RESULTS!

The community team tournament "Cooperating Capitalists" is over and we would like to summarize the results.

32 teams participated in the tournament, gathering 64 players from 11 countries:

Despite the high number of teams, the cooperative attitude of all the participants allowed us to complete the whole event in just 2 weekends – during which 32 tournament sessions were played. It's worth noticing that the competing teams were not just responsible, but also friendly to each other and ready to sacrifice their own comfort in favour of that of their opponents. To satisfy the needs of some teams, several sessions were moved to different starting times or even to another server. Overall, the tournament had no significant delays and not a single session was canceled!

Without a doubt, the organizers of this team tournament deserve a special mention:

extenion,

jack_was,

Meowth,

Impsuley,

Standard of Ur &

winter1703. Without them, this event wouldn't have happen!

FULL LIST OF TEAMS WHO COMPETED:

Watchdogs of Farron
What IF?
Attack the leader
Fashionable pear
Kaxet
Assassins of Topdeckers
Tricksters
Clockwork-town retrogrades
team of dog
BLACK MOON
team NF
Emerging Oligarch
cidanzi
OHAGI
Assault and Battery
Recursion
Just4lulz
The Clockwork Mischief's
IlBur
Double W
Swindlers
love revenge
May there be CHAOS!
ANIKI
rookie
A Terrible Accident
Greedy Gremlins
meme-police
The Dudes
Ze!
The Krits
loli team

The first round was played on March 30 and immediately presented a few unexpected results:

out of 22 players from Russia, only 8 remained in the tournament after the first round;
out of 7 teams from China, 4 of which were predicted to leave the tournament right away, only 1 team actually lost;
despite the predictions, the Lithuanian team The Dudes and team The Krits, which united players from the UK and Portugal, were able to make it to the second round.

The second round was played on March 31 and ended with a single huge surprise:

team The Krits won again, in a session against team OHAGI, although according to the preliminary predictions on Discord, its chances to lose were 23:2. After that victory, no Japanese teams remained in the tournament.

Below you can find the links to the recordings of a few tournament sessions that were played during rounds 1 and 2:

Session 5 - May there be CHAOS! (blue) vs Greedy Gremlins (red)

Session 15 - A Terrible Accident (blue) vs team NF (red)

Session 9 - love revenge (blue) vs Kaxet (red)

Session 2 - Assassins of Topdeckers (blue) vs Ze! (red)

Session 24 - team NF (red) vs Fashionable pear (blue)

The third round that was played on April 6, brought more surprises:

an experienced team Assassins of Topdeckers wasn't able, despite all expectancies, to defeat the team BLACK MOON;
May there be CHAOS! lost to cidanzi, although predictions were on the CHAOS's side;
Team NF after two convincing victories in the first two rounds, lost to its compatriots from team of dog;
The Krits who finally got the predictions on its side, lost to the team love revenge.

At the fourth round, only teams from China remained in the tournament – but surprises kept coming:

cidanzi has won in the session against BLACK MOON although predictions were 8:3 against it;
similar situation happened with team of dog which has won in the session against love revenge while predictions were 7:3 against it.

Only the finals of the tournament, that happened on April 7, were played accordingly to expectations:

love revenge has defeated

BLACK MOON in the session for the third place, and

cidanzi has won the title of the champion with two victories in a row in the final series against

team of dog.

Below you can find the links to the recordings of a few tournament sessions that were played on April 6-7 (including finals):

Session 26 - May there be CHAOS! (red) vs cidanzi (blue)

Session 27 - love revenge (blue) vs The Krits (red)

Session 28 - team of dog (blue) vs team NF (red)

Final 1/3 - cidanzi (blue) vs team of dog (red)

Final 2/3 - cidanzi (blue) vs team of dog (red)

All tournament results and the full tournament ladder can be found through this link!

PRIZES:

1) First place:
Team:

cidanzi
Players

陈年老酱 и

瓷蛋子

Each player gets a set of hard enamel pins from Gremlins, Inc. + €25 Steam Gift Card

2) Second place:
Team:

team of dog
Players

靓仔 и

银鲧

Each player gets 3 Illegal Boxes of goods + €10 Steam Gift Card

3) Third place:
Team:

love revenge
Players

蛮自在 и

К

Each player gets 5 Contraband Boxes of goods

4) Fourth place:
Team:

BLACK MOON
Players

乌克巴尔 и

手残月

Each player gets 5 Rare Boxes boxes of goods

SPECIAL PRIZES:

* Fastest Victory (by rounds): 33 rounds.
Teams

team NF and

May there be CHAOS!

Each player gets 1 Illegal, 1 Contraband, 1 Rare Box of goods

* Biggest Score (individual): 35 points.
MrBrightside from

Watchdogs of Farron and Privet20 from

May there be CHAOS!

Each player gets 1 Illegal, 1 Contraband, 1 Rare Box of goods

* Biggest Score (team): 59 points.
Teams:

cidanzi and

Emerging Oligarch

Each player gets 1 Illegal, 1 Contraband, 1 Rare Box of goods

INTERVIEW WITH THE CHAMPION

jack_was, one of the organizers of the tournament, took a brief interview with the captain of

cidanzi – 陈年老酱 which you can find below:

jack_was: For how long do you play the game?
陈年老酱: I have played for 512 hours, my teammate 瓷蛋子 has played for 690 hours.

jack_was: How did you like "Cooperating Capitalists" tournament?
陈年老酱: It was my first time joining an official team play tournament. I like to play with my friend and win together.

jack_was: What rules did you like and which ones would you like to be adjusted?
陈年老酱: I think the rules are fair enough. Maybe the "random character" rule will make me play a character which I don't like to use but some characters will be too strong if they are in the same team – like the Damned and the Pauper.

jack_was: Which session was the greatest challenge for your team and why?
陈年老酱: every team was a challenge but if I had to choose, I think it would be session 26 against May there be CHAOS! (Privet20, Kieli). the Banker got 106 income at the 14th turn. The Pauper got The Accelerator at the 17th turn.
fn: this session was recorded and you can watch it here.

jack_was: There were 5 teams representing China in quarter-finals and you allowed no other countries to enter semi-finals. Is there any simple explanation?
陈年老酱: the winner needs both luck and skill – nothing else can be said here. It's a rare situation that happened this time, and you probably won't see this happening in the next tournament. Also, I don't have permission to "allow" anyone to enter semi-finals or something. To enter the semi-finals you just need skill and luck.

FROM DEVELOPERS

Once again we would like to express our gratitude to everyone who organized and conducted this tournament as well as to all the teams who participated (and those who were ready to participate but didn't get a chance even after the brackets were expanded from 16 to 32 teams). This was an amazing experience and we followed the course of the tournament with great interest making our own predictions. We will discuss possible ways to make such tournaments more regular, where the qualifying round to them will be the position of the players on the ranked ladder at the end of a season.

Thank you, everyone, for playing our game and finding more and more ways to play it differently!

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