Map Contest Round VI Run-Off

Alright folks due to an tie between them TheLoneAmigo and Scarecrow are going to have to face off one more time to determine the winner of round VI and thus the 2006 Map Contest.

A quick reminder for everyone to use the Discussion thread to discuss all things about the contest. This thread should only be for the maps and/or questions for the judges by the contestants themselves.

So here is your challenge Scarecrow and TheLoneAmigo:

This map should center on East Asia after the 1920s and concern a broken China. There should be at least twelve Chinese states where two of them are little more than city-states (and neither of them can be Hong Kong; it can be another one if you so choose but HK cannot be one of the two).

Furthermore at least two must be run by communist governments and at least one must be a democratic government (of some sort). Whether these communist governments are allied or opposed is up to you.

If you decide on having colonial powers or foreign occupied territory it must be limited to small stretches of coastal territory and/or coastal cities. (Historical OTL are acceptable if your PoD date is say for example after such territorial acquisitions exist, for example Japan in Manchuria).

You guys have one week from tomorrow (Saturday December 16th, 2006) 6 EST to Saturday December 23rd, 2006) to finish.

Best of luck,

SK

Okay, so... the POD is the US taking direct control of Shanghai at some time during the 19th century, as its own version of Hong Kong. Later, the British take control of Port Arthur.

From there somehow we get to the present, with a fascist state (Han China - the name refers to their Han-supremacist ideology) in control of the majority of the Chinese heartland, facing off against the unsteady alliance betweeen the People's Republic and the Democratic Republic, while all parties involved worry about the rise of the Japanese Empire and their puppets in Manchuria and Taiwan.

The thing that took the most time was getting the map the right size, since the basemap is so massive...

My PoD is that the Decembrist revolt in Russia is sucssesful, turning Russia into a liberal, forwards country.

being a bit more powerful, Russia is able to secure a peace more to thier liking at the end of the Crimean War. This leads to a greater Anglo-French cooperation against the Russians. Fearful of Russia gaining influence over China, the British and French give aid to the T'ai-p'ing rebellion, and a T'ai-p'ing Empire emerges in the south, chasing the Machus back to Manchuria.

Um, taiping china doesnt realy survive after the death of Hong Xiuquan, and at the end of the 19th century the Kingdom of Heavenly Peace collapases.

France collapses into a socialist revolution after her loss during the Franco-Prussian war, and her model of communism that is exported around the world.

This map is just after the Great War, these are the nations that have been recognised by the Great Powers; those inbetween the T'ai-p'ing remnant and Manchuria are no more then glorified warlords. Wether any of these nations can survive in the long run, thats a different question.

thats it realy. I will post the non-shrunk map in the Map thread.

Ladies and Gentlemen the moment you all have been waiting for has arrived the announcement for the winner of the 2006 Map Contest. First off we the judges would like to thank all this years participants and those who just followed the events. Next we would like to thank all of our sponsors (its a shame Floid ran off of with the prize money though ). Now with out further adieu the envelope please.

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...and the winner is Scarecrow!

:thunderous Applause:

Scarecrow I present to you your trophy:







*YOINK*



:Giant red curtain opens behind Scarecrow:

Scarecrow before you can claim your trophy you have one last challenge to overcome. If you are man enough. If you think you have what it takes your challenge is to go one more round but this time against none other than the pantless one, the rhinestone cartographer, the acknowledged king of maps on AH.com...Diamond.

May whatever deity you pray to have mercy upon your soul. (Oh see your PM later for details.)

So stay tuned everyone to see if Scarecrow has what it takes to go up against Diamond to claim the trophy.

I did not see this coming. Congrats Scarecrow, and good luck!

falls of chair.

I won?

I have to face the pantless one in combat?



Bring It.

Scarecrow said:

falls of chair.

I won?

I have to face the pantless one in combat?



Bring It.

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Good I would have hated to see you break and run to hide under the covers whimpering for your mother to protect you. So go and check your PM to see how it is going to work.

I don't know why everyone insists on saying I'm the best cartographer on AH.com; there's plenty of folks better than me. A few of them were involved in this very Map Contest.

But hey, I'm always game for a challenge.

Diamond said:

I don't know why everyone insists on saying I'm the best cartographer on AH.com; there's plenty of folks better than me. A few of them were involved in this very Map Contest.

But hey, I'm always game for a challenge.

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Eh, its the continual quality of your maps that give you the allure of being the best. That and you were perhaps the first to consistently do such excellent maps...there is must to be said about being the first.

Shadow Knight said:

Eh, its the continual quality of your maps that give you the allure of being the best. That and you were perhaps the first to consistently do such excellent maps...there is must to be said about being the first.

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And he created the Map Thread.