London team signed up :)

to all those still workign on their teams don't worry we won't start without you unless we get 14 or 21 teams before that

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From time to time, can you keep us updated on how many teams sign up? I think I have a Southeast US one, but am just finalizing a few things.

http://micro-nations.de/diplomacy/teams.php

List of teams that have signed up

if we don't know an email yet can we just fill out the rest and register and then edit the form, filling the email as well?

I don't think that that is possible, hellalt, so just wait until you have all the info.

It isn't that long a wait, anyway. :)

not possible atm, I dont think the feature is that important, to add it
still enough time to sign up so I wouldnt worry

Here is a better rules statement that includes more than just the format. if you have any questions please let me know

World Cup Format
You have 4 player teams:

2 Standard Diplomacy Players
1 Public Press
1 Gunboat.

Teams each represent one country, however you may have many teams from the same country.
If there are fewer than four players from a particular country, you can create groups of countries that play as if they were a single country.

You have either 14 or 21 teams. There may be swing teams necessary to make it up to one of those numbers.

You have 2/3 Groups of Seven. The teams in a group play games against each other:

2 Standard (1 per standard player)
1 Public Press
2 Gunboats (both played by the same player)

The games are anonymous, to avoid metagaming from same country teams or from swing teams.

The points are scored as follows.

420 for a win
420/n for a draw
0 for defeat.

Plus the SC count (any win has an SC count of 18)

With half-points for the Gunboat games

Then:

If 2 Groups, top 3 non swing teams plus better point scoring 4th non swing team from the 2 groups.

If 3 Groups, top 2 non swing teams in each group plus best point scoring 3rd place team from the 3 groups.

Go through to the final.

In the final, the same thing takes place again, so it is like one of the groups. The winner of that wins. In the event of a tie, the team that scored more in the group stage wins.

Pauses: if a pause is needed then all players must vote pause. Pauses can only last up to seven days. if a player will be gone more than two weeks he will have to get a substitute to take his place. It is requested that all teams have a substitute from the geographic area in mind. if they cannot find a substitute from the geographic area then another substitute will be allowed, however that substitute should not be a stronger player than the player being substituted (by the most recent Ghost-Ratings)

Civil Disorder: If a player civil disorders they will be forced to leave the tournament. Teams may substitute a player if this happens.The substitute will take that players spot for the remainder of the tournament.

Cross-gaming: Players may not enter into alliances spanning over more than one game under any circumstances.

36 hour phases

Sorry, i don 't get the meaning of swing teams.

@ DJEcc24 - I assume that when you're talking about cross-gaming you mean immediate alliances in two different games. If the same two players were Germany and England in one game, and Turkey and Russia in another, wouldn't it be logical that they might ordinarily ally? Also, I thought the games were to be anonymous to prevent this sort of thing?

@troo who goes on is still probably going to change in that rule. i don't know what to tell you yet. still have to figure some things out i apologize.

@LJ yes immediate alliances in two different games. and they will be anonymous

US East Coast people are we having a team or not? Who wants to be the captain?

I was wondering the same thing. I know I'll be on the team, not sure if I'm good enough to captain.

The captian is just an official spot nothing spacial just the person in charge of organizing the team. Fir example I am captian of a team with MadMarx BeSM and Le_Roi and my GR and stats are far infirior to there's but I organized the team so I put myself in as captian. Pretty much whoever has the most time to dedicate to organizing the team and stuff...
Anyway so far we have 4 teams people and i'm sure i've seen more thread s about this than that!!!

We have a team Souther Europe. Is that in anticipation of team South Europe, placed a little more North than South Europe?


Denis is spot on RE captain, whoever has most time to organize the team, which is exactly why I am a team captain, given that I haven't any time at all after managing the Masters, Leagues, World Series, helping with the World Cup, Mod duty.

Heh, I'm dumb :)

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just an update of who i have signed up so far

La Jolla Senior High School: LJ TYLER DURDEN ,uclabb ,pythagoras ,mikeconroy
Team Pacific Coast: Le_Roi , BESM , denis ,MadMarx
London: TheGhostmaker ,dave bishop ,BigZombieDude ,Gary
Souther Europe : hellalt ,C-K ,outsider ,jazzguy1987

the high school team is being discussed between me and denis and the ghostmaker as the the elligibility. most likely it will be allowed but it is not encouraged because the point of the tournament was a greater geographic area. this team however does have a point when they say they can be a team if london is though. but i might suggest they just go with the town name.

Still no word of team east coast U.S?

I believe I have Southeast US. I am just waiting for one more email address before I can sign us up.

Also, Greater London is a proper province in the UK.

Onar there was some interest jsut no one has really gotten it rolling

Alot of people live in London.

Again, if you want to call us Team San Diego or La Jolla or Milky Way we don't mind that much. We just figured the most descriptive name was best.

OK. I'm gonna copy-paste the argument that I presented to denis as to why Team LJSHS should be allowed.

We will rename the team from La Jolla Senior High School to La Jolla, San Diego Beach Communities, what have you. I know you think that the area is not geographically significant enough to merit it's own team, however, significance is relative. For example, the Cuban population in the United States, a relatively small number of people, has a disproportionately large influence on the policy of presidential campaigns. More so than other larger demographics. That is because the vast majority of the Cuban population is located in Florida, a key swing state in presidential elections. Because Florida uses a winner-take-all system, this bloc of voters can change the way the state as a whole votes. (i.e. If Gore hade gotten the Cuban vote, George Bush would be a footnote instead of one of the most hated people on the planet) Though the number of voters is small, the disposition and political climate of their environment makes them a significant force in the election process. Consider La Jolla in a similar fashion. Though La Jolla has a small population, is not even it's own city, and comprises a tiny geographic area when compared to say, US Southeast, it's influence on the Diplomacy community and specifically this tournament IS significant enough to merit it's own team.

With all due respect, there ultimately it isn't an argument to be made. DJE is running the tournament, and what is and isn't allowed to enter is his prerogative entirely.

Will you admit your status as officially powned, or do I have to engage in further rhetorical disembowelment?

So what's up, do we need two more Californians or are Durden and uclabb coming back?