AI Survivor Season 6

 is a Civ 4 AI tournament run by LCSullla, part of the AI Survivor series of tournaments. It ran from

Format
All games are played with the following configuration:
 * Deity difficulty
 * Pangaea map (hand-picked)
 * Normal game speed
 * Standard map size
 * Standard sea level for 6-player games, low sea level for games with 7+ players
 * Tropical climate
 * No tech trading
 * No goody huts
 * No vassal states
 * No events
 * Aggressive AI
 * Chose religion
 * No apostolic palace

Format of the tournament
 * Opening round: 7 May 2021 – 2 Jul 2021
 * All 52 AI, seeded in to 3 pools (pool 1 with 8 AI, pool 2 with 8 AI, and unseeded with 36 AI)
 * 8 games, 4 with 6 AI and 4 with 7 AI
 * Each game has an AI from pool 1, an AI from pool 2, and the remainder from unseeded
 * Winner and runner-up of each game advance to playoff round
 * Any other AI alive at the end of the game advance to wildcard round
 * Wildcard round
 * Any number of AI leaders in one big game
 * Raging Barbarians turned on
 * Winner and runner-up advance to playoff round
 * Playoff round
 * 3 games, 6 players each
 * Winner and runner-up advance to championship
 * Championship
 * One 6-player game, champion crowned

Schedule and links
Schedule of play here, including links to VODs. Spoiler-free

Draw
A draw took place before the tournament to determine which AI from which pools would play in which games

Games
WARNING: Spoilers begin below this point

Wildcard
Raging barbarians are turned on for the wildcard game.

External resources

 * Civ4 AI Survivor 6 on sullla.com