Allez les bleues

After a long wait, here's the update. I somehow can't edit the sheet, so these are scores as of today.

---

- 1v1 Hannibal at the Gates

Entrants:

Lynx			Wini
M'Hunters		Leopard
ONE!			PJ
Outlaws		Facetroll
WG			Guest
Statisticians	Nauzrohr
SNinja		hergul

Has not started yet

---

- 1v1 British Raj

Entrants:

[0-0]Lynx		Turkish
[0-0]M'Hunters	Emu Pub
[0-0]ONE!		Malakkan
[0-0]Outlaws		aoc
[0-0]WG		Guest
[0-0]Statisticians	[Arm]BelSon
[0-0]SNinja		almosttricky

Has not started yet

---

- 1v1 Elitist Africa

Entrants:

[3-0]Outlaws		Bonsai
[2-1]ONE!		Muli
[2-1]WG		[WG] Reza
[2-0]Statisticians	Jackie Treehorn
[1-0]SNinja        	Max
[1-4]Lynx		Jo Jo
[0-5]M'Hunters	TBest

Games completed since last update:

Max (SNinja) defeats TBest (M'Hunters)
https://www.warzone.com/MultiPlayer?GameID=17854001
TBest gets himself in a sticky situation after picks. He gets a big part of his picks in island bonuses which won't help him in the long run. Meanwhile, Max is clustered in the center and lands some good early income combo's. After Max gets his initial advantage from those, it's hard for TBest to make a comeback. He ends it in style by booting on turn 5.

Jackie Treehorn (Stats) defeats Jo Jo (Lynx)
https://www.warzone.com/MultiPlayer?GameID=17853996
While Jackie and Jo Jo fluctuate around the same income, Jackie takes an advantageous position on turn 2, taking a double border to Nigerian Lowlands and a double border on Horn of Africa the turn after. While both are still pretty much on the same income, Jackie can slowly start to snoop bits of Jo Jo's income away and take them as his own. Jo Jo is basically lost after turn 5. It's good it didn't take him another 6 to surrender. Oh wait.

Jackie Treehorn (Stats) defeats Muli (ONE!)
https://www.warzone.com/MultiPlayer?GameID=17853995
First of all, I'm starting a personal vendetta against people playing with Smoky Black on maps where the background is also black. Just wait until someone makes a map where everything is Royal Blue.
Anyways, on to the game. This is a game where 14th pick is going to cost you. It cost Muli. But on turn 1, Jackie doesn't move in Madagascar, letting Muli get to 9 income while he gets only 8. Muli is looking to smash High Plateau, but gets eliminated there on turn 4. This opens up the game again; Jackie is behind on income, but suddenly has an advantage longterm. When Muli finds his opponent in West Sudanian Savanna, he smashes him hard. This leaves Jackie with the opportunity to do some serious pressuring in Madagascar. He secures it and from there he can play it out. Very nice game to watch.

[WG] Reza (WG) defeats TBest (M'Hunters)
https://www.warzone.com/MultiPlayer?GameID=17928156
Did TBest think that Lower Guinean Forest was a Forest? Because it isn't. It's a Jungle and Swamps bonus. This pick leads TBest to a staggering 0 income on the first turn. Reza's two Mountain combo's get him to 11 income after the first turn, allowing him to pressure TBest quite a bit. Especially since Reza decides to grab Comores instead of moving in Madagascar. TBest can't hold it and has to expand. So Reza breaks it and now TBest has to expand even more. The problem is, Reza counters him in High Plateau. After that horrendous turn for TBest, he gets eliminated in Eastern Highlands and it's over.

[WG] Reza (WG) defeats Jo Jo (Lynx)
https://www.warzone.com/MultiPlayer?GameID=18109557
Jo Jo boots out of the game on picks. Well played.

Muli (ONE!) defeats Jo Jo (Lynx)
https://www.warzone.com/MultiPlayer?GameID=17853997
An interesting picking strategy by Jo Jo, triple picking a Desert to abstain from low income on turn 1. Unfortunately for him, this leaves Muli with some sweet combo's. And while both go pretty even on income, Muli has an income advantage on turn 3. Muli uses his momentum to his fullest advantage and takes Eastern Arc Mountains with a stack. Jo Jo completes his Maghreb bonus in the meantime, getting him a bunch of income. While they fight around in the southeast, Jo Jo tries to sneakily take two territories in Muli's Swamp bonus. Which backfires, as he only gets one territory for -3 income. He also gets his Madagascar broken, resulting in another -2. It ends up 16-8 in terms of income and Muli wins the game.

Muli (ONE!) defeats TBest (M'Hunters)
https://www.warzone.com/MultiPlayer?GameID=18089967
Both Muli and TBest cluster around Root of Africa. TBest chooses to blockade there, but gets outpredicted. He eliminates Muli in the East African Rift, but sees himself overpowered when Muli breaks his blockade on turn 2. A fast game indeed.

Bonsai (Outlaws) defeats Jo Jo (Lynx)
https://www.warzone.com/MultiPlayer?GameID=18109558
Jo Jo boots on picks again. Stealing my style.

Bonsai (Outlaws) defeats [WG] Reza
https://www.warzone.com/MultiPlayer?GameID=17928157
Reza has a bad first turn, investing a lot in a counter, but blockading near three of Bonsai's picks in the South, leaving Bonsai with safe income there. Safety is key here, as Reza's income isn't far away from Bonsai. Bonsai keeps his initial momentum by pressuring Reza's counter out of there. Reza starts to expand as he gets eliminated from his position near Bonsai, but to no avail; Bonsai keeps the income and positional advantage. Reza gets overrun by a 24-income Bonsai and it's done.

---

Edited 3/18/2019 09:08:44

Strat ME 0%WR

Entrants:

[2-0]Outlaws		Krzysztof
[0-1]ONE!		Beren
[0-0]WG		Verzehrer
[1-0]Statisticians	Math Wolf
[1-1]SNinja        	Almosttricky
[0-0]Lynx		timon92
[0-2]M'Hunters	georgie

Games finished since last update:

Math Wolf (Stats) defeats georgie
https://www.warzone.com/MultiPlayer?GameID=17997979
M'Hunters manage to put someone on Strat ME 0%WR that doesn't understand how WR affects the game. Awesome. This was a pain to watch. georgie decides to go for the Ant combo and take it in the worst way possible. 8 to South Pole and 3 to Scott. And a 3v2 in EC which he somehow picked. Math wolf takes the gamble on being able to complete SA with a single pick in two turns and leaves Scan and SEA unmoved (for card pieces?).
The next turn is where the true power of M'Hunters' decisions show. georgie decides that to take a 1, you need to attack with at least 3. If he didn't do that, he could've guaranteed a territory in EC, but hey, let's not make it ourselves easy. Math Wolf, in the meantime, does indeed get SA with a single pick and is now facing Antarctica.
Next turn. Let's hope georgie learnt how to take a 1. Nope, he still figures he needs at least 3 to take a 1. Well, at least he'll complete EC next turn to put some pressure on Math Wolf.
And so he does. On turn 4, georgie completes EC, but wait. What is he doing in Ant? He's tapping Math Wolf... The turn after, georgie breaks SEA, but Math Wolf breaks Ant. The game is over at this point, as georgie is never going have safe income and Math Wolf still has SA and eventually Scan uncontested. Truly the worst game I've watched this season. Can't wait for more!

Krzysztof (Outlaws) defeats Beren (ONE!)
https://www.warzone.com/MultiPlayer?GameID=17997977
This game is fairly normal until turn 4. Beren is ahead in income, but lacking behind in stack wars. Somehow he goes into WC. Not only is WC doubly wastelanded, Beren can see those wastelands. So he must've had some motive with that move, i just can't figure it out for the life of me. After they meet in Indonesia, Krzysztof takes out SA, scaring Beren into taking Venezuela with a stack. However, Krzysztof moves his stack back to WA to complete his bonus and grab a major income advantage. After one more turn of stacking and Beren not finding Krzysztof in CR, it's over. I was properly weirded out by this move by Beren, but maybe he thought Krzysztof was in CR.

Krzysztof (Outlaws) defeats almosttricky (SNinja)
https://www.warzone.com/MultiPlayer?GameID=18099332
Krzysztof focuses his picks on the ftb and the CR combo after that. This turns out to be a huge advantage against tricky's single-pick three-bonuses. They both complete a single-pick three-bonus on turn 2, but Krzysztof can complete his combo on CR next turn, while tricky stacks. Tricky now tries to complete SA, but tries two 3v2's, of which one fails. Krzysztof meanwhile completes WR and breaks SA the turn afterwards, leaving tricky with 8 income while having 12 himself.

almosttricky (SNinja) defeats georgie
https://www.warzone.com/MultiPlayer?GameID=18042422
For a fun experiment, I asked a friend who has played a grand total of 8 games on this template to judge georgie's picks. He immediately found the flaw. Why pick ER, a random inefficient bonus, as 4. There are so many better picks on the board. I won't go into further detail myself, as that should explain everything. What follows is just tricky playing a way better position out. Tricky wins, obviously. An anonymous source said "This is worse than what I expect in division D"

---

- 1v1 Guiroma 16%SR

Entrants:

[0-0]Lynx		Kurdistan49
[0-0]M'Hunters	TBest
[0-0]ONE!		Pardon99
[0-0]Outlaws		Krzysztof
[0-0]WG		Hunta
[0-0]Statisticians	Jackie Treehorn
[0-0]SNinja		d-ceo

---

- 1v1 Biomes of Americas

Entrants:

[0-0]Lynx		Kicorse
[0-0]M'Hunters	Emu Pub
[0-0]ONE!		89thlap
[0-0]Outlaws		Lucien Muller
[0-0]WG		[WG]Reza
[0-0]Statisticians	Yeon
[0-0]SNinja		Master Jaesar

---

- 2v2 Final Earth

Entrants:

[0-0]Lynx		Kicorse + Mostly Harmless
[0-0]M'Hunters	AI + JeyKey
[0-0]ONE!		Suschel + Milly
[0-0]Outlaws		Edge + Terence Kill
[0-0]WG		Super Smoove + Clivan
[0-0]Statisticians	Math Wolf + [ARM]BelSon
[0-0]SNinja		Rakleader + Hergul

---

- 2v2 Guiroma

Entrants:

[1-0]Lynx		Bbraw + Le Marseillas
[0-0]M'Hunters	AI + Mylo
[0-0]ONE!		FiveStarGeneral + 89thlap
[0-0]Outlaws		Bonsai + Platinum
[0-0]SNinja		d-ceo + almosttricky
[0-0]Statisticians	Jackie Treehorn + JuOx
[0-1]WG		Chris + Hunta

Games finished since last week:

Bbraw + Le Marseillas (Lynx) defeat ChrisCMU + Hunta (WG)
https://www.warzone.com/MultiPlayer?GameID=17994542
While le Mars is stalling Chris and Hunta, Bbraw is looking at grabbing a ton of income. While the WG team has some smaller bonuses for safety: a 1-bonus and some 2's, Bbraw has a safe 3 and a safe 5 and he also predicts Chris in his other 3 to get a grand total of 16 income. At this point, the Lynx team is leading and Chris gets outpredicted a second time. le Mars is fighting his way to the safe WG income while Bbraw is just casually demolishing the rest. The game ends on turn 8 with a nice victory for Lynx.

---

- 2v2 Cookies

Entrants:

[0-0]Lynx		alexclusive + Kurdistan49
[0-0]M'Hunters	Digital + Leopard
[0-0]ONE!		FiveStarGeneral + tornado
[0-0]Outlaws		Bonsai + aoc
[0-0]WG		Super Smoove + The Joey
[0-0]Statisticians	Gus Squared + Ugly Emmefer
[0-0]SNinja		rakleader + tof

---

- 3v3 Europe

Entrants:

[1-0]Lynx		Hades + Dom365 + Krunx
[0-0]M'Hunters	AI + Georgie + AJ Chiller
[0-0]Outlaws		Platinum + Stales78 + Bohun
[0-0]WG		Super Smoove + ChrisCMU + Great Expanse
[0-0]Statisticians	Math Wolf + Nick + BMT
[0-0]SNinja		Rakleader + Waddles + banner
[0-1]ONE!		Beren + Tornado + Rheumakay

---

- 3v3 Biomes
Entrants:

[0-0]Lynx		alexclusive + Kicorse + Jo Jo
[0-0]M'Hunters	Emu Pub + georgie + blobblob
[0-0]ONE!		Muli + Malakkan + Adreso
[0-0]Outlaws		Edge + Stales78 + Bohun
[0-0]WG		Verzehrer + Reza + Andersault
[0-0]Statisticians	Yeon + Gus Squared + [ARM]BelSon
[0-0]SNinja		max + Waddles + Bohun

---

I'd love to give some graphs regarding the current scores, but seeing how i can't edit the sheet and the sheet makes the graphs, that'll probably come tomorrow when we resolve that. Stay tuned for the summary!

Edited 3/18/2019 13:44:28

After this first big update, the scores look as follows:

• Outlaws has the best start. Bonsai goes 3-0 in Elitist Africa and Krzysztof lands a 2-0 in Strat ME. They suffer no losses and take first for now.
  
  
• Statisticians have a nice start as well. Jackie Treehorn grabs two wins in Elitist Africa and Math Wolf gets a win in Strat ME. Without any losses, they take second place
  
  
• SNinja gets a win on Elitist Africa and a win on Strat ME, but also a loss on Strat ME. Their start is still good enough for third place though.
  
  
• Lynx wins 3 and loses 3. They secure a 3v3 europe win though, which is good for them. If Jo Jo didn't boot twice, they would've been in competition for the podium, but it's early in the season; everything can (and will) change.
  
  
• WG wins two games and loses two games. Nothing to see here, really.
  
  
• ONE! has a losing track record so far, winning two games, but losing three. Time for Beren to show some muskles.
  
  
• Talk about a bad week. M'Hunters fail to win a single game, but lose 7. TBest is looking at a last place in Elitist Africa and if georgie continues playing like he does, it'll be a last place in Strat ME as well. Come on guys, why aren't you upsetting this division as promised?
  

Thanks for the nice, succinct game analyses :]

Stats 2nd , MH last , Outlaws first..

Anything is possible, follow your dreams kids.

lol georgie

I feel like joining MH in B next season. Maybe georgie and i can play strat me 2vs2 together

I feel like joining MH in B next season. Maybe georgie and i can play strat me 2vs2 together

Sure thing. I mean the joining thingy, about the B stuff we will see.

Why not join ONE! if you want to play in B next season?

Plat your predictions are looking impressively bad.

Your face is looking impressively bad. Other than that, I agree.

Just let CL end here and outlaws win.
It feels like certain players would be very satisfied with being able to shove that into plats face... ;)

The most important thing for me is the relegation battle, stats got a good start and they're gonna soon get losses and catapult down the league and so will we, its just important to enjoy the high for aslong as luckily possible, however we're definitely getting the most out of it by beating Lynx our relegation rivals on Guiroma 2v2 as they're surrendering rn.

Edited 3/22/2019 13:39:28

I'd pay 5 coins to watch a Lynx+Outlaws clan battle.

Cheapskate

I've never bought a coin in my whole life.

You sure act like it.

To the current players who are playing in the 2v2 Guiroma tournament, I have simply one question to ask you. Would you prefer playing this template on random move order or cyclic? Because my personal opinion is that random move order is too much of a deciding factor in most games in A and it feels like it's a question of who's going to get those crucial 50/50s then actual skill and prediction.

It should've been cyclic and not random move order in my eyes.

Edited 3/23/2019 05:17:24