Just to answer two points:
I moves after Germany almost at the same time I get into the game (can´t answer for the actions of the one playing Germany before me). I talked about Russia because he didn´t help me into NS when is pretty obvious this is our best chance, and after that retreated a fleet to Holl forcing me to disband a most needed army.

About Split decision, if he was cut of the draw he will have no chance to advance (either with a 3-way or a 4-way he will have someone above her in the table advancing to 11 at least). A solo gives him a 2/6 chance of going to next round (I would say a bit more, considering Split probably have some ideas about who are the other players). And seems he choosed the right option.

Ouch, big mistake, you should read: I moved after France almost.....

Rdrivera - France, Russia, and Turkey were Barn, Maettu, and virtual Bob in this game. A 3-way draw by those would have advanced him still. If VB and Barn's countries were reversed, the French solo would have eliminated him whereas that 3-way draw would have advanced. Basically the draw was okay for him as long as you and Raffy were not in it, the solo was okay as long as Barn or Maettu was playing France. Another way to look at it is if the game where I was Austria were the last to resolve instead of this one and he threw the solo it would have backfired on him.

Congrats Barn for a hughe amount of points this round .. 6/7 games , not ? And congrats and lot of succes for the finalists

Thanks, Raffy.

The scoring in the finals isn't designed to reward survives, it is designed to reward solos and barring those large centre counts. It more closely resembles your sum of squares method Jim.

As far as I know no round has gone to the survives tie breaker

Good luck in the finals to those that made it. And congrats to Barn on a monster semis.

Unless I miss my guess, Split advances over rdrivera on survives this time?

Also, Lando, what happens if we go through all the tie breaks?

I think Split advanced over me based on SC count, but I could be wrong. Also, I don´t deserve to go to the final after beind elimiated on the first round and played as sub entering in the middle of the round, so I guess it was a fair result in the end.

Good luck for the ones that made in the final and I will be keeping an eye on the games. It will be interesting to see if Barn will still be on fire :-)

It's an interesting that you are first alternate and I may be last one in again for the final. I am beginning to feel like a nemesis here

Well, if you or someone don´t want to play in the finals I am here \o/, lol.

And…. Round 2 is done!

The finalists are:

Group 1
Guak
y2jbk
Partysane
Ogion

Group 2:
Barn3tt
Maettu
SplitDiplomat


2014 GT,R2,G1,finished games (7/7);

Game 1. (gameID=142500) ) ( 4- way, EFIT, Ogion, guak, mendax, josunice)
Game 2. (gameID=142501) ) (5-way GFEIT, guak, y2kjbk, Partysane, josunice, AlexNesta)
Game 3. (gameID=142502)  (4-way FIRT, guak, y2kjbk,Ogion, Partysane)
Game 4. (gameID=142503)  (3-way FIG, guak, y2kjbk, AlexNesta)
Game 5. (gameID=142504)  (4-way AEFI, guak, Partysane, josunice, Mendax)
Game 6. (gameID=142505)  (3-way AFG, Partysane, Ogion, y2kjbk)
Game 7. (gameID=142506)  (3-way AFG, guak, josunice, Ogion)
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STANDINGS:
19.4 Pts  guak
14 Pts  Ogion
13.4 Pts  y2kjbk
12.4 Pts  Partysane
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12.4 Pts  josunice
6.4 Pts  Alex Nesta
6 Pts  Mendax

In the Partysane, josunice tiebreak, both have zero solos, zero survives, 4 draws, but Partysane wins it on Supply Centers, 33-26. Sheesh. Close!

Updated, for those who care:

Group 1:
France -- 23.4
Italy -- 15.4
Germany -- 14.4
Austria -- 11
England -- 8.4
Turkey -- 8.4
Russia -- 3

Group 2:
France -- 40
Italy -- 15
Germany -- 10
Austria -- 10
England -- 7
Turkey -- 4
Russia -- 0


Combined:

France -- 63.4
Italy -- 32.4
Germany -- 24.4
Austria -- 21
England -- 15.4
Turkey -- 15.4
Russia -- 3

Thanks for the games all - I like to think I'd have had more of a shot without multiple Russias but tbh I was outclassed this round.

And I am kicking myself unbelievably hard for fumbling my FIRST Turkey solo on the last move of the game. If I had just done the simple thing and not tried to be clever, I would have had Berlin and Naples and hit 18, but I didn't think for a minute France would make the mistake of making a move on Ruhr instead of cutting Munich! and yes, leaving naples open was just pure and simple stupidity.

Fantastic final game for me. Thanks to all of you, it was truly memorable and epic!

yeah, the draw is massive. I am good with France, Germany, England, and Russia (in full press) but have never soloed with Austria, Italy or Turkey. So I got one Germany, three Austrias, and three Turkeys! At least I got a pretty decent performance out of one of those Austrias and one of those turkeys... I figured I was doomed.

I love Russia, haven't gotten a single one all tourney so far. A Russian solo won me the last tourney.

I got through to round 2 with a Russia solo, but I think I've had 5 this tournament, with the 4 others all being defeats.

and for trivia hounds, if josunice had been England instead of Italy in that last game, he and Partysane would have been exactly tied I believe, so I was super curious to see how that panned out.

oh, and someone please check my math!

Ogion - I'm glad my incompetence was useful for something, even if that something was denying you the solo.

I do feel like I owe y2k an apology after he did such a strong effort to throw it. I couldn't believe it when I retreated from Munich and Berlin the turn before that the north exploded in chaos that turn with Germany attacking France and England going after Germany like a savage dog. Lesson learned: never assume your opponents will actually unify to stop the solo!

Sigh....

Also, there was some kind of prize @ for the final round, wasn't there? Or is this about bragging rights and good competition?

Is there a solo prize? I seemed to recall something about that in the first round.

100 for each solo, and there are payouts to top 3 finishers in the finals. I don't recall the exact payouts off the top of my head, but something along the lines of 1000 for 1st, 500 for 2nd, 250 for 3rd. They should be mentioned in the original tourney thread that I don't have time right now to dig up.

Need those points. :)

So, finals?

Stay tuned, games are already created and Lando should be setting up a new thread and getting the pw out to everyone soon.

awesome city.