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<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by TexasToast: I'm proud to report the first final score of the first round: I have recently obtained a surrender from the valiant Clement. Our battlefield was a small city full of heavy buildings on top of a hill, in heavy fog and wet ground. It turns out we both had bought for an infantry/SPA battle. Luckily for me he got a gun bogged down, while all my assets made it to the town. After an armor exchange in my favor and a couple of buildings full of infantry demolished, it became clear that he could not continue. Naturally I will be providing Clement an opportunity to avenge this defeat, outside the scope of this little tournament. Thanks Duke for your effort in putting this together.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE> Beat me to the punch yet again. Kain, BigMac, watch out because you're next -- he literally blew me off the top of that hill/mountain. It was fast, powerful, and my blood ran freely and excessively. I will take pleasure in exacting revenge. I don't know if it's been decided but I'd like to vote NO to custom maps. A lot of the battles, it sounds, are different than the "norm" and it seems that the person to win the tournament will have encountered and defeated opponents in different and unusual situations as well as normal. He/she then would be most deserving of their victory, having overcome all thrown at him/her. It seems that people rarely choose to fight in deep mud or horrid conditions or with poor troops and now they are forced to. It takes two to tango and the best player will emerge. Greg Clement