There is a very good chance that those of you in the upper end of the GR for undergrad students but with more than 15 games will be put into the grad student pool. I don't have time to go into details now, but there should be more on it tonight or tomorrow.

HA! *ehem* I mean, er, thank you sir

I have most of the teaching staff for the first game set up. I believe that we are just waiting on one reply now.

As for eligible students . . . after looking at the data, I have loosely applied the GR requirements set out in the earlier post and rigorously applied the standard of no CDs (but didn't apply the standard for number of games played) to arrive at exactly 10 candidates from the list of those interested, which is exactly the number of undergrads we need for 2 games. These 10 candidates are:
Rafaello
Pete U
Eklade
mongoose998
Aeneas17
Jjoey1
Chest Rockwell
JNewton
RoFWaFfLeZ
Still to be determined is who will play in Undergrad 1 (starting next week) and who will play in Undergrad 2. If anybody has a strong preference for playing in Undergrad 1, please let me know here. If any of the teaching staff, and especially the advisers and TAs, for Undergrad 1 have experience with any of these players and would like to request that the student be in Undergrad 1, please PM me.

Now . . . the grad students. We have three eligible:
Bonotow
pastoralan
goldfinger0303
We need 4 more to make this game happen. One possibility is to take people I had signed up to be advisers for this game and have them play, but then we'd be short advisers. Sign up, people!

Anybody who's interested may examine my data here.
https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AjIF1ox2Vmq5dFJFcnRadTZHbElmRlpOY3NNV0h4aWc&hl=en
An interesting point is that most of you guys have very low message/game ratios. I checked some of the higher ranked players (me, Crazyter, Abgemacht, Ebay), and all of us have M/G ratios of over 100, while most of the players on the student list are under 50. Perhaps your first lesson should simply be to send more press!

I thought I was the only one who check M/G ratio of the players in games I am playing :)

Am looking forward to these games, and I think all students should head those last words from peterwiggin: 'Perhaps your first lesson should simply be to send more press!' That would certainly be my advice :)

Are gunboats accounted for in those M/G ratios?

No they're not, but I have 5 gunboats and 10+ live press games out of 32, and my ratio's still over 100.

Hm. Anywhere left you could use me?

These games are non-anon, correct?

@President Eden
Want to be a grad student?
@abgemacht
Games are non-anon.

Great, I've been getting tired of all the anon games I've been playing.

Lemme see what all a grad student entails right quick.

It entails playing in a game with 6 other grad students, getting help from a mentor, and hopefully giving us a nice EoG statement afterwards.

Hm. I have three CDs on my record, all from live games. There were extenuating circumstances with each one (explained in my profile) but I don't doubt that why they're there is trivial compared to the fact that they are there. As far as GR goes, I believe I plummeted last month (sub-200 to 250ish)... let's see.

GR: 243. Highest rank: 190 (November 2010). 302nd in overall rankings. 3 CDs. The CD rate is a bit high for your grad students (2%, where 2/3 other students have 0), but the GR seems to be in order. I also have over 100 games completed.

Graduate students have 1-to-1 advisors for their game, right?

Oh, whoops, missed your message. Alright, I'm game.

Question, if there are 5 students in a game, who are the other 2? I believe you said they would be analysts, but would that not affect the game?

The other two are TAs.

Well, I guess because I dropped a game in frustration at a totally destablizing CD once I can't be a student...so put me down to be a grad student?

There were some mistakes in the spreadsheet before. Those should now be fixed.
Also, there I looked at the people whose Dec GRs were not good enough to qualify to be a student to see if their January GR qualified them. This is the list of students eligible for undergrad 1. If you are on this list, expect to receive a PM from me in the next few minutes.

Rafaello
Pete U
Ernst_Brenner
groza528
omgwhathappened
Eklade
Aeneas17
Jjoey1
Chest Rockwell
JNewton
RoFlWaFfLeZ
UOSnu

bump

i think we found 72 hours to be too long before, though i could be wrong. i think around 50 was good, maybe 55?

sorry i can't really help right now, just too busy. best of luck getting this going tho!

Hi djbent :)

as in 50 hour phases?

If you got a pm from me, please submit your statements by 11:59pm EST 4 Jan 2011.

Teaching staff for the first game:
Professors: Babak rdrivera2005
Tas: Agent K draugnar
Advisers: Baskineli Drano019 uclabb abgemacht texasdeluxe

When will we be starting?

I'll look at responses tonight and pick players for the first game. Either Agent K or draugnar will then start the game. Once the game starts, I'll assign each adviser to a student.

OK

I just sent out about 50 PMs, so I wanted to make sure I didn't miss it.

oh the joys of organizing tournaments . . .
TheWizard will also be a professor for the first game.