Now we want to know, what was the mistake?
I’d say this is the first game where I got Twilight Struggle.
And I still have no idea how to play Africa!!
It was a while ago. I had advantage enough on the space race to have Ross play first and see his card, I was using a card that let me discard one of his, but played his card instead (I think it was the V rocket one). From there everything started to crumble, that amazing roll he had in W. Germany had me on the ropes for the rest of the game ( I think I lost like 4 points of influence or more), putting off fires with very little water.
I don’t think I ever had Africa in the blue. I’d say you play it pretty damn well 
Might be a question for @Benkyo . I think Zaire is key. but stability 1 countries make it a constant battle.
Ideally US wants to creep North from S Africa as early as Turn 2 as soon as Defcon hits 2. But you need 3 AR to do it, the last into the non-BG on AR6.
You also want the BG next to France before De Gaulle if possible.
But all this while trying to stay competitive in the early war regions is hard, and if Decolonisation happens first it’s all over. You can hope for Nuclear Subs or maybe Voice of America to fix things, or colonial rearguard to put pressure back on.
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Not sure if @lalunaverde & @jraven90 are still playing, but given that we already have a clear winner in @Benkyo, I wanted to thank you all for participating in this tournament! I hope you enjoyed starting nuclear armageddons, getting lucky dice rolls and losing to Ben. I’m more than happy to host a second Tekeli’s World Cup, if there’s an appetite for that. And otherwise, I’m always in for a thrashing, so just invite me for a game if you’re interested! 
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Thanks @qwertysoldier for organizing that. Not that I have any high expectations ( I think I lost all games but one), but what are the final standings? And congrats to @Benkyo, although I think we all knew who was favourite.
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Tekeli’s first glorious TS world championship deluxe - Standen - Challonge Here they are (without the last game, but one can figure the different outcomes pretty easily)! It’s Benkyo lonely at the top and then a big group in the middle and a few people just below that
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It seems to me that the “buchholz system”, used to differentiate between identical scores, presumably only works when all the results are in, and we’re currently missing one. Without that data, it looks to me like you are actually 2nd, along with qwertysoldier, chrislear, and one or the other of jraven90 and lalunaverde.
If anyone wants a game, no-one is currently taking me up on any of the other asynchronous games I listed so please send an invite my way.
Thanks for the games! I may not have won a single one - thanks to @Chewy77 discovering final scoring - but I enjoyed them all and would happily be an easy mode opponent again!
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I think jraven forgot about the game and still has a day left. I’ll consider that as a lose by default as we are still not at the end of the game
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