old information posts from first page2/14--Hopefully I have time to clean up the threads today. Real life has become very tough for me right now. I am still planning on starting round 2 on 2/17. If players that have not won a game are still playing active games I will start round two and include them if they end up winning. Happy Valentines Day2/13-
More than 4 games joined issue:[spoiler]Now onto a controversial issue. I was waiting until round 2 was almost ready to announce this because it will not make everyone happy. With so many new players we were bound to have a lot of mistake and confusion. Also due to the evolution of this tourney-there was a lot of adding and deleting done by me on page one making it confusing to a lot of players. Even though I announced many times that you could not join more than three games, some players though that was more than three games at one time. Some players made honest mistakes and joined a fourth game. Some players joined a fourth game and immediately let me know they did it by mistake. I wanted to be as fair as possible to all 2500+ contestants so what I decided to do is pm these players with instructions on reporting to me their games. I had them report to me game number, initialization start times, and win or loss. If they were able to win a game in their first three games based on initialization time I am advancing them for round one. With over 60 players doing this there was some confusion for sure. If they did not respond to me or if they did not send it in the format I listed above they will not advance even if they had wins. I checked all initialization times that they sent me to confirm so that no cheaters could get through. After I clean up the first four threads I will send a pm explain the procedure going forward. It will be clear and concise and leave no wiggle room for confusion. I do hope everyone understands why I have done this and it does not create too much controversy. Thanks for understanding.[/spoiler]
2/12--Only 30 games remain in round one. Round 2 is on target to start 2/17Only 67 games remain in round one--we are on track for a Feb. 17th start of round 22/9--Round one closed--round 2 may start in about seven days so prepare accordingly. I would estimate Feb, 17th-Feb, 23rd for joining games. It will be a lot shorter time frame to join games and I will be a lot stricter with the mistakes and confusion on joining more than three that occurred in round one.2/8--I am in the process of pairing up open games that have not been joined. I am deleting games that have not been joined. Round 1 is being played out and is coming to an end. Round 2 should start in less than ten days.--NOTE: Sometime later in the week after I clear up the first four posts to make them easier to read--I may post a few bounties for round 2. You never know. I would just check every now and then if I were someone wanting to win a bounty. I will continue to do it this way, and then there are always the facebook and twitter announcements. I will also draw one name out of all the players and they will get a chance to win a bounty using random.org. This is my in response to a suggestion give a chance for other players that do not have the time to check. That being said--it will only be one per round while we have bounties and the chance will be slim, but it is a chance.
2/7
LAST DAY TO JOIN YOUR GAMES IF YOU HAVE NOT DONE SO IN ROUND ONEInstructions on how to join HA's 200th tourney games
Welcome to the tourney
Click on Game Finder
Check off waiting for players
Locate the Tournament drop down box
scroll down until you find HA's 200th Tourney
Then click on SEARCH
Many pages of games will come up
Join any three games but no more than three games in any one round
you can join one at a time
Do not join against the same player
Remember Three games per round is the limit-any more and you forfeit
The passcode is: pppp
PM me with questions
We are having a bad storm right now so my internet may go outThe time is drawing near to join games--Sometime Monday or Tuesday I will lock out all games. If you have not joined any games or joined one or two this weekend is your last chance. If you have joined three games already do not join anymore games.Approximately 2 WEEKS until Round 2 starts
Theldin has become our first bounty winner and will receive three months premium. He was able to beat lackattack for the bounty win. He has been very aggressive in his attempts at bounties and is always real close to getting in the games. This was his second bounty attempt. Congrats to him.[game]8440638[/game]Final Bounty of round one is now up--is is against our hero for starting CC lackattack. Good luck--he has some interesting settings. No bounties have been won in round one. Will it be a clean sweep? The game number is: [game]8440638[/game] pass is: our hero lackRound 1 is winding down. I have not heard back from lackattack yet, but as soon as I do I will set the bounty on him. With a new baby he is very busy. I am making games today by request so if there is something special you want just send me a pm. Looks like games are winding down and I will probably not make any more games after today and give about a week to join, maybe less. If you are a freemium that wanted to get in but had four games and expected to be playing on Feb. 10th, you may want to pm me with your status. I will be closing out round 1 in less than a week for sure and start preparing for round 2. Round 2 will go much quicker as well as you will only have six days to join games. Eventually it will go down to 3 full days to join games so the further you go in the tourney, your preparation as a freemium becomes important. I will always announce the next rounds starting date at least 4 days in advance. Keep checking the thread for updates.
MORE BOUNTIES ANNOUNCEDGroup leader of the Global Moderators, clapper011 has announced she is sponsoring three more bounties on the players listed below. These will start in round two. Unfortunately clapper has a bit of bad luck and will not be joining us in round 2, but she has graciously decided these three will make her proud:
SirSebstar
TheSaxlad
thegreekdog
So three month premium bounties on each will be available starting in round 2. Thanks so much.
The 3-0 club as of Monday afternoon>>> viewtopic.php?f=91&t=134927&p=2987532#p2987532 Still hoping for 156 more players to join their games and make this a 2500 player tourney.One final bounty for round one--all are welcome to play in it:The creator and owner of Conquer Club has agreed to play in the tourney for one game--the game of course is another bounty. All players can play even if the player has played their three games in round one. If they win they will get 3 months premium and know that they beat lackattack for the first bounty win of the largest tourney in CC history. I am awaiting his settings and then I will post the game number with a pass code on the first page of the thread. No idea when it will come, but it will come sometime in the first round.Final PM for round one sent Sunday 1/30[spoiler]Hi all, wanted to give one last pm update for round one in blind copy form.
Please read all of this pm--also a very special announcement will be in this pm. It is long but hopefully worth the reading.
First of all thanks for making this a great tourney. There has been some confusion about joining games and I am working on a solution, but if you are still unsure:
Do not join more than 3 games in a round. No more than 3.
To advance you only have to win one game
Round two will take place sometime after round one finishes probably in a few weeks to get everyone a chance to play that wants to play due to the early start of the tourney. No more pms will replied to on this as hopefully it can be read here and is on the front page of the thread. As we get closer I will update the thread.
All further updates in this round will be place in the first page of the thread for a few days and then moved to the Old information posted on front page>>>
viewtopic.php?f=90&t=134927&start=1987You can get to the front page of the thread by clicking on my signature or by clicking here>>>>
viewtopic.php?f=91&t=134927I must apologize one more time for my mistake and the use of my entry list for spam, but really that organizer was just trying to give an honest effort to fill his tourney. The ensuing pm after pm after pm should not have happened and I think the mods have warned everyone and hopefully it will not happen again--this is supposed to be fun.
We now have 2320 players that have joined the tourney with over 2600 entrants--hopefully we can get at least 180 more to play the games so we get 6th and 7th place pay outs of premium.
I will be updating the prize page which has grown to around 10 years of premium available.
Bounties--these are a part of your three games so keep that in mind and be patient when joining games--wait around with one of your games if you want to try and play in a bounty game. Round one bounties are done except for one which will be announced below and for this one I will allow everyone to go for it except myself of course.
This will be the only one which allows a player to play more than three games because it is such a late announcement. Also no one has won a bounty-which means round 2 will have so many bounties it will be a bounty fest. I would say in round 2 there could be as many as 15 bounties available. Now to the announcement:
The creator and owner of Conquer Club has agreed to play in the tourney for one game--the game of course is another bounty. All players can play even if the player has played their three games in round one. If they win they will get 3 months premium and know that they beat lackattack for the first bounty win of the largest tourney in CC history. I am awaiting his settings and then I will post the game number with a pass code on the first page of the thread. No idea when it will come, but it will come sometime in the first round.
Again, thanks for playing. Most of you have really enjoyed the tourney and I hope to keep making everyone as happy and excited as possible.[/spoiler]
Round two will start in about three weeks or more--just depends on how fast 2500 players join and play their games and I will send a pm giving updates when it will start, Friday night and I am off to bed. I will be busy with my child most of the weekend so don't expect any updates. There will not be any more bounties this round that I know of but three more on top of what has been announce are possible being added. I will know soon. Round two will have over ten bounties for sure.8:53pm my time--I will take request for maps and settings for the next hour or so by pm only--I will make two games of everything sent to me--it is now 10:43 and since I am not getting many requests I will do this until I go to bed--and who knows when that will be so it could be a few more hours-or until the coffee wares off
MORE BOUNTIES and premium prizes totaling three years are being added. Although it looks like the bounties are over with for the first round--you never can tell. With at least ten days left of game play and with so many donations if you have a game left I would hold off at least a few days if you want to go for the bounties that may come available, For now-no more bounties through at least Saturday--but read below--both mgconstruction and Pander88uk are putting up premium bounties
Pander88uk has agreed to share his matched premium with this tourney. There will be 4 bounties available on him starting in round 2 or 3. As soon as he finishes up a tourney where he gave away premium this will kick in and he will offer himself as a bounty and give the players in this tourney yet another chance to win 3 months of premium. Thanks a lot.Since no one can beat me so far I will offer a last chance bounty in round 1 on myself. The pass code is:
who is your daddy (four words)--so far all bounties except the first one have filled in less than a minute--let's see what happens here--the game number is [game]8399201[/game]
HUGE NEWS--8 MORE BOUNTIES WILL BE AVAILABLE.The Mole has announce he will play 8 Bounty games and give away 8-3 month premium prizes. Do you fear the mole or do you have the power to put the mole in a hole. Thanks to mgconstruction for giving away two years of premium in this tourney. Mole bounties begin in round 2.CAN YOU PUT THIS MOLE IN A HOLE AND WIN PREMIUM???
samuelc812's bounty for this round has been canceled. The game was made and a player was able to figure out the passcode and join the game before it was announced as a bounty game. We have decided not to count this game as a bounty and offer the bounty again next round. Do not join a unique password bounty game before it is announced.[game]8396196[/game] squisyg Bounty released on facebook and twitter--it was joined pretty fast--less than 8 minutes for sure--trying to find out how fast---samuelc812
will have his released same way so join up for notificationsTO JOIN GAMES
Yes-anyone can still join
no more than three games per round
Click on Game Finder
Check off waiting for players
Locate the Tournament drop down box
scroll down until you find HA's 200th Tourney
Then click on SEARCH
Many pages of games will come up
Join any three games but no more than three games
you can join one at a time
Do not join against the same player
Remember Three games per round is the limit-any more and you forfeit
The passcode is: pppp
PM me with questions
ROUND 1 BOUNTIES--if you win one of these games you win 3 months premium:Blitzaholic-The Conqueror
Night Strike-Main Tourney Director and largest prize contributor
HighlanderAttack-ME
game# and pass code released on this page for Blitz, NS and HA
squishyg-Entertainment Team-Facebook and Twitter
samuelc812-Leader of Entertainment Team
game# and pass code released on Facebook and/or Twitter for squishyg and samuelc812
mgconstruction-8 bounty chances available starting in round 2
A mystery bounty will be available in round 2 as well-not announced yet-extra 3 months to the tourney
***Any of these bounties not won in round 1 will be available in round 2 and so on.
****-Two other bounties will be available also--but no one knows when so check back often.
********These games count toward your three games
Old information posted on front page>>>
viewtopic.php?f=90&t=134927&start=1987About HA tourneys:
[spoiler]Almost 2 years have passed since I started my first tourney back on January 19th 2009. Blitzaholic asked me to take over a series from coded. Over the years I have done all kinds of tourneys, but my favorite continues to be 1v1 style. I have rescued 6 tourneys. I have abandoned a tourney unfortunately. I have been named a TO for a tourney I did not create so if you search my name it will come up with "The Highlanderattack!" --honest mistake by a TD there. I have even co-hosted a tourney. On top of these I have exclusively hosted 199 tourneys and today is the day I post number 200. I will solicit this one and keep it up for as long as players are joining or 30 days which ever is longer

. I will send a special pm inviting all my past winners and all players that have ever joined my tourneys. I want to thank all of you who have played and enjoyed them and I hope to keep bringing tourneys to your through the years.[/spoiler]
Tourney Information:This will be on of my favorite styles--it will be 1v1--three games per round-just win one to advance.
Maps used:Players choice--maps chosen with players choice of settings-up to five different per round
Classic-CC-auto-seq-chained-esc-sunny-have to have the original map (well close to it)
Random-auto-seq-chained-esc-sunny
Arms Race-auto-seq-unlimited-no spoils-sunny-have to have my favorite map in it
Many games will be set up using the above settings and.......
Each I will randomly choose players with maps and settings to throw those maps into the mix.
I will pm players that get drawn and give them 24 hours notice to send me settings unless I can find them in the thread.
While the player list is huge I will have at least ten different maps with settings available for you to join--at least until the later rounds
There will be no second chances.
Many different settings-you will see all available settings in the game-depends on who's name gets drawn each round.
To sign up, just post to this thread--post map and settings please--if you don't I will wall you if your name is drawn.
All players are welcome
I will send a pm that the games are being made. Each round will have a label of what to search for. When you search for the games you may join the three games of your choice. If you join more than three games you automatically forfeit the tourney. After 72 hours any games that do not have two players in them will be dropped. So if you are freemium you must be able to join three games within 72 hours(may be a little longer than 72) or you won't have a chance to play all three. The games that had only one player in them will be matched going in order-first by map and settings if they had the same map and settings. If there is not a match, they will be matched up with default settings on a random map in order. An invite will be sent and you will have 24 hours to join or you will not get a chance to play in that game. My suggestion is check at about 48 hours to see what other games are available to join instead of waiting for someone to join your game. (With so many freemiums this has been extended to six days for the early rounds--actually round 1 will be at least ten days) Because the tourney is starting earlier than I expected I do want to give those freemiums that have 4 games going a chance to finish games so they can join games.
To advance to the next round you must win one game. Any player that does not win one game, joins more than 3, or does not show up will be out of the tourney. (except second chance games)
You must choose to play three different players--so if you are green and have joined games it must be against three different players. Nothing you can do if someone joins your games and you were waiting for games.
No need for reserves
I reserve the right to exclude players with less than 99% turns taken or foed players-but won't for this tourney
I hope this covers everything.
Feel free to ask questions.