Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeessssssssssss!!!

WTF JUST HAPPENED

Well, I would have finished third anyway, good tourney everyone.

Great game and great finals! Thanks to all that took part and especially to Geofram for organizing it!

I have a feeling Trooth will be unpleasantly surprised once he finds out :)

Well done, JP

Oh, WOW!!!

Congratulations, JesusPetry!

Congrats JP. No offense to the other competitors but I am happiest to see you win. This is some much deserved recognition for one of the best gunboat players I have ever come across.

Congratulations!

Congratz JP. Ut, you are right, I am extremely disappointed. I feel like the game was given to England for some reason. He could have easily been stopped by France from taking tunis and Turkey could have chosen draw at any time and not lost. So in my opinion, the game was given to enlgand in this case. Sorry if this sounds like sour grapes but I would like to hear players motivation for not covering tunis or accepting at draw. I know it was annon and no one knew that england was not me, but it almost seemed like players decided they wanted the solo in the last game even if it was not them. All this is not to say JP is not a worthy champion. We all went through alot of games to get here and he is an accomplished player who did the best he could.

I was France and I gave Turkey plenty of time to add his draw to that of mine and England's. He chose not to. I disbanded my fleet in MAO and let England flood in. ulytau still didn't draw. After the fall phase JP took his draw off the table and rightly so. The draw was there and ulytau thought he could solo. He didn't count on me making a point. BTW, if you go back and check the last set of orders I DID support ION to Tun with 2 fleets.

I just looked at the orders. Both French units supported turkish ionian sea into Tunis but it was not ordered. I am sad to see my shot at the title came down to that. as I said before, I am sorry to sound this way. I am a relative nobody on this site and I knew even as I soloed that game it guaranteed nothing. I also knew that this game could come down to a solo because no one had anything to lose after the other 3 games were finished and a solo was the only chance at stopping me. I am just disappointed because i dont feel everything was done to attempt to prevent this solo. Of course, others might say the same of my solo.

I think that ulytau wanted a solo in that game. Probably a little too much and that is what allowed JP his in.

I pushed my luck, knowing I didn't have anything to lose except the total SC count, but the final choice was not mine. I didn't throw the game.

ION-Tun was not a guaranteed success which is why ION supported NAf-Tun, BTW.

Czech, I totally agree with what you have said and i had just looked at the orders. I thought the writing was on the wall several turns ago and not accepting a draw surprised me. I was screaming at the screen draw, draw, draw! I assumed i would be not hold on to the lead, but I would just have liked the game to play out another couple moves if a draw was not going to happen.

I am sorry if i sounded like I am accusing anyone of throwing the game, i dont feel that way.

I need to clarify myself. so many turns went by i lost track. I see there was little for sure to do in the last turn. I was confused and still catching up. Once the english army made it into tunis there wasnt much to be done but guess.

I want to apologize. I should have waited to post anything unitl after i was able to study everything that happened. I was austria that game. my only plan once the other games were final was to try and do whatever i could to encourage a draw. I want to congratulate Jp again and all of the other 7 finalist and the other participants and most especially Geo for all the fun ive had with this opver the past months.

English army getting into Tunis was the moment England won. Sorry for not realising Czech was trying to set up a 2-way between JP and myself :)

Wow. Great games and great discussion. The best of the best in Gunboat for sure. I've changed the site results and will reward the winners when I get home. Signups will start for the Spring Gunboat soon too.

Trooth, life really sucks sometimes. I always hated the metagaming aspect of tournaments or even non-anon games. Anyway, I can't even start to imagine how you must feeling... Hopefully it won't make you lose your enthusiasm for the beautiful game of Diplomacy.

Thanks AlexN! You guys are stuck with me. Cant wait for Spring GB!

Can't wait to cross paths with you again, Trooth!

How many points do we get?