Hello everyone, thought I would write this out for all to see in 1 setting....
It was a sunny afternoon in early November, sitting in my chair at home, not much going on. My kids had, at about the same time, their sports seasons ended, and my softball within a day or 2 as well. Our 2 foster kids were re-united with grandma right at the end of October, even though we were hoping mom would shape up so she could have her kids back. Now, we were taking a break from fostering until December 1st when we would be active again. Fostering, in a brief explanation is this: Kids are taken away by the goverment from their bad living conditions and shipped to trained foster parents such as ourselves. We had previously had kids that slept on trash piles, a kid who was kept in a cage, a kid fed beer because that was all the food there was, etc. It's very draining and we wanted a break to get revitalized. (
to all those that thought the living on beer was a good thing 
)So, on to something I thought might entertain me, give me something to do, and prove a mathematical calculation of mass games that I had thought of for some time.
I started a thread in my clan forum seeing if anyone would be interested in a tourney, and quite to my surprise, got 31 entries. The tournament was set up and I played each player 21 times. I had 24 hours to make a move. If I saw I was losing a game, I would take the turns faster. If I was winning, I would take my turn slower. An experiment of sorts, and tied into a tournament. The goal for each player was to win as many games as they could and everyone that won over 50% against me would make it to the finals against each other.
I got a little overwhelmed, so there were some games I had to keep going. They were not hostage situations, because they were ok'ed by my opponents and actually preferred by them for this reason: I tried to have the higher ranks beat me first, where they would get points in the 20s for each win. Didn't want the 2 stripers to get 50 or 60 points off me too early in the tourney, and then have the majors only get 10 points, wouldn't be fair. So, I started the higher ranked guys in the tourney first, and they got their wins, then worked my way down the ranks. Then, when I ran out of time for this tourney, I had to start closing the games out, I wanted to start by beating the lowest ranks so that I would only win in the 20s per game at most. I didn't want to beat the majors and have THEM lose 50 or 60 points a game. That's why I was saving the higher ranks for last. And my wins happened on a rotating basis, to keep any one person from losing too much. Oh, there were 2 guys that didn't want the games to last longer, and so I ended their games way before, since I didn't want a hostage situation at hand. But the rest of the guys preferred to not end the games until it would be less points that they would lose, in a fair way. Didn't think you could hold a hostage that wanted a game to continue.
Yes, I had about 700 games started in 10 days... yes, I spent 18 to 20 hours a day playing those games for quite a few days... yes, I was late to work a couple times.
This is not a procedure I will ever try again, as it cost me too much time, and my health. But, it was all supposed to happen within 2 weeks and be over, not dragged on. I needed to clear off this tourney by December 1st, so I started closing out games. (And we received another child on December 3rd, just FYI). This tourney also helped some of my clanmates to open their eyes to some of my favorite maps, which would also help for future wars.
I knew I could shoot up in points in the end, which was the fun part, and had no idea of the success of my calculations. I never intended to make people feel like I had beat up their family members or whatever caused them such angst. I was rather shocked at the immaturity level of some people on this site for what they wrote about me. I am not a glory hound, and don't care about points, except for this one trial. People came out of nowhere to show how little they thought of me and to FOE me, but I think some people take this fun gamesite a little too serious.
In the end, I was reset, which I disagree with, but life goes on. I just wanted to post this for something to read for those who were curious about how things went down. I did NOT post this for more arguement or negative posts. So if you feel you have something else to say, say it to someone else, because I didn't even read all the garbage on all the posts, wasn't worth my time.
Peace,
Randall
...-el Jesus negro
