Slitherine

Please add me. Army to follow.

Roman 24BC-196AD please.

Please add me, army to follow...

Pete: Thanks for organising

EDIT: Army is Lombard 568 - 569 AD

Please add me Pete,

Hannibal in Africa, cheers.

DesertedFox...

Indian 546 -599 AD

deve

Carthage (Hannibal in Africa)

deve wrote: ↑Tue Mar 19, 2019 7:58 pm deve

some pike spam army to follow

Bluefin wrote: ↑Mon Mar 18, 2019 9:32 pm Macedonian 320-261 BC

Yesssssss, TEAM PIKE SPAM!!!

I'm in, with Gallic 300-101 BC

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I'm in.

Jewish Revolt 66-135 AD

I have sent out another large batch of invitations this evening, basically to players who entered the FOG2DL in Season 3 (but not Season 4) and to those players in the current automated tournament who have never played in the FOG2DL at all. I will send a reminder invitation to current FOG2DL players at the weekend. Please ask any reliable players you know to join up. Thanks.

I'm in Army to follow

I'm in Scots 50BC-476 AD

Roman 379AD-424AD

MorkinTheFree Romano-British 407-599 AD

We are up to 35 players now and this morning I have sent reminders to all the current FOG2DL players who are yet to sign up. Recruitment will close at the end of Wednesday 27th March. It may be that we do not reach the magic number of 64 players so there could be some first round byes. The draw for the 1st Round will take place live on the forum at 9am UK time Friday 29th March.

Hi

Please add me.
CONSTANTINIX Seleucid 300-206 BC

In, army to follow.

I'll take Kushans as my army

In.
army coming

EDIT: I'll take the 664 bc egyptians just to mix things up a bit.

Player entry list so far (48 and 1 reserve)

Aeneas Stator - army to be advised
Bluefin - Macedonians 320-261 BC
bomber23 - Seleucids 166-125 BC
Challenge1- Macedonians 320-261 BC
CheAhn - Romans 285-312 AD (reserve)
ConstantinIX - Seleucids 300-206 BC
desertedfox - Indians 546-599 AD
deve - Carthaginians (Hannibal in Africa) 202 BC
devoncop - Jewish Revolt 66-135 AD
dkalenda - Seleucids 166-125 BC
Doyley50 - Romans 24 BC-196 AD
GDod - Romans 285-312 AD
Geffalrus - Macedonians 328-321 BC
General Shapur - Samnites 355-272 BC
ggarynorman - Jewish Revolt 66-135 AD
greekiraklis - Ptolemaic 166-56 BC
harveylh - Sassanid Persian 591-628 AD
Herode_2 - Gallics 300-101 BC
ianiow - Byzantium 551-578 AD
IMC - Galatians 280-63 BC
jjaquemond - army to be advised
KiFi - Macedonians 320-261 BC
klayeckles - Egyptians 664-571 BC
LorneMalvo - Carthaginians (Hannibal in Africa) 202 BC
lydianed - Gepids 493-567 AD
mkjhartmann - army to be advised
Morbio - Lombards 568-569 AD
MorkinTheFree - Romano-British 407-599 AD
Nijis - army to be advised
Nosy_Rat - Sassanids 591-628 AD
nyczar - Scots 50 BC - 476 AD
Olias- army to be advised
oscarius - Dacians 89-106 AD
paulmcneil - Kushans 130 BC - 476 AD
pantherboy - Indians 546-599 AD
phoyle3290 - Macedonian 320-261 BC
Questar17 - Carthaginians 235-146 BC
rexhurley - Moorish 350-698 AD
Rob123 - Sassanid Persians 591-628 AD
SawyerK - Jewish Revolt 66-135 AD
schmolywar - Ptolemaic 166-56 BC
Sennacherib - Romans 379-424 AD
SpeedyCM - Carthaginians (Hannibal in Africa) 202 BC
sunnyboy - Byzantines 551-578 AD
Tresantes - Pyrrhic 280-272 BC
Triarii - Visigoths 419-621 AD
Trogilus - Pergamenes 190-129 BC
Ulysisgrunt - Jewish Revolt 66-135 BC
XLegione - Breton 411-579 AD

It seems very certain now that we are not going to reach the magic number of 64 players this year. The numbers joining are well down from 2018 and are likely to be around 40. What this means is that less than half the players who have entered are likely to get a first round match because there are going to be a lot of first round byes. So what I can do is draw the first and second round pairings at the same time and allow 3 weeks for all these matches to be completed. The reason I want to do this is that I am concerned that some players might drift away from the tournament if they do not get a match on April 1st.

To explain more clearly how this would work we can use the current number of entrants, which is 38, as an illustration. In order to get 32 players playing in the 2nd round (in KO tournaments the sequence of players participating in each round has to go 64-32-16-8-4-2), there would have to be 6 first round matches (involving 12 players) leaving 26 players with byes. The 6 winners are added to the 26 byes to make 32. So what I would do if I still had 38 players on Friday is to draw out 6 first round matches first. Then, I would draw out 13 second round matches from the remaining 26 players so those players could start their matches at the same time as the first round matches. Everybody will be playing at the start. The final part of the second round draw would see me draw the last 3 matches from the 6 first round pairings (e.g. winner of Match 3 will play winner of Match 6 and so on).

For this to work I will need an even number of participants so from now on I am going to allow new players to register in 2's. so a new player signing up now will be a reserve unless a second player signs up. Then they will both be able to enter and the procedure starts again.

All this probably seems unnecessarily complicated, but I think it will work OK - and it will ensure everybody has a match from the outset.