Yes folks after 15-1/2 hard fought years of Invitational goodness, we finally have...
 
...To carry on!
 
DIAS is voted down, again.  And the mood among the Norwegian Ladies, well, is it just PMS?  Or maybe the exceedingly high proportion of centers occupied by opposing units this summer...  Russia and Turkey make a land-grab, flexing their little-power muscle into Saint Pete, Sev, Bud, Rom, and even Spain, and forcing the Norwegians in Bohemia OTB.  The French fall back to Belgium, taking some lumps of their own - losing their army in Silesia, and every first born into Turkish slavery.  This is certainly going down as an unbelievable rags-to-riches, game...
 
What next?
 
Well, one easy retreat:
French F Rome can go to Tus, Apu, or OTB by tomorrow 3pm Central!
 
France:
F English Channel Supports A Holland - Belgium
F Gulf of Lyon - Western Mediterranean
A Holland - Belgium
F London - Wales
F Mid-Atlantic Ocean - Irish Sea
A Munich Supports A Tyrolia - Bohemia
F North Atlantic Ocean - Liverpool (*Bounce*)
A Rome Hold (*Dislodged*)
A Ruhr Supports A Munich
A Silesia - Galicia (*Disbanded*)
A Tyrolia - Bohemia
 
Russia:
F Black Sea - Sevastopol
A Moscow - St Petersburg
A Ukraine - Galicia (*Bounce*)
A Warsaw - Silesia
 
Turkey:
F Aegean Sea - Constantinople
A Constantinople - Bulgaria
F Ionian Sea - Adriatic Sea
F Naples - Rome
A Serbia - Budapest
A Smyrna - Ankara
F Tyrrhenian Sea Supports F Naples - Rome
F Venice Hold
F Western Mediterranean - Spain(sc)
 
Norway:
A Berlin Supports A Warsaw - Silesia
A Bohemia - Munich (*Disbanded*)
F Clyde - Liverpool (*Bounce*)
F Denmark - Kiel
A Galicia - Vienna
F Helgoland Bight Supports F Kiel - Holland
F Kiel - Holland
A Liverpool - Yorkshire
F Livonia - Prussia
F North Sea - Belgium (*Fails*)
F Norwegian Sea - North Sea (*Fails*)