AN AMERICAN ODYSSEY is: A series of 13 tournaments that I have designed to go through American history. Each of the tournaments takes place at pivotal points in America's history (and possible future). Using the maps available here on CC, I have come up with different names of each tourney and will have a small story tidbit to accompany each one. The map that each tourney will be played on will be identified in the story tidbit by being colorized.
Each tourney takes place on a different map, relating to different times in American history.
The overall objective of players in the entire series is to score kills. All tourney games for the first 12 Tournaments will be a standard Terminator. Every kill that you make in each game you play will count towards your overall kill total. The 13th Tourney will be a final championship tourney for the top 32 players with the most kills over the first 12 tourneys.
If you are terminated form your game, you are out of the tourney, but not the series. The tourneys will run for 3 rounds each. From 64-players to 16 and then a 4-player final.
You must sign up for each tourney. For the individual that accumulates the most kills throughout the first 12 tournaments of this series a General Achievment Medal will be awarded.
Each tourney will be open to 64 players, with the 13th tournament only being the 32 top killers. The more tourneys that you enter as they become active, the better chance you have of winning and moving on to the Championship Tourney. If there happens to be a tie that results in more than 32 players, then those players who are tied with kills that result in the over 32 limit will play one or more games to determine the final entrants into the tourney. (These games will not count in the overall kill count for the series.)
In addition, as soon as each tourney is full, and game invites have been sent out, I will post the thread for the next tourney in the series, so be on the lookout for those that wish to keep playing this series. To join, simply indicate by posting in the thread that you want in. I will respond in the thread that you are in when I sign you up. I reserve the right to refuse any player form entering, but you really had to upset me to do that.
For all the tourneys, other than the map, the game settings remain the same throughout:
4-player games
Terminator
Automatic
Sequential
Chained
Foggy
Escalating
There will be special rules for the Championship tourney, to be revealed when it becomes active for the top 32 players. As each tourney progresses, overall kill counts will be tabulated after each round, and tables posted. Each kill counts as 1. Whether you win the game or not if you kill a player, it will be counted. Information on the final tourney can be found here:
viewtopic.php?f=89&t=147043&p=3211229#p3211229 I have been approved a General Achievement Medal for the individual scoring the most kills in the series. Now... on to the next Tourney:
Tourney #7: Awakening the Sleeping Giant
This story is extensive since it covers so many events, leading to the advent of WWII I have broken it up in to 4 parts:
show: Part 1
The United States was in turmoil throughout 1919. The huge number of returning veterans could not find work, something the Wilson administration had given little thought to. After the war, fear of subversion resumed in the context of the Red Scare, massive strikes in major industries (steel, meatpacking) and violent race riots. Radicals bombed Wall Street and workers went on strike in Seattle, in February. During 1919, a series of more than 20 riotous and violent black-white race-related incidents occurred. These included the Chicago, Omaha, and Elaine Race Riots.
show: Part 2
Except for a recession in 1920-1921, the United States enjoyed a period of unbalanced prosperity in comparison to war-ravaged Europe: prices for agricultural commodities and wages fell at the end of the war while new industries (especially movies, automobiles, gasoline, tourist travel, highway construction and housing) flourished. Following a wave of oil discoveries that started with the Pennsylvanian oil rush of the 1860s and culminated with the oil booms in Texas, Oklahoma, California, and other areas, the United States continued as the world leader in petroleum production, now even more important in an age of automobiles and trucks.
show: Part 3
After Harding was elected president, the government took on new powers and duties such as funding and overseeing the new U.S. Highway system and the regulation of radio frequencies. Harding died from an apparent heart attack in August 1923, and his Vice President Calvin Coolidge, succeeded him. In 1924, he was easily elected in his own right with the slogan "Keep Cool With Coolidge".
show: Part 4
In the United States, upon accepting Democratic nomination for president in 1932, Franklin D. Roosevelt promised "a new deal for the American people," a phrase that has endured as a label for his administration and its many domestic achievements. The Republicans, blamed for the Depression, or at least for lack of an adequate response to it, were easily defeated by Roosevelt in 1932.
Isolationist sentiment with regard to foreign wars in America had ebbed, but the United States at first declined to enter the war, limiting itself to giving supplies and weapons via Lend Lease to Britain, China, and the Soviet Union. American feeling changed drastically with the sudden Japanese attack on "
Pearl Harbor ". In popular culture this has become known as the time when Japan "Awakened the Sleeping Giant", and the U.S.A. entered into World War II.
show: Players
1. Fuzzy316
Rnd. 3
Doc_Brown
rpshawn
Genoke
Risk_Averse
show: tourney kills leaderboard
Genoke- 8 kills
(Information for this story can be found at Wikipedia.org)
