ODC Update - New TDs & Round 2

[MSC_1914]

I still need to get results updated; has been a pretty busy few weeks on my end

I'll start collecting Round 3 confirmations in 2 weeks time, on the 15th/16th. Games will be set up and sent out 1-2 weeks after that, depending on confirmation speed.

I'm strongly considering ditching the seeding method Malarky had originally defined, as it requires all games in the previous round to be complete prior to the next round being set up, which will make the tournament take forever. Does anyone have any strong views on that?

At this point I think anything that nudges the tourney along is welcome. The slow pace is dissipating its identity.

Nudging the tourney along is something I had the impression would be welcomed by a non-negligible subset of players. Shortening turns might be something to look at here, like, how about we do two day-turns instead of three, as of the next round?

[Jensen]

Player R1 Score
TheFlyingBoat 254.88
Conq 254.70
wardiecj 247.34
Pops2112 243.33
Jensen 241.88
Don Juan of Austria 240.82
RedCandle 237.31
PootleFlump 237.11
Chairpusher 237.11
MSC_1914 231.35
BrotherBored 231.35
XPatriot11 231.03
knilgau 229.51
Caligula45235 226.82
GameKat 225.77
dib 225.64
efwin 221.19
lilDipper 215.61
ColonelApricot 211.84
Woolgie 203.42
CapturingBravo 186.50
Josef IV 179.56
Wargamer 179.56
gerba 173.36
BullCall 173.36
cairoblue 173.36
Yonni 173.36
Tanjian 159.12
MasterGR 11.92
Pete the Great 1.46
zyll 0.00
Klendathu 0.00
Floridaman 0.00
EUPH1ST 0.00
Dark Star 0.00
Von Klemens 0.00
eze97 0.00
Math Dad 0.00
smartiperson 0.00
aDiplomat 0.00
Eulpic 0.00
Strategus 0.00
Lady Razor 0.00
Badger1991 0.00
Custer 0.00
DirtyHarry 0.00
Governor 0.00
SixteenFortyEight 0.00
SpoonLicker 0.00
VGhost 0.00
formless 0.00
Latanst1 0.00
bilbert2 0.00
Octavious 0.00
olster21 0.00
Tortellacci 0.00
Captainmeme 240.07
MarsSaber 0.36
slow 0.00
That1diplomat 0.00
PercivalMerlin 0.00
BlueFingers 0.00
simonbets 0.00
- Hurricane - 0.00

[knilgau]

Nudging the tourney along is something I had the impression would be welcomed by a non-negligible subset of players. Shortening turns might be something to look at here, like, how about we do two day-turns instead of three, as of the next round?

Personally, I would not favor 2-day turns. I like that this tournament doesn't consume my life. That's why I don't join the Nexus Season X tournament.

[XPatriot11]

I would be in support of 2 day deadlines to speed things up .

[LilDipper]

What about 3-day deadlines but with turns continuing to process over weekends?

[Jensen]

So ... about that round 3?

Round 1 is complete. Seeding can be completed by whatever method the TD chooses. Time to ask for round 3 confirmations?

[Custer]

Lets get this party started!

Custer

[dib]

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[knilgau]

A quorum of a roughly 70-person tournament is not 20 people.

The main problem isn’t the length of each phase, it’s not starting games and people dropping out of games (which slows the game down immensely). The seeding isn’t delaying this because the first two rounds are completed. I assume CaptainMeme is busy and will send out the Round 3 invites any day. Then Round 4 can be started a few weeks after Round 3 (like Round 2 was supposed to start 3 weeks after Round 1). After those two rounds, the final board is the only remaining round. This could easily wrap up early next year (especially if players choose to finalize orders more often).

Regarding the scoring, everyone who joined agreed to these rules. There are endless scoring debates in the Diplomacy hobby. If we change it, there will be those who don’t like what it is changed to. It would be faster to simply go with things as they are set than try to get some rule changes made and then proceed. If making a change would speed up the tournament, I would be in favor but this would actually slow things down.

Remember, the biggest problem is that the original TD disappeared. CaptainMeme is simply filling in and we wouldn’t have even finished the first two rounds without his intervention.

[Custer]

I agree with all 6 points.

Play Ball!

Put me in coach, I'm ready to play, today.........Fogerty



Crusading Custer