Show Media Item - Championship Match - The battle for EmperorChampionship Match - The battle for Emperor
Monday, August 15, 2011
The long awaited first Championship Match will begin on October 1st, 2011. This is the battle to be crowned Emperor of the Echo Cluster. The top players in each race will be invited to participate in the match. The rest of us will watch and cheer them on.
The format for the match will be a standard default configuration game held on a custom map with random circular starting positions which are carefully balanced for fairness. The game will run 2 turns each week on Monday's and Thursdays. No full allies will be permitted and only 1 player can win. The victor will be the first player to capture 250 planets and hold them for 5 turns.
This is a battle to become the Emperor of the Echo cluster. It will require powerful economic development, incredible tactics, wicked diplomacy and nerves of steel and is likely to rage on for many Nu Years. It will be VGA Planets in its truest form, with the best players, where only one player can become the victor. There will be no prizes for second place, you either win, or you lose. It is the Emperor who will be remembered and the vanquished forgotten. This battle will be known as "The Scorpius War".
The winner will go down in Planets Nu history as the first Emperor of the Echo Cluster and their name and reigning period will be written into the official historic record of the Echo Cluster and displayed on this site.
In addition, the winner of the Championship match will receive a Free Lifetime Registered Membership here at Planets Nu.
Defeated players will lose all their achievement points in the Leaderboard (but not destruction or experience) and their rank will be reset to Midshipman. Future championship matches will begin every 6 to 8 months. It is probable that more than one championship match will be taking place at the same time. As each match ends the new Emperor will take over.
The selected participants will be decided by the Leaderboard standings sometime in the month before the match begins. The exact date of this cutoff will not be known until the invites have been sent. Last minute victories by vote may not be counted. Players near the top of the Leaderboard will be able to continue accruing achievement in the hope of participating in the next match. If a player chooses not to participate at this time the next player down will be invited.