2 groups of 8 players
Each group will play 8 games on the WWII Europe map with identical settings. Only difference is that since this is a freestyle, manual deploy, each player will be required to deploy last in one game, thereby preventing them from paying first. Premiums only.
Top 2 from each group advance, plus next 4 highest points from all remaining players. Scores are reset to zero and we start fresh. Groups will be determined randomly. Any tiebreaker will use same settings as regular games.
Settings: Manual deploy, freestyle, escalating, standard, Fog, unlimited
Point System:
Place Points
1 10
2 8
3 6
4 5
5 4
6 3
7 2
8 1
Extra point for each kill made, and +3 point for blitzkreig (eliminate all other players on 1 turn). If you don't wait to deploy in your "last" game last, you lose 5 points. Actually, it's more important that you do not start first in your last game, so the penalty will be applied once the game begins - not at deployment time.
Rule change for finals - waiting to play not first really does not matter, so that rule is lifted for the finals. Play when you are ready.
