Initech XV: Secret Mission [Winner: aligator_al]

[Peter Gibbons]

With its fifteenth edition, Initech enters into new territory. I realize some people despise these settings, but my experience in earlier mixed-settings Initechs shows that it works. Anyway, like all Initechs this edition will be flat rate, chained and foggy. The hiccup here is that all games will be assassin, as well. To avoid some of the pitfalls that come with foggy assassin, the tournament will be 3-player games only throughout. All details are explained below. I give you... Initech XV: Secret Mission.

OVERVIEW
3-round, 72-game, 8-map, 18-player tournament. All players guaranteed eight games. Max games for an individual player is 24.

ELIGIBLE PLAYERS
Premium only, sorry. You'll need more than 4 games open at all times.

RULES
All games will be Assassin, Sequential, Automatic, Flat Rate, Chained, Foggy.

MAPS
To make the assassin/foggy 3-player settings as smooth as possible, we will utilize some of the smallest maps on the site. The following 8 maps will be used: Australia, Greater China, Greenland, Haiti, Ireland, Luxembourg, Madagascar, San Marino

ROUNDS
The first round will consist of six groups of three players each. All 8 maps will be played. The player with the most wins advances to the semifinals.

The semifinals will consist of two groups of three players each. All 8 maps will be repeated. The player with the most wins advances to the finals. EDIT: in addition, one wild card winner will advance to the finals--this will be the second-placed finisher with more wins.

The final consists of one group of three players. All 8 maps will be repeated. The player with the most wins is tournament champion.

SEEDINGS
After there are 18 entrants, players will be grouped into 3 different pots by points/rank. One player from each pot will go in each first round group.

TIEBREAKERS
In the first round, the tiebreaker utilized will be the fewest number of rounds it took to achieve a player's wins. If still tied, the second tiebreaker will be a playoff match on Luxembourg, with tournament settings (but standard and no spoils).

In the semifinal round, the first tiebreaker utilized will be the number of wins in the first round. If still tied, the second tiebreaker is the fewest number of rounds it took to achieve a player's wins in the semifinal round. The third tiebreaker will be the Luxembourg playoff match as stated above.

In the final round, the first tiebreaker will be the number of wins in the semifinal round. The second tiebreaker will be number of wins in the first round. The third tiebreaker is number of rounds it took to achieve a player's wins in the final round. If somehow still tied, the Luxembourg playoff mentioned above will be utilized.

Players
1. Peter Gibbons
2. MyTurnToWin
3. Little Witt
4. denominator
5. Jobiwan
6. ZionT
7. acores2005
8. 72o
9. japser_be
10. ETROPAL
11. saetjw
12. lipsondavid
13. s_uperdave
14. magneto_acolyte
15. coacheberhardt
16. General Flashman
17. gubarretto
18. aligator_al

[Peter Gibbons]

SCOREBOARD

FIRST ROUND
Group 1
Player - Wins
Jobiwan - 5
gubarretto - 2
s_uperdave - 1

Group 2
Player - Wins
aligator_al - 6
Little Witt - 2
ETROPAL - 0

Group 3
Player - Wins
magneto_acolyte - 5
ZionT - 3
saetjw - 0

Group 4
Player - Wins
MyTurnToWin - 5
denominator - 2
lipsondavid - 1

Group 5
Player - Wins
General Flashman - 4 (28 rounds)
72o - 4 (33 rounds)
coacheberhardt - 0

Group 6
Player - Wins
Peter Gibbons - 4
japser_be - 3
acores20005 - 1

SEMIFINALS
Group A
Player - Wins
Jobiwan - 3
General Flashman - 3
magneto_acolyte - 2


Group B
Player - Wins
aligator_al - 4
Peter Gibbons - 2 (9 rounds)
MyTurnToWin - 2 (15 rounds)

[MyTurnToWin]

Sign me up, please.

[Little Witt]

in please

[denominator]

I'll play.

[Jobiwan]

in plz

[ZionT]

foggy assassin sounds like a scary proposition with some potentially LONG games, then again...

why not try (I'm in)

[acores2005]

in

[72o]

In please.

[japser_be]

in

[ETROPAL]

in

[saetjw]

Im in... I havent played assassin in a while

[Walter Sobchak]

in. thanks.

[s_uperdave]

in please

[magneto_acolyte]

I'll play.

[coacheberhardt]

in please

[General Flashman]

Sign me up please!

Thanks

[gubarretto]

in pls

[aligator_al]

in please.

thx.

[Peter Gibbons]

Registration closed. Groups drawn and posted on the first page of thread. Games will be sent once privileges granted. Good luck to all.

[72o]

Our games are over. General Flashman and I split all 8 games, but he's going to edge me out with fewer rounds.

[Peter Gibbons]

Our games are over. General Flashman and I split all 8 games, but he's going to edge me out with fewer rounds.

Thanks. Yes, it's 28-33 him.

[Peter Gibbons]

Important edit to the original post. For the first time in fifteen tournaments, I made a simple planning mistake... it's impossible to get a group of three for the finals from two groups of six when only the winners advance! As such, a wildcard (top second placed finisher) will advance to the finals as well. I apologize for the mid-tournament fix but it needs to be done and since no semifinals have finished, it should be fair to do it now.

[Peter Gibbons]

FINAL ROUND
Player - Wins
aligator_al - 3
General Flashman - 3
Jobiwan - 2

*aligator_al wins tournament on first tiebreaker, having won 4 semifinal games when the other two finalists won 3 each

[Peter Gibbons]

Congratulation to aligator_al, winner of Initech XV: Secret Mission!

GOLD: aligator_al
SILVER: General Flashman
BRONZE: Jobiwan

With more than a 50% win rate (13/24), aligator_al was a deserving champion of the first ever all-assassin Initech tournament. After dominating the first and semifinal rounds, he eked out a win in the finals based on the first tiebreaker. General Flashman and Jobiwan put up valiant efforts, but came up just short. Congrats again to aligator_al!