CFB Risk Day 8 - WE NEED YOU TO AVENGE THE ORANGE BOWL (also, sparty's dead)

It's over for Sparty. Their small band of misfits attacked a little here, a little there, and wound up with nothing. They weren't close to favorites in any of their battles, and Lord RNG gave up on them. RIP Sparty.

You know where Lord RNG did decide to f*ck around? The Northeast USA. In Syracuse and Amherst, Georgia managed to gain/regain control with a combined force of 4. And these weren't lightly contested territories. The combined non-Georgia forces for those territories were 57.5. Syracuse especially is infuriating because Georgia had 28.5-to-1 odds. 

Yes, a 1-star took the territory back from us. Meaning you have the power to win a territory for Michigan by signing up today.

Now let's get back to the Orange Bowl. Georgia beat us fair and square in that game. It wasn't a bad call or unfortunate bounce that lost it for us. They were just a very, very talented team.

That's decidedly not the case in Risk. Georgia has 79 soldiers with 107 stars of power. We have (as the biggest team in the game) 603 players with 1149 stars of power. No other team has 1000 stars. We should be dominating them, and we WILL be dominating them. Getting revenge shouldn't be an overwhelming challenge.

But....I'll let you in on a little secret. Don't tell anybody...

 

OPPOSING FANS HATE MICHIGAN (duh.)

 

When we get toward the end game, teams will gang up on us and try to destroy us. It happens every year. The only way to win despite the borderline psychotic vitriol is with numbers. We have to maintain our overwhelming lead, and we have to keep building our strength by playing every day. That's the only way we have a shot in this Michigan vs. The World battlefield.

Again, a ONE STAR kept Syracuse despite 28.5-to-1 odds against him. Your participation matters, because any one of our soldiers, whether they're a 5-star or a 1-star, could make the difference.

So, once again, Go Blue and f*ck everybody in our way!

 

Steps To Play Every Day

(1) Sign up for a reddit.com account if you don’t have one already

(2) Visit collegefootballrisk.com – Click Sign in with Reddit – Select Michigan as your team

(3) Join the Michigan Risk discord by going to https://discord.gg/9xtrWhyR

(4) Go to the "vetting" channel and type in your MGoBlog username and Reddit username.

(5) Once vetted, get your orders from the "orders" channel.

(6) Return to collegefootballrisk.com – Click on the blinking "target" icon at the bottom of the page (3rd button from the right), and then click on the territory you're attacking or defending.

(7) Talk trash with your fellow Wolverines as we prepare for tonight's roll.

How Does the Game Work?

It is up to each team to recruit players and coordinate moves. You can choose to defend any territory that your team currently holds or attack any adjacent territory. A "roll" happens each evening to calculate which teams have won which territories that turn based on the moves that were made by individual players. The ultimate goal is to conquer as much of the map as possible for your team. There are a number of different ways to do this, such as through recruiting players in sheer numbers or forming alliances with other teams.

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