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Conquer Cup II

Postby lackattack on Wed Feb 01, 2012 10:59 pm

Conquer Cup II

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The Conquer Cup II is open for registration!

We've listened to your feedback on Conquer Cup I, and by far the most common critique was that you risk getting eliminated from the tournament too quickly in round 1. So for this second iteration of our signature mega-tournament, we added a second chance round. For every game in round 1, the winner advances to round 3 and the losers play each other again in round 2. Anyone who wins in round 2 gets to advance to round 3. In short, you are guaranteed a second chance and double the action!

Conquer Cup II will have 640 participants, first come first served. There is a small entry fee, but you can get in for free by earning Conquer Credits. There are lots of prizes and awards including Conquer Cup super achievement medals and a grand prize Apple iPad2 going to the winner!

The Conquer Cup is fully automated, which means the games will automatically be created and players will be automatically matched and placed into games.

Who will succeed jleaux as our reigning Conquer Cup champion??? Visit the Conquer Cup page, under the Game Menu on the left, to take a stab at it!


Jump to Speed Game

As suggested by maxfaraday after the recent Speed Game REVAMP, when you get notified that your speed game is full you will now be re-directed into the game itself. This can save a couple seconds, which can only help!

If you have other speed games waiting to fill, the game will instead open in a new tab or window, so you'll still get notified when the others become full. Please note that you will probably have to make an exception for http://www.conquerclub.com in your browser pop-up blocker for this to work!


Anti-Farming Ban

Farming is a term used to describe the forbidden practice of systematically joining games with new recruits in order to "farm" newbies for points. Farming accusations have always been tricky for our cheating & abuse volunteers, because it is normal for experienced members to play occasional games with new recruits and therefore it can be difficult to determine what constitutes abuse. At the request of king achilles, our Support Admin, I've programmed a new type of ban specifically for suspected farmers - it simply blocks you from joining games with new recruits! This should both discourage farming and be more fair for the accused.

Please read our updated Community Guidelines and king achilles' announcement of the new policy for more details.
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Re: Conquer Cup II

Postby chapcrap on Wed Feb 01, 2012 11:38 pm

Count me in!!!
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Re: Conquer Cup II

Postby grifftron on Wed Feb 01, 2012 11:39 pm

I like the double chance on round 1 this go around, good job lack..
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Re: Conquer Cup II

Postby IcePack on Wed Feb 01, 2012 11:42 pm

It doesn't address whether it will be 5 player games or 6?
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Re: Conquer Cup II

Postby chapcrap on Wed Feb 01, 2012 11:43 pm

IcePack wrote:It doesn't address whether it will be 5 player games or 6?

Click on Conquer Cup on the left. :)
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Re: Conquer Cup II

Postby lackattack on Thu Feb 02, 2012 12:12 am

UPDATE: Added "Jump to Speed Game" to the announcement :-)
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Re: Conquer Cup II

Postby SaucyJack on Thu Feb 02, 2012 12:17 am

So the tournament games are indeed speed games then? I've always wondered how you'd get around speed games filling up when people are, say, sleeping. I imagine they'd just miss a boatload of turns?
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Re: Conquer Cup II

Postby Bruceswar on Thu Feb 02, 2012 12:22 am

SaucyJack wrote:So the tournament games are indeed speed games then? I've always wondered how you'd get around speed games filling up when people are, say, sleeping. I imagine they'd just miss a boatload of turns?



No the games are casual 24 hour games. The speed game update is something else.
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Re: Conquer Cup II

Postby Bruceswar on Thu Feb 02, 2012 12:25 am

Also would like to add, 4 player games might run over the 20 round limit. Just a thought? Maybe I am wrong but I think many will.
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Re: Conquer Cup II

Postby canadianbacon99 on Thu Feb 02, 2012 12:35 am

Just a question - I thought people who were eliminated in Conquer Cup I were supposed to have an auto entry to the next tournament. Has that changed?
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Re: Conquer Cup II

Postby nooruddinaftab on Thu Feb 02, 2012 12:39 am

and where is this Conquer Cup page?
Is this tournament based on speed games?
Can i join in free?
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Re: Conquer Cup II

Postby saywhat on Thu Feb 02, 2012 12:44 am

You can put me in it. thanks..
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Re: Conquer Cup II

Postby Bruceswar on Thu Feb 02, 2012 2:32 am

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Re: Conquer Cup II

Postby sdh on Thu Feb 02, 2012 3:32 am

ugh, I only joined the first one because it was 6 player games, then you changed it to 5 after I paid. Now this one is 5 and 4 player games, count me out :(
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Re: Conquer Cup II

Postby Chewie1 on Thu Feb 02, 2012 3:32 am

canadianbacon99 wrote:Just a question - I thought people who were eliminated in Conquer Cup I were supposed to have an auto entry to the next tournament. Has that changed?


100 losers in the first cup were randomly drawn and gifted 500 conquer credits which could be exchanged for a place in conquer cup II.

I know it happened as I was one of the hundred and used my credits for entry.
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Re: Conquer Cup II

Postby Victor Sullivan on Thu Feb 02, 2012 6:37 am

Neat-o! :)

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Re: Conquer Cup II

Postby AndyDufresne on Thu Feb 02, 2012 11:47 am

Sounds good! :D


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Re: Conquer Cup II

Postby SimplyObsessed on Thu Feb 02, 2012 2:34 pm

I'm registered!

Will it begin as soon as all 640 participants have joined? How will we know the games have started?
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Re: Conquer Cup II

Postby AndyDufresne on Thu Feb 02, 2012 2:45 pm

SimplyObsessed wrote:I'm registered!

Will it begin as soon as all 640 participants have joined? How will we know the games have started?


If you have your 'Game Settings' configured to send you an e-mail when [x] 'It's my opening turn in a Conquer Cup game (by email), you can find out that way!


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Re: Conquer Cup II

Postby SimplyObsessed on Thu Feb 02, 2012 3:37 pm

AndyDufresne wrote:
SimplyObsessed wrote:I'm registered!

Will it begin as soon as all 640 participants have joined? How will we know the games have started?


If you have your 'Game Settings' configured to send you an e-mail when [x] 'It's my opening turn in a Conquer Cup game (by email), you can find out that way!


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Re: Conquer Cup II

Postby HighlanderAttack on Thu Feb 02, 2012 3:39 pm

If you ever do a 1v1 I will play--good luck to those who play.
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Re: Conquer Cup II

Postby AndyDufresne on Thu Feb 02, 2012 3:51 pm

HighlanderAttack wrote:If you ever do a 1v1 I will play--good luck to those who play.

It would be cool to see a 1vs1 tournament. Perhaps down the line there will be one, as we continue to experiment with formats and settings!


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Re: Conquer Cup II

Postby drunkmonkey on Thu Feb 02, 2012 4:00 pm

Why are guested players allowed to sign up?
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Re: Conquer Cup II

Postby Arcee on Thu Feb 02, 2012 4:15 pm

Some people are listed as guests because they are on forum bans.
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Re: Conquer Cup II

Postby drunkmonkey on Thu Feb 02, 2012 4:18 pm

Arcee wrote:Some people are listed as guests because they are on forum bans.

albiestar supposedly has an Indefinite Website Ban. Does $5 lift that?
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