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Announcing MARCH MADNESS 2012

Hopefully this will become an annual event to determine the top ATG players each year.

For sixteen participants. May expand to 32 if enough interest.

One on one battles. Single elimination in early rounds. Double elimination will begin after the semi-finals, in order to determine 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th place finishers.

Random seeding of players. (2012 finishing order will determine 2013 seeding.)

Rounds 1 & 2:
Small World

Beginning Round 3:
Medium World

All rounds:
Normal World
Mirrorish
Shroud
Use Resources
One Town Start
Climate - Full Range
Fog of War
PBEM Protection
Passwords

Player #1 must declare war on Player #2 during the first turn.

Tournament will begin March 1, 2012 (or sooner if we fill the 16 slots). Depending on participation there may be some randomly determined first round byes.

Signed up so far:
SailingGuy
Meanfcker
TPM
Nego
All5n
Kraftwerk


--- Round One ---
A: Seed 1 vs Seed 16
B: Seed 8 vs Seed 9
C: Seed 4 vs Seed 13
D: Seed 5 vs Seed 12
E: Seed 3 vs Seed 14
F: Seed 6 vs Seed 11
G: Seed 2 vs Seed 15
H: Seed 7 vs Seed 10

--- Round Two ---
I: Winner of A vs Winner of B
II: Winner of C vs Winner of D
III: Winner of E vs Winner of F
IV: Winner of G vs Winner of H

--- Round Three (Semi-Finals) ---
Winner of I vs Winner of II
Winner of III vs Winner of IV

--- Round Four (Consolation) ---
Losing players from Round Three pair off to fight for Third Place

--- Round Four (Championship) ---
Wining players from Round Three pair off to fight for First Place

count me in

I think you should 'talk' to Jagular, since he posted roughly the same idea.

ORIGINAL: Jay Doubleyou
I think you should 'talk' to Jagular, since he posted roughly the same idea.

His involves some multi-player match ups. This is strictly one-on-one, single elimination. So "March Madness" will focus on tactical skill rather than a combination of tactical & diplomatic skill.

I'm in.

How are you going account for the advantage of moving first, especially in the early rounds on a small map where it will be more pronounced?

ORIGINAL: Webizen
How are you going account for the advantage of moving first, especially in the early rounds on a small map where it will be more pronounced?

Suggestions?

Please cpount me in.., Great idea..

Good job Phil...

Mike

ORIGINAL: Webizen
How are you going account for the advantage of moving first, especially in the early rounds on a small map where it will be more pronounced?


Suggestions?

A dice roller to see who goes first and loser sucks it up?

A dice roller to see who goes first and loser sucks it up?

This sounds good to me...

ORIGINAL: TPM

A dice roller to see who goes first and loser sucks it up?

This sounds good to me...

OK. Sounds good. If it creates a problem we can correct for March Madness 2013. [:)]

See this thread for one possible idea about minimizing the first turn advantage:

tm.asp?m=3031307

Thanks for the link. What do the rest of you guys think?

Sounds good to me...

@Phil: I see that Jagular has a thread about an AT Global Championship. Are there really enough PBEM players to staff up two of these championships? Maybe you and he could talk and come up with just one tournament. At the moment neither one appears to be drawing much support.

ORIGINAL: Webizen

@Phil: I see that Jagular has a thread about an AT Global Championship. Are there really enough PBEM players to staff up two of these championships? Maybe you and he could talk and come up with just one tournament. At the moment neither one appears to be drawing much support.

This makes sense...maybe you too could come up with the Super Bowl of ATG...

Sounds fun, i am in.

Count me in please....

ORIGINAL: Nego

Count me in please....

You signed up on the 8th. Or do you want to play two positions? [;)]

Yeah ill play two. Might last longer that way:)