Great read, thanks!

Chaqa wrote: ↑

Tue May 12, 2020 2:43 pm

@Valis - when these are all done, will you (or someone) compile stats on the games?

I actually have some stats compiled, I can try and do something public if ppl want.

jengamaster wrote: ↑

Tue Apr 28, 2020 1:02 am

How many years of no progress have to go by before you message the mods to ask if they can ask whoever has not yet selected draw what their plan is? Or would you never go that route?

clearly the answer is "at the point in which you're losing but not yet eliminated"

I'm presuming that challonge either isn't set up to fully validate a double round robin, or (likelier) that captainmeme used a simplified entry process of just one "matchup" between pool members so he could have less stuff to have to put in.

My understanding was that svkrIs was banned and therefore cannot play, and that this was the source of your joke about playing him. And then I assumed that they'd ACTUALLY advance 3rd place instead of just giving the coin flip winner a free win.

RoganJosh wrote: ↑

Fri Apr 17, 2020 7:45 pm

I think we should all agree that the coin flipped first seed should play svkrIs in the next round.

MOST IMPORTANT COIN FLIP IN HISTORY!!!

(I sort of figured they'd advance 3rd place in group h fwiw)

RoganJosh wrote: ↑

Thu Apr 16, 2020 7:34 am

The tiebreaker procedure for 1st and 2nd place is a little funny...

Lolsmith

Reading skills are important

That's exactly correct. Sev support Rum-BLA woudl have succeeed, but Sev supports BLA-Rum was a mis-order and was ignored b/c you can't dislodge own unit.

May be heading for a tiebreaker in group G but not locked in just yet.

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Good luck to everyone in the first set!

And I will NOT be volunteering for the second set, but I MIGHT be interested in hosting a discord spec server for that event if such a thing is allowed (if not then lolnevermind )

I'm guessing that meme will post signup lists on the challonge site "every so often"

fwiw, if we end up having a solid amount of interest, I'm not opposed to creating a "Pot E" and just making the pools into 5-members instead of 4-members.

Sort of looking forward to the giant explosion of color at the top of my screen once this gets going tbh

For anyone who wants to spec, games are
http://webdiplomacy.net/board.php?gameID=275382
through
http://webdiplomacy.net/board.php?gameID=275402

One other question: does it make sense to try and get a mod to arrange it so all get each country 3x or is it better to just let it all rand?