He told death "give it your best shot" to which death responded by punching him in the face. over. and over. and over again

sweet butter crumpets!

Egypt leading only a half day left in this match.

##VOTE EGYPT

One great ruler in Alexander does not trump many many great rulers in Ancient Egypt.

##vote Egypt

##VOtE EGYPT

EGT 11 v MAC 0

egypt moves on to the qarterfinals.

macedonia moves to the triple threat match.

next match: PER (persia) v LAP (lapita) v BYZ (Byzantine)

go!

Well Byzantine's beat Persia and Persia beat Lapita so ##VOTE BYZANTINE.

Pretty straight forward.

##VOTE PERSIA because they shouldn't have lost to Byzantine

The Persians developed a solar calendar, the Byzantines had one that had been in use long before they were an empire. Innovation wins, peeps.

Byzantine's had greek fire. Nuff said.

Too bad it wasn't much help in holding their conquests.

that's funny since you are voting for the Persians. It took Alexander what a couple of years? It took everyone else 1,000 years to take down Byzantines? Funny, TrPrado.

Bump for discussion

we've had this discussion before:
##VOTE BYZANTIUM

After researching a bit more about the Byzantines due to the previous arguments, I suppose that I'll ##VOTE BYZANTIUM on this one. Persia is a great empire, but a few things do tip the scales in favor of Byzantium, as per my own scoring methods.

Final BYZ 3 v PER 1 v LAP 0

Byzantine advances and the others are eliminated.

Next match:

Macedonia (MAC) v Shu Han (SHU) v Champa (CHA)

After this match we will begin a brief recess before continuing into the quarterfinals and semi finals. I appreciate all the support, I apologize for the feeling of repetition in the group matches; it was an unintended result of the formatting however I have a new formatting which i will use for the next tournament.

But MAC v SHU v CHA begins now!

##VOTE Macedonia

##VOTE Macedonia

##vote Macedonia

I would have voted Byzantium but I forgot about this thread. Luckily they won.

##Vote Macedonia

Final MAC 4 v SHU 0 v CHA

Macedonia proceeds.

Now commences our break will be back in August to finish this out. Updated tournament bracket and schedule to follow