UnknownHero wrote: ↑

Sun Sep 03, 2023 3:52 am

In order to run this without a full slate of 49 players, I believe the requirement of "play each other player exactly once" would have to be relaxed. You could ensure that each player plays each other player either once or twice, while retaining the feature that each player gets to play as all countries at least once. (Or, in this imperfect matchup scenario, I imagine it could be set up as 7 games for each player with each player playing as each country once, though I won't attempt the math to prove if this can be done in all cases.)

It reminds me of a time I organized the races for a pinewood derby. (Races of wooden model cars down a sloped track, where imperfections in the track mean that rotating through tracks fairly is important.) I used this tool at the time, which could have been used for this purpose except that it only accommodates up to 6 tracks, not 7:

http://stanpope.net/ppngen.html

This type of match-up chart is known as "Partial Perfect-N", while the initial proposal in this thread would be called "Perfect-N" under this terminology.

Kench wrote: ↑

Sat Sep 02, 2023 2:55 pm

Hey, I'm glad this showed up on Discord. I've not been around in a while but this sounds like a lot of fun! Am I too late to sign up?

DarthPorg36 wrote: ↑

Thu Aug 31, 2023 5:02 pm

It may take a while to get 49 players. Is there a way we can do this without a full rank? Or is it better to wait a long time?

New England Fire Squad wrote: ↑

Fri Aug 25, 2023 10:08 pm

I assume these games will be ranked for GR purposes? I'm also fine with any bet size

gimix wrote: ↑

Wed Aug 23, 2023 1:06 pm

I would be willing to manage something bigger if enough people are interested:

• 49 players, so 7 boards per round

• 8 rounds

• each player is guaranteed to meet each opponent exactly once

• each player is guaranteed to play a different country in the first 7 rounds, while the 8th round will have random country assignments

I don't expect this to be a "top 100 gunboat", let's say we take the best 49 subscribers based on gunboat GRs; other subscribers may sub-in if needed

Settings to be defined with the participants, but surely

• gunboat

• anonymous

And then I'd say

• some level of simultaneity, i.e.:
  • all games start at the same time, or
  • first N rounds start at once, then each new game starts as soon as all the players in it have no more than N-1 running games

• a reasonably high RR (80%?)

• a "tournament" scoring system: tbd

• excused missed turns, phase length, etc: tbd

Someone interested?

DarthPorg36 wrote: ↑

Wed Aug 23, 2023 10:56 pm

I'm not a top player but I'd love to play if you'll take me! About how long do you think the whole series will take do you think?

• Start with 4 simultaneous rounds and then start all following games as soon as possible as I explained in my previous post, with 48/24 hrs/phase. An average game may last between 45 and 70 days, so we may think of about 4 months

• Start all rounds at the same time, probably with longer phases, say 72/36 hrs. An average game may last between 70 and 105 days, so we may think of about 3.5 months