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That game ended in 1915, Prado.

Yeah, but I was holding out hope that the longest real played game of Diplomacy on this site would surpass that one in length and take its rightful spot in the ages of webDip records beyond the attention it has already garnered.

Oh, man. I forgot that game even existed. I remember when it ended.

Final tourney rankings?

Wow, it's actually over. Well done all!

california won.

As two of the players haven't been seen for over half a year, I'm going to go out on a limb and say that long term games are generally undesirable. Whilst the 1915 cut off popular in parts of Playdip seems ridiculously early, I'm now convinced some kind of time limit is necessary. One that leaves the vast majority of games unaffected, but cuts of the crazy outliers.

How many of the tournament line-up are still active members of the site?

As a general thing, beeing able to set fixed endingyear on games would be totally awesome.

I'm impressed that Leif went almost two years playing just that game.

Soooo, when do sign ups for the 2013 World Cup start?

^^

Add JECE to my first comment too. He actually went longer. That's some serious dedication.

Right ho, then. Considering the World Cup took a large percentage of active forumites back in the day, I thought it'd be interesting to see what's become of some of us :)

Britain, First Division
Team GR: 239.66

◦Full Press 1: Octavious (Assistant Captain) ALIVE :)

◦Full Press 2: Balaran BANHAMMERED Sep 2012

◦Public Press: Maniac ALIVE :)

◦Gunboat: pjmansfield99(Captain) ALIVE :)

◦Sub: Countess Tillian AWOL Apr 2014


Britain, Albion Division
Team GR: 219.24

◦Full Press 1: Sargmacher (Assistant Captain) BANHAMMERED Oct 2012

◦Full Press 2: Worldbeing AWOL Aug 2014

◦Public Press: Pete U (Captain) ALIVE :)

◦Gunboat: SpeakerToAliens AWOL Jan 2014


Australia
Team GR: 171.00

◦Full Press 1: Gobbledydook ALIVE :)

◦Full Press 2: wogboy AWOL Feb 2015

◦Public Press: Marti the Bruce (Captain) AWOL Nov 2015

◦Gunboat: largeham (Assistant Captain) AWOL Aug 2013

◦Sub: spyman ALIVE (more or less) :)



◦Full Press 1: Grand Duke Feodor BANHAMMERED Feb 2012

◦Full Press 2: Yonni (Captain) ALIVE :)

◦Public Press: Geofram (Assistant Captain) AWOL Jun 2015

◦Gunboat: Frank AWOL Feb 2015

◦Sub: mapleleaf BANHAMMERED Oct 2014

When is the 2013 World Cup due to begin?

Dammit sorry Trip already asked that.

Leif has been playing other games in the meantime, it's just that he mainly plays on vDip these days.

Presumably the World Cup is every 4 years, so this one has finished just in time for the World Cup 2016 :)

Congrats to the winners. I was the originally Italy but bowed out last year, 2015, and was replaced by The Hanged Man, my teammate. Russia was the big threat the whole time I played and I figured I had to do the "Carthage delenda est" thing. Neither Austria nor I could get any real traction with Russia looming. Germany saved my skin early on, which saved his skin when I helped him push Russia back. One thing I want to get on the record. Early on, I was in position to finish off Turkey and then France, and I wanted France to know that my intentions were to work with him and not against him, but circumstances changed and... well. I've never played a more frustrating or a more interesting game. Thanks to all my opponents and allies for a fun time.

Mujus and THM, you were both spectacular teammates. Well done.

Congratulations to everyone on Team California! Great job, team.

Wow. It ended. Good job to everyone who played through that. Congrats to Cali for winning.

The World Cups were to be held every two years, so we are actually due for the next edition in 2016. After the 2010 and 2012 World Cups, the 2014 World Cup was cancelled due to the Cold War. More information can be found here for those that wish to organize the 2016 World Cup:
http://tournaments.webdiplomacy.net/diplomacy-world-cup

Mujus: I would like to know who the France that you infuriated so badly was.

Whoever organizes this I would like to cast my hat into the ring of players representing either the US / New England (as defined including PA) or another geographic team including PA.

I have a question? if WC games that are public press take this long to win would it be within reason to impose a cut-off year on those games? For arbitrary example: end of 1920.

I don't think the problem was Public Press, although that may have contributed. The problem was more that this was the final game in the tournament, with outcome-determinative potential and very competitive participants. If the Public Press game happened to have wrapped up before one of the Classic games, then we might have seen a prolonged Classic game instead.

Thank goodness that didn't happen! My Classic game was intense enough as it was.

CommanderByron: I believe it was my tactics in large part that made this game stretch out almost interminably. You shouldn't worry too much about that.