Very nice "structure" for the tournament, I love the randomness. Haven't seen the series though, but I guess that only adds to the randomness factor

    tx Eepogi, yes the randomness forces to approach the game differently...glad you like it. good luck...btw Vince_ma is a friend of mine, we used to play boardgames together once in a while

      Hi all, I hope you are all having a good time...
      I made a change in the order people will advance. I adapted it on the tournament info page and also will post it here.

        Who will reach the line?

        The Main Characters: players 001, 067, 101, 111, 199, 212, 218, 240, 456

        The Winners: The winners of each group.

        The Underdogs: The 40 best 4th place finishers (highest culture).

        Then, from all the remaining 293 players, the following are also selected in this order:

        First: The Co-operatives: Groups that complete one group stipulation*

        Then: The Individuals: Players that complete an individual stipulation**

        Lastly: The Lucky Ones: Some random chosen players.

        The rest is eliminated

          Reminder: when you finish the game, please fill in the following data in the Google doc: the winner of the group, the culture of the 4th player and you completed stipulations. Tx...

            Thanks a lot for this tournament!
            I love the idea and had much fun trying to do an individual stipulation while winning the game at the same time.

            I just hope players will be more into these specific rules in the next rounds.
            2 players of my game didn't talk at all and just played the game like any random 4p game (not even trying to do an individual stipulation at the end).
            Apparently, it is the same in some other groups 🙁

            Can't wait to see how many groups achieved group stipulations.
            And also, how many players dared to play with no leaders ?! as it would be close to impossible to win the game with such a disadvantage .

            I wonder what crazy stuffs will await us in the next rounds 😃

            Lcfyx Hi, I am glad you like it...11 MA 🙂 that's a lot It's the maximum possible I think...nice one..6 colonies, and winning the group. So you are achieving it all. There are lots of way to qualify to next round. Group stips are only possible if the whole group works towards that...and the no leaders challenge is easy and difficult to do...we'll see. Next round is already completely prepared and ready. It will be brutal and unfair...you will love it...I guess

                Lcfyx Probably when you saw the colloseum and the Kremlin, you tought...ok let's give it a shot

                  zadokk
                  Yes, that's exactly what happened.
                  I don't play these wonders that much but when I saw I could do the maximum MA possible, I just had to try it 😃

                      For the individual stipulations, do you have to be using that leader? i.e. Would you have to have 11 MA while using Catherine? Or is the name of the award just called Catherine?

                        Firedart its just the name of the stipulation. Dont need that leader

                            21 days later

                            Is there a "try hard" trophy? 😁 I think I qualified 4x for the first round.

                            1. Main Character
                            2. Winner
                            3. James Cook: the player with the most colonies
                            4. Group: No Age 3 events were seeded.

                            Edit: Someone beat me on Colonies 😃

                            ZesPak you really wanted to be sure to reach next round. Congrats...i should have allow you to give the other 3 wins away to friends, but i am not going to do that now....good luck in the next round...some of you will need it...

                              zadokk that would have been great. Did go for the group stipulation though so didn't steal that victory from anyone.
                              Not seeding impacts is a lot harder than it sounds though. 😅
                              Boardello yeah, I didn't actually go for them either. The issue with going for them (Collossus, navigation, Isabella,...) is that often people stop seeding them for you. So you end up with less. You can't get 9 colonies by all seeding them yourself 😁.

                                    5 days later

                                    zadokk Not enough! @mafiasco has got 13.
                                    That group have played a very good game - they must have talked a lot together and planned their strategy as all 4 of them have won a category. Well played !!

                                        Boardello Yes, they have a crazy game going...more than 1000 points scores lol...but, you still might win, if... you'll see :-) do you watch the livestream this sunday?