Maps: Shown in the individual Phase spoilers below.
Eligibility: To play in this tournament, you must be premium, have a turns-taken record of 97% or better, at least 100 completed games, and be at least a PFC on sign-up.
Procedure: The first nine phases will consist of multiplayer 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.
Settings: Game types and settings will be randomized. Two settings will not be used in this tournament: team games and freestyle. The round length will not vary from 24 hours and the round limit will not vary from 50. Other than that, you may see:
- Standard, Terminator, or Assassin Game Types
- Automatic or Manual Deployment
- Escalating, Flat Rate, Nuclear or No Spoils
- Chained, Adjacent, and Unlimited Forts
- Fog or No Fog
- Trench or No Trench
Two of the above will be randomized evenly:
Escalating, Flat Rate, Nuclear or No Spoils (1/4 chance each)
Fog or No Fog (1/2 chance each)
For the other settings, I will randomize with preference to the more popular choices:
Standard, Terminator, or Assassin Game Types (1/2 Standard, 1/4 each for the others)
Automatic or Manual Deployment (3/4 Automatic)
Chained, Adjacent, and Unlimited Forts (1/2 Chained, 1/4 each for the others)
Trench or No Trench (3/4 No Trench)
[spoiler=special rules]
- If the game is Assassin, the person Assassinated will count as the elimination, unless the game was won by someone assassinating the wrong target, in which case the offender will be the player eliminated.
- If the game is Standard or Terminator, the first person out counts as the eliminee.
- If any game is won by either Map Victory Conditions or by Round Limit, and nobody has been killed yet, then the eliminee will be the player with the fewest troops at the end.
- Since it is a premium-only tournament, losing premium status and failing to renew within a reasonable time results in elimination also.
- If anyone deadbeats out or vanishes from CC, they will count as the eliminee, and this rule trumps all of the above.
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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.
The maps to be used are shown in the Phase spoilers below.
[spoiler=Phase 1]
Phase 1
40 players in 5 groups will play 8-player games on the Kingdom of Denmark 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 Magyarország 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 Africa II - SOS Africa Reward 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 New Jersey 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 Classic Cities: London 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 Dark Continent 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 Island of Doom 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 8]
Phase 8
12 players in 2 groups will play 6-player games on the Trench Warfare 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 Knights 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.
In case of a tie, the following tiebreaking rules will be used
1. Total wins in the Final Shootout.
2. Total wins in the whole tournament.
3. Total kills in the Final Shootout.
4. Total kills in the whole tournament.
(in that order, obviously.)[/spoiler]
For more information about this series, visit the Best of 2012 Infocentre
