What about Lando? I thought he was a co-TD with you.

He helped me out last year, but I'm not sure if he'd want to run the whole thing.

I don't know if I would be able to do this. I will also be starting a new job in September.

What kind of commitment does it mean? What does TD stand for? I would be interested.

TD means Tournament Director. A Tournament Director sets up games, makes brackets and leaderboards, ensures no metagaming and the following of the rules, etc.

O I see. I have no such experience, I cannot do that. I hope you find the right person. Thanks.

Bump

I could be interested in this but I have absolutely no experience. So I would need someone to really explain what it entails and help me out. Ideally someone more qualified/knowledgeable will step out and I can help out however I can.

*step up*

My first tournament is the one ongoing now.
I don't know if its been the best, but some seem to think its been fair.

The trick is trying to limit fires before you have to put them out, especially since putting out fires as a non-moderator tournament director is bloody impossible.

My second peace of advice? Make timetables but don't expect to stick to them. The summer gunboat was supposed to be well into the finals right now, and we're not in the second leg yet. Each fire eats time that you never have.

And my last brown nugget of wisdom regards publicity. Never ever let people forget about the tournament. Start signups now, you need N players, so get N+10 names. Let people know what the tournament is worth point wise and keep reminding them. Let people know how things are going, what you're doing behind the scenes, the more transparency, the more people know how hard you're working and the less you have to hear moaning. Figure out your rules early and don't be afraid to modify them up to the date the tournament starts, they're set in stone then.

I lied about it being the last piece of need-to-know: Technical wise, use gmail to set up groups. I can let you login to mine if you want to see what I mean. It is definitely the BEST way to contact players about their games. Once you do it, every phase takes 5 minutes, not 5 hours. Google docs is another great tool: tinyurl.com/gunboattournament

Running a tournament takes a large investment of time up front, and then a barrage of tiny ones after. It's not difficult if you have an eye for management, and the mods are excellent at helping you keep the stress level down.

I'm happy to help set this up, but I can't quarterback this one. I promised TGM I'd help keep the tournament site together, and I've not even touched it yet. Plus yebellz came up with an awesome method for making tournaments bigger, and I've ignored that too. So, I'm happy to help set up all the tools I use to make the summer tournament not a headache, but someone with more time is going to need to fill in all the blank slots on the page.

Good advice, Geofram. Don't have time now, but I'll be in touch.

Just to be clear, I am not committing to anything. Just saying that I may be interested in helping out. I have to wait and see how I handle the workload this semester at school before I can make any big commitments.

Does anyone who has played in both tourneys have an opinion on which set up they prefer, bracket or round-robin? I think I prefer the latter since it takes GR, which has little to no bearing on gunboat ability, out of the equation. I'm also wondering if it's necessary to have two gunboat tourneys running at the same time. Thoughts?

Though I'm not in the current one, I really liked the simplicity and small size of the first gunboat tournament. It ran very smoothly, had very few problems with CD's, and (judging from the thread) had much better sportsmanship. I also liked the feel of the brackets, even if perhaps its not strictly as 'fair' as a round robin. I would actually prefer the fall tourney be the exact same format (three rounds, 28 players. 36 hr phrases, bracket) as the original.

It is nice that they have different set-ups. The current one is kind of dragging. Too many people. I like the Fall/Winter one as being for people who qualify (GR/Previous showings/Summer Tourney) as opposed to this one ebing completely open.

I like Round Robin but I am 300something in the GR and I play Gunboat pretty well.......what if 28 players higher than me in GR apply. Will I be forcefully excluded from the Tourney?

How about an invitational? :P

I definitely don't like how long the round robin is taking to complete.

Wait is the Round Robin the summer gunboat..?

lol, yeah. Aren't you IN the summer gunboat?

@ Riphen: If players who made it to the second round last year automatically qualify, there will be 16 open spots. I'm not sure how I would go about getting those 16, but as it stands, it would probably be by GR.

yep...haha...I liked it but I never had to deal with CD's...... but in the next tourney I think an Invitational or GR based tourney would be better..really narrows down chances for CD's.

Automatic Qualifiers:

Frank
Barn3tt
gramilaj
48v4stepansk
Kamen
Lando Calrissian
trip
Gobba
JesusPetry
Troodonte
The Czech
IKE
jcbryan97
TBroadley

I'm bringing jcb and TB along because they did an excellent job replacing players in the second round. That means only 14 available spots.

If anyone listed above wants in on the next GT, say so here.

I'd like to play please.

I'm going to start another thread for all the info on this tourney. I'll provide the link here shortly.

http://webdiplomacy.net/forum.php?viewthread=755711#755711

please let this thread drop off. thanks