Foursome Fleers
The Monster Mash

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ET - 7Heaven, TuT
Bramblyspam - Kingkono 31-20

Could win this one though! 

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Babylon - ET, CantStop
calypso - Bramblyspam 3-1

Can't win 'em all!

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Looks like this'll be round robin and not swiss, eh?

Sign me up!

Bramblyspam

Yay us! Congratulations and lots of thanks to everyone who helped bring the championship home to EnglishTown! 

Heh... vote for Pedro, we can all win! 

I picked games that a lot of people can play. After all, part of the idea with these tournaments is to get a lot of people participating.

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City Pokal, Tortuga-EnglishTown, Yinsh:

Canado - Bramblyspam 0-1

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I'd like to report ColdCase (lvl 9, ARMfeld).

We were playing TuT, and on his turn, he flushed the six cards, failed to come up with an option that would extend his route... and logged off.

Two or three minutes later, he logged back on to the manager, stayed there for a minute... then logged off again. I suspect he saw that I was still in the game room waiting for him. (My plan was to summon him if he went to any other room). It's now been over ten minutes, and he hasn't logged on again.

I'd make allowances for some newbie, but at lvl 9, it should be safe to assume that he knows what he's doing.

Sounds lovely - and in swiss style tournaments that are open to all, we can even have EnglishTown offer taler prizes to the winners!

I do like the idea of spreading out the tournaments a bit. Running a whole bunch of tournaments at the same time gets to be a bit much, but running a new one-day tournament each day should work out fine. Just be sure we announce everything early & often, and to the whole world, not just to ET.

It's probably a good idea to run a couple swiss-style tournaments well before christmas too, so you know exactly what you're getting into. 

If you need me, I'd be happy to play. I haven't played much LC lately, but I do have a 59% win rate.

I'll sign up for Backgammon, TuT, and TA. No need to kill myself with 50 different games. 

It would be great to have some one-day tournaments at times that work for us norteamericanos. From what I understand, EnglishTown can offer taler prizes too, provided the tourneys are open to everyone on BSW.

If you need someone who can do swiss system pairings fast, I can help with that. I've run tourneys at a chess club before, back when I was into that.

In any format where some games count and others don't, you can end up with the "winner" being someone who didn't even win the most games. There are ways to fix that, but you end up having to treat finalists from the two preliminary groups differently. We'd just exchange one problem for another, and I don't see much point in doing that.

We should just stick with the current system, and anyone who doesn't like the results can try to win again in season 10.

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City Pokal, EnglishTown-ParadiseCity, Yinsh:

Bramblyspam - Liebelix 1-0

Finals here we come!

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The only real fix I can think of for this season would be to not carry over any results from the preliminary rounds into the finals. That would make the tournament last longer, of course.

If we want to do that, the decision should be made now, before it's clear who would benefit and who would be hurt. I don't feel strongly about it, I'm fine with whatever is decided as long as the decision is made promptly.

Yep, I don't expect this to be a problem, I just don't like the theoretical possibility. I trust we all have the integrity and sportsmanship not to "game the system" this way. If anything, I feel the biggest worry is that someone's reputation could be tarnished simply by having the bad luck to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. I'll just try to finish my games early. 

In all likelihood, we'll be fine for this season.