Nice summary of the 1v1s, short and sweet! Thanks

Aaaand now each team's overall placement is officially decided as of two days ago!

In first place, clinching after a convincing victory on Europe 3v3 against WG -- aided in large part by Waddles' strategic AI replace -- is SNinja! With 140 points, no team left can pass them. Their max points are 149 with two games remaining; we'll see if they put further distance between themselves and second place.

In second place, clinching after a cool counter-heavy victory against SNinja on Szeurope, is WG! Their maximum points remaining of 137 remains unable to pass SNinja, but their 120 points currently earned cannot be surpassed by anyone below them.

In third place, a loss against WG on Volcano Island in a very bizarre and long game with teams having 40-50 income each come the endgame made their leapfrogging to second quite difficult, but their mid to late resurgence helped separate themselves far from the bottom of the pack and gave them great chances at second, is Statisticians! While their maximum total points of 119 won't be enough to earn an automatic promotion to A, their 116 total points are 40 above the next closest competitor.

In fourth place remains Fifth Column Confederation! Great performances by TheEnigma and Joi179 in particular should be commended for really boosting FCC away from relegation, but the whole clan battled hard in the second half of CL10 to avoid that possibility, really. Their total points and max points of 76 set them securely into 4th place.

In fifth place, securing their only 3v3 win of CL10, but against one of the toughest opponents in the previously undefeated SNinja on Biomes is Hydra! Taking matters into their own hands, their win closed any chance of the last place clan pulling off a comeback. The 5 points they earned from Biomes have put them out of reach of the last place team, securing them a total and max point score of 70.

In last place, despite a currently ongoing Biomes game against WG is The Juggernauts Clan. Having the most boots/non-joins of any clan really hurt them, despite a fairly strong start, showing that half the battle truly is showing up... although I suppose with a boot rate over 11% myself, I have little room to criticize here! Their max point score of 66 are not enough to pass Hydra, although it remains to be seen if their total points will increase from their current value of 61.

Edited 9/5/2018 16:09:27

Haha. I was way off with Statisticians in my predictions, and wrong about WG/Sninja exact order, but my promotions and order of FCC-Hydra-TJC were all right!

Congratulations WG and Sninja for making it to A, although the former will likely get destroyed again like in CL8 :P

Fuck everything I had a write up for the 2v2s and now I have to redo it because my computer crashed

Gimme a bit

:[ Computer didn't auto-save?

With the only remaining games being two Biomes games, I think now's a good time to give congratulations to those who played well in the 2v2 tournaments, as well as give a bit of a description of some of the games.

First, I'd like to acknowledge that Pangea Ultima has now completed, with Verzehrer of WG beating Math Wolf in an awkward 32 turn scruffle. Math Wolf's large army advantage couldn't secure him his own income in time before Verz was able to break through all of his (although Math Wolf pretty much just wins if he breaks the blockade of 16 on turn 17). Verz finishes with a record of 3-2; Math Wolf with 2-3.

To the 2v2s!

In first place on Szeurope with a record of 4-1 are ChrisCMU and Mirror of WG! Despite an early loss to Hydra where things seemed to go wrong after being just outdelayed on a turn 2 WB take, they battled back and won every other game, including a really cool game against SNinja in particular with picking to eventually counter a Russia ftb and other interesting pick ideas. In second is a tie between Hydra's team of ARandomPlayer and Derfellios with SNinja's team of rakleader and <SNinja> kirby with records of 3-2. Hydra's win/loss record is interesting, having only lost to teams below them -- the 2-3 Statisticians (after being unable to handle a triple pick WB) and the 1-4 First Column Confederation (after playing for tricks in the center on turn 4 and failing to take czech...even though even if it had succeeded, FCC would own a triple border...). Carlos and Rikku of The Juggernauts Clan tied with Verbal Kint and gus squared of Statisticians with a record of 2-3. TJC had my favorite win of this tournament, where Rikku gets autopicked virtually perfect coverage against FCC, and he leverages autopick Spain income into winning the game -- if you're going to watch any Szeurope game, watch this one. Stats' only win besides the Hydra one was in an unfortunate situation where gus squared gets his 1, 2, 7, and 13 of all picks all clustered in Russia, yet FCC isn't able to capitalize on breaking Russia income at all and simply get out-expanded once wiped from NWR. Bringing up the rear is MGO and MrTrolldemort of FCC with a 1-4 record, but their Hydra win was a pretty well-played brawl, maintaining their 1 income lead and preventing any big plays until austria could be taken and they just simply won out from there.

On Final Earth, in what will be the only three-way tie for first in Clan League 10's Division B, we have SNinja's rakleader and Tof; Statisticians' Yeon and Math Wolf; and WG's Super Smoove and almosttricky! Each team finished with a 4-1 record, where SNinja beat Statisticians (in a 28 turn game with Math Wolf being eliminated on turn 17), who beat WG (securing a key first pick in Greenland, and having important presence/denial on most of WG's potential income), who beat SNinja (a back and forth game that feels over in SNinja's favor by turn 6, evens out around turn 10/11 with both teams having their share of decent turns in this area, but doesn't really get decided until turn 16). Next comes dry-clean-only and Weatherman900 {TJC} of The Juggernauts Clan at 2-3, picking up a convincing win over Hydra and beat FCC in a game where Aura Guardian does some brazy shit and picks wastelanded Siberia 9 and is forced to try to combo it with East China. [FCC] Aura Guardian and TableTrivia of Fifth Column Confederation came in fifth at 1-4, their lone win coming against a Hydra team with an income advantage until two untimely AI replaces. ppface and wakanarai of Hydra round out the field at 0-5, their best chance of winning being the aforementioned FCC game where they were up in income for the majority of the game.

Last, on Volcano Island, first place goes to the undefeated team of Super Smoove and Mirror of WG! WG was dominant on 2v2s, being first in every 2v2 tournament and going 13-2 overall, a whopping 86.6% win rate. The highlight game to watch is probably WG vs Statisticians here; a bizarre game that shows that big income is possible even on a map like Volcano Island. No "upsets" happened here; everyone lost to the teams above them. Statisticians' team of Jackie Treehorn and JuOx came in second with a 4-1 record, including a good win against SNinja that's mostly over after turn 4, where beerisfood is unable to break Jackie's 4 bonus and access the majority of Stats' income. The SNinja team of d-ceo and beerisfood came in after that with a 3-2 record, picking up a win against Hydra where Hunta is unable to break d-ceo and Sebus's income isn't able to be used effectively (also Hunta probably should have used a blockade card at some point, possibly with armies from a Sebus transfer). Next at 2-3 is Hydra's Hunta and Sebus Maximus, winning against FCC, with NanoMidget【𝓒𝓡𝓔𝓦】under committing to deny Alena on turn 2 leading to a bit of a smash war that FCC eventually lost. Next came NanoMidget【𝓒𝓡𝓔𝓦】/ Joi179 and TableTrivia of Fifth Column Confederation with a record of 1-4, with their lone win being after nicely denying Ikillu any and all income. In last place is The Juggernauts Clan's team of Goombella {TJC} / Carlos and Ikillu at 0-5, although one of their closest bouts to victory came in their game against first place WG, with turns like 3 and 6 that are solid turns that ultimately don't pan out into a victory.

Edited 9/11/2018 18:28:29