SGOTM 1 - Results and Congratulations.
No fewer than 140 players in 19 teams signed up to play the first SGOTM for Civ4. Congratulations to all who took part, and thank you for making it a very interesting competition.
For the first game in this new format, Gyathaar set a fairly straightforward map, and you, playing as Egypt, were required to achieve a fast Domination or Diplomatic victory. A little spice was added in the form of a locked state of hostility between Egypt and the Incas, and a locked state of peace with India.
A couple of teams discovered that the locked state of peace with India could be flipped into a locked state of war by declaring war on India's ally. All the team threads and spoilers make very enjoyable and instructive reading, but it is particularly worth reading the Rat Pack's turn log for a demonstration on how to wrest victory from the jaws of defeat following this unexpected turnaround.
As expected, the fastest victories went to the Dominators, but the third place went to a Diplomatic team, and six other diplomatic wins were achieved, including a *very* late run completed today by madviking. Only one team was unable to finish in time for the results publication, and one team suffered a diplomatic defeat.
In view of the high turn-out for this game we decided to award gold, silver and bronze laurels to the fastest three teams, as well as the traditional wooden cutlery set to the lowest scoring finishers. The race for first and second places was very closely fought, with Peanut just reaching the tape ahead of CFR. The Geezers delivered the fastest Diplomatic victory to take third place.
So, to the victors the spoils ....
The Gold Laurel for the fastest finish is awarded to:-
Team Peanut - 1334 AD Domination
civ_steve
ainwood
DaviddesJ
Keith Larson
MailMan
Mathilda
Paulk
Phabuk
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The Silver Laurel for the second fastest finish is awarded to:-
Team CFR - 1376 AD Domination
akots
Cat Behemoth
Dynamic
Lexad
Obormot
Ptitsa Consul
Witan
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The Bronze Laurel for the third fastest finish is awarded to:-
The Geezers - 1544 AD Diplomatic
Mauer
juballs2001
markh
Ronald
Sam_Yeager
The-Hawk
trippstowe
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The recipients of The Wooden Spoons for the lowest score suffered a Diplomatic defeat at the hands of the highly sophisticated Indians. They are:-
Queen's Men
pholkhero
omni_paul
Qwack
Rex Tyrannus
Talamane
·Imhotep·
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Please join me in congratulating everyone who participated.
Full results and stats are available here. I will try to extract some more statistics and add them to to the graphs over the next few days.
No fewer than 140 players in 19 teams signed up to play the first SGOTM for Civ4. Congratulations to all who took part, and thank you for making it a very interesting competition.
For the first game in this new format, Gyathaar set a fairly straightforward map, and you, playing as Egypt, were required to achieve a fast Domination or Diplomatic victory. A little spice was added in the form of a locked state of hostility between Egypt and the Incas, and a locked state of peace with India.
A couple of teams discovered that the locked state of peace with India could be flipped into a locked state of war by declaring war on India's ally. All the team threads and spoilers make very enjoyable and instructive reading, but it is particularly worth reading the Rat Pack's turn log for a demonstration on how to wrest victory from the jaws of defeat following this unexpected turnaround.
As expected, the fastest victories went to the Dominators, but the third place went to a Diplomatic team, and six other diplomatic wins were achieved, including a *very* late run completed today by madviking. Only one team was unable to finish in time for the results publication, and one team suffered a diplomatic defeat.
In view of the high turn-out for this game we decided to award gold, silver and bronze laurels to the fastest three teams, as well as the traditional wooden cutlery set to the lowest scoring finishers. The race for first and second places was very closely fought, with Peanut just reaching the tape ahead of CFR. The Geezers delivered the fastest Diplomatic victory to take third place.
So, to the victors the spoils ....
The Gold Laurel for the fastest finish is awarded to:-
Team Peanut - 1334 AD Domination
civ_steve
ainwood
DaviddesJ
Keith Larson
MailMan
Mathilda
Paulk
Phabuk
_________________________________________________________
The Silver Laurel for the second fastest finish is awarded to:-
Team CFR - 1376 AD Domination
akots
Cat Behemoth
Dynamic
Lexad
Obormot
Ptitsa Consul
Witan
_________________________________________________________
The Bronze Laurel for the third fastest finish is awarded to:-
The Geezers - 1544 AD Diplomatic
Mauer
juballs2001
markh
Ronald
Sam_Yeager
The-Hawk
trippstowe
_________________________________________________________
The recipients of The Wooden Spoons for the lowest score suffered a Diplomatic defeat at the hands of the highly sophisticated Indians. They are:-
Queen's Men
pholkhero
omni_paul
Qwack
Rex Tyrannus
Talamane
·Imhotep·
_________________________________________________________
Please join me in congratulating everyone who participated.
Full results and stats are available here. I will try to extract some more statistics and add them to to the graphs over the next few days.
I thought to qualify for wooden spoons, you need to win as well. 
But Rex and gang need no consolation ... they are probably pretty proud of walking away with a medal 
! And thanks to the organizers, it was very fun to participate! 
Posted them as I rushed out of the door.
games to read about.
for this impressive and fast victory. 
