Weekly 5-map history theme tournament - overview, rules & rankings

[UpperKEES]

After playing the History - Assassinations tournament (an idea by RandyTravis), I thought it would be nice to play such a tournament each week with a different theme. It has to be possible to link each theme to at least 5 events on specific dates in history.

Rules:
Every competitor will have until Sunday evening at midnight (forum time^*) to set the best scores/times for these 5 maps, all linked together by their common theme, so there's no need to subscribe; just start playing! The winner (best total score) gets to pick a new theme from the list of proposed themes by the community in this topic and publish the dates to be played before Monday evening at midnight (forum time). This will ensure the winner doesn't have a major advantage and also makes sure that every player has 6 days to participate. Last weeks winner is also responsible for determining next weeks winner by calculating/checking the total scores. Each tournament will have its own topic where players can post scores and discuss their progress. See the posting tips & guidelines for the winner of a tournament.

Please note:
- It is not allowed for the same player to submit scores with different names. If done so, both names will be disqualified.
- When two players have the same total score, the best total time wins.
- When two players have the same total score and the same total time, the amount of individual #1 spots counts, followed by the amount of #2 spots, etc.
- When the tournament has been won by the same player as last week the runner up (#2) will pick the next theme to ensure themes & maps will be picked by different people.
- When this runner up already picked last weeks theme (same top 2 twice), the number three will pick the theme + maps
- When this number three already picked last weeks theme (same top 3 three times), the winner will pick the theme + maps again

When you like this idea just post useful themes in this topic so the winner of the history tournament can pick the next theme. Dates/maps related to a certain theme shouldn't have been played before by anybody participating. Themes that not have been chosen will remain candidates for future weeks. I will keep this initial post up-to-date with a list of nominated themes and winners of kept tournaments.

Proposed themes so far:

• Starting dates of major wars
• Death dates of great conquerors
• Signing of important peace treaties
• Birthdays of famous pop stars (subcategories: Radiohead, pop, rock, dance, disco, etc.)
• Birthdays of famous actors (subcategories: Star Trek, sci-fi, horror, fantasy, etc.)
• Birthdays of famous game developers
• Birthdays of famous authors (subcategories: sci-fi, horror, fantasy, etc.)
• Birthdays of famous composers (subcategories: classical, C-64, pop music, etc.)
• Birthdays of famous painters
• Birthdays of rich people
• Birthdays of Notable Fighter Aces
• Birthdays of famous scientists (subcategories: math, physics, astronomy, biology, chemistry, geology, computer science, etc.)
• Impressive achievements in sports (subcategories: olympics, athletics, soccer, baseball, tennis, cycling, world championships, running WR's, etc.)
• Major natural disasters (subcategories: volcanic eruptions, tornado's, earthquakes, floods, plagues, etc.)
• Finishing date of major landmarks (subcategories: tall buildings, famous buildings, bridges, statues, etc.)
• Terrorist attacks
• Nuclear Explosions
• Riots
• Assassinations
• Discoveries (i.e. electricity, atoms, etc.)
• Einstein's Miracle Year
• Major inventions (subcategories: medical, electrical, household, transportation, computer, programming languages, etc.)
• First steps (i.e. moon, space, poles, etc.)
• Explorations
• Wikipedia
• National independence days
• Colonizations
• Admission of American States to the union
• Creeper World patch release dates
• Release dates of #1 custom maps in the toplist
• Appearances of Halley's Comet
• Dates the world was said to end
• The Concorde supersonic passenger air plane
• Extra-solar events (i.e. Voyager arriving somewhere, our radio broadcasts arriving at a particular star system)
• Commissioning dates of the 'USS Enterprise'
• ....
• Your proposed theme will go here

Tournament table

#	Theme	Closing date	Winning score	Winning time	1st place	2nd place	3rd place
1.	Assassinations	September 12, 2010	48198	11:16	UpperKEES	Sqaz	Fisherck
2.	Deadliest volcanic eruptions	September 19, 2010	46742	22:06	UpperKEES	Alwego	Fisherck
3.	Computer (game) inventions	September 26, 2010	45184	32:33	UpperKEES	Alwego	Fisherck
4.	Richest people	October 3, 2010	47395	16:35	UpperKEES	Fisherck	Alwego
5.	Math/physics/astronomy scientists	October 10, 2010	46761	20:59	UpperKEES	ctuna	Katra
6.	Notable Fighter Aces of the World	October 17, 2010	48389	09:59	UpperKEES	ctuna	Fisherck
7.	World Records for Running Events	October 24, 2010	47570	15:29	Siccles	UpperKEES	ctuna
8.	Really tall buildings	October 31, 2010	47824	13:44	UpperKEES	hi	Katra
9.	Einstein's Miracle Year (1905)	November 7, 2010	47422	16:27	ctuna	Colin	Katra
10.	Original Star Trek Crew	November 14, 2010	48223	11:08	Kapoios	hi	ctuna
11.	Radiohead	November 21, 2010	47836	13:43	Kapoios	hi	Colin
12.	Nuclear Explosions	November 28, 2010	47200	18:04	hi	Colin	Kapoios
13.	Halley's Comet	December 5, 2010	46523	22:33	Colin	hi	ctuna
14.	Concorde	December 12, 2010	46848	20:17	UpperKEES	hi	ctuna
15.	Great Conquerors	December 19, 2010	47083	18:36	hi	ctuna	Katra
16.	Wikipedia	December 26, 2010	.....	.. : ..	.....	.....	.....
17.	.....	January 2, 2011	.....	.. : ..	.....	.....	.....
18.	.....	January 9, 2011	.....	.. : ..	.....	.....	.....
19.	.....	January 16, 2011	.....	.. : ..	.....	.....	.....
20.	.....	January 23, 2011	.....	.. : ..	.....	.....	.....

Medal table (ranked by total amount of points: gold = 4, silver = 2, bronze = 1)

Rank	Player	Gold medals	Silver medals	Bronze medals	Total medals	Number of participations	Total points
1.	UpperKEES	8	1	0	9	10	34
2.	hi	2	5	0	7	7	18
3.	ctuna	1	3	4	8	11	14
4.	Kapoios	2	0	1	3	3	9
	Colin	1	2	1	4	7	9
6.	Fisherck	0	1	4	5	7	6
7.	Alwego	0	2	1	3	5	5
8.	Siccles	1	0	0	1	3	4
	Katra	0	0	4	4	15	4
10.	Sqaz	0	1	0	1	3	2
	Total:	15	15	15	45		105

^* Forum time (GMT/UTC minus 5 hours) is used to record your scores. When you hover your mouse pointer over a score in the leaderboard for a certain map you'll see the time this score has been submitted. Midnight sharp (0:00:00) is the deadline every Sunday evening, no exceptions!

[Fisherck]

Great! What is the first theme?

[UpperKEES]

You name it! (And pick it if you win the Assassinions tournament, which is still open until RandyTravis decides it's done; I can't determine that for him.)

[Katra]

I'm interested. I propose major natural disasters as a possible theme.

[Karsten75]

We could also simply have a parallel competition for the player with  5 fastest maps in any week... or the Monday-Friday maps for any and every week.   

[UpperKEES]

We could also simply have a parallel competition for the player with  5 fastest maps in any week... or the Monday-Friday maps for any and every week.   

Sure, but I like the concept of a theme competition.

I'm interested. I propose major natural disasters as a possible theme.

Added.

[Fisherck]

Lets see...
. Dates major landmarks finished, like a nations capitol, the statue of liberty, and the eiffel tower.
. Terrorist attacks. 9/11 is not the only one.
. Major inventions, like the light bulb, or the internet. Though I do not think we can find a specific date for the invention of the wheel. ;D
. Firsts. This can be like the date of the first person to reach the south pole, or when the first person walked on the moon. This can even be divided up into specific categories, like space, exploration, or many other things.

Well, thats all I got, or at least all the time I have to think.

[UpperKEES]

. Dates major landmarks finished, like a nations capitol, the statue of liberty, and the eiffel tower.
. Terrorist attacks. 9/11 is not the only one.
. Firsts. This can be like the date of the first person to reach the south pole, or when the first person walked on the moon. This can even be divided up into specific categories, like space, exploration, or many other things.

Added.

. Major inventions, like the light bulb, or the internet. Though I do not think we can find a specific date for the invention of the wheel. ;D

I thought of this one myself, but I wasn't sure if the dates of many mayor inventions are known or can be deduced to one specific date. Added anyway, because I'm sure we can find 5 inventions with a date attached to them and the theme is too nice to not be used.

Well, thats all I got, or at least all the time I have to think.

Thanks for your contributions! :)

[Pyxis_GeeK]

What about years that your favorite team won something? Like the World Cup for Soccer(football), the World Series for Baseball, the Super Bowl for American Football. I know there are alot of europeans here so the american sports may not do much for yall. Just a thought.

[UpperKEES]

I guess that would go under 'Impressive achievements in sports', but I would choose a theme that appeals to all players, so I wouldn't tie it to a certain team.

[Pyxis_GeeK]

I overlooked that in the initial list. My apologies. :)

[Katra]

The invention of the wheel would be out of Chronom range anyway. As in BC... ;)

Dates states were admitted to the union would be another good theme.

[UpperKEES]

After winning the assassinations tournament (see here), I've selected the theme for next weeks tournament: deadliest volcanic eruptions.

[UpperKEES]

After winning the deadliest volcanic eruptions tournament (see here), I've selected the theme for next weeks tournament: computer (game) inventions.

I suggest that if I win this tournament as well (3 consecutive times) the runner up (#2) will pick next weeks theme, so themes will come from different people.

[Blaze]

Biggest technological break-throughs.

Thats one.