Did the 2012 World Cup ever finish?

Congratulations, Cascadia.

Victory party in my parents basement. Everyone's invited except 2WL.

Whew thank god, I talked a WHOLE LOT of shit before this tournament started about how dominant we were going to be and how we were the "Mount Rushmore of Online Diplomacy" so was not looking forward to the riducule that would have followed if we came up short.

Fun fact: Both the 2016 and 2017 champions from the World Diplomacy Championships (FTF stuff) were also Cascadians.

The takeaway being if you want to get good at this game, move to the Pacific NW.

Congratulations, I guess :-P.

Congratulations to Cascadia

What do we win?

You win the honor of each getting two months in the Men of WebDiplomacy 2018 calendar. Goldie will PM you with photoshoot info.

There is no way goldie doesn't already have enough pictures of me for that.

I can never have enough

That only covers 10 months, who's in the other two!?

zultar and kestas of course.

Well done Congrats, Cascadia.

Also congratulations Dixie on being the first losers. A title I chastised opponents for seeking after I shall now wear proudly.

But for real:

❆ Great job to Goldie and Yoyo for organizing and running this tournament. That was a very large and thankless service to the entire community here. Quite an undertaking, and you guys did a great job.

❆ Thank you to all of the interesting and talented people I got to play with in my first foray into the Public Press realm. My two tournament games were some of the more interesting diplomacy games I've played, just based on lucking out and getting to play against great competition.

❆ Thanks to ghug and Village Idiot who simultaneously recruited me to join the greatest Diplomacy team ever assembled. I don't know how the other teams operated, but Team Cascadia worked together and kept up a healthy dialogue throughout the year-long tournament. And that was a fun dynamic.

❆ All hail Cascadia!

Was a lot of very exciting games we participted in with amazing competition, but I'd like to point out a few highlights from Team Cascadia's journey in this tournament.

Massive respect for MadMarx in the Full Press 2 finals game who by all rights should have gotten anywhere near 18 having started a very bold solo run back in 1908 and still managed to take on a board of very impressive players by himself for nine years getting all the way up to the 17 mark before the stalemate took him down. That man is a tank!

Anybody who has ever had any interest in playing a Public Press game should study the Group C game - http://www.webdiplomacy.net/board.php?gameID=183887 where Balki put on an absolute clinic on how to do well. I especially enjoyed the verbal sparring between Balki and Goffy. His second game was equally entertaining with Conq, Goldie, and Gen Lee all stuffed into the same corner. That was just delightful mayhem.

I thoroughly enjoyed everything about the Full Press 1 game i got to participate in, such a fun group of players. Socr Diss pretends he didn't enjoy it, but he secretly loved it.

I know not everybody embraced it, but I absolutely loved the meta-ness of this tournament and completely immersed myself into all of it. Highly recommend this tournament next year to anybody who hasn't yet participated in it, it's a blast. Tremendous applause for those who ran this and whoever came up with this idea to begin with.

I'm going to thoroughly miss all our behind the scenes talks with my Cascadian brothers. It's going to make it very hard to revert back to wanting to rip their hearts out and bask in their blood. Now i have to go completely re-invent myself because we know each others secrets FAR too intimately now.

I guess it was pretty fun.... you know me too well VI!

The world cup was really great, and I only joined at the end. Hopefully I'll join from the very beginning next time

Congratulations Team Cascadia!

Big thanks to Goldfinger for organizing a great tournament, and to Yoyo for directing the finals.

It was tons of fun playing and strategizing with the MidAtlantic crew :)

So like, is Team California going to come hand dele over the cup to us or how does this work? We've already set up a sweet little display case in Ghug's moms basement.

It's at the corner of the bar. Doubles as bong storage.

That was my first public press as well and I highly recommend the art form for any folks that want to test a different set of diplomacy skills. I would like to be involved in more high quality PP.

It was impressive to watch for sure.

I learned a lot from my first PP which could be applied in the second. Big kudos to all who survived… unfortunately it only carried us to third place in the tournament. The metagaming was unevenly balanced since the regular webdip users figured out who everyone else was (I think) while newbies like me had no clue who was on which team. Still an interesting game on its own merits!

I learned never to play pp again

You did well, Germany. I'm actually pretty amused because you played this game much like the Germany from the last world cup did. I was getting deja vu multiple times through this game

Doesn't hurt being familiar with the competition but there was also some advantages to being an unknown. In meta environments the unknowns can more easily fly under the radar.

I still have a few questions for yoyo but whatever

Congratulations, Cascadia.

Congratulations to Team Cascadia!

Over the next few days, I'll be giving out point rewards as follows:
500 to members of Cascadia
100 to members of the other teams in the finals.

So far, I've gotten through Mid-Atlantic and Cascadia. I'll try to get the others done tomorrow.