Getting ready for the final round!

@wizard

I think I have all the center records in the closet

15 Min on the final round!

pictures, pictures! i want to see pictures!!

What an awesome weekend, and what a thrilling and entertaining experience. I am so glad to play in this community with not just such talented and skilled players, but also such great human beings. After this weekend, I am an even bigger fan of our community.

I hope to be able to help in organizing the next one.

A few more thank you's: the Boston dipping community for stepping in to help us get 3 boards, and Alex in particular for being such a great sport, playing doubles and having such a great attitude; abge + crazyter who can't be thanked enough; joey, wizard, ybells, and others who helped with the logistics; wiz for coming up with all those prizes; and all the people I played with over this action packed weekend.

Can't wait to see you all next time.

@Babak: Stats of all kinds tell me you must be a splendid player to watch. And every thing I've read under your name has "class" written all over it. I would be honoured to see you around a board with me. If you have the time and fancy the type of game, I've just created this one (and invited a few good players to join already): gameID=61317
If not now, soon I hope!
Congrats on your tourney!

This somehow posted to the wrong thread so here goes again...

I need pictures of CrazyTer. I introduced here to phpDip/webDip but have never actually met her. We met in the Judges where we were against two others, one of whom didn't know the primary rules of diplomacy: win then draw then survive, then screw the others. When he couldn't win, he decided to screw the others and not help CT and I stop the solo.

I can't say enough good things about the Boston F2F this weekend. First, the highest-quality players I have played against, many of whom are in the top 100 (and top 5!) on the Ghost Ratings- I know why after playing with them. Also a pleasure to play with some F2F-only players. Second, just a wonderful group of people. Fantastic attitude and smiles even as the daggers came out! Third, incredibly well organized, thanks to abgemacht and CrazyTer. Thank you all who participated. I look forward to seeing you at the next F2F and online.

It was great fun, I am having withdrawl pains now. We have to do it again sometie soon.

@Drgu-I answered you on the other post

are you guys going to post pictures?

Before I collapse and sleep for the next 12 hours, I'd like to say a few things:

1) When organizing an event like this (especially one involving people from the internet) I'm always hesitant about how it will work out. Words cannot express how happy I was with the result. It was honestly worth every minute I spent planning. I appreciate all the words of thanks, but I want you to know that I am equally grateful to all of you, as you were all an important part in making this tournament a great success.

2) Over the next few days, I will be posting tons of detailed scores, pictures and videos.

3) I would very much like to turn this into an annual event (not necessarily in Boston). In a month or so, I'll start talking about how to plan for the next event (if no one has done so already).

As usual, I was expecting the worst and hoping for the best... and everything FAR exceeded what I imagined the best could possibly be, what a blast, well worth the trip from Oregon!!

Congrats to Babak on his solo and tournament victory, extremely well done, just as we all expected.

It was a pleasure meeting everyone and I honestly have a new-found enthusiasm for the game, which is a welcome surprise. Much thanks to all involved, especially those putting in extra time and energy organizing and running the tournament, I am still a bit in awe of what an amazing experience it was...

I agree with all that was said here.

Big thanks to abgemacht and Crazyter for everything they put into this from me as well.

Also thanks to the FtF regulars who helped out and from the one I played against, I learned a lot during that game. Special thanks to Alex for playing 4 countries on saturday again.

Congrats to Babak. That primes you for organizing the next one on a beach venue in Florida. But seriously, impressive, man. In many aspects.

Everything was really good. Venue, food, people, Boston,... So good that I am seriously thinking about going back next week for the Massacre......
The only problem I will have now is that I know the people behind the webdip names.... turned out, Marx, Babak, abgemacht, etc. are actually great guys and not giant a*******, how can I stab them now? ;)

Best moment of the tournament for me was Babak's reaction when on the final table I threatened him to throw the game to MM if he moves one step closer to me and he realized that was not an empty threat and the implications that would have on the current board and the tournament.

Also, I can understand Marxes new-found enthusiasm...same for me.

now.... sleep!

OK, we had a East Coast/Mid-Atlantic. We now need a Southern plus Texas, West Coast, and Midwest/Great Lakes for the next three years (in no particular order).

Wow congrats again to Babak, and thanks again to everyone for a great time. I am bummed I couldn't make it this morning on account of my drunken friend but despite that and despite my poor showing I had the best time. I second and third a new enthusiasm for this game and for this community. You guys are great and I hope to see you again in future tournaments.

Also can't wait to see the scores and hear what happened in today's games!

Boston FTF was phenomenal. abgemacht and Crazyter did a wonderful job organizing every thing and they can't be thanked enough. Thank you, abgemacht, Crazyter, and everyone else that helped with making this an awesome tournament.

It was amazing meeting and playing with all of you. So many excellent players and excellent people. I was thrilled to be playing with some of the top players from this community. They were by far the best I've ever played with and I certainly see why their rankings are well-deserved.

Everyone had a great attitude, even while sliding in the knife or receiving it, making for a very enjoyable tournament even in the ups and the downs. Thanks for making this an awesome first FTF diplomacy experience. It was a pleasure playing with all of you!

Congrats to Babak for taking the only solo (in 1906!) and for winning the tournament.
Congrats to MadMarx, TheWizard, and mscott for taking second, third and forth place, respectively and the 4-way draw (with Babak) in the final round top-7 game.
Alex (the local Boston FTFer) was the "Best Sport" for playing two games simultaneously through the first two rounds and took 5th place.

Thucy! You're alive! You had us worried for a bit

By the way, I have pictures (107, ~500 MB) and videos (4 @ 1.2 GB). I gave them all to abgemacht. We'll have to figure out how to upload and share them... perhaps imgur and vimeo (HD vid support)? Also, maybe we get permission from those involved before we upload. Does anyone have any objections to the pictures or videos of them being released?

Videos:
1) Babak's solo victory. End of adjudication and center counting, followed by several solid minutes of EOG commentary from Babak, Crazyter, Joey and Thucy.
2) Babak receiving his 1st place awards, certificate, game set, and real-life dip points.
3) MadMarx and TheWizard receiving their 2nd and 3rd place awards.
4) Superlative prizes being announced and handed out by TheWizard, Crazyter, and abgemacht.

Here are the superlative awards that I was able to record on video

Best Bluffer: Geofram
Most Ruthless: joey1
Best Goofball: Neil (local FTF player?)
Best Geek: abgemacht
Best Ally: yebellz
Most Cunning: Babak
Most (Un)Strategic: Geofram (with TheWizard, MadMarx)
Most Creative: Babak
Best Blunder: Geofram
Best Liar: (tied) MadMarx, Geofram, joey1, Thucydides
Wildest Move: Geofram
Most Entertaining: Crazyter
Best Stab: yebellz
Best Sport: Alex (local FTF player)
Most Fun to Hang Out With: Everyone!
Best Tournament Director: abgemacht
Care Bear Award: Babak
Most Difficult Ally: MadMarx

Wiz, I liked how you described to me Babak's reaction to your threat of throwing a solo to me at the final table, Babak literally jumping in the air in anger, a la Rumplestilskin, I get a good laugh out of imagining that and Babak thinking I might have actually gotten a solo on the final table and stolen his thunder, but alas that was not meant to be as Babak immediately marched to the beat of your drum! ;-)

I personally didn't expect to do very well at this tournament, with limited F2F experience, and am very proud to have finished in second place. I am especially proud of, after drawing Austria in the final table and finding out in the pregame that Italy/Russia/Turkey planned a triple alliance to immediately kill me, that I ultimately won the final table amongst very high quality competition... which leads me to a challenge for Babak:

After Babak had to catch a flight home, the other six players at the final table proposed a rematch, 36 hour phase, 5 point bet, WTA, non-anon game. Babak, do you accept our challenge, in an attempt to keeping living the Boston Experience?!?!

Im in agreement with having found a new ethusiasm for dip. too many great things to say from a phone on a bus, but i have to write up some pages for work and was planning to use dip, will definitely have a full scoop ready by my 16th deadline. you wont miss the next one after reading it.

never got a chance to talk to thucy about our awesome world game draw, what exactly happened to you friday night?

Man I know we barely saw each other! Nothing happened to *me* last night it was my friend who was needing some tending to.

Sending PMs about the final table reunion game, happy to play more, to be honest, every player at the FtF was top notch and i feel honoured to have played with each one. There was no fighting, no real argument, and a lot of excellent plays. that dip coin we got could be worth 10000 on the site and there wouldnt be a single person who didnt deserve it.

Just a few pics from the Boston FTF
http://imgur.com/a/VKh4p
Just the venue, the view, and the final positions for two boards.

I will ask for permission before uploading any pictures with people in them.

Ok, time for bed. It's been a fun, but also exhausting weekend. Wouldn't even be up this late if it wasn't for the very long nap this afternoon.

Wish I lived in Boston. Sounds like you guys had a blast.

I love that y'all played with the beautiful old school board instead of the gross new one.

@yebellz

I think I'll upload the vids you gave me on youtube. That way, I can set them to "private" and you can only watch them if you get the link.

you have my permission to post my pictures.

i have nothing to hide unlike a. weiner

same here.
just waiting on wizard for the game,
babak requeated 48 hrs, if he really cant manage 36 are there any objections to having alex change it?