Britcon 2013

[spike]

Still checking my schedule.
I hope I can make it to BritCon as well, this would be great

Is there somewhere a runners list available (for sure not a runners and riders )

As of 17th June its

1 15mm FoG Ancients Andrew Ellis
1 15mm FoG Ancients Andrew Martin
1 15mm FoG Ancients Bruce Rollett
1 15mm FoG Ancients Chris Proudfoot
1 15mm FoG Ancients Darrell Pearce
1 15mm FoG Ancients Dave Saunders
1 15mm FoG Ancients David Finnigan
1 15mm FoG Ancients Franck Cieur
1 15mm FoG Ancients Graeme Carroll
1 15mm FoG Ancients Graham Briggs
1 15mm FoG Ancients Graham Evans
1 15mm FoG Ancients Ivan Monedero
1 15mm FoG Ancients John Muir
1 15mm FoG Ancients Lynda Fairhurst
1 15mm FoG Ancients Malcolm Gordon
1 15mm FoG Ancients Murray Evans
1 15mm FoG Ancients Peter Card
1 15mm FoG Ancients Phil Powell
1 15mm FoG Ancients Richard Case
1 15mm FoG Ancients Robert Amey
1 15mm FoG Ancients Ruben Novell
1 15mm FoG Ancients Shaun Drummond
1 15mm FoG Ancients Steven Hacker
1 15mm FoG Ancients Tony Parkin
1 15mm FoG Ancients Xavier Piron

1 15mm FoG Medieval Alan Cutner
1 15mm FoG Medieval Brian Espie
1 15mm FoG Medieval Dave Ruddock
1 15mm FoG Medieval David Fairhurst
1 15mm FoG Medieval Eric Lajus
1 15mm FoG Medieval Eric Thomson
1 15mm FoG Medieval Gordon Jamieson
1 15mm FoG Medieval Graham Fordham
1 15mm FoG Medieval Guillaume Fremont
1 15mm FoG Medieval Harrison Pearce
1 15mm FoG Medieval Hugh Cameron
1 15mm FoG Medieval Ian Stewart
1 15mm FoG Medieval John Patrick
1 15mm FoG Medieval Jon Akers
1 15mm FoG Medieval Lance Flint
1 15mm FoG Medieval Marco Fernandez
1 15mm FoG Medieval Martin Wirt
1 15mm FoG Medieval Martyn Simpson
1 15mm FoG Medieval Paul Longmore
1 15mm FoG Medieval Paul Robinson
1 15mm FoG Medieval Peter Dalby
1 15mm FoG Medieval Richard Love
1 15mm FoG Medieval Robert Taylor
1 15mm FoG Medieval Salvador Senabre
1 15mm FoG Medieval Simon Hall
1 15mm FoG Medieval Steve Clarke
1 15mm FoG Medieval Wayne Dare

[madaxeman]

hi Tim
Could you let me know the timetable for the games on each day.

regards
Muz

Handily its online at

http://www.bhgs.org.uk/britcon---field- ... ieval.html

tim

[petedalby]

You should be able to find everything you need on the BHGS website:

http://www.bhgs.org.uk/britcon.html

[madaxeman]

Update :

We currently have only 8 places left in FoG Medieval, and 10 places left in FoG Ancients. At this stage we don't forsee being able to increase the allocations for either period, so if you are waiting to book for some reason, you'd better hurry !

Also if you wish to book accommodation via the University site please do so fairly soon, as they have other events on and are starting to run a little short on rooms.

http://britcon2013.eventbrite.co.uk to book into the competition

https://www.meeting.co.uk/confercare/bhgs/ to book university accommodation

Tim

[petedalby]

Did we lose some places?

The numbers show just 3 tickets left for Medieval - but only 1 extra player?

[madaxeman]

Did we lose some places?

The numbers show just 3 tickets left for Medieval - but only 1 extra player?

Yep. The total number of tickets on offer across all the periods was more than the capacity of the venue, which would have been a little challenging - so I tidied it up a bit.

[petedalby]

Yep. The total number of tickets on offer across all the periods was more than the capacity of the venue, which would have been a little challenging - so I tidied it up a bit.

Sounds just like British Airways!

[madaxeman]

Yep. The total number of tickets on offer across all the periods was more than the capacity of the venue, which would have been a little challenging - so I tidied it up a bit.

Sounds just like British Airways!

Almost - they generally do the "tidying up" only after you get to the airport though.... !

[muz177]

Army choice - I have entered the ancients comp - meaning choosing an army dated before 1066ad.
Does this mean that turning up with say Italo Norman dated 1045 and stacked with armoured knights would be frowned upon (ie is the date designed to discourage the use of knights)?
Muz

[madaxeman]

Army choice - I have entered the ancients comp - meaning choosing an army dated before 1066ad.
Does this mean that turning up with say Italo Norman dated 1045 and stacked with armoured knights would be frowned upon (ie is the date designed to discourage the use of knights)?
Muz

Nope. It means any army dated pre 1066 is perfectly acceptable and will be welcomed

[davidandlynda]

Might be a few elephants to contend with though
David

[dave_r]

Might be a few elephants to contend with though
David

As long as the knights allow the elephants to charge them in the rear they will be fine.

[philqw78]

And the Normans can dismount anyway. But why would they bother?

[grahambriggs]

Might be a few elephants to contend with though
David

and the fact that the bits of the army that aren't undrilled knights are not great in that time period. Still tempting though!

[philqw78]

There's not a lot of other bits once you have 7 BG of knights

[madaxeman]

30/32 places booked for Medieval, 27/32 for Ancients so far.

Any late lurkers out there still considering entering please hurry up ... would be nice to end up with a round 32 in both sections..

http://britcon2013.eventbrite.co.uk/ to enter

[grahambriggs]

Tim, with regard to how the first round draw is done, for many yearswe've had it rigged so that seeded players can't play each other. I think JD did that originally in the days when we had massive fields. I never quite followed the logic but I think it was that the fileds were large enough that otherwise the winner would be the strong player who happened to come upon a middling player who'd had a soft draw.

Whatever the merits of that logic, I don't think it applies in a field of 32 players over 5/6 rounds. And it always had the downside that it was manifestly unfair to unseeded players. Isn't it time we ditched this?

And - Brucey bonus - it means one less thing for the organisers to sort out.

[madaxeman]

Kev and I have just had the same discussion.

A field of 32, and a system of "drop worst score" means seeding is not really worth doing, never mind the "it's one less thing for us to worry about" angle

[muz177]

In Australia we generally use one of the following methods:
1. Anything which stuffs up Shaun's army choice
2. Ranking (refer below)
3. Nearest army date
4. Random draw

With the ranking option we rank by ELO then split into 2 sides, being 1 to 16, and 17 to 32 (for a pool of 32). # 1 plays #17, #2 plays 18 etc
Muz

[petedalby]

The event wasn't seeded last year and it didn't seem to be a problem.

The only problem that I recall was the results being unpublished round by round and unfortunately they were recorded incorrectly - at least twice that we know of - which arguably skewed the draw and the results.

Interestingly, if we were to apply this year's scoring system to last year's results, there would be no change in the Ancients placings but in Medieval, Guillaume Fremont who was 3rd, would have won. He lost 5 to 20 in the first round which helped him to avoid most of the other top placed players - he only played 2 games vs someone who ended in the top 10. Result!

So throwing your first game could be a winning strategy? Discuss....