Hello. :)

There was a diplomacy World Cup hosted on stabberfou, but, from reading, it was faffing about heavy and getting good teams together light.

How to organise a tournament?

1. You need to come up with a viable tournament structure.
--Straight one game Knock-outs don't really work that well because you have lots of trouble with draws.
--Any structure must have a good points system.
--It mustn't take too long. You probably cannot have that many rounds.

If I were doing a world cup, it would run something like this:
Leagues Stage- groups of seven, top 3 or 4 go through from each League
or Knock-out Stage- rather like an expanded GFDT round

followed by either another Leagues/Knock-out stage if there were many different countries, or just by:

final- seven teams, each player from each team plays a game (like the World Series will be if it gets off the ground)

But don't take my word as law on this if you can think of something better.

2. Publicise it. Particularly for a team event, you'll need plenty of exposure to get it running. To give an idea, the Leagues went something like this:

First Season (Summer 2008): 14 players
Second Season (Autumn 2008): 42 players
Third Season (Spring 2009): 77 players
Fourth Season (Autumn 2009): About 80ish players.

Being made public without much effort on my part, or anyone else's, but rather by having people just mentioning it.

On the other hand, the for the Masters I had over 50 people straight up because I plugged it pretty heavily to the league mailing list and on the forum. For a World Cup to work, you need lots of people, so you need to plug the idea when you've got one.

3. Be patient. You will be surprised how many people don't read things that you post, don't follow instructions properly, or read the weirdest shit into what you say. When I asked for masters emails to be sent to a particular address, I got them arriving in:

My personal Account
The Mod Email
on the Forum
Via MSN, Gmail Chat
Via PM
and In-game

4. Make sure you have some evenings spare to really get your head down with organising stuff.


But that above does make it sound more difficult than it actually is. I hadn't run a tournament before the leagues, and just followed my nose; I don't claim any special sense of smell.

so basically i need to devise how it will flow. so should i devise like a qualifieing thing liek the real world cup does? depends how many countries of people i can get for this though right

i'm hoping for at least 10 countries with teams of seven people. i'll throw them in different qualifying pools and have them play each other once and whoever wins that one goes on. if the game ends in a draw make them do another game? or what kind of points system woudl i do. for every supply center they get a set amount of points at the end of a game?

yes i think i know what i'll do if i do a tournament. once i get the country teams set up then i will make tables and asign people to games aginst the other countrys. once the games are finished each person will get 10 for how many supply centers they have. out of two games per groups the ones with the top points will move to the next round. this may work. but woudl that take too long?

Not quite sure what your saying there.

With the scoring system, you might want to ask around what people want- I've always thought that among the top players, there is a strong pro-WTA feeling.

This sounds really cool. Might have to combine some small countries into one team like :
Eastern US
Western US
Northern Europe
SOuthern Europe
Asia
etc

yes. the country part will be difficult

ok i think i know what it will be like. we'll need the amount of countries divisible by seven. so 14 different countries represented would be best. (think there will be enough?)
each country is to have seven players. the player who gets the most points moves on after two games of playing with hte same people. each supply center is worth 10 . whoever gets the most in each game will move on to the next round etc etc.

not diplomacy points rather tourney points

maybe you should initially provide an email where people could declare interest in participating in their country of choice so as to see how many and what countries can be represented

ah yes thank you hellalt. email me at [email protected]. each country is to have seven players. first to email first served. might have to make two teams for the larger countrys depending on how many reply

if only we could find seven different countries that each have seven pretty good players that play in there own games with the other countrys and which ever country comes out with the most players who gained the most points wins

i'm sure we can find at least seven different countrys

*countries

ok we have a greek team started if we can find six more greeks. if not i mighjt be able to throw some smaller countries in as individual players. they would have a challenge but that would be fun =)

Do you want to go for teams of 7 necessarily? Seems to stretch smaller countries.