I think my draw was worse than yours. But, we'll see how they play out.

7 games 4 countries here as well. And some stupid neighbors, :). I should make it out of the first round, but well see what happens. :P

When I saw my country draw, I figured I had a good chance of not making it out. We'll see if I'm right.

I'm interested to play it. I suggest seven games with seven different countries...

your too late bro.

7g4c here too!

I have a better balance: 7g6c

7g5c here. But I can't complain. At least my ready button works.

@jcbryan97 +1

7g5c here as well. And my Ready button works too.

At one time the country picking algorithm used to be biased towards choosing the countries you'd played the least in-games-you'd-already-finished. If that algorithm is still being used then it probably explains the matching selections for these seven games.

Be interesting to see if, in the games where I've got the same country twice, whether anybody else did as well.

7g6c as well. A classy mix.

7g4c, but already WILDLY diverging games.

36 hours per turn. Saying your ready button works is a way of saying which countries you are not? Maybe it should not be mentioned...We could make this a ready button discussion. When I am short on time, I put in orders just in case I dont make it back and nmr. When I have more time, I revisit the game and spend more time thinking. Many times I am undecided and will put in orders and 'sleep' on it. Sometimes if I know I will be short on time for the next turn, I will not ready so I know I will have 36 hours plus x before the deadline after. If players want a faster game, 36 hours will need to be shorter. Otherwise I dont think it should be mentioned wheterh you are ready or not in a format where we know all the participants.

Trooth dat ^

Preach it! ^

+1 Trooth. I wonder what the admins are waiting for to say something like this. For the several past days players which allways point out about not talking about ongoing gunboats have been doing exact the same thing without being aware of it. Or they are aware they talk about ongoing gunboats?

yeah it is fairly brutal that people are coming on here and saying their country mix. It is not of value to anyone. is against the rules and just needless. Please stop speaking on ongoing games. We ALL know the rules and many of us have broken them.

With that being said - Trooth makes a good point re: "Ready." The games are 36 hours by design. Everyone has different lives and different abilities to get online for orders. With all that being said:

Please try and ready up when possible. It is respectful to your opponents. There is no reason to save orders that you know will not change, if you know that the following turn you will not be at risk of NMR.

Is this fair?

That was never a condition of our agreement, nor was giving Han to this bounty hunter!

I completely agree with Lando and Trooth here. Please stop discussing ongoing games. Please do not discuss your countries, pause/unpause, or the ready button. There is absolutely no reason to discuss any of this.

Almost everyone in this tournament is a veteran on the site and should know better. Any further infraction will result in point docking and/or silence.

Thank you for understanding.

Brutal? You don't know what brutal is. Why don't you try to make four beats a day for two summers?

http://www.comedycentral.com/video-clips/1gfeui/stand-up-aziz-ansari--harsh-cop

Perfect Trooth. If you sign for a 36h hour game expect 36 hours.

And don't talk about the ongoing games.

"...people are coming on here and saying their country mix. It is not of value to anyone. is against the rules and just needless..."
I think people were quietly whinging about the lack of a spread of 7 countries in 7 games in the tourney and yes, it really isn't of value to anyone (I thought it through before I posted and couldn't see anyway the information could be used, so no harm done). It would actually be *worse* if there was a 7g7c anon-tourney-mode because, when we were down to the last game, everyone would know who everyone else was. Then again, if the tourney mode extended to not revealing who played which country until all 7 tourney games were over ...

Bump

If a replacement is needed I would be glad to join

Noted, thank you guak.

Gunboat Tournament:
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Group A:
Split, gen. lee, stressedlines, trooth, yebellz, brianofboru, Chaqa
gameID=110149 gameID=110151 gameID=110152 gameID=110153 gameID=110155 gameID=110164 gameID=110166

Group B:
Czech, ava, fulhamish, Mapu, pjmansfield, josunice, Speakertoalens
gameID=110227 gameID=110228 gameID=110229 gameID=110230 gameID=110231 gameID=110232 gameID=110234

Group C:
CSteinhardt, fairfax, jesuspetry, alexnesta, Your Humble Narrator, y2kbtk, Draugnar
gameID=110177 gameID=110178 gameID=110179 gameID=110180 gameID=110181 gameID=110182 gameID=110183

Group D:
Lando, 2ndwhiteline, nigeebaby, jcbryan, jimgov, rdrivera, the ministerofwar
gameID=110156 gameID=110157 gameID=110160 gameID=110161 gameID=110162 gameID=110163 gameID=110165

Subs:
mdrltc
guak

Scoring:
Solo victory is worth 13 , draw worth 12 divided by number of players sharing in the draw. Survives and defeats worth nil. Tie-break in order - # of solos, # of draws, # of total centres (draws only).

There will not be a shuffling of powers in the first or second round.

Advancing:
Top 3 from each group and the best 4th place from Group A and D, and Group B and C.
The following round will consist of 7 games among the winners of Groups A and D and Groups B and C.

Notes:
- Do not discuss on going gunboat games.
- If in need of a pause please inform the TD (Lando). Do not vote pause unless instructed to do so.

Bump

Group B has had an NMR and was dangerously close to another 2 this morning. Fortunately thanks to a participant and quick action from goldfinger0303 we were able to avert this issue.

I apologize to the participants for not making an NMR/CD policy clear before the outset of this tournament. Going forward here is what I propose:

If there is an upcoming NMR or CD please do mail me about it. If there is one in group D please also copy yebellz on the mail, so he can take appropriate action.

We will pause games to prevent CDs and NMRs. If this is a big issue for you please mention now.

With regards to Group B, I am in contact with the player who was close to missing the phases. Assuming he is able to play on those games will be unpaused.

Any questions or concerns please voice them.

Good policy.