The Eliminator [Winner: Genoke]

[drunkmonkey]

Quick Summary
Win your 8-player escalating game for a chance to eliminate your opponents! Play each one in 1v1 games with your home settings to knock them out of the tournament! All the survivors get thrown back into a new escalating game, and we start over! Keep going until only the champion remains!!!

Now for the gritty details...


Players will be split up into 8-player groups for the beginning of the tournament. One winner will emerge from each group to advance to the finals. Each player begins the game with one (1) elimination point (this will be explained later). Play is split up into 2 phases:

Phase 1: Battle
All surviving players in the group will battle on the Classic map. The settings will be Automatic, Sequential, Escalating, Sunny, Chained. The winner of the Battle phase becomes The Eliminator in Phase 2.

Phase 2: Elimination
The Eliminator plays n 1v1 games on his/her home map & settings against each of the surviving challengers, where n is the number of elimination points the challenger has. For each game the challenger loses, he/she loses one elimination point. Once you have zero (0) elimination points, you are eliminated from the tournament. Each time The Eliminator eliminates a player, he/she gains one elimination point. The Eliminator has immunity in this phase, and cannot lose points nor be eliminated. After the Elimination phase, all surviving players return to the Battle Phase.

End of Round
A winner can be decided in one of two ways:

1) During the Elimination phase, The Eliminator eliminates all remaining challengers.
2) After the Elimination phase, only 2 players remain. The two remaining players will play a best-of-3 series to determine the winner (one on each home map/settings & one on Battle map/settings. Each time a player loses a series, he/she loses an elimination point. This continues until one player is eliminated.

Elimination points do not carry over to the finals. In the final round, everyone will start with one (1) elimination point.

Deadlocks
To avoid deadlocks, a 30 round cap will be put on the Battle phase. Any Battle games which last longer than 30 rounds will be declared null. At this point, all players eliminated in the previous Elimination phase will be "resurrected" with one (1) elimination point and a new Battle game will be created.

When you sign up, please list your home map & settings for the 1v1 elimination games. All games will be Automatic & Sequential, but you map choose spoils, fog, & reinforcements. Premium only, due to the number of games in the Elimination Phase.

UPDATE: Round 1 will consist of eight 7-player games. The final round will have 8 players.

[drunkmonkey]

[spoiler=Players]1. drunkmonkey - Monsters, ns, foggy, unlimited
2. Jimmy V - Treasures of Galapagos, esc, foggy, chained
3. Streaker - Feudal War, flat, foggy, chained
4. sonicsteve - British Isles, ns, sunny, adjacent
5. DBandit70 - Age of Realms 3, flat, foggy, chained
6. jrh_cardinal - American Civil War, ns, sunny, chained
7. Jobiwan - Jamaica, ns, foggy, unlimited
8. Easy n Dirty - Middle East, ns, sunny, chained
9. benga - Indochina, nuke, sunny, chained
10. aggresivo - Arms Race, flat, sunny, adjacent
11. ScaryTeded - Battle for Iraq!, ns, foggy, adjacent
12. HighlanderAttack - Arms Race, ns, sunny, unlimited
13. bigm1234 - Arms Race, ns, foggy, unlimited
14. I_AM_BOGEY - USA West, ns, foggy, chained
15. Eddy_26 - Austerlitz, ns, foggy, chained
16. NCachulo - Classic, esc, sunny, chained
17. denthefrog - Waterloo, ns, foggy, adjacent
18. wrexham - Feudal War, ns, foggy, chained
19. Dunk90 - British Isles, ns, sunny, chained
20. dcc1220 - New World, ns, foggy, chained
21. Johnny Rockets - Canada, ns, sunny, chained
22. scottishleaf - Age of Realms 3, flat, foggy, chained
23. paws1610 - Age of Realms 2, ns, foggy, chained
24. uckuki - Waterloo, nuke, foggy, chained
25. Gilligan - Imperiam Romanum, esc, sunny, chained
26. 00icon - Conquer Man, flat, foggy, chained
27. riodeishere - Age of Realms 2, ns, foggy, chained
28. TODRICH - New World, flat, foggy, chained
29. Crankyor - Japan, flat, sunny, chained
30. General Flashman - Scotland, flat, sunny, chained
31. johnboss13 - Route 66, esc, sunny, chained
32. squishyg - Prohibition Chicago, ns, sunny, chained
33. kgbpizza - WWII Poland, ns, foggy, chained
34. uptothemax - Benelux, esc, sunny, chained
35. Krissan - 13 Colonies, ns, sunny, chained
36. shipmthisway - Feudal War, flat, foggy, chained
37. whakamole - New World, flat, foggy, unlimited
38. SirSebstar - WWII Poland, nuke, foggy, chained
39. jigger1986 - Age of Realms 1, ns, foggy, unlimited
40. jester1974 - Third Crusade, esc, sunny, chained
41. angaralı - TBA
42. themuss11 - Conquer 4, esc, foggy, chained
43. J_A - Benelux, esc, sunny, chained
44. pitters31 - Jamaica, ns, foggy, chained
45. Jubjic - Arms Race, flat, foggy, chained
46. vragus - Arms Race, ns, sunny, chained
47. Enormastitz - Das Schloss, ns, foggy, chained
48. HaireWolf1 - Alexander's Empire, esc, foggy, adjacent
49. Gromph - Europe 1912, esc, sunny, chained
50. Genoke - City Mogul, nuke, sunny, chained
51. skillfulsniper33 - Poker Club, flat, foggy, chained
52. opposites. - Egypt: Lower, esc, foggy, unlimited
53. mickunited333 - Africa, ns, foggy, unlimited
54. angola - Extreme Global Warming, esc, sunny, chained
55. murphy16 - Woodboro, ns, foggy, chained
56. taxmanjle - Japan, flat, foggy, chained[/spoiler]

[drunkmonkey]

Final Round (Playoff)
paws1610 (0) - eliminated by Genoke - Round 1
vragus (0) - eliminated by Genoke - Round 2
dcc1220 (1)
denthefrog (0) - eliminated by Genoke - Round 2
uckuki (0) - eliminated by Genoke - Round 1
Jimmy V (0) - eliminated by Genoke - Round 1
Streaker (0) - eliminated by Genoke - Round 1
Genoke (3)

(Elimination Points in green parentheses)

[spoiler=First Round]Group A (finished)
paws1610 (3) - advances to finals
DBandit70 (0) - eliminated by paws1610 - Round 2
opposites. (0) - deadbeat - Round 1
wrexham (0) - eliminated by DBandit70 - Round 1
General Flashman (0) - refused invitation - Round 2
murphy16 (0) - eliminated by DBandit70 - Round 1
Gromph (0) - eliminated by paws1610 - Round 2

Group B (finished)
SirSebstar (0) - eliminated by Easy N Dirty - Round 3
Easy N Dirty (0) - eliminated by vragus - Round 4
vragus (3) - advances to finals
squishyg (0) - eliminated by Johnny Rockets - Round 1
HighlanderAttack (0) - eliminated by vragus - Playoff
taxmanjle (0) - eliminated by vragus - Round 2
Johnny Rockets (0) - eliminated by vragus - Round 5

Group C (finished)
dcc1220 (5) - advances to finals
scottishleaf (0) - eliminated by dcc1220 - Playoff
angaralı (0) - refused invitation - Round 1
bigm1234 (0) - eliminated by dcc1220 - Round 1
themuss11 (0) - eliminated by dcc1220 - Round 1
pitters31 (0) - eliminated by dcc1220 - Round 1
ScaryTeded (0) - eliminated by dcc1220 - Round 1

Group D (finished)
uptothemax (0) - eliminated by denthefrog - Playoff
Crankyor (0) - eliminated by uptothemax - Round 1
shipmthisway (0) - eliminated by uptothemax - Round 1
agressivo (0) - eliminated by denthefrog - Round 2
Jobiwan (0) - eliminated by uptothemax - Round 1
Krissan (0) - eliminated by uptothemax - Round 1
denthefrog (1) - advances to finals

Group E (finished)
mickunited333 (0) - eliminated by Dunk90 - Round 2
uckuki (2) - advances to finals
skillfusniper33 (0) - eliminated by uckuki - Round 3
Dunk90 (0) - eliminated by uckuki - Playoff
00icon (0) - eliminated by Dunk90 - Round 2
Jubjic (0) - eliminated by HaireWolf1 - Round 1
HaireWolf1 (0) - eliminated by Dunk90 - Round 2

Group F (finished)
whakamole (0) - eliminated by angola - Round 1
angola (0) - resigned - Playoff
jigger1986 (0) - eliminated by angola - Round 1
kgbpizza (0) - eliminated by Jimmy V - Round 2
TODRICH (0) - eliminated by Jimmy V - Round 2
Jimmy V (1) - advances to finals
johnboss13 (0) - refused invitation - Round 1

Group G (finished)
Streaker (3) - advances to finals
I_AM_BOGEY (0) - eliminated by Streaker - Round 1
NCachulo (0) - eliminated by Streaker - Round 1
Gilligan (0) - eliminated by Streaker - Playoff
sonicsteve (0) - eliminated by Streaker - Round 1
jester1974 (0) - eliminated by Streaker - Round 1
J_A (0) - eliminated by Streaker - Round 1

Group H (finished)
Genoke (2) - advances to finals
jrh_cardinal (0) - eliminated by Genoke - Round 5
drunkmonkey (0) - eliminated by jrh_cardinal - Round 1
benga (0) - eliminated by Genoke - Playoff
riodeishere (0) - eliminated by Genoke - Round 2
Eddy_26 (0) - eliminated by jrh_cardinal - Round 1
Enormastitz (0) - eliminated by Genoke - Round 2[/spoiler]

[drunkmonkey]

Monsters
no spoils
foggy
unlimited

[Jimmy V]

Treasure of Galapagos
Escalating
Foggy
Chained

[drunkmonkey]

Treasure of Galapagos
Escalating
Foggy
Chained

You're in.

I also added a quick summary to the first post. Hopefully this helps clear things up. The premise really is simple, there are just a lot of details I feel the need to cover.

[Streaker]

Very interesting format, I like it.

Definitly in

Feudal War, Flat Rate, Fog, Chained

[sonicsteve]

I'm IN please.

British Isles, No spoils, adjacent, sunshine.

Cheers.

[DBandit70]

In please

AOR - 3

foggy
auto
seq
chained
flat

[jrh_cardinal]

good idea

American Civil War
no spoils
chained
sunny

[drunkmonkey]

updated to this point

[Jobiwan]

in plz

Jamaica no spoils, unlimited forts, Foggy

[Easy n Dirty]

Nice setup, count me in pls - Middle East, no spoils, chained, sunny.

Thanks.

[benga]

in
indochina,nuke,chained,sunny,auto,seq

[agressivo]

wooa!! In plz

Arms Race
flat
adjacent
sunny

[benga]

in
indochina,nuke,chained,sunny,auto,seq

sorry forgot
here is it now

[drunkmonkey]

updated to here

[ScaryTeded]

In M8
Battle For Iraq!
Standard
Automatic
Sequential
no spoils
Adjacent
Foggy

[HighlanderAttack]

in

arms race
seq
auto
no spoils
unlimited forts
sunny

[bigm1234]

in
arms race
no spoils, seq, unlim, fog, auto

[I_AM_BOGEY]

bogey in please

usa west no spoils chained no fog auto

[drunkmonkey]

updated

[Eddy_26]

Cool idea, I'm in.

Austerlitz: Foggy, Chained, NS

[NCachulo]

In

classic: escalating, sunny, chained, sequential, automatic

[denthefrog]

in pls
waterloo, no spoils,adj, foggy