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Melbourne Open Diplomacy Tournament

Posted: Wed Jan 09, 2019 11:37 pm
by A_Tin_Can
16th and 17th March 2019, directed by our very own world champion and everyone’s favourite ally, Andrew Goff.

https://www.facebook.com/events/423069318230786/?ti=icl

Melbourne, Australia

Re: Melbourne Open Diplomacy Tournament

Posted: Thu Jan 10, 2019 12:22 am
by Durga
I'm gonna start swimming now

Re: Melbourne Open Diplomacy Tournament

Posted: Fri Jan 11, 2019 1:27 am
by A_Tin_Can
“Why didn’t you support me to Belgium?”
“Um, I dropped my pen in the ocean”

Re: Melbourne Open Diplomacy Tournament

Posted: Sat Jan 12, 2019 11:33 am
by TheGoffy
Hi Everyone!

If you're interested in attending but concerned or nervous for some reason please get in touch - this is a friendly tournament aimed at players new to face-to-face Diplomacy and the aim is to have a good time and meet people as well as playing the game. If there's anything I can do to help that, just email me at [email protected]

Re: Melbourne Open Diplomacy Tournament

Posted: Sun Jan 13, 2019 9:05 am
by osric_athanasius
Interesting. I will make note of it.

Re: Melbourne Open Diplomacy Tournament

Posted: Tue Mar 12, 2019 10:54 am
by A_Tin_Can
This is THIS WEEKEND EVERYONE! Wowowow! I will be there, and I hope you will too. Especially Durga. You're swimming into harbour any time now, right?

Re: Melbourne Open Diplomacy Tournament

Posted: Tue Mar 12, 2019 3:40 pm
by flash2015
TheGoffy wrote:
Sat Jan 12, 2019 11:33 am
Hi Everyone!

If you're interested in attending but concerned or nervous for some reason please get in touch - this is a friendly tournament aimed at players new to face-to-face Diplomacy and the aim is to have a good time and meet people as well as playing the game. If there's anything I can do to help that, just email me at [email protected]
I guess you must be the oldest one there now? I assume people like Frank M., Tristan Lee or Bill Brown are long gone?

Re: Melbourne Open Diplomacy Tournament

Posted: Tue Mar 12, 2019 4:46 pm
by dargorygel
I need to time my next trip to Oz around this tournament. Or play by drone.

Re: Melbourne Open Diplomacy Tournament

Posted: Wed Mar 13, 2019 9:59 pm
by Deeply_Dippy
Have a good tournament everyone!

Re: Melbourne Open Diplomacy Tournament

Posted: Thu Mar 14, 2019 5:33 am
by osric_athanasius
Thanks. I think I will be able to make it. So I will take any luck I can get.

Re: Melbourne Open Diplomacy Tournament

Posted: Thu Mar 14, 2019 3:12 pm
by flash2015
dargorygel wrote:
Tue Mar 12, 2019 4:46 pm
I need to time my next trip to Oz around this tournament. Or play by drone.
We need a few of these:

https://telepresencerobots.com/

Re: Melbourne Open Diplomacy Tournament

Posted: Mon Mar 25, 2019 11:31 am
by A_Tin_Can
@flash:

Sadly, Bill Brown passed away recently. Glasses were raised, and words were said. Goffy named the boards at the tournament in Bill's honour.

Tristan Lee is I believe not in the country anymore (he was around before I was, I never met him). Are you an Australian player?

Re: Melbourne Open Diplomacy Tournament

Posted: Mon Mar 25, 2019 12:12 pm
by flash2015
Oh, no! I didn't know. I am sorry to hear that! Last sent him an email about a decade ago (time flies). I think Bill put me up when I went down to his Geelong tournament one year.

Yes, I was an Australian player (I even ran a tournament for a couple of years)...but I haven't played face to face in a long, long, LONG time (early nineties). After a good couple of years, I think we were having trouble getting enough players to come to the tournaments (not much point if you don't get AT LEAST three tables) so I lost interest too.

Re: Melbourne Open Diplomacy Tournament

Posted: Mon Mar 25, 2019 12:27 pm
by flash2015
Actually, perhaps I am getting Bill and Ken Sproat confused on the Geelong thing...

Re: Melbourne Open Diplomacy Tournament

Posted: Thu Nov 19, 2020 7:04 am
by BrownPaperTiger
Aus player here....
This thread seems -old-
Is it dead?

Re: Melbourne Open Diplomacy Tournament

Posted: Mon Nov 23, 2020 11:05 pm
by The Ambassador
@BrownPaperTiger - the Melbourne Open was played last year pre-Covid. PoppyCon happened in March this year weeks before everything went crazy.

Seeing Melbourne is just coming out of lockdown now, it may be a little while until we see another f2f tourney.