SGOTM7 Ottomans - Results and Congratulations.

This game clearly demonstrated the need for focus on the primary goal from the very start of the game, and leader luck also played its part. The Always War variant proved too much for some of our gallant teams, with Conquest defeats for two, a diplomatic loss for two more, and a couple of teams gave up the unequal struggle. So congratulations go to the teams who stuck with it and achieved the objective, and commiserations go to those who found it a variant too far.

We also discovered a new twist in the way the AI is programmed in the PtW and Vanilla versions. PtW teams found a lot more enemy units waiting for them when they started their invasions than did the vanilla teams, so we have decided to spilt the Classic teams this time and award separate Gold laurels.

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The Conquest Laurel for fastest variant finish for a Conquests game is awarded to:-

Team Wacken - 670 AD
WackenOpenAir
dmanakho
grahamian
Offa
Wotan
Xevious

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The Gold Laurel for fastest variant finish for a "PtW" game is awarded to:-

Team Peanuts - 840 AD
Peanut
civ_steve
Crazy_Eskimo
Kaiser Berger
MailMan
Mathilda

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The Gold Laurel for fastest variant finish for a "Vanilla" game is awarded to:-

Team tao - 530 AD, and only 5 turns slower than the Jason "best date"
tao
Furiey
Keath
Renata
Sabre
Tone

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The proud recipients of The Wooden Spoon for the lowest Jason score are:-

Team Bede
Bede
Admiral Kutzov
eldar
killercane
MeteorPunch
soul_warrior

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Please join me in congratulating everyone who participated, and good luck to everyone who takes part in SGOTM 8. You'll need it

And a very special thank you to mad-bax for setting up this game and for all his hard work over the last seven games. Without mad-bax there would be no SGOTM.

Full results and detailed stats are available here (http://gotm.civfanatics.net/submit/sgotm_submission_list.php?game=20007)

:goodjob: everyone, especially Team Wacken and Grumpy for their incredible wins

Congratulations Team Wacken, Peanuts and tao! :goodjob:

Great work guys! Bravo to the winners, and to anyone who made it to victory in this tough variant...


At least we were the best losers :dance: ... :rolleyes: ...

Congrats to everyone especially to the winners.

See you at sgotm8. We will win this time. :D

Congratulations to the winners, and thank you Mad-Bax for that nice game.

Congratulation to the winners. Team Tao played an exceptional game. :goodjob: As did Wacken and the Peanuts... ;)

The X Team shall return however!!! :mischief: :D

Thanks to m-B for the excellent game, it was quite challenging. :clap: :worship: :salute:

Congrats to everyone especially to the winners.

See you at sgotm8. We will win this time. :D

Don't bet on it :p ;)

Congrats all!

And thanks to MB for a fun, challenging game. :thumbsup:

congrats all