AN AMERICAN ODYSSEY is:
A series of 13 tournaments that I have designed to go through American history. Each of the tournaments takes place at pivotal points in America's history (and possible future). Using the maps available here on CC, I have come up with different names of each tourney and will have a small story tidbit to accompany each one. The map that each tourney will be played on will be identified in the story tidbit by being colorized.
Freemium players must dedicate 1 slot to games for this tourney.
Each tourney takes place on a different map, relating to different times in American history. The overall objective of players in the entire series is to score kills. All tourney games for the first 12 Tournaments will be a standard Terminator. Every kill that you make in each game you play will count towards your overall kill total. The 13th Tourney will be a final championship tourney for the top 32 players with the most kills over the first 12 tourneys.
If you are terminated form your game, you are out of the tourney, but not the series. The tourneys will run for 3 rounds each. From 64-players to 16 and then a 4-player final.
You must sign up for each tourney.
For the individual that accumulates the most kills throughout the first 12 tournaments of this series a General Achievement Medal will be awarded.
Each tourney will be open to 64 players, with the 13th tournament only being the 32 top killers. The more tourneys that you enter as they become active, the better chance you have of winning and moving on to the Championship Tourney. If there happens to be a tie that results in more than 32 players, then those players who are tied with kills that result in the over 32 limit will play one or more games to determine the final entrants into the tourney. (These games will not count in the overall kill count for the series.)
In addition, as soon as each tourney is full, and game invites have been sent out, I will post the thread for the next tourney in the series, so be on the lookout for those that wish to keep playing this series.
To join, simply indicate by posting in the thread that you want in. I will respond in the thread that you are in when I sign you up. I reserve the right to refuse any player form entering, but you really had to upset me to do that.
For all the tourneys, other than the map, the game settings remain the same throughout:
4-player games
Terminator
Automatic
Sequential
Chained
Foggy
Escalating
There will be special rules for the Championship tourney, to be revealed when it becomes active for the top 32 players. As each tourney progresses, overall kill counts will be tabulated after each round, and tables posted. Each kill counts as 1. Whether you win the game or not if you kill a player, it will be counted. Information on the final tourney can be found here:
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Now... on to the next Tourney:
Tourney #3: Independence
Over 200 years have passed since Columbus discovered the Americas and the colonizing of them has flourished. There is now an abundance of colonies and settlers that have expanded the once tiny and challenged villages and towns in to colonies, thriving from the assistance of what were then called "Indians", and further from the skills and knowledge of the increasing number of settlers. There were many of these settlers, along with their descendants and "Americans" who soon began to rebel against the English throne. They were fed up with a Monarch's rule from over 3,000 miles away. The colonists unite, and declare independence from England, creating the United States. The American Revolutionary War begins, and England vows to crush this upstart and reclaim the "13 Colonies". for crown and kingdom.
As a TO, I reserve the right to refuse entry into any of my tournaments, but this usually only happens when you have deadbeated in prior tourneys.
