OK. Own up! There was clearly a conspiracy!
How else did we end up with 11 out of 22 teams getting awards? That's 50% ! 
In this game, the diplomats were dominant overall, winning all the laurels. The two Russian teams again showed how it should be done. CFR-V and CFR-W took the Gold Laurels with unmatched finish dates in both the Vanilla and Warlords divisions.
[Yeees, I know you all pretended to be Russians in this game, but the winners really were players from Russia
]
In the Vanilla division, the Silver Laurels were won by Murky Waters, beating a TWO-WAY TIE between Gypsy Kings and Memphis Blues for Bronze.
The Warlords competition produced a THREE-WAY TIE for the Silver Laurels between Short Straw, Peanut and Team One, with Fistful of Dynamite coming up behind for Bronze.
Chokonuts and Fifth Element were the gallant Wooden Spooners this time around, and they were among the six teams who saw spaceships take off, though not always from their own launch pads. There were three non-finishers.
I was seriously tempted to award one medal of each colour in each division, using score as a tie-breaker - particularly when I saw the cost of minting so many awards for this game
However, I decided that finish date is far more important than score in SGOTMs, so it would be cruel to do that.
So, the next two posts show the Roll of Honour for the two divisions of this game. You can see many more details on the Results page, and of course you are free to visit all the team threads to see how it was done.
Please post your congratulations here for all who took part in this closely contested game and entertained us so well, and give your special plaudits to the teams listed in the next two posts.


In this game, the diplomats were dominant overall, winning all the laurels. The two Russian teams again showed how it should be done. CFR-V and CFR-W took the Gold Laurels with unmatched finish dates in both the Vanilla and Warlords divisions.
[Yeees, I know you all pretended to be Russians in this game, but the winners really were players from Russia

In the Vanilla division, the Silver Laurels were won by Murky Waters, beating a TWO-WAY TIE between Gypsy Kings and Memphis Blues for Bronze.
The Warlords competition produced a THREE-WAY TIE for the Silver Laurels between Short Straw, Peanut and Team One, with Fistful of Dynamite coming up behind for Bronze.
Chokonuts and Fifth Element were the gallant Wooden Spooners this time around, and they were among the six teams who saw spaceships take off, though not always from their own launch pads. There were three non-finishers.
I was seriously tempted to award one medal of each colour in each division, using score as a tie-breaker - particularly when I saw the cost of minting so many awards for this game

So, the next two posts show the Roll of Honour for the two divisions of this game. You can see many more details on the Results page, and of course you are free to visit all the team threads to see how it was done.
Please post your congratulations here for all who took part in this closely contested game and entertained us so well, and give your special plaudits to the teams listed in the next two posts.