Our games are very very good too. As a relatively new player who has never had over 150 points, its great to be able to play with some good/great/incredible players and be certain that they won't go CD.

Group C is ridiculously strong.

Ridiculously strong indeed, especially when you have a non-communicating enemy half-way into your homeland. Actually, not halfway, but...

Group C somehow has all 3 moderators.

Hmmm, I better hurry up and ban my two counterparts before they can do it to me.

Where are info about the League available?

What were the odds of that happening?

Indeed, enjoyable play. It's interesting to see strong competition. Do people find that the more competitive the game, the longer it tends to go on?

mac, in general, from me.

mac, you're not into any league. why don't you apply for a replacement in league E?

ah, somebody else was faster

> Group C is ridiculously strong.

what?? that statement is ridiculous. just look at our group E, it is twice as strong

i dunno alamothe, i consider dangermouse and flashman to be among the top players of the site, i find your statement just as ridiculous. :)

ah, didn't mean to forget chrispminis. three of the heavy hitters. that's a rather stacked deck if you ask me.

And four if you weren't so Modest. Xapi is by on means weak either.

All Groups are very strong. I am no more than the fourth in my league, which should be saying something (I hope)

"By no means..."

We can see which groups are strong from the promotions next season of course

group E:
destp 30% win percentage, 23% playing
Ivo_ivanov 40% win percentage, 14% playing
TheMasterGamer 28% win percentage, 60% playing
alamothe 33% win percentage, 7% playing

please try to match this

it's not like i don't respect Chris, dangermouse or flashman, but any of the above listed players could beat them using only one hand

I'm not sure I agree with that. I've only played you alamothe a couple of times, but been up against Chris, dangermouse and flashman many times. They are a right set of devious buggers!

Group B is turning out to be quite interesting too. I have to say, the League makes it slightly more edgy...

Haha, I'm sure the next series of leagues will determine whether the Group C'ers can stand up to the Group E'ers. Intergroup rivalry!! =D

I've only played against one person that I feared a stab from so much that it caused me to throw logic to the wind and make a major mistake. And that was Chris. :)

Granted, I haven't even played some of the other greats on this site yet. But hopefully I will see them in the promotion game. :)

Group D rules! It has been interesting thus far.

Let me just represent Group A here and say the games rock! The strategic logic and thinking of the press has taught me a lot just from the discussions.

Look. It's just plain obvious that our group can beat up your group, so give it up.

Group A contains Rait. We win by default :D

I have to agree with the general sentiment of how great the league games have been. The level of competition in Group E has been intense with very little room for error.

Does anyone happen to have the links for all the league games handy? The computer I'd saved them on is out of commission and the post seems to have dropped off the bottom. If anyone does and would be willing to send them to me or post them again it would be much appreciated; I'm curious how the other games are shaping up.

I am setting up a website for it, destp.

Good idea, this is something that came up every once in a while.

@destp: just click on any person in this thread and you will find league games under their profiles

everyone is playing in the league he finds the most intense :-)

I'm interested in joining

I think in the future the teams should be given less utilitarian names so that readers will have more fun. Sure it is interesting to hear how "Group C is WAY sweeter than Group E" but i would rather see " Sharks are WAY sweeter than Bears"

also, i am totally in on the next league. Im friends with gyrncat and he has told me it has been a really interesting experience

oh, and for anyone reading this thinking that i may possibly metagame with him, i ask you to look at my games. I am pretty sure that i have tried to kill him more often than I have befriended him.

Actually, what is going to happen is that these players are going to be moved into leagues of differents standards, so that then you have the Premier League, League A etc.

This season is sort of a "play-off round"

then you would have the championships and all and eventually a league winner, correct?

assuming im partially correct, this would still mean there would eventually be a new league event.

Well, we have seasons, two annually, and we can take on new players at that time.

So we basically have a series of leagues with promotion, relegation and so on.

hmm alright well just let me know when that is. spring right

also if someone drops out and you need a replacement

I will post on the forum and have it open to entries for a fortnight. I also post on the forum when there are drop outs.

@ Ghost: Thanks
@ alamothe: Of course! I've actually found them in the past that way, not sure how I forgot that option.

alamothe, thanks for the invitation. I am going to visit the website now and understand more about the leagues... at the moment I am stuck - however - with a UN variant that demands lot of press (and it is not that fun, at least for me)... So I think that any involvement in the league might only come at a later stage.

Again though, thanks for the invitation! :)

I think Group D needs some serious rep here. Things are intense. I'm also about to die in the first one. I blame everyone.

Agreed.... Group D may not have any of the top rated old guard in it, but there is certainly plenty of emerging talent on show. I can personally testify that Gryncat, Centurian and Darwyn are as devious as any I have come across on this site ;)

Press has been extremely intense and the alliance structure on the board seems to have changed every single year in both games (except for the end game in Game 1).