by Dukasaur on Sun Feb 19, 2012 3:03 am
I will be rescuing this tournament.
Okay, for starters, I've quoted eagleblade's initial post verbatim, and added spoiler tags to make it a little more organised. Step 2 will be to figure out if round 1 is complete, and to post scores as required. Step 3 will be to start sending out Round 2 games. I'm hoping to get this done fairly quickly.
Edit: Looks like round 2 was mostly complete, although completely undocumented. I'll be doing some clean-up of the scoring, and we may be into round 3 sooner than expected. eagleblade wrote: show: intro
Years of Economic crisis shattered the Americas forcing the increase of taxes that eventually began causing civil unrest. Finally Argentina revolts and the central government manages to only hold the capital, then brazil follows but the rebels flee into the amazon rainforest. After the rebellions of South America Quebec separates. This is the spark for massive civil unrest in the most powerful government in the world USA, a major protest starts in L.A that spreads throughout the west coast. To make matters worse a drought happens and the central states reject to give any surviving crops to anyone. Already pumped up on the protest the central government of the US overreacts and sends in the military to forcefully take the crops. Soon all of the Americas is out of control.... Who will win and take the United States Of America's spot of Global Dominance? -this will be a 1v1 tournament -all participants have to have 3 slots open at all times -there will be a total of 32 players -every player will have a country -please specify the country you want -the prize will be a short tourny with the winners of other "conqueror" tournaments -the following countries will be:
show: initial players
1. 18 Colonies of the East (east coast)-randy pierce 2. Canada-Fewnixy 3. Mexico-chapcrap 4. Guatemala-KingDiabl0 5. Honduras-bernooch 6. Belize-danervinsucks 7. Panama-bearshark3 8. Nicaragua-pridekiller 9. Cuba- NCachulo 10. Quebec-Marshallbobby 11. United states of the Pacific (west coast)-Alexlau 12. Jamaica-withmejulie 13. Haiti-cheesefries25 14. Dominican Republic-Hedronn 15. Trinidad and Tobago-chidone 16. Columbia-ianphull 17. Chile-harvmax 18. Equador-generalhead 19. Peru-marcayuq 20. Uruguay-Steelfoot 21. United Guyanas-fmdm03 22. Brazil-hammer1967 23. Paraguay-Jinks 24. Bolivia-rmjw10 25. Argentina Buenos Aires -General Bax 26. Greenland-blonderic 27. Spanish Bloc(desert)-eagleblade22 28. Golden States (central)-gimli1990 29. Tijuana-Krissan 30. Bahamas-deanof7 31. Argentina Pampas-koul 32. New Brazilian Horizon Party(tropics)-GeneralAnestetic Needing Reserves!
show: round 1
ROUND 1 : Round Robin -there will be 8 groups of 4 players each that will have a round robin -each player will player another player TWICE -each country will be asked to choose a home map from the options in each group (messages will be sent out when Part 1 starts) -first and second players ranked in that group will advance into Part 2 -in an event of a tie there will be ONE tie breaker game played on the map "North America" -there will be 1 point awarded for winning at a home map and 2 at an away map GROUP 1 Haiti-cheesefries25 Jamaica-withmejulie Dominican Republic-Hedronn Trinidad and Tobago-chidone they will play on the maps: Haiti, Jamaica, Caribbean, Charleston GROUP 2 Argentina Pampas-koul Argentina Buenos Aires-General Bax Brazil-hammer1967 NBHP-GeneralAnestetic they will play on the maps: Brazil, Chicago, Quad Cities, San Francisco GROUP 3 Canada-Fewnixy Quebec-Marshallbobby Greenland-blonderic Bahamas-deanof7 they will play on the maps: Canada, Montreal, Vancouver, Greenland GROUP 4 18 Colonies of the east-randy pierce Panama-bearshark3 Guatemala-KingDiabl0 Cuba-NCachulo they will play on the maps: NYC, USA Southeast, USA New England, 13 Colonies GROUP 5 United States of the Pacific-Alexlau Nicaragua-pridekiller Belize-danervinsucks Honduras-bernooch they will play on the maps: USA west, USA Rockies, California, Central America GROUP 6 Golden States-gimli1990 Chile-harvmax Tijuana-Krissan Mexico-chapcrap they will play on the maps: USA Great Lakes, Mexico, Operation Drug War, Pearl Harbour GROUP 7 Spanish Bloc-eagleblade22 Uraguay-Steelfoot Columbia-ianphull Bolivia-rmjw10 they will play on the maps: USA Southwest, The Dust Bowl, Texas Wars, Route 66 GROUP 8 Peru-marcayuq Equador-generalhead Paraguay-Jinks United Guyanas-fmdm03 they will play on the maps: Galapagos Treasures, US Senate, USApocalypse, Triple Alliance
show: round 2
ROUND 2 : Round of 16 1)1st Group 1 will play 2nd Group 2 this will be a best of 3 on their home maps and Puget SoundHedronn vs General Bax 2)1st Group 2 will play 2nd Group 1 this will be a best of 3 on their home maps and America Civil Warkoul vs withmejulie 3)1st Group 3 will play 2nd Group 4 this will be a best of 3 on their home maps and ArcticMarshallbobby vs randy pierce 4)1st Group 4 will play 2nd Group 3 this will be a best of 3 on their home maps and Northwest PassageNCachulo vs deanof7 5)1st Group 5 will play 2nd Group 6 this will be a best of 3 on their home maps and Golfe Du Saint-Laurentpridekiller vs harvmax 6)1st Group 6 will play 2nd Group 5 this will be a best of 3 on their home maps and Arms Racegimli1990 vs bernooch 7)1st Group 7 will play 2nd Group 8 this will be a best of 3 on their home maps and Fractured Americaeagleblade vs generalhead 1st Group 8 will play 2nd Group 7 this will be a best of 3 on their home maps and Great LakesJinks vs Steelfoot
show: round 3
ROUND 3 : Quarter FInals -each participant will choose 1 preferred map of the Americas GAME 1: winner of 1) and winner of 3) will face in a best of 3 with 2 preferred americas maps and USA GAME 2: winner of 2) and winner of 4) will face in a best of 3 with 2 preferred americas maps and First Nations North America GAME 3: winner of 5) and winner of 7) will face in a best of 3 with 2 preferred americas maps and First Nations South America GAME 4: winner of 6) and winner of will face in a best of 3 with 2 preferred americas maps and New World
show: round 4
ROUND 4 : Semi Finals -these games will be a best of 3 1. winner of Game 1 will play winner of Game 3 on the following 3 maps: -First Nations Americas -Rail USA -USA 2. winner of Game 2 will play winner of Game 4 on the following 3 maps -First Nations Americas -Rail USA -USA
show: round 5 finals
ROUND 5 : Finals -winner of 1 will face winner of 2 in 2 sets of a best of 3, the first set will be on the map North America and the second one the map South America -in an event of a tie there will be a deciding battle on Doodle Earth
At this point begins my work. Below are the five rounds, with scores entered for the ones that are complete.
show: player re-list
1. 18 Colonies of the East (east coast)-randy pierce 2. Canada-Fewnix 3. Mexico-chapcrap 4. Guatemala-KingDiabl0 5. Honduras-bernooch 6. Belize-danervinsucks 7. Panama-bearshark3 8. Nicaragua-pridekiller 9. Cuba- NCachulo 10. Quebec-Marshallbobby 11. United states of the Pacific (west coast)-Alexlau 12. Jamaica-withmejulie 13. Haiti-cheesefries25 14. Dominican Republic-Hedronn 15. Trinidad and Tobago-chidone 16. Columbia-ianphull 17. Chile-harvmax 18. Equador-generalhead 19. Peru-marcayuq 20. Uruguay-Steelfoot 21. United Guyanas-fmdm03 22. Brazil-hammer1967 23. Paraguay-Jinks 24. Bolivia-rmjw10 25. Argentina Buenos Aires -General Bax 26. Greenland-blonderic 27. Spanish Bloc(desert)-eagleblade 28. Golden States (central)-gimli1990 29. Tijuana-Krissan 30. Bahamas-deanof7 31. Argentina Pampas-koul 32. New Brazilian Horizon Party(tropics)-GeneralAnestetic ---------------------------- NYC richman688 (apparantly introduced as an undocumented reserve in round 1)
show: round 1 scored
ROUND 1: Round Robin -there will be 8 groups of 4 players each that will have a round robin -each player will player another player TWICE -each country will be asked to choose a home map from the options in each group (messages will be sent out when Part 1 starts) -first and second players ranked in that group will advance into Part 2 -in an event of a tie there will be ONE tie breaker game played on the map "North America" -there will be 1 point awarded for winning at a home map and 2 at an away map GROUP 1 Haiti-cheesefries25 2 pts. Jamaica-withmejulie 6 pts. ADVANCES Dominican Republic-Hedronn 7 pts. ADVANCES Trinidad and Tobago-chidone 4 pts. they will play on the maps: Haiti, Jamaica, Caribbean, Charleston GROUP 2 Argentina Pampas-koul 7 pts. ADVANCES Argentina Buenos Aires-General Bax 5 pts. ADVANCES Brazil-hammer1967 1 pts. NBHP-GeneralAnestetic 2 pts. they will play on the maps: Brazil, Chicago, Quad Cities, San Francisco GROUP 3 Canada-Fewnixy 4 pts. Quebec-Marshallbobby 7 pts. ADVANCES Greenland-blonderic 1 pts. Bahamas-deanof7 6 pts. ADVANCES they will play on the maps: Canada, Montreal, Vancouver, Greenland GROUP 4 18 Colonies of the east-randy pierce 2 pts. Panama-bearshark3 NYC-richman688 2 pts. Guatemala-KingDiabl0 2 pts. Cuba-NCachulo 9 pts. ADVANCES they will play on the maps: NYC, USA Southeast, USA New England, 13 ColoniesGroup 4 is our first problem. NCachulo won the maximum possible of 9 points, and definitely advances. That is indisputable. However, randy pierce, richman688, and KingDiabl0 all won 2 points, so there should have been some kind of tiebreaker, and there is no record of one. For some reason which the original TO has not explained, randy pierce was allowed to advance without any reasoning provided. (Also, I'm somewhat disturbed that there is no record of why bearshark3 was dropped from the tournament. There may have been a reason, such as missing invites, but it should have been posted.) I'm going to write to all 5 of the players in Group 5 and see if they can explain all these discrepancies. Edit Feb. 20th. I wrote to everyone involved, and nobody could explain to me how the tie was decided. Nobody seemed particularly worried about it, so I have to assume that the tie was settled in some way that was generally acceptable to all, even if nobody bothered recording it. Since randy pierce has already played his round 2 games, it makes sense to just let the result stand as-is. GROUP 5 United States of the Pacific-Alexlau 3 pts. Nicaragua-pridekiller 8 pts. ADVANCES Belize-danervinsucks 2 pts. Honduras-bernooch 4 pts. ADVANCES they will play on the maps: USA west, USA Rockies, California, Central America GROUP 6 Golden States-gimli1990 6 pts. ADVANCES Chile-harvmax 5 pts. ADVANCES Tijuana-Krissan 4 pts. Mexico-chapcrap 1 pts. they will play on the maps: USA Great Lakes, Mexico, Operation Drug War, Pearl Harbour GROUP 7 Spanish Bloc-eagleblade22 5 pts. ADVANCES Uraguay-Steelfoot 4 pts. Columbia-ianphull 4 pts. Steelfoot and ianphull both having 4 pts., there was a proper tiebreaker and Steelfoot ADVANCES Bolivia-rmjw10 2 pts. they will play on the maps: USA Southwest, The Dust Bowl, Texas Wars, Route 66 GROUP 8 Peru-marcayuq 3 pts. Equador-generalhead 6 pts. ADVANCES Paraguay-Jinks 8 pts. ADVANCES United Guyanas-fmdm03 2 pts. they will play on the maps: Galapagos Treasures, US Senate, USApocalypse, Triple Alliance And that's it for round 1! We have a potential problem with Group 4; other than that everything seems to have been done correctly. The original organiser's problems seem to be more in the realm of slovenly record-keeping rather than any more serious mismanagement.
show: round 2 scored
ROUND 2 : Round of 16 1)1st Group 1 will play 2nd Group 2 this will be a best of 3 on their home maps and Puget SoundHedronn 2 vs General Bax 1 2)1st Group 2 will play 2nd Group 1 this will be a best of 3 on their home maps and America Civil Warkoul 2 vs withmejulie 1 3)1st Group 3 will play 2nd Group 4 this will be a best of 3 on their home maps and ArcticMarshallbobby 2 vs randy pierce 1 4)1st Group 4 will play 2nd Group 3 this will be a best of 3 on their home maps and Northwest PassageNCachulo 1 vs deanof7 2 5)1st Group 5 will play 2nd Group 6 this will be a best of 3 on their home maps and Golfe Du Saint-Laurentpridekiller 3 vs harvmax 0 6)1st Group 6 will play 2nd Group 5 this will be a best of 3 on their home maps and Arms Racegimli1990 0 vs bernooch 3 7)1st Group 7 will play 2nd Group 8 this will be a best of 3 on their home maps and Fractured Americaeagleblade 2 vs generalhead 1 8 )1st Group 8 will play 2nd Group 7 this will be a best of 3 on their home maps and Great LakesJinks 2 vs Steelfoot 1
show: round 3 with results
We are ready to start round 3. The tournament doesn't say how game options were chosen. It seems people chose their setting on their home map, but how were they chosen on the neutral maps? I've decided on the following system: If both players choose the same spoils on their home map, then the neutral map will also have those spoils, but if they choose different options, then the neutral map will have a third option that is neither of theirs. For instance, if both players choose Escalating, then their neutral map will also be Escalating, but if one chooses Escalating and the other chooses No Spoils, then their neutral map will be Nuclear, and so on. My only remaining problem is what to do about the Sun/Fog conflicts, since there is no third option there. To decide, I'm going to Game Finder and see what most people on the site prefer: USA 142414 sun, 15852 fog FN North 7318 sun, 4629 fog New World 39384 sun, 75140 fog Clearly, by large margins, people prefer to play New World foggy and the other two sunny.Hedronn 1 vs. Marshallbobby 2 Caribbean NS-C-F Game 10648283 Montreal NS-U-S Game 10648285 USA NS-A-S Game 10648288 koul 2 vs. deanof7 1 Chicago E-C-F Game 10648289 Vancouver FR-C-S Game 10648291 FN North NS-C-S Game 10648294 pridekiller 1 vs. eagleblade 2 California FR-C-F Game 10648296 Texan Wars NS-U-F Game 10648297 FN South NUC-A-F Game 10648301 bernooch 0 vs. Jinks 3 USA Rockies E-C-F Game 10648302 Triple Alliance E-C-S Game 10648303 New World E-C-F Game 10648304
show: round 4 with result
Settings chosen as explained here. As it turns out, both players in each pairing agree on spoils and reinforcements, but disagree on fog. Using the same method as in Round 3, I used game finder to find that CC player generally play USA sunny, by a huge 142600 - 15893 margin.Marshallbobby 1 vs. eagleblade 2 First Nations Americas NS-U-S Game 10698050 Rail USA NS-U-F Game 10698060 USA NS-U-S Game 10698089 koul 2 vs. Jinks 1 First Nations Americas E-C-F Game 10698051 Rail USA E-C-S Game 10698069 USA E-C-S Game 10698098
show: final
eagleblade wrote: Finals -winner of 1 will face winner of 2 in 2 sets of a best of 3, the first set will be on the map North America and the second one the map South America -in an event of a tie there will be a deciding battle on Doodle Earth
The final will be eagleblade vs. koul. Eagleblade's settings are NS-U-F and koul's are E-C-F, so by the same methodology as we used for round 3 and round 4, the neutral setting will be N-A-F. Set 1: North America NS-U-F Game 10770323 E-C-F Game 10770325 N-A-F Game 10770336 Set 2: South America NS-U-F Game 10792707 E-C-F Game 10792708 N-A-F Game 10792709
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Dukasaur on Sat Mar 17, 2012 1:41 am, edited 6 times in total.
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