Next tuesday begins the second annual Ivy League Championships on gocrosscampus, an online risk-type game that pits various factions against each other. When you join a game, you choose a team based on some sort of social affiliation - in this case, it's by what school you attended, but past "fun games" have had themes like relationship status (single, taken, divorced etc) and star sign (virgo!). A current "fun game" is based on a world war ii do-over - it'll be interesting to see how history rewrites itself!
Anyway - once you join a team, you build up "vitals" each day by logging in and energizing. You also get extra vitals for conquering territories, for having x many connected territories etc. Each team elects commanders who are in charge of writing up a plan of attack (or defense, depending on strategy), contacting other teams, and rooting out the spies in the team. It's a ton of fun! I first got into GXC last year during the very first Ivy League Championships - unfortunately, Columbia got fourth (boo!), but i'm hoping this year that we do a little better! Penn's leading right now with a massive recruitment drive led by their administrative team, but hopefully in the next couple of days Columbia will surge ahead (the more ppl you have the better - increased numbers -> increased armies -> kicking ass). Our map this year seems to be a distorted version of new england - which I'm kind of sad about, I've been playing on the Manhattan maps which are awesome!, but Columbia has a decent position, and hopefully decent allies. I'll keep updating as the game goes on - but if any Columbians read this blog - join and play!
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