Slitherine

We're creeping up towards 16 entrants now and we have a few medieval armies which is good. I know that a lot of players do not read the forum, or at least do not read it regularly, so please invite anyone like that who you may be playing in a friendly game.

ENTRIES

1. TJD - Dacians
2. Fedem - Late Republican Roman
3. iandavidsmith - Dailami
4. TGM - to notify
5. davouthojo - Christian Nubians
6. dazzam - to notify
7. steve h-8 - Early South Slav (early)
8. ericdoman1 - Early Catalan Company
9. petran 1978 - Alexandrian Macedonians
10. cromlechi - Graeco-Bactrians
11. Morbio - Later Seleucids
12. cavehobbit - Medieval Crown of Aragon (early)
13. kme - Later Medieval Swedish

Hi Pete

Have made my choice, Early South Slav (early)

Good luck all

Hi y'all

This is just a thought.

If there are going to be 16 of us there will be a max of 4 games for 2 players.

However what if we can all play 4 games?

You play your first game you lose by a single bp, bummer or what? That's it for you time to go.

However what if a player who lost his first game could still have a chance of winning?

It is very straightforward. You have a Swiss System. The first time to my knowledge that one has been incorporated in FOG-DIgital. In TT comps I have played. I have lost my first game in some comps but ended up being 3rd, 2nd and 1st at the end of it.

Very simply those players with the same % casualties inflicted will play one another in the next round or as close as. Their % casualties are totalled up for each round.

For example

Round 1 Player A 100% vs B 75%

Round 2 Player B (75%) 100% vs Player G (73%) 83%

Round 3 Player B (175%) 100% vs Player D (180%) 53%

Round 4 Player B (275%) 100% vs Player J (269%) 93%


Even players who may have lost 3 games very narrowly have a chance of winning or becoming 2nd or 3rd so the last and final round (Round 4) would be very exciting. You could have 3 or 4 players vying for 1st position.

Cheers


Eric

Hello Eric,

I think that your idea of using the Swiss system is a very good one - but I feel that it warrants a separate competition of its own at some stage. I would certainly be very interested to see how it all works out and I would be prepared to help with the organisation of such a tournament. If it has worked in TT competition then I see no reason why it would not work for FOG digital too.

However, the idea for this knock-out competition was to have a short, sharp, breezy competition in the New Year just to get everyone back in the swing of things again. A lot of players have just about finished their LOEG matches so there is a bit of a "window" now for another tournament or two before the next season of LOEG starts up. At 350pts the games should be completed quite quickly too.

Last thing, I didn't mean to imply that there would only be 16 players in my tournament, only that 16 would be the minimum number I would need to make it viable. Hopefully, we will get 30+ players entering by next Saturday. Once we get past 16 entrants I can work with any number of players - say, for example, that we get 29 entrants, then the first round will consist of 13 matches (26 players) and 3 players will get byes into the second round. The 13 winners plus 3 byes will play in the second round and then we reduce the number of survivors 8-4-2-1 as is usual in knock-out competitions.

From down under ..... ME!!..........lols

With the not so glorious Golden Horde Later

I'm in. Nikephorian Byzantine(later)

Put me down for the Bosporans(mid) if there's still space.

Chris.

Right - we have got the minimum number required of 16 so the competition will definitely be going ahead. I will post the first round draw on here on Sunday morning, January 15th. You can still join the competition - the more the merrier!


ENTRIES

1. TJD - Dacians
2. Fedem - Late Republican Roman
3. iandavidsmith - Dailami
4. TGM - to notify
5. davouthojo - Christian Nubians
6. dazzam - to notify
7. steve h-8 - Early South Slav (early)
8. ericdoman1 - Early Catalan Company
9. petran 1978 - Alexandrian Macedonians
10. cromlechi - Graeco-Bactrians
11. Morbio - Later Seleucids
12. cavehobbit - Medieval Crown of Aragon (early)
13. kme - Medieval Swedish (later)
14. rexhurley - Golden Horde (later)
15. Tiavals - Nikephorian Byzantine(later)
16. batesmotel - Bosporans (mid)
17. Supervark - to notify
18. todd645 - to notify
19. gaxsax - to notify
20. petergarnett - Dacians
21. porsenna - Avars
22.
23.
24.
25.

put me down as spare
thanks

gaxsax wrote:put me down as spare
thanks

No spares allowed - you are in! Pick an army over the next few days - it should be fun.

Dacians for me please

thanks for the invitation Pete!
i wish to join with Avar from DAF
it sounds to be challenging!

Later Ottoman Turkish aka "3rd Rome"

Pete, put me down for Early Southern Slav (later)

Latin Greece Achaia

Count me in
Gallic (Later Hill Tribes)

cheers, Jon

porsenna wrote:thanks for the invitation Pete!
i wish to join with Avar from DAF
it sounds to be challenging!

Oh cannon fodder rubs hand with glee!

here comes another one -------- Santa (cos its Xmas ) Hermandad

ENTRIES (maximum 32)

1. TJD - Dacians
2. Fedem - Late Republican Roman
3. iandavidsmith - Dailami
4. TGM - to notify
5. davouthojo - Christian Nubians
6. dazzam - to notify
7. steve h-8 - Early South Slav (early)
8. ericdoman1 - Early Catalan Company
9. petran 1978 - Alexandrian Macedonians
10. cromlechi - Graeco-Bactrians
11. Morbio - Later Seleucids
12. cavehobbit - Medieval Crown of Aragon (early)
13. kme - Medieval Swedish (later)
14. rexhurley - Golden Horde (later)
15. Tiavals - Nikephorian Byzantine(later)
16. batesmotel - Bosporans (mid)
17. Supervark - HYW English (Britain, later)
18. todd645 - Latin Greece Achaia
19. gaxsax - to notify
20. petergarnett - Dacians
21. porsenna - Avars
22. baris - Later Ottoman Turks
23. tullius - Early Southern Slav (later)
24. jonno - Gallic Hill Tribes (later)
25. gazxtrix - Santa Hermandad Nueva Castilian
26. deeter - to notify
27. macsen - 100YW English Continental (later)
28. stik - Dominate Roman (western, late)
29.
30.
31.
32.

I'll join. Just have to decide on an army.

Deeter