The Alphabetic Bouts of Cartography: Discussion & Entries
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wolf_brother
Banned
I think viperhawkz has pretty much discouraged any competition.
Agreed. Let's be realistic; when the first submission is something that amazing, people aren't going to be as gun-ho to even try to compete.
Emperor-of-New-Zealand
Kicked
In an alternate WWII or Sino-Japanese War, Japan made the gains shown by the time of the year shown? I gathered that much. Of course, I'm talking out of my ass, but it seems to be a logical conclusion.
If this is still open 10-12 hours from now, I might post in it. I'm going for a QBAM elections map set in a United Technocracy of Japan
I think it closes just before noon. Can't tell if 24 hour system or AM/PM if not in the J post.
Kaiphranos
Donor
Hmm? No, it closes at midnight, East Coast time. That's GMT-4, for you folks across the Atlantic...
scholar
Banned
I want to leave it a mystery, but I'll say a few things: The Soviet Union tore itself apart after centralization efforts by the main party failed and the defeated remnants of the white armies rose up again. China's warlords became a greater problem, as a few attempted to found independent states. The west barely looked at them, Japan did. No war has occurred between the allies and Japan, mainly because Europe was actually quiet and Japan was messing in a corner of the world they turned a blind eye to in much the same way they did with Ethiopia. Granted, cries for intervention have been growing steadily with every passing year.
There's something else that's underlying the scenario, something 'dark'. I won't give that away, for we need a mystery.
So, our POD is the success of the German Revolution in 1848, creating a liberal German state and thus less incentive for people to emigrate to the US. This, combined with other effects on European politics, results in less immigration to the US from Europe, and thus (as labor has less competition) less anti-Chinese/Japanese immigration sentiment in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Combined with different World Wars in which the US never fights against Japan, this in particular results in more immigration from Japan to California over the years. The plurality ancestry by county* in 1960 is shown: note that some Census ethnic classifications are different from OTL due to different history.
*OTL counties are used for ease of comparision: county boundaries are much the same in TTL, but are different in some cases.
*OTL counties are used for ease of comparision: county boundaries are much the same in TTL, but are different in some cases.
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What, no alternate state borders with a major POD in 1848?
Anyway, a nice unique take on this week's subject.
Kaiphranos
Donor
First, congratulations to tnowacki, for a dominating victory in the ninth round of the Alphabetic Bouts of Cartography, winning the title "Imperator of I!"
Second: Round J is now closed! Get on over to the voting thread and vote!
Third and lastly: the topic for Round K is...
The color for this round is: 60C860 (See attached sample.)
Entries will be accepted until 11:59 P.M. Eastern time, November 9th! Good luck and have fun!
Second: Round J is now closed! Get on over to the voting thread and vote!
Third and lastly: the topic for Round K is...
KENYA
The color for this round is: 60C860 (See attached sample.)
Entries will be accepted until 11:59 P.M. Eastern time, November 9th! Good luck and have fun!
Well, you did do Kenya. (No offence to Kenyans out there, but you just... don't exactly proliferate on AH.com)
I might try to do something... probably wouldn't post it though unless there's at most one reply by Friday midnight (well, my time zone midnight, 4pm in "Eastern" time... would've used 11pm Eastern but it's 7am here and I'll probably be sleeping), because it's likely to be incredibly awful (both from mapmaking and historical perspectives).
EDIT: If you wonder why I'm so eager to participate despite such an obscure topic - it's basically that there's really no specific field I'm anywhere near an expert in, so whatever map I make would probably be about equally bad whatever the topic is. And for that matter it's very likely that the title at stakes is "King" (well that or "Kaiser" which is almost as good), which would be a pretty decent one to use for the user title
As for the "at most one reply" part... well, I doubt my map could possibly win a vote, but if it's the only option around then that's pretty much my only chance to win, and if there's only one other then I just couldn't let the other participant win without a vote... it seems dishonest somehow.
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