GOTM 04 Results & Congratulations

[ainwood]

A bit (very) late getting the results out for this....

In this game, it was a return to the top of the leaderboard for hendrickszoon, and a return of the massive gap between him and second place - a staggering 68,000 points over second! In second place, A'AbarachAmadan grabbed second - and another award (fastest domination). Third place on the leaderboard actually went to karmina, although as it was a 'adventurer' class entry, it was ineligable for an award (we expect to see contender or challenger entries from now on, based on this performance! ) The medal therefore went to Johan511.

Summary of Medal Winners:

hendrikszoon: 1595 AD Conquest Victory, 250,417 points.

A'AbarachAmadan: 960 AD Domination Victory, 182,576 points.

Johan511: 1725 AD Domination Victory, 118,872 points.

 

[ainwood]

Other Award Winners:

Grey Cardinal: 1640 AD Diplomatic Victory, 102,008 points.

Rihiter: 1872 AD Domination Victory, 89,850 points.

Minime: 1870 AD Spaceship Victory, 61,258 points.

sarum: 1720 AD Cultural Victory, 40,677 points.

 

[ainwood]

Master Madness: 1966 AD Domination Victory, 31,388 points.

AU_Armageddon: 1966 AD Conquest Victory, 26,733 points.

red_elk: 1928 AD Diplomatic Victory, 15,818 points.

Solenoozerec: 2008 AD Spaceship Loss, 11,168 points.

Lawrence: 1978 AD Spaceship Victory, 10,177 points.

Fror: 1967 AD Cultural Victory, 6,010 points.

deadloss: 125 BC Conquest Loss, 147 points.


>> See the full results here.
>> See the updated global rankings here.
>> See the latest Pantheon of Heroes here.
>> Award symbols are listed here.

 

[DaveMcW]

The GSR Top 50 is up, congrats to all you fast finishers!

Player           Date    Condition   GSR
A'AbarachAmadan  960AD   Domination  100.000
Grey Cardinal    1640AD  Diplomatic  100.000
hendrikszoon     1595AD  Conquest    100.000
Minime           1870AD  Spaceship   100.000
sarum            1720AD  Cultural    100.000
Redbad           1735AD  Cultural    96.898
jar2574          1660AD  Diplomatic  95.886
Garmoon          1760AD  Diplomatic  77.720
Kuningas         1920AD  Spaceship   76.908
Doorman          1836AD  Cultural    69.972
karmina          1330AD  Domination  69.241
Ali Garch        1932AD  Spaceship   67.802
Samson           1946AD  Spaceship   58.531
LeD              1951AD  Spaceship   55.537
Greebley         1955AD  Spaceship   53.252
Pious_Pete       1904AD  Cultural    48.961
Veaz             1965AD  Spaceship   47.943
staffa           1605AD  Domination  46.456
Lexad            1916AD  Cultural    45.971
beestar          1970AD  Spaceship   45.490
ivmis            1918AD  Cultural    45.490
ShannonCT        1970AD  Spaceship   45.490
Doc TK           1920AD  Cultural    45.015
Gurkburkinator   1923AD  Cultural    43.619
mike p           1896AD  Diplomatic  43.163
civ_steve        1925AD  Cultural    42.712
hrc333           1976AD  Spaceship   42.712
Lawrence         1978AD  Spaceship   41.825
godotnut         1928AD  Cultural    41.388
Memphus          1680AD  Domination  39.685
Cactus Pete      1685AD  Domination  39.270
DrDinkindunkin   1936AD  Cultural    38.052
Sparts           1988AD  Spaceship   37.655
Chamnix          1939AD  Cultural    36.872
Johan511         1725AD  Domination  36.106
ungy             1941AD  Cultural    36.106
RobertTheBruce   1942AD  Cultural    35.729
red_elk          1928AD  Diplomatic  34.986
JerichoHill      1946AD  Cultural    34.259
DwarvenGiant     1947AD  Cultural    33.901
Jovan Kukic      1755AD  Domination  33.901
ionimplant       1932AD  Diplomatic  33.547
Pat the Snake    1999AD  Spaceship   33.547
Orion071         2000AD  Spaceship   33.196
crisr            1770AD  Domination  32.849
Appren           1952AD  Cultural    32.167
Karamvir         1780AD  Domination  32.167
L@nce            2003AD  Spaceship   32.167
warelit          1954AD  Cultural    31.498
B_A_V            1955AD  Cultural    31.169
Excilus          1955AD  Cultural    31.169

Full details are in the attached excel file.

 

[ainwood]

Thanks, Dave. You should petition alan to turn this into an online calculation / output.

 

[godotnut]

Yo Samson, it's a small club the two of us are in! And with a 78-plus hour investment, you deserved the challenger win more than I.

 

[jesusin]

Congratulations to all participants. We had a great time, didn't we?

As a sidenote, if you order the Victories by real-time employed, Cutural Victories come out ahead by far... and I come out almost last, as usual :-(. Maybe I should try Cultural games when I am pressed for time.

 

[deadloss]

Master Madness: 1966 AD Domination Victory, 31,388 points.

AU_Armageddon: 1966 AD Conquest Victory, 26,733 points.

red_elk: 1928 AD Diplomatic Victory, 15,818 points.

Solenoozerec: 2008 AD Spaceship Loss, 11,168 points.

Lawrence: 1978 AD Spaceship Victory, 10,177 points.

Fror: 1967 AD Cultural Victory, 6,010 points.

deadloss: 125 BC Conquest Loss, 147 points.


>> See the full results here.
>> See the updated global rankings here.
>> See the latest Pantheon of Heroes here.
>> Award symbols are listed here.

After playing the GOTMs/COTMs and now the 4OTMs for such a long time, it's finally happened. Woo-hoo!

I finally got my name in lights. For all the wrong reasons, of course, but at last the World now knows who 'deadloss' is.

I wonder if I can get the most 'worst score awards' in one season. That'd be...er...impressive.

 

[AlanH]

Thanks, Dave. You should petition alan to turn this into an online calculation / output.

Oh, all right then! Just as soon as I get the two SGOTMs up and running.

 

[Dolphan]

182nd. 20 odd people below me again - at least I'm consistent!

 

[jar2574]

Congrats to A'AbarachAmadan! That may be most imporessive game I've seen so far. You finished so much faster than everyone else, and with a strategy I've never seen before. Quite impressive!

Also, congrats to Grey Cardinal. I was so close and yet so far away.

 

[A'AbarachAmadan]

...and with a strategy I've never seen before...

I think I spend more time in the strategy phase than I do actually playing the game. With the game being still new (and changing still with 1.61 significantly changing my combat tactics) I'm always looking for that change in common strategy that will have an impact. I still haven't started #6 yet as I'm trying to figure out the 'perfect' strategy for a conquest win on the unknown fractal.

I never cease to be amazed by hendrikszoon's games. Just glad I haven't had to go head-to-head with him on a fastest finish. I remember is C3C when the top games were within a few percentage points of each other. Now 3d place isn't even at 50%.

 

[Samson]

Yo Samson, it's a small club the two of us are in! And with a 78-plus hour investment, you deserved the challenger win more than I.

You beat me in time, but I beat you in score. Were you playing challenger? I cannot see where the class is listed.

Some of the time was with the computer left on when I went down the pub, but it was quite a slog. I did really enjoy the chalenge though.

Congrats to the winners, and thanks to the GOTM team.

 

[Harok]

Conrgats to the award winners and as always thanks to the GOTM staff for their time and hard work.

 

[hendrikszoon]

@A'AbarachAmadan
Congrats to you for your great game. It is really impressive: Four different Awards in only four competitions. It seems you are on the direct way to the Hexathlon Award.

Also congratulation to all other participants. I was really surprised that also on this high difficulty level more than 200 games were submitted.

 

[beestar]

Thanks to the GOTM organizers for another fun game, one that challenged me to try to win on Emperor!

 

[Johan511]

In this game, it was a return to the top of the leaderboard for hendrickszoon, and a return of the massive gap between him and second place - a staggering 68,000 points over second! In second place.

Looking over hendrickszoon's game I decided to go back and follow his tech progression. I looks like this..
#1 Tech Progression.
1 Fishing
2 Polytheism
3 Priesthood
4 Writing
5 Alphabet
6 Code of Laws (Oracle) - Civil Service 1160BC
7 Literature
8 Mathematics (Pyramids Parthenon)
9 Philosohpy
10 Currency
11 Machinery (Great Lighthouse)
12 Paper
13 Education 200AD
14 Printing Press
15 Gunpowder
16 Engineering (Hagia Sophia)
17 Chemistry 860AD
18 Scientific Method
19 Liberalism
20 Communism
21 Nationalism
22 Biology. 1180AD
It's a great strategy and one that I will try to use, but for the life of me I can't get it to work. I miss way to many techs, mainly in the begining there's 12 early techs missing from the progression. Given it's possible to get 2-4 from huts I still can't get the early civilizations to trade me the remaining techs after I've already declared war on each Civ as hendrickszoon did in his. True some of the tech's could be earned from great people but he didn't build many wonders and if you take a look at his capital he would've had to put them all in there. But if you think that the tech progression is impressive you should check out the unit info screen he build 16 cats, 1 swordsman, 20 Horse Archers and 12 macemen and took a ton of the map before he somehow got military tradition and upgraded. I've been disecting this since the scores came out but ofcourse I need more time to work out the details. But I challenge all of you to take a look yourself and help me understand how he did so much damage with 4 galley's.

 

[karmina]

Wow, my game ranks 3rd in score and 2nd earliest overall...I guessed something similar from the spoiler threads, but actually couldn't believe it.

Unfortunately - and that's quite embarassing - I played adventurer class

There goes any justification for me to choose the adventurer bonus in any future game

Anyway, congratulations to all medal winners!

 

[Rihiter]

Hmmm... my first award. I'm very happy with that. Thanks for a great game.

 

[Denniz]

I don't know if it makes any difference but my game should be an incomplete/retired rather than conquest/loss. Did I submit it wrong or did you just extrapolate to the end result had I kept playing.