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Entries were a bit lower than normal - perhaps due to the fact that there were only a few willing to take-on the Sid game, and perhaps due to the coincidental release of the first Civ4 GOTM....
Even though it was a Sid level game, there were still 16 victories out of 36 entries - that's a better ratio than we've had in other games, IIRC! Great job to those that of you that won, and also a 'good on you' to the people who stepped up to play on the toughest level, even if you lost.
Scores were down a bit on previous games, with no-one getting over 10,000 Jason points. In the end, it was kununigas who claimed the top medal, and got himself a fastest domination award with a 1150 AD domination victory.
In second place, Drazek must surely win some sort of award for most awards in one game: Silver, fastest conquest, lowest-scoring conquest and even the cow!
In third place, we had a cultural victory making it to the leaderboard - by none other than GOTM-AI. Given that GOTM-AI has performed so badly in previous games, we can only conclude that that he cheated. How? We're not quite sure. Perhaps he's having a secret affair with the maths co-processor, who managed to fix the combat results for him.
As such, with the uncertainty hanging over that entry, we've awarded a second bronze medal - Rustwork wins bronze and the fastest diplomatic award for a diplo victory in 1575 AD.
Summary of Medal Winners:
Kuningas: 1150 AD Domination Victory, 9,642 points.
Drazek: 2050 AD Conquest Victory, 9,395 points.
rustwork: 1575 AD Diplomatic Victory, 7,325 points.
Even though it was a Sid level game, there were still 16 victories out of 36 entries - that's a better ratio than we've had in other games, IIRC! Great job to those that of you that won, and also a 'good on you' to the people who stepped up to play on the toughest level, even if you lost.
Scores were down a bit on previous games, with no-one getting over 10,000 Jason points. In the end, it was kununigas who claimed the top medal, and got himself a fastest domination award with a 1150 AD domination victory.
In second place, Drazek must surely win some sort of award for most awards in one game: Silver, fastest conquest, lowest-scoring conquest and even the cow!
In third place, we had a cultural victory making it to the leaderboard - by none other than GOTM-AI. Given that GOTM-AI has performed so badly in previous games, we can only conclude that that he cheated. How? We're not quite sure. Perhaps he's having a secret affair with the maths co-processor, who managed to fix the combat results for him.
As such, with the uncertainty hanging over that entry, we've awarded a second bronze medal - Rustwork wins bronze and the fastest diplomatic award for a diplo victory in 1575 AD.
Summary of Medal Winners:
Kuningas: 1150 AD Domination Victory, 9,642 points. Drazek: 2050 AD Conquest Victory, 9,395 points. rustwork: 1575 AD Diplomatic Victory, 7,325 points.
GOTM-AI: 1465 AD Cultural 100k Victory, 8,882 points.
offa: 1886 AD Spaceship Victory, 6,061 points.
sanabas: 1695 AD Cultural 20k Victory, 5,806 points.
supersova_su: 1844 AD Domination Victory, 5,951 points.
Frosties: 1635 AD Diplomatic Victory, 5,718 points.
osi: 1934 AD Cultural 20k Loss, 4,163 points.
The-Hawk: 1906 AD Spaceship Victory, 3,778 points.
azzaman333: 1175 BC Conquest Loss, 164 points.
only GOTM_AI seemed to have an easy time.
. And what a launch date, 1886ad: will it ever be beaten? Just shows how accelerated the science rate is at Sid.
. Amazing to me how quickly some of you got to wins. Makes me realize how much room there is to improve in my game. 
. Still I bet none of those guys captured and razed a city with Newton's Classroom in it. Only gotm_AI and me would have considered such master strategy in pursuit of a spaceship award. 
