History of Nuclear War IV [Winner=Junior Bee]

[Dukasaur]

History of Nuclear War IV
This is the fourth of four tournaments in a series which explores the history of nuclear war. This tournament will focus on current and future possibilities, now that the Cold War no longer dominates the political scene.

Eligibility: To play in this tournament, you must be premium, have a turns-taken record of 98% or better, at least 100 completed games, and be at least a PFC on sign-up.

Procedure: In each tourney in this series, the first nine phases will consist of multiplayer Standard games. In each of these phases, only the first player eliminated from each game is eliminated from the tournament. All others will continue to the next phase. As soon as all games in a phase have had one player eliminated, I will begin the next phase with the survivors. Winning these games will not influence the course of the tournament; only that first elimination is significant.
In the Final phase, all remaining players will play simultaneously in nine multiplayer Terminator games. These games will be completed and winning them will count, as will the number of kills.

Settings: All games will be Casual and Automatic, with Chained reinforcements, and No Trench. Maps will vary widely from phase to phase. Needless to say, spoils in all games will be nuclear.
Unlike the first three tournaments, in this one ALL games will be Foggy.

[spoiler=Phase 1]The most popular scenario for the outbreak of the next nuclear war starts with the Middle East. Whether you consider the extreme strategic importance of Middle Eastern Oil, the maelstrom of religious and ethnic hatreds that have consumed the region for thousands of years, or just its unfortunate positioning as the lynchpin that connects Europe, Asia, and Africa, it's easy to understand why so many Doomsday predictions feature the Middle East.
Phase 1
40 players in 5 groups will play 8-player games on the Middle East map. The first player eliminated in each game is out of the tournament. The remainder will go on to the next round.[/spoiler]
[spoiler=Phase 2]On the other hand, WWIII could erupt in Central Asia. India and Pakistan have been facing each other with nukes for decades now. Unresolved conflicts swirl everywhere around them.
Phase 2
35 players in 5 groups will play 7-player games on the Rail Asia (Beta) map. If for whatever reason there are problems with the map and it is withdrawn, we will use the Indian Empire map. The first player eliminated in each game is out of the tournament. The remainder will go on to the next round.[/spoiler]
[spoiler=Phase 3]Some people think the newest superpower, China, could trigger WWIII as it grows in dominance and begins to throw its weight around. In the words of Robert J. Ringer, "I suspect China will get a mouthful of plutonium when it tries to gobble up Taiwan."
Phase 3
30 players in 5 groups will play 6-player games on the Far East map. The first player eliminated in each game is out of the tournament. The remainder will go on to the next round.[/spoiler]
[spoiler=Phase 4]In the 1950s and 60s it was often theorized that the extreme heat released by a nuclear war would melt the poles and make the whole world brutally hot.
Phase 4
25 players in 5 groups will play 5-player games on the Extreme Global Warming map. The first player eliminated in each game is out of the tournament. The remainder will go on to the next round.[/spoiler]
[spoiler=Phase 5]Today, almost nobody supports the idea that nuclear war would lead to global warming. On the contrary, most scientists believe that smoke and soot blown into the upper atmosphere would lead to a phase of extreme cooling referred to as Nuclear Winter. If life continued at all, it might continue under conditions resembling Antarctica.
Phase 5
20 players in 4 groups will play 5-player games on the Antarctica map. The first player eliminated in each game is out of the tournament. The remainder will go on to the next round.[/spoiler]
[spoiler=Phase 6]Whichever way it happens, nuclear war is no longer something only the combatants need to think about. It is a sword that hangs over every nation on the planet.
Phase 6
16 players in 2 groups will play 8-player games on the World 2.1 map. The first player eliminated in each game is out of the tournament. The remainder will go on to the next round.[/spoiler]
[spoiler=Phase 7]Maybe our first nuclear war will encompass our Moon. Science fiction writers have often examined this idea from many angles.
Phase 7
14 players in 2 groups will play 7-player games on the Lunar War map. The first player eliminated in each game is out of the tournament. The remainder will go on to the next round.[/spoiler]
[spoiler=phase 8]Maybe, as we learn to colonize the asteroids and the outer planets, war will begin "out there".
Phase 8
12 players in 2 groups will play 6-player games on the Solar System map. The first player eliminated in each game is out of the tournament. The remainder will go on to the next round.[/spoiler]
[spoiler=Phase 9]We may even face nuclear war when we finally begin interstellar flights.
Phase 9
10 players in 2 groups will play 5-player games on the Space map. The first player eliminated in each game is out of the tournament. The remainder will go on to the next round.[/spoiler]
The finals will be different from the first nine phases.
[spoiler= Phase 10 - Finals - The nuclear cataclysm]Phase 10: The nuclear cataclysm
In the final round, the eight remaining players will face off simultaneously on all nine maps used in the tournament thus far. These games will be Terminator, and players will score 1 point for each kill and two extra points for winning a game. The player who scores the most points in the Cataclysm phase will win the tournament.[/spoiler]

For more information on this series, visit the History of Nuclear War Series InfoCentre

[Dukasaur]

[spoiler=players]perchorin
elonpuckhog
Fakyras
arno30
Ratrin
crazy4catnip
GreenBaize
Junior Bee
overlander
generalhead
10
PaRKoN
andyplondon
blonderic
Frito Bandito
Gilligan
pleve
cryinlion
contreras.ale
Mande1992
General Bax
20
bernooch
dorsettrob
ChefWeebles
whydelilah
uckuki
mickunited333
Evil Semp
Leverpuller
Larry46
Marshallbobby
30
giannikas
Loose Canon
runboy59
BADPAT
harvmax
aalii
windy81
epicgb
morleyjoe
uk massive
40

reserves:
rjhankey
mickunited333
WolfMist
Sandman175
chidone
DoomYoshi
thehippo8
Faro
Vaicius
ScootChina
Lufsen75
TX AG 90
abygorb
ESQuire[/spoiler]

This will be my 34th!
[spoiler=My list of tournaments thus far]My FIRST tournament: Dukasaur's Knucklehead Tournament
My SECOND tournament (and still my personal favourite): Intensities in Ten Cities!
My THIRD tournament: DK's 3-3-3
My FOURTH tournament: DK's CC Scrabble
My FIFTH tournament: A Fifth of Dukasaur
My SIXTH tournament: DK's koontz-style tourney
My SEVENTH tournament: Jules Verne Contest(new thread) (rescued from its original creator [player]DJENRE[/player])
My EIGHTH tournament: LOTTERY V (rescued from its original creator [player]DJENRE[/player])
My NINTH tournament: History of Nuclear War I
My TENTH tournament: DK's Friendship Festival
My ELEVENTH tournament: DK's koontz-style II
My TWELFTH tournament: History 101 (rescued from [player]Blinkadyblink[/player])
My THIRTEENTH tournament: My First Tourney (rescued from [player]Sword Master[/player]: it was HIS first tourney, not mine, lol)
My FOURTEENTH tournament: Guojia Anquan Bu TPA2 (my first TPA!)
My FIFTEENTH tournament: History of Nuclear War II
My SIXTEENTH tournament: Dukasaur's First Anniversary
My SEVENTEENTH tournament: DK's Christmas Quads
My EIGHTEENTH tournament: DKs Best of 2011 I - No Spoils
My NINETEENTH tournament:1v1 Conqueror of the Americas (rescued from [player]eagleblade[/player])
My TWENTIETH tournament: DKs Best of 2011 II - Flat Rate
My TWENTY-FIRST tournament: History of Nuclear War III
My TWENTY-SECOND tournament: WKRP in Cincinnati
Cancelled: DK's Easter Quads
My TWENTY-THIRD tournament: Whom or What Version 1
My TWENTY-FOURTH tournament: DKs Best of 2011 III - Nuclear
My TWENTY-FIFTH tournament: The Clan League Vase (the first not run under the Tournaments area of the site.)
My TWENTY-SIXTH tournament: Assassination by Fours [TPA2] (rescued from [player]MrGlassB[/player])
My TWENTY-SEVENTH tournament: Jim's Tourney Series #8: Fighting the Fog (rescued from [player]jimfinn[/player])
My TWENTY-EIGHTH tournament: Friendship Festival Special Edition [TPA2]
My TWENTY-NINTH tournament: Slacker Time 1
My THIRTIETH tournament: DKs Best of 2011 IV - Escalating
My THIRTY-FIRST tournament: In and Out: The Assasin - The Orient{sic} (rescued from [player]Eternal Shadow[/player])
My THIRTY-SECOND tournament: In the Trenches: 8 Thoughts (rescued from [player]Campin_Killer[/player])
My THIRTY-THIRD tournament: wm's 1st CC Tennis Open (rescued from [player]wesleymilo[/player])
My THIRTY-FOURTH tournament: History of Nuclear War IV
My THIRTY-FIFTH tournament: Salient Assassinations in History [TPA3][/spoiler]

[spoiler=phase 1 games]There were 40 items in your list. Here they are in random order:

Game 11862205
Mande1992
Junior Bee
cryinlion
BADPAT
Larry46
perchorin
Fakyras
runboy59

Game 11862203
uk massive
General Bax
harvmax
overlander
whydelilah
giannikas
contreras.ale
PaRKoN

Game 11862202
GreenBaize
windy81
pleve
blonderic
dorsettrob
epicgb
andyplondon
crazy4catnip

Game 11862201
Leverpuller
Evil Semp
Frito Bandito
mickunited333
arno30
aalii
morleyjoe
elonpuckhog

Game 11862200
generalhead
Loose Canon
Marshallbobby
Gilligan
uckuki
bernooch
Ratrin
ChefWeebles

Timestamp: 2012-10-28 22:35:52 UTC[/spoiler]
[spoiler=phase 2 games]There were 35 items in your list. Here they are in random order:

Game 11945119
uk massive
Mande1992
contreras.ale
whydelilah
blonderic
dorsettrob
Fakyras

Game 11945118
arno30
Marshallbobby
runboy59
overlander
elonpuckhog
cryinlion
Leverpuller

Game 11945117
crazy4catnip
PaRKoN
Evil Semp
epicgb
GreenBaize
ChefWeebles
Loose Canon

Game 11945116
windy81
andypl0nd0n
Ratrin
Junior Bee
morleyjoe
harvmax
uckuki

Game 11945115
giannikas
Frito Bandito
mickunited333
Larry46
Gilligan
BADPAT
bernooch

Timestamp: 2012-11-16 02:48:52 UTC[/spoiler]
[spoiler=phase 3 games]There were 30 items in your list. Here they are in random order:

Game 12210336
andypl0nd0n
Evil Semp
Ratrin
blonderic
whydelilah
Gilligan

Game 12210335
Frito Bandito
elonpuckhog
Mande1992
windy81
crazy4catnip
arno30

Game 12210334
GreenBaize
contreras.ale
cryinlion
dorsettrob
runboy59
Loose Canon

Game 12210333
Junior Bee
Larry46
bernooch
Fakyras
PaRKoN
mickunited333

Game 12210332
Marshallbobby
morleyjoe
ChefWeebles
overlander
giannikas
uckuki

Timestamp: 2013-01-13 04:14:31 UTC[/spoiler]
[spoiler=phase 4 games]There were 25 items in your list. Here they are in random order:

Game 12354682
cryinlion
Loose Canon
crazy4catnip
giannikas
uckuki

Game 12354681
Junior Bee
contreras.ale
arno30
Larry46
blonderic

Game 12354680
Fakyras
Gilligan
Mande1992
GreenBaize
elonpuckhog

Game 12354679
morleyjoe
mickunited333
andypl0nd0n
windy81
PaRKoN

Game 12354678
runboy59
overlander
whydelilah
Evil Semp
ChefWeebles

Timestamp: 2013-02-12 19:42:36 UTC[/spoiler]
[spoiler=phase 5 games]There were 20 items in your list. Here they are in random order:

Game 12577531
contreras.ale
Loose Canon
PaRKoN
giannikas
mickunited333

Game 12577530
blonderic
elonpuckhog
Evil Semp
Mande1992
runboy59

Game 12577529
morleyjoe
overlander
cryinlion
Junior Bee
Larry46.

Game 12577528
Fakyras
Gilligan
windy81
uckuki
uk massive

Timestamp: 2013-04-01 23:52:04 UTC[/spoiler]
[spoiler=phase 6 games]There were 16 items in your list. Here they are in random order:

Game 12691229
uk massive
elonpuckhog
Fakyras
Mande1992
Junior Bee
morleyjoe
overlander
Loose Canon

Game 12691230
uckuki
mickunited333
giannikas
Larry46
runboy59
Evil Semp
PaRKoN
Gilligan

Timestamp: 2013-04-28 23:27:07 UTC[/spoiler]
[spoiler=phase 7 games]There were 14 items in your list. Here they are in random order:

Game 12803532
runboy59
elonpuckhog
Loose Canon
Larry46
Fakyras
morleyjoe
PaRKoN

Game 12803531
overlander
Junior Bee
giannikas
mickunited333
uckuki
Gilligan
Evil Semp

Timestamp: 2013-05-28 01:11:15 UTC[/spoiler]
[spoiler=phase 8 games]There were 12 items in your list. Here they are in random order:

Game 12876830
giannikas
PaRKoN
Junior Bee
runboy59
elonpuckhog
Gilligan

Game 12876829
morleyjoe
uckuki
Evil Semp
Larry46
overlander
Loose Canon

Timestamp: 2013-06-16 20:47:44 UTC[/spoiler]
[spoiler=phase 9 games]There were 10 items in your list. Here they are in random order:

Game 12957464
elonpuckhog
Junior Bee
Larry46
morleyjoe
Gilligan

Game 12957463
overlander
uckuki
PaRKoN
giannikas
Evil Semp

Timestamp: 2013-07-08 12:33:54 UTC[/spoiler]

[spoiler=finals games]link to view Finals games

There were 8 items in your list. Here they are in random order:

Junior Bee
overlander
morleyjoe
Gilligan
PaRKoN
uckuki
giannikas
Larry46

Timestamp: 2013-08-24 14:03:41 UTC[/spoiler]

[perchorin]

I love me some nukes, sign me up!

[elonpuckhog]

in pls

[Fakyras]

In pls

[arno30]

count me in duke
thanks!

[Ratrin]

Great presentation!!!...
I'm in...

[crazy4catnip]

In please!

[Dukasaur]

I love me some nukes, sign me up!

Oh yes! Nukes galore!

in pls

In pls

count me in duke
thanks!

Absolutely, sir!

Great presentation!!!...
I'm in...

Thank you very much!

In please!

Yessir! In you are!

[GreenBaize]

In Plz

[Junior Bee]

in please

[overlander]

in please

[Dukasaur]

In Plz

in please

in please

All in!

[generalhead]

I love the way this tournament is set up, count me in dukasaur

[Gromph]

is there a round limit ?

[PaRKoN]

In please

[andypl0nd0n]

Count me in please

[Dukasaur]

I love the way this tournament is set up, count me in dukasaur

Thank you, pleasure to have you!

is there a round limit ?

No, I haven't really had a problem with nuclear games stalemating. Usually the nukes are enough to "reshuffle the deck" so to speak and keep things moving along. I think only once in all the tourneys I've run did a nuclear game deadlock.

In please

Count me in please

in, in.

[blonderic]

in please

[Frito Bandito]

in please

[Gilligan]

I will play!

[pleve]

in please

[cryinlion]

in plz

[contreras.ale]

In please (I am not sure what a PFC is, so I hope I meet the requirements)
Cheers!

[Mande1992]

any room left, in pls