Perhaps the most deciding moment was when France suddenly abandoned his defense in the Med. Before that I was kinda blocked and a 10 units, while Russia was already at 14. I was afraid he'd take the win. But then France litterally let me walk over him and I could stab Russia consequently.

Thanks for the game guys!

Yeah, I was even kind enough to help you break through there. :(

how about when i sniffed out the juggernaut from the beginning and went to help austria with a delayed barbarosa, only to see that no only was england was confused for taking holland, but Austria too seemed to not understand what was going on and took munich, just unbelievable

id rather 1 guy solo though i think, means more people wont get points

@Hellenic: I wrote a longer response earlier, but it got eaten up by a web error. In short, I tried to create a stalemate line but felt it was impossible with England on me. I decided my best shot was to fall completely back and hope one of three things happened. First, it could have created enough of an alarm that all nations took notice and began to cooperate against the juggernaut. Second, it could have created enough of an alarm that Russia would turn on you. Third, presuming that R/T were not going for a 17/17 split in a gunboat, I wanted to prevent Eng from consuming me and being the third in the draw---I figured lvp was a better place to hide out.

Games 4-e and 3-c are ready to be shuffled. Maybe someone could remind the players there that they are not to finalize their moves until the boards have been shuffled???

It was repeated many times that finalizing is a no-no. Unfortunately, those who still do it probably won't stop if they read it one more time.

As 1-E's Italy, I have to agree with Santa about the juggernaut. I opened the game planning to attack Austria and then saw Russia and Turkey forming up... So I decided to take a huge risk and re-arrange my forces to defend Austria and attack Turkey. I managed to convoy into Syria, and my plan actually would have worked... Except in Fall 1903, Austria, instead of holding A Trieste (which I was supporting against Turkey's attack) bounced A Trieste off Venice. He lost Trieste and Turkey got a build. If Turkey had not gotten that one build, I WOULD HAVE been able to take Smyrna in the next year without any doubt. Turkey's advance would have been slightly arrested and with any luck Russia might have piled on. Who knows what might have happened?

Haha, can you tell I've been stewing about this since my early elimination?

Hm, that's true perhaps. But I did let you in conciously, because I wanted a fleet in AEG. If I didn't have a build I'd have attacked EMS, likely resulting in you getting into SMY. But as you would also have moved ION-AEG to cut support, a lot would've depended on F GRE, either bouncing in AEG - or moving into ION, costing you a center in return.

But indeed, a crucial moment. After that I could just walk over you.

@ Hellenic: well it was good from you to help me at that moment :) But if France hadn't retreated I'd only have taken MAR and perhaps TUN. I don't if that would've helped getting closer to a 17-17 draw. The game is about winning after all :)

No, but I used it to buy me time before you stabbed me, I was horribly open in the south at that point. If France hadn't pulled all out I could have garrisoned myself properly in time

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1-D is over too. Great game, Italy and France. Sorry, Germany, in a tournament, if you're a minnow and can be safely eliminated, you're gone.
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That's not always true, though.

Game 1-F just finished with a balanced 3-way draw. Good game.

4-B is also ready to be paused and shuffled.

I'm in the process of completing the shuffle assignments and finding out who isn't in their games yet. Hopefully I finish it today. Scoreboard will be updated today for sure.

It will mostly have to wait until the late evening, WWDC has the next 6 hours of my life. Steve Job's just finished the talk on iCloud and my pants are wet.

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sage ;)

Shuffles are going out tomorrow I promise. WWDC destroyed the past two days of my life but now things are slowing down. And I need to get them out before the Boston F2F kicks in (leaving on Thursday.)

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Working on it now!

Check your PM's Geofram.

I know this is silly, but its so much fun I had to post it.
I mentioned before that I wrote a java applet that takes what countries you all have been previously, sorts you into your next group, and then shuffles into a random country-assignment that you haven't been before. The algorithm isn't very complicated or smart, but it works.

The fun part: I'm not home, so I'm doing all the shuffling from my mobile devices. Loaded the applet into Android and tagged the shuffle method to respond when I shake the phone. So now your names are truly being shuffled! =P

I'm almost done with Game 3's assignments, Game 4 will go quickly because it remembers the assignments from before. I'm also going through and finding out who hasn't joined yet to re-PM them today.

Let me know if you need help with finding the tardy joiners...

Bump!

Figle should be waking up in a few to several hours, but I'm not sure when he or another mod will get to the shuffling.

Current Status:

tinyurl.com/gunboattournament
is up to date!

The shuffles are pending for all games, expect them at the moderators' convenience, except:
3-D, waiting on rallinator
3-F, waiting on mr.crispy OR SantaClausowitz (neither responded to the email)
4-A, waiting on rallinator
4-G, waiting on captmiki

They all have PMs waiting for them.

Groups 2-F, 3-B, 4-A check your emails regarding a needed pause next week. (As soon as I send it.)

If you have orders FINALISED in either of your games THREE or FOUR, remove them NOW. You did not listen to me.

Thank you for your patience

This is a bump.
4-G & captmiki should be ready soon

im already in, and sorry I thought i responded