COTM 12 Results & Congratulations

[ainwood]

Again, the race was tight, and again there was a little more variety in the top results, with a cultural victory sneaking in to the medals.

It was Dynamic who topped the competition with a fast domination victory, in 230 AD. Hendrickszoon claimed silver with a cultural 100k victory, in an amazing 1180 AD. Again, third place went to an amazingly fast victory, with DaveMcW triggering conquest in only 70 AD!

Summary of Medal Winners:

Dynamic: 230 AD Domination Victory, 11,912 points.

hendrikszoon: 1180 AD Cultural 100k Victory, 11,792 points.

DaveMcW: 70 AD Conquest Victory, 11,738 points.

 

[ainwood]

Other Award Winners:

Bradleyfeanor: 1070 AD Spaceship Victory, 10,814 points.

A'AbarachAmadan: 840 AD Diplomatic Victory, 9,716 points.

Theoden: 2050 AD Spaceship Victory, 9,047 points.

Xevious: 1675 AD Cultural 20k Victory, 8,696 points.

 

[ainwood]

gervond: 1816 AD Conquest Victory, 5,484 points.

Numdydar: 1930 AD Cultural 100k Victory, 4,232 points.

Kidsmart1981: 1838 AD Diplomatic Victory, 3,946 points.

UTBear: 1974 AD Domination Victory, 2,962 points.

MangeTonChapeau: 1906 AD Cultural 20k Victory, 2,512 points.

Drugged_unholy: 1834 AD Diplomatic Loss, 1,992 points.

elawyn: 2045 AD Spaceship Victory, 884 points.

Cyan Fargo: 1110 AD Conquest Loss, 499 points.

>> See the full results here.
>> See the QSC results here.
>> See the updated global rankings here.
>> See the latest Pantheon of Heroes here.

Congratulations to all medal winners and competitors.

 

[AlanH]

Well done everyone! Truly awesome date, DaveMcW

 

[Jason Fliegel]

That's the first time I can remember seeing Middle Ages techs (techs -- plural!) in the QSC results. Wow!

 

[Dynamic]

Congrats to all winners an especially for players who break the records!
DaveMcW 70AD Conquest
A'AbarachAmadan 840AD Diplo
bradleyfeanor 1070AD Space
hendrikszoon 1180AD 100K Culture

 

[Dynamic]

And in this game I reached one of my dream - 490 points in GPR.

 

[MeteorPunch]

And in this game I reached one of my dream - 490 points in GPR.

That's amazing Dynamic. I assume that is the highest ever.

 

[civ_steve]

MeteorPunch - you are correct! Dynamic's score translates to a 98% result on average over the last 9 xOTM's! This is slightly higher than SirPleb's score of 483.980, noted in this post in the "Increased Competition in the GPR" thread.

Awesome set of games submitted!

(Edit - reviewing the GPR over the last few Games, SirPleb reached a high score of 487.125 in GOTM41. Dynamic actually topped that with a score of 488.491 in GOTM42, and has slightly extended that score in COTM12 to 490.033. Not much room above that score!)

 

[bed_head7]

By the way, what happened to SirPleb? He has missed the last few games. Did I miss some announcement of retirement?

And so this isn't deemed completely off topic, congrats to Dynamic and DaveMcW for both putting up dates that make me feel like an idiot for thinking mine would be close to the winning date (I think I could have won by domination in about 570 or maybe 580 as opposed to taking conquest in 630).

 

[Theoden]

Yay, my first COTM award Seems like the first milking game in my entire civ career was quite succesful.
And congrats to all those who set amazing records in this COTM.

 

[chunkymonkey]

Congrats to all, some very impressive dates

Re: SirPleb - there has been some rumour concerning some individuals' involvement with Civ4 playtesting - who's to say?

 

[solenoozerec]

And in this game I reached one of my dream - 490 points in GPR.

And this is without playing GOTM

By the way, what happened to SirPleb? He has missed the last few games. Did I miss some announcement of retirement?

He actually did announce that he received an assignment that requires all his time and he will be away for a few months.

Re: SirPleb - there has been some rumour concerning some individuals' involvement with Civ4 playtesting - who's to say?

Maybe this is the nature of his assignment?

In any case, I am sure we will see him again

 

[azzaman333]

wow. hendrikszoon won with 100k culture in the same year i couldnt be bothered playing any more. i wish i was good...

 

[A'AbarachAmadan]

Congrats to everyone!!

 

[leopalas]

Awsome victory Dynamic . Congrats on the 490 GPR. Fantastic dates Dave and Hendrik . Special congats for Theodens first COTM award. BTW, has anyone ever got an over 12000 point victory?

 

[AlanH]

BTW, has anyone ever got an over 12000 point victory?

Eleven players since GOTM 20:

COTM 1: Bremp (12116)
COTM 4: kuningas (12212)
COTM 5: Bradleyfeanor (12013), Darkness (12024), Florian K (12221)

GOTM26: HighDesert (12121), Mark Cutt (12402 - all time top score)
GOTM34: Dynamic (12079)
GOTM37: Florian K (12042), Kuningas (12090), WackenOpenAir (12302)

 

[Capt Buttkick]

Often in gotms it would be interesting to see where everyone settled their first city.
Add a column that states first city's placement relative to starting position? Please?

In this game, I feel like I did pretty good. Only problem was my scouting sucked, as so often before. So I settled too early. It would be more interesting to compare myself to those who settled on the starting position (or near it) than the wanderers.

I know the data may be available through saves, but I can't be bothered to open all the saves and I never got Dianthus' (sp?) tools working. Besides, I don't know what I'd do with the palace jumpers.

 

[Stilgar08]

Congratulations to all those great players!!!

And I'm the second best looser! *Woohoo*

 

[Nichelle]

Congrats to all the medal and award winners!
It is amazing that there were soooooo many records broken in this game.

Special congrats to Dynamic and Bradleyfeanor, who are now one cow game away from the eptathlon!

I wonder if we shall see them going head to head for the cow in 13?

It would be great to watch the spoilers if that is so!

Again, great job to all and thanks to the staff for another great game.