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.
You must sign up for each tourney.
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. 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.
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
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:
viewtopic.php?f=89&t=147043&p=3211229#p3211229
I have been approved a General Achievement Medal for the individual scoring the most kills in the series. Now... on to the next Tourney:
Tourney #7: Awakening the Sleeping Giant
This story is extensive since it covers so many events, leading to the advent of WWII I have broken it up in to 4 parts:
[spoiler=Part 1]The United States was in turmoil throughout 1919. The huge number of returning veterans could not find work, something the Wilson administration had given little thought to. After the war, fear of subversion resumed in the context of the Red Scare, massive strikes in major industries (steel, meatpacking) and violent race riots. Radicals bombed Wall Street and workers went on strike in Seattle, in February. During 1919, a series of more than 20 riotous and violent black-white race-related incidents occurred. These included the Chicago, Omaha, and Elaine Race Riots.
A phenomenon known as the Red Scare took place 1918-1919. With the rise of violent Communist revolutions in Europe, leftist radicals were emboldened by the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia and were eager to respond to Lenin's call for world revolution. On May 1, 1919, a parade in Cleveland, Ohio, protesting the imprisonment of the Socialist Party leader, Eugene Debs, erupted into the violent May Day Riots. A series of bombings in 1919 and assassination attempts further inflamed the situation. Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer conducted the Palmer Raids, a series of raids and arrests of non-citizen socialists, anarchists, radical unionists, and immigrants. They were charged with planning to overthrow the government. By 1920, over 10,000 arrests were made, and the aliens caught up in these raids were deported back to Europe, most notably the anarchist Emma Goldman, who years before had attempted to assassinate industrialist Henry Clay Frick.
World War I left Germany in a state of turmoil with no war reparations payments flowing to the Allies. The U.S. effectively orchestrated payment of reparations; under the Dawes Plan, the U.S. loaned money to Germany, to pay the reparations to countries like Britain and France, which in turn paid off their own war debts to the U.S. In the 1920s, European and American economies reached new levels of industrial production and prosperity. After a long period of agitation, U.S. women were able to obtain the necessary votes from a majority of men to obtain the right to vote in all state and federal elections.[/spoiler]
[spoiler=Part 2]Except for a recession in 1920-1921, the United States enjoyed a period of unbalanced prosperity in comparison to war-ravaged Europe: prices for agricultural commodities and wages fell at the end of the war while new industries (especially movies, automobiles, gasoline, tourist travel, highway construction and housing) flourished. Following a wave of oil discoveries that started with the Pennsylvanian oil rush of the 1860s and culminated with the oil booms in Texas, Oklahoma, California, and other areas, the United States continued as the world leader in petroleum production, now even more important in an age of automobiles and trucks.
Labor unions grew very rapidly during the war, emerging with a large membership, full treasuries, and a temporary government guarantee of the right of collective bargaining. Inflation was high during the war, but wages went up even faster. However, unions were weak in heavy industry, such as automobiles and steel. Total union membership had soared from 2.7 million in 1914 to 5 million at its peak in 1919.
The bubble of the late 1920s was reflected by the extension of credit to a dangerous degree, including in the stock market, which rose to record high levels. Government size has been at low level, causing major freedom of the economy and more prosperity. It became apparent in retrospect after the Stock Market Crash of 1929 that credit levels had become dangerously inflated. The stock market crash was also used by the increase of government funding of Herbert Hoover and the overflow of the Stock Market.
In 1920, the manufacture, sale, import and export of alcohol was prohibited by the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution in an attempt to alleviate high rates of alcoholism and, especially, political corruption led by saloon-based politicians. It was enforced at the federal level by the Volstead Act. Most states let the federals do the enforcing. Drinking or owning liquor was not illegal, only the manufacture or sale. National Prohibition ended in 1933, although it continued for a while in some states. Prohibition is considered by most (but not all) historians to have been a failure because organized crime was strengthened.[/spoiler]
[spoiler=Part 3]After Harding was elected president, the government took on new powers and duties such as funding and overseeing the new U.S. Highway system and the regulation of radio frequencies. Harding died from an apparent heart attack in August 1923, and his Vice President Calvin Coolidge, succeeded him. In 1924, he was easily elected in his own right with the slogan "Keep Cool With Coolidge".
When Coolidge declined to run again in the 1928 election, the Republican Party nominated engineer and Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover, who was elected by a wide margin over Al Smith, the first Catholic nominee. Hoover was a technocrat who had low regard for politicians. Instead he was a believer in the efficacy of individualism and business enterprise, with a little coordination by the government, to cure all problems. He envisioned a future of unbounded plenty, and the imminent end of poverty in America. A year after his election, the stock market crashed, and the nation's economy slipped downward into the Great Depression.
After the crash, Hoover attempted any number of efforts to restore the economy, especially the fast-sinking agricultural sector. None worked. Hoover believed in stimulus spending, and encourage state and local governments, as well as the federal government, to spend heavily on public buildings, roads, bridges—and, most famously, the Hoover dam on the Colorado River. But with tax revenues falling fast, the states and localities plunged into their own fiscal crisis. Republicans, following their traditional mass drums, along with pressure from the farm bloc, pass the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act, which raised tariffs. Canada and other nations retaliated by raising their tariffs on American goods, and moving their trade in other directions. American imports and exports plunged by more than two thirds, but since international trade was less than 5% of the American economy, the damage done was limited. The entire world economy, led by the United States, had fallen into a downward spiral that got worse and worse, and in 1931-32 began plunging downward even faster. Hoover had Congress set up a new relief agency, the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, in 1932, but it proved too little too late.[/spoiler]
[spoiler=Part 4]In the United States, upon accepting Democratic nomination for president in 1932, Franklin D. Roosevelt promised "a new deal for the American people," a phrase that has endured as a label for his administration and its many domestic achievements. The Republicans, blamed for the Depression, or at least for lack of an adequate response to it, were easily defeated by Roosevelt in 1932.
The New Deal consisted of many different efforts to end the Great Depression and reform the American economy. Many of them failed, but there were enough successes to establish it as the most important episode of the twentieth century in the creation of the modern American state.
The desperate economic situation, combined with the substantial Democratic victories in the 1932 Congressional elections, gave Roosevelt unusual influence over Congress in the "First Hundred Days" of his administration. He used his leverage to win rapid passage of a series of measures to create welfare programs and regulate the banking system, stock market, industry and agriculture.
The 2nd New Deal (1935–36) instituted a number of other programs, including Social Security, The Banking Act, and breaking up utility holding companies. The Second New Deal proved especially controversial as it attempted to redistribute wealth, income and power in favor of the poor, the old, farmers and labor unions. Liberals strongly supported the new direction, and formed the New Deal Coalition of union members, big city machines, the white South, and ethnic minorities to support it; and conservatives—typified by the American Liberty League were strongly opposed.
There was another recession that hit the U.S. in 1937, after having seen several years of sustained improvement in the economy. Ignoring his own Treasury Department, Roosevelt embarked on an antidote to the depression, reluctantly abandoning his efforts to balance the budget and launching a $5 billion spending program in the spring of 1938, an effort to increase mass purchasing power and attack deflation. Roosevelt explained his program in a fireside chat in which he finally acknowledged that it was up to the government to "create an economic upturn" by making "additions to the purchasing power of the nation."
It was not until the administration expanded Federal spending to support World War II, that the nation's economy fully recovered. Between 1939 and 1944 (the peak of wartime production), the nation's output almost doubled. Consequently, unemployment plummeted—from 14% in 1940 to less than 2% in 1943, as the labor force grew by ten million.[/spoiler]
Isolationist sentiment with regard to foreign wars in America had ebbed, but the United States at first declined to enter the war, limiting itself to giving supplies and weapons via Lend Lease to Britain, China, and the Soviet Union. American feeling changed drastically with the sudden Japanese attack on "Pearl Harbor". In popular culture this has become known as the time when Japan "Awakened the Sleeping Giant", and the U.S.A. entered into World War II.
[spoiler=Players]
- 1. Fuzzy316
2. Jinks
3. westbo
4. gimli1990
5. mwaser
6. evertonian
7. Evil Semp
8. Marshallbobby
9. Crarg
10. pmhedt
11. General Bax
12. sandman175
13. reahma
14. Genoke
15. vorDd
16. Pantheon
17. spartacus65
18. uk massive
19. magneto_acolyte
20. Seamus76
21. br4nd0n2002
22. musteriuz
23. Gromph
24. rpshawn
25. thelord
26. GreenBaize
27. Tirbid
28. ifuh
29. Jessamine
30. joeaggie98
31. rmjw10
32. aalii
33. callmecommander
34. ianphull
35. chapcrap
36. Leverpuller
37. abygorb
38. overlander
39. rjhankey
40. Jimmy V
41. musicalmaven
42. Doc_Brown
43. bernooch
44. dorsettrob
45. Risk_Averse
46. arno30
47. Xtremejeep88
48. KiIIface
49. giannikas
50. vragus
51. Scottyboymck
52. bigbad 4573
53. Nailer X
54. HighlanderAttack
55. Baby-Bjorn
56. Charle
57. harvmax
58. osujacket
59. Silly Knig-it
60. heavenly29
61. chidone
62. zissou2
63. OX1
64. solar
Reserves:
IGotcha
jpb12
Rnd. 3
Doc_Brown
rpshawn
Genoke
Risk_Averse
[spoiler=tourney kills leaderboard]Genoke- 8 kills
Doc_Brown- 6 kills
rpshawn- 5 kills
Risk_Averse- 5 kills
arno30- 3 kills
GreenBaize- 3 kills
reahma- 3 kills
Baby-Bjorn- 3 kills
Marshallbobby- 3 kills
spartacus65- 3 kills
abygorb-3 kills
musteriuz- 3 kills
solar- 2 kills
Crarg- 2 kills
sandman175- 2 kills
Fuzzy316- 2 kills
zissou- 1 kill
bigbad 4573- 1 kill
ifuh- 1 kill
joeaggie98- 1 kill
callmecommander- 1 kill
Jinks- 1 kill[/spoiler]
(Information for this story can be found at Wikipedia.org)
