What a wonderful start to this weekend. 7 of us are sitting together having a blast waiting for abge to show up.

Crazyter is an absolute sweetheart and a wonderful host, and for those ofu wondering MadMarx is just as imposing in real life as he is on webdip =P just kidding, he's quite the gent!

Wiz, Thucy, joey, and aeneas are also sitting here and trading jokes!

More to be written soon I'm sure!

I walked by the site this morning. We're playing in the heart of MIT. Very cool.

Hey all,

Quick update then I'm off to write the rules.

Meeting everyone was amazing! It was great to talk to people irl about diplomacy and see the people I've spent so much time with on this site.

It was great to finally meet Crazyter, who I've spent the better part of a year planning this event with.

Really looking forward to playing with everyone tomorrow. I'll do my best to keep everyone on the site updated with what's happening.

I must admit I was a tad nervous about meeting up with a bunch of webdippers, especially after my "cut-throat" F2F experience earlier this year in Seattle (I know, Thucy, I did it again!), and I could not imagine it going any better so far, everyone was very laid-back, comfortable, entertaining, respectful, etc., etc. I may even regret having to stab each and every one of them repeatedly all day long Saturday AND Sunday, but luckily I have a short term memory and will be free of any/all guilt before my plane lands back in Oregon Monday afternoon! ;-)

PS - Haha, Babak, I could not be any less "imposing" in real life, you crack me up!!

Final rules are up. Thanks to everyone who helped. I hope I caught everything:

https://sites.google.com/site/phpdiplomacytournaments/boston-face-to-face/tournament-rules

https://sites.google.com/site/phpdiplomacytournaments/boston-face-to-face
- now with news feed/twitter feed.

unfortunately i'm not sure how this twitter thing works... those tweets are all old... but if you can figure out how to make them about the game that will be sweets!

@orath

Nice! I just tested it and it looks like the tweets update instantly.

Is there a hashtag we can use? Or is it just one person's account that is being updated?

that updates based on the account, but i don't see why you can't follow a hashtag too, and there should be a better google app gadget to follow a hashtag... hmm.

First one here. Venue looks great!

Things are going great!

We're taking a lunch break and then finishing up game 3.

uh...I mean finishing Game 1

Check out Twitter for current board pics.

where?

Lunch break?! There are no breaks in diplomacy! You stuff your face with pizza and bear and diplome with your mouth full.

Lunch break? You don't get no lunch break! You don't need no stinkin' lunch break.

step 1. stuff mouth with pizza
step 2. use sign language to negotiate
step 3. ???
step 4. profit... or, more likely, mass confusion from all the failure at sign language

I can't follow the uodates in the link available :(

I hope all of you are having a lot of fun.
I would love be there to share that experience.
Please post something here for us ;)

yes,neither can i, my lack of twitter knowledge has me failing to keep the twiter fed relevant, but mostly i lack that hashtag they are using, or whatever it is these tweeters use to identify themselves...

What an amazing, yet grueling (sp?) day! Gotta say, the first round left me quite bupset at abge's last season stab which put geofam ahead of me *shaking fist at abge*... but the second round now has me doing a happy dance!!

What a pleasure it is to stab and be stabbed in person.

Now some alcohol

Lol yeah after yor solo shamed us all I think I'll need to drink myself to sleep. As embarassing as I know it'll be I'm looking forward to seeing yebellz's video lol

Also it's a real shame I couldn't go to any bars with you guys... Next year

Great games today everyone!

Here's the current ranking:


213.33 Babak
87.67 yebellz
87.67 abgemacht
80.33 MadMarx
80.33 Geofram
79.33 Wizard
68.33 mscott
55 Alex
32 Aeneas
31 Crazyter
27 joey
9 Thucy
2 Maxwell
1 Alan3
0 MaxM
0 Ipsum
0 Neil

Ab did a wonder job playing TD. It all went off without a hitch!

Thank u abge for all your hard work man!

Thucy, wish u could join me, I'm 5 long islands deep and counting haha... wiz was supposed to txt me and join but no show!

Ybellz, looking forward to the vid man!

Also, must be said - poor alex, our boston ftf expert, had to play two games each round. I have no clue how he did it as I could never achieve such a feat!

But without doubt, getting my first ftf solo was one of the most exhilerating feelings of my dip-life!

Another plug for the magnificent job Abe and Crazy have done organizing and running this event. Games have started and ended on time, the troops have been fed and billeted in an outstanding venue, rules and scoring have provided the proper structure and the universal feeling of friendly rivalry has led to six hard fought and thoroughly enjoyable games. We're all looking forward to tomorrow.

This point system needs work. =P

Wow what a great day. Thanks abg and the other tournament directors for putting this together. I plan on doing a full write up, but right now I have to sleep!

Just wondering. Do some of you go to MIT? I will be starting there in the fall as a graduate student. Would be cool to meet some of you in person. (Sad I missed F2F)

Yes, amazing experience.
Kudos to Alex for playing 2 games at the same time twice. What a feat.
Big thx to abgemacht an crazyter for all this.
Babak, sorry that got screwed up, someone cleaned the table on which we were still playing and rashed the sheet with yhour number on. :-(
...and I can't believe they let you solo. So curious about that video... and I am nominating you for carebear award.

Yes, amazing experience.
Kudos to Alex for playing 2 games at the same time twice. What a feat.
Big thx to abgemacht an crazyter for all this.
Babak, sorry that got screwed up, someone cleaned the table on which we were still playing and rashed the sheet with yhour number on. :-(
...and I can't believe they let you solo. So curious about that video... and I am nominating you for carebear award.