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afaik there isn't anything incriminating in public chat that should be averted :P

Why is the Impaller doing this instead of Doushibag, who is ranked #1? Just curious.

I don't like any of these options. I would have done

India
Indonesia
East China
West China
Caucasia
East Russia

You can take India in one turn, and then move to China.

Sebcorps--

No comment on the Doushi thing.

I'm not a fan of your proposal at all. It concedes most of the world to Impaller, who would have free expansion wherever he went. And I don't see why you would start out in East China with a wasteland.

I would like to say that this is a great idea for a series. I have to credit my unexpected success in the membership tourney (I don't want to jinx anything! I know I am still an underdog even if I win my championship of the winner's bracket game!) partially to reading a thread a little while back in which the top players described their general strategy. I think it sped my learning process up by hundreds of games. This series is even better as we will have good players arguing over the top choices of a real-time game, and really be able to see the thought process that goes into each move. I like that a lot. It will help newcomers quite a bit.

Snappy Vote now has an image of the map for territory selection so you don't need to change tabs/windows. Subsequent turns will also have images of the turn.

This is your last day to vote! Currently, number 6 is winning.

Remember, by voting 1 star on an item that lowers its vote. If you want your choices to be most effective, you should vote 1 star for each item that you don't want to win.

I picked #6 first and it's a bet that Imp picks 2 of our top 3 picks in his top 3 and picks the same 1st pick. If that's right then it's a good set. We end up with either WR and Ant or CA and another pick. It might be a better choice if WR was 2nd and Ant was 3rd, cause that's all we really have in Asia. I also prefer EA to WA (because you get such a devasting block on WA in Congo).

There's a high probability that we end up with 2 out of 3 among CA, SA and Ant. Which would likely mean we know Imp is in the one we didn't get. So our initial move will be to go for that block. I like that start, especially if Imp doesn't know we also have a counter there.

I like all our starts where we get CA, SA (or Ant, SA) and any of WR, WA or India. It would not be a very good start if we got our 124 picks, especially against Imp. That's the only combo I really don't like. But 14 and 3, 5 or 6 or 24 and 3, 5 or 6 are fine.

So I'm crossing my fingers that we don't get 124.

SebCorps... don't say such silly things.

Number 6 is final! The next turn will be posted in a new thread today.

voted!