Announcing the HoI2 Doomsday Tournament! (May/June 2006)

[Flori]

Hello everybody!

I am very happy to invite you today to our Hearts of Iron 2 - Doomsday tournament. Take the chance to compete with your fellow Doomsday players for glory and even some nice prices! Read through the text, maybe this is just the thing for you!

HoI2 DOOMSDAY Tournament!

Stage 1:

Soviet Challenge

Timeframe:

May 2nd until May 28th 2006

Mode of Play:

Single Player, Doomsday 1.1 Patch (STGS)

Doomsday Campaign, Soviet Union

Game Time: 4 months, Oct 2nd, 1945 until February 1st, 1946

Game Settings: Normal/Normal

Game Objectives:

-Take (and hold) London
-Take (and hold) Paris
-Take (and hold) Japanese Home Islands
-Take (and hold) Iceland
-Take (and hold) Entire European continent (neutrals excluded)
-Aid Communist China to win the Chinese Civil War, without allying to them or declaring war on any other Chinese Fraction (Intelligence!)
-Gain 550 VP´s

Bonus Objectives:

-Sink allied Carriers (Large Bonus)
-Sink allied Battleships (Medium Bonus)
-Sink other allied ships (small bonus)

Additional Challenge:

-Most successful leader: Name your leader with the best combat history at the end of your tournament game.


Judgment criteria:

Time to finish Objectives;
Losses incurred (in units and mp);
Losses inflicted upon enemy (in units and mp)
Final tallies at February 1st, 1946 (air, naval and ground comparison with start of scenario, ratios counted)
Most successful leaders compared (in terms of won/lost battle ration, overall amount of battles, and traits gained)

All objectives must of course be achieved in the same game!

Mode of submission:

Players shall submit save games of the point where they accomplish any one of the objectives as well as from February 1st, 1946 in a zipped file. The saves must be named after the objective accomplished within, that is “London”, “Paris”, “Japan”, “Iceland”, “Europe” or “China” as well as an “End” save. Entries are only valid with saved games in this format.
Not all missions have to be accomplished to enter.
Players must also include in the zipped file a .txt file with their name, forum nickname, date of entry (when they submit the files) and the most successful leader they want to submit with their tournament game. If that leader is missing, it will not be counted.

Submission e-mail dress:
tournament@paradoxplaza.com

FILES CAN ONLY BE ACCEPTED IN ZIPPED FORMAT! All other formats will be deleted.

First possible date for submissions is May 5th, 2006 and last possible date is May 28th, 2006. Any submissions received before or after those dates will not be accepted.



Stage 2: Final Stage

June-July 2006

Best 4 of previous Round advance to finals.

Mode of Play: Multiplayer 1on1

4 Players are drawn by lot into 2 semi finals. Winners play Grand Final, Losers play Consolation Final.

Games are played in Multiplayer mode, 2 battle scenarios where every player plays each side. Final results are then compared against each other, taking into account losses incurred and inflicted, scenario objectives achieved and others.

Battle scenarios which will be played will be decided and announced later.

Game time will be about 2-3 hours per scenario and side, so player will have to get together 4 times per round to play.

Details about mode of play, battle scenarios played and other facts will be disclosed later.

Prizes:

1st Place: Award Medal, Eu3 Beta Spots, Custom Forum Avatar, Gamer´s Gate Download Game

2nd-4th Place: Award Medal, Eu3 Beta Spots, Custom Forum Avatar, Gamer´s Gate Download Game

5th-10th Place (1st Stage): Award Medal

There will also be a Gamer´s Gate Download Game for some Special Achievements:

Best Leader
Most allied carriers sunk
Fastest to conquer entire Europe


Tournament Jury: Tracid, Florian (Paradox), Beta Testers


Rules of Tournament:

1. NO CHEATING! We will look into all received saves and we WILL find 99% of all possible cheatings. Any discovered irregularity or cheat will lead to your exclusion from the tournament. We will make it known on the forum who cheated, so just don’t.

2. 1 Entry per player. Every forum member (you need a forum account to participate) may only submit ONE tournament game.

3. There will be no questioning or challenging of judgment. Judgment will be made by a jury consisting of beta-testers and paradox employees and is FINAL.

4. Beta-Testers and Paradox Employees are ineligible to enter Tournament.

We will soon open a seperate forum for Tournament discussions. I assume even if you want to keep your best tricks for yourself, there may the one or other topic to discuss about this.
Castellon Says: Forum now open http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/...play.php?f=328

Enjoy!

Florian

Disclaimer: We reserve the right to change the conditions of the tournament should we feel that such a measure is needed to ensure the quality of the competition.

Should you quickly be in need of a copy of Doomsday, please look here: http://www.gamersgate.net