OT - Reddit CFB Risk Update 5/11: WE'RE SHIPPING UP TO BOSTON (COLLEGE)

Submitted by ReegsShannon on

As always, thanks everyone for your contributions to the war effort. We had an ANOTHER amazing night last night. We kept/maintained every single one of our primary goals: UMass, Syracuse, Army and Buttgers. We are now very close to solidifying a chokehold in the Northeast. We also managed to maintain Ann Arbor. We had ANOTHER enormous jump in power/users yesterday because of you guys. 

 

 

We're by far the fastest growing team in the game. And hey let's compare ourselves to OSU.

 

 

We now significantly outpower them after being weaker than them for most of the game. A LOT of salty OSU fans have been complaining that we've been creating bots. But we know that's its because you guys.

We are encouraging any users on here that have been attacking anything in Michigan or Ohio to send your resources to the Northeast. You can directly help by defending any of our current territories in the NE (Rutgers, Army, UMass which are at threat from Clemson) or attacking any enemy territories bordering them. In particular, we want you guys to hit the territories "Boston College" and "UConn" HARD. If we take them, we will have grabbed the corner of the map and have finally accomplished our first goal in the game.

Instructions to Join:

 

To join all you need to do is go to reddit.com/r/cfb and create an account if you don't already have one. Next, set your flair to Michigan. You can do this by clicking "Select Flair" on the right side of the cfb subreddit. Finally, you can join and play the game at https://vote.redditcfb.com/cfbrisk.php

 

If you want to discuss the game in deeper detail and strategize with us, you can join our discord server found here: https://discord.gg/TcZBTcj. We usually announce plans of what we want to attack/defend in the evenings, but we discuss strategy all day. Be warned though, there will be a vetting process to join the discord as we have had some mole issues from OSU. Even if you don’t pass the vetting process, we can still provide less-secret instructions in the general chat so that you can still help us towards our goals until we can fully 100% trust you.

 

Additionally, we have formed "The Blue Alliance" with Florida and Georgia Tech. If you would like to meme about this, go to: www.reddit.com/r/CFBRisk/

 

Go Blue!

 

Instructions as to how to play:

At the beginning of the game. Every team was assigned one single territory, and so every territory is now named after that team. When you go to select an action in the game, you'll see option such as: 

"Defend Buffalo", "Attack Penn State", "Attack Kent State".

This means that we border the location that was originally assigned to Penn State and Kent State. If you choose to attack Penn State, you will attempt to take that piece of land next round. Defend Buffalo, means that we currently own Buffalo's original homeland, and defending Buffalo means putting your stars towards keeping Buffalo from being taken.

After you submit what you're doing for the day, just sit back at wait! At Midnight EST all of the picks from all of the teams go in, and a random number generator selects a winner for each territory. Then it all happens again tomorrow. 

 

Full instructions/explanations are available HERE
 

Map as of 5/11:

 

And a close up of our region:

 

The Maizer

May 11th, 2018 at 1:35 PM ^

This just caused me to create a reddit account. I have avoided that for years and years because of the fear that it will consume all of my time and productivity (I spend enough time on reddit even without an account). If that comes to pass, my life falling apart will rest on your shoulders Reegs.

AmaizeingBlue

May 11th, 2018 at 5:37 PM ^

For everyone that has created a new reddit account to participate in this game: Please visit the game's home page and look for a message similar to the one below. There has been an issue with bots and alternate accounts across the board and as a result the mods have become more strict in flagging suspicious accounts as bots or alts. Meaning that new users are at a higher risk of being wrongfully flagged.

 

LKLIII

May 11th, 2018 at 6:02 PM ^

BTW, the guys over at Reddit have already adopted a nickname for users joining from this discussion board--the "MGoHorde."  Baiscally large volume yet low power (since many of us are new).

The way to maximize that is through efficient communication/strategy.  Otherwise we end up throwing way too many bodies at a territory than necessary. 

So, once you sign onto the game & pick Michigan flair, the next big thing you can really do is get vetted & confortable using that Discord app/chat.

Once you go through all that trouble & actually get vetted by the Discord guys to check out the specific orders/strategy, please make a point to LOG your intentions!! 

The faster certain territory assignments fill up on Discord (and the only way we can know for sure is people log their intentions), the more quickly/efficiently we can re-allocate the overflow to an under-served territory or possibly expand our ambitions for that turn.

Otherwise we run the risk of just totally nuking one or two territories while either falling short in others and/or missing an opportunity to pick up an extra territory.

jamesjosephharbaugh

May 11th, 2018 at 6:43 PM ^

The discord group actually counts on the MGoHorde menbers who dont use discord to vote generally how we advise them here. Everyone is welcome to join the chat but if you dont want to, youre still helping by following the posts here.

LKLIII

May 11th, 2018 at 7:28 PM ^

I mean yeah definitely. If the choice is “join randomly” vs “not at all” then we definitely want any help we can get. But if you really want to be efficient, get vetted through Discord & not only follow the specific orders, but make sure to log your intentions too, so we are flying less blindly.

And we do want to avoid getting too specific on MGoBlog. Lurkers/spies are everywhere.

Kris go blue

May 11th, 2018 at 6:55 PM ^

I haven't been able to stand Uconn for over 20 years. Any reason to attack them is a good reason to me. Fuck Jim Calhoun!