OT - Reddit CFB Risk Update 6/27: RIP Stanford and VT (7 days left)
Yesterday was the most eventful night in a long time. Stanford and Virginia Tech were both eliminated in the same night. VT faced a 14% chance of elimination and Stanford only faced a 1% chance. Hopefully this tilts the battle in our favor in this last week.
Michigan (23) is currently in second place behind Florida (28) with Nebraska (19) making a final push to win. We urge you all to please remain active in this final week. This is the last week you have to make votes and to push towards a victory here.
Announcement: Please don’t post your orders anywhere (mgoblog included). Other teams visit this blog in hopes of seeing what we will be doing, and it would be much better it if they were left in the dark. If you have a question about an assignment, try to ask it in general terms, instead of naming specific territories.
Steps To Play Every Day:
- Sign up for a reddit.com account if you don’t have one already
- Visit https://flair.redditcfb.com/ " go to “find by conference," click “FBS” then “Big 10” and finally “Michigan” to set yourself as a member of our team. Click “Update Flair” to set it.
- Visit https://michigancfbrisk.com/ and click “Get Order!”
- Click the blue chessboard beneath the logo that you’re meant to attack/defend to take you to the game.
- Scroll down, now, and on the right hand side of the screen, you will see the options that you can attack or defend. Click the school logo that you were assigned to.
Do not ever attack any territory that is owned by one of our allies unless specifically told to do so in your orders. Our allies are Clemson, Florida, Georgia Tech, and Texas. If you get an order to attack an ally owned territory then it means we are coordinating with them, so it is acceptable. Otherwise, do not attack allied territories or defend territories that allies border please!
Make sure you aren't flagged as a bot
One potential issue with the influx of new users we had is that some players may have been flagged as a bot and therefore their actions may not be counting. If you are flagged as a bot you will see the image below on vote.redditcfb.com
If you are seeing this message that asks you to contact the game mods, follow the instructions below, otherwise you can ignore this.
1. Follow the link shown in the screenshot above and fill out the google form
2. Wait at least one day for the text box to disappear. If it does disappear, you are all set.
3. If the bot disclaimer message persists after one day, then message the mods of /r/cfbrisk directly. You can follow the link in step 4 below to do this in one easy click.
4. https://www.reddit.com/message/compose?to=%2Fr%2FCFBRisk&subject=&message=
5. Be patient as the mods of the game are busy and they are putting a lot of effort into running this thing.
Daily Map:
I come here every day to see if we did well. This map looks too similar each day. I'll keep taking my orders like a good little bitch for the next week
The thing that strikes me about this map is that Team Chaos is finally making some waves. Granted, they look bigger than they are because they're in the big middle sections of the country, but they were down to a single territory at one point.
Also:
https://vote.redditcfb.com/imperialism/composite.gif
And Team Chaos is going to be even stronger now with Stanford and Virginia Tech eliminated.
I used to not care about this and just ignore the posts, then I decided it may be a fun distraction each day, now I'm in it to effing win it. Go Blue!
Honestly, i'm hoping for just pure chaos on the last couple days
I feel like luck plays way to big of a roll in this for me to be invested
I feel the same some days. But I keep taking orders.
A couple nights ago, I think we had five territories where were favored by 52-77%, and we lost all five. RNG is part of the reason the map looks so similar day to day.
...says the guy (presumably) on a sports blog
And they way that the game is designed is feeding into the ebb and flow nature of the game exacerbates the primacy of the RNG (weren't we down to like 2 territories at one point?). To put it into Risk terms, the army you deploy each turn depends on the number of users that you have that play a particular turn. So when your territory shrinks, assuming you have a fixed number of users playing every day, you can improve your odds simply because you have more users per territory.
Ultimately the way the game should be played is to make it more like Risk (more territory means you have more attacking power). And to their credit, the game mods tried to do that (if you have more than x% of a conference, you get a bonus) until it was shot down because some conferences were more contiguous than others, and it favored a certain red team who may or may not be a member of the B1G conference.
I'm also not sure that the way the alliances have formed have been helpful for the game either. Essentially, this has turned into a two team game with strange sub-team rules. And what about the great Team Chaos wildcard? I hope they bring it back (because it is a fun OT-season pastime), but think about how to address these things in the future.
I was an mvp last night! I knew all of my hard work (?) would pay off...
Sorry that I didn't get into this earlier. But I am really enjoying it now.
On to Victory! Provided the RNG is ok with it.
Shake and Bake! Lets do this!
eliminating those two on one night was huge
Blacklisted from getting orders.... Played every day for over a month. This game is becoming less and less fun.
why black listed?
just attack our enemies
If you followed your orders, you shouldn't be blacklisted. Contact the mods.
Have followed orders for about a month now. Getting blacklisted paired with our stagnation... this is feeling very... meh all of a sudden.
What is your reddit name?
I smell a rat!
its too late int he game to try to correct blackmails. Just attack enemy territories in the NE
Contact us on the discord. The link is on our orders website. If it was a mistake, we can get it fixed. If not, we can explain to you why you were blacklisted, and try to find a solution.
Great job team. Eradication of VT and Stanford eliminates @ 15% of the Red star power.
Get rid of Wisco and this game gets very straight forward, aka destroy osu
But does it though? Don't they just join Team Chaos?
It does get them off of the Red team. I hope, think most of them won't participate on team Chaos.
Go Blue, and lets get that really big and important offseason Risk W. Croots will care, right?
Because I refuse to partake in reddit or discord discussion, I require enlightenment. Feel free to opt out, if you must, but just what the fuck is the RNG?
Republican National Guard? Risk Nature Group? Reddit Nation Geeks?
I choose to limit my geekocity to MGoBlog, therefore I merely follow orders and have no intention of consuming reddit threads. Maybe knowing what the RNG actually is will add some enjoyment to making a few clicks each day?
Random
Number
Generator
Thanks!! That's not as sexy as I was hoping for, but at least I know, now!!!
Random Number Generator.
There is nothing random about a Chuck Norris round-house kick. It's certain death.
All these posers that flock to Bruce Lee or (god forbid) Liam Neeson... Chuck would destroy them with a blink of his eye-lashes.
Which brings the question - why isn't Chuck round-housing the RNG until it produces consistent Michigan territory wins?
Well you see, Random Number Generator had a couple of gay experiences in college (over a long enough time, that roll was bound to happen). And Chuck? Well, Chuck finds the quivering thrill of that thought problematic for his self-concept as definitely-not-gay-at-all-not-even-a-little-no-you-are-no-you're-going-to-hell-i-hate-you-i-i-want-you-god-help-me-i-hate-myself-NO-i'm-NOT-GAY-MAN dude.
Ah, shoot, I have a not here from his attorneys. He demands we cease mentioning the quivering thrills.
Chuck Norris doesn't blink....reality pauses.
Do you have to win an MVP to gain a second star? I followed all 21 links and figured that when I reached 10 turns I would be upgraded to two stars, but no such luck. Anyway to bump my stars before the game ends? Just trying to maximize my impact!
Your star count is based solely on your median star value. Rank your 5 star values; pick the middle one - that's your star value. For example; if you had the following values: 5 5 1 1 1, you'd have a star value of 1. Alternatively, if you had 3 3 3 5 5, you'd be a 3.
Apparently I type slow.
Where are you getting the 5 values for stars? There are only 4. I am having the same issue. 1 star for karma, 1 star for awards, 3 stars for turns played, and 4 stars for links explored. That is a median of 2.
You're missing a link. There's supposed to be 20 clicked.
Ok, I got that, but doesn't that still get me the same result? Shouldn't the median of 1, 1, 3, & 5 be 2 stars? I mean I failed my statistics course, so maybe I'm wrong.
I believe your overall is actually your median score, not the mean, which means you could have 3 1*s and 2 5*s (like me) and still be a 1*.
No mention about Nebraska team-killing Stanford? It's been a hot topic on the reddit boards today.
Yep, someone leaked an post from a Nebraska mod about how they were going to kill their allies to win it for the Reds yesterday, then Nebraska users denied it vehemently, even going so far as to say it was a false statement to try to get their rogues to stop attacking allies (whaaat?). Then the next day they killed Stanford. Cold blooded. Actually, corn blooded.
There are...
...only 7 more days of CFB Reddit Risk Posts!!! ?
Ah, but this is only the lead-up to CFB Reddit Axis and Allies.
At any rate, given the rule set, it seems the powers that be finally learned from Matthew Broderick and concluded that no one wins.
(it still would be nice to eliminate the Buckeyes, if that's possible)
But here is to hoping that 7th day is a glorious post.
Its better to be a warrior in a garden, than a gardener in a war.
GO BLUE
How did you make a new post?
We have insider information on Discord.
I clicked defend on the team I'm supposed too but I'm not sure what else I'm supposed to do.