DKs Intensities in Ten Cities! [Winner=TX AG 90]

[macbone]

We seriously need more time for these entries, Duk, if you want more participation, man. I know 3 days seems like a lot, but with a full schedule on my hands, I had to stay up til 2 am one night to post. So maybe a week? Is that too much? These rounds do last for a while.

[Gilligan]

We seriously need more time for these entries, Duk, if you want more participation, man. I know 3 days seems like a lot, but with a full schedule on my hands, I had to stay up til 2 am one night to post. So maybe a week? Is that too much? These rounds do last for a while.

Dukasaur is away for a day or two, I'm sure he'll address this when he gets back. I'm just following the PM I got.

[perchorin]

We seriously need more time for these entries, Duk, if you want more participation, man. I know 3 days seems like a lot, but with a full schedule on my hands, I had to stay up til 2 am one night to post. So maybe a week? Is that too much? These rounds do last for a while.

x2

[macbone]

Perchorin, that's an absolutely lovely signature you have there. Wow.

[GreenBaize]

A cultural comparison

Aussies: Dislike being mistaken for Pommies (Brits) when abroad.

Canadians: Are rather indignant about being mistaken for Americans when abroad.

Americans: Encourage being mistaken for Canadians when abroad.

Brits: Can’t possibly be mistaken for anyone else when abroad.

Aussies: Believe you should look out for your mates.

Brits: Believe that you should look out for those people who belong to your club.

Americans: Believe that people should look out for & take care of themselves.

Canadians: Believe that that’s the government’s job.

Aussies: Are extremely patriotic to their beer.

Americans: Are flag-waving, anthem-singing, and obsessively patriotic to the point of blindness.

Canadians: Can’t agree on the words to their anthem, when they can be bothered to sing them.

Brits: Do not sing at all but prefer a large brass band to perform the anthem.

Americans: Spend most of their lives glued to the idiot box.

Canadians: Don’t, but only because they can’t get more American channels.

Brits: Pay a tax just so they can watch four channels.

Aussies: Export all their crappy programs, which no-one there watches, to Britain, where everybody loves them.

Americans: Will jabber on incessantly about football, baseball, and basketball.

Brits: Will jabber on incessantly about cricket, soccer, and rugby.

Canadians: Will jabber on incessantly about hockey, hockey, hockey, hockey, and how they beat the Americans twice, playing baseball.

Aussies: Will jabber on incessantly about how they beat the Poms in every sport they play them in.

Americans: Spell words differently, but still call it “English”.

Brits: Pronounce their words differently, but still call it “English”.

Canadians: Spell like the Brits, pronounce like Americans.

Aussies: Add “G’day”, “mate” and a heavy accent to everything they say in an attempt to be cool.

Brits: Shop at home and have goods imported because they live on an island.

Aussies: Shop at home and have goods imported because they live on an island.

Americans: Cross the southern border for cheap shopping, gas, & liquor in a backwards country.

Canadians: Cross the southern border for cheap shopping, gas, & liquor in a backwards country.

Americans: Drink weak, bad-tasting beer.

Canadians: Drink strong, bad-tasting beer.

Brits: Drink warm, bad-tasting beer.

Aussies: Drink anything with alcohol in it.

Americans: Seem to think that poverty & failure are morally suspect.

Canadians: Seem to believe that wealth and success are morally suspect.

Brits: Seem to believe that wealth, poverty, success and failure are inherited things.

Aussies: Seem to think that none of this matters after several beers.

[Dukasaur]

We seriously need more time for these entries, Duk, if you want more participation, man. I know 3 days seems like a lot, but with a full schedule on my hands, I had to stay up til 2 am one night to post.

Sorry.. I hear you.

So maybe a week? Is that too much? These rounds do last for a while.

That might be a good idea. I want to hear if there are any objections from players of an opposite viewpoint before rushing into a decision. We were being a lenient with the deadlines for a long time, and it was a player complaint that first led me to adopt the "strict interpretation" of the deadline. So I'm somewhat worried that I may piss off one side or the other regardless of which I choose. Call me foolish, but I'm trying to keep everybody happy...

In any case, we are not going to change it retroactively, so Sydney submissions are finished, but if there is support for a longer deadline in future rounds then I have objection. Let's see if there's more discussion out there.

[Dukasaur]

Ok, starting with Hong Kong the deadline will be seven days. STRICTLY ENFORCED, of course.

[perchorin]

Ok, starting with Hong Kong the deadline will be seven days. STRICTLY ENFORCED, of course.

Yay! Thanks Duk!

Perchorin, that's an absolutely lovely signature you have there. Wow.

Thanks Mac, I made it myself
Your sig is quite sexy too!

[musteriuz]

Game 9870148 is completed.

[macbone]

Duk, thanks for putting on such an educational tournament, man! It's been a lot of fun. =)

[Dukasaur]

Duk, thanks for putting on such an educational tournament, man! It's been a lot of fun. =)

Thank you! I do love to hear it!

Anyway, all Sydney games are finished. (Man, that was fast, compared to the previous rounds! Escalating makes such a huge difference.) I'm now going to light a fire under the judges and see if we can get the C&F scores finally, and then we will be ready to go to Hong Kong.

Incidentally, today was my last day of working at my summer job, and now I have a week off before I start my (much easier) winter job, so there will be a chance for me to get caught up on a lot of stuff like this that I've let slide.

[Dukasaur]

Okay, it took a bit, but I've finally extracted some scores from our procrastinating C&F judges!

(It's been a hectic time to be a Team CC member.)

Macbone 5
TX AG 90 4
Greg Davidson 3
DoomYoshi 2
MattiWacklin 1
rbelgrod 1

[Dukasaur]

I'm starting to compile final Sydney scores, and I hope to be able to send out Hong Kong games within a day or two.

There is one tweak I would like to make in the Hong Kong games:

Details of the ten city stops

show: Phase Six, Hong Kong

show: settings in detail

I still intend to keep with that breakdown, but I would switch the reinforcement option for a couple of the games. I was pretty new to CC when I designed this, and I didn't realize just how distortive Unlimited Forts can be in games with fewer players. They're not a bad setting for games with 5 or more players, but they can really be an overwhelming advantage for the player who goes first in 1v1 or other small games.
To address this, I would switch the Reinforcements of some of the games in Hong Kong:
One 4-player Automatic Nuclear Unlimited Foggy Doubles game, scoring 3 points to each member of the winning pair
would switch with:
One Automatic Escalating Chained Foggy Quads game, 5 points to each participant on the winning team
so it would become:
One 4-player Automatic Nuclear chained Foggy Doubles game, scoring 3 points to each member of the winning pair
and
One Automatic Escalating unlimited Foggy Quads game, 5 points to each participant on the winning team
This preserves the total number of Chained games and total number of Unlimited games at their original level, but moves the Unlimited option to the larger game where it is less distortive.

If there are strong objections then I will keep things as originally posted, but if nobody (or very few people) objects then I will make the change.

[macbone]

I'm not sure it makes a big difference, Duk. They're both 2-team games, but yeah, if you're doing unlimited forts, make the Quads one Unlimited.

[Dukasaur]

Okay, the Sydney scores:

Alphabetical

Numerical

Unlike the previous stops, where one player shone above all others, this time three players stood on the podium together: geko, macbone and TX AG 90 each gathered 14 points. Two other players, moudy and perchorin, also shone brightly, gathering 12 points each. On the basis of his strong performance in Sydney, geko has climbed to the top of the leaderboard.

With heavy hearts we say goodbye to Faro, Shai, MattiWacklin, and Wolfmist. Adieu, gentlemen! I really hope you enjoyed your time here.

[Dukasaur]

Four people seem to have lost their passports, so only 16 of us will hop aboard a non-stop flight and zoom to Hong Kong. Sixteen, such a totally binary number! Of course we will have to play some 2, 4, and 8-player games!

show: games summary

show: game 1

show: game 2

show: game 3

show: game 4

show: game 5

show: game 6

Edit: Reason some of the above games had to be remade was because I accidentally invited whackamole instead of whakamole.

[arno30]

i don't think you've invited the "good" whakamole in 10080402

[Dukasaur]

i don't think you've invited the "good" whakamole in 10080402

That means I did the same thing in all his games (because I let the autocomplete do its thing), and all six will have to be remade.



Anyway, thanks for lettin me know... at least this way I was able to get the mistake fixed promptly.

[Dukasaur]

From my wall:

Amigo, sorry but I cant continue in your tournament. Very limited time for CC at this moment. Sorry.

by jricart
on Sun Nov 13, 2011 12:45 pm

If I've said it once, I've said it a hundred times:
I have no problem with people who want to quit. I totally understand that real life issues come up and people don't have time to continue. But please, please, PLEASE, let me know that you're quitting BEFORE the next round. Once games are created and people have been invited into them, it's a real pain in the ass to make substitutions.

Anyway, Faro and Shai were tied with 23 points each just below the cut line after Sydney. (see http://www.conquerclub.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=91&t=139586&start=315#p3451323) So Faro and Shai will have to play a tiebreaker on the Sydney map to determine which of them goes forward.

[Dukasaur]

I think the logical time to publish the Colour and Flavour task will be on the weekend, so that it will be within the original specs, more-or-less: Sunday Noon, Hong Kong Time, which I believe is 2300 Saturday night my time (EST, which is also CC time.)

[perchorin]

What's the word on finding me a partner for Game 10080395 Duk?

[Dukasaur]

What's the word on finding me a partner for Game 10080395 Duk?

Scroll up two posts...

[perchorin]

What's the word on finding me a partner for Game 10080395 Duk?

Scroll up two posts...

ah sorry

[Dukasaur]

Colour and Flavour tasks for Hong Kong
The idea of having a choice of a hard task and an easy task seemed to be popular last time, so we'll go with it again!

The Challenging Task
In this task you will need to not only do some research, but you will also need to read what others have posted before you.

Four people seem to have lost their passports, so only 16 of us will hop aboard a non-stop flight and zoom to Hong Kong.

Non-stop flights from Sydney to Hong Kong are now commonplace, but this wasn't always the case. If you wish to attempt the challenging task, you will have a little research to do in airline history. Find out some facts about the history of this feat, and post it.

If you are the first to post, you will basically answer the following question: In what year did the first non-stop commercial flight between Sydney and Hong Kong take place? Add one or two more interesting facts, and make a decent coherent paragraph out of it. That's all, one decent expository paragraph: I am NOT asking for an encyclopedia.

If you are not the first to post, then you will have to build upon what the previous player posted, and add some more facts. There are many facts that it might be possible to dig up. What was the first aircraft type that was capable of making this flight? What airline was the first to offer this service? Who was the pilot on that first historic flight? How long did it take? How much fuel was required? Were there any problems? And so on, and so forth.

In order to score, you must come up with something interesting that no previous poster has mentioned. So, the sooner you post, the easier it will be. If you are the tenth or even the fifth poster, you might find the subject has been pretty much exhausted, and it may be really tough to find some interesting fact that nobody has mentioned yet, so get in there quickly!

Since the posters after you will have to find a fact that you didn't, it will be considered poor sportsmanship to exhaust the field with an encyclopedic submission that uses every conceivable fact. Remember, one paragraph is all I'm asking for, and it is more important that your paragraph be interesting and coherently written, than huge or exhaustive. One or two unique facts is all you need to produce; the way you make them sound interesting is the most important part.

The Easy Task
Although Hong Kong was for a long time a British colony, and English is an important trade language, most of the people speak Canton Chinese. It is estimated that only 38% of the population is fluent in English.

I'm sure everyone has seen wonderful translations like this one:

They float around the Internet in swarms, so it should be no trouble finding one. But can you find the funniest?

If you attempt the easy task, you must find the funniest bad Chinese-English translation imaginable, and post the image. Try to ascertain that it is from Hong Kong, but we will forgive you if it is from Shanghai. Just don't post stuff that is obviously not Chinese at all.

As before, the max score for the Challenging Task will be five points, but the max score for the Easy Task is being increased from two points to three. To score two or three points, however, you must really make the judges roll on the floor; most submissions in the Easy category will probably only get one point. There are 166 points available to be won in the Hong Kong games, so the judges' target for the C&F submissions will be to hand out between 16 and 25 points total. According to the extended deadline announced in Sydney, you will have seven days.

[Shai]

Made it through the tiebreaker - Goooo Sea Eagles!!!