New Years Eve (my birthday!) is approaching, ladies and gents, so what do we want a s a resolution/wish list for next year?
Me:
1. Some kind of policy against cheaters. It don't hink that they should be banned immediately the first time, but there has to be SOMETHING done. I think that they should have to be docked down to 50 points the first time and lose a rank, the second time down to 10 and go back to being a
"political puppet", and then they should be banned. But that's just me.
2. Official Monthly Voting Threads, kind of like a Congress. We could either all go, or elect representatives, or maybe you'd need a certain quality (number of games, number of hours, number of points, wins, rank, etc.). That way, maybe we could adress these issues better, and come up with coordinated ideas more often. Notice of date of meeting would also be nice. Kinda leads to my next idea.........
3. MORE TOUNAMENTS! The First Grand Diplomacy Tournament was fun for me (though I was bounced VERY quickly- I was poor Austria next to Rait in Turkey!), so let's try to have more.
4. 1 annual playoff-style tourney where EVERYONE plays. That one's a bit ambitious, and maybe not fully fleshed out, but a an annual title game and playoffs would be fun, I think. Maybe someone can refine this idea a bit.......
Shalom, mein khavers, and Happy New Year- and Birthday!
Yeah, #2 is just something I thought up spur of the moment. Silly thing, really, now that I reflect on it.
But what do you think of either a a Grand Tournament System- you know, everyone enters one big, multi-round tourney, our maybe just the top players (people with the most wins that year, since points depend on the ante.) Could be a bit difficult, but definitely fun and do-able; they organized a 49-player one this year, but that was just whoever signed up.
Maybe I'm just in a playoff-mood, with the NFL playoffs coming (my poor 49ers!), but I really think there's some promise there.