LOTY 2025 Results (Winner: "It's Crazy Sports Day!" & "Epilogue")

[IchoTolot]

LOTY 2025 has finally ended and the winners are:

kaywhyn's "It's Crazy Sports Day!"

&

92Dexter11's "Epilogue"

Congratulations to kaywhyn and 92Dexter11! I will contact you soon regarding the price of 10 USD.

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Third place goes to: IchoTolot's "Industrial Incident"

See you soon in LOTY 2026!

[Guigui]

Congratulations to the winners !

This was nice competing with you and watching Simon streams.
Hope to meet you again next year.

[Mobiethian]

Way to go, you two! All levels are well done.

[92Dexter11]

Wow! Thank you so much everyone for voting and congratulations to my co-winner Kaywhyn!

All of the nominated levels this year were genuinely incredible and I feel humbled to have won joint first place!

[Simon]

Congratulations to the winners! Many solid levels.

Epilogue had the most interesting solution of the three. During the poll of the final 3 levels, it seemed a clear winner. Now it tied. If I had to guess a downside ... maybe it's less elegant than the other two because it relies on more complex mechanics (permanent skill removers)? Maybe the solution is a tad too hard to find? Doesn't matter, lovely level, and a deserved top place.

It's Crazy Sports Day: At first, I was surprised to see it do so well. I had already seen all its tricks elsewhere. But in hindsight, it makes sense. It's a backroute-free showcase of several different tricks and it needs both planning and insight.

Industrial Incident is a classic case of hiding a simple solution in plain sight. Nothing is distracting, nothing is unfair, and yet it takes time to solve.

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I had soft spots for these:

Armani's Underroot. I may have a soft spot for the rock tileset in general, but there is more here. One technical trick, and you feel that the entire level is made to support it. Before you know the trick, everything looks beautiful -- the visuals reminds me of Utopia by Pieuw -- and after you see the trick, it's beautiful and functional.

Icho's Tower of Sacrifice. The closest relative may be Geoffster's Parking Garage, doing everything with terrain removers when it looks like you need blockers and builders.

The Split by Dexter. Looks beautiful. Has a nice mix of easy pattern recognition and serious planning to tie the solution together.

All 4 maps by Giga. After you memorize what gadget does what, you get interesting puzzles every time. Lawful Neutral I liked the most.

Building, Fencing by Dexter. A well-hidden fair solution.

Crane's A Step Down With Difficulty, kaywhyn's Organic National Park, Armani's Let's Go Spelunking (after removing the horrible glare from the torch).

-- Simon