flyingkitty, I'll place you on Team SABER as requested. See post #1 in this thread for instructions on how to get access to their private forum. Now to answer your other questions.
As you can tell from the name of this forum, this is the second game. If you want to read the first forum to get an idea of what goes on and take a look at the teams' forums, you can see it
here. There's some cool threads in the main forum, including one with the .biq file posted once the game was completed,
viewable here (it was two large continents).
As for this game, you can view our checklist (showing the settings of this game)
here. The map is "Rik-made random", meaning that it was made by Rik Meleet, our superb moderator here (who has great experience with map making), and that teams have no prior knowledge of what the map will look like with regards to any setting.
That's about it. If you have any more questions you can ask in the main forum or in your team's forum (or I guess you could PM me too). Enjoy.
Team BABE (17)
BCLG100
Whomp
Emp. Killyouall
Robi D
socralynnek
Butterball
Vind2
Tubby Rower
DaveShack
Wotan
Beorn-eL-Feared
Kickbooti
gmaharriet
ThERat
Greebley
Smart
Own
The Council (18)
zyxy
Aigburth
Niklas
peter grimes
fe3333au
Nikodemus
AutomatedTeller
General_W
Paul#42
tomasjj
donsig
TheLoneMan
dl123654
tonyf12
Judge Dredd
sirdanilot
cubsfan6506
Hasdrubal Barca
Team SABER (17)
gbno1fan
dutchfire
greekguy
lost_civantares
Nobody
GreyBeard
Calis
classical_hero
Chamnix
Elear
Cyc
Marsden
Bartleby
Donovan_Zoi
denyd
Churchill 25
flyingkitty
Team FREE (16)
azzaman333
Empiremaker
vikingruler
aluka
CommandoBob
kingstuart
Kuningas
Black_Hole
admiral-bell
Elephantium
CivGeneral
MikMilaKiks2Kil
nc-1701
dr epidemic
Joe Harker
5star_US
Team GONG (17)
Sir Bugsy
Tim Bentley
Daghdha
RickFGS
Ansar the King
SimpleMonkey
RFHolloway
madviking
archphoenix
killercane
jb1964
Tone
Perfection
markh
Theryman
PrinceMyshkin
Othniel