Running through the alphabet [winner abel]

[barterer2002]

This is the time of year when I usually start a longer timeframe tournament. Here is the next one. Expect this one to last for 12-18 months so don't join if you're not committed to being around. There also will be some pauses between rounds for many players (especially those who win early in the round)

72 players
1v1 games
Settings
chained
no spoiled or escalating (randomly decided for each game)
sequential
no fog
You have a 12 round limit. If you do not win within 12 rounds both players are thrown back in as losing this one.
1 game played at a time (unless you are one of the final three left in a round when you may have 3). Freemiums are welcome.

[spoiler=rules]We are going to run through the alphabet. We start with the letter A. All the A maps will be randomly sorted into an order with all players playing the first map on the list. 72 players will produce 36 winners and 36 losers. The 36 winners advance to the B round while the 36 losers play again. These games will give us 18 winners and 18 losers with the winners advancing and the 18 losers playing on another map. This will give us 9 winners who advance and 9 losers who do not. 8 of them will play and the one who has been beaten in the least rounds in his games during the A group will have a bye (once a player has a bye in any round they will not get another until all eligible players at that time have also had one-byes are bad). The 4 winners will advance. One of the losers will get a bye (same criteria as above) with the previous bye player and the other 3 losers playing 2 games. When there are 3 players left they will play a series of 1v1 each of them. If any lose 2 they are eliminated, if each goes 1v1 then all three advance. If we reach a round with 2 players left they will play with the loser of that one eliminated.[/spoiler]

[spoiler=map selection]We will play each letter of the alphabet-total of 26 rounds.

Round 1 will be A. All maps beginning with A will be randomly sorted into the play order, if we have enough games to use all the maps that begin with a letter (or, for letters where there is no map beginning with that letter) we will go in order of map list to find the next map that has that letter in it. So for instance, for the letter K. The first game will be on King of the Mountains. After the first game on King of the Mountains there are no maps that begin with K so we will move from K down the list to the next map with a K in it (in this case, midkemdil). The third game would move down the list to the next K (currently Poker Club). Once all maps using a letter are used we will repeat as necessary. All letters are represented in at least one map, most in multiple maps. New maps are used in the order that they appear in the map list.[/spoiler]

[spoiler=scoring]Each player gets 1 point for each game played. At the end of the tournament after the Z round is finished the player who has the lowest point total will be declared the winner. If a player clinches the victory before the Z round is over they will be declared the winner (but no one can be declared winner before advancing through Z[/spoiler]

[spoiler=no shows]Games where your opponent is a no show will not count against you in your totals but you will not be credited with a win and will have to play the next round. You will be credited with a bye (so you cannot be given another bye until all other players that are active in that round have also had one). No shows are eliminated from the tournament[/spoiler]

Note. This is not an elimination bracket tournament. You have to win on each letter to advance but it is possible for all 72 players to advance all the way through the bracket.

[barterer2002]

The maps

[spoiler=A]1. Alexander's Empire
2. Arctic
3. Asia
4. Arms Race!
5. AOR1
6. AOR3
7. Africa
8. AOR2
9. Archipeligio
10. American Civil War
11. Ancient Greece
12. Australia
13. Age of Merchants[/spoiler]

[spoiler=B]1. Battle for Iraq
2. Battle of Actium
3. Bamboo Jack
4. BeNeLux
5. Brazil
6. British Isles
7. Berlin 1961
8. Caribbean Islands[/spoiler]

[spoiler=C]1. Cairns Coral Coast
2. Charleston
3. Conquer Man
4. City Mogul
5. Classic Art
6. Classic Shapes
7. Canada
8. CCU
9. Circus Maximus
10. Conquer 4
11. Castle Lands
12. Caribbean Islands
13. Crossword
14. Cairns Metro
15. Chinese Checkers[/spoiler]

[spoiler=D]1. DDay Omaha Beah
2. discworld
3. Duck n Cover
4. Draknor Level 1
5. Doodle Earth
6. Dust Bowl
Beta added Das Schloss[/spoiler]

[spoiler=E]1. Egypt Nubia
2. Europe 1914
3. Europe
4. Egypt Upper
5. England
6. Egypt Valley of the kings
7. Egypt Lower
8. Extreme Global Warming
9. Europa
10. Eastern Hemisphere[/spoiler]

[spoiler=F]1. Feudal Epic
2. First Nations of North America
3. france 1789
4. Forbidden City
5. France
6. Fractured America
7. Feudal[/spoiler]

[spoiler=G]1. Great Lakes
2. Greater China
3. Germany
4. Gilgamesh
5. Greenland[/spoiler]

[spoiler=H]1. Hive
2. Haiti
3. Halloween Hollows
4. Holy Roman Empire
5. High Seas
6. Hong Kong
7. Indochina
8. Netherlands[/spoiler]

[spoiler=I]1. Imperium Romanium
2. Indochina
3. Italy
4. Ireland
5. Indian Empire
6. Iceland
7. Jamaica[/spoiler]

[spoiler=J]1. Jamaica
2. Japan
3. WWII Iwo Jima
4. Bamboo Jack
5. Jamaica 2[/spoiler]

[spoiler=K]1. King of the Mountains
2. MidKemdil
3. Poker Club
4. USA Great Lakes
5. USA Rockies
6. Kings Court[/spoiler]

[spoiler=L]1. Land and Sea
2. Luxembourg
3. Lunar War[/spoiler]

[spoiler=M]1. Midgard
2. Middle East
3. Midkemdil
4. Mongol Empire
5. Montreal
6. Madagascar
7. Madness
8. macedonia
9. Malta
10. Monsters
11. Middle Ages
12. Mexico[/spoiler]

[spoiler=N]1. Nordic Countries
2. Netherlands
3. New World
4. North America
5. NYC
6. Napoleanic Empire[/spoiler]

[spoiler=o]1. Orient Express 1883
2. Operation Drug War
3. Oceania
4. oasis
5. pearl harbOr[/spoiler]

[spoiler=P]1. Puget Sound
2. Prohibition Chicago
3. Pearl Harbor
4. Peloponnesian War
5. Philippines
6. Poison Rome
7. Portugal
8. Poker Club[/spoiler]

[spoiler=Q]1. battle for iraQ
2. conQuer 4
3. conQuer man[/spoiler]

[spoiler=R]Route 66
RailEurope
RailUSA
RailAfrica
RailAustralia[/spoiler]

[spoiler=S]San Marino
Space
South America
Siege!
Scotland
Solar System
Supermax Prison Riot
Stalingrad
Sydney Metro
Soviet Union
San Francisco
South Africa 1885[/spoiler]

[spoiler=T]Tamriel
Texan Wars
Triple Alliance
The Citadel
Thysendal
Thailand
Treasures of Galapagos
Third Kingdoms of Korea
Transsib 1914
Trafalgar
Third Crusade[/spoiler]

[spoiler=U]USA Southwest
USApocalypse
US Senate
USA Rockies
Unification italy
USA Great Lakes
Unification germany
USA West
USA
USA SOutheast
USA New England[/spoiler]

[spoiler=V]Vancouver
yugoslaVia
american ciVil war
duck and coVer[/spoiler]

[spoiler=W]wwii western front
wwi ottoman empire
wwii europe
wwii eastern front
woodboro
wwii gazala
world 2.1
wwii iwo jima
wwii ardennes
wwii australia
waterloo
wales
wwii poland[/spoiler]

[spoiler=X]aleXander's empire
beneluX
circus maXimus
eXtreme global warming
luXembourg
meXico
supermaX prison riot
teXan wars[/spoiler]

[barterer2002]

[spoiler=The players]barterer2002
Tupence
dtellis
DJ Teflon
SuicidalSnowman
Johnohue
adam666
RedBaron0
HighlanderAttack
Witt13
spidey
Zivel
Darin44
MyTurnToWin
amazzony
jgazaille
shoop76
Jobiwan
keiths31
jsholty4690
AfroDwarf
jricart
dragon dor
Diego_CR
SFX!
The Mantis
manc
Enormastitz
AndrewB
bruno fountain
SuicidalSnowman
murphy16
mattattam
jielking
gubarretto
Dieforasandwich
johncusac
n00blet
Bones2484
harvmax
gegegray
Natascha
danryan[/spoiler]

[barterer2002]

Scoring

Playing on Z maps (losses/byes)
HighlanderAttack (28/2)
abel (28/2)




Eliminated
Jobiwan (7/0) A Maps
murphy16 (7/0) B maps
amazzony (9/1) C maps
Enormastitz (10/0) D maps
Darin44 (10/1) E maps
harvmax (13/0) F maps
dtellis (13/1) G maps
jgazaille (10/1) H maps
The Mantis (16/1) I maps
DJ Teflon (11/1) J maps
spidey (13/1) K maps
Bones2484 (9/1) M maps
MyTurnToWin (33/1) O maps
gubarretto (24/1) P maps
jsholty4690 (18/1) Q maps
adam666 (15/1) R maps
barterer2002 (25/2) S maps
dragon dor (20/1) T maps
RedBaron0 (18/2) V maps
Zivel (27/2) W maps
danryan (18/2) X maps


No Show-forfeit slot in tournament
Dieforasandwich (1/0) (failed to show for Battle for Iraq)
Diego_CR (0/0) (failed to show for Battle for Iraq)
Johnohue (1/0) (failed to show for Battle for Iraq)
SFX! (0/0) (failed to show for Battle for Iraq)
gegegray (5/0)failed to show for Brazil
mattattam (0/0) failed to show for Cairns Coral Coast
Tupence (5/0) failed to show for DDay
manc (7/1) failed to show for the final 3 player round robin in E maps
AndrewB (3/0) failed to show for First nations of North America
jielking (11/0) failed to show for Forbidden City
n00blet (14/1) failed to show for Holy Roman Empire
AfroDwarf (26/2) failed to show for battle for iraQ
bruno fountain (21/1) failed to show for RailEurope

Resigned
Witt13 (1/0) (dropped due to no premium for D maps)
SuicidalSnowman (2/1) (dropped out after Discworld)
keiths31(3/1) (dropped out due to no premium for E maps)
Natascha (9/1) (dropped out for Japan in J maps)
shoop76 (7/1) (dropped out for King of the Mountain K maps)
jricart (15/1) (dropped out for Tamriel in T maps}

[Tupence]

In please

[dtellis]

Okay, I'll play this one.

[Teflon Kris]

I'm up for it

[SuicidalSnowman]

I would like to play.

[Johnohue]

sounds fun, put me in

[adam666]

in please

[RedBaron0]

I'll play

[HighlanderAttack]

in

[Witt13]

In please!

[spidey]

sounds a little complicated but I will play. This won't be the first time nor the last time I probably am bitting off more then I can chew.

[Zivel]

Yeah I will give this a go...

[Darin44]

in please

[MyTurnToWin]

Sign me up, please.

[amazzony]

I've been thinking since you threw this idea out in G1 forums and I can't say no to a massive 1v1 tournament so count me in, I'll do my best to be around

[jgazaille]

in

[shoop76]

in please

[Jobiwan]

in please

[keiths31]

in please

[jsholty4690]

I'm up for this.

[AfroDwarf]

Sure, I'm in.

[jricart]

IN