Grand Mapper: Revenge and Redemption

Grand Mapper: Revenge and Redemption is the second installment of a Discord competition run by Ankhor, this one starting in February 2019, lasting to March 2019.

The competition is a game that tests both social skill and mapping skills. It is loosely based on Survivor and is hosted on a Discord Server. The winner of Grand Mapper will receive a month of Nitro Classic on Discord and a free Paradox DLC of their choice.

Teams of mappers (called Unions) will go head-to-head in challenges where they try to better their opponent. After each challenge, the losing Union will have to come together and vote one of their own members out of the contest. They can vote out threats to win, their weakest in challenges or just straight up inactive people.

Nearing the end of the competition, the Unions will merge together and the challenges become individual. Only one person can win these challenges and they will be immune from votes for one round. People voted out from the merged Union will become Jury Members and play a role by casting a vote on who wins the competition when we reach the Final 2.

Videos on this contest will be available on this channel.

Revenge and Redemption
The theme for this season of Grand Mapper is "Revenge and Redemption". It will play a large part in how this competition works.
 * Revenge: Revenge is a big twist on the game. Once a player is voted out from the game, they will become a member of the "Revenge Union" and will have to sit out the game until the opportunity to re-enter the game through a special Revenge Challenge sometime late in the game. People in the Revenge Union will have nothing to do except simply wait for this opportunity to re-enter the game. Anyone from the Revenge Union can quit at any time without penalty.
 * Redemption: Redemption is that each Union will have 2 players from the first season of Grand Mapper that want play and win. These players are seeking redemption and have the advantage of their experience in the game from their first season. The Redemption Players are Checkmate, Corsium, Sundalanian and Canaan (Venant Mapping).

Gameplay Updates
There have been many updates to the gameplay since the first competition.
 * New Tiebreaker Policy: If a vote is tied, the next day will be a dedicated revote, where you can only vote for the players that are in the tie. This tiebreaker will push the schedule ahead by a day. If we have a second tiebreaker on the revote, the most inactive person in the Union will be eliminated. The player with the most votes in this revote will be eliminated, and the player/s that are in the revote who aren't eliminated will be given a secret advantage to prevent future tiebreakers.


 * New Voting Policy: People who fail to vote during the elimination will automatically vote for the least active player since the last elimination, that isn't themselves. This will be the same case with the revote, except it will be only from the players that are in the revote.
 * Country Selection: During every elimination day, you will be able to select a country from the UN's 193 certified countries. The next day, each player will be able to visit a chat based on that country of choice. The majority of these chats will be empty and have nothing of value in them. A select few countries that are visited will have secret advantages that the players can claim and use later on in the game. Some countries though, may have disadvantages that will hold back a player in the game.

Twists and Advantages
Along with the Revenge and Redemption theme, there will be many other twists that add to this competition.
 * Union Merge: At some point in the game, the unions will merge together and the game will become individual.
 * Jury Members: Some players voted out of the merged union will become a Jury Member, and will get to vote on the winner of the game from the Final 2.
 * Vote Steal: This allows a player to steal a vote from another player and use it themselves.
 * Double Vote: This allows a player to cast two votes instead of one.
 * Hidden Immunity Idol: Before the votes are read, a player with a hidden immunity idol is given the ability to play it. The idol allows to cancel all votes cast against the player and can only be used before the Final 5.
 * Vote Canceler: This allows a player to cancel the vote of another player during an elimination.

People's Choice
Before the game began, there was a Public Vote for two of the returning players in the game. The new contestants would basically be able to vote in contestants that they would later play with. The Candidates were: Sundalanian and Checkmate would go on to win the People's Choice polling, with Canaan and Corsium being hand selected to return into the game also.
 * Bashkir
 * BlackBird
 * Canaan/Venant Mapping
 * Checkmate
 * Corsium
 * Orthodox Mapping
 * Sundalanian