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Congrats TylerC On The DTD Challenge

Last week I made a contest where the person who had the #1 score on the hard for the shoemoney group on desktop tower defense would win a 100$ shopping spree on Amazon from me.

When I woke up Tuesday TylerC had just destroyed all competition with a score in the 9,000 range.

I emailed him, congratulated him on his victory and asked him what he wanted. I also asked if I could ask him a question to get a quote from him on the blog.

He selected this from the amazon store

The question I posed to him was pretty simple:

Shoemoney: You pulled out a huge victory in the ShoeMoney DeskTop Tower Defense challenge. Can you give us a little insite on how one achieves such a dominating performance?

His answer?

TylerC: Well, after looking through the rules I noticed that nothing was said that we actually had to play the game. Using this to my advantage, I opened up my trusty memory hacker that every shady blackhat should have (how else would you send traffic with highscores?) and got to work. In about 10 mins my 1337 skills granted me access to unlimited money, unlimited time, whatever the frick I wanted. I know there was some whiners but its not my fault they where afraid to test the waters, I saw it as a way to get some new office supplies for free :) Thanks for the competition Shoe, and shout-outs to Ice and Mick ;) Also, look forward to a little tutorial on how to do it at RotInPieces.com

WELLL ALLLLLLLLLRIGHTY THEN!

I was pretty surprised this game was so easily cheated and while I wish someone would have won playing the game straightup I am a man of my word and paid out as he was the #1 (dont hate the player hate the game).

So I guess no more flash games contests lol.. I have a few more ideas in the pipe though for a contest soon.



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  1. Grivon

    Yea man…?! Givin’ away anymore sooooon!?!? Guess you don’t really need the promo anymore though huh..

  2. website copywriter

    I’d say Tyler won the prize fair and square. He did read the rules after all, which is saying a lot. Some people never even bother browsing game rules. Congrats on the win, T. I suggest beating other people the old school way some time though — could be a whole lot more fun.

  3. Wealth Junkie

    Its more like “leveraging your abilities to achieve your goals”..

  4. Wealth Junkie

    “Its a game, of course its assumed you have to play it.”

    Why do you have to assume that?

  5. Wealth Junkie

    That if you want it bad enough you will do whatever it takes to make it happen..

  6. Wealth Junkie

    I agree. Its all about ‘thinking out of the box’, right..?

  7. Robert Melton

    C’mon people – Tyler C just smoked ya! Looks like from the comments I’m glad I never clicked the link.

  8. TylerC

    The tutorial is up on my new blog…. Click the T to tha C :)

  9. Wealth Base Camp

    Me either, but it was fun and now I keep getting the urge to go back.

  10. Wealth Base Camp

    What if you did get DQ. Does it matter if you were not going to win?

  11. DCR

    Shoe, I don’t know whether to curse you or praise you for turning me on to desktop td. =) I’ve already wasted so much time on it lol. Thanks for the contest and congrats to TylerC! Now I have to get back to it, defense that is….

  12. Bulbboy

    All you did was take Shoe at his word, nothing wrong with that, although you did miss out on all the fun and lost productivity. =P

  13. Mick

    Congrats to TylerC

    Hey man anyone complaining is just trying to wash away the taste of sour grapes ;-) If I’d found a hack I’d have used it – maybe a few others would have too lol.

  14. JasonM

    I swore off the game, never to touch it again. But NOW that I know you can backdoor it…hmm…unlimited money would be pretty cool. OK, I’m in. Looking for the RotInPieces guide soon…

  15. ToddW

    Congrats, Ithink we all are probably playing to mcuh now though!! LOL

  16. DngloZ

    damn this game is addictive! been playing it for 30 minutes and got around 2000 on hard, is that good or just average?

  17. TylerC

    It says to get to the top. Thats what I did?

  18. TylerC

    Whats your point?

  19. TylerC

    Thanks Neil, been reading your blog. Keep up the good work!

  20. TylerC

    Put it this way… If I had said anything before and people found out it was okay everyone would have done it and I would not have won. Stop crying.

  21. SEO Blog

    if you aint cheatin, you aint tryin

  22. CatherineL

    Well at least he was honest about it.

  23. Papa Rage

    Wow TylerC. I don’t have any respect for your cheating ways. But now I have a tiny bit of respect for the fact that you finally came clean about it.

  24. Travel Notebook

    Donate the $100 to charity and dont send him anything

  25. Neil

    Congrats to him… that game was hard and I sure didn’t have the time to sit and battle it out….haha.

  26. Dana Mark

    Just another true-life example of those who know how to cheat the system come out on top, and those of us who don’t know how, or who follow our parents teachings to not cheat, continue to plug away by the rules and come out on the bottom.

  27. jim

    at least this one didn’t lead to a lot of spamming and people hating him :)

  28. Travel Notebook

    That shouldnt count. I mean, its kind of impressive that he figured out what to do but the contest was about playing the game straight up.

    “nothing was said that we actually had to play the game”

    Are you kidding me? Its a game, of course its assumed you have to play it.

  29. fivecentnickel.com

    Hahahah. That’s awesome! By the way, my kids and I are now addicted to DD. Thanks for nothing… ;)

  30. TylerC

    What can I say… Do what you gotta do ;)

  31. Ali

    nice and evil little tactic.

  32. Paul.

    This reminds me of all the guys making huge cash from virtual goods using World of Warcraft type bots. SEOblackhat had a good post about virtual goods about a month ago.

  33. ritchie

    Doesn’t require a special prize though. I think the main prize is pretty appropriate.

  34. ritchie

    Nice idea… it’s always about carefully studying the rules :)

  35. Dio

    Ha Ha, that’s class. Though, to be fair, he was only doing what Shoemoney has himself suggested a number of times in the past. I often recall him saying at one point on a webmasterradio.fm show that ‘The gray area’s where you make the money’ – as in not doing the obvious. I think there should be a special prize for showing such devious initiative.

  36. SEO blog

    Dangit! I should have known. I couldn’t even touch that score on the easy level.

  37. Saeid

    LOL. I was thinking about doing that, but thought I would get disqualified. :P

  38. ShoeMoney

    haha no doubt. It happens…

  39. The Grin

    you aren’t really lucky with you contests… i still remember the seo contest ;)

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