MEDALISTS REVEALED FOR THE 2008 DIPLOMACY OLYMPICS

by Edi Birsan


Click here to go back to the main article

Solution items appear in bold red font:

THE SPRINTS IN SPRING

  1. Fastest (Most Common) Take Down of a Neutral Supply Center in Spring 1901

    Gold Medal:Turkey for A Constantinople-Bulgaria
    Silver Medal:Austria for A Budapest -Serbia
    Bronze Medal:France for A Mar-Spa;
    but in Gunboat conditions it would be Germany for F Kie-Den

  2. Fastest Occupation of a Sea province

    Gold Medal:Russia for F StPetesburg (sc) to Gulf of Bothnia
    Silver Medal:Italy for F Naples to Ionian
    Bronze Medal:England for F London to North Sea

THE SUCCESSFUL JUMP and LONG JUMP

  1. Fastest most common Convoy in 1901

    Gold Medal:Italy for A Apulia to Tunis
    Silver Medal:England for A Yorkshire to Norway
    Bronze Medal:England for F Yorkshire to Belgium

  2. The destination of the most common earliest attempted convoy over two sea spaces:

    Gold Medal:England for Army (Yorkshire) to Kiel
    Silver Medal:Turkey Army (Bulgaria) to Apulia
    Bronze Medal:Italy Army (Tunis) to Syria

THE HURDLES

  1. Unit most likely to be involved in two standoffs in 1901,

    Gold Medal:Turkish Fleet Ankara (to Black Sea)
    Silver Medal:Russian Fleet Sevastapol (to Black Sea)
    Bronze Medal:Austrian Army Vienna (to Galicia and Trieste)

  2. Unit most likely to be supported to its destination in Fall 1901

    Gold Medal:Austria Fleet Albania to Greece supported by Army Serbia
    Silver Medal:England Army Yorkshire to Belgium supported by either Germany or France, or both.
    Bronze Medal:Germany Army Ruhr to Belgium supported by Holland or Nth

THE POLE VAULT

  1. Most likely to take Warsaw from the Russians

    Gold Medal:Germany
    Silver Medal:Austria
    Bronze Medal:Turkey

THE SHOT PUT

  1. Most likely to take someone else's home supply center in 1901:

    Gold Medal:Italy for Trieste/Munich/Marseilles/Vienna
    Silver Medal:France for Munich (mostly)
    Bronze Medal:England for Brest

THE LONG RUN

  1. Most likely to get six supply centers in 1901

    Gold Medal:Russia
    Silver Medal:Germany
    Bronze Medal:France

  2. Most likely to be the first to get to seven centers and be eliminated eventually:

    Gold Medal:Russia
    Silver Medal:Germany
    Bronze Medal:Italy

Click here to go back to the main article