We had 170 entries this month, and competition was fierce! The top of the leaderboard was stacked-up with some very good scores - 7 players scored in excess of 10,000 Jason points.

SirPleb returned to the top, milking himself into first-place and getting a cow award as well.

Kuningas continued his consistent run, getting second place with a fast domination victory.

Aeson returned for his first game in a long while, straight back into the medal winners with a good domination victory.

Summary of medal winners:

http://gotm.civfanatics.net/players/awards/GoldMedal.gifhttp://gotm.civfanatics.net/players/awards/cow.gif SirPleb: 2050 A.D. Histographic Victory, 11398 points.

http://gotm.civfanatics.net/players/awards/SilverMedal.gifhttp://gotm.civfanatics.net/players/awards/world.gif Kuningas: 460 A.D. Domination Victory, 11060 points.

http://gotm.civfanatics.net/players/awards/BronzeMedal.gif Aeson: 760 A.D. Domination Victory, 10544 points.

Other Award Winners:

http://gotm.civfanatics.net/players/awards/goldnote.gif Drazek: 1770 AD 20k Cultural victory, 10365 points.

http://gotm.civfanatics.net/players/awards/visor.gif Lamprey: 830 AD Conquest victory, 9958 points.

http://gotm.civfanatics.net/players/awards/parchment.gif DaveMcW: 850 AD Diplomatic victory, 9841 points.

http://gotm.civfanatics.net/players/awards/SpaceShip.gif Kemal: 1255 AD Spaceship victory, 9402 points.

http://gotm.civfanatics.net/players/awards/MusicNote.gif Gozpel: 1660 AD 100k Cultural victory, 8530 points.

http://gotm.civfanatics.net/players/awards/oliveshield.gif Erudine: 1872 AD Cultural 100k Victory, 6242 points.

http://gotm.civfanatics.net/players/awards/oliveshield.gif Bremp: 1788 AD Cultural 20k Victory, 5489 points.

http://gotm.civfanatics.net/players/awards/burgundyshield.gif inudog: 1870 AD Conquest Victory, 3911 points.

http://gotm.civfanatics.net/players/awards/blueshield.gif garvarg: 1896 AD Domination Victory, 3639 points.

http://gotm.civfanatics.net/players/awards/greenambulance.gif Numdydar: 1994 AD Conquest loss, 2533 points.

http://gotm.civfanatics.net/players/awards/greenshield.gif Flexo: 2000 AD Spaceship Victory, 1736 points.

http://gotm.civfanatics.net/players/awards/purpleshield.gif Craterus22: 2013 AD Diplomatic Victory, 1732 points.

http://gotm.civfanatics.net/players/awards/redambulance.gif diophantus: 1980 AD Spaceship loss, 524 points.

Congratulations to all medal winners, and all those that submitted. :goodjob:

Wow, that's a pretty good spread on victory types!

:worship: :worship: :worship: well done well done

Congratulations! Two scores over 11,000: very, very impressive.

Congrats everyone, so many great results!

:goodjob: everyone!

Great job SirPLeb....and the rest.....

Congrats to everyone -- especially Flexo, who beat me out of a medal I thought I had sewn up!

Well done everybody, another great turnout. :thumbsup:
I thought I had a decent shot at the cow award this month, but I've been beaten to it by a decent margin by the master himself. :worship:

Well done everyone.

How many of the high scorers settled on the opening peninsula?

How many of the high scorers settled on the opening peninsula?

Good question. I would find that interesting as well. I was one of the poor saps that founded on the peninsula.

Were my medal? I have fastest game. Only 4H08M.

@EsatP: That is fast indeed, and with a good result too. :goodjob:

Well done everyone.

How many of the high scorers settled on the opening peninsula?
Looking at the spoilers I think the fair majority of the high scorers moved inland. I know if I hadn't I wouldn't have gotten anywhere near the placing I did (9th).

whoohooo lowest scoring spaceship win :)

thanks jason, it is hard here in the bottom of the list.

Well done everyone.

How many of the high scorers settled on the opening peninsula?
What constitues a high scorer? Does 27th count (me :))? I settled South-East.

The following are the settle-locations of the Top 25:
http://www.civfanatics.net/uploads8/CGOTM02Start.jpg

Xevious(11th) was the highest placed to settle near the start location.

Well done everyone...
I definately learned my lesson about walking the settler to a bonus food... ;)

The following are the settle-locations of the Top 25:

Xevious(11th) was the highest placed to settle near the start location.

Oooohh, Ahhhh! Very interesting map. Thanks for posting it Dianthus! I think Xevious should get an honorary Peninsula Challenge Award.

Well done everybody. We also have a double celebration ...

Happy birthday Gozpel :bday: :beer:

Oooohh, Ahhhh! Very interesting map. Thanks for posting it Dianthus! I think Xevious should get an honorary Peninsula Challenge Award.

It should be noted that I did palace jump to the cow fairly early. I would be interested to know how well the highest scorer that DIDN'T jump the palace did.

On Dianthus' map, my second city was at the dark blue 6, and 3rd at the cyan 3 SW of cow. The third city is where I jumped the palace to. If I had time, I'd replay to see how I'd do with an earlier cow placement, but I'm not sure I'll even finish GOTM33 at this point.

Happy birthday, Gozpel! :band:

... On Dianthus' map, my second city was at the dark blue 6, and 3rd at the cyan 3 SW of cow. The third city is where I jumped the palace to. ...

I did exactly that. I ended up 16th, all in all not too bad is it? But then again it's my first top-20 finish, so you'll hear no complaints from me!

...my second city was at the dark blue 6, and 3rd at the cyan 3 SW of cow. The third city is where I jumped the palace to.

Same for me on all counts, except my third city was directly south of the cow. Looking back on my game, I think settling near the spices second, rather than near the cow, was almost as big a mistake as not leaving the peninsula in the first place. But I won't complain about finishing 15th!

It should be noted that I did palace jump to the cow fairly early. I would be interested to know how well the highest scorer that DIDN'T jump the palace did. I stayed on the peninsula. No idea who was the highest placed of those us who did. We are a strange lot to have done it, but we could at least be referred to as the only real Dutch! Well, 19th suddenly seems a lot better. Thanks for that.

It should be noted that I did palace jump to the cow fairly early. I would be interested to know how well the highest scorer that DIDN'T jump the palace did.I might qualify for this (13th) unless Kemal beats me there too, does this mean I'm close to an award. :D

I might qualify for this (13th) unless Kemal beats me there too, does this mean I'm close to an award. :D
Here is your award [party]

I got 18th staying on the Peninsular but with an early palace jump.

Hail zamint3, thou Chief Handicapper-of-Civ3 and/or Somnambulist-in-Chief.