Found it:
https://vdiplomacy.net/tournaments.php

Macca, as a matter of interest for players, if they're keen where do they go to sign up as the tournaments.php page lists the details of the last Around the World tournament.

If they're keen, post here. Once I have at least 8 keen people, I'll speak to the mods about setting up the back end.

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Should I add you to the list?

I need a few games to end first. Sorry but I'll sit on the sidelines until things are a little clearer.

This feels like it is just an intentional attempt to distract people from the Winning thread in order to bury it in hopes of it eventually locking with the Australian coalition winning.

BTW, the Winning thread would need to fall onto like the 5th or 6th page of threads in the forum.

I see the game results on the tournaments page but I’m not seeing a discription of what the tournament actually is, like rules, description, etc. can you explain a bit more in detail? I might be interested!

I pulled this from the details section, and made it a little for readable. There's nothing too fancy, it's just 6 games, with scoring between them.


Played across 6 rounds, each map is a different continent taking the players around the world.

The Maps are:
Africa
Mate against Mate
Sengoku
South American Supremecy
USA
Who controls America

Scoring: Carnage-Fibonacci:
Solo gets 5400
Draw ranks players by SC count then year of elimination (later is better)
1st 2100
2nd 1300
3rd 800
4th 500
5th 300
6th 200
7th 100
8th 100

One thing that has changed from last time is that each game will be set as unranked. This will be a great way to play competitive games without risking your V-ranking.

Also the required rating is flexible.

I presume that the point is to match the number of players. I find USA aesthetically off putting. Europe 1939 requires 8 players.

Ok well then with that being said:

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BTW, will the games be unranked?

The games themselves will be unranked, yes.

@Gopher
My worry is balance. The stats for USA are quite close. I think it's important for a tournament that all the maps a pretty balanced.

3.39-1.68=1.71 (Europe 1939)
2.92-1.92=1.00 (USA)

Open to feedback though.

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3.59-1.02=2.57 (Mate Against Mate)

You could use the assignment from one game to allocate powers in the other games to create cumulative balance. Plus given the experience of the players likely to join this tournament and the multigame nature of the endeavor, building coalitions against a distinctly advantaged power should not be that difficult.

I'm very in.

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I wouldn't mind switching up the maps where possible. Is there not another 8 player map for North America?

Only map for Australia has 8 players, and there is only one 8 player map for North America.

Very sad

Hey Macca,
Just listened to you talk about this on the diplomacy games podcast. I would be keen on giving it a go :)

Love to have you General Treanor!

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2. Rainau
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Looking Forward to this!

Bumpity

Macca, some of my games are easing up. How many concurrent games would we play in the tournament? If no more than 2 I'm in.

It'll be no more than two.