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CANADA vs USA final tally

Results:

Friday game, 1941 Anniversary w/bid for 2 points:

San Francisco over Victoria

Vancouver over Seattle

Tacoma over Valley (Canada)

Saturday game, G40 w/bid for 4 points:

San Francisco over Vancouver

Seattle over Valley

Tacoma over Victoria

Sunday Game, 1942 2nd, except San Francisco vs Valley which was 1942 Anniversary, w/bid, for 2 points:

San Francisco over Valley

Vancouver over Tacoma

Seattle over Victoria

Tournament totals:

San Francisco comes in at No.1 at 8 points! Yay!

Tacoma and Seattle come in for tie for 2nd place at 6 points each.

Vancouver comes in 3rd for 4 points.

Victory and Valley come in last at 0 each.

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Wow, this was a marathon tournament. Everyone was up at least until 2-3am, with people just crashing in rooms and couches, rising up the next morning at 7am to eggs and bacon and then dice, with games going by 9am. I got less than 4 hours of sleep both nights, that plus the beer and chest bumping really took it out of me.

But nonetheless, everyone I think had a good time. If there was one area of improvement, I think the moderator declared victories were unsatisfying for some. This was understandable since you’re asking someone to declare a winner based on an arbitrary stopping point in the game. Many of the games the moderators had to call were close enough that while you could still see one side was winning, there was a chance the other side could rally. I don’t like tourney rules, but maybe now I see value. Live and learn.

Regardless, there was definitely a lot of KILL KILL KILLING! Maybe next year I will be out from under my “family contribution time” deficit that I can host this thing again! As is, no one punched a hole in the wall, or threw a chair through any windows so I am probably good getting the house again!!

Peace!.. er, wait, WAR!

Karl7

NERDS

@Karl7 

Some random photos above. The one of us toasting was after the final game, which was a split decision for Vancouver. I voted for Tacoma but Juan and Joel were for Vancouver. Joel did not participate in the battle. That was a tight game.

@djensen )

@axis-dominion said in BATTLE IN VANCOUVER! IT'S ON! Nov. 23-25. Who will survive?:

@Karl7 thanks karl! but I meant names and/or aliases to one of the pics with everyone in it, so we can know who’s who.

Ah! Ok

Starting from left to right:
Kirt ?, BC
? Langer in blue, BC
James Wiens, BC
Damian Allen, Seattle
Richard Mullins, BC
Joel/Gargantua, Vancouver BC
Lennard Feddersen, Victoria
Karl/Karl7, USA, SF, holding Gargantua’s hand
Andrew, Renton WA.
Stephen Yu, Seattle, A&A.org handle: Patryn
Guy way back in purple shirt almost obscured is Bgugs, Brandon from Tacoma WA
Guy forward looking goofy in Canada shirt is Canuck12, also known as Kyle McEwen, Vancouver
Nathan Gayner, WA, A&A.org handle: Mill Creek
Guy way in back second to last to right is Ray Chacko, Idaho, USA
On end is Samuel Nadeau, Victoria BC
(Curtmungus not pictured)

If I’ve got anything wrong, let me know and I’ll change it.

There are some guys not pictured here as they were either Friday or Sunday only guys. This was taken on Saturday.

team Victoria

@djensen said in BATTLE IN VANCOUVER! IT'S ON! Nov. 23-25. Who will survive?:

@Karl7 said in BATTLE IN VANCOUVER! IT'S ON! Nov. 23-25. Who will survive?:

Some random photos above. The one of us toasting was after the final game, which was a split decision for Vancouver. I voted for Tacoma but Juan and Joel were for Vancouver. Joel did not participate in the battle. That was a tight game.

Why is there voting for victory conditions? Why not use IPCs controlled or IPCs + TUV (which would take forever to tabulate)?

Joel, Juan and I agreed we didn’t want some gamey tourney conditions, and we felt there was enough time to finish the games or get them to an obvious point where one side would likely concede. Indeed a number of games were conceded. But we ended up having to call (I think) around four of the 9 games. So not too bad.

Anyhow, the guidelines Joel, Juan and I used to call a game was in one part subjective, i.e. looking at the game what side would I immediately be more inclined to play, and objective, i.e. who had more money, more victory cities and better overall strategic position.

Only one game was a split decision, the last one. I raised the issue because obviously you rely on human judgment which can always be questioned. Where you draw the line between arbitrary objective conditions vs more subjective conditions is a debatable balance and one for further contemplation.

@Canuck12

WHAT!?!?!?

Kyle is an honest man? Careful! He’s the guy who told me I couldn’t buy 6 subs for 24 IPCs! Outrageous!

@Argothair KILL!

We are all brothers in the League… KILLING BROTHERS!

(I’d say sisters too, but when was Cmd. Jennifer last on here?)

@djensen

Damn! That would have been awesome to see you there. Maybe this December I’ll host a G40 free-for-all you can jump over too…

@Karl7

I will try to get a post up on the results tonight with more pictures. Was up late traveling last night, so haven’t had a chance for a more thorough summary.

Beer of the tournament

here is the line up so far:

@axis-dominion said in BATTLE IN VANCOUVER! IT'S ON! Nov. 23-25. Who will survive?:

Could someone plz put names to these faces so we know who’s who?

Nice pic AD! You are a lion!

Yeah, I can do that. Here was the provisional roster:

@axis-dominion

You going to pin my face to the wall and throw darts at it?

Day 1 saw 2 wins for US and 1 for Canada on Anniversary. Now day 2 3 games of global in full swing

@MillCreek said in BATTLE IN VANCOUVER! IT'S ON! Nov. 23-25. Who will survive?:

https://www.axisandallies.org/forums/topic/32644/nw-invitational-vanvstac-1942-lhtr

The game is over! Canada wins! Team Tacoma got diced hard in the big Moscow battle and conceded. Thank you to Team Vancouver for a fun game!

Sorry, Kaptain @Karl7, I did my best, but the dice betrayed me.

no worries, you weren’t betrayed by your strategy and skills but the GD dice! Remember, I voted for you in the only split decision of the entire tournament.

@MillCreek

Ouch! Losing by dicing makes you want to point the gun at your face.

But alas… it happens.

No worries Mill Creek… remember, I thought you were winning for the split decision which I guess proved true but for different reasons, i.e. the dice.

I will get up to BC soon enough and beat Canuck12 and Gargantua et al like they were little bare cheeked babies

@axis-dominion said in Find League Opponents Thread:

@Karl7 kill?

You dare challenge me and my armies of death?

Pacific 2001  – not listed

@CWO:

@Narvik:

Pacific 2001 was the first game with convoy zones, naval bases and air bases, and my favorite, the CAP, Combat Air Patrol, the current scrambling is by far not that good.

Another novel feature of the original Pacific game was that it came with two types of American infantry units (regular infantry and Marines, represented by one sculpt model in two different shades of green) and two American fighter units represented by two different sculpts (though their cost and characteristics in the rules were identical).

Also, don’t forget the unique victory condition. Could result in real cliffhanger games–the US bombing Japan trying to claw back the VC points while Japan tries to hold on/capture India.