It's been, what, two and a half years since I started? Let's see how much I can remember! And by remember, I mean I'm not signing in to check confessionals/PMs, though that'd be a bit of a help... Let's see... where to start...
Liar Game Tournament 2011, more well known as LGT2, started in June 2011, and applications were open for approximately a month. They reached... around 30-some players? I don't remember the exact number, but you can see exactly how many there were by the entrance ceremony video, assuming it's still somewhere on YouTube. I think close to 36. 6 games of 6 makes that reasonable. They also had some substitutes, so there were probably a bit above 36 by the time the game started.
The first game was Going Postal, and it seems it was a game that promoted much going on behind the scenes. I don't have too much to say except that I'm a bit sad I wasn't a part of it. There were winners, there were losers, and the losers went on to a Revival Round. Winners also went on a Magical Mystery Tour. Yep, again, I don't have too much to say here. I wasn't around to see it, and the game threads themselves are up for people to see. Stockpile Game was rather interesting, and I think it kept most of the players interested. The only problems were inactives. That and Adam clones... I think 10k remembers the Adam debacle here, but for those of you who don't, he had the username Monday. Needless to say, he was banned there, he was banned here, and he won't be allowed in later tournaments. But I won't get into that here.
Anyway, we've gotten to around August by now in my recap. I found the site just before the end of Stockpile Game and quickly signed up as a substitute, resigning myself to just watch the game. Then Adam clones got found and banned, and I entered the formal tournament. ...I kinda freaked out, I was so excited. The Revival Ticket auction I seem to remember concluded quickly, mainly due to the large number of inactives eliminated. I think they just gave the active people the tickets and didn't worry about anything else. Notoriety Game came, and I analyzed the game to figure out a "Nao" solution (that wasn't entirely Nao, but ehh... we had a 6 player game turned 5 player, so we kinda achieved voting majority there...). I made an alliance, won the game, got into the Mystery Round, and one of my alliance members left to be replaced by someone I had no idea about. They luckily decided to help out, and we won the Mystery Round, and then the Transaction Block happened.
Meanwhile, the Revival Round 2 was happening, and it was an EXTREMELY nice game. Players got through it with little problem, and I think no one was eliminated. Maybe one person, but I don't think so. Black Cards and Revival Tickets obtained as prizes went unused... But there were few enough players, and alliances were forming behind the scenes. I was sort of disadvantaged by being a late-comer, as I couldn't tell exactly who had been allied in previous games or what.
I think, by now, we're in October. It's Main Round 3, and I got switched with another player by an item. So I kinda had no alliance. I picked people to try and trust, and it kinda sorta worked. I didn't lose money, but I didn't gain money either. Blood Money was a difficult information-based game, and I hadn't spent enough time early on to figure out strategies because of school and, well, lack of a firm alliance... But with only two winners, it was obvious most people were bound for Revival Round.
I remember hearing a bit about the Mystery Round, and the setup of prizes wasn't quite fair. There were also some situations where it was impossible for players to create the setup of prizes they wanted to give each other. There was debate about whether the game was unfair or not due to that, and I think in the end, it was slightly unfair. Still, the dealers had reasons to not allow all possibilities, though some prizes gave too much debt. It's one of those things I think about now as a dealer that I hadn't as a player...
...anyway, back to games I was in. Siege Game. It happened around December and ended on Christmas Day. In the morning. Yep. Anyway, this game was filled with problems. There were many alliances with their own goals. People disappeared mid-game, though one of those people came back at just the right time to mess things up. Here's about when my alliance pretty much disappeared due to inactivity, and I had to rely on Aitou's alliance instead... I found out after a bit that the two opposing alliances at that time were actually one and the same, so... yeah. Well, I had secondary goals to winning the tournament. Back to Siege Game, I had tried to orchestrate a way out of the game with most people profiting and mainly inactives dead. Suffice to say, there was a time limit to the game, and winners of Blood Money were trying to stall the game to make time run out and everyone die. Considering the many alliances bickering, that's what happened. Everyone lost 100M yen. Because time ran out. I got reasonably pissed. I'm not sure if finding out people had tried to make it happen made it better or worse...
Still, I was by no means broke, and I was actually able to buy a Revival Ticket for myself, even with the winners trying to bring the prices up extremely high (200M, I think?). I think there may have been one other person who could do that, but it wasn't needed. He was my ally from Round 2 who had recently returned, and I was able to get him revived.
Siege Game wasn't meant to have timed out, so that threw a wrench in the Dealers' plans. They took a bit of time fixing things for a new Round 4. Well, we kinda tried to get things to work, but it didn't work out so well. The new substitute ended up being chosen as the winner (though he had no hope in Round 5), and Renn volunteered to be the sacrificial lamb, since one player was eliminated. On to Revival Round 4, where I was eliminated, with many others.
Okay. Here I was a naive idiot, right? I was tricked, time and again, the exact same way. Yep. Did I care? Well, not horribly. Except for Aitou's betrayal. If he'd just asked me to lose to him, I'd have done so, gladly. I even offered. But whatever. What's done is done. I left the game fulfilling most of what I had tried to do. I made it almost to the end. I left with profit. I paid back all debts I owed. I trusted people, maybe too much. If my alliance hadn't gone AWOL on me, I may have actually had more of a chance... ...but probably not. I'm not that good of a player, as you may have seen in Russian Roulette.
Anyway, then came Round 5, and I didn't really take part in it. There were people asking me to get information from one person and leak it to the other, and I simply said that I was staying out of it. LGT Casino was also going on by then, though it was pretty much just in the signup phase, I believe. Also, minigames.
Speaking of minigames, I really liked that we had a lot of them going on, at least when I started. I and a few others tried to set up an LmGT (Liar mini-Game Tournament), and that's where Memory came from, which got much more attention here than there. It's pretty much when I started planning the Casino, actually. I liked our run of Bid Poker, and I think On A Roll attracted a few people to the Casino. It definitely went better than I'd hoped as an introductory game.
Anyway, this feels pretty much like deja vu to me, and there's a pretty good reason: I've done a recap similar (though not identical) to this before. For those interested in other people's recaps of the games and behind-the-scenes and the like, or for another recap from me when this was fresher in my mind, check out the relevant thread here:
liargametournament.proboards.com/thread/1700/reveal-secrets One thing I'm definitely noticing when going back through threads is that the new proboards doesn't have a
smiley. ...I used that so often, and I really liked it. Now the posts just look strange.
...also the [
] smiley. It was better before. And the winking smiley has an upside-down wink now. And... I hate the new smileys... If I could find the old ones, I'd fix it. I'd fix it all. Can someone find them and send them to me? Pretty please?