France’s Finest Phaeril is some great alliteration

Thanks again for all this organization!

tornado said, he will join usb if he lose^^

go phaeril!!!!

wow this is cool! go phaeril 🙌

Time for a Grand Final update!

Game 1:
Phaeril wins on Belarus comfortably with a deadly cluster pick ftb. A weighted random template, so he still had to win two 3v2’s to capture the +4. After that, he would leverage his extra income to split defend a triple border and eventually build an unassailable army advantage and trounce Tornado on his top template.

Game 2:
…Bork. Fun to watch. Nerve-racking to play. Unless your name is Tornado, then it all comes down to precise maths and accurate predictions.

Though he got outpicked, Nado was able to hold off Phae’s attempted recapture of a broken bonus, always by 1 army. Coincidence? I think not.

On turn 5, Phae failed to force his way through and was left with a bunch of leftovers, crippling his income and flexibility for a turn. That turn was all Nado needed.

Game 3:
Tor-ture. And it truly was… for one of our competitiors. 😅

First, Phae made 6 picks… there’s 4 spawns! That error would come into play, as Nado would steal two picks and they’d fight over Phae’s last pick for their 4th spawn. A 50/50 based on move order to decide if he’d get a random spawn. Phae won the coin flip!

The beauty of Weighted Random would then come into play, as by Turn 3, Nado would proceed lose an extra army on 7 of the 8 attacks he made AND lose both 3v2s he tried! Costing him a total of 4 armies and another 4 income from failing to capture a +4 due to the aforementioned failed 3v2. Fortunately for Nado, the Dice Gods weren’t just angry at him, as Phae would ALSO fail a 3v2 to complete his +4 on T3.

What I didn’t mention was that these two picked the same 1/2 picks. Those 1/2 picks were right next to each other. Phae on T1 smashed Nado and stole his spawn. This would hamper his short term income, but long term it’d benefit him. Nado failing the 3v2 on the +4 basically equalised things immediately and Phae was simply left with an extra bonus to efficiently capture. That would make the difference as they only met on T6. Ample time for Phae to capture the extra bonus and consolidate.

They spread for 5, brawled for 6, then the game ended after 11 turns. The winner: Phaeril. He’d finish with 13 more cumulative luck than Tornado. So maybe the real winner in this one were the neutrals!

Game 4:
The Dice Gods giveth and the Dice Gods Taketh.

Game 4 was Strat ME. Phae goes for Greenland in 2 and fails a 3v2. Nado takes Antarctica on T2, then… he forgets it’s Strat ME??? On T3 the guy full deploys to try and take Australia with FOUR 3v2s AND Norway with another 3v2. He succeed on… ALL of them!!!! WHAT?! I guess fortune really does favour the bol- actually, no! This bastard isn’t bold! He’s just crazy! 😂

From there Nado brute forces his way into Greenland via Svalbard and ties up the series 2-2, with both players winning their opponent’s top 2 template picks.

more coming soon…

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Game 5
Phaeril booted. He was busy over the weekend that the game was launched and regrets not activating vacation mode.
Phae said, “This boot hurts my morale... I thought I had time on Monday morning at worst, but no.”
Win #3 for Tornado.


Game 6
Timid land. Phaeril had no info on picks. Tornado had a strong start and left the challenger scrambling to recover. Phae eventually levelled the income, but Nado still had a huge lead in army count. Phae fixed this problem by activating a trap on T10. Tornado would activate his own trap on T12, taking the advantage once more. Nado used the army advantage to bridged over to Phae’s bonus, breaking it and distracting him in the West whilst flanking him from the East, slowly and methodically dismantling his position. A 20 turn thriller.
Win #4 for Tornado.

Game 7
Georgia AC. I’m no expert, but it seems to me that Phae not covering an important double pick +4 and being forced to take Nado’s threatening spawn, allowed Nado to snowball his income and steamroll Phae from bother the East and the West.
Win #5 for Tornado.

Game 8
Strat Greece. A short and sweet one. Nado gets his #1 pick stolen and then gets his next 5. Limited info causes him to fight ghosts, totally misplacing his armies. With less income, all spawned-in bonuses compromised, and a stack out of position, Nado threw a hail mary hoping that Phae didn’t attack him. Phae attacked him and broke his +4. Game over.
Win #3 for Phaeril.

Game 9
Elitist Africa. Phae had a very strong start, but failed to capitalise and remove Tornado from the centre. Instead he decided to spread. Tornado used the extra time to take income, manoeuvre into a double border on Phae’s fragile maroon bonus. Nodo then makes an incredibly blod prediction that Phae won’t deploy a single troop to his 11 stack. And guess what? He was dead on! Nado full deploys and attacks the 11 with 18. BOOM!!! He bursts through Phae’s defences on the very first chance. Phae simply cannot recover and Nado rips apart his cluster from within.
Win #6 for Tornado.
That means…

TORNADO WINS THE TOUR FINALS!!!!!!

Tornado three-peats. Retaining the crown for the third year in a row. Long live the King of the World Tour!

Congrats champ!

Congratulations, tornado!

Congratulations!

Thank you

Congratulation Tornado! You deserve it!

Congratulations and well played!

Congrats!! 3 times is insane

Congrats! Heartbreaker, but well deserved

Amazing achievement, Mr. Consistent!

Thank you all

Just bumping this for future edits

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I like the commentary! Nice job texx