Planetarion World Cup

The planetarion world cups were organised by the pa-team in order to fill in some time between round 17 and 18 and also co-incide with the 2006 football world cup. There were two world cups, one which was a 'singles' event with one-man gals and of course, a ten man gal event. the galaxy event was split into a qualifying session which is explained below and a finals to declare the winner.

The winning player for the singles event was jerome`, who was 133% the score of the number two planet belonging to Lukeylove, third placed was Titos.

The winning galaxy was again jerome`'s ownsenting UK and Ireland, with him once again winning the number one planet eerily once again 133% of the number two planet, idimmu.

Set-Up
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"The World Cup

The official Planetarion World Cup channel is #worldcup on irc.netgamers.org

On Wednesday, 14th of June at 12:00 GMT signups will open for a "World Cup Single Player Skills Event" at http://worldcup.planetarion.com.

It will run from 12:00 GMT on Saturday, 17th June until 12:00 GMT on Sunday, 18th of June.

Details as follows:

-Tick speed will be 1 minute,
-1 man galaxies,
-No ingame alliances,


The winner will recieve "Need for speed most wanted" for the XBox 360, so please make sure you use correct information. :-)

On Wednesday, 21st of June at 12:00 GMT we'll be opening signups for registered teams for the "World Cup Qualifying". At 20:00 GMT we'll be having a 'Creators Hour' Q&A session. We'll also be selecting which cluster contains which group for the World Cup Qualifying.

On Saturday, June 24th at 12:00 GMT, we'll be starting the 24 hour World Cup Qualifying session. The setup will be as follows:

-1 minute ticks,
-10 man galaxies,
-no exiling,
-no in game alliances or cluster bonuses, and
-one "group" as specified below in each cluster.
There will be no way to interact with other clusters, though you can still browse them.

The top 2 teams (galaxies) from each group (cluster) will progress to the final.

The final will be held on the 15th / 16th July, from 12:00 GMT until 12:00GMT. The winning galaxy will recieve 1 credit each, and the highest scoring player in the final will recieve another XBox 360 game - Ridge Racer 6.

To submit a team, please e-mail the following to [email protected] by 21:00GMT on June 20th:

-10 nicknames and e-mail addresses

The e-mail addresses will be used to place you in your galaxies, so PLEASE make sure the correct e-mail address is sent to us.

Each team MUST come from the same area, with the areas being defined as follows:
-UK,
-USA,
-Scandinavia,
-The rest of Europe, and
-The rest of the World.

We will list the teams taking part nearer the time on a special thread on the Planetarion Discussions Forum.

Winner of singles and qualifiers for the finals

"Congratulations to jerome`, who won the World Cup single event.

Galaxies 1:2, 1:5, 1:1, 1:4, 2:4, 2:2, 2:3, 3:1, 3:2, and 3:3 qualified for the Official Planetarion World Cup Final, to be held on the 15th / 16th July. These are the teams organised by jerome`, Religfree, Caj, Paddy, AUS, tuxed0, Murador, Dauphin, Ionferno and elviz/Wishmaster respectively."



"The Planetarion World Cup Finals finished this weekend, with jerome` winning by a hefty margin and his galaxy of himself, JBG, pig, idimmu, Newt, Benneh, dogbert, Gzambo, Phil and bwtmc also coming first and all galaxy members from the qualifiers and the finals receiving a credit." The members from the qualifiers who didn't play in the final were: Achilles, Alki, Lambie, Game, Lokken and nodrog who made an infamous come back after 15 odd rounds to "win" the qualifying round.