short list you must be pretty impressive yourself

lol

I just don't like calling someone impressive just because he can play a standard set of tactics, strategy and diplomacy.

hellalt you can thank me for organizing the BESM and MAdMarx insane duo, plus Le_Roi who is a decent player and myself who will bring the team down =( but akilies its anonymous so I don't see how people could angle for us because we are winning or have more Tournament Points

DJEcc24 I have been away a little bit and busy but I would be gald to help set things up. for the tournament just email me.

ah that makes sense, we still haven't played together. and i would like to.

@denis, nice team you got there and i know it is anon, though people can be figured out sometimes.
hope i did fine sitting for you

Fueled by beer and fried cheese curds and tempered by icy winter winds, the midwest teams will trample all under our yaktrax shod boots!

midwest monsters average ghost rating: 233
midwest monsters average ghost rating: 113 (probably the lowest)

haha that we will grumble :)

Not sure, but I bet Cali might have the lowest average ghost rating

i have sent emails to the email people to start gettin groups together. w shoudl get started relatively soon.

Great!

Exculding me probably my team has the lowest. Hehe

anyone knows who replaces Geofram?

Team Iberia mean ghost rating (peak): 303.81 : )

London mean ghost rating (peak): 363.49
Pacific Coast mean ghost rating (peak): 361.21

Whoosh....

Exclude me from that equation and you will get something very small Steven but then again it's a game... A game that my team will win that is!

Ahem. As Texas team captain I think I can speak for my team in quoting the Economist article entitled "Lone Star rising" (July 9th, 2009):

"Not too many other cities could have absorbed 100,000 refugees, bigheartedly and fairly painlessly, as Houston did after Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans. With vibrant Asian communities alongside its balanced Hispanic, white and black mix, with no discernible racial tensions, and with more foreign consulates than any American city except New York and Los Angeles, Houston is arguably America’s most enthusiastically cosmopolitan city, a place where the future has already arrived."

By the way Houston is my city.... so next time you'd like to portray Texans as backward or something, think of me and The Economist.

The full article is here:

http://www.economist.com/specialreports/displaystory.cfm?story_id=E1_TPJPRJTS


Anyway Texas is rarin' to go and kick some foreign butt. Lol.

Oh, way to bash your own team, Baron Samedi ;)

I don't CARE what kind of Ghost Rating we have, Californians... I will, WE will bring you victory after victory until the fight is done, the war is won, and we see our place in the sun!

We'll fight them on the beaches! We'll fight them in the trenches! We'll fight them in the Balkans, the Scands, the Southern Seas!

It doesn't matter the rating, whether the team is outmanned, out gunned, or out-Ghosted... it's the SPIRIT of the people that shines through, and the Californian spirit will shine through and through!

Californians are all spirit, all guts, all glory... and no truth.

But we don't need the truth, and anyway, they can't HANDLE our truth, can they, Californians?

The fact remains that We are the Greatest! We're baaaaadddd men! We'll shake up the world! If they talk some jive, we'll drop 'em in five! Talk a little more, and we might drop 'em in four... maybe just for fun we drop 'em in one!

Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee... speak softly, and carry a big stick!

Texas is a turkey waiting to be cooked! Texas tigers... more like Texas Turkeys! (Them AND their Turkey Day-plaing Cowpokes from Dallas!)

London- prepare to be BROILED!

Canada... eh, you're Canada, what do we care...

But San Diego and Pacific Coast- it's on! You neglect your Californian duties, Durden, you secede from this Union... and by gum we'll get you with all we've got! Why we'll be more devestating than a Chargers' playoff loss (which should come as much of a shock to Bolt fans anymore, really...)

And now, clearly...

I need a nap :p

But before I do, I, as captain of Team California, made such by the fact I was the only one with so little of a life to actually keep whining and pushing to put the team together...

I hereby proclaim Johnny Carson's Theme to be The Official Team California Anthem!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=keiuXB3dJ0E

With Johnny Carson's theme on our side, we cannot POSSIBLY FAIL!

(And now a word from our sponsor...)

Hehe. Maybe there should be one seperate thread to promote the teams....

Is anybody tracking the teams' progress?

Yes.

http://tournaments.webdiplomacy.net/

"We'll fight them on the beaches!" - You can't steal our slogans!
As far as I can tell the only problem is filling that Toronto sub.

Incase we need one during the tournement, are there any Englishmen who'd be our sub?

Hi! I am the Toronto sub!!

I have messaged Mapleleaf and he says that it is cool I take over for Geo...I'm a Toronto native, but far flung across the world :)

Californian average ghost rating: 89
Why did you even care to join the cup?
Start playing risk or monopoly...

ps: anyone knows who replaces Geofram for the Toronto team? I want to do some statistics.

ok guy~~ is that official then?

I think I am just waiting on confirmation from a mod and then it should be official

its official he is. but we need to get his email on the site and stuff.

as far as the starting goes me and denis and frito will send out some emails as soon as we organize some things

^^ He's running the thing, not us :)