Andrew Bennett: Difference between revisions

Although Andrew was not part of the [[CCLP3]] staff and none of his levels were voted into the final product, he was the third player to officially finish the entire levelset, and the second member not on the staff. After solving the 149th level out of 149 ([[Vulcan]]), he attained first place on the scoreboard for the first time.

Andrew largely retired from Chip's Challenge soon after optimizing CCLP3. He has made a few brief returns, notably following [[Chip's Challenge 2]]'s release, but has not optimized it, nor [[CCLP1]] or [[CCLP4]].

In addition to many AVI and [[TWS]] solutions, Andrew also worked extensively on the [[ChipWiki]] YouTube channel. He added many annotations to the videos of [[CC1]] and [[CCLP2]] solutions, explaining them in painstaking detail. Unfortunately, YouTube discontinued support for annotations in January 2019, destroying all of Andrew's hard work.

While Andrew arrived on the CC scene in 2001, by which time the CC1 records were mostly taken, he has spent two and a half years as the record holder on [[Doublemaze]]. As CCLP2 was released noticably later, he currently holds seven CCLP2 records including two [[joint bold]]s, has previously held records to six others, and has also confirmed many other well-known records in both sets. Andrew's most famous achievement in CC1 may be the confirmation, and near-breaking, of [[Blobnet]]'s bold of 434; this 435.0 route was famously bungled at the last second to drop him away from what was then outright first place. (This time would take 189 more days for someone to actually reach.)

Also famously, he worked heavily on [[random-element]] levels in [[CCLP2]], such as [[Mads' Rush II]] and [[Lot of Danger]], to prove that their [[Melinda]] times were possible; only the former has been claimed. Most well-known of all is his work on an old 476 route to [[Keep Trying]] from CCLP2, which has become an intense study of angling each [[toggle wall]] to the proper frequency while moving through random [[force floor]]s to squeeze second upon second out of the route. Despite these studies, Andrew maintains a profound distaste for [[random element]]s in the logic-based Chip's Challenge, equaling that of [[rockdet|Rock Genereux]]'s dislike of [[Invalid tile|"treachery"]].

Andrew has created one levelset, [http://davidstolp.com/oldy/chips/overall.php?set=andrewb1%20new here], which is often regarded as one of the most difficult sets ever made. It contains the level that gives him his Wiki username. The actual [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LH_9lJxeiXg song named ''Octavarium''] is provided for entertainment and to better understand the level itself.

Andrew is also famed for innovative concepts related to playing and solving Chip's Challenge and integrating outside elements for the purpose of the common good. [[Ghosting]] was developed in response to lengthy [[itemswapper]]s in [[CCLP3]] including [[Which One Next?]] and [[Tool Box]]: the process uses [[CCDesign]] to make unsaved changes to a level in the order one desires to follow while actually playing the level, and once the route is optimized to undo and redo infinitely within CCDesign, thus promptly accessing any point in the route.

The notorious [[April Fools' Day 2010#New glitch hoax|''Tele-Rooms'' hoax]], among the most realistically plausible of all CC hoaxes yet done for April Fools' Day, is also Andrew's handiwork. <!---Andrew also holds the Guinness Book of Records achievement of causing the loudest recorded scream from Trevor Hedges due to the inappropriate nature of his levelset.--->