News: COTM 56 Results and Congratulations

[AlanH]

Here are the results for COTM 56, with the Gold Medal going to ignas for a 20K Culture win, and two very early Domination victories for the other medals!

39 entries, with no defeats. Congratulations, everyone .

Summary of Medal Winners:

ignas: 1460 AD Cultural 20k Victory, 12,148 points.

Yilar: 10 AD Domination Victory, 11,968 points.

Neo666: 30 BC Domination Victory, 11,952 points.


Fastest Finish Award Winners:

Nata: 1345 AD Cultural 100k Victory, 11,362 points.

PaperBeetle: 1255 AD Spaceship Victory, 11,220 points.

garvarg: 360 AD Conquest Victory, 10,945 points.

Drazek: 1420 AD Cultural 20k Victory, 9,390 points.

Marsden: 2050 AD Histographic Victory, 9,274 points.


Other Award Winners:

eldar: 1665 AD Cultural 20k Victory, 6,657 points.

jbuofm: 1932 AD Cultural 100k Victory, 4,112 points.

milr: 1866 AD Spaceship Victory, 3,761 points.

alejax: 1963 AD Domination Victory, 2,896 points.

Sima Qian: 2022 AD Conquest Victory, 344 points.


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

 

[Yilar]

What impresses me the most about Ignas' 20k is the fact that he wasn't even the fastest. Drazek was 8 turns faster, yet his jason score is almost 3000 points lower.

 

[Più Freddo]

Predator-Class Obstacles:
No Pottery
AI gets Monarch level Bonus Starting Units
AI gets 4 Bonus Unit Support

No medal winner dared face this.

 

[Lanzelot]

My special congrats to Drazek: the 20K award has probably never been more hard-fought than this month...! Who would have thought that topping ignas' performance was possible?!

Lanzelot

 

[Spoonwood]

Go Marsden!

 

[Marsden]

Go Marsden!

Moo! I am a bovine.

 

[Andronicus]

Congrats to Drazek, a truly impressive 20k date,

But even more impressive IMO is a rare 20k gold medal - well done Ignas .

This game reinforced to me the need for rapid science for early Shakes in a 20k game. The added culture and added shields are the key. An early heroic epic certainly helps too.

 

[Spoonwood]

This game reinforced to me the need for rapid science for early Shakes in a 20k game.

For anyone reading this Andronicus has a good point here, but beware. It definitely can work in a Regent game as evidenced here and elsewhere, so he's right (to a certain extent). But, when the AIs can do more research and build things faster, say at Deity or Sid it, might not work too well. DWetzel also tried it in a Demi-God game and it didn't work too well for him, but he might have just had the wrong opponents or something.

Don't worry Marsden, I eat vegetarian.