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Post by Simon on Jun 9, 2019 12:13:39 GMT
An interesting mix of armies. Two thirds from book 2. No preponderance of knights or elephants. Nothing that could be considered cheesy or devious. Also I am not sure I heard a single (polite, obviously) dispute or disagreement in the course of the entire day. Probably worth saying that the final table was much closer than the list is able to show. If I remember correctly the top eight were all only one extra victory away from the first placed player's points total. Scott Just to reinforce Scott's point about how close things were, the scores before sums of opponens's score were applied, were distributed as follows: 13 pts - 2 people, 12 pts - 2 people, 11 pts - 1 person, 10 pts - 2 people, 9 pts - 4 people, 8 pts - 2 people, 7 pts - 1 person, 6 pts - 2 people, 3 pts - 1 person, 0 pts - 1 person. Simon
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Post by diades on Jun 9, 2019 14:47:26 GMT
Thank you. An excellent event played in exemplary spirit. Simon, well run! And the chocolate brownies, yum !
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Post by martin on Jun 9, 2019 20:55:33 GMT
Sounds like an excellent tournament - Simon runs a tight ship - MAX kudos đź‘Ťđź‘Ť. Congrats to those podium placed persons.
Sorry I missed it...was in Newcastle on the Uni run, unfortunately. 🎲
Simon, any Society of Ancients Championship games during the day?
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Post by menacussecundus on Jun 9, 2019 21:50:34 GMT
........... Simon, any Society of Ancients Championship games during the day? Five games. Simon sent me the details and I have passed them on.
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Post by paddy649 on Jun 9, 2019 21:55:51 GMT
I thought the scoring system worked well. 3 points for a win, nothing for losing but 1 point for a draw. There should be value in not losing. No points for a draw if you have an army that is overmatched by its opponent tends to create false games. Make the superior army take chances and overstretch itself. Certainly didn’t produce any negative games for myself (quite technical interesting ones if anything), and if you just sit in a corner hiding you end up lower mid table with no chance of winning. Well done for me who came up with the system! Craig I don't mind admitting that I pinched the system off Martin Myers so all credit to him! Simon What was the detail of the scoring system?
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Post by martin on Jun 9, 2019 22:00:49 GMT
........... Simon, any Society of Ancients Championship games during the day? Five games. Simon sent me the details and I have passed them on. That’s good! 72 games already recorded, and another five for the pot. Best year so far?
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Post by peteduckworth on Jun 10, 2019 7:00:24 GMT
Thanks for a most excellent, well organised competition. First rate. Pete, I see that you ran Polynesians. How did they fare against horse heavy armies? Cheers, I did fine - a slight wibble when in a rush of blood to the head I sent my general in against one of Phil Johnson's Palmyran cataphracts. I was 3 up but died, any other result and I would have won the game. I didn't get a single draw against knights which was slightly unfortunate. My worst issue was opponents who were intimidated by the might of the 3Bd and fought defensively Two draws in 6 games, I hate draws
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Post by Simon on Jun 10, 2019 7:48:29 GMT
I don't mind admitting that I pinched the system off Martin Myers so all credit to him! Simon What was the detail of the scoring system? It was 3 pts win, 1 pt draw and 0 pts loss. Ties were first resolved by using sum of opponents scores high to low. Had there still been any ties at that point, they would have been resolved by taking into account total net equivalent elements counting for victory/defeat lost/killed. (ie if you win 4 - 1 you are +3 for that round and your opponent would be -3). Regards, Simon
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Post by menacussecundus on Jun 10, 2019 9:17:46 GMT
Five games. Simon sent me the details and I have passed them on. That’s good! 72 games already recorded, and another five for the pot. Best year so far? Ahead of where we were at this stage last year, Martin, but we'll need to see what the next 6 months brings. (One hundred and twenty one games last year, of which 65 were DBA.)
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Post by kaybee on Jun 11, 2019 18:24:49 GMT
Simon, thanks for organising the tournament, I thoroughly enjoyed it. Is it possible to get a copy of the picture of the competitors that was taken? Thanks
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Post by Baldie on Jun 11, 2019 20:50:48 GMT
Simon, thanks for organising the tournament, I thoroughly enjoyed it. Is it possible to get a copy of the picture of the competitors that was taken? Thanks You got someone you need to scare off?
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Post by Simon on Jun 12, 2019 7:18:57 GMT
Simon, thanks for organising the tournament, I thoroughly enjoyed it. Is it possible to get a copy of the picture of the competitors that was taken? Thanks You got someone you need to scare off? Don't worry Baldie, I have airbrushed you out!!! Simon
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Post by Simon on Jun 12, 2019 8:04:02 GMT
Simon, thanks for organising the tournament, I thoroughly enjoyed it. Is it possible to get a copy of the picture of the competitors that was taken? Thanks I have put the photo in an album on the Yahoo Group. Please add your photos if you have any. Also if anyone PMs me, I will e-mail you a copy. Simon
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Post by martin on Jun 12, 2019 9:08:31 GMT
You got someone you need to scare off? Don't worry Baldie, I have airbrushed you out!!! Simon Airbrushed or hairbrushed?
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