Melbourne Open Diplomacy Tournament

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Melbourne Open Diplomacy Tournament

#1 Post by A_Tin_Can » Wed Jan 09, 2019 11:37 pm

16th and 17th March 2019, directed by our very own world champion and everyone’s favourite ally, Andrew Goff.

https://www.facebook.com/events/423069318230786/?ti=icl

Melbourne, Australia
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#2 Post by Durga » Thu Jan 10, 2019 12:22 am

I'm gonna start swimming now
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#3 Post by A_Tin_Can » Fri Jan 11, 2019 1:27 am

“Why didn’t you support me to Belgium?”
“Um, I dropped my pen in the ocean”
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Re: Melbourne Open Diplomacy Tournament

#4 Post by TheGoffy » Sat Jan 12, 2019 11:33 am

Hi Everyone!

If you're interested in attending but concerned or nervous for some reason please get in touch - this is a friendly tournament aimed at players new to face-to-face Diplomacy and the aim is to have a good time and meet people as well as playing the game. If there's anything I can do to help that, just email me at [email protected]
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#5 Post by osric_athanasius » Sun Jan 13, 2019 9:05 am

Interesting. I will make note of it.

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#6 Post by A_Tin_Can » Tue Mar 12, 2019 10:54 am

This is THIS WEEKEND EVERYONE! Wowowow! I will be there, and I hope you will too. Especially Durga. You're swimming into harbour any time now, right?
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#7 Post by flash2015 » Tue Mar 12, 2019 3:40 pm

TheGoffy wrote:
Sat Jan 12, 2019 11:33 am
Hi Everyone!

If you're interested in attending but concerned or nervous for some reason please get in touch - this is a friendly tournament aimed at players new to face-to-face Diplomacy and the aim is to have a good time and meet people as well as playing the game. If there's anything I can do to help that, just email me at [email protected]
I guess you must be the oldest one there now? I assume people like Frank M., Tristan Lee or Bill Brown are long gone?
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#8 Post by dargorygel » Tue Mar 12, 2019 4:46 pm

I need to time my next trip to Oz around this tournament. Or play by drone.

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#9 Post by Deeply_Dippy » Wed Mar 13, 2019 9:59 pm

Have a good tournament everyone!

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#10 Post by osric_athanasius » Thu Mar 14, 2019 5:33 am

Thanks. I think I will be able to make it. So I will take any luck I can get.
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#11 Post by flash2015 » Thu Mar 14, 2019 3:12 pm

dargorygel wrote:
Tue Mar 12, 2019 4:46 pm
I need to time my next trip to Oz around this tournament. Or play by drone.
We need a few of these:

https://telepresencerobots.com/

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Re: Melbourne Open Diplomacy Tournament

#12 Post by A_Tin_Can » Mon Mar 25, 2019 11:31 am

@flash:

Sadly, Bill Brown passed away recently. Glasses were raised, and words were said. Goffy named the boards at the tournament in Bill's honour.

Tristan Lee is I believe not in the country anymore (he was around before I was, I never met him). Are you an Australian player?

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#13 Post by flash2015 » Mon Mar 25, 2019 12:12 pm

Oh, no! I didn't know. I am sorry to hear that! Last sent him an email about a decade ago (time flies). I think Bill put me up when I went down to his Geelong tournament one year.

Yes, I was an Australian player (I even ran a tournament for a couple of years)...but I haven't played face to face in a long, long, LONG time (early nineties). After a good couple of years, I think we were having trouble getting enough players to come to the tournaments (not much point if you don't get AT LEAST three tables) so I lost interest too.

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Re: Melbourne Open Diplomacy Tournament

#14 Post by flash2015 » Mon Mar 25, 2019 12:27 pm

Actually, perhaps I am getting Bill and Ken Sproat confused on the Geelong thing...

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#15 Post by BrownPaperTiger » Thu Nov 19, 2020 7:04 am

Aus player here....
This thread seems -old-
Is it dead?

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#16 Post by The Ambassador » Mon Nov 23, 2020 11:05 pm

@BrownPaperTiger - the Melbourne Open was played last year pre-Covid. PoppyCon happened in March this year weeks before everything went crazy.

Seeing Melbourne is just coming out of lockdown now, it may be a little while until we see another f2f tourney.

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