[LGT] Game 3: Contraband Game / Downsizing Game [Game Over]

[Artier]

At the end of the Election Game, you find yourself far more tired than you would have thought possible. After all, you did not engage in much physical activity - perhaps it is merely the lateness of the hour. You make your way to your room and sleep rather more deeply than usual.
On the following day, after a heartening breakfast is served, you and your fellow players are once again asked by the masked men to follow them. This time, however, you are not taken to what you've come to think of as the voting room; instead, you are instructed to enter a large elevator, taking you underground. At the end of its ride, you find yourself in a large empty room. You can see various exits going off in different directions, but before you have a chance to open one and see where it leads, one of the walls slides open into a monitor, and the masked man who announces the games appears.
"Ladies and gentlemen, disaster has struck Erehwon! The Prime Minister has staged a coup d'état, after too many of her policies were vetoed by the president and his advisors. Her coup found the support of half the population of Erehwon and has divided the country. Now, the land is de facto divided into East and West Erehwon and the two sides are preparing for war. This conflict is inevitable, but will cause a lot of trouble for each of you financially. Each of you happens to have a substantial amount of money on the "wrong side" as it were, and you need to smuggle it out, before it is seized by the enemy.

Description.

In this game, you will be divided into two teams of seven players each. The game will consist of 30 rounds. During each round, each team will select one person (smuggler) to attempt to smuggle some money out, and one person (customs officer) to attempt to block the opposing smuggler. In the end, the team that manages to smuggle out the most money wins.

Rules.

- Private communication is allowed at all times, with one exception. A smuggler and an opposing customs officer may only communicate with each other, until the round is over.
- puzzledan and Mist7676 are the team leaders and will pick the teams (see below).
- At the start of each round, the team leaders will announce the smuggler of their team, for that round. Following this, they will also announce the customs officer of their team, for that round. It is also allowed that these announcements are made in advance, to expedite matters.
- Once the smugglers and customs officers are announced, the smugglers will have 24 hours to send me a PM with the amount they intend to smuggle that round. Similarly, the customs officers will have 24 hours to send me a PM with the amount they intend to seize. These amounts must both be between $0 and $100,000, inclusive.

- If the customs officer attempts to seize more than the amount the smuggler is attempting to smuggle, he must pay a penalty equal to half the difference of the two amounts to the smuggler. Furthermore, the smuggling attempt is successful.
- If the customs officer attempts to seize at most the amount the smuggler is attempting to smuggle, he successfully seizes that amount. The difference is successfully smuggled.

- The team which manages to smuggle the most money after 30 rounds wins.
- At the end of the game, any money that has not been smuggled will be divided to the other side.
- The losing team will afterwards play a downsizing game. The loser of this game will be eliminated from the tournament.

Funds.

- Each player will have two accounts for this game. These are the "inside account", which will come under the control of the other team at the end of the game, and the "outside account", which is under your own control.
- The inside accounts start with $300,000 each. The outside accounts start with $100,000 each. At the end of the game, each player will pay back the sum of $300,000, from their outside account.
- The outside account can go negative (in debt).
- Money is smuggled from the inside account to the outside account. No other transfers between accounts are possible.
- Money successfully smuggled or seized will be transferred to the appropriate outside account.
- Penalties for customs officers will be paid from the outside account of the customs officer to the outside account of the smuggler.
- Money left in inside accounts after 30 rounds will be divided between the players of the opposite team.
- The final amount in each player's outside account will be added to their tournament account and thus be added to their score.

Teams:

West Erehwon.

- puzzledan
- Blackberry
- Xayzeck
- goodmorning
- Cheery Dog
- Dessew
- hayatoBL

East Erehwon.

- Mist7676
- Klick
- penguin_alien

Shiidaji

- JDGA
- PiggyGal15
- D3f3nd3r
- SleepyKrew

We will now begin the process for picking teams. puzzledan is the leader of the West Erehwon team and Mist7676 is the leader of the East Erehwon team. To start, Mist7676 will pick another player, to join her team. Afterwards, puzzledan will pick a player to join his team. Subsequently, the person most recently added to each side will be the one to select the next player to join their team. (So, for example, if Mist7676 picks goodmorning, goodmorning will be the next person to choose who will join the East Erehwon team.) This process will continue, until we have two teams of 7 players.

Mist7676 can go ahead and make her choice.

[Artier]

If players agree, we can combine multiple rounds, to make things go faster.

Also, please note the following clarifications, added to the rules:

- If the customs officer attempts to seize more than the amount the smuggler is attempting to smuggle, the smuggle attempt is successful.
- The customs officer may also choose to post the amount he intends to seize in-thread, as opposed to sending me a PM.
- Outside accounts can have a negative balance.
- The final amount of the outside accounts will be transferred to your tournament account, at the end of this game.

[Artier]

I will assume that Shii intended to pick JDGA, in this situation.

Xayzeck, you can pick next.

[Artier]

Several masked men arrive and lead your team to one of the exits in the large room and your opponents to another. You are now in a smaller room, with armchairs and little side-tables. On them are snacks, beverages and pads of paper.

You are told that you may discuss your strategy freely here, and that the smuggling rounds will take place in the other rooms adjoining the main one.

It is time for you to begin discussing strategies within your team.

The quicktopics for both teams will be sent out shortly. You may use them, if you like, or choose some other form of communication, if you prefer.

As mentioned earlier, we can save time, by combining rounds together. I believe that 3 rounds at a time would be a good balance. Thus, puzzledan and Mist7676 will announce 3 different names to be smugglers, at a time. Once a team has declared its smugglers, the opposing team can assign a customs officer to each of them.

Both teams will now have 3 days ((expired on 2014-07-26 07:02:46) left) to form their initial strategies and announce their first set of smugglers/customs officers. You do not need to wait until the end of this period to make your announcements.

As a reminder, please note that smugglers and customs officers assigned to them can only communicate with each other, until their actions are resolved.

[Artier]

The quicktopics have been sent.

Each player now has an "inside account" with $300,000 and an "outside account" with $100,000.

[Artier]

I should, perhaps, point out that each team will have to announce its three smugglers, before the other team reveals its customs officers. In a way, this means that there is no "going first"; smugglers of opposite sides are not in direct competition, as such.

[Artier]

If you could also please announce your customs officers, as soon as possible?

The smugglers from each side may send me a PM with the amount they wish to smuggle.

[Artier]

Splendid.

Now the smugglers should send me a PM with the amount they wish to smuggle, whilst the customs officers should send one with the amount they believe their opponent is trying to smuggle.

To clarify, JDGA will try to stop puzzledan, Piggygal15 will try to stop goodmorning, and so on. Each smuggler/officer pair can communicate with each other and each other only, until they have both sent in their actions.

The deadline for the above is 1 day from now ((expired on 2014-07-28 08:24:15) left).

[Artier]

Prodding players who have not as yet submitted their action.

[Artier]

I am still waiting for Shiidaji to reply to his prod.

Since all other pairs have submitted, I will lock everyone's actions and allow private communication once again. The exception to this are Shiidaji and hayatoBL, who are still in the customs office, as it were.

[Artier]

Looking for a replacement for Shiidaji.

If I cannot find one soon, his action will automatically be an attempt to smuggle $100,000, so that the game can proceed.

[Artier]

penguin_alien replaces Shiidaji. As such, hayatoBL may change his action, if he so wishes.

[Artier]

And the results for the first set of smuggling attempts are in. They are as follows:

West Erehwon:
- puzzledan attempts to smuggle $100,000. JDGA attempts to block $49,000. $49,000 is blocked and $51,000 is smuggled.
- goodmorning attempts to smuggle $5000. Piggygal15 attempts to block $34,999. $5000 is smuggled and $15,000 is paid in penalties by Piggygal15 to goodmorning.
- Dessew attempts to smuggle $98,999. D3f3nd3r attempts to block $30,000. $30,000 is blocked and $68,999 is smuggled.

West Erehwon successfully smuggled $124,999, thus far.

East Erehwon:
- Mist7676 attempts to smuggle $100,000. Blackberry attempts to block $80,000. $80,000 is blocked and $20,000 is smuggled.
- Klick attempts to smuggle $100,000. Cheery Dog attempts to block $50,000. $50,000 is blocked and $50,000 is smuggled.
- penguin_alien attempts to smuggle $0. hayatoBL attempts to block $0. $0 is blocked and $0 is smuggled.

East Erehwon successfully smuggled $70,000, thus far.

The two team leaders have 24 hours to submit the next set of smugglers and customs officers. (expired on 2014-08-01 23:58:45)

[Artier]

A small clarification to the rules:

Each player

has an inside and outside account, which held a total of $400,000 at the start of the game, between them. That is, each player can individually smuggle up to $300,000 in total, but each team has up to 30 smuggling attempts to divide between its players.

I apologise for not making this more clear.

[Artier]

Wait where did $400,000 come from?

Isn't it, Inside accounts have $300,000 and whenever you smuggle you take that much from your inside account to your outside account, and you walk away with everything from your outside account? Where does money go when the custom's officer stops it? Do they keep it in their inside or outside account? And that means I only have $200,000 left to smuggle, correct?

Your outside accounts started with $100,000. Your inside accounts started with $300,000. The total was $400,000 per player.

Having taken $100,000 out of your inside account, it is now down to $200,000, which is the remaining amount you can potentially smuggle, just as you said.

[Artier]

I have prodded Mist7676.

For now, as the first person to join East Erehwon, Klick can make the decisions regarding who will be smugglers/customs officers. If Mist7676 does not return and is replaced, Klick will continue as the leader of the East Erehwon team.

[Artier]

Apologies for the delay, everyone.

The smugglers and customs officers can send me the amounts they intend to smuggle or block, over the next 24 hours. ((expired on 2014-08-04 15:10:13) left)

In future rounds, feel free to send in your amounts before I make the announcement, if you so wish.

[Artier]

Results for the second set of smuggling attempts:

West Erehwon:
- puzzledan attempts to smuggle $100,000. Mist7676 attempts to block $0. $100,000 is smuggled.
- Blackberry attempts to smuggle $29,000. Klick attempts to block $40,000. $29,000 is smuggled and $5500 is paid in penalties by Klick to Blackberry.
- Xayzeck attempts to smuggle $75,000. penguin_alien attempts to block $20,000. $20,000 is blocked and $55,000 is smuggled.

West Erehwon successfully smuggled $308,999, thus far.

East Erehwon:
- JDGA attempts to smuggle $100,000. goodmorning attempts to block $50,000. $50,000 is blocked and $50,000 is smuggled.
- Piggygal15 attempts to smuggle $100,000. Dessew attempts to block $48,999. $48,999 is blocked and $51,001 is smuggled.
- D3f3nd3r attempts to smuggle $18,250. hayatoBL attempts to block $40,000. $18,250 is smuggled and $10,875 is paid in penalties by hayatoBL to D3f3nd3r.

East Erehwon successfully smuggled $189,251, thus far.

The two team leaders have 24 hours to submit the next set of smugglers and customs officers. ((expired on 2014-08-06 08:20:45))

[Artier]

The smugglers and customs officers can send me the amounts they intend to smuggle or block, over the next 24 hours. ((expired on 2014-08-07 12:23:24) left)

[Artier]

I have everyone's actions, except SleepyKrew's, who is V/LA. As such, I will ask his team leader, Mist7676, to make the choice for how much he will try to block, this round.

[Artier]

Results for the third set of smuggling attempts:

West Erehwon:
- hayatoBL attempts to smuggle $100,000. Klick attempts to block $20,000. $20,000 is blocked and $80,000 is smuggled.
- Cheery Dog attempts to smuggle $153. Mist7676 attempts to block $25,000. $153 is smuggled and $12,423 is paid in penalties by Mist7676 to Cheery Dog.
- Xayzeck attempts to smuggle $75,000. SleepyKrew attempts to block $50,000. $50,000 is blocked and $25,000 is smuggled.

West Erehwon successfully smuggled $414,152, thus far.

East Erehwon:
- JDGA attempts to smuggle $48,000. Blackberry attempts to block $50,000. $48,000 is smuggled and $1000 is paid in penalties by Blackberry to JDGA.
- Piggygal15 attempts to smuggle $49,999. Dessew attempts to block $100,000. $49,999 is smuggled and $25,001 is paid in penalties by Dessew to Piggygal15.
- D3f3nd3r attempts to smuggle $75,000. goodmorning attempts to block $45,000. $45,000 is blocked and $30,000 is smuggled.

East Erehwon successfully smuggled $317,250, thus far.

The two team leaders have 24 hours to submit the next set of smugglers and customs officers. ((expired on 2014-08-10 14:42:10))

[Artier]

Could I smuggle for all three rounds (as they are supposed to be different ones )

The rounds were indeed supposed to be different ones, but the past ones were also supposed to be known, by the time the future ones came around. So, no, the participants must be distinct, so that the rounds can truly be concurrent.

[Artier]

^I think you mean Custom officers, am I right?

I will choose to assume that this is correct.

The smugglers and customs officers can send me the amounts they intend to smuggle or block, over the next 24 hours. ((expired on 2014-08-12 14:51:01) left)

[Artier]

With the fourth set of smuggling attempts completed, we are now over one third of the way done. Here are the results:

West Erehwon:
- Dessew attempts to smuggle $97,999. Klick attempts to block $49,000. $49,000 is blocked and $48,999 is smuggled.
- Cheery Dog attempts to smuggle $79,135. Mist7676 attempts to block $0. $79,135 is smuggled.
- hayatoBL attempts to smuggle $100,000. SleepyKrew attempts to block $50,000. $50,000 is blocked and $50,000 is smuggled.

East Erehwon:
- penguin_alien attempts to smuggle $15,000. Xayzeck attempts to block $40,000. $15,000 is smuggled and $12,500 is paid in penalties by Xayzeck to penguin_alien.
- JDGA attempts to smuggle $0. puzzledan attempts to block $50,000. $25,000 is paid in penalties by puzzledan to JDGA.
- PiggyGal15 attempts to smuggle $99,999. goodmorning attempts to block $45,000. $45,000 is blocked and $54,999 is smuggled.

Here are the current standings:

West Erehwon

have successfully smuggled

$592,286

, blocked $318,999 and received $32,923 from penalties.
Their inside accounts add up to

$1,239,714

, whilst their outside accounts add up to

$1,569,832

.

East Erehwon

have successfully smuggled

$387,249

, blocked $268,000 and received $74,376 from penalties.
Their inside accounts add up to

$1,393,752

, whilst their outside accounts add up to

$1,396,702

.

Please refer to your team's Quicktopic, for a break-down of the accounts of each player in your team.

The two team leaders have 24 hours to submit the next set of smugglers and customs officers. ((expired on 2014-08-13 22:37:48))

[Artier]

The smugglers and customs officers can send me the amounts they intend to smuggle or block, over the next 24 hours. ((expired on 2014-08-16 05:48:42) left)

[Artier]

Still waiting for one person to send in their action. They have been prodded.

[Artier]

Results for the fifth set of smuggling attempts:

West Erehwon:
- Blackberry attempts to smuggle $95,000. JDGA attempts to block $20,000. $20,000 is blocked and $75,000 is smuggled.
- goodmorning attempts to smuggle $100,000. Klick attempts to block $5000. $5000 is blocked and $95,000 is smuggled.
- Cheery Dog attempts to smuggle $65,432. penguin_alien attempts to block $40,000. $40,000 is blocked and $25,432 is smuggled.

West Erehwon successfully smuggled $787,718, thus far.

East Erehwon:
- Mist7676 attempts to smuggle $100,000. puzzledan attempts to block $0. $100,000 is smuggled.
- Piggygal15 attempts to smuggle $10,002. hayatoBL attempts to block $50,000. $10,002 is smuggled and $19,999 is paid in penalties by hayatoBL to Piggygal15.
- D3f3nd3r attempts to smuggle $66,665. Dessew attempts to block $48,999. $48,999 is blocked and $17,666 is smuggled.

East Erehwon successfully smuggled $514,917, thus far.

The two team leaders have 24 hours to submit the next set of smugglers and customs officers. ((expired on 2014-08-18 06:07:37))

[Artier]

The smugglers and customs officers can send me the amounts they intend to smuggle or block, over the next 24 hours. ((expired on 2014-08-19 14:22:45) left)

[Artier]

Results for the sixth set of smuggling attempts:

West Erehwon:
- Blackberry attempts to smuggle $45,000. SleepyKrew attempts to block $20,000. $20,000 is blocked and $25,000 is smuggled.
- Cheery Dog attempts to smuggle $99,845. D3f3nd3r attempts to block $30,000. $30,000 is blocked and $69,845 is smuggled.
- Xayzeck attempts to smuggle $100,000. PiggyGal15 attempts to block $30,000. $30,000 is blocked and $70,000 is smuggled.

West Erehwon successfully smuggled $952,563, thus far.

East Erehwon:
- Mist7676 attempts to smuggle $100,000. puzzledan attempts to block $0. $100,000 is smuggled.
- Klick attempts to smuggle $9000. goodmorning attempts to block $35,000. $9000 is smuggled and $13,000 is paid in penalties by goodmorning to Klick.
- JDGA attempts to smuggle $100,000. Dessew attempts to block $50,000. $50,000 is blocked and $50,000 is smuggled.

East Erehwon successfully smuggled $673,917, thus far.

The two team leaders have 24 hours to submit the next set of smugglers and customs officers. ((expired on 2014-08-20 19:06:54))

[Artier]

Apologies for the delay, everyone.

I have prodded Mist7676 and am waiting for her to post her team's smugglers and officers. If she does not post them in the next 12 hours, Klick can deputise and make the choices. As I will not have access for about a day (see below), any inactivity, including Mist's, will be ignored, until I am back.

Regarding my absence, I will be in transit for approximately one day, starting in about 12 hours. As such, feel free to send me the amounts you intend to smuggle/block, and if any players still haven't by the time I have access again, I will post an actual deadline.

[Artier]

I'm back to not being in transit. The smugglers and customs officers can send me the amounts they intend to smuggle or block, over the next 24 hours. ((expired on 2014-08-24 20:55:04) left)

[Artier]

And we're past the two thirds' point, with the seventh set of smuggling attempts.

West Erehwon:
- Blackberry attempts to smuggle $38,000. Klick attempts to block $39,000. $38,000 is smuggled and $500 is paid in penalties by Klick to Blackberry.
- goodmorning attempts to smuggle $70,000. D3f3nd3r attempts to block $60,000. $60,000 is blocked and $10,000 is smuggled.
- Dessew attempts to smuggle $100,000. JDGA attempts to block $50,000. $50,000 is blocked and $50,000 is smuggled.

East Erehwon:
- SleepyKrew attempts to smuggle $40,000. hayatoBL attempts to block $0. $40,000 is smuggled.
- penguin_alien attempts to smuggle $85,000. Cheery Dog attempts to block $85,000. $85,000 is blocked.
- Mist7676 attempts to smuggle $0. Xayzeck attempts to block $0. Nothing happens.

Here are the current standings:

West Erehwon

have successfully smuggled

$1,050,563

, blocked $502,998 and received $33,423 from penalties.
Their inside accounts add up to

$526,437

, whilst their outside accounts add up to

$2,179,609

.

East Erehwon

have successfully smuggled

$713,917

, blocked $523,000 and received $107,375 from penalties.
Their inside accounts add up to

$883,085

, whilst their outside accounts add up to

$2,010,869

.

Please refer to your team's Quicktopic (again), for a break-down of the accounts of each player in your team.

The two team leaders have 24 hours to submit the next set of smugglers and customs officers. ((expired on 2014-08-26 09:13:18))

[Artier]

Apologies for the inactivity. The semester just started. As before, Klick may take over for Mist7676 this round. The first submission from either of them counts.

If the players of West Erehwon wish to do so, they may send in their actions early.

[Artier]

The smugglers and customs officers can send me the amounts they intend to smuggle or block, over the next 24 hours. ((expired on 2014-08-29 00:27:06) left)

[Artier]

Still waiting on one player to submit an action. If they don't pick up their prod in approximately 24 hours, I will start looking for a replacement.

[Artier]

Results for the eighth set of smuggling attempts:

West Erehwon:
- hayatoBL attempts to smuggle $50,000. D3f3nd3r attempts to block $45,000. $45,000 is blocked and $5,000 is smuggled.
- goodmorning attempts to smuggle $55,000. PiggyGal15 attempts to block $30,000. $30,000 is blocked and $25,000 is smuggled.
- Blackberry attempts to smuggle $23,000. JDGA attempts to block $80,000. $23,000 is smuggled and $28,500 is paid in penalties by JDGA to Blackberry.

West Erehwon successfully smuggled $1,103,563, thus far.

East Erehwon:
- Klick attempts to smuggle $15,000. Cheery Dog attempts to block $40,995. $15,000 is smuggled and $12,998 is paid in penalties by Cheery Dog to Klick.
- penguin_alien attempts to smuggle $70,000. Dessew attempts to block $49,000. $49,000 is blocked and $21,000 is smuggled.
- SleepyKrew attempts to smuggle $0. Xayzeck attempts to block $40,000. $20,000 is paid in penalties by Xayzeck to SleepyKrew.

East Erehwon successfully smuggled $749,917, thus far.

The two team leaders have 24 hours to submit the next set of smugglers and customs officers. ((expired on 2014-08-30 21:08:47))

[Artier]

The smugglers and customs officers can send me the amounts they intend to smuggle or block, over the next 24 hours. ((expired on 2014-09-01 19:18:35) left)

[Artier]

Results for the ninth set of smuggling attempts:

West Erehwon:
- hayatoBL attempts to smuggle $50,000. JDGA attempts to block $25,000. $25,000 is blocked and $25,000 is smuggled.
- puzzledan attempts to smuggle $100,000. Mist7676 attempts to block $0. $100,000 is smuggled.
- goodmorning attempts to smuggle $20,000. D3f3nd3r attempts to block $40,000. $20,000 is smuggled and $10,000 is paid in penalties by D3f3nd3r to goodmorning.

West Erehwon successfully smuggled $1,248,563, thus far.

East Erehwon:
- SleepyKrew attempts to smuggle $100,000. Dessew attempts to block $78,000. $78,000 is blocked and $22,000 is smuggled.
- Piggygal15 attempts to smuggle $40,000. Blackberry attempts to block $19,000. $19,000 is blocked and $21,000 is smuggled.
- Klick attempts to smuggle $100,000. Cheery Dog attempts to block $30,000. $30,000 is blocked and $70,000 is smuggled.

East Erehwon successfully smuggled $862,917, thus far.

The two team leaders have 24 hours to submit the

final

set of smugglers and customs officers. ((expired on 2014-09-03 11:31:06))

[Artier]

The smugglers and customs officers can send me the amounts they intend to smuggle or block, over the next 24 hours. Please note, once again, that this is the last set of smuggling attempts. ((expired on 2014-09-04 20:15:22) left)

[Artier]

Still waiting on one person's action. They have been prodded.

[Artier]

And the final results are in:

West Erehwon:
- Blackberry attempts to smuggle $64,000. Mist7676 attempts to block $9383. $9383 is blocked and $54,617 is smuggled.
- Cheery Dog attempts to smuggle $50,000. Klick attempts to block $48,999. $48,999 is blocked and $1001 is smuggled.
- Xayzeck attempts to smuggle $50,000. JDGA attempts to block $50,000. $50,000 is blocked and $0 is smuggled.

West Erehwon successfully smuggled $1,304,181.

East Erehwon:
- penguin_alien attempts to smuggle $100,000. puzzledan attempts to block $25,000. $25,000 is blocked and $75,000 is smuggled.
- D3f3nd3r attempts to smuggle $0. Dessew attempts to block $49,000. $24,500 is paid in penalties by Dessew to D3f3nd3r.
- SleepyKrew attempts to smuggle $100,000. hayatoBL attempts to block $0. $100,000 is smuggled.

East Erehwon successfully smuggled $1,037,917.

West Erehwon

are victorious, and therefore safe from elimination. East Erehwon will play a (short) downsizing game, in order to decide who will be eliminated.

With the end of the smuggling attempts, any money remaining in the inside accounts, will be divided between the opposite team's members. Every player in West Erehwon receives an extra $51,155 to their outside account. Mist7676 and Klick receive $9206, and the other East Erehwon members receive $9205, to their outside accounts.

After paying back $300,000 each, the outside accounts of each player are as follows:

goodmorning: $158,155
PiggyGal15: $86,206
Mist7676: $26,166
Xayzeck: $-31,345
Klick: $96,203
Blackberry: $228,272
puzzledan: $102,155
hayatoBL: $-19,719
D3f3nd3r: $65,496
JDGA: $148,705
SleepyKrew: $111,205
Cheery Dog: $191,146
penguin_alien: $-7295
Dessew: $244,650

The above amounts will be added (or subtracted) from your Liar Game accounts. Once a player has been eliminated, every player's account will be announced in the main tournament thread.

[Artier]

Once the final results are revealed, you are returned to the empty white room. The announcer appears on the large screen again and begins to talk.
"Ladies and gentlemen, despite your best efforts, the once proud kingdom of Erehwon, went from oligocracy, through democracy, schism, and finally dissolution. The civil war left millions dead; including one of your number. We shall now proceed to find out who that was."

Description.

In this game, the players of East Erehwon will vote on which from their team they wish to keep alive. The game will consist of 5 rounds. In each round, each player of East Erehwon will receive tokens, which they will give to other players whom they wish to save. At the end of the game, the player with the fewest tokens will lose and be eliminated.
Additionally, the players of West Erehwon will be able to make bets on the outcome of the game.

Rules.

- Private communication is allowed at all times.
- This game will consist of 5 rounds. The first round will last 48 hours. Each round thereafter, will last 24 hours.
- Each round, each player of East Erehwon will receive five (5) tokens. These must be given away to other players, that round. To send these tokens away, each player will send me the five names (not necessarily distinct), of the players that they wish to give the tokens to. These names must be of other players in East Erehwon (i.e. not the sender themselves, and no fake/non-player names).
- Tokens received from other players need not be passed on to other players; the previous rule only applies to the five tokens that each player receives at the start of the round.
- At the end of each round, the current amounts of tokens held by each player will be revealed.
- At the end of the fifth round, the player with the fewest tokens will be eliminated. In the case of a tie, the player with the lowest amount of money in their main Liar Game account will be eliminated. In the case of a second tie, the player to be eliminated will be selected randomly.
- The amount of money in the account of the eliminated player will be recorded as their final score, and if it is positive will be divided amongst the other East Erehwon players.
- To expedite matters, players can send in the names for the recipients of their tokens, as early as they like.
- The members of West Erehwon can make bets with money from their accounts. The bets can be on which player will be eliminated, and which player will have the highest number of tokens at the end. Each player can make two bets, of up to $25,000 each. The payout for each bet (if the guess is correct), will be equal to the amount wagered.
- To make a bet, send me a PM with the type of the bet, the name of the player, and the amount wagered.
- All bets must be submitted by the end of the fourth round.

Each player of East Erehwon now has 48 hours to choose whom to give their tokens to. ((expired on 2014-09-08 18:40:05))

[Artier]

The results for the first round of the downsizing game are in:

Player	Tokens
Mist7676	11
Klick	10
penguin_alien	1
JDGA	9
PiggyGal15	2
D3f3nd3r	1
SleepyKrew	1

Mist7676 is in the lead, and there is a three-way tie for last.

You may now send in your second set of tokens, over the next 24 hours. ((expired on 2014-09-09 19:47:01))

[Artier]

The results for the second round of the downsizing game are in:

Player	Tokens
Mist7676	18
Klick	21
penguin_alien	6
JDGA	16
PiggyGal15	2
D3f3nd3r	1
SleepyKrew	6

Klick is in the lead, and D3f3nd3r is last.

You may now send in your third set of tokens, over the next 24 hours. ((expired on 2014-09-10 19:48:32))

[Artier]

The results for the third round of the downsizing game are in:

Player	Tokens
Mist7676	24
Klick	31
penguin_alien	11
JDGA	25
PiggyGal15	2
D3f3nd3r	1
SleepyKrew	11

Klick is in the lead, and D3f3nd3r is last.

You may now send in your fourth set of tokens, over the next 24 hours. ((expired on 2014-09-12 00:08:27))

West Erehwon members have a final chance to submit their bets, this round.

[Artier]

The results for the fourth round of the downsizing game are in:

Player	Tokens
Mist7676	29
Klick	41
penguin_alien	16
JDGA	35
PiggyGal15	2
D3f3nd3r	1
SleepyKrew	16

Klick is in the lead, and D3f3nd3r is last.

You may now send in your fifth and final set of tokens, over the next 24 hours. ((expired on 2014-09-13 13:14:04))
The results will be announced an additional 24 hours later, to give me time to do the necessary book-keeping, and give the players time to make any additional contracts they wish.

West Erehwon members can no longer make bets on the outcome of this game.

[Artier]

So, I'm still waiting for one person to send in their actions. They are now prodded.

[Artier]

The tokens are in. Klick is still in the lead, and D3f3nd3r is still last.
The final results will be announced in approximately 1 day, as mentioned before.

Feel free to make any deals/contracts you like, until then.

[Artier]

Apologies for the delay. The results for the final round of the downsizing game are in:

Player	Tokens
Mist7676	34
Klick	51
penguin_alien	21
JDGA	35
PiggyGal15	12
D3f3nd3r	1
SleepyKrew	21

Thus, D3f3nd3r is eliminated from the Liar Game Tournament. His score is 15,496. The remaining members of East Erehwon each get $3000.

Additionally, the following bets were made by West Erehwon members:
- Cheery Dog: Wager $3500 that Klick will win.

As such, Cheery Dog gains an extra $3500.

The accounts of all the remaining players will be revealed in the main thread, shortly.