Stuff	Wes Powers	WesP1	4
11	Zelgon's Lair	Wes Powers	WesP1	41

Cypher Level Contest

Like CC1 and CCLP2, CCLP3 has a Cypher level. Level designers could create their own level with three passwords and submit it to the CCLP3 staff, whilst keeping it a secret. Like the level one contest, it's voting began on April 30. The identities of the level designers were kept a secret until the voting ended.

The level in Bold won the contest.

#	Title	Designer
1	Ida's Cypher	Ida Roberthson
2	Keep On Cyphering	Peter Marks
3	SyllyCypher	Patrick Knowles II
4	Cypher III	Tyler Sontag
5	Cypher	Ian Cairns (PB_Guy)
6	Boots Were Made For Bridges	Nicholas Rupprecht
7	Animated Cypher (Motion Blur)	The CCLP3 Staff

Timeline of Events

Date	Event
2006-09-02	Levels first accepted for CCLP3 submission.
2010-02-12	After more than three years, submission cutoff date and voting date were announced.
2010-03-01	Submission cutoff date, designers with levels already submitted could still modify their levels until the voting date to fix compatibility issues or busts. ^[2]
2010-04-01	Voting began. ^[3] There were 2,224 levels available for voting; the initial press release from Larry Jackson explained a series of previously unknown glitches in Tile World Lynx such that only 162 levels could be voted on, before it was revealed that the release was an April Fools hoax. ^[4]
2010-05-12	First elimination of levels occurred. Around 1,100 levels remained.
2010-06-09	Second elimination of levels occurred. Around 550 levels remained.
2010-07-01	Final elimination of levels occurred. 447 levels remained.
2010-07-31	Voting ended. ^[5] 60 levels that were "on the bubble" were included in a two-week "wildcard vote", where voters could fine-tune their votes with higher precision. ^[6]
2010-08-14	Wildcard voting ended. ^[7]
2010-12-24	Chip's Challenge Level Pack 3 was released at 12:00am GMT

Staff

John Lewis (group leader)
Larry Jackson (group spokesperson)
Paul Gilbert
Mike Lask
Peter Marks
Madhav Shanbhag
David Stolp

Top 10 CCLP3 players

MS

Melinda score - 6,091,800

David Stolp - 6,089,800
Andrew Gapic - 6,084,730
Andrew Bennett - 6,083,360
Ben Hornlitz - 6,079,810
Giorgio Bianchi - 6,077,010
Tom Rowe - 6,073, 060
Miika Toukola - 6,063,220
Reynaldi Judianto - 6,048,210
Mike Lask - 6,039,230
Ryan Feenstra - 6,025,450

Lynx

Melinda score - 6,074,320

Miika Toukola - 6,071,740
Ben Hornlitz - 6,035,820
Reynaldi Judianto - 6,019,050
StadiaJack - 6,000,000
Ryan Feenstra - 6,000,000
Mike Lask - 5,974,910
Bowman - 5,932,270
Dave Varberg - 5,922,550
Brandon Lee - 5,911,750
The Architect - 5,894,720

Sources

External links

All levelsets with at least one level included in the voting

[1] ttp://chips.kaseorg.com/newsgroup/article.php?id=44137&group=annexcafe.chips.challenge

[2] ttp://chips.kaseorg.com/newsgroup/article.php?id=44090&group=annexcafe.chips.challenge

[3] ttp://www.pillowpc2001.net/levels/cclp3.htm

[4] ttp://chips.kaseorg.com/newsgroup/article.php?id=44523&group=annexcafe.chips.challenge

[5] ttp://chips.kaseorg.com/newsgroup/article.php?id=45612&group=annexcafe.chips.challenge

[6] ttp://chips.kaseorg.com/newsgroup/article.php?id=45835&group=annexcafe.chips.challenge

[7] ttp://chips.kaseorg.com/newsgroup/article.php?id=45963&group=annexcafe.chips.challenge

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