macbone wrote:DK, I think you should call the second No Spoils and reform it as an Escalating game. =)
Well, if we got desperate that would be a solution. However, I really don't think that we're that desperate yet.
Game 9421442 and
Game 9421439 have already ended, and the two that remain
Game 9421441 and
Game 9421440 are in rounds 25 and 31, respectively. 31 rounds is not extremely long by CC standards... I've been in games that went 150 rounds, and there are some games going on CC that are over 4000 rounds now...
Still, in order for the tournament to go forward, it would be nice to get these wrapped up.
I think the real problem is that people are playing them as Standard games and building toward a final confrontation, instead of treating them as Terminator games.
From the
original description of the city stops:
... I do think, however, that we should celebrate our time sunbathing on the beach at Cairns (or sunbaking as they call it in Australia) with a nice laid-back No Spoils game too. To prevent the No Spoils game from getting too relaxed, and lasting forever, we will make it a Terminator game, and give double points for kills. This gives people some reward for going all-in. We will also have a No Spoils Trips game. Of course all the games will be Sunny -- we wouldn't want our resort stay to be spoiled by Fog!
Each player will participate in the following:
One 6-player Automatic No Spoils Chained Sunny Terminator game. This game scores two points per kill, with no other bonuses for winning or for finishing second. ...
I hope I was wiser than people give me credit for. I knew that multiplayer No Spoils has a tendency to deadlock, but I intended that being Terminator would avoid this tendency. As it says above, there are
two points in the tourney for each kill that you make in these, and no bonus for winning the game, so everyone has an incentive to go all-in, make a kill, even if it means that they will themselves be killed on the next turn. And of course, in CC terms the situtation is pretty good: if you score a kill and are then killed yourself, you might have (depending on the ranks involved) a small net loss or a small net gain. If you kill two people and are then killed, you will almost certainly have a net gain.
I think if people stopped thinking of these as Standard games and got more in line with the fact that they are Terminator, they would be over quickly.
And for those of you who really hate No Spoils and love your Escalators, there's a bright sun on the horizon. The next stop, Sydney, is ALL escalating!
I'll PM this post as well, to the 11 players left in those two games.
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