Today Praha is known for happy things like beautiful architecture, artists' festivals, a thriving busker community, great food and beer, and more opera houses per capita than any other place on earth. It does, however, have a darker side. Many incidents of murder and mayhem darken Prague's history, including some of the world's most famous Assassinations. Appropriately, then, this is an ideal opportunity to feature the Assassin game type in the CSFR series.
Sign-ups: Premium only. I think I can handle up to about 90 players in this, so sign-ups will stay open for twenty days or up to 90 players, whichever comes first. I will be sending out PMs to players who have played in my tournaments previously. However, the first 48 hours I will leave this unpromoted to give everyone a chance.
Maps and Settings: Forty percent (40%) of the games will be on the CSFR map. The remainder will be on other maps, as specified in the spoilers below.
Six of the eight phases will feature Assassin games (Automatic, Sequential, with a 30-round limit.) Two of the eight phases (the Interludes) will feature non-Assassin games, and it is possible that phase 3 (1st Interlude) may include some manual or freestyle games. Most phases will feature 6-player games, phase 1 will feature 4-player games, and phase 3 (1st Interlude) which may include any game size. Regardless of what size games a phase is trying for, it may vary depending on the number of players remaining in the tournament. Game lists will be randomized separately, so if games of a non-specified size are required, it will not be the same players in all of them. All games will have a 30-round limit.
Prizes: To celebrate my birthplace, I will have more prizes than I have ever before given out in a tournament! There will be a grand total of Six Years of premium handed out, as follows:
- 3 months premium for the winner of each of the eight phases.
- One year premium to the tournament winner.
- One year premium to the player who scores the most in the creative components.
- Six months premium to the second-place player overall.
- Three months premium to each of the third, fourth, and fifth players overall.
- Three months premium to each of the second, third, and fourth-placing players in the creative components
Creative Components: Each phase will include a creative component. Creative components will ask you to post a picture or a story to add to the colour and flavour of the tournament. After each phase I will score your creative contributions. Everyone who participates will get 1 point, the best will get 5 points, and the 2nd best will get 3 points. It is not mandatory to participate, but there are benefits to participating.
- The person who scores the most creative points overall will win a year's premium.
- I am applying for a GA medal for the creative component.
- Creative score will be the tiebreaker for the phase win prizes.
- The players who win the most creative points in the first two phases will help to choose the games for the third phase.
- The players who win the most creative points in phases three and four will help to choose the games for the fifth phase.
GA Medals: I am applying for 2 GA medals. One will be for the most creative participant, the player who contributes the most to the creative components and scores the most points in them. The other will be for the person who wins the most of the non-Assassin games. Note that GA medals are not official until approved.Update: GAs have been approved!Subject: DKs CSFR series 08 -- Praha
mcshanester29 wrote:GA Medals have been approved
Scoring: The bulk of the score will come from the Assassin games. These will score as follows:
- Winning a game by killing your target -- 7 points
- Winning a game by any other means (ie. round limit) -- 3 points
- Surviving a game (not winning, but still being on the board at the end) -- 0 points
- Losing by being assassinated -- minus 1 point
- Losing by deadbeating from a game or by killing the wrong target -- minus 5 points
- Standard games (if any) -- 2 points plus 1 extra point for each additional player in the game
- Terminator games (if any) -- 2 points plus 1 point per kill
- Team games (if any) -- 2 points plus 1 additional point for each opponent (player in the game not on your team)
- Polymorphic games (if any) -- 3 points for a Poly dubs win, 4 points for Poly trips, and 5 points for Poly Quads
Click here for the scoreboard
General Game Load: Five games per phase, for a total of 40. I will wait until each phase is well advanced before sending the next, but I will not wait for all games to end. On average, therefore, I expect you will be playing in six or seven games at a time.
[spoiler=1st Assassination Good King Wenceslaus 935]Duke Wenceslaus I, better known as Saint Wenceslaus (or Svatý Václav in Czech -- Wenceslaus in Czech is Václav and therefore Saint Wenceslaus is Svatý Václav, the patron saint of Bohemia.)
Saint Wenceslaus ruled Bohemia from 924 to 935 A.D. He was the Duke of Bohemia and never used the title King in his lifetime. (The title King was posthumously awarded to him by Holy Roman Emperor Otto I.) The first Wenceslaus to use the title King was Wenceslaus I Premyslid of the 12th Century, which does result in some confusion if one doesn't pay attention to the dates.
At a time when much of Eastern Europe was still pagan, Wenceslaus was a fervent Christian. His piety was legendary. Unlike some "saints of convenience", the sainthood of Wenceslaus stands up to scrutiny. By all account he devoted much time and energy to charity, was humble and chivalrous. His assassination by his brother was considered a martyrdom and Wenceslaus was canonized.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wenceslaus_I,_Duke_of_Bohemia
wikipedia wrote:Wenceslas was considered a martyr and a saint immediately after his death, when a cult of Wenceslas grew up in Bohemia and in England.[3] Within a few decades of Wenceslas' death four biographies of him were in circulation.[4][5] These hagiographies had a powerful influence on the High Middle Ages conceptualization of the rex justus, or "righteous king"—that is, a monarch whose power stems mainly from his great piety, as well as from his princely vigor.[6]
Referring approvingly to these hagiographies, the chronicler Cosmas of Prague, writing in about the year 1119, states:[7]
But his deeds I think you know better than I could tell you; for, as is read in his Passion, no one doubts that, rising every night from his noble bed, with bare feet and only one chamberlain, he went around to God’s churches and gave alms generously to widows, orphans, those in prison and afflicted by every difficulty, so much so that he was considered, not a prince, but the father of all the wretched.
Several centuries later the legend was claimed as fact by Pope Pius II.[8]
"Wenzeslaus by Peter Parler" by Peter Parler (?) - http://www.heiligenlexikon.de/Biographi ... slaus.html where this photo is published as Public Domain. Licensed under Public Domain via Commons - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File ... Parler.JPG
Wenceslaus was murdered and usurped by his younger brother, who went on to be known as Borivoj the Cruel.
Games: To mark the assassination, you will play in five 4-player Assassin games. All will be Sequential, Automatic, Sunny, No Trench, with No Spoils (as befits a humble, pious leader, who would never seize spoils in war.) Two will be on the CSFR map and three will be on the Christmas map.
Creative Component: Today Saint Wenceslaus is best known in the West due to the carol Good King Wenceslaus. Rewrite a verse of this carol to celebrate this tournament and/or Conquer Club. Post your verse NO SOONER than the day I send the first invite in this phase, and no more than 7 days after that.[/spoiler]
[spoiler=2nd Assassination Jaromir 1035]Jaromir was a hapless soul. I'll let Wikipedia tell the story:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jarom%C3%ADr,_Duke_of_Bohemia
wikipedia wrote:Jaromír (c. 975 - 4 November 1035) was the second son of Boleslaus II the Pious and Emma of Mělník. In 1003, he rebelled against his elder brother Boleslaus III, who had him castrated,[1] but was unable to secure the throne, which was subsequently taken by Bolesław the Brave, King of Poland. Jaromír and his brother Oldřich then sought military backing from the German King Henry II. At Merseburg, Jaromír promised to hold Bohemia as a vassal of Henry. This action definitively placed Bohemia within the jurisdiction of the Holy Roman Empire.
In 1004, Jaromír occupied Prague with a German army and made himself Duke. The state he regained was a small one, as Polish forces still held Moravia, Silesia, and Lusatia. Jaromír's reign—like so many of the other early Czech rulers—was a struggle to regain lost lands. In 1012, Jaromír was dethroned by Oldřich (who had him blinded[1]) and forced once again into exile. In a surprise campaign, Jaromír in turn managed to depose Oldřich (1033), but his second reign was short-lived. A year later Oldřich was restored by his son Bretislaus I. Jaromír was imprisoned at Lysá nad Labem and died (assassinated by one of the Vršovci) in 1035, a year after the death of his brother.
So, he rebelled once, got castrated for his trouble. Sold out his patrimony to the Germans. Became duke, got deposed, got blinded. Rebelled again, ruled for a year, was deposed and imprisoned and murdered. In exchange for a couple brief stints on the throne, he lost his nuts, his eyes, and eventually his life, and in the meantime he condemned his countrymen to being vassals of the Germans for 800 years. Truly a life in hell.
"Jaroměř-Jaromír". Licensed under Public Domain via Commons - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File ... C3%ADr.jpg
Games: To mark the death of Jaromir, you will play 5 6-player Assassin games. Two will be on the CSFR map and one each on AOR III: Mayhem, Labyrinth, and Stalingrad.
The settings will be the hellish combination of Fog, Trench, Adjacent forts, and Zombie spoils.
Creative component: Put yourself in Jaromir's shoes. What do you think is worst: being castrated, being blinded, or being killed? Why? Do you think you would have given up politics and retired to the country after the first incident? Do you think Jaromir was very unlucky, or did he deserve everything he got? Post your thoughts NO SOONER than the day I send the first invite in this phase, and no more than 7 days after that.[/spoiler]
[spoiler=1st Interlude Charles IV]After 200 years of fratricidal war, Bohemia found peace and stability for a while. King Přemysl Ottokar II acquired Austria, Styria, Carinthia and Carniola. Dynastic wars briefly continued and then petered out. John of Luxembourg inherited the throne of Bohemia and Poland as well as Luxembourg, creating a mini-empire that had included elements from the Rhine to the Bug and from the Baltic to the Adriatic. His son, Charles IV, inherited not only all of the above but became Holy Roman Emperor as well.
With the accession of Charles IV, Prague entered a Golden Age. Charles University was chartered in 1348 and became a thriving centre of learning. Today it is still ranked in the 2nd percentile of the world's great universities. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_University_in_Prague#Rankings) Charles was a literate man and fluent in five languages: Latin, Czech, French, German, and Italian. Artists and scholars were happy to seek his patronage, and not just for an income.
Prague became the capital of the Holy Roman Empire and a great trading centre. Charles organised the Empire into "Confederations" where the feuds of the rural lords were kept in check by ensuring that Imperial cities, with their independent charters and their desire for peace, carried enough votes in the Confederation councils to overrule the rural lords and arbitrate disputes between them.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prague#The_era_of_Charles_IV
wikipedia wrote:Prague flourished during the 14th-century reign (1346–1378) of Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor and the king of Bohemia of the new Luxembourg dynasty. As King of Bohemia and Holy Roman Emperor, he transformed Prague into an imperial capital and it was at that time the third-largest city in Europe (after Rome and Constantinople).
He ordered the building of the New Town (Nové Město) adjacent to the Old Town and laid out the design himself. The Charles Bridge, replacing the Judith Bridge destroyed in the flood just prior to his reign, was erected to connect the east bank districts to the Malá Strana and castle area. On 9 July 1357 at 5:31 am, Charles IV personally laid the first foundation stone for the Charles Bridge. The exact time of laying the first foundation stone is known because the palindromic number 135797531 was carved into the Old Town bridge tower having been chosen by the royal astrologists and numerologists as the best time for starting the bridge construction.[24] In 1347, he founded Charles University, which remains the oldest university in Central Europe.
He began construction of the Gothic Saint Vitus Cathedral, within the largest of the Prague Castle courtyards, on the site of the Romanesque rotunda there. Prague was elevated to an archbishopric in 1344, the year the cathedral was begun.
The city had a mint and was a centre of trade for German and Italian bankers and merchants. The social order, however, became more turbulent due to the rising power of the craftsmen's guilds (themselves often torn by internal fights), and the increasing number of poor people.
The Hunger Wall, a substantial fortification wall south of Malá Strana and the Castle area, was built during a famine in the 1360s. The work is reputed to have been ordered by Charles IV as a means of providing employment and food to the workers and their families.
The Golden Age of Prague had no notable assassinations. Why include it in an assassin-based tournament? Because a balanced picture of Prague's history cannot be gained without showing the good as well as the bad.
Games: To honour the creativity unleashed during Prague's Golden Age, the players who won the creative components of the first two phases will help select the games here. Five games will be played, in any style except Assassin (Standard, Terminator, Team, or Poly). The first game will be on the Luxembourg map to honour the House of Luxembourg. The next two maps will be CSFR, and the last two will be chosen by the Creative component winners from Phase 1 and 2. Both will contribute settings to the Luxembourg game, and I will intervene in case of an impasse.
Creative component: Post a picture of Charles University, Charles Bridge, or any landmark built in the reign of Charles IV, (even if it be outside of Prague). Please be sure to use sources in the public domain and give credit where credit is due. Post your pics NO SOONER than the day I send the first invite in this phase, and no more than 7 days after that.[/spoiler]
[spoiler=3rd Assassination 1st Defenestration 1419]With the accession of John of Luxembourg the dynastic wars had ended, but soon a new evil was to stalk the land. During the reign of Charles IV, freethinking was encouraged. By the 1370s a reformist movement had begun in Prague, with new, university-educated priests calling for reforms in the Church that would be considered minor by today's standards.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bohemian_Reformation#Origins
Bit by bit, the reformist movement became more radical. By 1412, Jan Hus openly rejected the authority of the Pope and was soon excommunicated. The Reformation was under way (despite the later pretenses of Germans to date the Reformation as beginning with Luther, whose career began almost 100 years after Hus'.)
On July 30th 1419 a Hussite mob led by Jan Želivský marched through the streets, demanding that Hussites jailed for heresy and other crimes be released forthwith. When the Town Council refuse, the Hussites stormed City Hall and hurled the Councillors out the window. (Defenestration, literally, means the act of throwing someone out the window.) This mass murder became known as the First Defenestration of Prague and touched off 230 years of religious violence, extremism, and civil wars.
What a pretty City Hall! Who would have thought what crimes of hate could take place at such a beautiful venue!
"Prague Praha 2014 Holmstad - Det nye rådhuset - Novomestska Radnice - The New Town Hall - Nove Mesto - First defenestration" by Øyvind Holmstad - Own work. Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 via Commons - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File ... ration.JPG
While the Bohemia was rolling towards civil war, the Middle Ages were ending. The old patterns of town versus country and clergy versus nobility were ending, and a new European order was emerging, divided more by religion and language than occupation and class.
Games: To mark this transition, the extra games will be Middle Ages. You will play 5 6-player Assassin games in this Phase, 2 on the CSFR map and 3 on the Middle Ages map. All will be Foggy, Flat Rate, Parachute, No Trench.
Creative Component: Say something about the damage that religious intolerance has caused. Use as few words as you wish, but creativity counts. Post your thoughts NO SOONER than the day I send the first invite in this phase, and no more than 7 days after that.[/spoiler]
[spoiler=2nd Interlude Age of Rudolph II, Rabbi Leow and The Golem, Tycho Brahe and Kepler]Our second Interlude features a "Little Golden Age" in the reign of Rudolf II Habsburg.
wikipedia wrote:Rudolf's legacy has traditionally been viewed in three ways:[1] an ineffectual ruler whose mistakes led directly to the Thirty Years' War; a great and influential patron of Northern Mannerist art; and a devotee of occult arts and learning which helped seed the scientific revolution.
Rudolf was a true Renaissance man. His hunger for knowledge was wide ranging. Critics have pointed out that he was duped by occultist con men like Edward Kelly and John Dee, but he also supported many legitimate scientists like the botanist Charles de l'Ecluse. A balanced view is that in that time it was impossible to have one without the other. There was no easy way to separate hoaxers from legitimate scientists, and a seeker of knowledge would have to deal with both. In fact many scientists were both, such as alchemists who nonetheless were laying the foundations for modern chemistry. Tycho Brahe was the official court astrologer, but he was also a legitimate astronomer whose careful observations paved the way for Johanne Kepler's discoveries, and in fact Brahe made important discoveries in his own right.
Rudolf also surrounded himself with musicians, poets, and painters.
A discussion of this magical time would not be complete without the story of the Golem. Prague had a large and thriving Jewish community, which for most of its history was on good terms with Christian communities. During the time of religious strife, however, they began to suffer serious assaults. Protestant and Catholic fanatics alike, when they took time out from fighting each other, often harassed and sometimes killed Jews. In 1588 Rabbi Loew, a noted Rabbinic scholar, arrived in Prague. Loew was a moderate and an intellectual. He decried not only religious intolerance by Christians but also religious intolerance by the Jews themselves.
Rabbi Loew actually only stayed four years. In 1592 he accepted a position as Chief Rabbi of Poland. However, his four years in Prague were productive and earned him substantial fame. There is a story that Loew created a Golem to serve and defend the Jewish quarter of Prague. Most of the Golem's activities were benign: carrying water from the river, splitting firewood for orphans and widows, and so on. In some legends, however, the Golem becomes violent, and murders Christians who have persecuted Jews.
Modern scholars believe the Golem legend was not even a 16th century story. It is believed to have originated in the 18th century and been recast in the 16th to take advantage of Loew's fame. Nonetheless, it is now an entrenched part of the folklore.
Games: In this Phase you will play 5 games of any type other than Assassin. The first two will be on the CSFR map, the third will be on 8 Thoughts (to honour the many scholars both sane and insane that surrounded Rudolf) the fourth will be on Solar System (in honour of Tycho Brahe and Johannes Kepler) and the last will be on Tribal Wars: Ancient Israel to honour Rabbi Loew. The players who won the creative component in Phase 3 and Phase 4 will choose the game types and settings (and I will intervene only if necessary to break an impasse.)
Creative Component: Who is your favourite member of Rudolf's court? One of the alchemists? The poets? The astronomers? Tell a story about the life of your favourite. Post your thoughts NO SOONER than the day I send the first invite in this phase, and no more than 7 days after that.[/spoiler]
[spoiler=4th Assassination 2nd Defenestration 1618]Rudolf II, while Catholic, had been largely agnostic and increased religious freedom, especially for Protestants. Upon Rudolf's death, his younger brother Matthias inherited Bohemia. Matthias also had a tendency towards religious tolerance, and he was prepared to give even more freedom and self-government to Protestant communities. However, being elderly and childless, Matthias named his cousin Ferdinand as his heir. Ferdinand was cast of a different substance. A conservative Catholic and an outspoken champion of counter-reformation, Ferdinand insisted that Matthias repeal certain concessions that had been made to the Protestants. Among these was the construction of Protestant chapels on royal land, construction which had already begun and was now outlawed.
On May 23rd, 1618, the Protestant Lords arrived at Prague Castle to confront the four Catholic Lords Regent. After a brief debate, they proclaimed two of the Lords Regent innocent and the other two guilty. Despite a plea for negotiation, they threw the two "guilty" Lords and their secretary out of the window. This is known as the Second Defenestration. All three men survived the plunge from the 3rd-story window. The Catholic version states that angels appeared and assisted them to land safely. The Protestant version is that they were lucky enough to fall into a wagonload of dung which was being hauled out of the Imperial stable. (The Protestant version has inspired about a thousand copycat scenes in Hollywood movies.)
This act of rebellion ended the interlude of religious tolerance and led to the Thirty Years War, one of the most destructive wars in Europe's history.
Games: To mark the Second Defenestration, you will play five 6-player Assassin games, 2 on CSFR and 3 on Holy Roman Empire. All will be Sunny, Flat Rate, Parachute, Trench. (For those with a sense of humour, Parachute is for the "angels helped me land" version and Trench is for the "horse dung" story.)
Creative Component: Post an alternative scenario. If it was NOT angels, and NOT horse dung, what might have saved the lives of the Lords Regnant?. Post your thoughts NO SOONER than the day I send the first invite in this phase, and no more than 7 days after that.[/spoiler]
[spoiler=5th Assassination Heydrich 1942]In 1938 Czechoslovakia was forced to surrender the Sudetenland to Germany, and in 1939 the rest of the country fell under German occupation. Slovakia was split off as an “independent” puppet state, while Bohemia and Moravia were put under direct German “protection.”
The official Reichsprotector was Konstantin von Neurath, but the Czechs demonstrated against German occupation, and Hitler decided that von Neurath was too gentle for the job. Reinhard Heydrich, a high-ranking SS official and a much more fanatical Nazi than von Neurath was put in as “deputy” Reichsprotector. All real power was transferred to Heydrich and von Neurath became purely a figurehead.
While Poland, Yugoslavia, and Greece had active and vigorous partisan movements, in the occupied Czech lands people were relatively acquiescent, and the Czech government-in-exile in London was embarrassed by the lack of resistance. In concert with British Intelligence, Czech and Slovak partisans were trained in Britain and parachuted back to Czechoslovakia on a variety of missions, the most ambitious of which was the assassination of Heydrich.
Codenamed Operation Anthropoid, the operation almost failed. On May 27th, 1942, Jozef Gabčík and Jan Kubiš attacked Heydrich's car on his daily commute to Prague Castle. Gabčík's Sten gun jammed, whereupon Kubiš threw a grenade which fatally injured Heydrich. Initially it was thought that the attack had failed, and Gabčík and Kubiš were depressed, but eight days later Heydrich finally died, most likely of septicemia caused by the grenade blast, although the evidence is sketchy.
Some 13,000 Czechs were arrested in the reprisals that followed, and 5,000 of those died, but the primary objectives of the assassination were achieved. The Czech resistance became steadily more animated. Gabčík, Kubiš, and five other operatives were cornered by the SS and fought heroically. The battle of the seven men who held off over a hundred Waffen SS for most of a day has become the stuff of legend. The church where the seven died is a shrine. When I last visited there, I saw many cards and flowers left by English soldiers -- Gabčík, Kubiš, the other five are remembered in Britain as well as at home.
Heydrich's Mercedes after the attack:
"Bundesarchiv Bild 146-1972-039-44, Heydrich-Attentat" by Unknown - This image was provided to Wikimedia Commons by the German Federal Archive (Deutsches Bundesarchiv) as part of a cooperation project. The German Federal Archive guarantees an authentic representation only using the originals (negative and/or positive), resp. the digitalization of the originals as provided by the Digital Image Archive.. Licensed under Public Domain via Commons - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File ... tentat.jpg
Games: To mark Operation Anthropod, you will play five Assassin games, 2 on CSFR map and 3 on the WW II Europe map. To honour the Seven operatives, these will be 7-player games. They will be Sunny, Escalating, Trench, Parachute. (Escalating for the rapidly escalating violence in the wake of the assassination, Parachute for the operatives' arrival in Czechoslovakia by parachute, and Trench for their heroic defense at the church.)
Creative Component: Was it worth it? Resistance activity in Czechoslovakia increased after the assassination, but still had a relatively small impact on the war. Were all the sacrifices worth it, or should the Government-in-Exile have let sleeping dogs lie? Post your thoughts NO SOONER than the day I send the first invite in this phase, and no more than 7 days after that.[/spoiler]
[spoiler=6th Assassination Masaryk 1948]Our final assassination is called the Third Defenestration by some. Others deny that it even was an assassination.
In the wake of the German retreat, Czechoslovakia was occupied by the Russians, who pulled every dirty trick in the book to engineer a victory by the Communist Party in the post-war elections. Even with a blatantly dirty campaign, the Communists failed to score a clear majority, and had to participate in a coalition government. Once again, I'll let wikipedia tell the rest of the story:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Masaryk
wikipedia wrote:In February 1948 the majority of the non-communist cabinet members resigned, hoping to force new elections, but instead a communist government under Gottwald was formed in what became known as the Czech coup (Victorious February in the Eastern Bloc).[5][6] Masaryk remained Foreign Minister, and was the only prominent minister in the new government who was neither a Communist nor a fellow traveller.[6] However, he was apparently uncertain about his decision[citation needed] and possibly regretted his decision not to oppose the communist coup by broadcasting to the Czech people on national radio, where he was a much loved celebrity.
wikipedia wrote:On March 10, 1948 Masaryk was found dead, dressed only in his pajamas, in the courtyard of the Foreign Ministry (the Černín Palace in Prague) below his bathroom window.[8] The initial investigation by the Ministry of the Interior stated that he had committed suicide by jumping out of the window, although for a long time it has been believed by some that he was murdered by the nascent Communist government.[5][8][9] (Others in the country put it thus: "Jan Masaryk was a very tidy man. He was such a tidy man that when he jumped he shut the window after himself.") In a second investigation taken in 1968 during the Prague Spring, Masaryk's death was ruled an accident, not excluding a murder[10] and a third investigation in the early 1990s after the Velvet Revolution concluded that it had been a murder.
Discussions about the mysterious circumstances of his death continued for some time.[8] Those who believe that Masaryk was murdered called it the Third Defenestration of Prague, and point to the presence of nail marks on the window sill from which Masaryk fell, as well as smearings of feces and Masaryk's stated intention to leave Prague the next day for London. Members of Masaryk's family—including his former wife, Frances Crane Leatherbee, a former in-law named Sylvia E. Crane, and his sister Alice Masaryková — stated their belief that he had indeed killed himself, according to a letter written by Sylvia E. Crane to The New York Times, and considered the possibility of murder a "cold war cliché".[11][12] A Prague police report in 2004 concluded after forensic research that Masaryk had indeed been thrown out the window to his death.[13] This report was seemingly corroborated in 2006 when a Russian journalist claimed that his mother knew the Russian intelligence officer who threw Masaryk out the window of the west bathroom Masaryk's flat.[14]
Games: To mark the (probable) assassination of Masaryk, you will play 5 8-player Assassin games. Two will be on CSFR and three will be on the Soviet Union map. All will be sunny, escalating, chained, no trench.
Creative Component: Identify the statue above, and the inscription. What do you think of that as a slogan? Post your thoughts NO SOONER than the day I send the first invite in this phase, and no more than 7 days after that.[/spoiler]
Creative component scoreboard is here: https://www.conquerclub.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=91&t=215515#p4744157
Game scoreboard is here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1sqMgZ48N7dHCqhl0yGp_aORwhkWKOgAHaJD4PsKceWU/edit?usp=sharing
List of games and single-phase prize winners is here: https://www.conquerclub.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=91&t=215515#p4744156
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