I love the idea behind this tournament. After careful consideration, I'll go on the Europe map for Chimay (Belgium). It was a toss-up between 4 or 5 Trappist beers, but that one's an old favorite so I'll go with it.

If you still need a reserve, I'll be happy to play!

Sounds like fun! I'm in.

aznin wrote:I'm in! If I get to choose a map, I'll pick Europe

Oops, I guess I should learn to read!

Europe, flat rate, chained, no fog. Thanks!

I'm in! If I get to choose a map, I'll pick Europe

bigdaddyslim2 was the first person eliminated from the North America map

I'll join! Neat idea to discourage longer games.

ah what the hey, why not? Space map, please.

I'll play. Discworld please.

I'll play --- North America please.

Hey MEK, I'll play

I'm in!

Brimstone and I are looking for opponents in 2 doubles matches, in games 629319 and 629321. Send us a message if you're interested.

If not too late, I'll play for Belgium. I'm in the USA but (for the moment) still have Belgian citizenship.

I'll retract this message. Lazaruslong offered a very thorough and polite explanation in the game chat. I appreciate his courtesy in handling this. I also appreciate AAfitz's input.

Put it down to my inexperience and an occasionally rather excitable nature :)

This whole episode is especially ...

Why wouldn't green take just one country to prevent Red from building up, if they weren't helping each other. I've never seen anything so blatant in any of the games I've played.

Suspected Secret Alliance (not multis!)

Suspect users: Lazaruslong and aceofcups

Game number: 142062

Comments: Everyone built up their own area, me in Australia, red (aceofcups) in europe, green (lazaruslong) in africa. They never attacked each other after they established their continents ...

I'll join if you still have a spot.

and we're off!

jonducrou wrote:I saw this forum thread and made a simple lightweight firefox 1.5-2.0 extension.

https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/3638/

It shows your games status in the status bar, right click for options, enjoy!

Jon
(first post woo!)

Give this man a statue. Great work.

azzy

I have to admit, it's a fine looking pooch. Wish I had that dental plan too.

We had Fahrenheit 451 as our Book of the Month some time last year. Great novel. I've been pondering doing a "classics" month --- only novels that are at least 25 years old and still in print.

What's this about a Science Fiction Reading Group? I used to be a big fan and still am very familiar with most of the authors.

It's an online reading group called Beyond Reality. Each month, our members nominate novels, then we vote to decide which book will become the Book of the Month and read ...

I think it's nifty that you can attack from any wormhole to any other wormhole --- that completely changes the strategy of the game. Also, I'm a big science fiction fan and run a big SF reading group, so I like the space theme.

1. Only play sequential games. Freestyle is faster, but it seems that some people like to time their turns so they can play 2 turns back-to-back.

2. Absolutely no games with dugcarr. (Eesh!)

3. Only play "flat rate" games. "Escalating" is neat, until you get burned by someone getting 50 armies ...