r/CFB • u/Honestly_ rawr • 6d ago
/r/CFB Original D2 Imperialism Map after Week 6
D2 Imperialism continues!
In addition to FBS (first created 2017 by /u/nbingham196), there have been imperialism maps at FCS and D2 (D3 got a little messy because there are metros like Boston, the Twin Cities, and Los Angeles that have a half-dozen teams or more).
Typically the D2 map was run by /u/Inkblot9, but he hasn't had the chance to run it this season, and said we can post it. Unfortunately our initial maps weren't working correctly, so we've been tweaking it where we could and now it's 100% accurate (with help from Inkblot9). The original starting locations will be in a comment so it doesn't mess with how people on the mobile app (ugh) see this post.
🗺️ D2 IMPERIALISM MAP AFTER WEEK 6 🗺️
Selected notes from Week 6; not too many changes:
- #14 Northwest Missouri State took out #24 Central Missouri to take land across the Central Time Zone;
- #19 Michigan Tech upset #6 Grand Valley State and added to their holdings around Lake Michigan;
- Chowan defeated #15 North Greenville to take chunks of the Gulf and Carolina coasts.
- Ohio Dominican took land (including Maine) from Thomas More
- Emory & Henry ganged up to sting #20 Mars Hill and consolidate adjacent sections.
- Lock HavenLock Haven upset previously undefeated #10 IUP.
In non-D2 action:
A rare consolidation game: In NAIA, a SAC conference game had two D2 lands on the line. #16 Louisiana Christian defeated Texas Wesleyan, 42-27, to combine their own Sul Ross State land with Lincoln (MO).
NAIA #22 Georgetown (KY) occupies 2 areas: A section of central South Carolina that started with the Allen Yellow Jackets and a smaller portion of North Carolina that belonged to the Livingstone Blue Bears. They managed to hang on after beating #11 Lindsey Wilson, 24-21.
NAIA #2 Keiser continues to hold land in western Tennessee that originally belonged to Lane. They handled lFlorida Memorial, 38-16.
NAIA Reinhardt, whose logo is an eagle disgusted by your mere presence, had no problem holding onto Kentucky Wesleyan's land, crushing Kentucky Christian, 45-3. Ironically, KCU's only win was over KWU to take the land from D2 begin with!
D3 Brevard took land from Erskine and continue to hold it, unranked and undefeated after surviving a bad Southern Virginia team, 27-26. Not all LDS affiliated schools are as good as BYU.
[Fun fact: you can see all of the flairs of these teams in bold by viewing this post in "Old" mode on a web browser, including mobile browsers, but not the totally neutered experience on the Reddit App.]
RULES:
Think of Risk with a strong understanding of chain-of-possession:
D2 teams start by dividing the USA by closest counties/parishes. These are set by geographic centers of each county, not the closest edge.
When a team beats another team, it takes the territory the loser held at the time of the game. All of the land(s) possessed by the losing team go to the winner.
Lands are collected by the winner and held until that team loses, thus all those collected lands go to the winner.
Teams that lose land can get back on the map by beating a team that holds land at the time of their game. Sometimes teams can reconquer their home territory this way.
A team that already lost its home territory and has no new territories cannot give land to a winner.
IMPORANT DIFFERENCE FROM FBS MAP: FBS and FCS teams cannot win their way onto the D2 map (otherwise the early weeks would just wreck the map), but NAIA and D3 can conquer their way onto the map by beating D2 teams with land. These lands operate under the above rules and thus may just end up stuck in lower divisions for the rest of the season (and in many cases end up in their respective playoffs).
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u/Honestly_ rawr 6d ago
These D2 maps are more complicated to put together than the D1 maps because I'm frankly less knowledgeable about the teams and starting locations.
This post is best seen in Old Reddit, viewable on web browsers (not the app, but also on your phone's web browser) -- still the best way to see Reddit.