Can I just have some checking done, please:

Game 1: You should be England in game 1
Game 2: You should be Austria in game 1
Game 3: You should be Germany in game 1
Game 4: You should be Turkey in game 1
Game 5: You should be Italy in game 1
Game 6: You should be Russia in game 1
Game 7: You should be France in game 1

Checks out for me.

for me too

Seems to check out for all the players in Game 1 round 1.

Correct for me.

It seems the former Italys have all been rewarded with what appears to be the toughest game yet. Oh Italy, can you never catch a break?

Pity the four poor sods who get Italy or Austria in both of the first two games...

The four poor sods? Wouldn't it be only two?

Wait, does this mean that you now have the power to directly assign players to nations, Ghostmaker?

If so... woah. That allows for a nearly perfectly balanced tournament.

Centurian, what about Italy followed by Austria and the other way about?

FS, not yet, but I hopefully will have soon.

and game five will be another doozy...

I think Ghhost means I-I, A-A, I-A, and A-I. I'm at risk for A-A or A-I. I only wish I could get A-I and Babak get I-A in the same game to get my revenge. :-P

actually it looked to me like england is also getting wrecked in most of the games.

Game 4 looks right to me. A game of turkeys.

Ouch!

@Ter - you haven't been skipping my meds have you? <grin>

@Ghost - did you mean that the players in those games should have been that nation in ROUND 1? You said game 1 and that just confuses things. If that is what you meant, then my place is correct as well.

yes draugnar...that's exactly what he meant...
I'm in game 7 and I've been france in game 1, like all of my new opponents.

Actually, not all of your opponents were France in Game 1. But they were France in Round 1. Only you were France in Game 1.

I think you understood what I meant...
I was france in my 1st game in this tournament...

Ghost. I did play Turkey in round 1, so my placement in game 4 is correct.

But there is one point I don't get. If round 2 game 4 consists of all the players who play Turkey in round 1, one player will get to play Turkey for the second time in a row. But I thought Ghost once mentioned that we will play the same country for round 2 and round 8 -- then will this player play Turkey for three times?

weee...

@Laoban. He said that the country you play in Round 2 is the one you play twice. So if you played the same country in Round 1 and 2, then all your remaining games will be with other countries.

whats up with game 5 always being the toughest =( sheesh.

Its cuz you are in it Babak. :)

I suspect that I shall be one of those for poor sods...

Oh for a Turkey or France in Game Two!

Four. It is spelt four. I know. The gloom and depression of an expected bad draw is affecting my fingers...

"@Ghost - did you mean that the players in those games should have been that nation in ROUND 1? You said game 1 and that just confuses things. If that is what you meant, then my place is correct as well."

I meant Round 1 Draugnar, sorry.

"But there is one point I don't get. If round 2 game 4 consists of all the players who play Turkey in round 1, one player will get to play Turkey for the second time in a row. But I thought Ghost once mentioned that we will play the same country for round 2 and round 8 -- then will this player play Turkey for three times?"

No. You play the seven different countries in rounds 1 and 3-8, and a random one in round 2. In an official implementation I would put the random game as game 8, but doing it now buys Kestas time with programming the country selector. :)

Ghost, how does this country selector work? Is it just a mod power? Because I'm not really a fan if it becomes commonplace.

Centurian +1

agree with it for this tournament... only.

A mod power, it would be.

Meditate on this, I will.

For me, checks out it does.

Austria, in Round 1 I was. Game 2, in round 2 I play. Correct, the confirmation is.

Ridiculous syntax the random rule making wants to ban.

It could also be useful in the leagues to make certain no one gets a prime or crap position in too many games.

After 3 out of 4 Germanys in the Premier League (one season), I would certainly look favourably on something to even the spread a bit.

Where did all the Yodas come from?

Lets give this a bump.

I was practicing Yoga and accidently started channeling Yoda. <grin>. They just naturally evolved from Troodonte's "agree with it for this tournament... only" and Ghost's Yoda-ish reply.

The games, start they must. But when? Awaiting and breath holding, I am.

Ok to me. Russians game, there I go.

On September 28th, begin they shall.

Amusing you are not

looking forward to the next game! and it's exciting to see that the leagues are finally almost wrapped up - the last game hopefully will be finished soon.

Could game 5 for the next round be made any more difficult? Cant wait!

Excited i am.