The nice thing about gunboat is that is requires very little time per game.

as long as people FINALIZE their orders

;)

I'm interested in beginning late April, or May
I was not in the last tournament.
I'd prefer 25 hour, but 36 hour phases are ok.
I'm not so sure about this scoring system though.

I played last time and would love to play again

I believe that the scoring should be simplistic. Gunboat is a novel enough approach to diplomacy.

Perhaps a solo automatically moves on. Then maybe a point for being part of a draw, with the # of SCs as a final tiebreaker.

3 rounds with 36hr phases has taken almost 5 months to complete, but to be honest, only 3 or 4 people consistently used more than 24hrs to enter orders. 25hrs is possible, but with 49 people, there's a good chance of issues arising. You also have to take possible pause requests into consideration. I think there were two pause requests in the current tourney with 28 people.

I think the scoring and rules for advancement worked very well in the first two rounds, when half the players advance. The finals could be tweaked. I'd say cumulative, but that would be better for round robin, which is an interesting idea. How often would games start?

I think 36 hr is pretty much necessary. If we're able to field a round robin, games could start one per week. The tournament could be as few as 7 games, (not including finals.)

The problem is I dont think we'll get 49 interested parties.

Which means we'll probably do a repeat of: 4 groups 3 rounds, 2 groups 3 rounds, 1 group 3 rounds. 9 games max for the final contestants. (If there's 28 players)

This method does allow for a more rigid pace, but if each game takes roughly 3 weeks to complete, we're still talking 3-4 months.

We did them simultaneously this tournament (as in 3 games at a time). They take a lot longer than 3 weeks to complete.

The master of gunboats is back!
Count me in and say goodbye to ALL your points!

Preferred start date of tournament: None
Participated in last tournament: No

Not a participant in the prior tourney, but I'd be interested. As for your requests, the only item that I care about is that the games be anon.

i played last time, would play again. 36 hours is good, but players should commit to finalize. my first couple rounds went at a snails pace, the finals have been fine.

Finalizing orders is essential!

I'm interested. Start date is inconsequential for me. And I did not participate in any previous tournaments.

I'm interested in this as well. I haven't played any tournaments before. The start date doesn't matter too much for me, but later in April would be better. I can't do phase lengths any shorter than 36 hrs though.

I'm interested. The start date doesn't matter to me. I haven't participated in any previous tournaments. 36 hours is better than 25, but both are fine.

I am interested.
Didn´t play in the last one.
Any phase lenght between 25 and 36.
Don´t know how was scoring system, but I think the scoring system should be something like the Leagues, as draws are harder to achieve in gunboat and should be rewarded (a lot less then a solo, but still rewarded).

I would be interested in playing. Message me if you want to talk about running it.

I'm in at any time as I've never done this before.

There's 21 interested so far.
36HR && Anon are pretty much given at this point, but we'll definitely encourage finalising.

Is there any reason we could not or should not start first week of May? Gives the school folk time to graduate/study.

i'm interested - how many games are you talking though? (as i didn't play in previous tournaments).

sign me up

Braveheart:
last tournament there were 28 players, in 4 groups:
1st round
semi-final
final

3 games each round, so maximum 9 games.

Not sure if geofram wants to do the same system.
Personaly I would prefer to see the final with more than 3 games... maybe 5.

Troodonte, can play in you'r guy'es turnament?

sign me up.

i'll play - would prefer players to finalise though

agreed

Isz this all 21? we can have 3 group's of 7

Please add me as well, I got spanked last time. I like the 36 hrs then if you are away for the weekend, you don't have to try to pause the game. But during the week everyone should ready orders.

Please sign me up as well! Thanks!