BOTM 98 Results and Congratulations

[Deckhand]

Hope you all had fun. Everyone who finished the game was victorious. We do appreciate submitting your retired games as well.

Conquest was very popular with several victories before 1200 AD. WastinTime beat all the early Conquests with a 1020 Domination for the Bronze. One turn later, Zulan had fastest conquest for the Silver. JovanKukic's relatively late 1200 AD Conquest had the highest score by quite a margin. No Religious or Diplomatic victories.

Summary of Medal Winners:

Jovan Kukic: 1200 AD Conquest Victory, 175,801 points.

Zulan: 1040 AD Conquest Victory, 138,119 points.

WastinTime: 1020 AD Domination Victory, 112,054 points.


Fastest Finish Award Winners:

nocho: 1760 AD Spaceship Victory, 108,174 points.

Minou: 1520 AD Cultural Victory, 40,851 points.

terminator3k: 1942 AD Spaceship Victory, 31,813 points.


Other Award Winners:

kcd_swede: 1750 AD Conquest Victory, 55,946 points.

Alamankarazieff: 1898 AD Spaceship Victory, 27,538 points.

greatbeyond: 2037 AD Domination Victory, 8,309 points.

NobleZarkon: 1902 AD Cultural Victory, 6,534 points.


Here's where everyone settled:

The Small Print:
The numbers by each player's name indicate the turn settled on (starting turn is 0). Players are colour coded by game class (challenger=red, adventurer=blue). Symbols indicate victory condition, if there's no symbol then the player either retired or was defeated. The yellow border indicates the land that was visible at the start of the game.


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[Pangaea]

Congratulations. Yet another excellent win for the GOTM Jovan Kukic

Not many that strayed from SIP I see, but I guess that was sort of expected given a PH start.

 

[Deckhand]

Not many that strayed from SIP I see, but I guess that was sort of expected given a PH start.

Yeah, I buffed SIP.
One of these games I'm going to put the settler on a mountain.
(not this game, but) I want to encourage different settling locations. Want to give players choices. Then I overthink it and conclude there wouldn't be real choice as one would be clearly better...
Great discussion in BOTM 101. And I think it's natural, not contrived by map maker. (but never trust kcd_swede)

 

[Jovan Kukic]

Congratulations. Yet another excellent win for the GOTM Jovan Kukic

Not many that strayed from SIP I see, but I guess that was sort of expected given a PH start.

I tried to get both medal and award, as I usually try. Yes, I took the gold, but Zulan was much faster conqueror

 

[nocho]

Congrats to the winners. I really enjoyed this map for space. Too bad Seraiel and Jastrow didn't compete for this one for a communist flavoured space race after the corps galore in BOTM97.

 

[Seraiel]

Congrats to the winners. I really enjoyed this map for space. Too bad Seraiel and Jastrow didn't compete for this one for a communist flavoured space race after the corps galore in BOTM97.

I was under the false assumption that there'd always be one low and one high level BOTM and that the low level BOTM's would give minor awards that don't count towards the Ephtalon .

On this map it would have been very possible that I'd have gone for Space aswell, because Rainforest usually is a good map for Space but I think even the Corps aren't exactly weak on it because of all the Rice, don't know if Cereals would have been better than Sushi but suspect so. I've not played one Space Race with State Property 'til now, I don't know if it would have been competetive even on this map, maybe.

Congratiulations to all participants and winners .

 

[Deckhand]

I was under the false assumption that there'd always be one low and one high level BOTM and that the low level BOTM's would give minor awards that don't count towards the Ephtalon .

Correct, that assumption was false. Adventurer saves aren't eligible for medals nor fastest finish awards, so those don't count toward Eptathlon. We used to do those monthly, but will now be the exception (I will probably offer a lower level game along with the deity game in March).
Early Fastest finish in lower level games gives scrubs like me a chance for an eventual Eptathlon.