Pregame ended with karaoke. Two rounds tomorrow, starting in 8 hours.

I assume wdc bitches is an all-female diplomacy team going out to kick ass and take names...

Proud member of the wdc bitches. Claimed chicago town for ourselves and took names. Tournament starts in 5 hours and some of us are already hungover...

Good luck guys. Make us proud.

If MadMarx isn't there it is most certainly *not* a who's who of Diplomacy :)

30 min to start.... SO EXCITED!

Some already stabbed themselves excessively last night :)

Represent, bitches!

There are some lawyers at this event that actually represent bitches

Round 1 is over... edi birsan and chris barfield got big results.
Me shared board top with brian shelden at 10 each, and a weasel at 9. Which under the scoring system is much worse than it sounds, a just ok result...
Now off to hat round!
How did you do, ava?

Eliminated in 1913 after being a 4 center England with 3 units and no home centers for about 8 yeaea

I think the game is still going on. I hope they tire themselves into oblivion. I'm rested and ready for round 2

I think I want in next year when I'm old enough to drink...I'll keep it on my calendar and represent us Webdippers

2nd round , elimination for me, similar to ava's first round one... 2 center england for years without a home one, got stp walk back to lon vianwy-ska-nth-lon as my last unit just to getr eliminated becausw some *$# voted down the draw. Oh well. Tomorrow got to be better.

The wizard got angry at me yesterday and called me a dick :p hope we can continue to be friends on here!

Today we met Allan B. Calhammer, inventor of Diplomacy. He received a standing ovation as he arrived and many of us got to take pictures with him and have him sign our boards and order books. At the end of an hour he was given an award from the Windy City Weasels (organizing club) and the worldwide diplomacy hobby for "creating our favorite board game."

Pretty exciting stuff!

That's a bit of a cheap award, you created our favourite board game, but then we're the ones who love it enough to come here... So it's kinda obvious who was going to win.

.. I wish I was there you guys.

I stayed at Hotel 71 back in April. Great river view. For the middle aged among you, I suggest Jilly's and The Hunt Club in the Viagra Triangle(ask any cab driver). Get a Chicago Deep Dish Pizza at Lou Merloni's. If you're feeling like a good expensive feed, check out Morton's Steak House. Grab a beer at Harry Carey's - it's a GREAT BAR. Take in a show at Buddy Guy's.

Pregame ended with karaoke. Two rounds tomorrow, starting in 8 hours.

Doc binder leading the top board with 14, peter yeargin in 2nd with 11... game sooon to end.

Me, a good result yesterday, a bad one today.on my nn- top board there were a combined 4 world championships... so much for getting a weak draw and going for north american champion instead.
Anyways, good times!

Ava, I did not calll you a dick, I said that if you want to be a dick, face the consequences.

...and binder is the world champion 2012.

Congratulations!

I was just about to post that you should not be discussing on-going games, TheWizard. Did you not know that our webdip rules are sacrosanct here and everywhere? :)

Is Doc Binder a player on here and who else from webdip went?

Congrats to everyone who placed by the way.

How many participated? I'm trying to organise something like this At a national level, but with relatively little luck.

We had about 70 people there, 10 boards most days, dropped to 7 this morning, 46 boards across 5 rounds. The tourney ran on sum on squares, so the top seed onthe final board actually didn't have any solos, just three incredible results. I walked away with best Russia, and Doc Binder won both the North American and World championship with two French solos. One of those solos happened on the final board, which had never happened in the history of the world championships.

The top board in reverse seed order was: Peter Lokken (r), Peter Yeargin (g), Robert Rousse (e), Adam Sigal (I), Doc Binder (f), Matt Shields (a), Adam Schiefler (t). Peter and Adam were the only non-soloists on the board.

Five solos total: Doc Binder (f), Doc Binder (f), Peter Lokken (g), Matt Shields (g), Robert Rousse (not sure)

The final board was played on a gorgeous handmade dipboard about 1.5 times the size of a regular board. The whole experience was incredible, it was amazing watching some former world champions play.

I'm a local and the Chicago club is definitely more stab happy than the tournament travelers. I was amazed at how trustworthy most of the travelers were. The big results were generally the East resolving quickly and the two remaining powers racing across the line until they had 10-15 per person and someone got nervous about a solo and calling a draw. Occasionally that failed, and I'm pretty sure all the F and G solos were the result of strong ally play going just one of two turns too long.

It was a great convention! Those of you who haven't attended a face-to-face event MUST try it some time. Jim, Dan, and the rest of the Windy City Weasels were fantastic hosts, the quality of play was good to amazing, and the people are smart, funny, and just a lot of fun to be around.

Correction to top board: Turkey was Don Scheifler (moi). My scores included a 13 center shared top board in round two and a Turkey solo in round four. Seeded #1 going into the final round, I got nuked on the top board. Final result was 2nd place. Better than I expected, but leaves me wanting to return for another shot at the trophy some day!

Full results and a lot more will soon be posted on www.windycityweasels.org/wdc I imagine.
The results should also be on the north american hobby homepage www.thenadf.org and on the worldwide diplomacy database soon.

Had a great final round next to gramilaj and finished with a 16 c France to get 9th in the tournament. I think everyone above me was from outside the Chicago club...so if what gramilaj is saying is true then lying is a bad idea in the WDC.

The WDC writeup is available on the website: http://windycityweasels.org/wdc

You can check the final ranking there also!

Congratulations to gramilaj on winning Best Russia (out of 46 Russias in the tournament).

Also, achievement unlocked: Facebook friends with Edi Birsan.

Also, DipperDon got Best Turkey with a solo if I'm not mistaken.

As someone who only learnt to play diplomacy through webDip and havent really had much of a chance to every try FtF, how daunting would it be to step into a trny like this? I'd be interested in trying it out at some point but am unsure as to how the skills would translate.

I have very little FtF experience myself, but it seems like it would be better to find a FtF club and start with that before trying a FtF tournament. My understanding is that there are good resources for finding such a club, but I don't know myself.

Do start coming out to tournaments.
No need at all to join a club first, although if you have one in your area you should of course do that as well.
But there is absolutely no requirement to have played ftf before to come to tournaments.
The main difference is that ftf is just soooo much better.

Every one of the Ftf players at some point played their first tournament. Some olayed their first one at the world championships.

where would we be able to look up the clubs?

JimTheGrey is well-connected with most of the clubs in North America and also some in Europe. PM him and I think he should be able to connect you with the right people.

Yonni, I also started playing the game online (on this site in fact). I think the biggest difference is that in tournament play you'll have much less time to make decisions than with online play so it might help to play some live games first. But otherwise, the biggest hurdles are learning to read the board (there are no arrows on the real board), learning to read people, and learning to write out orders correctly.

Here are links to some club website that I found on the Chicago club's website:

http://windycityweasels.org/club-affiliates

...... aaaannnnndddd:

HUSKYCON !!!

off to the coolest tournament of the year in about 3 hours.

I learned to play ftf first. It was amazing! After my first game, my friends set up a site where we played and someone just set up his board at home and took snapshots of the move resolutions at the end of the season, and then I came here. I will be out to some tourneys hopefully next year. We'll see. All depends on the money.