Hello MarkG,
How are you doing?
If you'll start a next tournament
perhaps you might consider these or similar settings:
real world map, standard/large
correct starting locations (I'm an amateur in these matters, can't succeed myself)
10 civs (America, Aztecs, Zulus, Egyptians, French, Russian, English, Chineze, Japanese, Babs (only Middle East power if Egypt excluded)
Who'd we start with?
don't know yet ...
Could you manage that?
Many players'd love it, I certainly will.
Imagine the tournament thread: how easily could all of us empathize to the 'real world' stories ? It could be an instant classis.
What do you think?
AJ