Nothing But Neutral Ground: Salem's Switch [Winner: alt1978]

[anamainiacks]

Nothing But Neutral Ground: Salem's Switch
Anyone with one slot available at all times can sign up!

Do you have a knack for swaying people to your side? Do you know how to pull people from sitting on the fence over to your side? Are you skillful in manuevering your way around stubborn people who refuse to take sides? Well then, this tournament is for you!

Welcome to the thirty-third in a series of tournaments called Nothing But Neutral Ground!

Introduction
In many maps we have on CC, the neutral territories play an integral role in the gameplay of the map. In these maps, the neutral territories usually take up more than half of the territories, and in some cases, even close to all of them! This series of tournaments celebrates the key role of these neutral troops and territories, and tests how well you are able to sway these neutral territories to serve your purpose, or neglect them if they are of no use to you.

As stated in the title, the map you will be playing for this tournament is Salem's Switch. Other maps that will be used in future tournaments are listed below.

[spoiler=Maps]Cuban Missile Crisis
Island of Doom
Knights
Operation Drug War
Steamworks
Trafalgar[/spoiler]

Gameplay
The tournament will follow a 1v1 single elimination structure (1 game per round). The top 8 players by CC points will be seeded, and the rest of the players will be randomly assigned into the bracket using random.org. This entire tournament will take place over 4 rounds, till the last player standing is crowned the winner for having swayed the neutrals to their side!

The game settings for all games will be as follows:
Map: Salem's Switch
Type: Standard
Troops: Automatic
Order: Sequential
Spoils: Flat Rate
Fortifications: Chained
FoW: Foggy
Trench: No


So what are you waiting for! Stop standing on neutral ground, and choose to sign up now!


Past Tournament Winners
[spoiler=Past Winners]I. Nothing But Neutral Ground: Feudal War - b00060
II. Nothing But Neutral Ground: Arms Race! - Gifton
III. Nothing But Neutral Ground: New World - Gifton
IV. Nothing But Neutral Ground: Route 66 - perchorin
V. Nothing But Neutral Ground: WWII Poland - Krissan
VI. Nothing But Neutral Ground: Battle For Iraq! - b00060
VII. Nothing But Neutral Ground: Feudal Epic - Streaker
VIII. Nothing But Neutral Ground: Jamaica - PepeAtila
IX. Nothing But Neutral Ground: Age Of Realms 1 - stokiepaul
X. Nothing But Neutral Ground: City Mogul - RKCVED
XI. Nothing But Neutral Ground: Dawn of Ages - jghost7
XII. Nothing But Neutral Ground: Peloponnesian War - ViperOverLord
XIII. Nothing But Neutral Ground: Poker Club - jghost7
XIV. Nothing But Neutral Ground: Age Of Realms 2 - mr. CD
XV. Nothing But Neutral Ground: Woodboro - canona85
XVI. Nothing But Neutral Ground: Monsters - jghost7
XVII. Nothing But Neutral Ground: Age Of Realms 3 - canona85
XVIII. Nothing But Neutral Ground: King's Court - fairman
XIX. Nothing But Neutral Ground: Lunar War - ViperOverLord
XX. Nothing But Neutral Ground: Supermax: Prison Riot! - torres44cm
- MAJOR - Nothing But Neutral Ground: Master of Neutrals - tokle
XXI. Nothing But Neutral Ground: Conquer Rome - osujacket
XXII. Nothing But Neutral Ground: Antarctica - Arya
XXIII. Nothing But Neutral Ground: All Your Base Are Belong To Us - bearkshark3
XXIV. Nothing But Neutral Ground: Das Schloss - DD2
XXV. Nothing But Neutral Ground: Treasures Of Galapagos - bearshark3
XXVI. Nothing But Neutral Ground: Trench Warfare - shaneback
XXVII. Nothing But Neutral Ground: King's Court II - lisbon101
XXVIII. Nothing But Neutral Ground: Atlantis - babagonosh
XXIX. Nothing But Neutral Ground: Baseball - Razorvich
XXX. Nothing But Neutral Ground: Clandemonium - lisbon101
XXXI. Nothing But Neutral Ground: Imperium Romanum - runboy59
XXXII. Nothing But Neutral Ground: Oasis
XXXIII. Nothing But Neutral Ground: Cricket
XXXIV. Nothing But Neutral Ground: Salem's Switch[/spoiler]

Notes
1. I reserve the right to change aspects of the game if anything needs changing, to ensure fairness to all players or for the benefit of the tournament.
2. If you wish to withdraw from the tournament at any time, please inform me via personal message or post on this thread.
3. If you do not join the game within 48 hours, you will be replaced.
4. If you are know you are not going to be around for a duration of time, please inform me. If the period of time is short enough, I will delay all of your games.
5. Reserves will only be used for Round 1. In Rounds 2 onwards, the player that was defeated by the player who dropped out will be used as the replacement.
6. For any questions, problems etc. you may voice it out in this thread or you can PM me.

[anamainiacks]

Finals
mint-murray vs. alt1978

Round 3
mint-murray vs. (4) nolefan5311
alt1978 vs. spirou

Round 2
mint-murray vs. babagonosh
(5) jigger1986 vs. (4) nolefan5311
(3) ejph vs. alt1978
(7) chapcrap vs. spirou

Round 1
(1) CafeT vs. mint-murray
(8) Gilligan vs. babagonosh
(5) jigger1986 vs. MyTurnToWin
(4) nolefan5311 vs. Goober
(3) ejph vs. crazystef
(6) anonymus vs. alt1978
(7) chapcrap vs. Marshallbobby
(2) runboy59 vs. spirou


Players (FULL)
[spoiler=Players][player]runboy59[/player]
[player]MyTurnToWin[/player]
[player]chapcrap[/player]
[player]Gilligan[/player]
[player]babagonosh[/player]
[player]jigger1986[/player]
[player]Goober[/player]
[player]mint-murray[/player]
[player]nolefan5311[/player]
[player]Marshallbobby[/player]
[player]spirou[/player]
[player]ejph[/player]
[player]anonymus[/player]
[player]CafeT[/player]
[player]crazystef[/player]
[player]alt1978[/player][/spoiler]

[runboy59]

in please

[MyTurnToWin]

Sign me up, please.

[chapcrap]

I'm in.

[Gilligan]

I am in.

[babagonosh]

in please

[jigger1986]

In plz

[Goober]

In please. sounds fun

[mint-murray]

In please

[anamainiacks]

Updated till mint-murray. Halfway there! (:

[nolefan5311]

In please.

[Marshallbobby]

in please

[spirou]

in please

[ejph]

I will play

[anonymus]

in
/

[CafeT]

in pls

[crazystef]

in please

[anamainiacks]

1 spot left!

[alt1978]

in please

[anamainiacks]

And we're now good to go!

[anamainiacks]

Update

After two weeks of battling it out against the witches of Salem, the neutrals have finally swayed in favour of alt1978, who goes home the champion of the tournament!

CONGRATS TO ALT1978!