All games will be 24hr, 6 player Terminator. No round limits.One year Premium to the winner show: background
Now Magic Users are an irritable bunch and can be quite vindictive. While the true Mage likes winning, and big breakfasts that last for hours - not necessarily in that order. What any wizard worth the name really, really likes, is someone else to lose. The more powerful the they are the more pronounced this characteristic becomes. As apprentices you may focus mainly on your rivals, but as you advance to Wizzard and Adept and your power and waist-line grow, you care less and less who you kill. As Mages you are all powerful and have no rivals, none you will admit to be worthy of your special attention anyway. But occasionally, in a bout of nostalgia for your younger and slimmer days, you will deign to swat an old enemy. though it is hardly worth the trouble.
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Maps for The Quest Midgard, Midkemdil and TamrielMap for any tie break at the end of The Quest Draknor - level 1Map for the Final and Final tie break Discworld
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1. All games will be 6 player terminator. 2. You will play up to 8 games - 6 on the way to the final and 2 in the final. Plus any tie breaks. 3. There will be three players of each colour. 4. You will play as the same colour throughout - your kind of magic. Excepting playoff games. You can choose this colour when signing up. If you don't choose a colour - or your choice of colour is already full - you will be placed in the next empty spot that fills the colours evenly. 5. One player of each colour will be in the final. 6. To qualify for the final you must have more points than the other two players of the same colour. 7. You will have a special rival among the other colours and you will gain extra points for killing them. 7a. You will not play in a fixed group.
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The settings will be chosen by the players Apart from all games being Casual,Terminator, No Round Limits - anything goes. When you sign up please post your settings. These settings will be used in one of the 6 games you play on the way to the final - assigned randomly. The settings of the 2 highest ranked qualifiers willl be re-used for the final.Please post your choice from Auto/Manual Sequential/Freestyle Escalating/Flat Rate/Nuclear/No Spoils Chained/Adjacent/Unlimited Sunny/Fog
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * T h e Q u e s t PART 1 - Apprentice You are Apprentices, just begining your journey to greatness - you will explore your homeland and get your first taste of magic.
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You will each play one game on Midgard, Midkemdil of Tamriel
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PART 2 -Wizzard You are now a Wizzard, you have your own pointy hat with stars on, and your confidence has grown - you set out to explore new lands and encounter opponents both old and new.
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you will each play 2 games, (sent together) one each on the 2 maps you haven't yet explored
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PART 3 - Adept You are now an Adept and your powers have grown enough that in the final rush to become a mage you will re-explore all three lands.
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you will each play three games (sent together) one on each map
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The rivals come in pairs, the pairs are:- RED and GREEN BLUE and YELLOW PINK and CYAN So if Red kills Green, Red gets extra points. If Green kills Red, Green gets extra points. The same applies for the other 2 pairs
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Points for Apprentices 1 point for a kill 1 point for a win +2 points for killing your rival colourPoints for Wizzards 1.5 points for a kill 1 point for a win +1.5 points for killing your rival colourPoints for adepts 2 points for a kill 1 point for a win +1 point for killing your rival colourExtra points For killing the same colour 4 times - 1 point For killing the same colour 5 times - 2 points For killing the same colour 6 times - 5 points
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The first tie break will be a count of the number of times you have killed your rival colour. Next it will go to a comparision of the most kills of any colour then the second most kills all the way down to the least kills of a colour. Example: Player A & Player B ( both red ) Player A has killed 4 green, 4 yellow, 3 blue, 2 pink, 1 cyan Player B has killed 4 green, 4 blue, 2 yellow, 2 pink, 2 cyan The tie is broken at the third comparison - where Player A has killed 3 blue to Player B's 2 yellow Player A wins. If it is still tied all the way to the least number of kills of a colour. Then I will conclude that you are just being annoying and you will be exiled to the Dread Darkness of The Dungeons of Draknor from whence only one will emerge alive. You will play a tie break game on Draknor - Level 1 : Sequential/Auto/Esc/Ch/Fog
T h e F i n a l B a t t l e Mage You are now Mages and have defeated your rivals in your school of magic - pausing only for a 3 hour breakfast - you travel to The Discworld ( the home of magic) to battle the Mages of the other 5 colours for the title of Archmage.
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The 6 Mages will play 2 games on the Discworld map The settings will be those chosen for The Quest by the 2 highest ranked qualifiers - tie breaks used for this if needed. if the tie breaks don't pick a setting then the setting will be chosen randomly.
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3 points for a kill 1 point for a win +0.5 points for killing your rival colour The Points will be reset to Zero at the start of the final. The tie breakers will not be reset and will be used, if needed, as they were at the end of The Quest. If the tie break cannot pick a winner there will be a playoff game on the Discworld map : Sequential/Auto/Esc/Ch/Sunny
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WHEN SIGNING UP Choose your settings Choose a colour show: reserves policy
Reserves will have the points of the player they replace. They may choose their personal settings. If the settings for the player they replace have already been used, the settings chosen by the reserve will be used for the final if they are one of the 2 highest qualifiers.
Freemiums welcome - but you will need to keep 3 spots open.
Signed up players and their settings in the post below.