Official Passport Challenge: Year in Review 2013

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Official Passport Challenge: Year in Review 2013
Brought to you by the Entertainment Team

NO SIGN-UPS REQUIRED - Everyone is eligible!
Please read this entire post before asking any questions!

You may remember that we called last year's Christmas event "The Last CChristmas Ever." For that reason, we won't be doing a Christmas event this year.
Instead, we'll be doing something we've never really done before: a look back at all that 2013 has brought CC - for better, for worse, or for both!

Any way you slice it, 2013 was certainly a very interesting year here on CC.
We've seen highs and lows, hellos and goodbyes, and plenty of new features!
And now, let's take a moment to relive all our fondest CC memories from this year.

The Challenge
We're giving everyone on CC a (virtual) passport, and we challenge each of you to get as many stamps as you possibly can.
How do you get stamps, you ask?
By winning games on specially designated maps and/or settings, of course!

Stamps
There are 16 stamps in total, divided into 4 categories:

A: Farewells - win 1 game on each map to get the stamp for that map:
1. Gilligan - Island of Doom
2. lackattack - Treasures of Galapagos
3. AndyDufresne - Supermax: Prison Riot!
4. rdsrds2120 - Conquer Man
5. El_Jefe - Cuban Missile Crisis

B: Bots:
6. 3 wins over whamBot
7. 2 wins over SassboT
8. 1 win over saxibot

C: Gameplay Settings - 1 win on each:
9. Polymorphic 2, 3, AND 4 (must win on all 3 to earn the stamp)
10. Parachute reinforcements
11. Zombie Spoils
12. No reinforcements
13. 4 OPTIONS - Pick ONE:

1. A 9-player game on a map from list A
2. A 10-player game on a map from list B
3. A 11-player game on a map from list C
4. A 12-player game on any map NOT on list D

[spoiler=list a]Arms Race!
Doodle Earth
Egypt: Lower
Luxembourg
New World
Treasures of Galapagos[/spoiler]
[spoiler=list b]Clandemonium
Cyprus
King's Court II
Route 66[/spoiler]
[spoiler=list c]Egypt: Nubia[/spoiler]
[spoiler=list d]Age of Realms 1: Might
Age of Realms 2: Magic
Age of Realms 3: Mayhem
All Your Base Are Belong To Us
Arms Race!
Baseball
Christmas
City Mogul
Clandemonium
Classic Cities: Madrid
Classic Cities: Pot Mosbi
Conquer 500
Conquer Rome
Cyprus
Dark Continent
Das Schloss
Doodle Earth
Egypt: Lower
Egypt: Nubia
Egypt: Upper
Feudal Epic
Feudal War
Jamaica
King's Court
King's Court II
Labyrinth
Lunar War
Luxembourg
Middle Ages
Monsters
New World
Peloponnesian War
Poker Club
Route 66
Saint Patrick's Day
Salem's Switch
Treasures of Galapagos
Woodboro
WWII Poland[/spoiler]

D: Maps:
14. 1 win on Africa II
15. 1 win on any Beta Map
16. 1 win on each of 4 different maps released in 2013

[spoiler=Beta Maps]Conquer 500
Czecho Slovak Fragmentation
District of Alaska
Ethiopia
Spanish Armada
Three Kingdoms of China
Tribal War - Ancient Israel
USA 2.1
WWI Gallipoli[/spoiler]
[spoiler=Maps Released in 2013]4 Star Meats
Austrum
Classic Cities: Madrid
Classic Cities: Moscow
Conquer 500
Czecho Slovak Fragmentation
District of Alaska
Ethiopia
Labyrinth
New Zealand
Philadelphia
Spanish Armada
Three Kingdoms of China
Tribal War - Ancient Israel
USA 2.1
Vertex
WWI Gallipoli[/spoiler]

Prizes
For premium players:
8 stamps = 50% = GA Medal
12 stamps = 75% = GA Medal + Challenge Medal
16 stamps = 100% = GA Medal + Challenge Medal + 500 Conquer Credits

For freemium players:
8 stamps = 50% = GA Medal
10 stamps = 62.5% = GA Medal + Challenge Medal
12 stamps = 75% = GA Medal + Challenge Medal + 500 Conquer Credits
*Criteria are lower for freemiums due to 4-game limit and certain settings (polymorphic, etc.) not being available to them

Notes

• Games must start between CC Time: 2013-12-16 00:00:00 and CC Time: 2014-01-01 00:00:00 to be considered for the Challenge.
• Each stamp will only be awarded ONCE per player.
• A single game can earn its winner(s) multiple stamps.
• If a team game meets the criteria for any stamp(s), each member of the winning team will receive that (those) stamp(s).
• Data from all games that have finished by Jan. 1 will be collected on Jan. 1. After that, games will be monitored as they finish.
• Any issues will be solved by me, [player]sempaispellcheck[/player] and my word is final.

Best of luck, and enjoy the nostalgia!

sempai

[DoomYoshi]

Andy dufresne left in 2012... Also Gillgan is back on team cc, so it's not really a farewell lol.

[sempaispellcheck]

Andy dufresne left in 2012... Also Gillgan is back on team cc, so it's not really a farewell lol.

Yeah, but it was the end of 2012, and I didn't want him to be left out.
I don't think Gilligan expected to rejoin TeamCC when he stepped down - and he serves in a very different capacity now.

sempai

[jigger1986]

This challenge looks really fun...
Cant wait to try for 100%

[Jdsizzleslice]

So the games don't have to be CREATED on the 16th, just STARTED on the 16th, right...

[jonofperu]

So no games previously played count then? All have to be started within the window?

[jonofperu]

Do bot games count for other stamps (reinforcements, etc)?

[iAmCaffeine]

I don't get the Farewells.. Do you have to beat that person or just win on the map?

Also, I echo jon's and jd's questions.

[Gamefreakguy]

Good stuff guys. While reading through this I was like, "Great, excellent, I'll have wins on these this month." and then saw that you had to start each of them beginning now. haha Oh well. This should be interesting!

[Jdsizzleslice]

What I do is keep a PM to myself keeping a record of everything. Just cross out the things you have completed, ad make a game record to back up what you cross off. You can steal this format, or use your own. Just thought it would help, CC members!

There are 16 stamps in total, divided into 4 categories:

A: Farewells - win 1 game on each map to get the stamp for that map:
1. Gilligan - Island of Doom
2. lackattack - Treasures of Galapagos
3. AndyDufresne - Supermax: Prison Riot!
4. rdsrds2120 - Conquer Man
5. El_Jefe - Cuban Missile Crisis

B: Bots:
6. 3 wins over whamBot
7. 2 wins over SassboT
8. 1 win over saxibot

C: Gameplay Settings - 1 win on each:
9. Polymorphic 2, 3, AND 4 (must win on all 3 to earn the stamp)
10. Parachute reinforcements
11. Zombie Spoils
12. No reinforcements
13. 4 OPTIONS - Pick ONE:

1. A 9-player game on a map from list A
2. A 10-player game on a map from list B
3. A 11-player game on a map from list C
4. A 12-player game on any map NOT on list D

[spoiler=list a]Arms Race!
Doodle Earth
Egypt: Lower
Luxembourg
New World
Treasures of Galapagos[/spoiler]
[spoiler=list b]Clandemonium
Cyprus
King's Court II
Route 66[/spoiler]
[spoiler=list c]Egypt: Nubia[/spoiler]
[spoiler=list d]Age of Realms 1: Might
Age of Realms 2: Magic
Age of Realms 3: Mayhem
All Your Base Are Belong To Us
Arms Race!
Baseball
Christmas
City Mogul
Clandemonium
Classic Cities: Madrid
Classic Cities: Pot Mosbi
Conquer 500
Conquer Rome
Cyprus
Dark Continent
Das Schloss
Doodle Earth
Egypt: Lower
Egypt: Nubia
Egypt: Upper
Feudal Epic
Feudal War
Jamaica
King's Court
King's Court II
Labyrinth
Lunar War
Luxembourg
Middle Ages
Monsters
New World
Peloponnesian War
Poker Club
Route 66
Saint Patrick's Day
Salem's Switch
Treasures of Galapagos
Woodboro
WWII Poland[/spoiler]

D: Maps:
14. 1 win on Africa II
15. 1 win on any Beta Map
16. 1 win on each of 4 different maps released in 2013

[spoiler=Beta Maps]Conquer 500
Czecho Slovak Fragmentation
District of Alaska
Ethiopia
Spanish Armada
Three Kingdoms of China
Tribal War - Ancient Israel
USA 2.1
WWI Gallipoli[/spoiler]
[spoiler=Maps Released in 2013]4 Star Meats
Austrum
Classic Cities: Madrid
Classic Cities: Moscow
Conquer 500
Czecho Slovak Fragmentation
District of Alaska
Ethiopia
Labyrinth
New Zealand
Philadelphia
Spanish Armada
Three Kingdoms of China
Tribal War - Ancient Israel
USA 2.1
Vertex
WWI Gallipoli[/spoiler]

Prizes
For premium players:
8 stamps = 50% = GA Medal
12 stamps = 75% = GA Medal + Challenge Medal
16 stamps = 100% = GA Medal + Challenge Medal + 500 Conquer Credits

Notes

• Games must start between CC Time: 2013-12-16 00:00:00 and CC Time: 2014-01-01 00:00:00 to be considered for the Challenge.
• Each stamp will only be awarded ONCE per player.
• A single game can earn its winner(s) multiple stamps.
• If a team game meets the criteria for any stamp(s), each member of the winning team will receive that (those) stamp(s).
• Data from all games that have finished by Jan. 1 will be collected on Jan. 1. After that, games will be monitored as they finish.
• Any issues will be solved by me, [player]sempaispellcheck[/player] and my word is final.

GAME LIST:
BOT GAMES:
Game 13741128 Sassbot
Game 13741127 Sassbot
Game 13741126 Whambot
Game 13741124 Whambot
Game 13741123 Whambot
Game 13741118 Saxibot

OTHER GAMES:
Game 13741114 Three Kingdoms of China, Polymorphic 2, No Reinforcements
Game 13741264 Supermax Prison Riot
Game 13729486 Parachute
Game 13741323 Supermax Prison Riot
Game 13741320 Treasures of Galapagos
Game 13741268 Africa II
Game 13741405 Island of Doom
Game 13741479 Cuban Missile Crisis, Zombie, No Reinforcements
Game 13742286 Ethiopia
Game 13741011
Game 13741315
Game 13728566
Game 13729477
Game 13741552
Game 13741956

[dazza2008]

Can the games be speed games or do they have to be casual?

[bahrain]

do these have to be tournament games? or is any public game fine?

[JOHNNYROCKET24]

are stamps issued as games are completed so we know which ones still need to be finished ? edit- im posting my winning games here in this post so they can be checked.

Game 13742466
Game 13742439
Game 13742474
Game 13743173
Game 13743260
Game 13742479
Game 13742463
Game 13742437
Game 13742457
Game 13743774
Game 13743805
Game 13743888
Game 13743887
Game 13742727
Game 13742729
Game 13747049
Game 13744255

looks like I wont get the 9 player game win. Nobody will join the games fast enough so I will be short 1 stamp.

[dazza2008]

are stamps issued as games are completed so we know which ones still need to be finished ?

I'm guessing you have to track it yourself and they will check at the end and issue the medals etc. to whoever has qualified.

[sempaispellcheck]

Good questions, one and all!! Where there are questions, there shall be answers:

So the games don't have to be CREATED on the 16th, just STARTED on the 16th, right...

If they are created on or after the 16th, they will definitely count - as long as they start in 2013.
If they were created before the 16th, it's a bit of an iffy proposition - bear with me, and I'll explain.
Since it would be far too much work for me to go into every game on each eligible map and/or setting to see when it started, I'm doing it by game number.
For each map and/or setting, there is a game X and a game Y (X and Y are actual game numbers).
Last night, I went through and found, for each setting, the game with the highest game number of all active and/or finished games that started on the 15th or earlier. That game is game X.
I will log in as early as I possibly can on January 1 and create a game. That game (which I will then drop) will be game Y - for all maps and settings.
For each setting, every game whose game number is lower than Y AND higher than that setting's X will count for this challenge.
Hope you got all that - but don't worry too much about it if you didn't.
In the meantime, I will see if it is possible to search games by start date - which would make this infinitely easier for all of us. I'll keep you posted on that.

So no games previously played count then? All have to be started within the window?

I think (at least, I hope) that my answer to JD's question will answer this question as well.

Do bot games count for other stamps (reinforcements, etc)?

jon found the answer to this in my OP, but just for anyone else who is wondering:
YES. Games can absolutely count for multiple stamps.

I don't get the Farewells.. Do you have to beat that person or just win on the map?

Just win on the map.

Can the games be speed games or do they have to be casual?

They can absolutely be speed games, but casual is fine, too.

do these have to be tournament games? or is any public game fine?

Public, private, tournament, clan war - doesn't matter. All games will be considered.

are stamps issued as games are completed so we know which ones still need to be finished?I'm guessing you have to track it yourself and they will check at the end and issue the medals etc. to whoever has qualified.

Well, you don't HAVE to track it yourself, but you're more than welcome to - in fact, I encourage it!
We will check all games on January 1 (or ASAP thereafter). All games that have finished by that time will be evaluated at that time - all other eligible games will be monitored as they finish.
You will receive your prize (if you've earned one) once all eligible games you are in have finished.

I hope that answers all your questions, but if you have others, don't hesitate to ask!

sempai

[dazza2008]

Cheers.

[Gilligan]

Andy dufresne left in 2012... Also Gillgan is back on team cc, so it's not really a farewell lol.

Yeah, but it was the end of 2012, and I didn't want him to be left out.
I don't think Gilligan expected to rejoin TeamCC when he stepped down - and he serves in a very different capacity now.

sempai

True that - I didn't expect to come back.

This looks really fun! I'm excited to start this.

I think I had a question when I first looked at this, but forgot what it was now...oh well.

I've started a triples zombie/parachute game on Doodle Earth to get the 13th stamp - Game 13744540. Anyone and everyone welcome to join!

[sempaispellcheck]

I think I had a question when I first looked at this, but forgot what it was now...oh well.

If you think of it, ask!

I've started a triples zombie/parachute game on Doodle Earth to get the 13th stamp - Game 13744540. Anyone and everyone welcome to join!

That'll also get you stamps 10 and 11. Think I'll join you there.

sempai

[Gilligan]

I think I had a question when I first looked at this, but forgot what it was now...oh well.

If you think of it, ask!

I've started a triples zombie/parachute game on Doodle Earth to get the 13th stamp - Game 13744540. Anyone and everyone welcome to join!

That'll also get you stamps 10 and 11. Think I'll join you there.

sempai

Yes it will, but I think the main selling point is the 13th stamp. 10 and 11 can be achieved by simply playing 1v1

[betiko]

hum hadn't seen this! can the 9 to 12 player game be a team game?

also mind if we keep track of our own record in a post in here like jdsizzle?

[sempaispellcheck]

hum hadn't seen this! can the 9 to 12 player game be a team game?

Absolutely - and the 10-player game can be a 5-team dubs if you'd like.
Each member of the winning team will receive all stamps the game qualifies them for.
I do believe I said that somewhere in my OP, but please let me know if I didn't.

also mind if we keep track of our own record in a post in here like jdsizzle?

Be my guest! I don't mind at all.

sempai

[patrickaa317]

Last night, I went through and found, for each setting, the game with the highest game number of all active and/or finished games that started on the 15th or earlier. That game is game X.
I will log in as early as I possibly can on January 1 and create a game. That game (which I will then drop) will be game Y - for all maps and settings.
For each setting, every game whose game number is lower than Y AND higher than that setting's X will count for this challenge.

Couldn't you have used the MAX game number from all your findings of X rather than having an X per category? Just throwing that out there to make things easier for you.

[sempaispellcheck]

Last night, I went through and found, for each setting, the game with the highest game number of all active and/or finished games that started on the 15th or earlier. That game is game X.
I will log in as early as I possibly can on January 1 and create a game. That game (which I will then drop) will be game Y - for all maps and settings.
For each setting, every game whose game number is lower than Y AND higher than that setting's X will count for this challenge.

Couldn't you have used the MAX game number from all your findings of X rather than having an X per category? Just throwing that out there to make things easier for you.

I considered it, but that would disqualify a number of games that started on the 16th or were still waiting for players when I looked.
If this is more work for me, it's more work for me - it's my idea, and I know what I'm getting myself into.
I appreciate your concern, but I know what I'm doing and why.

sempai

[betiko]

1. Gilligan - Island of Doom
2. lackattack - Treasures of Galapagos
3. AndyDufresne - Supermax: Prison Riot!
4. rdsrds2120 - Conquer Man
5. El_Jefe - Cuban Missile Crisis
6. 3 wins over whamBot check Game 13747158 Game 13747140 Game 13747132
7. 2 wins over SassboT check Game 13747190 Game 13747220
8. 1 win over saxibot check Game 13747241
9. Polymorphic 2, 3, AND 4 (must win on all 3 to earn the stamp) check! Game 13744653, Game 13740555, Game 13740378
10. Parachute reinforcements
11. Zombie Spoils
12. No reinforcements
13. 4 OPTIONS - (Picked A 9-player game on a map from list A) check! Game 13747012
14. 1 win on Africa II
15. 1 win on any Beta Map
16. 1 win on each of 4 different maps released in 2013

[spoiler=Beta Maps]Conquer 500
Czecho Slovak Fragmentation
District of Alaska
Ethiopia
Spanish Armada
Three Kingdoms of China
Tribal War - Ancient Israel
USA 2.1
WWI Gallipoli[/spoiler]
[spoiler=Maps Released in 2013]4 Star Meats
Austrum
Classic Cities: Madrid
Classic Cities: Moscow
Conquer 500
Czecho Slovak Fragmentation
District of Alaska
Ethiopia
Labyrinth
New Zealand
Philadelphia
Spanish Armada
Three Kingdoms of China
Tribal War - Ancient Israel
USA 2.1
Vertex
WWI Gallipoli[/spoiler]

[ckyrias]

What I do is keep a PM to myself keeping a record of everything. Just cross out the things you have completed, ad make a game record to back up what you cross off. You can steal this format, or use your own. Just thought it would help, CC members!

it does help a lot! cheers