It's time to get the ball rolling on the TSW World Cup's knockout stages. We have 14 ties, Seven of which will be here, and the other seven of which will be in this thread: https://forums.dovetailgames.com/threads/tsw-world-cup-24-25-round-2-section-1.87827/ Here's the ties for this half: Game 8: NIDDERTALBAHN vs GREAT WESTERN EXPRESS Game 9: BREMEN - OLDENBURG vs SALZBURG - ROSENHEIM Game 10: WCML OVER SHAP (Preston - Carlisle) vs EAST COAST MAINLINE Game 11: LINKE RHEINSTRECKE vs SOUTHEASTERN HIGHSPEED Game 12: WEST COAST MAINLINE: SOUTH vs MIDLAND MAINLINE Game 13: DRESDEN - RIESA vs KÖLN - AACHEN Game 14: LIRR COMMUTER vs RUHR SIEG NORD Voting You'll get seven votes, one for each tie. Voting runs until 17
WCML South once again edging with Midland Mainline is worrying so far. Can't believe people are happy with a route provided with a half baked timetable.
Especially when Kinzigtalbahn - which in my opinion is a substantially better route than WCMLS - is being punished for its issues against BML (which I would also rate well below FFA). I'd suggest the 390 is probably helping WCMLS.
I think had SEHS or something similar would have ran away with it much faster, but MML having a 12% gain on WCML says a lot about the state of the latter.
Good stuff though rather a shame Shap ended up tied against ECML as they were both contenders for a strong finish. Also in the other thread, can’t believe bus stop Goblin is running way out in front of Clinchfield. The players, or at least a subset of them have spoken, but doesn’t help the cause of us campaigning for more vintage US content!
Not surprising to me. It reflects the current player preference. After all, TSW has become pretty much a commuter rail simulator ( except for JT ).
