Conquer Club

Update May 20th: We arrive in New York for the grand finale. The Big Apple for the Big Showdown! Read more about it here.

Update April 28th: Macbone has won the GA medal for Most Expressive Excursionist! See complete C&F scores here.

Update April 9th: By now you all know there was a screwup with the Berlin games. The CORRECTED list of games is posted here:
http://www.conquerclub.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=91&t=139586&start=420#p3682894

Update March 16th: Charleston games have been created and invitations sent out! http://www.conquerclub.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=3645424#p3645424

Update March 9th: Berlin results have been posted. There is a three way-tie for the last player to advance, so a tiebreaker game is currently udner way: Game 10748686.

Update Jan 11th: Hong Kong scores have been posted here. The first Berlin games begin tonight, more will be created either Sunday or Monday. The C&F task for Berlin will also be posted at that time.

Update Nov. 12th: Sydney scores have been compiled and posted here:http://www.conquerclub.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=91&t=139586&start=315#p3451323 I will get Hong Kong games started real soon. Maybe even tonight, although I can't promise. For sure within the next 3 days.

Update October 6th: Phase 5 begins. More details here.

Update October 2nd: Thank you all for your extreme patience, and very, very sorry for the long delay. Cairns scores have now been posted here.

Update July 17th: the San Francisco tiebreaker is over and I'm making the Cairns games. The list of Cairns games is here.

Update July 10th:List of San Franciso games is here and the final San Francisco scores are here. We should be able to start the Phase Four -- Cairns" by the end of the week! The C&F task for Cairns will be release at noon next Sunday, as close as possible to noon Cairns time. Note: for many of us in North America that will be late Saturday evening.

Update July 2nd: Preliminary San Francisco stats are posted here.

Update May 27th: Compiled Vancouver stats. (I'm getting faster at this with practise!) The unsorted scores are posted here and the sorted and annotated scores are one post down from that.

Update May 10th: I finally got around to compiling the final Montreal scores.

Update April 29th: The tiebreaker is finished, and Phase Two has begun for real now! For my complete update letter look here. Or, for a list of Vancouver Games, look here.

Update April 16th: The most recent score tally is here. There is a 3-player tiebreaker game (Game 8895136 if you want to watch and cheer) for the last Vancouver spot. I don't expect that game to be done in only 27 hours, but I will still post the Vancouver C&F task tomorrow on schedule.

Update April 10th: The most recent Interim Score tally is on page 13 of the tournament thread. You can use this link

Update March 21st: We are not accepting any more reserves at this point.

Update March 17th: The tournament now is officially FULL and ready to start. If you wish to sign up as a reserve, you are still very welcome to do so!

Update, March 08: A GA medal has now been approved for the "Most Expressive Excursionist."

The Most Expressive Excursionist medal will be awarded to the player who scores the most "colour and flavour" points, regardless of how well they do in the games.

If any of you were growing up as metalheads in the Seventies, you probably remember the great Ted Nugent album, Intensities in 10 Cities! Well, okay, maybe it wasn't a great album, maybe it was just alright. But for some reason, that clever title has always stuck with me, and I always wanted to do something with it. Thanks to CC, I now have an opportunity to do so.

As the title implies, you will go through ten cities in this tournament, and CC just happens to have ten city maps available. (We could stretch it to fifteen or even more if we wanted to push the definition of "city map" and include things like City Mogul, but luckily we don't need to do that, because ten is the perfect number to match the perfect title!)

The cities will be: Montreal, Vancouver, San Francisco, Cairns, Sydney, Hong Kong, Berlin, Charleston, Chicago, and New York.

[spoiler=settings and general rules]1. This tournament will include almost every setting available on CC. There will be no speed and no freestyle, but every other type of game will be used. In each phase we will visit one city. There will be several games in each city, and points handed out accordingly. There will also be a few "colour and flavour" bonuses, which I will explain below. After each city some people will be eliminated, but (except at the very end) the majority will go on.
Settings in detail:
Assuming you get all the way to the end and play all 55 games, you will have played on the following:
46 Automatic, 9 Manual
26 Escalating, 16 Flat-rate, 4 No Spoils, 9 Nuclear
7 Adjacent, 39 Chained, 9 Unlimited
33 Sunny, 22 Foggy
12 1v1s + 21 multiplayer Standard (for a total of 33 Standard), 5 Terminator, 5 Assassin, 4 Dubs, 5 Trips, 3 Quads

The average number of games per city stop is 5.5, with no less than four and no more than nine in any phase.

2. There will be up to nine games going on at one point (see above), so you must have premium status to enter.

3. There will be no seeding -- all players will be slotted into games at random. This includes the team games -- you must be prepared to play with random team-mates!

4. Points will be imperfectly cumulative. At the beginning of each city stop starting with the second, your cumulative points total will be reduced by one quarter (1/4). Points earned at that stop will then be added, before deciding who is eliminated. Example: on the first city stop, you earned 8 points, which was enough to take you to the second stop. Your 8 points are reduced by one quarter and become 6 points. At the second stop you earn 10 points, and your total is now 16. At the third city stop your 16 points are reduced by one quarter again and become 12, before adding the points earned in the third city. And so on, and so on. Thus, the importance of the early rounds will gradually fade as we move forward. To ease the pain of the fade, all numbers will be rounded up, never down. Thus, 5.25 points will be rounded to 6, not 5.

5. Reserves: I will take as many reserves as wish to sign up, although of course if the list is long your chances of being called up will be slim. In order to be fair to those who play all the way through, if a player is replaced by a reserve, his points total will get an extra one-quarter reduction before being counted into the current phase.

6. "Colour and flavour" bonuses. Each city stop will include a "colour and flavour" bonus, which will require you to post something in this thread to help us all get into the local flavour of the city we are visiting. What needs to be posted varies with the city. Some stops might require you to answer a trivia question, some will ask you to provide an anecdote or joke about that city, some might ask you to provide a description of a local landmark, and so on. I will announce what you need to post after the first game in that city has begun. Once I have made the announcement, you will have 72 hours to make the post.

Edit: Any further rules concerning the C&F bonuses will be posted in the FOURTH post in this thread.

7. Tiebreakers. Except in the finals, if there are any ties for the point level at which people are eliminated, they will be settled by tiebreaking Automatic Escalating Chained Sunny games. A simple two-person tie would be settled by a 1v1 Standard game, but if 3 or more people are involved I might use other formats. I might use a multi-player Standard game, or a Terminator game, or perhaps a round-robin of 1v1 games. It will depend on the total number involved in the tie and how many of them need to go to the next phase. I will be quite willing to listen to player input at these junctions.

There will be no points awarded for tiebreakers; they will simply decide which of the people with the same number of points get to go to the next city.[/spoiler]

I will try to keep the tournament moving by starting the next phase as soon as possible -- as soon as there is no doubt who will carry on to the next city. So, for instance, if there is a Montreal game still going, but all the players in it already have enough points to guarantee that they will go on to the next phase, then I will go ahead and start the Vancouver games.

Okay, sign-ups are open -- come on in!

Details of the ten city stops

[spoiler=Phase One, Montreal]Appropriately enough, we will begin our tour at the place where CC began, the beautiful city of Montreal. 56 of us will arrive, but only 40 will continue on. The other 16 will take up permanent residence at some streetside cafe, which really isn't a bad fate at all!

Each player will participate in the following:
One 7-player Manual Nuclear Chained Sunny Standard game
One 7-player Automatic Escalating Chained Foggy Standard game
One 7-player Automatic Escalating Unlimited Sunny Standard game
Each of the standard games scored by ranking: 6 points to the winner, 5 points to the 2nd place finisher, etc., all the way down to zero points for the first person eliminated.
One Automatic Flat-rate Chained Foggy Quads game, 5 points to each participant on the winning team.
5 points awarded for the "colour and flavour" bonus.
Maximum possible: 28 points[/spoiler]
[spoiler=Phase Two, Vancouver]Leaving the St. Lawrence behind, we fly across three time zones to Canada's west coast, and the city of Vancouver. 40 players will arrive, but only 30 will go on to the next city. The rest will go out to the Island and enjoy picking mushrooms in the park!

I PM'd all the map creators to ask their suggested settings for these maps, although only about half answered me. [player]shakeycat[/player] was one of those, and her suggestions for this map are Escalating Automatic Foggy Terminator, with not less than four players and preferably more. Consequently each player will play in:
One 4-player Automatic Escalating Chained Foggy Terminator game
Two 8-player Automatic Escalating Chained Foggy Terminator games
All three Terminator games score 1 point for each kill, 1 extra point for winning the game, 2 extra points for being the last non-winner terminated, and 1 extra point for being the 2nd last non-winner terminated.
And to go to the other extreme from shakeycat's suggestions:
One 1v1 Manual Nuclear Adjacent Sunny Standard game, 3 points to the winner.
5 points awarded for the "colour and flavour" bonus.
Maximum possible: 28 points[/spoiler]
[spoiler=Phase Three, San Francisco]If you're going to San Francisco, don't forget to put some flowers in your hair! One of the most visually stunning maps on CC, San Francisco promises to be an immersing experience. 30 players will arrive here, but only 24 will leave. The other six will be staring at this beautiful map so long that they will forget to take their turns. Or maybe they will be absorbed into the Krishna Consciousness. In San Fran, anything is possible!

Each player will participate in the following:
One 6-player Automatic Escalating Chained Foggy Standard game
One 5-player Manual Flat-rate Adjacent Sunny Standard game
Each of the standard games scored by ranking: 5 points to the winner of the 6-player game, 4 points to the winner of the 5-player game, 3 points to the 2nd place finisher in the 5-player game, etc., all the way down to zero points for the first person eliminated in each.
One 6-player Automatic Flat-rate Unlimited Sunny Doubles game, scoring 6 points to each member of the winning team.
And in honour of Harvey Milk, we will have our first Assassination:
one 6-player Automatic Flat-rate Chained Sunny Assassin game, worth 8 points, winner take all.
5 points awarded for the "colour and flavour" bonus.
Maximum possible: 28 points[/spoiler]
[spoiler=Phase Four, Cairns]In San Francisco, we will hop on to Dwight's submarine and sail to the coast of Australia, and the beachfront city of Cairns. 24 players will arrive in Cairns, but only 20 will move on. (The map involved is Cairns Metro, just in case there was any ambiguity.) The creator of this map, [player]cairnswk[/player], suggested 6-play Escalating Sunny for this map, as well as for the Sydney Metro map where we are going next. 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.
One 6-player Automatic Escalating Chained Sunny Standard game. Scoring will be 5 points to the winner, 4 points to the 2nd place finisher, and so on.
One 1v1 Automatic Escalating Adjacent Sunny Standard game, 3 points to the winner.
One Automatic No Spoils Unlimited Sunny Trips game, 5 points to each member of the winning team.
5 points awarded for the "colour and flavour" bonus.
Maximum possible: 28 points[/spoiler]
[spoiler=Phase Five, Sydney]Okay, we leave the relaxed beach-bum life behind and head to the big, busy city of Sydney. Here we will pick up the pace to Big City level and definitely use Escalating as our only setting. We will also play more games and get fewer points for each, to simulate the daily grind of working class life.

Each player will participate in the following:
One 5-player Automatic Escalating Chained Sunny Standard game.
One 5-player Automatic Escalating Chained Foggy Standard game.
One 5-player Manual Escalating Chained Sunny Standard game.
One 5-player Automatic Escalating Adjacent Sunny Standard game.
One 5-player Automatic Escalating Unlimited Foggy Standard game.
All of these Standard games score 3 points to the winner, 2 points to the 2nd place finisher, 1 point for 3rd place, and nothing for 4th and 5th.
One 5-player Automatic Escalating Chained Sunny Assassin game.
One 5-player Manual Escalating Chained Foggy Assassin game.
The two Assassin games score 4 points to the winner.
5 points awarded for the "colour and flavour" bonus.
Maximum possible: 28 points[/spoiler]
[spoiler=Phase Six, Hong Kong]Four people seem to have lost their passports, so only 16 of us will hop aboard a non-stop flight and zoom to Hong Kong. 16, such a totally binary number! Of course we will have to play some 2, 4, and 8-player games!

Each player will participate in the following:
Edited: see here for reason.
One 1v1 Automatic Flat-rate Chained Sunny Standard game.
One 1v1 Automatic Flat-rate Chained Foggy Standard game.
Each of the above scores 3 points to the winner
One 4-player Automatic Flat-rate Chained Sunny Standard game, scoring 3 points to the winner, 2 points for 2nd place, and 1 point for 3rd place.
One 4-player Automatic Nuclear UnlimitedChained Foggy Doubles game, scoring 3 points to each member of the winning pair.
One 8-player Manual Escalating Chained Sunny Standard game, scoring 6 points to the winner, 5 points to the 2nd place finisher, etc., down to zero points for the last two places.
One Automatic Escalating ChainedUnlimited Foggy Quads game, 5 points to each participant on the winning team.
5 points awarded for the "colour and flavour" bonus.
Maximum possible: 28 points[/spoiler]
[spoiler=Phase Seven, Berlin]Four more will be dropped after Hong Kong, and will live out their lives working in massage parlours, so only 12 will make the hazardous trip across Eurasia to Berlin. The Berlin 1961 map is a little different than all the other maps in this series, in that it attempts to recreate a historical, rather than just geographical, entity. The Berlin on this map is Berlin during the Cold War, divided between Russian, French, British, and American zones.

Berlin was originally divided up between the various Allies in World War II, and the manner of its division was indicative of the stresses and tensions between the Allies, as the war against Germany drew to a close and the Allies secretly began thinking of war between each other. The Russians considered themselves to be one half of an East-West partnership. In their eyes all the Western allies were part of the same Capitalist club, joined at the hip, and Russia was the only truly independent Ally. They thus demanded a full half of Germany and Berlin. The Americans saw their interests as being very different from the British and refused to be lumped in together, and thus wanted a three-way split. The British, although heavily indebted to America, were just as mistrustful of the Americans as of the Russians. To avoid being outnumbered in a three-way split, they insisted that the French should be treated as an equal ally, and demanded a four-way split.

In the eventual compromise reached, each point of view was partially represented. As was typical in those late-war conferences, the Russians got the best deal: a segment that was somewhat less than half, but considerably more than one-third. The Americans got almost, but not quite, the one-third they wanted, the British slightly less, and the French least of all. The bonus structure on the map does a very nice job of representing this unequal division, which became so perfectly symbolic of Cold War relations.

In game terms we will model all of the above. We will play a Trips game to simulate the Russian point of view, a 6-player Dubs game to model the American viewpoint, and two 4-player Standard games representing the British and French opinions. To simulate the escalation of hostilites in the Cold War, we will start with Flat-rate, but then go quickly to Escalating and end up with Nuclear. Also, because many people have not played this map before, we will have a special 1v1 game which will start 4 days before the others and be worth only 1 point, so you can get some practise and not lose too many points in the process. And finally, we will have another assassination, to represent cold war intrigue.

Each player will participate in:
One 1v1 Automatic Flat-rate Chained Sunny Standard game. This game will be created 4 days before the others and score only 1 point to the winner.
One 4-player Automatic Escalating Chained Sunny Standard game.
One 4-player Manual Escalating Chained Foggy Standard game.
Both of the 4-player standards score 3 points to the winner, 2 points to the 2nd place finisher, and 1 point for 3rd place.
One Automatic Nuclear Chained Sunny Trips game, scoring 4 points to each member of the winning team.
One 6-player Automatic Nuclear Unlimited Foggy Doubles game, scoring 5 points to each member of the winning team.
One 6-player Automatic Nuclear Chained Foggy Assassin game, scoring 7 points to the winner, and a special 2 points to his victim.
5 points awarded for the "colour and flavour" bonus.
Maximum possible: 28 points[/spoiler]
[spoiler=Phase Eight, Charleston]The KGB bagged four of our members in Berlin, so we are happy to get out of there with eight of us still alive. A U.S. pilot offers us a lift to Charleston, and we're happy to accept. Charleston saw its share of bloodshed in the American Revolution and Civil War, but that was long ago, and today the city is peaceful and pleasant. The American Robin is seen here often, so we'll celebrate his cheery song with a round-robin of 1v1 games. Then we'll get back together, have dinner, and play a couple 8-player games. After dinner two members will fall asleep and miss the flight to Chicago.

Each player will participate in:
Seven 1v1 Automatic Flat-rate Chained Sunny Standard games, one against each surviving member of the tourney, and scoring 2 points for each game.
One 8-player Manual Escalating Chained Foggy Standard game, scoring 5 points to the winner, 4 for 2nd place, 3 for 3rd, 2 for 4th, and 1 for 5th. No points for the last three placings.
One Automatic Nuclear Chained Sunny Quads game, scoring 4 points to each member of the winning team.
5 points awarded for the "colour and flavour" bonus.
Maximum possible: 28 points[/spoiler]
[spoiler=Phase Nine, Chicago]By now you've travelled around the world with the same people and should know them fairly well, so on this stop for the first time there will be more team games than solo games. [player]Scott-Land[/player] the creator of the Chicago map wrote, "Optimally it was designed for 6 man triples but I've gotten a lot of feedback on how well it plays as doubles. Being an escalating player, it will play at its best as 6 man when playing singles." We will follow all three of Scott-Land's recommendations, playing Trips, Dubs, and a 6-player Escalating singles game. One player will stay in Chicago and run for Mayor; the other five will go on to the Finals in New York.

Each player will participate in:
One Manual Escalating Adjacent Foggy Trips game,
One Automatic Escalating Adjacent Sunny Trips game,
One Automatic No Spoils Unlimited Foggy Trips game,
All three Trips games score 4 points to each member of the winning team.
One Automatic Nuclear Chained Sunny Dubs game, scoring 6 points to each member of the winning team.
One Automatic Escalating Chained Foggy Standard game, scoring 5 points to the winner, 4 points to the 2nd place finisher, and so on.
5 points awarded for the "colour and flavour" bonus.
Maximum possible: 28 points[/spoiler]
[spoiler=Grand Finale, New York.]It's been called the Big Apple, Gotham, and the Capital of the World. New York is no longer the world's biggest city, it's no longer the world's wealthiest city, and it no longer has the world's tallest building. But at one time or another it was all of those things, and more beside. It's still the headquarters of the United Nations, the home of the world's biggest and most important stock exchange, one of the world's busiest harbours, one of the world's great art museums, not one but several of the world's greatest universities, and many other distinctions. Its unique concentration of political, financial, and cultural influence means the title "Capital of the World" is not hyperbole. And here at last, after a tour of great cities across four continents, you have come to prove your greatness.

The gloves are off. There will be no team games; this is the grand finale, winner take all.
Each player will participate in:
One 5-player Automatic Nuclear Adjacent Sunny Standard game
One 5-player Manual Escalating Chained Foggy Standard game
One 5-player Automatic Escalating Unlimited Sunny Standard game
One 5-player Manual No Spoils Chained Foggy Standard game
Each of the above will score 4 points to the winner, 3 points to the 2nd place finisher, and so on.
One 5-player Automatic Escalating Unlimited Sunny Terminator game, scoring 1 point for each kill, and 1 bonus point to the winner.
One 5-player Automatic Flat-rate Chained Foggy Assassin game, scoring 5 points to the winner.
Only 3 points will be awarded for the "colour and flavour" bonus on this round.
Maximum possible: 28 points[/spoiler]

[spoiler=players]

[player]stokiepaul[/player]
[player]mcshanester29[/player]
[player]jjmracing[/player]
[player]DJENRE[/player]
[player]jricart[/player]
[player]Jobiwan[/player]
[player]xman5151[/player]
[player]scatt[/player]
[player]rbelgrod[/player]
[player]kabuki.mono[/player]
[player]DoomYoshi[/player]
[player]ckyrias[/player]
[player]jielking[/player]
[player]WolfMist[/player]
[player]smithrog[/player]
[player]support81ghent[/player]
[player]macbone[/player]
[player]kuma32478[/player]
[player]moudy[/player]
[player]kiwi3[/player]
[player]ElricTheGreat[/player]
[player]shakeycat[/player]
[player]OleCowboyHippy[/player]
[player]Shai[/player]
[player]rmjw10[/player]
[player]Mad777[/player]
[player]mviola[/player]
[player]koontz1973[/player]
[player]MattiWacklin[/player]
[player]WorldCup4James[/player]
[player]theheadholes[/player] resigned
[player]Didacus[/player]
[player]wolfpack0530[/player]
[player]musteriuz[/player]
[player]dazza2008[/player]
[player]GregDavidson[/player]
[player]canona85[/player]
[player]uk massive[/player]
[player]dominator2000[/player]
[player]DapperDave[/player]
[player]geko[/player]
[player]zpach[/player]
[player]rmjw10[/player](duplicate)
[player]TX AG 90[/player]
[player]GreenBaize[/player]
[player]Faro[/player]
[player]Fewnix[/player]
[player]whakamole[/player]
[player]arno30[/player]
[player]Muzzel[/player]
[player]bragsie[/player]
[player]mickunited333[/player]
[player]perchorin[/player]
[player]ReichZealand[/player]
[player]razoget999[/player]
[player]hmsps[/player]
[player]General Brewsie[/player]
[player]Mekii[/player]

Reserves:

[player]soldierboy[/player]
.[/spoiler]

Colour and Flavour Section

Update April 28th: [player]Macbone[/player] has won the GA medal for Most Expressive Excursionist! See complete C&F scores here.

Update April 5th: Current standings in the quest for the GA medal:http://www.conquerclub.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=91&t=139586&p=3676967#p3676967
The players that are still in contention are macbone, DoomYoshi, GregDavidson, Perchorin, Kiwi3, and Arno30.

Update Jan. 16th: I've compiled the C&F scores from the last 6 rounds in one post:http://www.conquerclub.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=91&t=139586&p=3546835#p3546835

Berlin task:http://www.conquerclub.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=91&t=139586&start=360#p3546826

Hong Kong task: http://www.conquerclub.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=91&t=139586&start=330#p3462543

Update Nov. 12th: Sydney C&F scores are posted here:http://www.conquerclub.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=91&t=139586&p=3450625#p3450625

Update Oct. 21st: The complete C&F for Sydney is contained on Page 21 of the tourney thread. Page 22 has some discussion of the deadlines being too short. The deadline for future rounds will be seven days.
21:http://www.conquerclub.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=91&t=139586&start=300#p3407046
22:http://www.conquerclub.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=91&t=139586&start=315#p3412474

Update July 17th: the task for Cairns is here.

Update May 29th: the C&F task for San Francisco has been posted.

Update April 17: the C&F task for Vancouver has been posted on schedule. It's on page 13 of the tournament thread. You can just follow this link to save a step. It also includes some more tweaking of the C&F rules. The pertinent section is reproduced here:
[spoiler=rule changes beginning with Vancouver]The good news is that I will be asking the judges to significantly increase the number of points they award for the Colour & Flavour task. When I first designed the whole C&F idea, I was worried about not letting it overshadow the points scored in the games themselves, but after looking at the Montreal stats I realize I was waaaaaay too cautious in that regard. Far from overshadowing the games, the points given for C&F in Montreal undershadowed them so much as to seem almost pointless.

The target I am setting for Vancouver is that the C&F points should be between 10% and 15% of the points awarded for games. There are 240 points to be scored in the Vancouver games, so I'm asking the judges to award something between 24 and 36 C&F points. There will still be a hard limit of no more than 5 C&F points per player, so if fewer than seven players attempt the task then I suppose we won't be able to hit the target, but we'll cross that bridge if we get to it.

Update June 20th. People have been posting later and later, and it has been pointed out to me that by encouraging late submissions I am bringing the rules into disrepute. Therefore, from now on we will go back to interpreting the rules strictly and not accept late submissions.
Note the precedent that was set in Montreal -- late submissions will be penalized but not disqualified. Try to get them posted within 72 hours, but if you can't you can still get your submission looked at right up until the judges render their decision. You will get fewer points but if your submission is worthy it will still get some.[/spoiler]

Update April 5th: Rather than paraphrase myself, I've simple included my post in its entirety:
[spoiler=announcements of April 5]A few C&F announcements as the second task approaches:

1. With six games still running, I'm not sure when it will be possible to start the Vancouver games, but the second (Vancouver) C&F task will be posted on Sunday April 10th, at noon Vancouver time. This is in keeping with our new policy that C&F tasks are to be posted at noon in the local time of the map that they pertain to. (Yes, Mac, that means the Hong Kong task will be posted at noon Hong Kong time!)

The second Colour and Flavour task will be slightly more difficult than the first. The intent is to gradually increase the difficulty level as the tournament goes on.

2. Less than half of the tournament players took a shot at the first C&F task. I'd like to see more of you get into it. Remember, there is no extra fee for participating in the C&F component!

Standard bribes, however, are still verrrrrry important...

3. A reminder: even if you are eliminated from the tournament, you can continue participating in the Colour and Flavour component! The GA medal "Most Expressive Excursionist" will be given to the player with the most C&F points overall, regardless of how well they did in the games.

4. We are continuing to tweak the C&F rules. At present, the judges are no longer being limited to giving out only five points overall, although there is still a hard maximum of five points per player per phase. My apologies to those who think rules should be immutable: nobody has ever tried a tournament exactly like this before, so to some degree I'm making it up as I go along. I think the changes are strengthening, rather than weakening, the robustness of the tourney.

5. For those who didn't notice, Gilligan has posted the Montreal C&F scores.

6. I will be sending this announcement out by PM as a convenience. Remember however, that only the version in the tournament thread is official. This applies also to any responses you may have.[/spoiler]

Update, March 08: A GA medal has now been approved for the "Most Expressive Excursionist."

The Most Expressive Excursionist medal will be awarded to the player who scores the most "colour and flavour" points, regardless of how well they do in the games. Even if you are eliminated from the playing part of the tournament, you may continue to participate in the "colour and flavour" portion. When Phase Two is approaching, I will work out a rule for how C&F points are scored for people who have been eliminated from the tourney. For now I'll leave it at that.

[spoiler=the panel]The panel of judges consists of Bruceswar, nagerous, Victor Sullivan, and Gilligan.

Update March 15th, [player]Gilligan[/player] has now been added to the panel of judges.

Update March 7th, [player]Victor Sullivan[/player] has agreed to be our third judge! Our panel is now complete.

Update, early on March 06, [player]nagerous[/player] has volunteered to be our second judge.

Update, still March 05: [player]Bruceswar[/player] is the first to volunteer for this role. Welcome Bruce, and thank you!

March 05: I'm looking for 3 judges, preferably CC volunteers of some repute, to judge submissions for the "colour and flavour" bonus points.

From rule 6 in the main Settings and Rules section:

6. "Colour and flavour" bonuses. Each city stop will include a "colour and flavour" bonus, which will require you to post something in this thread to help us all get into the local flavour of the city we are visiting. What needs to be posted varies with the city. Some stops might require you to answer a trivia question, some will ask you to provide an anecdote or joke about that city, some might ask you to provide a description of a local landmark, and so on. I will announce what you need to post after the first game in that city has begun. Once I have made the announcement, you will have 72 hours to make the post.

Edit: SUPERCEDED: I will be the sole judge of these bonus postings, and while I intend to be scrupulously fair, nobody is perfect and of course there will be some degree of subjectivity.The Tournament directors have asked me to find a less subjective method. I'm currently looking for a panel of three judges, preferably CC volunteers of some repute. If you're willing to judge submissions please PM me.
I intend to give at least one point to the first non-frivolous post, and at least two points to the best post. There will be 5 points per city handed out in this manner, which is considerably less than what can be won through the games, and thus it shouldn't overwhelm anyone who is doing well in the games. In the case of an extraordinarily wonderful submission, I may award all 5 points to the same person, but in most cases I expect to be dividing it between several players. Ideally, it should keep the theme of the tournament alive and colourful.

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In an effort to keep this post a little more tidy, I'm going to just make it a collection of links and post the game lists and standings with their chronological segments in the thread.

Correct list of Chicago games is here and scores are here.

List of Berlin games is here and scores are here.

List of Hong Kong games is here and scores are here.

List of Sydney games is here and scores are here.

List of Cairns games is here and scores are here.

List of San Franciso games is here and the final San Francisco scores are here.

List of Montreal Games has been moved to here and the final Montreal scores are here.

List of Vancouver Games. The unsorted scores are posted here and the sorted and annotated scores are one post down from that.

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w00t! My first 3 sign-ups.

Welcome aboard, gentlemen.

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And good luck running it amigo.

JRT

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Yes, it's true! We now have a GA medal available.

Dukasaur wrote:Colour and Flavour Section

Update, March 08: A GA medal has now been approved for the "Most Expressive Excursionist."

The Most Expressive Excursionist medal will be awarded to the player who scores the most "colour and flavour" points, regardless of how well they do in the games. Even if you are eliminated from the playing part of the tournament, you may continue to participate in the "colour and flavour" portion. When Phase Two is approaching, I will work out a rule for how C&F points are scored for people who have been eliminated from the tourney. For now I'll leave it at that.

[spoiler=the panel]The panel of judges consists of Bruceswar, nagerous, and Victor Sullivan.

Update March 7th, [player]Victor Sullivan[/player] has agreed to be our third judge! Our panel is now complete.

Update, early on March 06, [player]nagerous[/player] has volunteered to be our second judge.

Update, still March 05: [player]Bruceswar[/player] is the first to volunteer for this role. Welcome Bruce, and thank you!

March 05: I'm looking for 3 judges, preferably CC volunteers of some repute, to judge submissions for the "colour and flavour" bonus points.

From rule 6 in the main Settings and Rules section:

6. "Colour and flavour" bonuses. Each city stop will include a "colour and flavour" bonus, which will require you to post something in this thread to help us all get into the local flavour of the city we are visiting. What needs to be posted varies with the city. Some stops might require you to answer a trivia question, some will ask you to provide an anecdote or joke about that city, some might ask you to provide a description of a local landmark, and so on. I will announce what you need to post after the first game in that city has begun. Once I have made the announcement, you will have 72 hours to make the post.

Edit: SUPERCEDED: I will be the sole judge of these bonus postings, and while I intend to be scrupulously fair, nobody is perfect and of course there will be some degree of subjectivity.The Tournament directors have asked me to find a less subjective method. I'm currently looking for a panel of three judges, preferably CC volunteers of some repute. If you're willing to judge submissions please PM me.
I intend to give at least one point to the first non-frivolous post, and at least two points to the best post. There will be 5 points per city handed out in this manner, which is considerably less than what can be won through the games, and thus it shouldn't overwhelm anyone who is doing well in the games. In the case of an extraordinarily wonderful submission, I may award all 5 points to the same person, but in most cases I expect to be dividing it between several players. Ideally, it should keep the theme of the tournament alive and colourful.

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