To clarify, for those interested in the tournament, you can express interest here and use the thread to find and organize those from your area. Because everyone has to organize their own teams, a sign up form isn't really effective. Once you have a team, send me a PM with your team members and assig...

Roles will not be known beforehand by anyone other than me. I'm about to clarify that in the other thread. That would mean someone has to creep through about 25 profiles to figure things out. This should hopefully decrease this activity.

But I don't want it non-anon because then it can too easily devolve into "Shoot, Brazil is doing well in that game. I better punish the Brazilian player in mine" which is *NOT* what I want.

I mean, meta *has* to be a thing in this tournament. You need to know how many points your team needs to advance

Teams were able to make strategic decisions without knowing the identities of others. You can read as much in the global post-game chat. If your team is fighting for second place, and there's another player out there who is absolutely refusing a certain size draw, you can be relatively certain about...

So, after looking back at the last tournament, there were multiple cases where throwing the solo was in a team's best interest. Notably, the solos by chluke and vixol. So, as to prevent any sort of influence against this best practice, the WC will be unranked. Personally, I wouldn't let GR get in th...

Hello everyone and welcome to the 2018 World Cup! With the Olympics in full swing right now, I figure this is the best time to get some of those international WebDip rivalries rekindled once more. Now, what is the World Cup? It is a two-stage team tournament that is based on your country of residenc...

Uhhh, the century long game was ranked

I can hear out arguments for ranked vs unranked, but will ultimately go with whatever leads to the best quality tournament - both in quality of games and participants.

Well done to Tom Bombadil for the solo.

Its almost as if small countries face no penalty for throwing the game, because they get no points in a draw anyways.

Welcome swordsman. Glad to have you.

Don't push your luck

Also, I finally updated the last WC's page :)

Oooh, oh wow, I did not know that.

There goes the last of the mods I worked with. Man, it's a sign of getting old. Thanks for helping out for so long, HR. It takes a certain madness to do it for as long as you did.

Unfortunately, Leon, there aren't any teams from Africa or India. The format will be the same as the past time.

I don't know if I'd call it niche, but I love this channel.

https://www.youtube.com/user/TheGreatWar

As well as this one

https://www.youtube.com/user/ExtraCreditz

I still believe that Germany has a permanent edge on Italy, but that's just me. Italy is by far the lesser power among weaker players (which I'll lump myself into. I don't think I've ever won as Italy)

I sent you a PM, Damian, because I don't want to go into more detail here

You know, for the first time I have taken a look at the scoring format for this tournament.

I see some deep, deep flaws in it. Might want to give it a re-work after this season.