CFB Risk Final - You Can't Have One Without the Other

It's Over, And We Left No Doubt About Who Are The Leaders and Best

Y'all did it. Nearly 1,500 of us went to battle last night and came out as decisive victors. When the dust settled, we had 71 territories to our name, while Ohio State had just 34. 

More impressively, you helped us out-recruit Ohio State for the last turn. Their player count rose by over 200....ours rose by over 350! In fact, OSU's main recruiter (Westopher) was so impressed that he reached out to me and said...

"I just wanted to wish you a huge congratulations on pulling together the largest team in the game, and the largest sustained player base of all 3 games. Absolutely insane, you have my envy, and my respect."

For our efforts, MacGyver and I were awarded "Recruiters of the Year," but we would be nothing without y'all. Michigan's approach to recruiting has been different from the other big teams -- we rely on all of you to keep the community engaged and fighting. We don't have a single powerhouse recruiter. Instead, we believe that the power of our incredible community COMES from our incredible community. When you recruited a friend, it doubled your impact on the game, and that snowballed into a ridiculous advantage for us that lasted throughout.

I anticipate that more teams will try our approach in the future, but our success might just be The Michigan Difference. We will see.

All We Do Is Win, Win, Win

Despite the massive win, RNG didn't do us any favors last night. We came in at -8 vs. expected territories.

HOWEVER, we did get very lucky by taking each of Tuscaloosa, Starksville, and Tallahassee. We were underdogs in all three territories and only had a ~2.6% chance of winning all three. By nabbing them, though, we successfully "blacked out" the map -- meaning that we owned every territory in the game for at least one turn.

A few teams were trying for this achievement. For us to get it as a side victory in addition to our overall dominance is *chef's kiss*.

Krrsten on Twitch

BeerAg interviewed our fearless leader and Coach of the Year Krrsten on last night's Risk stream. I actually missed it, so I asked BeerAg for the clip, which he was kind enough to deliver last night.

So thanks to my forgetfulness, y'all can hear from Krrsten about how she got involved in Risk, what makes her a good General, her embracement of our freakishly large rogue army, and more.

In particular, she and BeerAg spent a lot of time discussing the ENORMOUS IMPACT of MGoBlog (thank you Seth!) and the contributions that each of you made to the winning effort. You can hear some of that at the 9:30 mark.

 

With all that said, thank you again for being part of this awesome victory. None of this would have been possible without you, the Wolverine Army. It was an honor serving with you.

Without further ado....

Muppet Time!

And you can't have one without the other.