News: BOTM 17 Results and Congratulations

[DynamicSpirit]

Well - what a game! I don't know if it was the unusual nature of the game that did it or the fact that having only 3 cities made it possible to finish the game faster, but we had more entries than we've seen for a looong time - 156 in total!

There's some impressive dates in the scores. And with every victory condition represented, I think this game shows that having a small number of cities needn't be a bar to any type of victory. When I set the game, I wasn't expecting anyone to get an 18th century space win - yet Obormot's 1740 win is comparable with the fastest dates in normal games. Nor was I expecting to see a cultural victory as early as in 1050AD - congratulations to Grey Cardinal on that one. But what impressed me the most is that despite the 3-city limit, a couple of people still managed to get a domination victory, thanks to some judicious alliances and vassal states.

Summary of Medal Winners:

ShannonCT: 880 AD Conquest Victory, 125,391 points.

Lexad: 1470 AD Domination Victory, 66,798 points.

The-Hawk: 1380 AD Conquest Victory, 61,683 points.


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Fastest Finish Award Winners:

RobertTheBruce: 560 AD Religious Victory, 42,785 points.

K.K.: 1812 AD Conquest Victory, 42,108 points.

Grey Cardinal: 1050 AD Cultural Victory, 28,222 points.

Obormot: 1740 AD Spaceship Victory, 28,097 points.

Balthalion: 1765 AD Diplomatic Victory, 21,259 points.


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Other Award Winners:

hhhawk: 1540 AD Domination Victory, 60,495 points.

wwassme: 1500 AD Religious Victory, 25,263 points.

magpie_robert: 1886 AD Diplomatic Victory, 17,639 points.

mangetonchapeau: 1902 AD Conquest Victory, 11,066 points.

cas: 2048 AD Spaceship Victory, 4,172 points.

Blanchard: 2021 AD Cultural Victory, 3,660 points.

GreatDeceiver: 1919 AD Diplomatic Loss, 2,227 points.


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

 

[GreatDeceiver]

Since I don't post too often, I'd be uncharitable if I didn't congratulate the top finishers in the game - the usual suspects at the top (Shannon CT, Lexad and the Hawk brothers - The-Hawk and hhhawk), as well as some relative newcomers (amh52 and svin). Kudos to the staff for another well run game and interesting scenario.

As for myself, I somehow managed to get both the Green ...and Red Ambulance awards!! Has that ever been done before?!? If anyone is interested in the formula: enter a relatively easy difficulty level XOTM, play an unfocused game, and suffer a mental lapse on the basic working of the game mechanics (e.g. the UN and the diplomatic victory condition), and shame and ignomy is yours. 154 submitted victories in BOTM17 and I have the lone loss. I think I'll just crawl into a corner for now.

 

[Lexad]

Thanks for the company, hhhawk! LC seems to drop off on the way, though. Congratulations to the winners - great dates, Obormot, Grey Cardinal, Gosha. And great score lead, Shannon!

Grey Cardinal already has 3 fastest cultures?! Jesusin, you've got a challenger

The increased spped of result producing continues to impress me - great job, GOTM team! And great game idea, too.

 

[Gosha190]

Congrats to the winners and participants!

great setup! thanx to the staff a lot!

 

[mtt9999]

Congrats to all of those who submitted... and thanks for a creative different game scenario. We have had a run over the last couple months of new ideas for game stories and approaches. I appreciate that.

This may be pretty irrelevant in the greater scheme of things... but after some time off of the GOTMs, I am back in the top 100 global rankings. Although I am not an unbeatable powerhouse in the games yet, look at the improvement of score over the last 8 months:

92 mtt9999

0.3
3.3
1.4
0.6
1.3
6.3
14.2
4.2
6.8
18.4
1.5
16.4

I know we are trying to increase involvment in the games, both in the number of submissions and in the number of posts. I hope this will add atleast a little encouragement for the remainder of us not at the top...

 

[LowtherCastle]

LC seems to drop off on the way, though.

Congrats guys! I didn't have time to finish. Too busy with SG9...

Excellent game, DS!

 

[jesusin]

Congratulations to the winners!
Thanks for the interesting discussions and data to compare, everybody.

Great 3CC idea, DS, and geeat implementation too. Thank you!

 

[ShannonCT]

Well done Lexad in finishing the most difficult VC in good time, with a medal to boot.

In old-dog-new-tricks news, congrats to The-Hawk on his first medal.

 

[K.K.]

Looking at the results I realize I have a lot to learn when it comes to focusing on victory... some really impressive early victories on the list!
Congratulations to the players and thanks to DynamicSpirit and the GOTM staff for the game, and for the COW awARD... not sure how the base score is calculated or why it is awarded, but idc... I got an award!

 

[ShannonCT]

the COW awARD... not sure how the base score is calculated or why it is awarded, but idc... I got an award!

Base Score is based on your population, land, wonders, and techs, plus half the land and population of your vassals, without any discounting for finish date. To collect more cows, delay victory as long as possible to increase the 4 components of base score.

 

[MacBalt]

omg! Looks like I somehow managed to schlep another award off the floor while everyone else was dining at the table on something else. Would never have predicted that on this game. I thought my date and score were way out of contention. Go figure.

Congrats to all the real competitors out there... And to all of you who played way better than I did but just missed those other awards, don't you wish you'd gone diplo now?

 

[Adama]

Congratulations to all the winners.

@K.K.: Good job!

@GreatDeceiver: Good job on BOTH ambulances! Hey, now, that's an award.

@mtt9999: Good job!

@alltheviewersnotonthemedalboard: xOTM's are a fun learning experience whether you show up on the medal board or not. The best I've ever done is ambulances and a few shields, but like, mtt9999, I can see improvement in continued involvement and reading the spoilers, getting questions answered, etc.

Basically, there are a couple of kinds of players, (of which I am the latter): (1) The first group of leaders reads another's spoiler and says, "Why the HeQ didn't I think of that," and (2) my group, which says, " I could never have thought of that in a million years !!"


Adama
Congrats again to all the leader/award board !!

 

[DynamicSpirit]

As for myself, I somehow managed to get both the Green ...and Red Ambulance awards!! Has that ever been done before?!?

I'm pretty sure it hasn't been done before. My evidence? The fact that we had to delay publishing the results while Alan tweaked the system so that it could correctly record you winning both ambulances...

 

[Lexad]

As for myself, I somehow managed to get both the Green ...and Red Ambulance awards!!

 

[The-Hawk]

In old-dog-new-tricks news, congrats to The-Hawk on his first medal.

Thanks Shannon. As always, I was not playing for score. Just fell into this one. Having said that, the recent score gauntlet in HOF was quite fun, so maybe I will try for another medal or two.

Of course, I like your technique best... blow the field away by centuries, as a result, get highest score as well. Congrats on a blazing conquest.

 

[kcd_swede]

don't you wish you'd gone diplo now?

Yeah... maybe.

Say.. how does this fastest religious victory award work? Srad finished on exact same date as RoberttheBruce, had a higher BASE score, but a lower final score. How's that work? The bonus for finish date must put different priority on different components of the score than the base score does. I doubt land area was so different... hmmm...

Anyhow, I've never seen a slimmer margin. Both of you deserve congrats!

And to all those who took the challenger save, esp Lexad -- nice showing!

 

[RobertTheBruce]

Yeah... maybe.

Say.. how does this fastest religious victory award work? Srad finished on exact same date as RoberttheBruce, had a higher BASE score, but a lower final score. How's that work? The bonus for finish date must put different priority on different components of the score than the base score does. I doubt land area was so different... hmmm...

Anyhow, I've never seen a slimmer margin. Both of you deserve congrats!

And to all those who took the challenger save, esp Lexad -- nice showing!

Yes, srad deserves congratulations as well. The in game score weights population:land:techs: and wonders evenly but the final score weights them 5:2:2:1. srad played a very good game and had many more wonders and techs than me but I had 50% more population. I got a higher final score but its pretty arbitrary whether the in game or final score is used as a tie breaker.

 

[srad]

Congratulations to you all! Really astonishing finish dates! Space race before 1750AD

 

[Meister Maggi]

Congrats to all the winners...

damn it - shannonCT - if it was not for you I would have got my next award...

anyway I have one question: why do I have a lower final score than the_hawk though my base score is slightly higher (appearently) and I finished slightly earlier...?

 

[Lexad]

Different parts of base score are adjusted differently by finish date.