New Tournament starting, Join the 2003 PBW Open tournament
 

Tournament open now. There is a game on PBW where you can signup. I will assign you to your actual game from there.

This will be a double elimination tournament, open to all. The first two rounds will be games of five or six players each. Games will be seeded randomly. Games will be the following settings:

Starting resources: 100000
Starting planets: 1
Home planet value: Good
Score display: Own
Technology level: Low
Racial points: 2000
Quadrant type: Spiral Map
**Maps will be random, but with empires placed so that each player has decent space available.
Quadrant size: Medium
Event frequency: None
Event severity: N/A
Technology cost: Medium
Victory conditions: Last Man Standing
Maximum units: MAX
Maximum ships: MAX
Computer players: None
Computer difficulty: N/A
Computer player bonus: N/A
Neutral empires: No
Other game settings:

Surender disallowed

60 Hour, fully automatic turns

All players will play in the first two rounds. Players will face different opponents in the first and second round if possible. The format of the remaining rounds will be determined by the numebr of remaining players after the first two rounds.

Alliances and tech trading are permitted in game, but all games will be Last man standing. So keep that in mind when trading tech. It will be used against you at some point later in the game. Surrender is not permitted. If a player feels his position is untenable and wishes to withdraw he may do so. His place will be marked finished and the AI will control it to the end. Victor in any game will be the Last viable human empire remaining.

Geoschmo

[ March 06, 2003, 11:56: Message edited by: geoschmo ]

Re: New Tournament starting, Join the 2003 PBW Open tournament
 

Sounds great. I signed up. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

Re: New Tournament starting, Join the 2003 PBW Open tournament
 

Bump

I just joined.

Some heavyweights in there, this gonna be fun. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

Re: New Tournament starting, Join the 2003 PBW Open tournament
 

I signed up.

Geo, any specific files we'll need for this game, other than the 1.84 patch?

Katchoo

Re: New Tournament starting, Join the 2003 PBW Open tournament
 

No, no mod. Stock 1.84

Re: New Tournament starting, Join the 2003 PBW Open tournament
 

I'm in!

Re: New Tournament starting, Join the 2003 PBW Open tournament
 

So I was thinking of kicking this into gear. We've got ten now and that's enough to start two first round games. We can keep taking people into the tourney as long as we want really. At least until we declare the first round over. In fact I could alter things a bit and have the first round games be first come first serve instead of random seeding. Round two would be shuffled to get people playing against new people as much as possible.

I still never thought up a good name for the tourney. Oh well...

Geoschmo

Re: New Tournament starting, Join the 2003 PBW Open tournament
 

Ok, I have made another change to the tourney. 36 hour turns are great for me, but the idea of the tourney is to make it accesible to as many people as possible, and some people just can't play that often. Instead of 36 hour turns I am changing it to 60 hour automatic turns. Two and a half days. It is my sincere hope that people will nto take the full 60 hours between turns. If you are in a game and you are the only one that hasn't played you can expect to receive emails from me wanting to know what is going on. And anybody missing turns with no explanation will be severly frowned upon. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

Geoschmo

Re: New Tournament starting, Join the 2003 PBW Open tournament
 

Two first round games are full, one has already started playing. The third game needs one more player. I had hoped I would get at least 20 players for this, but if 15 is all we get we can make do.

Come on and join!

Geoschmo

Re: New Tournament starting, Join the 2003 PBW Open tournament
 

Ok, making progress now. We have 18. Three full games and looks like we should fill the fourth. I was looking at options for the later rounds and this would really work pretty well if we could get 25 people. But 20 is ok.

The nice thing about this one I think is it shouldn't take forever like the Survivor tourney. Might be able to do it in three rounds.

Geoschmo