Review [Issue 2] Tanki Online World Cup

[skitee 555]

For more pictures please view here: http://imgur.com/a/booYg#0 *

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But imagine being able to go one better. Imagine not only fighting for a team, but for your country as well! Surely that would be amazing - and now, there is a chance to do that! Coming up is the Tanki Online World Cup, a contest between countries all over the world. At the time of writing, there are still places available to fight – but they'll have been taken up by the time of publication. You all should have heard of the World Cup, though. And in this article, I’m going to talk to you guys about the World Cup and what it's going to consist of. I'll also do brief summaries of each week in the World Cup regularly posted in this thread.

So who is taking part?

First of all, there are 22 teams which are taking part. These come from all around the world. There are three from the Americas – USA, Jamaica, and Canada – and nineteen from the Eastern hemisphere. The ones in the Eastern Hemisphere contain none from Africa, and thus are divided between Europe and Asia/Australia. Saudi Arabia, India, Malaysia, Vietnam and Japan make the five Asian nations, to add to Australia and New Zealand from Oceania. The remaining twelve nations are all from Europe. In order of West to East, they are: Portugal, Great Britain, Holland, Italy, Germany, Poland, Estonia, Bulgaria, Ukraine, Moldova, and Russia.


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Alright, you said teams have closed applications. So why the fuss to me?

Admittedly, some of you might notice how the World Cup has started and how the teams have stopped accepting players. If you are not in a team now, you cannot play in the World Cup. However, you should treat this as sport! Most of the battles will be streamed live on the Tanki Online World Cup stream, and you can follow the progress of your country's team as they go on! Support your team! Follow the results and laugh at the supporters of the teams that drop out early in the contest!

What will happen in the World Cup?

The World Cup, as you already should know, will be a battle between many different countries to gain supremacy for their nation in Tanki Online. Most world cups, in sports and the like, normally use knockout rounds. However, this World Cup is different. The Tanki World Cup will be done on a “last team standing” basis: that is, the last team to exit the competition wins. Let me explain further.

What is going to happen is this: each country will all start with five so-called "factories", that apparently produce supplies for their team. At the start of each week, teams will receive extra supplies in the garage dependant upon the amount of factories that they have. Teams will then fight each other to try to take factories off one other, fighting each other in set battles where they “gamble” factories. The winning team will take the amount of factories that were gambled before the match from the other team. Once a team has no more factories that remain, they are out of the world cup.

The last team to survive, with factories remaining when all the others have none, will be the World Cup winners!

What are the exact rules for these battles?

These battles must be battles between five participants on both teams. Supplies must be permitted, and each match will consist of 2 games each 35 minutes long. The team which captures more flags in both of the games combined are the winners. Protection paints will be allowed, as will every weapon. The battles will be in any of a certain pool of maps and can be at any time that the two team leaders for the teams involved agree upon.

How can I follow the results of my country's team?

Most teams will publish the times of their battles and their results on their thread in the Clans/Teams section of the forum. Follow each team's thread carefully if you want to watch out for your country. You will also be able to watch most of the matches live here: http://tankionline.com/en/community/cybersport/ , where one of the DJs will be in most of the games and viewing it from a neutral perspective. Make sure you keep up to date with the times your team is playing so you can watch all of the matches from there.

And what's for stake?

Other than pride? 100,000 crystals and 2,000 supplies on offer – but the winner takes all! There is, according to the forum thread that announced the thread, no prizes for second position – nothing at all. It'll be winner takes all – the crystals, the supplies, and the pride. Just like in real war.

So, that's all I have to introduce you to the World Cup for now, check in on this column for regular updates during the Cup itself!

God bless,
~skitee~

*One of the countries which has a flag in the picture is not actually participating in the World Cup. There is also a fake paint which is not the same as any country's flag. Try to find the "fake" paints!

Edited September 23, 2017 by Hexed

[skitee 555]

ѕυммαяу σƒ ωєєк σηє

 

Before the tournament even started, many of the teams failed to organise themselves enough to submit for a team in the cup. The most notable teams to fail to do this were Georgia, Brazil and France, all of which had been expected, in some way or another, to have a good chance in the World Cup.

 

The main theme in Week One was big teams picking upon small teams and trying to take their factories from them. As a result of this, there were a lot of one-sided battles and big factory numbers at stake. In fact, out of all of the fourteen battles, only three had less than three factories at stake! The majority of the battles also went to the attacking team, seeing how they had normally been the stronger team who had attacked smaller teams in the hope of easy factories.

 

The most notable exception to this rule was the battle that ended up in disaster for the Dutch team. Their leaders, hoping for easy factories from weaker teams, had attacked with all of their factories gambled on Poland. Having failed to properly research their opponents, it turned out that Poland were a reasonably strong team, and Poland comfortably defeated Holland, ending the much-fancied Dutch ambitions of winning the Cup.

 

The only other exceptions were the two attacks on Great Britain and Germany's attack on Jamaica. Neither of these battles involved any more than three factories, so the results for the attacking teams were not quite so calamitous as what happened to the Dutch. It was surprising to most, however, that the pre-tournament favourites America suffered such a heavy defeat to Great Britain.

 

Teams that exited the cup in this round: Netherlands, Ukraine, Vietnam, Australia, Estonia.

 

Top 5 teams in terms of factories after this round:

1. Poland - 14

2. Kingdom of Saudi Arabia - 10

= Great Britain - 10

= Republic of Moldova - 10

= Canada - 10

[cheese3000 23]

well, i was going to say "why on earth did you put your "hello kitty" paint on there, and then i noticed the notice(yes, ik) at the bottem of the article.

[r_Rajnish0 1]

what is the position of the team "India".

[MisterGeneral 692]

Wrong

iraq team did try to participate

http://forum.tankionline.com/posts/list/104226.page

[r_AdvocatusDiaboli0 861]

*One of the countries which has a flag in the picture is not actually participating in the World Cup. There is also a fake paint which is not the same as any country's flag. Try to find the "fake" paints!

 

So it has been decided. I am going to make a country whose flag has hello kitty on it!

[MisterGeneral 692]

one flag = thunder hornet pink / white

[cheese3000 23]

one flag = thunder hornet pink / white

-.- thats not a flag, its a hello kitty picture made into a paint.

[unholysin1 3]

I'm wondering is the reward for each peraon... so each person gets 2000 of each supply and 100k crystals or is that reward for the whole team???

 

Also when you said to most it was a surprise that USA lost it wasn't to me :D

 

Good article

[wertweuri 76]

There alot of wars coiming on ... Be ready to watch them :wink:

[skitee 555]

I'm wondering is the reward for each peraon... so each person gets 2000 of each supply and 100k crystals or is that reward for the whole team???

 

Whole team.

[datie9 72]

Nice piece of work skit..

 

sadly we're out ;(

[r_almighty010 872]

Wonderful!

[wertweuri 76]

How nice :roll:

[r_coolalan0 0]

yes hAVE THAT TANKI ONLINE y countery poland i winning oh ya and people say in my chool poland is rubbish and its the beesstttt!!!!!! :D

[r_coolalan0 0]

yes hAVE THAT TANKI ONLINE my countery poland i winning oh ya and people say in my school poland is rubbish and its the beesstttt!!!!!! :D :D :D :D

[CX2011 8]

CORRECTION: Teams are not representing countries!

 

Example: Team Portugal has no portuguese players!

[wertweuri 76]

^ That`s true, for example, im on Canada team but im not from Canada

[skitee 555]

ѕυммαяу σƒ ωєєк тωσ

 

This was the week when the real contenders for the title were separated from the "pretenders". These pretenders teams which had looked good but, in reality, lacked any real depth to continue and win the title.

 

The most notable teams to fall when faced by a real contender were Great Britain, Canada, and Poland. All three suffered defeat when faced by serious contenders. Of these, Canada probably can feel hardest done by. They were attacked by favourites Russia and suffered a heavy defeat, losing most of the factories that they owned in the process. This was a big blow to a team widely expected to be in the running for the championship, and it was compounded by a defeat to Germany that ended any chance of Canadian victory.

 

Great Britain were also attacked with a large bet against another of the favourites. They fought India for seven factories, and, after taking an early lead, they succumbed and eventually also suffered a very big defeat to a team expected to go far in the tournament. They also went on from there to suffer another defeat, this time against Japan. Whilst Britain still have two factories left, the chances of the team managing to win the title now are very slim.

 

Elsewhere in the contest, the USA managed to keep their hopes alive with a rather fortunate victory over Portugal. When the game ended, they had thought that they were out of the contest, only to find that Portugal had fielded an ineligible player and the game was forfeited. Bulgaria and New Zealand were the other teams to follow Canada out of the tournament this week. Japan were the team to end New Zealand's chances, whilst it was Jamaica who finished off Bulgaria.

 

Teams that exited the cup this round: Canada, Bulgaria, New Zealand

 

Top 5 teams in terms of factories after this round:

1. Russia - 17

2. Italy - 16

3. India - 15

3. Moldova - 10

= KSA - 10

[nuclearbom2 1]

Epic :)

[arsenal1310 0]

come on you india!!!!!

[r_sclam0 3]

GO, GO, U S A! GO, GO, MAKE THEM PAY! GO, GO, BECAUSE I SAY, GO GO, U S A!

 

WOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

[WhiteKnight170 2]

Come on TGB. yay.

jks

 

COME ON TEAM GREAT BRITAIN!!!!

[Fjelstad1678 186]

So skitee, will there be a world cup next year? Like an annual event?

[skitee 555]

So skitee' date=' will there be a world cup next year? Like an annual event?[/quote']

 

I don't know. Probably not.