Grahamso1 vs Maucat ends (after a monster 15 year battle in game 2!!) at 1-1. Honours shared

Is anyone else still playing? And how many have we lost to CD? I’ve lost track at this point

I'm still playing.

Sorry I meant are any games currently going on for round 2 (as well as who has dropped out)

Aurelian CD'd one of ours and didn't join the other. Should we just count that as a 2-0 win for me?

I’m not sure it makes a lot of sense. Didn’t you get a default 2-0 in the first round too against shfinkle? It seems there are 4 active players in one side of the draw (actually been very enjoyable) and only 2 on the other side with 2 people completely AWOL. (I’m assuming AE is still around. Makes it all a bit lopsided. I dunno best approach. Happy to play Jason next though

I defer to whatever AE thinks is right as he is the tournament director.

Here’s an idea: Aurelian and Shfinkle are out. Their games don’t count. The other six all play each other. Five rounds. No knockout (or a playoff for top two maybe). Or just call it a day. Whatever people want to do

We could simply get two replacements, I don't know how simple that would be.

As I remember AE said that everyone gets into the knockout round.

Grahamso1, must we play another couple of games?

no I think a 1-1 tie just means 1 point each. That was mentioned earlier I remember

So in our group:
Ender 4pts
Maucat 3pts
Grahamso1 1pt
Jason 0

Other group
Uber 4pts
AE 3pts
Shfinkle 0
Aurelian 0

With AE v Shfinkle game 2 stuck but an obvious AE win (effectively this is the default group with only 2 players really in it

http://www.vdiplomacy.com/board.php?gameID=33915
http://www.vdiplomacy.com/board.php?gameID=33916
Maucat vs Ender

http://www.vdiplomacy.com/board.php?gameID=33916 finished
Maucat vs Ender 1-0

I think the six of us keep playing.
All the past was warm ups.
No new people.
Everyone plays everyone once.
Top two in a one game playoff.
Winner gets $1,000, a drunk donkey, or our unending awe and bragging rights, whichever is cheaper.

That sounds good to me.

Especially the part about the drunk donkey.

Hello, everyone. Apologies for my inactivity. Here is what I'm thinking, drawing from your ideas as well as what seems to work.

We restart the tournament
The six of us (excluding Aurelian and Shfinkle) are drawn into two groups of three. All rules are the same except for the knockout round.

The knockout round will look like this.
First round: Game 1. A2 v. B3, 2. A3 v. B2
Second round: A1 v. Winner of Game 1, B1 vs. W2
The winners face off in the finals. Each match is two games, with each player playing both countries.

Maucat Vs Ender 2-0

So what are the groups of three?

Or are we not in the knockout round yet? Also do we need to play a game AE?

I won my old Group with 5 pts.

We currently have a group of 4 (with me and Justin not yet played each other). And a group of 2 (AE and Uber, have you played each other?). Not sure what happens next. Path of least resistance might be: A2 v A4, B2 v A3, for first round knockout. With A1 and B1 getting a bye. I know this has 2nd and 4th from group A playing again but avoids the need to ignore some games as void and someone having to flip groups and play a two more games against group B

If we can agree on this, or something else, then I will play Justin. In group A the positions 2nd, 3rd 4th are all still in play

AE and I have not played.

Can we agree on the above idea? Then two more group games to play Uber v AE and me V Justin. And then as suggested? A2-A4 and B2-A3. Winners to play A1 and B1 in the semis.

I'll go along with whatever everyone else wants. Don't have time to create the games between me and AE though.

We are going to restart the tournament and play two groups of three. I will get the random number generator up and make the groups.