BASKET · CHALLENGE OF 2026-09-22

HOW THE DAY WENT

Tuesday, September 22 brought BASKET, at level 2, and 17 people played.

ADRIAN won with 12 points, just 1 ahead of ZERO PUMA: a day settled by a hair. POLINOMIOS rounds out the podium with 11.

Among the top 10, the average was 8 points.

THE SCREEN

It used map 2 of the 3 that BASKET has. It was played at level 2, with the same seed for everyone: the same enemies and the same pieces in the same order.

THE MUSIC

Danza húngara n.º 5, Johannes Brahms, 1869.

The most famous of the 21 dances Brahms arranged on what he took to be Hungarian folk tunes; this one was actually by another composer, Béla Kéler.

It is in the public domain, transcribed to chiptune with square and triangle waves, the way it would sound on an Atari 2600.

ABOUT TODAY'S GAME

Side view with a clock: you move, jump and release the shot. Releasing at the top of the jump is the perfect shot; releasing low, or with the defender on you, is a block or a miss.

Two points from close and three from far, and the day's map sets the court and the seconds.

· It is the only challenge here where the score is small and every make counts enormously: first and tenth place are usually three or four baskets apart.

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