This is my entry for the
MTC May 2017.
Theme: Choose your own route!
Yep, and this here is a huge pathfinding map.
The track features different locations within a castle (mountain with tunnels, forest, park). Overall there are 19 CPs. Start and finish are almost in the center. Most of the CPs are reachable by many different ways. Some of those are creative, like Bug-CPs or the platform CP, that you can take from the bottom or top. Beside that one, there is also a non-respawnable CP, which offers different possibilities. A few paths from one CP to another close by are done by a little trial section.
The most interesting thing on this (and that's why I've built in Valley) are the trains. Now it is not only searching for the shortest way, you also have to consider the trains and when those block some paths. So you also need a good timing to succeed.
My previous AT was 2:06, then I changed some little things, but was too tired that I couldnt finish anything better than 2:12 now. I sadly couldnt make it under the 2 min yet. But especially with my most recent changes, I'm sure that under 2 minutes is possible. Most of my runs were between 2:06 and 2:10 and this with completely different ways. It's very challenging to find the best route here + to also actually make a clean run on it.
EDIT: There are ways under 2 minutes! Maybe even sth like 1:53 in reach.
Good Luck to all those who give it a try!