I'm Ryan Seacrest and This...is American Idol! This is for premium players only with 95% attendance or above please. All games in this tournament are Sequential The Tournament will begin April 1st 2009. show: Details of preliminary stages
To become this year's American Idol, first you'll have to get through the audition!Stage 1 - The Audition We'll start with 108 auditionees - 54 will go through to Hollywood! First you need to choose where you'll sing your audition. Please choose ONE of the following maps to play on: NYC San Francisco Dust Bowl Charleston Great Lakes Puget Sound Texan Wars Pearl Harbor You'll play your chosen map 4 times (1 v 1), once for each of the four judges: (all Audition games are Standard) Paula: Escalating, Unlimited, Sunny Randy: Flat Rate, Unlimited, Sunny Kara: Flat Rate, Chained, Sunny Simon: Flat Rate, Chained, Foggy You need 3 votes to go through! (If it ends up 2-2, the player who won Simon's vote goes through)Stage 2 - Hollywood Welcome to Hollywood! It's all new and exciting, so the 54 players will each play a 3-player game on New World: Standard Escalating Chained Sunny The 18 winners of these games are automatically through to the Semi-Finals. The other 36 players are given another chance: you will each play an 4-player Doubles game (teams will be randomly assigned using random.org) on New World with the same settings as above. All the winning teams will go through to the Semi-Finals.Stage 3 - Semi-Finals The 36 players will be split into 6 Groups of 6. Each group will play 1 game on American Civil War, and 1 game on USApocalypse. (Both games will be Standard, Escalating, Unlimited, Sunny) Points will be awarded as follows: 1st place: 8 points 2nd place: 5 points 3rd place: 3 points 4th place: 2 points 5th place: 1 point 6th place: 0 points The winner of each group and the 3 second-place players with the highest number of points will automatically go through to the Final 12. The remaining 27 players will fight for the last 3 places in the Final 12 on the US Senate map. 27 players will get knocked down to 9 (3-player games) who will then get knocked down to 3 (3-player games again). Settings will be the same as the earlier Semi-Final games.
Stage 4 - Final 12 Congratulations on making it to the Final 12!
12 players in 3 Groups of 4
Standard, Escalating, Unlimited, Sunny
Here you get to start choosing your maps!
At this point the remaining players will PM me their choice of map from the following list:
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Egypt: Lower Egypt: Nubia Egypt: Upper Egypt: Valley of the Kings Madagascar Africa
Each group will play the maps chosen by the players in the group once.
Points will be awarded as follows:
1st place: 4 points
2nd place: 2 points
3rd place: 1 point
4th place: 0 points
At the end of the round the top 3 players in each group are safely through to the next round.
The players who finish last in their group will play off on the USA map with the following settings:
Assassin Flat Rate
Unlimited
Foggy
The assassinated player is eliminated from the tournament, the other two players go through to the next round.
No points are carried over; you've got to fight hard every week for America's votes!
Stage 5 - Final 11 11 players will each play four 1 v 1 games (randomly assigned by random.org). Each player will choose a map from the list below:
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Iberia Iceland Imperium Romanum Indochina Ireland Italy
Everyone will play their own map twice, and 2 opponents' maps.
Standard, Escalating, Unlimited, Sunny
The 3 players with the fewest wins will play-off for survival on USA in the same way as the previous round.
Stage 6 - Final 10 10 players in 2 groups of 5
Standard, Escalating, Unlimited, Sunny
Everyone will choose one map from the list below:
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WWII Ardennes WWII Australia WWII Eastern Front WWII Gazala WWII Iwo Jima WWII Western Front WWII Europe
Every group will play each player's chosen map once.
Points:
1st: 7 points
2nd: 4 points
3rd: 2 points
4th: 1 point
5th: 0 points
The bottom player from each group and the next lowest-scoring player (from either group) will play-off on USA in the same way as the last two rounds.
Stage 7 - Final 9 9 players in 3 groups of 3
Standard, Escalating, Unlimited, Sunny
Each player will choose
two maps; one from List A and one from List B:
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List A Scotland Ireland British Isles 2List B Netherlands Luxembourg BeNeLux
Each group will play both of each player's maps, making 6 games in total.
Points:
1st place: 3 points
2nd place: 1 point
3rd place: 0 points
The bottom player of each group will play-off on USA as before.
Stage 8 - Final 8 8 players in 2 groups of 4
Standard, Escalating, Unlimited, Sunny
Each player will choose
two maps; one from List A and one from List B:
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List A Ancient Greece Alexander's Empire Circus Maximus Imperium Romanum Mongol EmpireList B Conquer 4 Conquer Man Crossword Chinese Checkers
Each group will play both of each player's maps, making 8 games in total.
Points:
1st place: 4 points
2nd place: 2 points
3rd place: 1 point
4th place: 0 points
The bottom player from each group and the next lowest-scoring player (from either group) will play-off on USA in the same way as before.
Stage 9 - Final 7 Standard, Escalating, Unlimited, Sunny
7 players will each choose 1 map from the list below:
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San Francisco Scotland Siege! Solar System South America Soviet Union Space Supermax: Prison Riot Sydney Metro
Points:
1st: 12 points
2nd: 8 points
3rd: 5 points
4th: 3 points
5th: 2 points
6th: 1 point
7th: 0 points
Players will play each of the chosen maps,
plus US Senate.
After all 8 games have been played, the bottom 3 players will play-off on USA as before.
Stage 10 - Final 6 Standard, Escalating, Unlimited, Sunny
6 players will each choose 1 map from the list below:
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NYC San Francisco Dust Bowl Charleston Great Lakes Puget Sound Texan Wars Pearl Harbor
Points:
1st: 8 points
2nd: 5 points
3rd: 3 points
4th: 2 points
5th: 1 point
6th: 0 points
Players will play each of the chosen maps,
plus New World, USApocalypse and American Civil War.
After all 9 games have been played, the bottom 3 players will play-off on USA as before.
Stage 11 - Final 5 Standard, Escalating, Unlimited, Sunny
Each player will choose
two maps; one from List A and one from List B:
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List A Pearl Harbor Philippines Poker Club Portugal Prohibition Chicago Puget SoundList B Feudal War Forbidden City France Germany Great Lakes Greater China
Points:
1st: 7 points
2nd: 4 points
3rd: 2 points
4th: 1 point
5th: 0 points
Each group will play both of each player's maps, making 10 games in total. The bottom
two players will play-off on USA in Fog.
Stage 12 - Final 4 Standard, Escalating, Unlimited, Sunny
Each player will choose
two maps; one from List A and one from List B:
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List A D-Day: Omaha Beach! Discworld Doodle Earth Draknor - Level 1 Duck and Cover Dust BowlList B Age of Realms 1 Age of Realms 2 Age of Realms 3 Treasures of Galapagos Feudal War Oasis
Points:
1st: 4 points
2nd: 2 points
3rd: 1 point
4th: 0 points
Players will play both of each player's chosen maps,
plus New World, American Civil War and US Senate.
After all 11 games have been played, the bottom 2 players will play-off on USA as before.
Stage 13 - Final 3 Standard, Escalating, Unlimited, Sunny
Each player will choose
three maps; one from List A, one from List B and one from List C:
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List A Africa Asia Australia South America EuropeList B NYC San Francisco Dust Bowl Charleston Great Lakes Puget Sound Texan Wars Pearl HarborList C Classic Art Classic Shapes Doodle Earth
Points:
1st: 3 points
2nd: 1 point
3rd: 0 points
Players will play all three of each player's chosen maps,
plus New World, American Civil War and USApocalypse.
After all 12 games have been played, the last-place player will be eliminated.
Stage 14 - Grand Final Standard, Escalating, Unlimited, Sunny
Each player will choose
four maps;
two from List A, one from List B and one
any other map :
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List A NYC San Francisco Dust Bowl Charleston Great Lakes Puget Sound Texan Wars Pearl HarborList B Classic Art Classic Shapes Doodle Earth
Players will play all four of each player's chosen maps,
plus New World, American Civil War, USApocalypse, US Senate, USA, North America and World 2.1.
At the end of all 15 games, the player who has won the most games in the Grand Final has won over the hearts of the American public and is crowned the
Winner of American Idol Season 8! Please sign up with your choice of Audition Map!
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