Official QtT/Shenandoah Studio sponsored Battle of the Bulge Tournament

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UPDATE: The tournament is now full. Thanks to all who applied. There was tremendous interest in this tourney. We are very sorry that we could not accommodate all players. Please look for more tournaments in the future!

Thanks to our forum member tylertoo and his visit to Shenandoah Studio, makers of Battle of the Bulge, we are proud to announce The Quarter to Three/Shenandoah Studio sponsored Battle of the Bulge Tournament!

Shenandoah Studio has generously offered to provide up to $500 in prize money for the tournament, as well as placing the name of the winner in the game credits, as “[winner’s name], Winner of the first Quartertothree.com Tournament, March 2013.” So that’s pretty generous and exciting.

While this will be run at Quarter to Three, it is not just open to current Qt3 forum members! Anyone wishing to join the tournament can do so. However, you will need an active Qt3 forum account at the time the tournament actually commences so that you can easily communicate with the other players. It’s nice to be able to tell someone hey, I can’t do any turns until this weekend but I’m still here, etc. Or nice move crossing the Meuse, I’m gonna resign, gg.

The full $500 prize pool will be available if we are able to reach 64 players. With a smaller tournament the prize pool will be smaller.

Prizes (assuming a 64-player tournament) will be as follows:

UPDATE: Thanks to the generosity of Shenandoah Studio, we are now able to double the amount awarded if the winner - at whatever level - donates their prize to charity. The winner will be able to choose any US charity classified as a 501c3 - that is, all charities, but not all non-profits (such as unions, trade organizations, political action committees, etc.). You do not need to decide what you will do unless you win, obviously.

FIRST PLACE: $250

SECOND PLACE: $100

THREE RANDOMLY SELECTED PLAYERS WHO COMPLETE AT LEAST ONE ROUND (2 GAMES AGAINST A SINGLE OPPONENT, REGARDLESS OF RESULT: $50

The last category is a great idea from this forum’s owner intended to encourage participation by players of all skill levels. You don’t necessarily need to play well to win a prize, but you do need to play reliably and finish all your games.

We encourage entrants from of all skill levels and from everywhere, but especially Owen Faraday’s Pocket Tactics forum, where the support for Battle of the Bulge has been loud and strong. Please join us!

The tournament rules are posted below. To join, post your name and Gamecenter ID here, or email them to [email protected]. We expect the tournament to start on February 15, but reserve the right to keep registration open a little longer so as to recruit as many players as possible.

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RULES:

  1. Scenario is Battle of the Bulge (full campaign).

  2. Each pairing of two players in each round will produce one winner. There is no “losers’ bracket.” The winner will progress to the next round.

  3. Each round will consist of two games, with players playing one game as each side. (Games may be played concurrently or sequentially, but will need to be completed by the time limit - see (6) below.)

  4. The winner of the round will be either the player who wins both games, or in case of ties:

(a) The player who wins earlier (e.g. Dec. 21st vs. Dec. 22nd) wins the round.

(b) If both players win their game on the same day, the winner of the round will be the one who scored the most VP (if both won as Axis) or allowed the fewest VP (if both won as Allies).

© If players are tied on VP, the tiebreakers will be as follows (most = as Axis / fewest = as Allies):

*Most/fewest VP allowed for exiting armor off the map
*Most/fewest VP allowed for control of Bastogne
*Most/fewest VP of Allied unit losses

  1. Resignations count as a loss on the day of resignation, but lose all tiebreakers.

  2. The first round will have a time limit of two weeks. Thereafter, each round will have a time limit of one week. This will allow a 64-player tournament to be completed in approximately 6 weeks.

  3. If the total number of players is such that a single-elimination/single-bracket tournament is not easily created, the organizers reserve the right to restructure the tournament into groups to ensure fairness of distribution. Such a change would be announced well in advance of the start of the tournament.

  4. If the tournament pool has fewer than 64 players, byes to the second round may be granted to the winner and runner-up of the 16-player Quarter to Three tournament currently in progress.

  5. The tournament organizers reserve the right to adjudicate all disputes. All care will be taken to ensure fairness of dispute resolution, such as time limit enforcement. The decision of the organizers in all matters is final.

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[b]ROUND 1[/b]
          [u]Qt3 forum name / Gamecenter ID[/u]       [u]Qt3 forum name / Gamecenter ID [/u]
Game 1:   x-Dave Perkins / Ananab Tilps   vs.  Orsson / Orsson
Game 2:   x-kiffist / kiffist             vs.  Jon Carter / carterjon99
Game 3:   cannedwombat / cannedwombat     vs.  x-fenrir / fenrir_qt3
Game 4:   Milspec / milspec.rivera        vs.  x-Uberskooper / Uberskooper
Game 5:   Jigmelingpa / jigmelingpa       vs.  x-JoshL / JoshLub_
Game 6:   mads b. / madsbrynnum           vs.  x-Emos. / Emos
Game 7:   euge60 / euge60                 vs.  x-Rob O'Boston / Robboqt3
Game 8:   buzznaut / buzznaut             vs.  x-madafu87 / inigone
Game 9:   LtColMorto / LtColMorto         vs.  x-Extravian / engle55
Game 10:  plan_d / Plan:Dino              vs.  x-Hagen / Devereau
Game 11:  ambext / ambext                 vs.  x-AikiPhil / AikiPhil
Game 12:  x-Mark L / mjlaufgre            vs.  Cancuino / Cancuino
Game 13:  Syzygy / Circuitous Syzygy      vs.  x-Tim James / tooler975
Game 14:  MikeOberly / MikeOberly         vs.  x-BlackFire1929 / BlackFire1929
Game 15:  x-BotBaddict / jchen101         vs.  Pastose / Pastose
Game 16:  x-Marlowespade / Marlowespade   vs.  einroy / einroy
Game 17:  CF Kane / CitizenChipEsq        vs.  x-benelzch / benelzch
Game 18:  x-109Days / 109Days             vs.  Jon_A_ross / Magelore
Game 19:  triggercut / triggercut1        vs.  x-ekrommen / Pizza Pirate
Game 20:  x-slickandslide / slickandslide vs.  tylertoo / tylertoo626
Game 21:  x-Jwel-01 / jwel-01             vs.  ioticus / ioticus
Game 22:  Xemu / Xemu22                   vs.  x-Auggihap / Auggihap
Game 23:  x-abrandt / nodrownboy          vs.  L47r0 / L47r0
Game 24:  x-Ckroegel / Tanar1448          vs.  RWHarper / RWHarper
Game 25:  x-pop58 / garyk58b              vs.  ddtibbs / CFDEngine15
Game 26:  TheWombat / frozencracker       vs.  x-Juan raigada / juanraigada
Game 27:  x-Lantz / HHPre                 vs.  RaboP4 / RaboP4
Game 28:  x-Wookie / wo0k1e0606           vs.  cmason / chrislmason
Game 29:  Trouty McNasty / TroutyMcNasty  vs.  x-Chris Gardiner / Chris Gardiner
Game 30:  Gunner / PhoenixFelix           vs.  x-Joe Bolt / josephbolt22
Game 31:  ShadeSix / ShadeSix             vs.  x-Wondgamb / Wondgamb
Game 32:  x-azdaddyo / azdaddyo           vs.  MrSRZS / SRZS



[b]ROUND 2[/b]
          [u]Qt3 forum name / Gamecenter ID[/u]         [u]Qt3 forum name / Gamecenter ID [/u]
Game 1:   Dave Perkins / Ananab Tilps       vs.  x-Wondgamb / Wondgamb
Game 2:   x-kiffist / kiffist               vs.  Mark L / mjlaufgr
Game 3:   x-Hagen / Devereau                vs.  Tim James / tooler975
Game 4:   x-BotBaddict / jchen101           vs.  Uberskooper / Uberskooper
Game 5:   Rob O'Boston / Robboqt3           vs.  x-Auggihap / Auggihap 
Game 6:   x-azdaddyo / azdaddyo             vs.  fenrir / fenrir_qt3
Game 7:   Emos. / Emos                      vs.  x-AikiPhil / AikiPhil
Game 8:   Juan Raigada / juanraigada        vs.  x-Marlowespade / Marlowespade
Game 9:   Chris Gardiner / Chris Gardiner   vs.  x-ekrommen / Pizza Pirate 
Game 10:  x-109Days / 109Days               vs.  Lantz / HHPre
Game 11:  x-JoshL / JoshLub_                vs.  abrandt / nodrownboy
Game 12:  x-madafu87 / inigone              vs.  pop58 / garyk58b
Game 13:  Ckroegel / Tanar1448              vs.  x-Wookie / wo0k1e0606
Game 14:  x-benelzch / benelzch             vs.  Jwel-01 / jwel-01
Game 15:  x-Extravian / engle55             vs.  Joe Bolt / josephbolt22
Game 16:  BlackFire1929 / BlackFire1929     vs.  x-slickandslide / slickandslide
 


[b]ROUND 3[/b]
          [u]Qt3 forum name / Gamecenter ID[/u]         [u]Qt3 forum name / Gamecenter ID[/u] 
Game 1:   slickandslide / slickandslide     vs.  x-AikiPhil / AikiPhil
Game 2:   JoshL / JoshLub                   vs.  x-ekrommen / Pizza Pirate
Game 3:   Marlowespade / Marlowespade       vs.  x-Auggihap / Auggihap
Game 4:   Extravian / engle55               vs.  x-kiffist / kiffist
Game 5:   109Days / 109Days                 vs.  x-benelzch / benelzch
Game 6:   Wookie / wo0k1e0606               vs.  x-Wondgamb / Wondgamb
Game 7:   Hagen / Devereau                  vs.  x-madafu87 / inigone
Game 8:   BotBaddict / jchen101             vs.  x-azdaddyo / azdaddyo



[b]ROUND 4 - Quarterfinals[/b]

          [u]Qt3 forum name / Gamecenter ID[/u]         [u]Qt3 forum name / Gamecenter ID[/u] 
Game 1:   Wondgamb / Wondgamb               vs.  x-Auggihap / Auggihap
Game 2:   x-azdaddyo / azdaddyo             vs.  kiffist / kiffist
Game 3:   x-AikiPhil / AikiPhil             vs.  ekrommen / Pizza Pirate
Game 4:   benelzch / benelzch               vs.  x-madafu87 / inigone



[b]ROUND 5 - Semifinals[/b]

          [u]Qt3 forum name / Gamecenter ID[/u]         [u]Qt3 forum name / Gamecenter ID[/u] 
Game 1:   x-azdaddyo / azdaddyo             vs.  Auggihap / Auggihap
Game 2:   AikiPhil / AikiPhil               vs.  x-madafu87 / inigone



[b]ROUND 6 - Final[/b]

                [u]Qt3 forum name / Gamecenter ID[/u]         [u]Qt3 forum name / Gamecenter ID[/u] 
Championship:   azdaddyo / azdaddyo             vs.    [b]x-madafu87 / inigone[/b]

The tournament has finished! See the final wrap-up post for results.

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Real name or user name?

I’d like to join and my Gamecenter ID is “Circuitous Syzygy”. User name “Syzygy”. If you need my real name I’ll email it.

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Gamecenter ID is fine. No need to send real name, unless you win a prize, at which point you can email it.

By “name” I was thinking “forum name” but duh it is immediately to the left.

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Awesome, thanks for putting it together.

Gamecenter ID: fenrir_qt3

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Awesome! I could totally use $50! I am Robboqt3 on GC.

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I’m in, GC is josephbolt22. I’ll be out after round one but it will be fun.

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GC is Pastose

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Gamecenter is mjlaufgr

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Yay tylertoo and Bruce!

GC: Cannedwombat

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I’m in. tooler975

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I’m in gamecenter: HHPre

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I’m in too.

Gamecenter: juanraigada
Name: Juan Raigada

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GameCenter: JoshLub_

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GameCenter: frozencracker
Name: Robert Mayer

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Glad this is happening and thanks Bruce for being willing to organize/run it. The real thanks has to go to Shenandoah CEO and founder Eric Lee Smith. I’d only mentioned that Qt3 has a couple of tourneys going already, and he replied “We are big fans of Quarter to Three” and immediately offered to put up real prizes. Great guy.

So count me in:

Gamecenter ID: tylertoo626

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I’ll throw my E-tool into the fray.

GC ID: OWAC1st

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I’m in!

GC ID: triggercut1

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Cool thing - if you load up Bulge and look at the text below the main screen, there is a direct link to this tournament thread.