Risk Day 21 - East Coast! West Coast! Let's Keep The Party Going!
You guys are amazing. We asked you to step up to the plate, and step up you did! We are now tied for the most territories in the game. More importantly, though, our player count continues to rise and our power continues to pace the field (though OSU still leads in player count, which is NOT cool....let's fix that. Ok? Ok.). And that strength has allowed us to go from simply being an annoyance for Ohio State on the east coast to having control over most of the Mid-Atlantic, giving us significant presences on both coasts. Impressive!
But we can't stop there. Risk is about dominance, and dominance requires smarts and perseverance. We have the smarts taken care of with some math / programming geniuses giving out strategic assignments through MichiganCFBRisk.com, but we need YOU for the perseverance. As mentioned, the easiest way to accumulate power in this game is to play every-single-day. It doesn't take very long, but it is so hugely helpful. We did it last year when we became known for having a flood of new recruits on a regular basis, and now it's time to show that we can do it again.So keep visiting MichiganCFBRisk.com. Keep putting in your moves. And let's keep the good times rolling! Go Blue!
Steps To Play Every Day With Hyperlinks:
- Sign up for a https://reddit.com/ account if you don’t have one already
- Visit https://collegefootballrisk.com/ – Click Sign in with Reddit – Select Michigan as your team
- Visit https://michigancfbrisk.com/ - click “Login using Reddit” – Click “Get an Assignment”
- Return to https://collegefootballrisk.com/ – Scroll to the bottom of the page and execute your assignment (Note: Simply clicking action so that it becomes highlighted gray confirms the move. There’s no submit or confirm button needed)
April 13th, 2020 at 11:14 AM ^
I attempted to post a PDF of easy-to-read instructions with hyperlinks, but it seems like it just attached as a file and doesn't appear with the body of the post.
Anyways, we really appreciate the continued support on here. We all know that no one is getting any work done today and everyone is sitting around waiting for the "Hello: Josh Christopher" post. In the meantime you can create a reddit account and put your first ever college football risk move in.
April 13th, 2020 at 12:12 PM ^
See? Not so easy, is it?
April 13th, 2020 at 11:16 AM ^
I learned the hard way that the streak star counter does not keep your longest streak, but reverts back to your current streak.
Went from being 3 star to 1 star from missing one day. I'll get back to it from here on out, but wanted people to know (in case they didn't already) that you can't miss a day or you revert stars.
April 13th, 2020 at 11:59 AM ^
This happened to me. I was getting close to 4-star status. Had 4-stars for total turns and streak and creeping on round turns. Missed a day and now I'm back to one star.
April 13th, 2020 at 11:22 AM ^
Orders executed. How do I get from 3 stars to 4 stars?
April 13th, 2020 at 11:29 AM ^
https://collegefootballrisk.com/help
Got to have four stars in 3 of the 5 categories on the how to play page. You can check your progress in each category on the home page right above where the map is.
April 13th, 2020 at 11:33 AM ^
I have 4 stars for Total turns (69) and Streak (10)... Waiting to get my 4th star on Round Turns (im at 19, so hopefully its soon)
I've basically given up on adding stars in the other two categories. I don't use reddit and I have played almost every turn both seasons so far and never gotten MVP....
April 13th, 2020 at 11:56 AM ^
You will get your 4th star as soon as you hit 25 days played for this round. Assuming you don’t lose your streak.
April 13th, 2020 at 12:02 PM ^
There's going to be a large spike of 4 stars later this week (myself included!).
I missed days 2 and 4, so only at 19 (out of 21) days for the round.
17 day streak and 76 total turns. 29 more days to 5 star status! :P
How do I earn stars?
There are two types of star ratings. The most important is your overall star rating, which is what determines how many points you contribute in attack or defense. The second consists of your star rating in five sub-categories. Your overall star rating is the MEDIAN star rating you have achieved in the five sub-categories. For example, if you sub-category star ratings break down as 5/1/2/3/3, your overall star rating would be the median value of 3. Here are the five sub-categories and criteria for each:
- Total turns played across all rounds of College Football Risk (including the reddit version)
- One star - 0 total turns played
- Two stars - 10 total turns played
- Three stars - 25 total turns played
- Four stars - 50 total turns played
- Five stars - 100 total turns played
- Turns played during the current round of College Football Risk
- One star - 0 turns played this round
- Two stars - 5 turns played this round
- Three stars - 10 turns played this round
- Four stars - 25 turns played this round
- Five stars - 40 turns played this round
- Number of MVPs awarded
- One star - 0 MVPs
- Two stars - 1 MVP
- Three stars - 5 MVPs
- Four stars - 10 MVPs
- Five stars - 25 MVPs
- Streak of consecutive turns played
- One star - 0 consecutive turns played
- Two stars - 3 consecutive turns played
- Three stars - 5 consecutive turns played
- Four stars - 10 consecutive turns played
- Five stars - 25 consecutive turns played
- Awards on r/CFB
- One star - 0 r/CFB awards
- Two stars - 1 r/CFB awards
- Three stars - 2 r/CFB awards
- Four stars - 3 r/CFB awards
- Five stars - 4 r/CFB awards
April 13th, 2020 at 11:30 AM ^
Can we just crush Stanford already? They have 42 players and 268 star power spread over 4 territories. Regain some protected territories and push east. Take their land...and their freedom!
April 13th, 2020 at 11:42 AM ^
That would be just lovely....
The problem is that probabilities make it very hard to eliminate even the weakest teams.
April 13th, 2020 at 11:57 AM ^
Trying! We’ve had an ~80% chance on every territory with them the last 2 days and they’ve gotten lucky and us unlucky.
April 13th, 2020 at 12:20 PM ^
Seems like probability is thrown out when you're not winning on 80% chance to win battles. Hopefully the luck swings back to the good guys soon! Continuing to do my part but currently taking orders out east.
No, that's the difference between 80% and 100%. If something is 80% likely, you expect it to fail once out of five times on average.
So 80% in a 5 territory battle we'd take 4? Not how it's been playing out.
Yesterday we abutted 3 Stanford territories, while they abutted 5 of ours, so we were fighting them in a total of 8 territories. If we were an 80% chance to win each of those 8 territories we would only be expected to do so roughly 16.8% of the time. For us to have a greater than 50% chance of winning all of the territories our likelihood of winning each would need to be a little over 91.7%.
In other words, it's very unlikely we will be able to eliminate Stanford from the West Coast unless we can convince them to direct their focus elsewhere.
Careful mate, we don't what to slip into the abyss that is OSU and their lack of knowledge of stats.
This relates to something other people have said. When someone loses a battle they should have their star power diminished proportionately. Instead Stanford’s star power will just concentrate in a smaller number of territories making it harder to eliminate them
I think that the gamesmakers should provide a power boost to teams who eliminate a team. The game only progresses when teams lose completely. Incentivize teams to go all in and knock someone out which would allow us to really throw all of our weight against Stanford instead of worrying about losing other territories.
April 13th, 2020 at 11:32 AM ^
Just out of curiosity - how do the orders gets determined? Is this in the discord / programming genius' code? Don't disclose any of the strategy but curious who my commanders are.
April 13th, 2020 at 11:44 AM ^
From my understanding, some Michigan fans who are regulars in the Discord figure out a strategy through math that would make me cry, and then make adjustments throughout the day based on how many people have gotten assignments.
April 13th, 2020 at 12:17 PM ^
There are a few different groups that play into it. There's the strategy squad, which is mostly a bunch of people who can barely math, but who decide which territories are most important for today.
Then there is the nerd squad, who the strategy squad gives the priorities for the day, and they do their nerd thing and say, "You need x stars on y territory."
Strategy squad then puts their numbers into the assignment site and the site automatically distributes people based on the numbers input. Once quotas are full, they can be adjusted. So if we have a bunch of players early in the day, strategy squad decides, "Let's bump up stars on y territory."
April 13th, 2020 at 12:08 PM ^
Can Chaos just attack anywhere ? Even if they are not bordering anything? How did they get the mountain west territories when they only had a few in the Mid-West/East Coast?
April 13th, 2020 at 12:17 PM ^
They can only attack bordering territories. If you look at past maps, you can see their steady progress west.
April 13th, 2020 at 12:30 PM ^
Thank you, I haven't been paying too much attention to the map but didn't remember seeing them that far west.
April 13th, 2020 at 12:30 PM ^
duplicate
April 13th, 2020 at 12:21 PM ^
Chaos had access to (and won) Wyoming because they held ISU the day prior. Prior to taking ISU, they held Iowa. Prior to that, Mizzou. And so on.
The CFB Risk main page has a link to past maps.
April 13th, 2020 at 12:59 PM ^
Give up.
Hey Julia,
brucecber confirming ID.
i finally did it. i joined and played. that undisclosed team just took a hit!
Just got back in last night (sorry, too stressed with my wife working at the hospital these past few weeks). I played last year so I will be up to a 4 star status in 3 weeks....
Also got my 2 sons to join today. So the Michigan Army continues to MGrowHUGE!!
Thanks for playing! And thank your wife from all of us, she's the real MVP
Woooo Whoooo!!!
Yesterday I got to kick blohio in the buck-nuts.
Today, I get to do it to their little sister blohio U.
Woooo Whoooo!!!
Just playing what the computer gives me.....like everyone else.
We advise against sharing your assignments in public. The more information that is available to our opponents, the better they can prepare.
TY for sharing that in a non-hostile way.
How do they prepare if the assignments are randomly generated by a computer?
We tell the computer how many people to send to each territory each day, so it's all controlled.
TY for that information.
I have always disliked RISK, but this is different. I didn't have to think. I didn't have to roll the dice. I didn't have to move little pieces of plastic. I didn't have to do anything but create a reddit account (so easy even a caveman can do it) and then I took my assignments. Yesterday I defended UCLA, today I attacked ****** (name hidden to prevent spies from knowing our strategems)! Come on guys, let's pull it together and kick some buckeye nuts!
In the spirit of that I watched the Clemson Ohio playoff game yesterday. So nice to see them lose (again). I know it's sad not to have any DVR'ed Michigan victories over them, but someday I will!
TODAY'S GOAL: 900
We need everyone's help!
If you've already joined, THANK YOU! Please, place you move daily.
If you haven't, please consider helping close the gap with the leaders.
#1 OSU has 54 more participants
#2 Michigan (820 participants)
#3 TAMU has 59 more participants
#4 GT has 321 less participants
https://collegefootballrisk.com/leaderboard
Hey guys, Great job! Keep up the good work! Invariably OSU and TAMU will have a jump again in participation tonight (seems like that's how it goes) so please log your move daily.