Because the opportunity presented itself for me and uclabb to be in the most geographically restricted team on the planet. Instead of the vastness of California or staggering size of London, we will be part of Team La Jolla Senior High School, which occupies less than half a square mile.

Well. A that isn't in the spirit and limits the amount of teams I suggest you make team California 1 and 2 As that is in the spirit of the WORLD cup not the high school diplomacy tournament...

Our school is actually a very vibrant diplomacy community (which I like to take credit for :) ). We have about 20 people who play regularly, which is probably as much as can be said for some small countries. just saying.

Oh, that SUCKS!

Damn it...

Alright- well, still me and Baron Samedi (something like that) so just need a pair...

Come on, Californians!

I second uclabb. I'm fairly certain that I'm one of only a few people on this site who has played board diplomacy anytime after the internet became widely commercialized. In fact the two other members of our team played the original diplomacy before they played on this site.

Well you see the point is that if you do have 20 diplomacy plyaers all you are accomplishing is knocking out obiwan and baron out of competiontion. Iwould have to rule that you cannot have a world cup team after a highschool not in the spirit... Just make another California team.

I don't understand your point, denis. What is the difference between calling it a school team and a California team?

OK then we'll be team La Jolla. It's a geographic area. Ask anyone from Arizona where it is. They should know as every summer they desecrate our beaches. Also, I've already signed us up. If the tournament mods have a problem with our team, I'll change. Otherwise it stays as is. It also seems that you are making a bigger deal out of this than obiwan.

The part about people from Arizona is so true...

First of all I am a tournament mod and second of all I know where la jolla is I'm from Newport Beach and parcticuly grew up in San Diego. I can tell you that I don't have a problem with the team just the fact the LaJollaHigh isn't a region it's a school and LaJallo is not The largest metropolitian area in the European Union. Name the team as you wish but I personally don't think that LaJallo is significant enough to have it's own team. How many of your players are signed up on the site? Maybe you could lend a couple to Team California...

Oops I am sitting or vexlord accident post. That was me Denis BTW

I see you registered the team... And that's fine but as we would like maximum participation could you get some freinds to sign up and join obiwan and baron?

OK, sure. I'm going to ignore the blatant multi-accounting on your part and instead pose a rebuttal and an acquiesence. 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. 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.

And I would feel bad about offering friends to obiwan as any of them would be new to webdiplomacy and most are fairly new to Diplomacy on the whole

I have no problem with the team i'm just saying maybe you could organize more teams and include obiwan and baron samedi.

As I just said, they'd be better off recruiting new guys from this site.

Obiwanobiwan, I like to join the Cal team. I graduated from Granada Hills High and can passably speak californian.

Although I currently live in Virginia. They actually have real air here in virginia, not the stuff that passes for air in LA and SF Valley.

denis if the other two california people can't dinf two other californians then i might have a problem with this high school team. but technically since london is allowed to have a team, then the town this school is in can too

ok it has been decided its going to be called california. if the other two that are left out and find two more california players then they can be california 2 or west . or southwest or whatever they please. or i can jsut take the town name this school is in and have thta be the team name. but i'd like to refrain from school names because then other school teams will pop up and this is to be a geographic and not school tournament

London can call itself England, that wouldn't be an issue with us.

can you just go by the town name?

I think that there is sense in giving the biggest city in Europe a team of its own. The argument breaks down when you start doing a single town. Have the team, but call it California, so it has some international flavour to it

As I said the largest metropoltian area in Europe aka London isn't the same as La Jolla aka a Zip Code

Yeah

Greater London also being a province as well as London being a city

mdrltc, you should never trust air you can't see.

so...

are we getting uclabb and mr durden back, or are they seceding from the union (so to speak) to form their town/school team?

if it's that... mdrltc, it's an odd name, but...

So are you guys staying on Team California or are you leaving and we tak mdrltc?

When are we STARTING, anyway...?

Tolstoy you should join California and plus baron obiwon and mdrlct that's 4

Okay, so let's just get two more guys and we're good to go.
I'm sure there's enough people to have one Cali team, maybe even two.