kamoh

It's your job and your job only to get your matches done - Arek and I just sit by and deal with administrative issues. Right now, there are 12 players, which means 11 matches/33 games. You can finish the round-robin with 33 wins...although because of people's availability, somewhere in the range of 10 will likely be enough, but you never know (the HSF2 tournament had 17 players, I was the only one to play everyone, and I barely eked in with a 7-9 record). You will be ranked by most wins, and in case of a tie, MOST losses (to encourage you to play), then head-to-head matchup. This means that even a 0 win, 3 loss match is at least somewhat productive. I will post standings once one match has been played - I'm currently having some issues with my spreadsheets and it's a little tougher than I had anticipated...

http://www.googlegamecenter.com/ Problems solved? This is official pending a test.

I'm not putting another loss to dama up for you.

I would say a sacrifice by the other backrow pieces might be a better strategy. If you can find a way to get a queen for, say, a rook, knight, and bishop, I think that's a viable strategy. Queens are ultimately stronger than the 9 points that most people think they are worth, and two of them could probably replicate most of your back row.

Sorry I haven't been active playing games, guys. This week has been really hectic for me, but I came out of it moved home, with two new jobs, and...well I dunno, it's just been hectic. Any comments on my three divisions/shorter clocks plan?

We should send e-mails to every journalist who has written something about this incident in reference to Mortal Kombat, and remind them that using one facet of society as a scapegoat for drunken stupidity is STILL bad journalism, and they should recognize the fact that these fucked up kids are only a year older than MK, probably not even familiar with the game, and that idiot journalists need to check their facts and blame alcohol instead of video games.

I'm considering a Pirated version of Star Wars. "Arr matey! Thar be a distrubance in thy forrrrce..." "Swarley job thar, kid, now don't get yourself scurvy!" and of course..."Luke! I be thy cap'n!"

That's in bracket play, though. This isn't a bracket, it's to encourage people to play games. We don't do brackets-only because a tournament would never get done that way, we have too many flakes and people who SAY they're in and then go MIA for the rest of the tournament.

Flash drive.

Hey Arek, I'd feel more comfortable if it was just three straight (not best out of three). I've told most people that I have qualms about a "best-of" system in the first round, especially when points are the determinant factor. Um...that's really all I guess. EDIT: To those observing, I'm advocating more of a baseball-style approach to series, where three battles are played, and all three count equally. Arek's rule above is that if you win 2-0, it's over, but I will not play a point system again (see SFA3 tourney) where a sweep gets you an extra point, without actually earning the point.

You shouldn't have to use AIM express. Download AIM 5.9 (the old one, but still not 6.0). It's what I use and it's much much better.

Just message him while he's away. I'll get a new standings sheet up soon, folks, I just wanted to update you on what I am feeling about the league now... I'm glad to see some new faces really eager to play matches - it's nice to see and maybe it means we'll have a new batch of players involved, and we can get the OCRCL back to where it was about a year and a half ago, when we started up the monthly tournaments again. However, I am finding it harder and harder for myself to commit to even a single game, let alone a whole match. Therefore, I would like to propose the following items: 5/10 clocks Three divisions (two games vs. everyone in division, one game vs. everyone outside). Randomly drawn in the old style I used for August 2006. This would make for at least 1/3 less games.

I dunno what's going on with the match between dama and long, but until there's a united front on the matter, it will remain as unplayed.

I talked to Eppy for a little while today, and he was able to express some of his issues with Yahoo while we worked to try and figure out his issues. Basically, I'm moving home in a week, I assume that he is moving home in a week, and that means we'll certainly be more available than we are right now. However, Eppy brought up a good point while extolling the virtues of 1 minute games: why do we use 10/15? Originally, I had looked at that as kind of the ideal - 20 minutes for 40 moves seemed reasonable, and since it was the default I think I put it on a bit of a pedestal. But here's the problem - two game matches will run probably somewhere in the range of an hour and a half, and I would really like to cut that down. I'm not in favor of shortening it too much, but to try and limit the average game length to 30 minutes instead of 40-45 is probably not a bad idea. There are some options: 5/15 clocks: 40 moves = 15 minutes 15/0 clocks: an old standard (not recommended) 20/0 clocks: would do the trick better than 15/0's in my opinion - down to five minutes = rush time. If you have other ideas, let me know - open forum for this discussion.

I've been using this p2p app in one nhl94 league for less than a week, and I'll sum it up here: Hamachi was never used for Kawaks, we always went through Kaillera. Hamachi was for SNES9x only. This new P2P app is nice in that it gives you the direct connection that you see in SNES9x, but the problem is that there's no IP decoying - those of you behind a tough firewall will probably prefer the "pick a server" route. I'm not sure if Hamachi would work properly in conjunction with this thing, but it's worth a shot.

DJP, sorry to rain on your parade, but I believe G4 does something like this, and it's about 100 times more appropriate - not like I watch it anyways. Spike should stick to what they do best - UFC replays and Slamball - everything else (including MXC - G4 wins with Sasuke) is utter crap.

i lol'ed...

I've shifted the deadline for first round play to the end of the month, so that we can kinda relax and get games done at our own pace instead of rush-rush-rush...

Damathacus white 1-0 kamoh black Smarter game than I am used to playing, I think that we were pretty matched on strategy but I failed late on tactics.

They all got in their Winnipego and drove to S. Ontario.