Intinamte Tournament idea

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Hi all,

as intimate diploamcy is receiving the final changes before being
included in the next njduge reelease, I was thinking of perhaps
setting up a tournament for this variant, and wondered if anybody had
any experieince/ideas about this?

My initial feeling would be to have it in elimination rounds, with the
winner of each match progressing to the next round, until there's only
the eventual winner left. Each person would play 8 games per round,
using something like the following pairings:

E-I
F-A
R-I
T-G
I-E
A-F
I-R
G-T

scoring one point for a victory and a half point for a draw, zero for
a loss.

Does that seem reasonable? Other suggestions?


Millis

 

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Played in a tournament of a variant similar to intimate once. The guy who
ran the tourny made some modifications on the rules that were

(1) you always have 12 points to bid on the unplayed powers
(2) you write a preference list to decide who plays what power. then
there's this strange set of conditions to determine what you end up getting.

I dont remember the normal rules for selecting powers in intimate, but I
dont know if prescribing matchups is the best way to go for a tourny.

The one I played, we had 16 players, and if I remember right, each person
played 8 games, and the top 8 were then seeded in a single elimination
bracket. I think it was scored one point for a win, half a point for a draw
(I think there was just one in the whole tournament), and zero for a loss.

Worked pretty well, its a fun variant.
-Adam


"Millis" <millis@megamail.pt> wrote in message
news:8adbe5ef.0407240035.d418244@posting.google.com...
> Hi all,
>
> as intimate diploamcy is receiving the final changes before being
> included in the next njduge reelease, I was thinking of perhaps
> setting up a tournament for this variant, and wondered if anybody had
> any experieince/ideas about this?
>
> My initial feeling would be to have it in elimination rounds, with the
> winner of each match progressing to the next round, until there's only
> the eventual winner left. Each person would play 8 games per round,
> using something like the following pairings:
>
> E-I
> F-A
> R-I
> T-G
> I-E
> A-F
> I-R
> G-T
>
> scoring one point for a victory and a half point for a draw, zero for
> a loss.
>
> Does that seem reasonable? Other suggestions?
>
>
> Millis