threadID=775460

bump.

I would like to make sure I'm in or still in or whatever lol. What will happen to the current Winter gunboat games going on, do they count for this or are going to be cancelled or are just for fun?

Yeah you're still in, and those games count as Group B games. I've assumed everybody currently in Group B is still in.
The Czech
Gobba
fullhamish
and you haven't responded to PMs or mailed me :-|

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i want in if possible.. pretty please

Is it too late to join?

ill join

I believe the tournament is filled already. However, there's always a need for stand ins and replacements.

bump. The tournament's started.
http://bit.ly/wgbt-2011 is the link to all the other links.

Are we waiting for the shuffle by the mods or are we just entering orders?

I believe we are supposed to enter orders in case we don't need a shuffle.

http://bit.ly/wgbt-2011

bump. Updates:

Group A:
gameID=69430
gameID=69431
gameID=69432

Group B
gameID=68075 - Complete
gameID=68076 - Complete
gameID=68077

Group C
gameID=69344
gameID=69345
gameID=69346

Group D
gameID=69789
gameID=69790
gameID=69791

bump

hey, how do you say "cheating" in greek?

bump

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group c is taking a day and an age- god knows why people cant press ready

:D

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Group B games are done>

mdrltc, Gobba and I go through.
The better fourth player between Groups B or C goes through, so
President Eden is on wait.

The updates tournament spreadsheet is at http://bit.ly/wgbt-2011
The finished games for Group B are at gameID=68075, gameID=68076 and gameID=68077.

@fullhamish, The Czech and Dan-i-Am 88:
Thanks for playing, all three games were great fun! Let's start an EOG thread
if there's interest, I'd like to. Some interesting moves there I'd be interested to hear the ideas behind, in particular France's opening in Game 3 and Austria's opening in Game 1.

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@santosh, I was France in game 3, right? I tried the anti-Italian opening, but messed up when I allowed Italy to slide into the MAO. It's an opening I don't usually do, but for some reason that's what I like to do in gunboats, test different openings

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@Dan-i-Am 88
Yes, I was surprised by that opening, it was unexpected. It lost Austria the game, however. I expected Turkey to cut me down very quickly, but he gave me some breathing room, I think he wanted to go after Russia. I was practically defenseless against Turkey when we called the skirmish off.

At that point, I was unsure whether to go back at you when Germany walked into Burgundy, or go east and try to stop Turkey, which looked unlikely. Turkey and I tried to stop Germany, but I never had enough units to block out the line, and mdrltc outguessed me once or twice nicely. But good game overall.

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