Global Takeover I - [Winner - sportsgod24]

Its been a long, grueling battle for world supremacy, but in the end, North American emperor sportsgod24 stands victorious as the lone Global superpower.
Congrats to sportsgod and to all 3 of you for sticking around and keeping things close!

56 players - choose one of 28 regions to start in
Settings are Standard/Automatic/Escalating/Unlimited
The first three games in each round are Sunny, following games for that round are Foggy.
NOTE: Freemiums must have at least 3 spots are open for entire tournament
I will send out game invites for all games. All players have 48 hours to join there games unless I've been notified of a planned absence.
First round is 1v1 - win 3 to become ruler of that region and advance to the next round.
Second round 4-6 players compete for their continent - first player to 2-3 wins* rules that continent and advances to the final round.
Third and final round is for global domination. 6 players compete on a set of 6 global maps:
Classic, Doodle Earth, World 2.1, High Seas, Land and Sea, & Extreme Global Warming
The first player to win once on all 6 maps wins the tournament and is crowned emperor.
After each set of six, players who did not win a game that set are eliminated from the following set.
Before the following set, eliminated players challenge all the other remaining (non-eliminated) players on his/her home continent. If the eliminated player wins that game, they are re-entered in the following set.
If all remaining players in any set have previously won on a particular map, that map will be skipped.
Congrats to sportsgod and to all 3 of you for sticking around and keeping things close!

56 players - choose one of 28 regions to start in
Settings are Standard/Automatic/Escalating/Unlimited
The first three games in each round are Sunny, following games for that round are Foggy.
NOTE: Freemiums must have at least 3 spots are open for entire tournament
I will send out game invites for all games. All players have 48 hours to join there games unless I've been notified of a planned absence.
First round is 1v1 - win 3 to become ruler of that region and advance to the next round.
Second round 4-6 players compete for their continent - first player to 2-3 wins* rules that continent and advances to the final round.
Third and final round is for global domination. 6 players compete on a set of 6 global maps:
Classic, Doodle Earth, World 2.1, High Seas, Land and Sea, & Extreme Global Warming
The first player to win once on all 6 maps wins the tournament and is crowned emperor.
After each set of six, players who did not win a game that set are eliminated from the following set.
Before the following set, eliminated players challenge all the other remaining (non-eliminated) players on his/her home continent. If the eliminated player wins that game, they are re-entered in the following set.
If all remaining players in any set have previously won on a particular map, that map will be skipped.