Kudos to all of you! It was a long ride.
[spoiler=ordinalized results for TPA purposes]
| Rank for TPA purposes | ..... | Player | ..... | Total Points | ..... | wins | ..... | kills | ..... | specials |
| 1st | Charle | 87 | 13 | 61 | ||||||
| 2nd | overlander | 81 | 13 | 55 | ||||||
| 3rd | Endgame422 | 79 | 13 | 51 | 2 | |||||
| 4th | JPlo64 | 64 | 10 | 44 | ||||||
| tied 5th | Fewnix | 63 | 9 | 45 | ||||||
| tied 5th | stealth99 | 63 | 10 | 41 | 2 | |||||
| tied 5th | TheGreys | 63 | 9 | 45 | ||||||
| 8th | Tin Trumpet | 61 | 8 | 45 | ||||||
| 9th | dragon dor | 59 | 7 | 45 | ||||||
| 10th | GreenBaize | 54 | 9 | 36 | ||||||
| 11th | ElricTheGreat | 52 | 6 | 40 | ||||||
| tied 12th | Kevi | 51 | 7 | 37 | ||||||
| tied 12th | SuperWang | 51 | 9 | 33 | ||||||
| 14th | updalions | 50 | 8 | 31 | 3 | |||||
| 15th | br4nd0n2002 | 46 | 10 | 22 | 4 | |||||
| tied 16th | celliottii | 43 | 8 | 27 | ||||||
| tied 16th | lt.pie | 43 | 7 | 29 | ||||||
| tied 18th | aalii | 40 | 6 | 28 | ||||||
| tied 18th | rizky_biznezz | 40 | 6 | 28 | ||||||
| 20th | iAmCaffeine | 39 | 8 | 23 | ||||||
| tied 21st | chidone | 37 | 5 | 27 | ||||||
| tied 21st | goldenwarrior | 37 | 6 | 25 | ||||||
| 23rd | dhallmeyer | 33 | 5 | 23 | ||||||
| tied 24th | shoop76 | 32 | 5 | 22 | ||||||
| tied 24th | TheTrueNorth | 32 | 4 | 24 | ||||||
| 26th | osok68 | 31 | 5 | 21 | ||||||
| tied 27th | europeanson | 30 | 4 | 22 | ||||||
| tied 27th | muti | 30 | 5 | 20 | ||||||
| tied 29th | Evil Semp | 28 | 7 | 14 | ||||||
| tied 29th | torres44cm | 28 | 3 | 22 | ||||||
| tied 31st | Mad777 | 27 | 3 | 21 | ||||||
| tied 31st | paws1610 | 27 | 4 | 19 | ||||||
| 33rd | MGSteve | 26 | 5 | 16 | ||||||
| 34th | milo67 | 25 | 6 | 13 | ||||||
| tied 35th | CPD Sarge | 24 | 3 | 18 | ||||||
| tied 35th | wombat4 | 24 | 4 | 16 | ||||||
| tied 37th | General Bax | 23 | 4 | 15 | ||||||
| tied 37th | grt | 23 | 5 | 13 | ||||||
| tied 39th | russde | 22 | 4 | 14 | ||||||
| tied 39th | pindary | 22 | 2 | 18 | ||||||
| tied 41st | Gawddog | 20 | 3 | 14 | ||||||
| tied 41st | lokisgal | 20 | 3 | 14 | ||||||
| 43rd | ItzPetey | 19 | 5 | 9 | ||||||
| tied 44th | guzmanuk | 16 | 2 | 12 | ||||||
| tied 44th | Seamus76 | 16 | 2 | 12 | ||||||
| tied 44th | sempaispellcheck | 16 | 3 | 10 | ||||||
| 47th | magneto_acolyte | 14 | 2 | 10 | ||||||
| tied 48th | bernooch | 12 | 1 | 10 | ||||||
| tied 48th | Frito Bandito | 12 | 1 | 10 | ||||||
| tied 50th | rmjw10 | 9 | 2 | 5 | ||||||
| tied 50th | The Lobsterman | 9 | 2 | 5 | ||||||
| 52nd | Risk_Averse | 8 | 1 | 6 | ||||||
| 53rd | nhrockski | 6 | 1 | 4 | ||||||
| 54th | subprime | 2 | 2 | |||||||
| 55th | Terry Sore | 1 | 1 | |||||||
| tied 56th | charwell | 0 | ||||||||
| tied 56th | got tonkaed | 0 | ||||||||
| tied 56th | Streaker | 0 |
http://www.conquerclub.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=89&t=207126
This is a Tournament Players Association Year 5 [TPA5] event, and is governed by its rules, guidelines, and judgments which are detailed here: viewtopic.php?f=89&t=207126
All are welcome to join and participate in the association. You do not need to do anything more than join one or more of the TPA5 events that will be announced on Mondays. Check back on the scoreboard to see how you're doing:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1U8XEUmcXeIGYIo9rnyEotKGH2RXn9lXNJ8_U-pCUiIY/edit?usp=sharing
Quick Link to the Scoring Spreadsheet for THIS tournament only.
I absolutely love the Terminator movies, so if I'm going to do a Terminator Tourney it may as well have a Terminator theme!
Basic Tournament flow:
[spoiler=basic tournament flow]Every week for 28 weeks I will send one 6-player Terminator game. A few people will get more than one game (see Conscription, below.)
At Week 28, I will check to make sure that some people have at least 50 kills. I think it's very likely that at least some people will have 50 kills by then, but if for some reason they do not, I will continue sending more games. Games after Week 28 will be on Random! map. Games up to and including Week 28 have different maps chosen representing great scenes from the first two Terminator movies, as below.
Once someone has 50 kills or more, I will not send any more Random games, but I will wait for all games to finish before posting final scores.[/spoiler]
Scoring:
[spoiler=scoring]One point per kill plus two extra points per game win.
If you win a map by map victory conditions, I will award you a kill for every player who is still on the list and still has troops on the board at the time that you win. Please post in the thread if you win a map by map conditions, as I normally only score by Tour Stats and it does not pick up these kind of nuances.
I will NOT, however, do the same for games that end by round limit, or for players who deadbeat out.[/spoiler]
Conscription:
[spoiler=conscription]Edit: We are starting with some reserves. I will use up the reserves before turning to Conscription.
The tournament is designed for some multiple of six players, and all games will be six player. Inevitably people do drop out, and instead of having long delays while I search for replacement players, I will use a "conscription rule" as I have used very successfully with my 7 games tournament in TPA4.
If someone drops out of the tournament and leaves us short, I will "conscript" some players to play more than one game. Being conscripted to play an extra game will obviously give you a bit of an advantage, so this advantage will be distributed evenly by keeping a "concription list." Nobody will be conscripted twice until everyone has been conscripted once, nobody will be conscripted three times until everyone has been conscripted twice, and so on.[/spoiler]
Settings:
[spoiler=settings]ALL games will be Terminator with a 30-round limit. Other settings will vary as follows:
Odd-numbered games (week 1, week 3, week 5, etc.) will be Escalating Chained No Fog No Trench
Games starting with week 2, and every 6 weeks thereafter (week 2, week 8, week 14, etc.) will be Escalating Chained Fog Trench
Games starting with week 4, and every 6 weeks thereafter (week 4, week 10, week 16, etc.) will be Nuclear Parachute Fog Trench
Games starting with week 6, and every 6 weeks thereafter (week 6, week 12, week 18, etc.) will have a potpourri of all the other settings. (Sequential, freestyle, automatic, manual, flat rate, no spoils, zombie, nuclear, adjacent, unlimited, no forts, fog, sun, trench, no trench, all thrown in to a pot and stirred.)
Thus 50% of all the games will be on the most straightforward Terminator settings, 33% will be on on a couple other popular variants, and everything else will comprise the final 17%. Even though you'll probably encounter a few combinations of settings that you hate, most of the games should be a lot of fun, with just enough of the ridiculously unpredictable thrown in to make it interesting.[/spoiler]
Maps 1 to 13:
[spoiler=maps 1 to 13 celebrate the original terminator movie]Week 1: Los Angeles, 2029.
The machines rose from the ashes of the nuclear fire. Their war to exterminate mankind had raged for decades, but the final battle would not be fought in the future. It would be fought here, in our present. Tonight...
Map: USApocalypse
Week 2: Los Angeles, 1984. [the Terminator arrives naked and encounters some punks]
Punk Leader: Nice night for a walk, eh?
The Terminator: Nice night for a walk.
Punk: Wash day tomorrow? Nothing clean, right?
The Terminator: Nothing clean. Right.
Punk Leader: Hey, I think this guy's a couple cans short of a six-pack.
The Terminator: Your clothes... give them to me, now.
Punk Leader: f*ck you, asshole!
Map: Operation Drug War
Week 3: Enter Kyle Reese. [He too arrives naked, but unlike the Terminator, he can't readily kill someone for clothes, Luckily, a sleeping wino provides an easy target.]
Map: Classic
Week 4: The Terminator goes to the gun shop and acquires some firepower.
The Terminator: Phased plasma rifle in the 40-watt range.
Pawn Shop Clerk: Hey, just what you see, pal!
The Terminator: [Looks around] The Uzi nine millimeter.
Pawn Shop Clerk: You know your weapons, buddy. Any one of these is ideal for home defense. So uh, which will it be?
The Terminator: [Pointing the 12-gage shotgun towards the door] All.
Pawn Shop Clerk: I may close early today. There's a 15-day wait on the hand guns but the rifles you can take right now.
[Takes out forms] Pawn Shop Clerk: And you have to fill these out too.
[Sees the terminator load his 12-gage shotgun] Pawn Shop Clerk: You can't do that.
The Terminator: Wrong! [the Terminator shoots the clerk]
I imagine the clerk was as surprised as Alexander at Austerlitz!
Map: Austerlitz
Week 5: Meet Sarah Connor, played by the young Linda Hamilton. Every time I see Linda Hamilton in her 1980's version, I'm like a dog drooling over a piece of meat.
Map: 4-Star Meats
Week 6: The first great shootout between Kyle Reese and the Terminator, along with one of the franchise's trademark lines...
Kyle Reese: Come with me if you want to live.
Map: New World
Week 7: The car chase, and Kyle explains things to Sarah Connor, who obviously doesn't believe him.
Kyle Reese: The 600 series had rubber skin. We spotted them easy, but these are new. They look human... sweat, bad breath, everything. Very hard to spot. I had to wait till he moved on you before I could zero him.
Sarah Connor: Look... I am not stupid, you know. They cannot make things like that yet.
Kyle Reese: Not yet. Not for about 40 years.
Sarah Connor: Are you saying it's from the future?
Kyle Reese: One possible future. From your point of view... I don't know tech stuff.
Sarah Connor: Then you're from the future, too. Is that right?
Kyle Reese: Right.
Sarah Connor: Right.
It's a very confusing time for Sarah. She has a lot to process in a very short time.
Map: 8 Thoughts
Week 8: Sarah and Kyle are taken to the police station. Of course his story is not believed.
Sarah Connor: So Reese is crazy?
Dr. Silberman: In technical terminology: he's a loon.
Map: Madness
Week 9: The Terminator goes back to the flophouse to fix himself up. [The classic scene where he performs do-it-yourself surgery. Today, this is a tediously routine thing in action movies, but in 1984 it was a real shocker.] There's also the great "conversation" with the janitor:
Cleaning Man at Flophouse: [Damaged skin on the Terminator is rotting from gangrene] Hey, buddy. You got a dead cat in there, or what?
[the Terminator visualizes: 'POSSIBLE RESPONSE:The Terminator: f*ck you, asshole.
- YES/NO;
- OR WHAT?;
- GO AWAY;
- PLEASE COME BACK LATER;
- f*ck YOU, ASSHOLE;
- f*ck YOU']
Map: Halloween Hallows
Week 10: The Terminator arrives at the police station. Result: a lot of dead cops.
Map: Prohibition Chicago
Week 11: Sarah and Kyle on the run. They stop in a motel to rest up, build some Improvised Explosive Devices (long before the term IED became a household word) and even find some time to consummate their relationship.
Sarah Connor: [checks the grocery bags Kyle has brought back to the hotel room] What've we got? Moth balls, corn syrup, ammonia. What's for dinner?
Kyle Reese: Plastique.
Sarah Connor: That sounds good. What is it?
Kyle Reese: Nitroglycerine-base; it's a bit more stable. I learned to make it when I was a kid.
Map: Battle for Iraq
Week 12: The Terminator finds them, and we're into another car chase. Kyle Reese is killed, and Sarah has to face the Terminator alone. The Terminator pursues her into a factory, where she destroys him with the aid of a giant hydraulic press.
Map: Steamworks
Week 13: In the epilogue, we learn that Sarah is pregnant. The future John Connor, therefore, is the son of Kyle Reese who was sent to save him. Sarah is speaking into a dictaphone, leaving tapes for John to hear when he gets older.
Sarah Connor: The hardest thing is deciding what I should tell you and what not to. Well, anyway, I've got a while yet before you're old enough to understand the tapes. They're more for me at this point... to help get it all straight. Should I tell you about your father? That's a tough one. Will it change your decision to send him here... knowing? But if you don't send Kyle, you could never be. God, you can go crazy thinking about all this... I suppose I'll tell you... I owe him that. And maybe it'll be enough if you know that in the few hours we had together we loved a lifetime's worth.
She heads off to Mexico to hide, both from the cops and from any more Terminators that might be sent.
Map: Mexico[/spoiler]
Maps 14 to 28:
[spoiler=maps 14 to 28 celebrate terminator ii judgement day]Week 14: The second movie begins with Sarah watching children in a playground. Their innocent playfighting makes her think of the horrors of the Machine War. For just a minute, she is trying to drown it out and fill her mind with pleasant thoughts.
Map: Patch Wars
Week 15: The situation is explained with narration by Sarah
"Skynet, the computer that controlled the machines, sent two terminators back through time; their mission: to destroy the leader of the human resistance: John Connor, my son. The first Terminator was programmed to strike at me in the year 1984, before John was born. It failed. The second was set to strike at John himself when he was just a child." The close-up of John Connor dissolves into a blaze of inferno, as Sarah continues: "As before, the Resistance was able to send a lone warrior as a protector for John. It was just a question of which one would reach him first."
Map: Fractured America
Week 16: Once again, Schwarzenegger as the Terminator arrives naked and goes in search of clothing. This time, instead of punks on a rooftop, he finds bikers in a bar. George Thorogood's "Bad to the Bone" is the soundtrack for one of the most popular scenes.
The Terminator: I need your clothes, your boots and your motorcycle.
Cigar Biker: You forgot to say please...
Map: USA 2.1
Week 17: Meanwhile, a very different Terminator, the T-1000 played by Robert Patrick, arrives. At first, it is not clear if he is the good Terminator or the bad Terminator.
Map: Austrum
Week 18: The young John Connor is a juvenile delinquent. His mother has taught him survival skills, but so far he's only using them in irresponsible ways, stealing from ATMs and spending the money on video games.
Map: Conquer Man
Week 19: At the Galleria, John is spotted by both Terminators. In the hallway, the T-1000 tries to kill him while the T-800 defends him, and we finally know which one is the good Terminator and which one is evil.
Map: Bamboo Jack
Week 20: John realizes that the T-800 has been sent to protect him, and he also figures out that it is programmed to follow his orders. He decides to break his mother out of the Pescadero institution for the criminally insane where she is imprisoned. The Terminator advises against it, but John takes charge and gives the orders.
John Connor: We need to get my mother.
The Terminator: Negative. The T-1000's highest probability for success now will be to copy Sarah Connor and to wait for you to make contact with her.
John Connor: Great, but what happens to her?
The Terminator: Typically, the subject being copied is terminated.
John Connor: Shit! Why didn't you tell me? We gotta go right now!
The Terminator: Negative. She's not a mission priority.
John Connor: f*ck you! She's a priority to me!
Map: Supermax Prison Riot
Week 21: As John and Sarah and the T-800 leave town, the famous "hasta la vista" scene.
John Connor: No, no, no, no. You gotta listen to the way people talk. You don't say "affirmative," or some shit like that. You say "no problemo." And if someone comes on to you with an attitude you say "eat me." And if you want to shine them on it's "hasta la vista, baby."
The Terminator: Hasta la vista, baby.
John Connor: Yeah but later, dickwad. And if someone gets upset you say, "chill out"! Or you can do combinations.
The Terminator: Chill out, dickwad.
John Connor: Great! See, you're getting it!
The Terminator: No problemo.
Map: American Civil War
Week 22: Driving into the desert, the T-800 explains how Skynet was entrusted with the entire U.S. Defense network, became self-aware, and decided to eliminate humans.
The Terminator: The Skynet Funding Bill is passed. The system goes on-line August 4th, 1997. Human decisions are removed from strategic defense. Skynet begins to learn at a geometric rate. It becomes self-aware at 2:14 a.m. Eastern time, August 29th. In a panic, they try to pull the plug.
Sarah Connor: Skynet fights back.
The Terminator: Yes. It launches its missiles against the targets in Russia.
John Connor: Why attack Russia? Aren't they our friends now?
The Terminator: Because Skynet knows the Russian counter-attack will eliminate its enemies over here.
Map: Arms Race!
Week 23: Sarah sends John and the T-800 off by themselves while she decides to go kill Myles Dyson, the inventor of the radical new microprocessor that makes Skynet possible. They figure out her plan and intercept her. John stops her from killing Dyson. It's not clearly articulated, but John's theme here and in other scenes is that they can't fight evil by becoming evil. The end does not justify the means. John reveals the truth to Dyson to enlist his aid.
Sarah Connor: [narrating] Dyson listened while the Terminator laid it all down: Skynet, Judgment Day, the history of things to come. It's not everyday you find out that you're responsible for 3 billion deaths. He took it pretty well.
Miles Dyson: I feel like I'm gonna throw up.
Sarah is a lot less calm than Dyson.
Sarah Connor: How are you supposed to know? Fucking men like you built the hydrogen bomb. Men like you thought it up. You think you're so creative. You don't know what it's like to really create something; to create a life; to feel it growing inside you. All you know how to create is death...
John Connor: Mom.
Sarah Connor: ...and destruction...
John Connor: Mom! We need to be a little more constructive here, okay?
Map: Age of Realms 3: Mayhem
Week 24: With Dyson's help, they raid Cyberdyne Systems.
[Dyson's personal code fails to access the computer room]
The Terminator: [Raises Grenade-Launcher] Let me try mine.
Map: All Your Base Are Belong To Us
Week 25: Everything is against them at Cyberdyne. The police arrive with snipers, machine guns, and helicopters. Cyberdyne's security systems gas them. Of course, the T1000 arrives. They are beset on all sides.
Map: Monsters
Week 26: Another famous car chase, with John, Sarah, and the T-800 fighting off the T-1000. In succession, he destroys the S.W.A.T. team van, a pickup truck, and a tractor-trailer carrying liquid nitrogen. The liquid nitrogen stops him for a bit, as his liquid metal body becomes brittle and smashes. However, molten metal spills out of a foundry they have smashed into, and melts the frozen shards, enabling the T-1000 to re-assemble himself.
Map: Extreme Global Warming
Week 27: After fighting in the ruined foundry, they eventually succeed in knocking the T1000 into a vat of molten metal, finally destroying him with the extreme heat.
Map: Indian Empire
Week 28: They also throw the remaining chips that they took from Cyberdyne into the molten metal, and last but not least, they lower the T-800 in. History has forever been altered. The epilogue:
Sarah Connor: The luxury of hope was given to me by the Terminator. Because if a machine can learn the value of human life, maybe we can too.
Map: World 2.1
Thus ends the second movie.[/spoiler]
Maps after 28:
[spoiler=if we are not settled by week 28]After Week 28: It is extremely unlikely that we will need more games. If we do, we will go to Random Map, with the same 6-game rotation of settings.[/spoiler]
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