COTM 09 Results and Congratulations

[ainwood]

In this game, Renata presented an excellent map in which players were made to cope with an isolated start that required them to decide on the relative merits of expanding to the main continent early with galleys (and the associated risks of sinking) or waiting until navigation / astronomy with the safer passage, but with the substantial delay in research.

Newcomer hendrikszoon showed the merits of taking risks, triggering a domination win in 310 AD, using suicide ship chaining to reach the other continent with Bezerks as early as 150 BC.

Dynamic was one of many who took the more cautious approach, waiting for astronomy / navigation and invading with knights. The more-mobile attack force meant that he was able to reach the domination limit only 20 turns after first landing on the other continent (compared with 30 for hendrikszoon).

klarius was also somewhat circumspect, waiting until 420 AD to attack the other continent, but completed a cavalry-enabled conquest victory and claiming bronze in 800AD.


Summary of Medal Winners:

hendrikszoon: Domination Victory in 310 AD, 11361 points.

Dynamic: Domination Victory in 510 AD, 11008 points.

klarius: Conquest Victory in 800 AD, 10443 points.

 

[ainwood]

Other Award Winners:

Kuningas: Conquest Victory in 740 AD, 10407 points.

A'AbarachAmadan: Histographic Victory in 2050 AD, 9861 points.

Jove: SpaceShip Victory in 1575 AD, 9759 points.

Drazek: Cultural 100k Victory in 1750 AD, 8937 points.

SirPleb: Diplomatic Victory in 1285 AD, 8508 points.

sockaka: Cultural 20k Victory in 1760 AD, 5261 points.

 

[ainwood]

logosmani: Conquest Victory in 1826 AD, 4527 points.

Chamnix: Cultural 100k Victory in 1850 AD, 4327 points.

Tabolt: Domination Victory in 2022 AD, 2458 points.

Major Geek: Domination Loss in 1930 AD, 1994 points.

rebeljoe: Cultural 20k Victory 1986 AD, 1874 points.

JohnnyMo: Diplomatic Victory 1974 AD, 1804 points.

Yang The Cat: SpaceShip Victory 2019 AD, 1646 points.

diophantus: Domination Loss 1971 AD, 875 points.



See the full results here.
See the updated global rankings here.

 

[Tubby Rower]

woohoo!!! I'm not the worst for the 3rd straight time. This is the first event that I registered a win for.

79 Tubby Rower 1876AD Domination Victory 4703 25:32:44

Not the best but I'm thrilled!!

Thanks to all those who taught me how to win and to Renata for the interesting map!!

 

[Xevious]

Congrats to all the winners.

I'm working on a comeback after being out since GOTM36. I've never medaled, but I'm learing quite a bit from Team Offa in SGOTM6, and hope to get up there one day.

 

[Methos]

I never finished the game but I did submit a QSC and I’m shocked at my score! I expected to be at the bottom and was beginning to think my submission wasn’t accepted until I found myself at #7. Wow! I did even better than I thought.

Now I just need to learn exactly what everything means on that page so I can tell what I need to work on.

 

[bradleyfeanor]

Congratulations to everyone who played! The results for this one were quite competitive! I hope we see some posts in future spoilers from the winner, hendrickszoon.

 

[Dynamic]

Congratulations to every players! Especially for hendrickszoon who beats me on my favorite victory type.

PS: In GOTM I had 5 Domination awards from 6 played games but in COTM I have none!

 

[civ_steve]

This was a really fun game! Congrats to the Winners (especially Kuningas)! And to all participants

Lots of players felt a Berserk Bloodlust and achieved Conquest Victories (11 in the top 20) Awesome Domination win by hendrickzoon; somewhat risky but the early GA combined with Berserks vs Spears (mostly) probably sealed the deal.

 

[MiniMe]

Congratulations to all the winners
Special nod to Kuningas for picking up what I for a moment hoped to be my first Conquest award and to Klarius for keeping me out of the top 3 (18 points).

 

[Dynamic]

Congratulations to all the winners
Special nod to Kuningas for picking up what I for a moment hoped to be my first Conquest award and to Klarius for keeping me out of the top 3 (18 points).

You played a very good game MiniMe! But in this game competition was too strong. I also lose the battle on my own field.

 

[Bedwyr]

What is suicide ship chaining?

 

[Offa]

Well done everyone, especially Jove .

Did I miss the winners write up?

 

[ainwood]

What is suicide ship chaining?

Ship Chaining is where you move a ship transporting units into the same square as another ship, unload them into the other ship, then move that ship on to the same square as another ship etc etc. You can actually move units across an entire ocean in one turn doing this. "Suicide ship chaining" is the same, except is done where ships can sink at the ned of the turn.

 

[Tubby Rower]

I had forgot about the QSC stuff. Apparently lief erickson beat me out by just 2 points due to tech superiority. I had him beat in every other category except techs.....Hopefully next time. At least my beginning is good, now on to the rest of the game!!

 

[Renata]

Thank you for playing, everyone. And congrats to all the award-winners.

Renata

 

[AlanH]

Sorry the starting locations map was a little late arriving on the QSC results page. It's there now.

Congratulations everyone.

 

[tron]

Great job everyone! This was my first COTM/GOTM and only my second successful game at Monarch. Thanks to many on the SG boards, without the knowledge I gained there, I wouldn't be winning at this level yet.

It was an interesting game, no doubt. I wish the RNG would have been more kind to me. I lost a lot of boats on this one.

 

[Rebeljoe]

Yeah, this was my first XOTM, and I god a shield! Lowest scoring cultural 20K win. Don't know why such a low score. I had success in trading early, but after that, the AI just refused to trade with me. Even when I offered him way too much for anything. After fomenting some early wars on the mainland, I was able to get a city out of a peace deal. But, I was unable to reinforce it in time, before the Babylonians crossed my border with force. Damned Babs!

For me, I had a difficult time in being able to build small wonders for culture. I wasn't able to build Heroic Epic until a few turns before victory.

But, I had fun.

Joe

 

[Tubby Rower]

Yeah, this was my first XOTM, and I god a shield! Lowest scoring cultural 20K win. Don't know why such a low score.

Your low score was probably due to the lack of territory which is part of your Fraxis score. Then your Fraxis score is used when calculating your Jason score.

Basically to get a high score you need to get to the domination limit (obviously without going over) ASAP and then work on your victory condition.

Congratulations on your shield!!