History of Nuclear War I [Winner=Culs De Sac]

[Dukasaur]

Game 9502972 has not started. dagdam0r seems to have vanished from the site. I didn't send his second invite until yesterday, but he was apparantly gone the entire week and has been deadbeated out of other games that he's in. I'm declaring him to have been the first person eliminated from the game. Frito, JenBear, Risk, Bobby, commander, and frank all advance to round 3. Since the winning of these games is irrelevant to the tournament and only the first elimination counts, I'm not going to try restarting the game unless the remaining players really want me to.

[Culs De Sac]

Game 9502968 has claimed its first victim. Radiation poisoning at its finest

[Dukasaur]

Game 9502972 has not started. dagdam0r seems to have vanished from the site. I didn't send his second invite until yesterday, but he was apparantly gone the entire week and has been deadbeated out of other games that he's in. I'm declaring him to have been the first person eliminated from the game. Frito, JenBear, Risk, Bobby, commander, and frank all advance to round 3. Since the winning of these games is irrelevant to the tournament and only the first elimination counts, I'm not going to try restarting the game unless the remaining players really want me to.

Here are the replies I've gotten:

I am fine either way

I'm in too many games as it is, so I have no interest in replaying anything. Thanks

I will wait for round 3. Thanks

let's move to next round, no need to play out a game that means nothing (unless of course you are into bragging)!!!

So, a lukewarm "maybe" and three "certainly not" .... Game 9502972 will NOT be replayed or remade. Dagdam0r is eliminated and the others wait for Phase 3 (which should be very soon.)

[Dukasaur]

Game 9502968 has claimed its first victim. Radiation poisoning at its finest

Good work Culs!

[Dukasaur]

There has now been an elimination in all four Phase 2 games. We say goodbye to milo67, Grandilof, RedRover23B, and spartacus 65. (plus the automatic elimination of no-show dagdam0r)

Phase 3 starts today.

Three of the five eliminations were Fog votes, so the foggy side is weakened even further. The vote is now 10 for Sunny, 7 for Foggy, and 13 with no preference.

[Dukasaur]

While practical work in atomic research was centred in England and France, the theoretical backbone of nuclear physics was being built in Germany. Max Planck, Walther Nernst, James Franck, Gustav Hertz, Wolfgang Pauli, Max von Laue and Erwin Shroedinger all made contributions to our theoretical understanding of the universe at the atomic level. The greatest breakthrough of all was Einsteins Special Theory of Relativity, and its inevitable result, the theory of mass-energy equivalence.
Phase 3
30 players in 5 groups will play 6-player games on the Germany map. The first player eliminated in each game is out of the tournament. The remainder will go on to the next round.

[Culs De Sac]

Game 9640447 We have a fatality

[Dukasaur]

There's been an elimination in every game and we're eligible to start the next round now. Unfortunately this is a really hectic week for me, so it might be a few days before I get to at. Thanks in advance for your patience.

[Dukasaur]

Okay, with heavy hearts we say goodbye to [player]4Red[/player], [player]frank_tank[/player], [player]JenBear[/player], [player]basic_man2010_20[/player], and even [player]DoomYoshi[/player], who inspired me to create this tournament.

Two of them were SUNNY votes and one was a FOGGY, so the current preference stands at 8-6 for Sun.

[Dukasaur]

In 1923 Enrico Fermi of Italy was the first to point out that Einstein's mass-equivalence equation offered a source of energy that could be harnessed. Almost twenty years would pass before he could demonstrate this power, but the idea began to spread. Fermi also developed the first complete model of beta decay.

Phase 4
25 players in 5 groups will play 5-player games on the Italy map. The first player eliminated in each game is out of the tournament. The remainder will go on to the next round.

Games have been created and invitations sent out.

[Dukasaur]

Still two games without a fatality in this round.

[Dukasaur]

Ok, looks like we finally have a fatality in all the games in this round.

We say goodbye to [player]slickstick[/player], [player]Dibbun[/player], [player]spidey[/player], [player]callmecommander[/player], and [player]Stanneke[/player].

Next round coming up...

[Dukasaur]

NOTICE:
For the first time, there have been more SUNNY players killed off than FOGGY players, as follows:

[player]slickstick[/player], SUN
[player]Dibbun[/player], (no vote)
[player]spidey[/player], FOG
[player]callmecommander[/player], SUN
[player]Stanneke[/player], SUN

This leaves the current vote tied at 5 to 5!

Now, I could send out a PM asking if anyone wants to change their vote, but my experience with asking for re-votes in other tournaments is that most people just want me to do my job as Tournament Organiser and be decisive. Furthermore, I did originally say:

Fog or Sun: Foggy or Sunny status will be established by the votes of a majority of the remaining players. Please indicate your preference when you sign up, and this will settle it for the first phase. When players are eliminated, their votes will cease to count, so later phases may have a different Fog status than the earlier ones. You may also change your vote if you wish (just don't change it often enough to become annoying.) I won't bother chasing people for their votes; this will be a bonus for people who pay attention.

Therefore (I am finally learning to be decisive) I will stick to that and not send out a PM. Anyone who's paying attention to the rules knows that they have a right to change their vote. If they choose not to do so, that is their right.

The current vote is tied at 5 to 5, and since a decision must be made, I will choose FOG for this round (Phase Five).

Half of the people remaining are people who never voted, so if you don't like this, you can lobby the undecideds to change their vote to your preference before Phase Six....

[Dukasaur]

From 1934 to 1938 Otto Hahn, Lise Meitner, and Fritz Strassman bombarded uranium with neutrons, creating new elements which they mistakenly believed to be transuranic. Slowly but steadily they uncovered evidence that they were creating lighter elements instead, evidence which at first they could not believe. By December of 1938 the evidence had become irrefutable: Hahn and his team were forced to the conclusion that they had for the first time created nuclear fission, cleaving an atom into smaller atoms.
Phase 5
20 players in 4 groups will play 5-player games on the Germany map. The first player eliminated in each game is out of the tournament. The remainder will go on to the next round.

Games have been created and invitations sent out.

[rjhankey]

Well, that's embarrassing ... I didn't vote when I signed up ... Put me down for the foggy side from here on out!

[Dukasaur]

Well, that's embarrassing ... I didn't vote when I signed up ... Put me down for the foggy side from here on out!

ok..

[Dukasaur]

My list of tournaments thus far:
My FIRST tournament: Dukasaur's Knucklehead Tournament
My SECOND tournament: 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!)

[Culs De Sac]

For future reference.. I vote FOGGY the whole tournament.. thanks

Just a reminder.. I don't know if you were already counting my foggy votes.. But just wanted to put it out there once more

[Culs De Sac]

Game 9881324 In the chaos of the incoming nuclear bombardment.. Fuzzy was trampled to death in riot that broke out trying to flee the city.

[Dukasaur]

For future reference.. I vote FOGGY the whole tournament.. thanks

Just a reminder.. I don't know if you were already counting my foggy votes.. But just wanted to put it out there once more

Yup. Once your vote is recorded, it stays the same unless you change it.

If you're ever curious about the votes, check out the "Players" spoiler in Post 2.

Game 9881324 In the chaos of the incoming nuclear bombardment.. Fuzzy was trampled to death in riot that broke out trying to flee the city.

Poor fuzzy. He was always so polite to the neighbours, and gentle with dogs and cats...

[Dukasaur]

Still one game in Phase Five with no fatality.

There's always gotta be one....

[Dukasaur]

Game 9881323 20 rounds, no elimination

Edit, November 18th. 23 rounds. ALL games except the above are now finished. We're waitin'.

[Dukasaur]

Game 9881323 20 rounds, no elimination

Edit, November 18th. 23 rounds. ALL games except the above are now finished. We're waitin'.

Wow, finally a kill!

Okay, I don't have my player lists at work, but when I'm home I will start the next round.

[Dukasaur]

Toasted by the nuclear fire this round were fuzzy316, pleve, Marshallbobby, and Jessamine. 16 players remain. Three of the four fatalities were NO VOTE players, and Marshallbobby was a FOGGY vote. This would bring the vote to 5 Sun and 4 Fog, but meanwhile rjhankey has added his name to the Foggy list, so we are once again tied 5-5. Last time I had to break the tie, I went with Foggy, so to be fair this time I will go Sunny.

[spoiler=Phase 6]Only a few physicists understood the implications of Hahn's experiments, but these few were listended to. In less than a month German and American groups, informal at first, had assembled to study the idea of controlled fission. By the summer, British and French groups had also formed. At first these were all just academic, but soon the opening shots of world War II were being fired, and these groups gained official government backing. The German nuclear club became an organ of the government on Sept. 16th 1939, the American on Oct 21st, and the British on April 10th 1940 . The French group was overtaken by the rapid progress of the war and was absorbed into the British effort. The Russians didn't launch a nuclear research program until April of 1942.
Phase 6
16 players in 2 groups will play 8-player games on the WW II Europe map. The first player eliminated in each game is out of the tournament. The remainder will go on to the next round.[/spoiler]

Phase Six games have been created and invitations sent out.

[Dukasaur]

This round we say "bon voyage" to [player]calicus[/player] and [player]deantursx[/player]. Both were "no vote" players, so the vote remains 5-5 and for the third consecutive round I will have to break the tie. I'll continue with my policy of alternating, so this round is Foggy.

[spoiler=Phase 7]At the outbreak of the war, important players in nuclear research were in Scandinavia. Otto Hahn's key research partner, Lise Meitner, had fled to Stockholm. Neils Bohr, probably the world's foremost expert on atomic structure, was in Copenhagen. Heisenberg visited Bohr and made some effort to lure him to work in the German nuclear program, but it was probably half-hearted as Heisenberg himself was not completely sold on the idea. Eventually Bohr also escaped to Stockholm and later to the U.S., joining the Manhattan Project.
The biggest prize was the Vemork plant in Telemark, Norway, the only plant in the world producing heavy water in commercial quantities. The German government had already offered to buy the entire production of the plant when the French secret service beat them to the punch. The world's reserve of heavy water was smuggled to Paris, and when Paris fell, to Birmingham.
Captured by the Germans, the Vemork plant remained in production until several expeditions by Norwegian partisans, supported by the British Secret Service and the R.A.F., eventually succeeded in destroying it.
Phase 7
14 players in 2 groups will play 7-player games on the Nordic Nations map. The first player eliminated in each game is out of the tournament. The remainder will go on to the next round.[/spoiler]