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abgemacht (1076

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21 Mar 13 UTC

The Boroughs Diplomacy Tournament

I am currently organizing a F2F Diplomacy tournament in the beautiful City of Marlborough, Mass. A few years ago, the webDip F2F tournament was a great success and I encourage everyone to consider coming. Details within.

abgemacht (1076 )
21 Mar 13 UTC

The Boroughs Diplomacy Tournament 2013
Location: Marlborough, Mass.
Date: Sat & Sun (Exact dates TBD)
Entry Fee: $20 (Includes 2 Lunches and 1 Dinner)
Prizes: TBD
Scoring System: TBD
Lodging: Best Western, Hampton Inn, Embassy Suites, Courtyard by Marriott, Holiday Inn

abgemacht (1076 )
21 Mar 13 UTC

Please feel free to make suggestions on Scoring Systems and dates.

abgemacht (1076 )
21 Mar 13 UTC

For those who don't know, here is the info from the 2011 webDip F2F tournament that Crazyter and I hosted.

https://sites.google.com/site/phpdiplomacytournaments/boston-face-to-face

krellin (80 )
21 Mar 13 UTC
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So will these games be anonymous? lol

2ndWhiteLine (2736 )
21 Mar 13 UTC
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No, but everyone will call each other by their WebDip names because its just weird to use real names.

abgemacht (1076 )
21 Mar 13 UTC

Agreed

Mapu (362 )
21 Mar 13 UTC

Do you live in Marlborough? I work in Hopkinton.

abgemacht (1076 )
21 Mar 13 UTC

Yes, I do, right on the Northboro line. Where in Hopkinton do you work, if you don't mind me asking?

y2kjbk (4846 )
21 Mar 13 UTC

If Mapu goes and can give me a ride, I'm potentially in.

krellin (80 )
21 Mar 13 UTC

Well, I was thinking of showing up as a multi- of myself. Or perhaps I will be Sandgoose...

Mapu (362 )
21 Mar 13 UTC

My office overlooks the start of the marathon, actually. I work at an internet startup.

abgemacht (1076 )
21 Mar 13 UTC

Nice. I had two internships at EMC in Hopkinton; it's a very nice town.

yebellz (729 )
21 Mar 13 UTC

Count me in!

abgemacht (1076 )
21 Mar 13 UTC

Any thoughts on when it should be? Is Spring too soon? Summer? Fall?

yebellz (729 )
21 Mar 13 UTC

Sometime during summer? Maybe we can use doodle.com to decide

abgemacht (1076 )
21 Mar 13 UTC

Good idea:

http://doodle.com/ipivvasz8windqau

abgemacht (1076 )
21 Mar 13 UTC

https://sites.google.com/site/boroughsdiplomacy/home

abgemacht (1076 )
21 Mar 13 UTC

Here is the scoring system I'm thinking of.

Solo: 100

Draw: 100/n points
SC Bonus: 1 point per SC (Does not apply if game ends in solo)
Phase Bonus: 0.5 point per year (Only to help prevent tied scores)

Thoughts?

yebellz (729 )
21 Mar 13 UTC

How about using 60, 120, or 420 instead of 100 so that almost all (or all, for 420) results give a whole number of points?

Also, how about making SC count and phase bonus strictly tie breakers that only factor in if the result is otherwise tied.

yebellz (729 )
21 Mar 13 UTC

By the way, I plan on bringing both of my game sets: 90s edition with metal pieces and vintage edition with the wooden pieces. I'm going to work on a little project to make custom SC ownership markers for the vintage set.

abgemacht (1076 )
21 Mar 13 UTC

Yeah, I like using 120 (just hope for no 6-way draw).

I doubt the Phase Bonus will make any difference in score (Max 10

, probably more like 5).

Do you think the SC bonus should just be eliminated? Should draws be counted completely evenly?

abgemacht (1076 )
21 Mar 13 UTC

I kind of like the SC Bonus because it should encourage people not to draw too quickly.

yebellz (729 )
21 Mar 13 UTC

Do you mean 7way draw? You could always just make that worth only 17

instead of 120/7. Only off by 1/7, so it doesn't punish the 7way drawers too badly.

abgemacht (1076 )
21 Mar 13 UTC

Yeah, 7way. If we have a 7way, we'll just have to introduce decimals. I highly doubt it will happen.

yebellz (729 )
21 Mar 13 UTC

Why not just impose a small 1/7 point penalty?

abgemacht (1076 )
21 Mar 13 UTC

So, it seems as though the Boston Massacre will be in Philadelphia this year, so this may be the only tournament in Massachusetts.

MadMarx (36299 )
22 Mar 13 UTC
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Regardless of the point system, the winner of the tournament should be the person that tops the final table... A technicality, perhaps, but an important one! ;-)

abgemacht (1076 )
22 Mar 13 UTC

That's actually a good point. Perhaps Day 1 should only count towards the final table and then the scores are reset?

krellin (80 )
22 Mar 13 UTC

Was just showing my wife the "local attractions" in Marlboro, Mass....hoping when I clicked through the link that she'd say, "sure...we can road trip...I go see the local attractions while you play your silly game..."

Needless to say, she was less than thrilled about spending a weekend wandering around the Wayside Inn Grist Mill....sigh....

We'll have to find another method of persuasion...

abgemacht (1076 )
22 Mar 13 UTC

If you're interested in coming, please post your available dates here:

http://doodle.com/ipivvasz8windqau

yebellz (729 )
22 Mar 13 UTC

I like Marx's proposal for declaring the winner.

By the way, have you contacted Alex Amann and are you on the MA diplomacy mailing list? Those might be good channels for promoting this with the local FTF crowd.

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redhouse1938 (429

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22 Mar 13 UTC

Daylight super-saving time

So, I checked the calendar for sunrise in Holland. Latest sunrise during the year: 8:48 AM (from Christmas to New Year's this is fixed). What if we do this: all secondary schools start their first class at Sunrise+27 min until the sun rises at 7.03 AM, at which time school starts at 7:30 AM for the rest of the year until sun rises after 7.03 again.

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