City-Off: Organisational Thread

[Platypus]

City-Off Works a little differently to a typical Survivor. There will be an initial qualifying round of 27 cities, in which you can vote 5 cities IN and 2 cities OUT from the list displayed for each region (Africa and the Middle East; The Americas; Asia and Oceania; Europe). In the 'season', each city will play one opponent in 15 individual competitions, before the winners from each region enter the finals, which will run in the basic survivor format of 60 cities with one eliminated per round.

THE AMERICAS

1. Vancouver, Canada
2. Toronto, Canada
3. Montreal, Canada
4. Los Angeles, USA
5. Chicago, USA
6. Houston, USA
7. New York City, USA
8. Miami, USA
9. Guatemala City, Guatemala
10. Mexico City, Mexico
11. Monterrey, Mexico
12. Guadalajara, Mexico
13. San Jose, Costa Rica
14. Havana, Cuba
15. Kingston, Jamaica
16. Bogotá, Colombia
17. Medellin, Colombia
18. Santiago, Chile
19. Lima, Peru
20. Cordoba, Argentina
21. Rosario, Argentina
22. Buenos Aires, Argentina
23. Caracas, Venezuela
24. Brasilia, Brazil
25. Sao Paulo, Brazil
26. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
27. La Paz, Bolivia

ASIA AND OCEANIA

1. Suva, Fiji
2. Auckland, New Zealand
3. Sydney, Australia
4. Melbourne, Australia
5. Singapore, Singapore
6. Jakarta, Indonesia
7. Beijing, China
8. Hong Kong, China
9. Shanghai, China
10. Almaty, Kazakhstan
11. Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
12. Bangkok, Thailand
13. Hanoi, Vietnam
14. Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
15. Manila, Philippines
16. Taipei, Taiwan
17. Seoul, South Korea
18. Tokyo, Japan
19. Osaka, Japan
20. Fukuoka, Japan
21. Rangoon, (Burma) Myanmar
22. Dhaka, Bangladesh
23. New Delhi, India
24. Mumbai, India
25. Kolkata, India
26. Karachi, Pakistan
27. Lahore, Pakistan

AFRICA AND THE MIDDLE EAST

1. Kabul, Afghanistan
2. Tehran, Iran
3. Baghdad, Iraq
4. Damascus, Syria
5. Tel Aviv, Israel
6. Amman, Jordan
7. Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
8. Doha, Qatar
9. Dubai, UAE
10. Cairo, Egypt
11. Algiers, Algeria
12. Tripoli, Libya
13. Marrakech, Morocco
14. Dakar, Senegal
15. Accra, Ghana
16. Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire
17. Lagos, Nigeria
18. Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
19. Nairobi, Kenya
20. Kampala, Uganda
21. Kinshasa, DR Congo
22. Harare, Zimbabwe
23. Antananarivo, Madagascar
24. Maputo, Mozambique
25. Johannesburg, South Africa
26. Cape Town, South Africa
27. Durban, South Africa

EUROPE

1. Lisbon, Portugal
2. Madrid, Spain
3. Barcelona, Spain
4. Geneva, Switzerland
5. Lyon, France
6. Paris, France
7. Brussels, Belgium
8. Amsterdam, Netherlands
9. London, UK
10. Glasgow, UK
11. Cologne, Germany
12. Munich, Germany
13. Berlin, Germany
14. Copenhagen, Denmark
15. Stockholm, Sweden
16. St. Petersburg, Russia
17. Moscow, Russia
18. Kiev, Ukraine
19. Prague, Czech Republic
20. Istanbul, Turkey
21. Athens, Greece
22. Warsaw, Poland
23. Vienna, Austria
24. Belgrade, Serbia
25. Zagreb, Croatia
26. Milan, Italy
27. Rome, Italy

Some lists were harder to write than others.

Anyway, comments in here please

[Platypus]

I won't be voting in the qualifying rounds, except in the event of a tie; I will vote in the 'season', where my vote will be discounted in a tie, and in the 'finals', where ties will be broken by previous votes.

[big bad fab]

Here are my remarks:

AMERICAS:
Well, 3 cities from Argentina and 3 from Mexico, it may be a bit too much and Guatemala city, I'm not sure at all.
Montevideo, Asuncion, Port of Prince and Boston would qualify, on the other hand, for many reasons, at least historical.
But it's only a proposal.

ASIA:-OCEANIA:
Suva, well, frankly, should be dropped .
You should include Tashkent and Kyoto (and drop Suva and Fukuoka)

AFRICA-MIDDLE EAST:
Mecca should really replace Kigali (which is in Rwanda, not Uganda)

EUROPA:
Lyon () should really be dropped and Budapest should be put in (for obvious historical reasons)
As for Köln (Cologne), maybe Frankfurt would have been better, but I'm not so sure.

[Platypus]

Lyon was a close one. It came down to Lisbon, Lyon, Marseilles, Naples, Birmingham, Oslo, Frankfurt, Budapest, Ankara, Bucharest and Helsinki for the last couple of spots, but I figured France deserved a 2nd.

The three from Argentina was a tough choice, but I couldn't justify picking Cordoba over Rosario or vice versa. I really, really wanted to put Montevideo in but it would have been at the expense of Guatemala City, and I figured I needed a second central American city.

Suva is included because I figured there needed to be at least one Pacific city, and Tashkent didn't because I forgot Central Asia (I edited out Chengdu in favour of Almaty at the last minute).

I always mix up Kigali and Kampala, which is meant to be there instead. Oops, will fix now.

Remember that the lists can be modified in the individual threads

[Hans-im-Glück]

For EUROPE:

It is better to take Hamburg for Cologne, because it is the second biggest city of Germany and the most important city in North Germany.

Zurich is the most important city in Switzerland. It can replace Geneva.

For AFRICA AND THE MIDDLE EAST:

Casablanca should be on the list for Marrakesh.

[Platypus]

For EUROPE:

It is better to take Hamburg for Cologne, because it is the second biggest city of Germany and the most important city in North Germany.

Zurich is the most important city in Switzerland. It can replace Geneva.

For AFRICA AND THE MIDDLE EAST:

Casablanca should be on the list for Marrakesh.

Vote in the threads

[Platypus]

Qualifying round now over. I'll get the list for the second stage ready shortly.

[Platypus]

Here are the match-ups (in running order) for Part 2.

THE AMERICAS:

Bogota, Colombia: 7
Kingston, Jamaica: 1

Cuzco, Peru: 6
Vancouver, Canada: 2

Chicago, USA: 8
Guadalajara, Mexico: 1

Santiago, Chile: 8
Monterrey, Mexico: 1

Buenos Aires, Argentina: 9
Port-au-Prince, Haiti: 1

San Jose, Costa Rica: 2
Washington, USA: 10

Toronto, Canada: 1
New York City, USA: 10

Medellin, Colombia: 1
Lima, Peru: 7

Mexico City, Mexico: 7
Porto Alegre, Brazil: 4

Guatemala City, Guatemala: 6
Los Angeles, USA: 4

Havana, Cuba: 6
Cordoba, Argentina: 4

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: 7
Montreal, Canada: 2

Caracas, Venezuela: 8
Houston, USA: 2

La Paz, Bolivia: 6 (-1 due to tie)
Sao Paulo, Brazil: 6

Boston, USA: 3
Brasilia, Brazil:1

The match-ups are random, btw. Running order slightly tweaked.

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EUROPE:

Geneva, Switzerland: 3
Paris, France: 5

Prague, Czech Republic: 6
Athens, Greece: 2

Milan, Italy: 1
St. Petersburg, Russia: 7

London, UK: 8
Warsaw, Poland: 2

Copenhagen, Denmark: 9
Brussels, Belgium: 1

Lisbon, Portugal: 5
Berlin, Germany: 8

Madrid, Spain: 11
Belgrade, Serbia: 0

Moscow, Russia: 7
Amsterdam, Netherlands: 1

Rome, Italy: 9
Helsinki, Finland: 3

Barcelona, Spain: 1
Vienna, Austria: 11

Oslo, Norway: 5
Budapest, Hungary: 6

Munich, Germany: 4
Istanbul, Turkey: 5

Glasgow, UK: 2
Dublin, Ireland: 9

Frankfurt, Germany: 9
Zagreb, Croatia: 5

Stockholm, Sweden: 3
Kiev, Ukraine: 1

[Platypus]

AFRICA AND THE MIDDLE EAST:


Antananarivo, Madagascar: 3
Baghdad, Iraq: 5

Kampala, Uganda: 2
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia: 5

Alexandria, Egypt:7
Kabul, Afghanistan: 2

Durban, South Africa: 4
Lagos, Nigeria: 4.5

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: 4
Amman, Jordan: 6

Nairobi, Kenya: 9
Harare, Zimbabwe: 0

Cairo, Egypt: 2
Beirut, Lebanon: 9

Tehran, Iran: 2
Damascus, Syria: 6

Maputo, Mozambique: 4
Jerusalem, Israel: 7

Cape Town, South Africa: 9
Algiers, Algeria: 0

Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire: 2
Dakar, Senegal: 7

Mecca, Saudi Arabia: 5
Dubai, UAE: 5 (-1)

Kinshasa, DR Congo: 0
Casablanca, Morocco: 10

Accra, Ghana:0
Johannesburg, South Africa: 12

Tel Aviv, Israel: 3
Tripoli, Libya: 1

[Platypus]

ASIA AND OCEANIA:

Shanghai, China: 3
Bangkok, Thailand: 5

Rangoon, (Burma) Myanmar: 3
Phnom Penh, Cambodia: 4

Hanoi, Vietnam: 1
Melbourne, Australia: 7

Almaty, Kazakhstan: 3
Mumbai, India: 4

Tokyo, Japan: 8
Manila, Philippines: 1

Kathmandu, Nepal: 5 (-1)
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia: 5

Seoul, South Korea: 6
Auckland, New Zealand: 7

Kolkata, India: 0
Hong Kong, China: 8

Tashkent, Uzbekistan: 3
Osaka, Japan: 7

Lahore, Pakistan: 1
Sydney, Australia: 9

Jakarta, Indonesia: 9
Lhasa, China: 0

Dhaka, Bangladesh: 1
Kyoto, Japan: 8

Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam: 4
New Delhi, India: 6

Taipei, Taiwan: 6
Singapore, Singapore: 6 -1 tie.

Karachi, Pakistan: 0
Beijing, China: 5

[Platypus]

Second pairings start now, after Bangkok, Baghdad, Paris and Bogota win their rounds and progress to the finals.

[Platypus]

Phnom Penh, Riyadh, Prague and Cuzco progress.

[big bad fab]

As you know, Hughento, I won't be able to connect for one week. So, if you wish, I've already cast my vote in the pairings. As it's not a "classical" survivor, I think it's not a problem to vote early. And it increases the turnout !

But, of course, you do as you want and you can ignore entirely the following list.
Especially if it's too much work for you !

BTW, random is real sh...... London-Warsaw, Kiev-Stockholm, etc how can we choose ?!

ASIA AND OCEANIA:

Almaty, Kazakhstan
Mumbai, India

Tokyo, Japan
Manila, Philippines

Kathmandu, Nepal
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Seoul, South Korea
Auckland, New Zealand

Kolkata, India
Hong Kong, China

Tashkent, Uzbekistan
Osaka, Japan

Lahore, Pakistan
Sydney, Australia

Jakarta, Indonesia
Lhasa, China

Dhaka, Bangladesh
Kyoto, Japan

Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
New Delhi, India


AFRICA AND THE MIDDLE EAST:

Durban, South Africa
Lagos, Nigeria

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Amman, Jordan

Nairobi, Kenya
Harare, Zimbabwe

Cairo, Egypt
Beirut, Lebanon

Tehran, Iran
Damascus, Syria

Maputo, Mozambique
Jerusalem, Israel

Cape Town, South Africa
Algiers, Algeria

Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire
Dakar, Senegal

Mecca, Saudi Arabia
Dubai, UAE

Kinshasa, DR Congo
Casablanca, Morocco

Accra, Ghana
Johannesburg, South Africa

Tel Aviv, Israel
Tripoli, Libya


EUROPE:

London, UK
Warsaw, Poland

Copenhagen, Denmark
Brussels, Belgium

Lisbon, Portugal
Berlin, Germany

Madrid, Spain
Belgrade, Serbia

Moscow, Russia
Amsterdam, Netherlands

Rome, Italy
Helsinki, Finland

Barcelona, Spain
Vienna, Austria

Oslo, Norway
Budapest, Hungary

Munich, Germany
Istanbul, Turkey

Glasgow, UK
Dublin, Ireland

Frankfurt, Germany
Zagreb, Croatia

Stockholm, Sweden
Kiev, Ukraine


THE AMERICAS:

Santiago, Chile
Monterrey, Mexico

Buenos Aires, Argentina
Port-au-Prince, Haiti

San Jose, Costa Rica
Washington, USA

Toronto, Canada
New York City, USA

Medellin, Colombia
Lima, Peru

Mexico City, Mexico
Porto Alegre, Brazil

Guatemala City, Guatemala
Los Angeles, USA

Havana, Cuba
Cordoba, Argentina

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Montreal, Canada

Caracas, Venezuela
Houston, USA

La Paz, Bolivia
Sao Paulo, Brazil

Boston, USA
Brasilia, Brazil

[Platypus]

I'll use them as tiebreak votes if needed


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Melbourne, St. Petersburg, Alexandria and Chicago progress.

[Platypus]

Copenhagen, Amman, Buenos Aires and Tokyo move on.

[Platypus]

Nairobi, Berlin, Washington and Kuala Lumpur advance. My vote was discounted in the KL vs. Kathmandu contest due to a 5-5 tie.

[Platypus]

Beirut, Madrid, NYC and Auckland move on.

[Platypus]

Lima, Moscow, Damascus and Hong Kong progress in a round with no close matchups.

[Platypus]

Osaka, Jerusalem, Mexico City, and Rome move through to the next stage.

[Platypus]

Havana, Budapest, Dakar and Jakarta progress.

Sorry about the irregularity of updates, I'm only updating from uni.

[Edu]

Is Hughento planning on continuing this survivor? This one was pretty entertaining

[Platypus]

Eventually....but I wouldn't be opposed to somebody else running it in the same way as I ran it.

[big bad fab]

Anybody can resume it now.
Hughento can, of course, but... let's say... Edu, for example, can do it too

[Platypus]

Sao Paulo, Frankfurt, Johannesburg, and Taipei win.

Sorry for the rather long gap, hopefully there will still be interest in this