Good luck and have fun everyone!

I'll be live-blogging all the games for my personal amusement and will upload/release them at the conclusion for EOG analysis.

I love reading EOGs, but I have found that I'm horrible at producing them. Will try to keep a running tab of games, should be fun.

Pretty sure you mean 12/n for the draw ... or at least (1/n) * 12.

Just for fun, through in the Poor Man's GB Unseries game here too ... gameID=151649

that would be "throw" ... (just to beat everyone to it)

Good point about the scoring! Nice to have a parallel game to watch :-)

We still need two players to pause the games.

And someone to join the seventh

And two to join the Unseries game

what's the password for the unseries?

If everyone had to pony up the points anyway so we can do the switching is there a point to staggering?

Yes - it makes NMRs much less likely.

I'll happily join the unseries if somebody falls away.

Seventh game now underway, still needs a pause.
After this, a brief wait until mods reshuffle.

Can we ready paused games so they don't sit at the top of my page or will they still do that even when paused?

No, dont ready. We're not shuffled yet. I'm sorry, but it will have to clutter the page until mods have time to shuffle.

no no I meant after the shuffle

bump for shuffle

Games have been shuffled and unpaused. Let me know if there are any issues. Good luck.

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1) Shall we manually pause games 4-7?
2) When will they be changed to 36 H phases?

And we're off!

I have paused games 4 through 7, and changed all phase lengths to 36h.

- Readying up, as always, is encouraged but not mandatory. If you need 36h to make your move, then feel free to use all 36h (but not more!). This goes equally for builds and retreats, take all the time you need, although rest assured people _will_ complain to you about it afterwards ;-)

- Every time a game closes, a new one opens up, and the leaderboard will be updated.

- If non-playing observers would be willing to give their analysis, this helps to bump the thread too!

Good games all!

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Game 1: Fairly standard 01 moves. Best position is France, with 3 builds and a passive England. Seems like a clear AI v RT, Russia is in big trouble if England moves too fast. A lot will be affected by where France will go.

Game 2: I really question France here. I hope those were just misorders. Either way, 01 may prove to be fatal here with an aggressive England and Germany. Army build rather than fleet in StP is interesting and important to note... Turkish builds are questionable, as there isn't a clear direction of what he/she will do next.

Game 3: Interesting Austrian attack on Italy. That gamble paid off well. Instead of AI vs RT, it seems like A vs I and R vs T. France is in a great position, as is Germany. Russia and Italy will be sore over having no builds. Turkey has several options here and it will be interesting to see where he goes.

Bump.

The amount of ready-ups is quite pleasant. I think this is the first series where there was one time where I was the rate-limiting step!

I agree. But please refrain from making any comments that may - even remotely - make a link with your in-game identity. The previous GB Tourney showed it's often too tempting for others to add their 2c as well.