Round Two assignments have been posted.
You can view them by clicking "Second Leg" @ tinyurl.com/gunboattournament

These matches were chosen based on an attempt to maximise exposure of every player to every other player whilst still seeding said players based on previous performance.

Remember, first game announcements go out to your email addresses midnight tomorrow. I will give away empty slots based on ranking (so starting with hammac) on Friday at 5pm EST (65 hours from now).

Please contact me (or post here) with any questions or concerns.

Bump!

You're doing a good job here, Geofram! Can't wait to start :)

Thanks Ursa! I've really enjoyed putting it on, it was shaky at first, but I think I've discovered some things that people seem to really desire out of their tournaments (like the spreadsheet) and some things that people have a hard time with that I could possibly make better next time.

"You're doing a good job here, Geofram! Can't wait to start :)"

second this thought - good job so far

Geofram, first of all thanks for all your hard work on this tournament.

I just give a look at the second leg games and find weird that I will play all three games with AlexNesta. The idea wasn´t you play most diferent players? I also notice that this is happening with other players too (JesusPetry/Ursa, dellez/UnkownHero, Maniac/yebellz and so on). So maybe the algorithm you used to set the groups have some problem.

Not sure if it would make a difference, but UnkownHero should be #20.

...and kudos for all that you're doing, geofram.

I think that with seven players in each game and three games you can't avoid repeating opponents - at least I couldn't come up with a system.
Good job, Geofram!

@Jesus - I agree with you that you probably can´t avoid repeating opponents once, but I am sure that we can have a system where you play at most twice against the same player.

@rdrivera2005 "I just give a look at the second leg games and find weird that I will play all three games with AlexNesta." - I should be the one complaining here... :-)

@Alex - I don´t think so, you finished the first leg way ahead of me :-)

But it´s not a complain, I just pointed that we can have maximum two games against one single player, just need to make 3 players swap in the third games (if someone has interest on this, ask me on a PM).

@rdrivera, you're right, but I also weighted seeding when I . I want to take another look at it, but I definitely want to have your performance in round one have a factor in who you play.

I also thought have having an equalizer game where players 1-7 were together, 8-14 together, and 15-21 together, but I don't think most would agree.

@trip, I will fix that before I send out assignments. I get out of class VERY late tonight. (having remembered this, it may not actually be midnight that the emails go out, but it will be before most of you wake up)

Thanks for doing all this Geofram, having a spreadsheet has been a nice touch.

Question: How many progress to the Final Round?

And, where are all my games with rdrivera? I don't have any...AlexNesta gets all the fun.

Thanks for all your work, Geofram!

Thank you, Geofram.

Stiff competition(what else?) in round two.

On the plus side, I have avoided The Czech and Lando.

(Borat voice) GREAT SUCCESS.

Only seven players will remain for the final round.

First game assignments are out, I repeat, first game assignments are out!

Almost everyone's assignments have changed. No one plays the same person three times anymore.

Check your emails and make those games.
Good luck all!

Game 1-Y created, info in mail of concerned players.

Game 1-Z created, players have been mailed. Check the game here for yourself: http://webdiplomacy.net/board.php?gameID=67348

Joined 1-Z

Game 1-X created.

^

Ok, game 1-X have started, but now some mod need to set the phase lenght. There is any restriction on the countries assignment?

No, there is no restriction on the first game. And I goofed.
There's no reason to have the phase at 10 days for the first one.
My bad on the copy-paste guys, I'll get it fixed asap!

No, there is no restriction on the first game. And I goofed.
There's no reason to have the phase at 10 days for the first one.
My bad on the copy-paste guys, I'll get it fixed asap!

I'll also find out which 3 players we're missing and hunt them down.

1-Z still missing two players, two days left in the phase!

bump!

Both 1-X and 1-Y are underway and have just over a day before the first phases go through.
1-Z is waiting on TrustMe, so go yell at him!

Bump! I've PMed TrustMe. We have 10h.