Evil? More like stupidity that's not worth wasting time over.

Don't want ye's front page to be empty.

I've just purchased the prizes. They look pretty awesome! Sign up if you want a chance to win!

Lifesize pictures of yourself do not count as prizes...even if they are autographed

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Welcome back from the dead, Bugger.

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Thanks, I look forward to playing with you guys. Any advice on things to consider/look over before playing F2F for the first time?

@Bugger

Take a look at the F2F Player guide by Edi Birsan here: https://sites.google.com/site/boroughsdiplomacy/diplomacy-resources

Also, a few of my friends will be playing a game before the tournament for practice as most of them haven't played before. I'll let you know when it'll be when we get closer

Alright guys, the awards just got in and they're wicked sweet!

Can people please let me know if they'd like this to be a 1 or 2 day event?

Doesn't matter to me. I can do 1 or 2. I imagine the first game will be a warmup for me, so I'll probably want that second day.

Saturday will have 2 games, fyi.

I can attend 1 or two days. If we do 2 days, I will just inform my wife and kids it is a 1 day event, then stab them by sneaking out at 5AM in the morning.

Alright, let's go with 2 days.

Going to try to update the rules and whatnot today so we can start advertising to the F2F world.

I can only make it the first day, but two days probly makes for a better overall tournament.

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Haven't forgotten about ya'll. Was very busy/sick this week. Updating the rules and advertising to F2Fers this weekend!

Don't forget to have the champ be the winner of the final table! ;-)

Writing the rules now.

lol, how was it written before if the champ wasn't the winner of the final table?

Scoring was a bit off last time. Personally, I blame Thucy and Crazy for giving Babak the solo in Game 2.

Alright, I have an outline of the rules. Thanks to JimTheGrey and Lando for their very helpful suggestions, most of which I tried to incorporate Please take a look at them here: https://sites.google.com/site/boroughsdiplomacy/tournament-rules

Obviously, I need to add some more details and whatever, but there's plenty of time for that.

What I'd really like is feedback on the following:

Schedule
Phase Lengths
Scoring

Those are really the most important things and I'd really like people's input. The rest of the nitty grits I can figure out on my own.

Thanks!

Everything seems fine to me. Is it my understanding that the scoring is basically PPSC? I saw a bunch of formula's (or was it chinese?).

It's quite different from PPSC. First, if someone solos, only the winner gets points. Second, with this scoring method, you are rewarded much more for more centers then simple PPSC in a draw.

I guess the scoring wont matter to me much since I will be solo'ing all 3 games :-b

Bugger, at Boston F2F, the winner was whoever had the most points, and after Babak got a solo on Saturday (obviously against "lesser talent", as a whole, than at the final table), the tournament was his unless someone got a solo at the final table. Pretty anti-climatic, having Sunday be meaningless, after flying out from Oregon. Anyway, I'm proud to have topped the final table, especially since Italy/Turkey/Russia agreed to triple-team me (I was Austria) in the initial diplomacy period before spring 1901... Not that I'm bitter or anything, it was great fun regardless of the outcome, but at the same time, if your going to put a bit of effort to meet up and play the games, it's nice for the final table and the final day to mean something...

I like MadMarx's idea of deciding things within the final game. With how much interest he's showing in this the scoring system of this tournament, you'd think he might be planning to come out for it. However, I guess the procedures used in this tournament also have a good chance of making it into the WebDip FTF of next summer, so more than just the Marlboro participants should be interested.

Make the Saturday games qualification for the top 7 final game on Sunday, then decide the top 7 finishers of the tournament based on performance within just that game. The rest of the players, who didn't qualify for the final on Sunday, will also play in a concurrently-run 3rd game on Sunday, but they will be ranked into finishing positions of 8+ based on their cumulative score across their three games.

Tie-breakers for ranking the top 7: number of SCs (for drawers/survivors), year of elimination (for defeated), and then points accumulated in the first two rounds.

My only concern with this method would be a dead day 2, as anyone not on the final table knows they have no chance to win.