Therefore it is a contradictory formula in that you want not much time spent on the site and a very good ghost rating to get the lowest score.

A good ghost rating is high. Ghost was refering to the actual numerical value. The ranking that is derived from that number is better the lower it is, hence the confusion.

Ghost rating is not your position in the rating (e.g. you are 10th) but the actual rating (e.g. 350). Experienced players will have higher rating.

Ahh. ok. That makes sense. I forgot that the actual number was high.

Yeah, the actual rating, not the ranking.

We now have 28 entrants to the tournament some are already misspelling as the "TGM Masters":

TheGhostmaker
Rlumley
airborne
mapleleaf
thewonderllama
fortknox
rdrivera2005
tailboarder
Vaftrudner
gjdip
Sirither
groverloaf
Onar
Plastic Hussar
troodonte
Draugnar
StevenC.
BigZombieDude
flashman
Chrispminis
Civil Disorder!!!
The General
Tru Ninja
texasdeluxe
Sayjo the Lion-Hearted
Crazyter
Bazin
uclabb

Just giving this a bump

It's TMG Masters, right? As in TheMasterGamer. TGM is just helping out. Right? Of course, if you two didn't have such similar initials (Like Dingle and MsBent), there wouldn't be so much confusion. ;-)

Yes, that's right.

It's TMG's fault, he signed up second.

People just need to get the nicknames straight around here. TheGhostmaker is commonly referred to as some variant of "Ghost" whereas TheMasterGamer is referred to as TMG. Just like djbent is typically Ms. Bent and Dingleberry Jones is DJ and Draugnar is "that guy who wants to bang his neighbor and her barely legal daughters".

llama's newspeak campaign is getting off to a troubled start....

OK, llama. Let's stop going there. I promised I would be more respectful, so we can stop bringing up that subject.

-Draugma ...er... Draugnar

I've never been in a game with tgwwtbhnahbld yet, but it sounds like it'd be interesting. Doesn't Ms. Bent sound like an 80 yr old that needs to be chauffeurred around like "Driving Miss Daisy"; Admittedly I picture more of the Xena, Warrior Princess variety when I think of djb.

Count me in for the tourney. I'll formally sign up after work, which I should most likely get back to.

I'm in. I've sent the requisite email. :)

so how many points total would this cost me if I ended up losing every single game?

35? Not much at all at 5 a game so it sounds like fun.

all right I am going to sign up.

actually 40 - its 8 games.

Ghostie - I sent an email... but I presume by "googlemail" you mean "gmail" right? so [email protected] =)

i'm in and looking forward to it.

Sounds fun ^_^

Babak, googlemail works.

I always forget that there's pagination, so I didn't read the first page. It looks like I could get in just based on the time I've been on the site. =P

If I join this, I'll probably have to bow out of the Leagues next season though.

where are the details on this?

Not fully developed I believe ^_^

TheGhostmaker
Rlumley
airborne
mapleleaf
thewonderllama
fortknox
rdrivera2005
tailboarder
Vaftrudner
gjdip
Sirither
groverloaf
Onar
Plastic Hussar
troodonte
Draugnar
StevenC.
BigZombieDude
flashman
Chrispminis
Civil Disorder!!!
The General
Tru Ninja
texasdeluxe
Sayjo the Lion-Hearted
Crazyter
Bazin
uclabb
Pyromancer
LanGaidin
JesusPetry
zscheck
Yetislayer
MadMarx


Jacob: The details of the actual tournament are in the first reply of this thread. As for selecting the players, I'm going to see to what extent it is necessary to select.

Ghostie - I'm in... did you get my email?

TheWizard
Babak

I look forward to this, thanks for organizing it TGM and TMG...

I hope you got my email in time.
I would love to get in.

As I understand it, a major criteria for selection is that players will not have a poor record with regard to leaving games. If so, this would be a major plus.

The plan with all of the selection is to reduce the incidence of CD as far as possible.