So this is a 7x sort of tournament.
Are all the games going at the same speed? How are you going to handle Drop outs?
Thanks and I would like to see some reports on how it works out.

I think there is a list of volunteer babysitters (no-one allowed to babysit for more than one person in same league) to cover people when they are away. Drops outs am not so sure.... tink there might be a reserve list.

Each game due to start of the same day for each league (each 24 or 25 hours long i think).

You should get involved... a chance to play with more committed members of the site without needing too many points.

Then we can start asking you questions... ; )

tell me about your mother?

How do you join the league?

Is this THE Eddie Birsan that I meet at Weasel Moot last year?

You join the league by emailing me with your screen name in the email, and crossing your fingers that there is a drop out.

There are 6 leagues of 7.

I am running it all. The rules are:

COMPETITION RULES:

Game Details:


Game Number: To be decided

Game Type: Winner Takes All

Phase Length: 25 hours

Pot size: 175 (Bet of 25). If any player wishes to reduce the bet he should email myself and alert all other players in his Group of it in a Global tab, and it then may be reduced. If all players wish to increase the bet, they should agree to in the Global tab of a game, and then each should email me to confirm that they wish to do this. If a player wants a lower than 25 bet for the first game, they will have the opportunity to ask for this in the pre-season email.

Each player is responsible for ensuring he is able to play in the game at the scheduled time, in order to achieve this, he may ask for a reduced bet. If he is unable to pay any bet, then he shall forfeit the game, and the game shall be played with a Civil Disorder Italy. If two players are unable to play, then there shall also be a Civil Disorder Germany. In the event that three or more players are unable to provide any bet, the game is considered a draw between those able to play. The SC counts for each player for the game are 34/the number of players able to play.

Errors: If the game is begun with any error in the set-up, the game shall be called a draw and then restarted.

Start dates: Games will begin in the second week of September, and new games will be begun during: The fourth week of September, the second week of October, the fourth week of October, the second week of November, the fourth week of November and the second week of December. Seven will be the maximum number of games. The games at the end of the season will be removed if it is voted that there should be fewer games. I shall provide reminders to every player of these dates. The second season will begin on the second month of February. There will be a summer break until September when the third season will begin.


Sitting:


Due to the long period of play in this league, we understand that people may need a sitter for their account. Because of this, we shall be providing the management of a sitting service for people's accounts. In return for having their account sat should they be unable to be at a computer, players will agree to sit other peoples' accounts in the leagues whenever they are able. We hope that players will be able to make sure that this system works, by agreeing to sit accounts willingly.


Points:


There will be 12 points awarded for a win, 6 points for a two-way draw, 4 for a three-way draw and 3 for a four-way draw. We doubt that there shall be five, six or seven way draws, however, should they occur, 2.4, 2 and 1.7 points will be awarded respectively.

In the event that two players have the same number of points, they will be differentiated between on the basis of a SC count across the games. The maximum SC count in any game is 18, even if more are held.


Leagues:


The winner of each league will enter the Premier league, along with the highest scoring second placed players. The five remaining second placed players will enter league A with the two highest scoring third placed players. The four remaining third placed players, all six fourth placed players and the four best fifth placed players will be seeded based on their performances and placed into league B1 and B2. The remaining players will be


Groups:


Group A:
Rait, Withnail, Sean, TheGhostmaker, belsherj, Delicious Wolf, Obiwanobiwan.

Group B:
MarekP, MadMarx, cgwhite32, krokodil, Ed Poon, arthurmklo, Dearmore

Group C:
Dangermouse, flashman, Chrispminis, thewonderllama, Goobledydook, Xapi, Pokemon trainer

Group D:
TheMahatma (pending), Braveheart, Centurian, Sarge, El_Perro_Artero, Darwyn, Blackheath Wanderer

Group E:
Alamothe, Ivo_Ivanov, Ironclad (Will forfeit game one through lack of funds), xgongiveit2ya55, Churchill, Destp, TheMastergamer

Group F:
Signalseven, Feanor, Mapleleaf, sceptic_ka, NevilleChamberlin, Abgemacht, Polar Bear

Can we just replace The Mahatma and Ironclad? There appear to be several other willing players that will jump at the chance.

"Will forfeit game one through lack of funds"
What does this mean exactly? Is there some way to avoid someone starting with a handicap?

Can he not play with whatever he has, and then everyone else increase the pot for the subsequent games?

I suppose if he is going to forfeit its because he doesn't have any points, otherwise he'd ask for a lower pot and that would be it.

Yes, sadly it is the case that I have zero points at present.

In this particular case, would it do any harm for Ironclad to start another account?

Does a forfeit by Ironclad mean we'll be playing game 1 with a CD country?

Yes, it does. But he is still allowed in the league, he will just have a disadvantage.

If one of the games I'm in finishes before the first league game would I be allowed take over 'Civil Disorder Italy' (assuming there were still any Italian pieces left) or would you rather I stayed out of it altogether?

I suggest a sitter to be put in ironclad's place, CD Italy usually changes the balance of the game quite a bit.

And the idea of him making a new account for the sole porpouse of playing that game is not a bad one.

Sounds pretty reasonable to me - I'm ok.

Sorry - my response was for Ironclad's request to join in whenever he gets the points.

It is your nation...

Thanks for the info, what is a ;'sitter'
is this a stand by player maybe?
Why not have a mini team structure with a captain or cheerleader who can enter orders for the team if anyone misses>?

And no I am not the Eddie Birsan that went to Weasel Moot, I am the
EDI Birsan that went to Weasel Moot.

When a player knows he will be unable to play for an amount of time, he (or she) can request that someone play for them in their absence. The user will email his password to his sitter, and the sitter will play in his stead. I am currently doing this for Archonix.

You're sitting for yourself?

@EdiBirsan: we hate www.stabbeurfou.org and everything about it. that's why we don't want to do things like they do. no teams please :-)

huh? we played lots of team games a while back on phodip. it was the fad after no press gun boat and before global press style games.
Im sure it will come back in vogue soon enough, right now we are all keen to start these league games

EdiBirsan suggested teams across different leagues, not team games. please read the previous messages before posting

Mr. Birsan, apparently you are some kind of diplomacy celebrity? I'm sorry I don't know who you are, but you seem to have alot of questions and suggestions that miss the point. We aren't on a drawn out play by email site or playing FTF. You don't seem to have really tried our system out judging by the two cds you have picked up. The reason this site is different from yours is because thats how some people like it. If they didn't, they would be on your site.