Who needs tiebreakers when you can just win eh

Knockout stage tiebreakers country draws will be entirely random.

For group stage tiebreakers, the number of Austria wins in a head to head record does indeed only come into account if there are more than two people in the tie.

I'm going to lose all my remaining games and crash and burn :(

We should make a discord for this like we did for the Ryder Cup
it'll be fun

People should try clicking the ready button, it's fun.
The good part of facing Xorxes in the group stage is that you won't face him in the next round (the bad part is that there is only one spot left in the group).

If only

Bumping above spam topics

So what's been happening here

Only two games left:

gameID=210647
gameID=210651

Both interesting games, but neither result will change their group standings.

I see two games which should be over already.

No, seriously, there's no changing the outcomes of those

I got absolutely shat on by this guy named josemurc
how'd everyone else's groups go? I see ghug failed to qualify altogether

Did you see how I have Zybodia Marseilles for free? Next level strats right there.

nah I figured your games wouldn't be worth following

So did I.

I have missed two 50/50 chances to win the other game vs. SvKris :O
I end as the best 3rd, with points that would have given me the 2nd spot in half of the groups. :-p

rip

The Group Stage of the Champions League is now over. Congratulations to the following players who have advanced from their groups:

Group A Winner: goldfinger0303
Group A Runner Up: genghiz

Group B Winner: CptMike
Group B Runner Up: bozotheclown

Group C Winner: xorxes
Group C Runner Up: rdrivera2005

Group D Winner: MadMarx
Group D Runner Up: cspieker

Group E Winner: SplitDiplomat
Group E Runner Up: Ezio

Group F Winner: josemurc
Group F Runner Up: snowy801

Group G Winner: Yoyoyozo
Group G Runner Up: svkrIs

Group H Winner: Djantani
Group H Runner Up: captainmeme

A full list of all the group tables can be found here: http://webdiplomacy.challonge.com/Winter20171v1ChampionsLeague/groups

Onto the next round! The draws for the Round of 16 are:

goldfinger0303 vs bozotheclown
xorxes vs cspieker
SplitDiplomat vs snowy801
Yoyoyozo vs captainmeme
CptMike vs genghiz
MadMarx vs rdrivera2005
josemurc vs Ezio
Djantani vs svkrIs

A full list can be found here: http://webdiplomacy.challonge.com/Winter20171v1ChampionsLeague

PM's will be sent out requesting game creations shortly. Good luck to everyone involved!

Oh, and once again, should you roll the same country in both your games, please PM me and I will rearrange countries accordingly.

Wait, are you saying my 7 losses and 1 win weren't enough to move on?

You played eight games?

“In the Round of 16, the group winners will be seeded”

Does anyone understand the seeding for the Round of 16?

Group winners seeded and paired against group runners-up, but not from same group.

But how were they seeded? Perhaps I looked too quickly, but I saw only four group winners that won all of their first round games, yet 3 are on one side of the bracket while only one is on the other side of the bracket, that suggests the seeding was not based on first round results (which I would have guessed, though it was never stated, and now I’m curious enough to ask)...

@MadMarx
Winners are paired with runner ups randomly. That's the seeding. 1st in one group with 2nd in the other.

I also would have guessed that xorxes would have been in the #1 slot in the bracket link recently posted, but goldie was there...

I think it was pre-determined.

* Winner A vs Second B
* Winner B vs Second A

Then resorting according to the winner :

A -> 1
B -> 5 (ie, 1 of 2nd half of the table)

etc.
.

Perhaps I’ve run too many Marx Madness NCAA basketball pools, I expect the bracket to have a #1 seed in line to play a #8 seed in the next round even if teams #9 through #16 are all unranked and randomly assigned to play against the #1 through #8 seeds...

I believe the idea is to mirror the European soccer tournament of the same name. They can't really compare teams across leagues, so their seeding is randomized in the initial draw.

It makes sense, now that it’s been explained, just wasn’t the first thought that popped into my aging sleep-deprived head...