Discerning aficionados of my tournaments will remember last year's "Gratuitous Transfer of Wealth". Well, here we go again. Thanks to CC's generous premium prize matching policy, the prize that [player]BigBallinStalin[/player] provided for us in that tournament is matched by an equal prize from the Tournament Department's vault. And now, my friends, the time has come to dispense it!
As before, freemiums are welcome in this tournament. Also as before, there will be a lockout period of one week -- during the first week that this tournament is posted, only freemiums may join. Premium members posting during the first week will be ignored. After that, anyone can sign up. And yet further as before, BigBallinStalin constitutes an exception and may join during the blackout week.
In this tournament we will be celebrating the career of Napoleon Bonaparte, who gained fame for the extraordinary achievement of being the only person in history more arrogant than BigBallinStalin. Conquer Club has four great maps from the Napoleonic Wars, and we will of course use all of them. (We will repeat maps as necessary, because the Foundry has not yet had the foresight to give me some nice maps of Borodino, Marengo, Jena, or Leipzig. Get the lead out, ya lazy bastards!)
It will again be a 32-player 1v1, but this time it will be a double-elimination tournament, which means you can survive one loss and still have hope. Bracket will be hosted on Challonge.com. Both the winners bracket and the losers bracket will follow the progression of maps and settings shown in the spoilers below. They will repeat as necessary (round 5 in both the winners' and losers' brackets will have the same map and settings as bracket 1, losers bracket 6 will have the same map and settings as bracket 2, etc.) The final showdown between the winners of the two brackets will be best-of-three on maps 2, 3, and 4.
All games will be Automatic deployment, Sequential play, 24-hour rounds, with a 30-round limit. Other settings will vary, as described in the phase spoilers below:
[spoiler=spectacular triumph -- bracket rounds 1 and 5][bigimg]http://maps.conquerclub.com/Austerlitz.S.jpg[/bigimg]
Napoleon's spectacular victory at Austerlitz cemented his reputation as possibly the most brilliant general of all time. The famous maneouver of appearing to abandon Pratzen in order to lure the Allies to their doom suggests Zombie spoils, while the amazing speed with which the French were able to refocus and redeploy to finish the Allies suggests Parachute reinforcements. Definitely, there was no time for Trench warfare; forming Square was about the most static maneouvre imaginable. Unquestionably, the role of the mist in concealing French movements makes Fog mandatory for this map![/spoiler]
[spoiler=counterpoint -- bracket rounds 2 and 6][bigimg]http://maps.conquerclub.com/Trafalgar4.S.jpg[/bigimg]
While a master of battle on land, Napoleon had no comprehension of naval warfare, and so it is no surprise that his fleet was soon in shambles. The last great effort to muster some kind of naval power against the British ended with the defeat at Trafalgar. The French and Spanish fleets were hampered by lack of supply and reinforcement, suggesting No Spoils, and could only pass messages from one ship to the next, suggesting Chained Forts. On the other hand, visibility was excellent, so we have No Fog. One cannot dig Trenches in the water, so we will not see any of that. (Well, one can, but it's a frustrating enterprise.)[/spoiler]
[spoiler=the big picture -- bracket rounds 3 and 7][bigimg]http://maps.conquerclub.com/Napoleonic_Europe2.S.jpg[/bigimg]
1812 is often considered the apex of the Napoleonic Empire. (Personally, I would consider 1805 to be the high point. After that the beginning of the end was already evident in many ways. But we don't have an 1805 map, so we'll have to deal with this, lol.) The size of armies was growing rapidly during the Napoleonic Wars, suggesting Escalating spoils, but transportation infrastructure was poor in most places, making Adjacent Forts the logical option. Much diplomatic skullduggery and an era of misinformation suggests Fog of War. The rapidly shifting borders and loyalties suggests No Trench.[/spoiler]
[spoiler=the curtain falls -- bracket rounds 4 and 8][bigimg]http://maps.conquerclub.com/Waterloo2.S.jpg[/bigimg]
Already beaten in the campaigns of 1812-14, coming out to be humiliated in 1815 was a fool's gesture. Still, Napoleon put a brave face on and actually came close to winning during his swan song at Waterloo. Besides being Napoleon's last and worst battle (and ironically one of his most famous) Waterloo was also one of the most static. Thus, Nuclear Spoils, Adjacent Forts, and Trench (yeah, you knew there had to be a Trench phase somewhere, didn't you?) will define this fight. And Fog, indubitably![/spoiler]
[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]
My THIRTY-SIXTH tournament: History of Nuclear War V
My THIRTY-SEVENTH tournament: History of Nuclear War VI
(History of Nuclear War Series Information Centre created Nov 18, 2012)
My THIRTY-EIGHTH tournament: DK's 2nd Annual Christmas Quads with WC4J (WC4J=[player]WorldCup4James[/player])
My THIRTY-NINTH tournament: Your Favourite Way for the World to End! (My first OFFICIAL tournament!)
My FORTIETH tournament: Slacker Time 2
My FORTY-FIRST tournament: Dukasaur Plays Baltic 01
My FORTY-SECOND tournament: DKs Best of 2011 V - Randomized
Best of 2011 Series Infocentre created Jan 14, 2013
My FORTY-THIRD tournament: Dukasaur Plays Baltic 02
My FORTY-FOURTH tournament: MotoGP San Marino Grand Prix (rescued from [player]tokle[/player])
My FORTY-FIFTH tournament: The Forgotten Nine
My FORTY-SIXTH tournament: History of Nuclear War VII
My FORTY-SEVENTH tournament: DKs Best of 2012 I - Flat Foggy
My FORTY-EIGHTH tournament: DKs Best of 2011 VI - SoC Settings
My FORTY-NINTH tournament: "Gratuitous Transfer of Wealth"
My FIFTIETH tournament: DKs Best of 2012 II -- Sunny Nukes
My FIFTY-FIRST tournament: Dukasaur Plays Baltic 03
My FIFTY-SECOND tournament: 21st Century Clash of the Statesmen (rescued from creator [player]WorldCup4James[/player])
My FIFTY-THIRD tournament: A Chance to Write History WWIII (rescued from creator [player]WorldCup4James[/player])
My FIFTY-FOURTH tournament: Dissolution of the USSR (rescued from creator [player]x-raider[/player])
My FIFTY-FIFTH tournament: DKs Best of 2011 VII - DYFS
My FIFTY-SIXTH tournament: Dukasaur Plays Baltic 04
My FIFTY-SEVENTH tournament: Symbol of the Galapagos [TPA 3]
My FIFTY-EIGHTH tournament: History of Nuclear War VIII
My FIFTY-NINTH tournament: History of Nuclear War IX
My SIXTIETH tournament: Dukasaur Plays Baltic 05
My SIXTY-FIRST tournament: DKs Best of 2011 VIII - Optimum Settings
My SIXTY-SECOND tournament: Dukasaur Plays Baltic 06
My SIXTY-THIRD tournament: Slacker Time 3
My SIXTY-FOURTH tournament: Dukasaur Plays Baltic 07
My SIXTY-FIFTH tournament: Our World at Four Magnifications
My SIXTY-SIXTH tournament: DKs Best of 2012 III -- Randomized
My SIXTY-SEVENTH tournament: Dukasaur Plays Baltic 08
My SIXTY-EIGHTH tournament: DKs CSFR series 01 - Tábor
My SIXTY-NINTH tournament: SOS Africa Qualifier -- The Battle for the Cape (Official)
My SEVENTIETH tournament: Dukasaur Plays Baltic 09
My SEVENTY-FIRST tournament: DKs CSFR series 02 - Olomouc
My SEVENTY-SECOND tournament: Dukasaur Plays Baltic 10
My SEVENTY-THIRD tournament: DKs Best of 2012 IV -- Foggy Escalator
My SEVENTY-FOURTH tournament: SOS Africa Qualifier -- Bread and Beer (Official)
My SEVENTY-FIFTH tournament: Dukasaur Plays Baltic 11
My SEVENTY-SIXTH tournament: Struggles in the Snow TPA4
My SEVENTY-SEVENTH tournament: DKs CSFR series 03 - Prešov
My SEVENTY-EIGHTH tournament: Dukasaur Plays Baltic 12
My SEVENTY-NINTH tournament: JK's RCMC III- Terminator (rescued from [player]JamesKer1[/player])
My EIGHTIETH tournament: DKs Best of 2013 I - Flat Foggy
My EIGHTY-FIRST tournament: "Vive L'Empereur"[/spoiler]
merch313 wrote:GA approved for player who scores fastest in rounds called "The Wellington Award"
Thank you!
The full wording of the qualification for the GA medal is:
The name of the medal will be "The Wellington Award" and it will be for "The player who scores the fastest (in rounds) victory during their first opportunity on the Waterloo map. (IOW, if we have already looped around to the next four phases and it's Waterloo again, you cannot have a second crack at winning this) (Tiebreaker: if multiple players win a Waterloo game in the same number of rounds, the medal will go to the one who finished with the greatest number of surviving troops.)"
