SL-Bosse: You questioned whether 15 January should be your start date. Since 20 January (2am I believe for the Pacific time zone) is the deadline for signing up, is that also the date the games begin?
Nothingness: There will be plenty of time to register for this tourney do not rush to enter i will change the date if needed. The start date isnt till march.
i was thinking if perhaps we should wait until the rookies tourney is over. This way they too can be eligible for the Brain Prize tourney. So i would suggest for you to just start the tourney and ill hold off on the prize tourney till later in the year.
Nothingness: Maybe you could set up small fast #2? I've got a few new players who are interested in playing in an espioinage tournament who don't qualify for the beginner's tournament. Would be good to have an alternative for them as well.
if there is anyone who has any ideas for a new tourney i would be willing to put up some of my brains to the winner. Probably all 200 of them. i have lifetime membership and virtually no restrictions and can create any tourney.
if there is anyone who has any ideas for a new tourney i would be willing to put up some of my brains to the winner. Probably all 200 of them. i have lifetime membership and virtually no restrictions and can create any tourney.
dAGGER: Yes, as long as you are on a team in a fellowship, and are in the tournament when it starts up, you will continue on until the end of the tournament, regardless of your membership level.
Also, right now is a good time to join. I believe the "Christmas action" is still going on. Depending on the color circle that appears, you can get extra time, up to 100%, if you do it at the right time. (Keep checking back until the best color is there)
EDIT: Oh, this extra bonus only applies for purchases of a year, sorry.
Chaos: maybe I will think about a paid membership. If I purchase a membership for -let's say- 3 months and the team tournament lasts for more, what will happen later? Can I go on with my games until they are completed?
SL-Bosse: I just saw that there can only be 4 player's in the team, so I guess it's a good idea if you have a fellowship as well to create another team, because now there are 6 player's in nothingness' team, already 2 too many. I can join your team if you want, then Nothingness has 4 players left. I saw Mark already signed up for another team as well. The Leaguers will play against eachother!
Chaos: thx Chaos,I sent a msg to untouchables last night before knowing about Freaks so they just accepted me and can only be in one --looks like we'll be competitors
Nothingness: How many people can join a team? Maybe Bosse is right, if there are more player's interested than there are places in the team, it would be great if he'd made another espionage fellowship. Maybe first wait if it's necessary.
Chaos: I think a fellowship only can have one team in the tournament, it was due to that I mentioned "my" fellowship.. But I hope that Nothingness wants me in his team.
Chaos: The boss of the team (Nothingless) has to but us up in the tournament, and then he has to deciede which team we should have.
If anyone are intrested, I have earlier created a fellowship called "Espionage League", but then I found out that you have to be a member, and not a pawn, I never started it up. I think also that this discussion board is working fine as a fellowship. But, if anyone wants to join that fellowship to be able to play in the team tournament I can hopefully fix that.
Are you league folks aware of the Site wide espionage team tournament coming up? (It's only available for paid members in fellowships). See the Team Tournament link in the left side bar.
Hopefully, by the tournament rolls around at the end of January a number of the players will be well past beginner.
Espionage/Sabotage is a game without a lot of theory behind it and there's no reason a suitably clever person couldn't be one of the top 10 players on this site within a month and a handful of practice games of learning the rules.
Pedro Martínez: Both Nothingness and I checked Resher's stats thoroughly. His wins by time-outs were games not even half played against the same 2 absolute beginner opponents in every variant. The rating was based on 4 games, 1 more than an unrated status. Based on those data I call someone a beginner. If trained by Nothingness I'm not surprised Resher is improving rapidly. I have no doubt Nothingness takes this job very seriously and Resher seems eager to learn, as can be seen by the large amount of espionage games of all sorts he has taken up since he signed up for the tournament, quite some of them against you. I'm sure he's learning a lot from you as well.We encourage the beginners to train themselves for the tournament, so it's only likely some will get above the beginner's level before the tournament.
Resher: You will definitely not upset me if you stay in the tournament. Having the experience of a number of ongoing espionage games against you and having seen your finished games (and knowing you would have won them easily even if completed “normally”), I was just surprised when I saw you listed as a beginner. That's it. No hard feelings.
Pedro Martínez: ... and since then, I have finished one more game against a fellow beginner (puupia), which I won, so that makes 2 proper wins across all 5 variants ever.
Pedro Martínez: Thank you for your concern over doing things properly. When I saw this tournament, I had only finished 1 Espionage variant game properly. The following is the query I sent:
"I'm interested in Espionage and have been reading the posts on the board for a while. My rating is above 1500 in all variants, but out of the total of 22 games across all variants, Indriel has timed out in 10, Snoopy got overwhelmed by games and resigned 10, MadMonkey timed out in 1, so that only leaves 1 game I've ever played properly! Would I still be disqualified as a newbie, based on these unearned ratings, do you think?"
I was told I was eligible, but if the organisers now think otherwise, I'll pull out as I don't wish to upset anyone.