Assassination By Fours [TPA2][ongoing]

[KiIIface]

10413126
Whats the hold up?

[MrGlassB]

I will have to check on this when I get home and can look at all my stuff.

MGB

[MrGlassB]

Sent out new games where needed. Anyone that had not yet joined their game was eliminated.

MGB

[MrGlassB]

10413126
Whats the hold up?

Hmmm... just realized I've been inviting the wrong person to your game. Dang IIs messed me up. As soon as the most recent invite expires, I'll send it to you.

MGB

[hopalong]

10519509 needs to be resent, and mr. whiote dropped as he has timed out twice.

[MrGlassB]

Okay, I think I got everything updated. Had to drop a couple of people. If I missed anything, please do point it out. Thanks!

MGB

[Dukasaur]

Game 10612844 still waiting for a 5th player.

[reptile]

Group 2 is down to four players with Game 10612940 finishing up

[Dukasaur]

Game 10612844 still waiting for a 5th player.

This game will auto-delete within the next three days, I believe. Are you putting in a reserve, or just advancing us, or what?

[Gen. Ramsarelli]

we have been waiting on 3 players for....a long time now, too. What's going on?

[Fugitive_Bill]

GEN. RAM,
Did a game search and found so I'll join
But it's a tourny game wasn't sure 'anyone' was allowed to join.
Why don't/didn't you invite a few friends - SUCH AS ME! -LOL?

EDIT: Oops just found out why, it is indeed a private tourny game, password protected!
Sorry about buggy ya all!

[MrGlassB]

Game 10612844 still waiting for a 5th player.

This game will auto-delete within the next three days, I believe. Are you putting in a reserve, or just advancing us, or what?

I gave them one more shot. If they still don't join, I'll advance the rest of you.

Updated everything. Got a few groups still playing, but most have their 4 advancing players determined.

MGB

[Dukasaur]

Game 10612844 still waiting for a 5th player.

This game will auto-delete within the next three days, I believe. Are you putting in a reserve, or just advancing us, or what?

I gave them one more shot. If they still don't join, I'll advance the rest of you.

Updated everything. Got a few groups still playing, but most have their 4 advancing players determined.

MGB

Ok, game has autodeleted, so I guess we advance...

[MrGlassB]

Works for me. I'll get things updated again tomorrow night at the latest.

MGB

[MrGlassB]

Updated everything. Groups 8 and 9 still haven't started their third game. If you guys know who isn't joining the games, please let me know. I haven't been able to watch closely enough to find out.

MGB

[Liliputanac]

Any news on tourney?

[hopalong]

is this tourney still on? i miss it

[redhedge47]

is this tourney still on? i miss it

we are wating on three groups two of them are still on game 3

[mcshanester29]

PM Sent

[tokle]

This tournament is now labeled "Needing Rescue". If it is not rescued within a week it will be considered abandoned.

If you are interested please check this section of the Tournament Handbook:

Rescued Tournaments Policy

tokle
Abandoned & Rescued Tournaments

[Dukasaur]

And the winner is...... IanG7


After surviving 17 rounds of Assassin play, Ian earned a spot in the Finals, where he won two of four games, thus forcing a tiebreaking round, where he very dramatically won 3-0 over Kinnison.

Congratulations IanG7!




Older Updates:

rescue

My original post here on Friday:

I intend to rescue this.

As of today, Sunday June 2nd, I am starting to work on this tourney. Please bookmark this page and pay attention to changes.

stage 1

Okay, according to the previous TO's spreadsheet, all Stage 1 groups have been decided except Group 3 and Group 8.

Group 3, however, was decided in Game 10808228 where bart was eliminated

That leaves Group 8:
traffic133 (Draknor)
hoschke118 (Imperium Romanum)
Gen. Ramsarelli (NYC)
God Emperor Q (Waterloo)
Kinnison (Monsters)
HighlanderAttack (Arms Race!)

hoschke118 has not been on CC since April 30th and is therefore removed. God Emperor Q has his online status blanked so I can't be sure. He doesn't seem to be in any active games, but to be safe I have to give him the benefit of the doubt. There is therefore a 5-player game to decide Group 8. Random number drawn = 2, which corresponds to NYC, so Game 11189294 is created. If GEQ misses two consecutive invites then this group will also be decided.

Damn, somehow I missed Group 9. Five valid players remain in Group 9: adam666, Evil Semp, italianipastido, KiIIface, and Crarg. Another Stage 1 game coming up to decide Group 9.

Random number drawn = 5, corresponding to Poker Club.

Edit, June 10th. Crarg made short work of Game 11200675 and Stage 1 is officially finished.

stage 2

Stage 2 beginning today: Link to Stage 2 groups list and games list.
58 players survived Stage 1, so the first 8 groups will have 6 players and the last two groups will only have 5.
Groups 3, 9, and 10 are now down to four players each and will not have to play a second game this round. Second games for the other seven groups have been created and invitations sent out. Same link as before.

stage 3

Current Updates:
Stage 2 is finally completely finished! We are starting Stage 3!



A few announcements.:

1. Gilligan has switched his home map to Poison Rome.

2. I have been eliminated in Stage 2...

3. Starting with Stage 3, I am switching from making the groups with Random.org to using the built-in RAND function in Excel. For those with mathematically-oriented OCD issues, this will result in a slightly less perfect level of randomization. For myself, it will be a time saver, and I honestly don't see it being unfair in any way.
Scoreboard for Stage 3 is HERE.

stage 4

Group 1
Tin Trumpet Benelux
silversun6 Antarctica eliminated
Hath Age of Merchants
Leverpuller Chinese Checkers
ubcman64 Stalingrad
(only 1 game this round) Game 11827927

Group 2
Kinnison Monsters
xman5151 High Seas eliminated
ckyrias Middle Ages
italianipastido 3 Kings of Korea
IanG7 Woodboro
(only 1 game this round) Game 11827928

Group 3
Lufsen75 British Isles
Morleyjoe Classic eliminated
Marshallbobby Brazil
evilkingjay Arctic
TheTrueNorth Forbidden City
(only 1 game this round) Game 11827930

Group 4
reptile Feudal Epic eliminated
adam666 Australia
Gilligan Poison Rome
KiIIface Classic
shoop76 WWII Poland
(only 1 game this round) Game 11827931

stage 5

New Groups for Stage 5

Group 1
Leverpuller Chinese Checkers
italianipastido 3 Kings of Korea
ckyrias Middle Ages
ubcman64 Stalingrad eliminated Second game
adam666 Australia
Gilligan Poison Rome eliminated First game
Marshallbobby Brazil eliminated Fourth game
shoop76 WWII Poland eliminated Third game
First Game: Brazil Game 11897741
Second Game: Australia Game 11952486
Third Game: Australia Game 12027509
Fourth Game: Middle Ages Game 12105046

Group 2
TheTrueNorth Forbidden City eliminated Second game
Kinnison Monsters
KiIIface Classic eliminated Third game
Tin Trumpet Benelux
Lufsen75 British Isles eliminated Fourth game
evilkingjay Arctic eliminated First game
IanG7 Woodboro
Hath Age of Merchants
First Game: Classic Game 11897743
Second Game: Benelux Game 11971966
Third Game: Classic Game 12027510
Fourth Game: Benelux Game 12105047

stage 6

Stage 5 is over, and we now enter Stage 6. The unique thing about Stage 6 is there are no more groups. All eight surviving players now compete in a single group.

Blind luck may have carried one through about half of this tournament, but to have reached this stage, and survived fifteen Assassin games, takes not just luck, but skill. I therefore have no hesitation in tipping my hat to our eight very capable Assassins:

Leverpuller (Chinese Checkers) eliminated fourth game
italianipastido (3 Kings of Korea)
ckyrias (Middle Ages) eliminated second game
adam666 (Australia) eliminated first game
Kinnison (Monsters)
Tin Trumpet (Benelux) eliminated third game
IanG7 (Woodboro)
Hath (Age of Merchants)

"Bravo!" and "Well done, chaps!" to all of you.

Now, with no further ado, let's begin Stage 6.

First Game: Benelux Game 12139358
Second Game: Monsters Game 12207016
Third Game: Woodboro Game 12291617
Fourth Game: Age of Merchants Game 12329359

finals

Final Stage
Four players -- Italianipastido, Kinnison, IanG7, and Hath -- have made it through to the finals. Now:

Final Stage (4 Players Remaining)
1 Group x 4 Players
Most assassinations across 4 games (one on each map represented) wins the tournament.

These are the maps of the Final Four:
italianipastido (3 Kings of Korea)
Kinnison (Monsters)
IanG7 (Woodboro)
Hath (Age of Merchants)
Game 12409978
Game 12409977
Game 12409976
Game 12409974

All Hail the Final Four!

... and ...

[*]Ties will be broken by an extra game between the tied players. If there are only two players that are tied, the game will obviously be standard instead of assassin.

MrGlassB did not address the issue of what map to use in a tiebreaker. There are two ties possible: Four players win one game each, or two players win two games each. I think the only fair way to resolve this is to play more than one tiebreaker game as follows.

• If four players win one game each, we will completely replay the Final with four game (one on each player's map.)
• If two players win two games each, we will play a best-of-three, with the two players' chosen maps for 1 and 2, and Random map for the third.

I'll send out a PM to the Final Four and make sure there are no objections before finalizing it. Of course, the preferred solution is for somebody to win 3 or more games on the first try so that we don't need a tiebreaker...

[Dukasaur]

Ok, GEQ has missed two consecutive invites, confirming that he's not around. Group 8 is decided.

Five valid players remain in Group 9: adam666, Evil Semp, italianipastido, KiIIface, and Crarg. Another Stage 1 game coming up to decide Group 9.

Random number drawn = 5, corresponding to Poker Club.

Edit, June 10th. Crarg made short work of Game 11200675 and Stage 1 is officially finished.

[Dukasaur]

Remaining Players After Stage 1

Twin Killler
Lufsen75
TheTrueNorth
RobbieDub
whakamole
reptile
hopalong
unknownhero
Serbia
dowian2
Fuzzy316
Sho0t4u
xman5151
silversun6
westbo
wombat4
Mr. Gix
wilkinc
Leverpuller
musteriuz
Count Belisle
osujacket
Marshallbobby
shoop76
dmastrong
istrici
darth emperor
brett2000
traffic133
Gen. Ramsarelli
Kinnison
HighlanderAttack
adam666
italianipastido
KiIIface
Crarg
DaveH
BluU
uckuki
IanG7
ckyrias
Morleyjoe
Hath
jd94
mwaser
ThrushAAX
ubcman64
redhedge47
cryinlion
Liliputanac
General Bax
allmaneaglesfan
evilkingjay
pridekillerR.I.P.
MrGlassB Hasn't been online since May 20th
ItzPetey
jovel
Mizzou3181
Dukasaur
Unai

Okay, pridekiller and Mr. GlassB are dropped. I've checked all other and all have been on CC within the last 24 hours, so this bodes well.

[Dukasaur]

Groups for Stage 2

There were 58 items in your list. Here they are in random order:

1
Sho0t4u Arctic
HighlanderAttack Arms Race elim game 1
Lufsen75 British Isles
istrici replaced by Gilligan Random
ckyrias Middle Ages
Unai Clandemonium elim game 2
first game: 4= Random Game 11222221
second game: 4=Clandemonium Game 11372420

2
hopalong Alexander's Empire elim game 2(assassinated wrong opponent)
xman5151 High Seas
jd94 England
Mizzou3181 Forbidden City elim game 1
Marshallbobby Brazil
Twin Killler Poison Rome
first game: 5=Brazil Game 11222222
second game: 2=High Seas Game 11372421

3
shoop76 WWII Poland
unknownhero Random
Leverpuller Chinese Checkers
evilkingjay Arctic
darth emperor Halloween Hallows resigned
cryinlion Duck and Cover elim game 1
first game: 4=Arctic Game 11222226

4
osujacket Midgard elim game 2
Gen. Ramsarelli NYC
TheTrueNorth Forbidden City
KiIIface Classic
Liliputanac American Civil War
westbo Random elim game 1
first game: 2=NYC Game 11222227
second game: 1=Midgard Game 11372422

5
BluU Doodles
wilkinc Random elim game 2
silversun6 Antarctica
whakamole Iberia elim game 1
jovel WWII Poland
brett2000 Feudal Epic
first game: 2=Random Game 11222228
second game: 3=Antarctica Game 11372425

6
Hath Age of Merchants
Serbia Triple Alliance elim game 2
italianipastido 3 Kings of Korea
General Bax Egypt: Nubia
wombat4 Classic replaced by Tin Trumpet Benelux
dowian2 San Marino elim game 1
first game: 4=Egypt Nubia Game 11222229
second game: 4=Egypt Nubia Game 11372427Game 11378192
(Game had to be remade because I accidentally invited the wrong person)

7
Dukasaur Transsib 1914 elim game 2
mwaser Trafalgar elim game 1
Kinnison Monsters
allmaneaglesfan Benelux
adam666 Australia
Crarg Poker Club
first game: 3=Monsters Game 11222230
second game: 3=Benelux Game 11372429

8
uckuki Stalingrad
traffic133 Draknor
Fuzzy316 First Nations North elim game 1
reptile Feudal Epic
ThrushAAX World 2.1 elim game 2
Count Belisle Age of Merchants
first game: 2=Draknor Game 11222231
second game: 4=World 2.1 Game 11372430

9
redhedge47 Celtic Nations
musteriuz Age of Merchants
DaveH Rail Australia elim game 1
Mr. Gix Iceland
IanG7 Woodboro
first game: 4=Iceland Game 11222219

10
ItzPetey Antarctica elim game 1
RobbieDub Vancouver
dmastrong Random
ubcman64 Stalingrad
Morleyjoe Classic
first game: 3=Random Game 11222220

Timestamp: 2012-06-10 15:31:13 UTC

[KiIIface]

Thanks for the update