This is the second in a short series of five tournaments celebrating my favourite maps of 2011. The term "Best of" is highly subjective, of course. I offer no warranty that these maps are the "best" by any measurement other than my personal opinion. This tournament will feature all these maps with Flat Rate spoils. (The first tournament in this series used No Spoils, the third will be Nuclear, the fourth will run Escalating, and the last one will feature randomized spoils.)
Eligibility: To play in this tournament, you must be premium, have a turns-taken record of 98% or better, at least 100 completed games, and be at least a PFC on sign-up.
Procedure:The format of this tourney will be familiar to anyone who has played in my "Nuclear War" series. In each tourney in this series, the first nine phases will consist of multiplayer Standard games. In each of these phases, only the first player eliminated from each game is eliminated from the tournament. All others will continue to the next phase. As soon as all games in a phase have had one player eliminated, I will begin the next phase with the survivors. Winning these games will not influence the course of the tournament; only that first elimination is significant.
Edit, March 30th: Yesterday we ran into a situation, where someone won a map by the map victory conditions, without anyone having been eliminated. This is a situation I did not foresee when I designed this tournament, but since four of the nine maps have victory conditions, the situation could happen again. We need an emergency rule modification.
New rule: If someone wins a map by the victory conditions, without anyone having been eliminated, that person will automatically proceed to the next round. The remaining players will replay the same map.
The four maps with victory conditions are: Transsib1914 (phase 2), Northwest Passage (phase 3), Conquer Rome (phase 6) and Roark's Drift (phase 7).
However, there is a GA medal for the player who wins the most games in the first eight phases!
In the Final phase, all remaining players will play simultaneously in nine multiplayer Terminator games. These games will be completed and winning them will count, as will the number of kills.
Settings: All games will be Casual, Automatic, Foggy, Chained, Flat Rate, with a 100-round limit.
The maps to be used are shown in the Phase spoilers below. (Thanks to [player]koontz1973[/player] for assembling all the images in one place!)
[spoiler=Phase 1]
Phase 1
40 players in 5 groups will play 8-player games on the Middle Ages map. The first player eliminated in each game is out of the tournament. The remainder will go on to the next round.[/spoiler]
[spoiler=Phase 2]
Phase 2
35 players in 5 groups will play 7-player games on the Transsib 1914 map. The first player eliminated in each game is out of the tournament. The remainder will go on to the next round.[/spoiler]
[spoiler=Phase 3]
Phase 3
30 players in 5 groups will play 6-player games on the Northwest Passage map. The first player eliminated in each game is out of the tournament. The remainder will go on to the next round.[/spoiler]
[spoiler=Phase 4]
Phase 4
25 players in 5 groups will play 5-player games on the Fractured China map. The first player eliminated in each game is out of the tournament. The remainder will go on to the next round.[/spoiler]
[spoiler=Phase 5]
Phase 5
20 players in 4 groups will play 5-player games on the Clandemonium map. The first player eliminated in each game is out of the tournament. The remainder will go on to the next round.[/spoiler]
[spoiler=Phase 6]
Phase 6
16 players in 2 groups will play 8-player games on the Conquer Rome map. The first player eliminated in each game is out of the tournament. The remainder will go on to the next round.[/spoiler]
[spoiler=Phase 7]
Phase 7
14 players in 2 groups will play 7-player games on the Rorke's Drift map. The first player eliminated in each game is out of the tournament. The remainder will go on to the next round.
Note: If Rorke's Drift is not back online by the time we get to this phase, I reserve the right to replace this with something else. But I think it should be fine by then...
[/spoiler][spoiler=Phase 8]
Phase 8
12 players in 2 groups will play 6-player games on the California map. The first player eliminated in each game is out of the tournament. The remainder will go on to the next round.[/spoiler]
[spoiler=Phase 9]
Phase 9
10 players in 2 groups will play 5-player games on the South Africa 1885 map. The first player eliminated in each game is out of the tournament. The remainder will go on to the next round.[/spoiler]
The finals will be different from the first nine phases.
[spoiler= Phase 10 - Finals]Phase 10: The Final shootout!
In the final round, the eight remaining players will face off simultaneously on all nine maps used in the tournament thus far. These games will be Terminator, and players will score 1 point for each kill and two extra points for winning a game. The player who scores the most points in the final phase will win the tournament.[/spoiler]
DJ Teflon wrote:A General Achievement Medal will be awarded to the player with the most wins in the first eight phases.
For further updates on this series, visit the newly-launched (January 14th 2013) Best of 2011 Series Infocentre (located in Post 3 of the same thread as the earlier History of Nuclear War Infocentre.)
