The Great War

[Hooch]

We're coming up to the 80th anniversary of the start of the Second World War. Anything planned?

Will CC be around for the 100 year anny of WWII?
Should we have something kick?

Maybe we could wait 8 years and then it can be the 90th anny of the years of Japanese aggression.

But we shouldn't forget the Italian conquest of Ethiopia.

What to do, what to do...

[mookiemcgee]

Quarterly Prizes

Going forward, we will give 1 Green and 1 Blue every quarter.

The Quarterly Green: Will be given to the player at the top of the scoreboard at the end of each quarter. However, the same player can only get it once per year. Thus, if the player on the top of the scoreboard already got one within the last four quarters, it will go to the 2nd place player. If that player already got one in the last four quarters, it will go to the third place player and so on.

The Quarterly Blue: Will be a "most-improved" star. We'll need a snapshot of the scoreboard at the end of each quarter. The player who moves up the most spaces on the scoreboard will win the Blue. If multiple players all jumped the same number of spaces, the one who began at the highest point in the previous quarter will get the star.

Both the Quarterly Green and the Quarterly Blue will come with a GA medal to commemorate the triumph.

I don't mean to be a stick in the mud, and I know some time ago someone already asked about these prizes specifically. But I feel like after 4+ years of the great war tourneys, and 100's if not 1000's of games played I still find it's a little disappointing this ended with such a whimper. No 'Meta' prizes for the event scoreboard were ever issued (not saying any were promised, but several times it was hinted something was coming), and now the event is gone and mostly forgotten so there isn't even anything to brag about anymore. Somehow I just expected more prizes or some kind of medal or something, I can't imagine doing it again (or an event like it) knowing how this ended.

I don't want to undermine how much work Duku and others put into it. It was clearly a huge undertaking, and he did amazing. But the fizzle ending somewhat disrespects how much work Duk put into it along the way

[biscuit boy]

I agree with Mookie, I loved playing the tournament and never expected a medal as I'm not good enough. But it ended with a wimper and I've tried to find out who finished in the top 10 and I can't find the scoreboard any longer. I was ready to quit in 2017 but kept playing to finish out this tournament only to end the way it did takes out what was left of me to keep playing.

[mookiemcgee]

I agree with Mookie, I loved playing the tournament and never expected a medal as I'm not good enough. But it ended with a wimper and I've tried to find out who finished in the top 10 and I can't find the scoreboard any longer. I was ready to quit in 2017 but kept playing to finish out this tournament only to end the way it did takes out what was left of me to keep playing.

https://www.conquerclub.com/public.php? ... vent_id=15

Here is the scoreboard link

[djelebert]

Totally agree with mookie. Huge job has been done to put this great tourney on place and to try to maintain motivation for players, and this by duke specially and others big contributors. I though it must have been finished in another way, as everyone, but the actual end, neglecting, is for me like a lack of respect for all who worked and thoses who played this huge tourney.

[Dukasaur]

I haven't given up. I just needed to step back and recharge my batteries. I can't explain just how much this took out of me. I intend to finish it, but for a time I couldn't even look at it.

[Mad777]

If we could ask you to stay tune and be ensure this event will complete somehow, hopefully the way you expect...

[HitRed]

I haven't given up. I just needed to step back and recharge my batteries. I can't explain just how much this took out of me. I intend to finish it, but for a time I couldn't even look at it.

Flitting, ww1 took the life out over everyone.

[Mad777]

As I starting point, I have this Wikipedia link very useful to have an idea where we stand with this event

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_World_War_I

I will read through it and try to link all the tournaments that has been completed, then we should be able to get the heads back in and following this timeline will help us identifying the event we want to capture to continue this Great War stuff and bring it to the end everyone wants to see.

Thanks for understanding

[Dukasaur]

try to link all the tournaments that has been completed

Most of the work of linking all the tournaments has already been done:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/13hp18u3nJb6WXDpsb8oVxktCoWwS0ow9fCK5jszWOpI/edit?usp=sharing

Only the last few months weren't updated. I thought jytreberg was going to take this over but he seems to have gotten busy with other things. There are only a few tournaments for which the start dates weren't entered, but there are a lot more for which the end dates weren't entered.

[Mad777]

Hi all GW members, I'm now getting a list of remaining tournaments, I would like to get a pace of 2-3 tournament launch per month, and making a goal to end this event November 2020 (2 years behind the original schedule but keeping the month of the Armistice as a cutoff).

I'm looking to gather writers to help compiling story for each upcoming battle/episodes remaining of this WWI event, I'm ready to create as much tournament needed, my writing skills aren't that great other than copy/paste from Wikipedia, so having couple of nice members who wants to get this back moving forward would be helpful, I have also launched an internal call with members who actively participated so far but I feel few more would help...

Send me PM if you are interested, and thanks all of you for being patient, this should go back live very soon

LET'S DO IT!!!!!!!!!!!

[Dukasaur]

There are 52 battles that remain to be done:

April 1917
9 Vimy Ridge
11 Shiala
17 Hills of Champagne
21 Istabulat
22 Battle of Doiran
23 Battles of the Scarpe
30 Battle of the Boot

May
3-11 Bullecourt and Lagnicourt
12 Tenth Battle of the Isonzo
14 Battle of Otranto Straits

June

7 Battle of Messines

July
31 Battle of Passchendaele (3rd Ypres) (done)

August
19 Eleventh Isonzo
20 Second Battle of Liege

September
28 Battle of Ramadi

October
24 Battle of Caporetto (12th Isonzo)
31 Battle of Beersheba (3rd Gaza)

November
3 U-Boat Part 3: The Convoy System
5 Capture of Tikrit
13 Battle of Mughar Ridge
20 Battle of Cambrai

December
8 Fall of Jerusalem

1918
March
Operation Michael (2nd Somme, 3rd Arras)

April
9 Battle of the Lys/Operation Georgette
17 U-Boat Part 4: the U-cruisers
23 Raid on Zeebrugge

May
27 Third Battle of the Aisne/Operation Blücher-Yorck
28 Battle of Cantigny

June
1 Battle of Belleau Wood
3 Chateau-Thierry
15 Battle of the Piave River
18 Action of 18 June 1918

July
4 Battle of Hamel
14 Battle of Abu Tellul
15 Second Battle of the Marne
18 Battle of Soissons
21 Attack on Orleans

August
8 Battle of Amiens
27 Battle of Ambos Nogales
31 Battle of Mont St. Quentin

September
12 Battle of Havrincourt
12 Battle of Saint-Mihiel
18 Battle of Epehy
19 Battle of Megiddo
26 Battle of the Argonne Forest
27 Battle of the Canal du Nord
29 Battle of St. Quentin Canal

October
8 Battle of Cambrai
17 Battle of the Selle
23 Battle of Vittorio Veneto
23 Battle of Sharqat

November
1 Battle of Valenciennes
4 Second Battle of the Sambre

11 The Guns Fall Silent

[Mad777]

Thanks Duke, I will working on it this weekend and hope to get one or 2 out very quick

[mookiemcgee]

Will you gents please consider putting the great war banner back up under event when you launch new tourneys?

[Mad777]

Will you gents please consider putting the great war banner back up under event when you launch new tourneys?

Yep it will be showing back

[Mad777]

• Requested scoreboard to be activated back and bring back to the Central Command
• Created 2 tournaments and under review
  
  • Vimy Ridge
  • Hills of Champagne

[paydaysunny]

This was really amazing to see.

[paydaysunny]

i didn't try this yet.

[Ukey]

Any update on this?

[mookiemcgee]

Any update on this?

I noticed the scoreboard looks different... mikerrr moved into 6th place just because of how many cannon tokens he collected haha!

Frankly I'd forgot about it until you brought it up Ukey, but a year seems like enough time gone by to ask for an update.

[Mad777]

All,

Due to lack of help and being way too long since last activity, is has been decided to not moving forward with this event, this is now an archived event.

Thanks to all participants and apologies for this decision.

Mad777
Community Head