Sounds quite interesting. I'd be up for being a player.

I recommend rokakoma as a professor if he's willing.

I would be up for this, provided the time phase is at least 2 days. Feel like I could use some critique and fine-tuning.

After the fall SoW I feel like i need some more instruction. Any timeframe on when this would be starting? Im going to be mobile here by the end of the week, so if something like this could start after that, id be game. if not I can wait a season :)

Interested players thus far (with GR):
A_Tin_Can (500)
Ogion (nr)
rojimy1123 (443)
Scoggle (1458)
Virtuslex (505)

@dyager_nh - I know you also said you'd be interested but since your GR is better than mine I'm not sure the game would be much help for you.

Please PM me when you're ready to get the game going. Thanks.

Will do. Anyone else interested?

@triumvir - It can still be beneficial to get different perspectives. I'm better than I used to be but I never assume I know everything.

I would like to play, if there are no requirements

@shield - Is that to say that you're interested or just that I shouldn't dismiss dyager's interest?

@Eddard - the only requirement would be that you stick around and play the whole game. I despise CDs.

Interested players thus far (with GR):
A_Tin_Can (500)
Ogion (nr)
rojimy1123 (443)
Scoggle (1458)
Virtuslex (505)
EddardStark97 (4220)

The latter. My current two games are keeping me busy enough.

@ Triumvir - I misunderstood the purpose of the game. I thought it was a mid-level game in which TA level players would play with Professor commentary. Kind of a reverse SOW in which new players would be able to study and see a game of higher skill level analyzed.

Didnt realize it was more of a Junior SOW.

I'd welcome you to the game if you wanted to play, dyager. I don't speak for the others, but I don't mind there not being an upper limit on the participants' skill level, if you don't mind playing with a bunch of newer players.

@Dyager - I wasn't sure what sort of interest we'd have, or at what level those interested players would be. From the looks of it we're falling closer to the 500 level (with a few above and below). If you'd be interested in offering comments every phase, I'd love for you to be involved as the 2nd prof.

Others who are interested?

Triumvir's plan is also good!

@Triumvir barring any craziness, i will not CD

I've just finished my last game on WebDip. If you can't find another player, or get a CD, then I'll fill in to keep the game rolling. I believe my GR is 605.

I'd love for you to play if you're interested, RAZ. Your GR puts you in just about the right area.

That would make the interested players:
A_Tin_Can (500)
Ogion (nr)
rojimy1123 (443)
Scoggle (1458)
Virtuslex (505)
EddardStark97 (4220)
RAZ000 (605)

@Dyager - would you be interested in providing commentary?

I will be happy to contribute if you would like. I cannot promise the same quality of contribution that we got from Hampster, 2WL and Jmo but I suspect I have some tidbit of useful knowledge somewhere.

Anyone else interested in playing?

Looking at my gr now compared to the start of fall sow, its sad now. I just don't want to pull Turkey again. That would just depress me

@Scoggle - At your level, don't be too concerned if your GR takes a huge dive after a loss. It has the potential to go up just as much (or more) with a big win/draw. Once you get into the top 200 or so it will start to settle down.

I've PMed everyone who has already expressed interest asking which nations you think you need work with. Hopefully I'll be able to assign everyone to a nation they want to play.

Looks like we have seven interested players so we may as well get things started. I got a PM back from everyone outlining the nations they'd be interested in playing. Glad to say I was able to give everyone one of their desired nations. The breakdown should be as follows:

rojimy1123 - Russia
A_Tin_Can - Turkey
virtuslex - Germany
RAZ000 - Italy
Scoggle - Austria
EddardStark97 - England
Ogion - France

As noted in my message to all players, the game will be 15 , 48 hours, non-anon, WTA. I'll get things created and will send out invites (dropping out once one player has joined).

Is there a mod reading this that could give me TD powers over this game once it's created and I'm out of it? I could send the game ID. (If I don't get a response here I can e-mail - just thought this might be easier.)

Here's the game: gameID=133722

Password has been sent to the appropriate parties. Best of luck. Once things are underway I'll start a new thread for commentary.

All hands on deck, awaiting re-assignment.

I've e-mailed the mods about giving me TD power for the game. I'd imagine they'll get to it sometime today. Once nations are reassigned I'll reset the phase timer and we'll get started. If you want to pause in the meantime you can, but it's not necessary.

All changes have been made and the game time has been reset. Best of luck. I'll start a new thread for commentary when the Spring turn has ended.

So, the plan is to just play and get critiques? I think I can do that.

Something like that, yeah. Good luck.

It would be a good idea if someone in the game could post a link to this thread in the General Tab. That would be useful for the players to find the commentary

I'm planning to do that once Triumvir creates it (I think he's planning to make a new thread so that future readers don't have to deal with the setup fluff?)

That is correct. I will do so this evening.

New thread for this game is
http://webdiplomacy.net/forum.php?viewthread=1091081#1091081