AN AMERICAN ODYSSEY is:
A series of 13 tournaments that I have designed to go through American history. Each of the tournaments takes place at pivotal points in America's history (and possible future). Using the maps available here on CC, I have come up with different names of each tourney and will have a small story tidbit to accompany each one. The map that each tourney will be played on will be identified in the story tidbit by being colorized.
Each tourney takes place on a different map, relating to different times in American history. The overall objective of players in the entire series is to score kills. All tourney games for the first 12 Tournaments will be a standard Terminator. Every kill that you make in each game you play will count towards your overall kill total. The 13th Tourney will be a final championship tourney for the top 32 players with the most kills over the first 12 tourneys.
If you are terminated form your game, you are out of the tourney, but not the series. The tourneys will run for 3 rounds each. From 64-players to 16 and then a 4-player final.
For the individual that accumulates the most kills throughout the first 12 tournaments of this series a General Achievment Medal will be awarded.
Each tourney will be open to 64 players, with the 13th tournament only being the 32 top killers. This tournament series is open to both Premium and Freemium, but multiple tournaments may take place at the same time so Freemium accounts must make sure any tournaments they join keep 1 dedicated slot open per tourney.The more tourneys that you enter as they become active, the better chance you have of winning and moving on to the Championship Tourney. If there happens to be a tie that results in more than 32 players, then those players who are tied with kills that result in the over 32 limit will play one or more games to determine the final entrants into the tourney. (These games will not count in the overall kill count for the series.)
In addition, as soon as each tourney is full, and game invites have been sent out, I will post the thread for the next tourney in the series, so be on the lookout for those that wish to keep playing this series. You must sign up for each tourney.
To join, simply indicate by posting in the thread that you want in. I will respond in the thread that you are in when I sign you up. I reserve the right to refuse any player form entering, but you really had to upset me to do that.
For all the tourneys, other than the map, the game settings remain the same throughout:
4-player games
Terminator
Automatic
Sequential
Chained
Foggy
Escalating
Winners of games in each round move on.
There will be special rules for the Championship tourney, to be revealed when it becomes active for the top 32 players. As each tourney progresses, overall kill counts will be tabulated after each round, and tables posted. Each kill counts as 1. Whether you win the game or not if you kill a player, it will be counted. Information on the final tourney can be found here:
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Tourney #4: Civil War
Less than 100 years have passed since The United States, with assistance from France, has won their independence from England. America has begun expanding beyond the original 13 states and now consists of 36 states. There are 20 mostly-Northern "Free States" and 18 slave states. The year is 1860, Abraham Lincoln has been elected as U.S. President, after campaigning against the expansion of slavery beyond the states in which it already exists.
However, before he can take office on March 4, 1861, 7 cotton states secede from the U.S., joining together to create the Confederate States of America. The incoming presidential administration rejected the legality of this act, and considered it rebellion. The other 8 slave states did not join the secession at this time. It should be known that no country in the world recognized the Confederacy.
Confederate troops attacked a military installation on April 12, 1861. President Lincoln called for a volunteer army to recapture federal property, which led to 4 more slave-backing states seceding from the union. These hostilities also marked the beginning battle of the "American Civil War". To this day, the war remains the deadliest in American history, resulting in the deaths of 620,000 soldiers, along with an undetermined amount of civilian casualties.
The Civil War effectively ended when Robert E. Lee surrendered to Grant at the Appomattox Court House on April 9, 1865. 5 days later, President Lincoln was shot at Ford's Theatre by John Wilkes Booth, and died within hours on April the 15, 1865.
(Information for this tourney's story can be found in Wikipedia)
As a TO I reserve the right to refuse entry to any individual. Usually this only happens when you deadbeat in a prior tourney of mine.
