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Re: Expansion League #5: The Tower - SIGN UP HERE!
« Reply #30 on: May 23, 2016, 01:57:59 PM »
Same for me... thank you jere for the message, but I have to say no... not this time... and I am really sad because I really love the tower! But I prefer to say no! Too many work and I can't ensure my availability to play for the next days! Sorry! :)

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« Reply #31 on: May 23, 2016, 02:59:24 PM »
Thanks for the PM Jéré! Unfortunately I'm not sure I can commit this time round, I don't have any free weekends for the next 5/6 weeks, and weekdays are getting quite booked up too. Hope you all have fun though! Love the tower, so it's going to be a great league for all involved!

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Re: Expansion League #5: The Tower - SIGN UP HERE!
« Reply #32 on: May 23, 2016, 05:19:09 PM »
Jere - thanks for the PM!

Towers is not our favourite expansion.  Kind of in the same way that ice is not a driver's favourite surface....

However, we will set aside our preferences and participate, if there is still room!
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« Reply #33 on: May 24, 2016, 02:18:59 AM »

:(y) :(y) :(y)
(and thanks Jéré for sending out PMs - please can you drop me a PM with a list of everyone you PMd so I don't end up PMing any of the same people :o)

I sent you the list of all 20 people I spammed  :D
Pretty sure I missed a few due to the limit of 10 people per message.


Jere - thanks for the PM!

Towers is not our favourite expansion.  Kind of in the same way that ice is not a driver's favourite surface....

However, we will set aside our preferences and participate, if there is still room!

Great! And rest assured, I don't like the Tower either!  :-\  I anticipate a complete disaster...  ::)

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Re: Expansion League #5: The Tower - SIGN UP HERE!
« Reply #34 on: May 28, 2016, 01:12:16 PM »
However, we will set aside our preferences and participate, if there is still room!

Welcome aboard rfielder. Will monwil be joining you?

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Re: Expansion League #5: The Tower - SIGN UP HERE!
« Reply #35 on: May 28, 2016, 02:22:58 PM »
Welcome aboard rfielder. Will monwil be joining you?
Yes, she will.

Thus the "we" rather than "I"   :)

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Re: Expansion League #5: The Tower - SIGN UP HERE!
« Reply #36 on: May 30, 2016, 03:54:10 AM »
Entries are now closed...

We have 20 competitors so the first stage will consist of 4 groups of 5. As we've done with most previous competitions, finishing positions in stage 1 will determine which group everyone joins in stage 2 such that there will then be 5 groups of 4 (everyone in each group will have finished in the same position in their initial group).

The competition will be launched on Wednesday the 1st June so please expect a detailed update before then which will include details of the initial groups.

Stay tuned!

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« Reply #37 on: May 30, 2016, 06:40:18 AM »
 :(y)
Thanks Dan
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Re: Expansion League #5: The Tower - SIGN UP HERE!
« Reply #38 on: May 31, 2016, 10:27:56 AM »
Just to let you know. I'm away from Friday for a friends stagdo this weekend and there is an ever increasing likelihood that I will be shipped abroad with work as soon as I get back on Monday.  I doubt I'll be free until next weekend.

Wednesdays and Thursdays are always terrible days for me but i dont want to hold up the tournament, so:
Once Dan has posted the groups  if anyone is free from Group this evening let me know!
« Last Edit: May 31, 2016, 10:42:54 AM by Decar, Reason: Words/phone/bad »

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Re: Expansion League #5: The Tower - SIGN UP HERE!
« Reply #39 on: May 31, 2016, 02:14:15 PM »
I haven't created any new posts for posting results to yet, but the groups have been determined according to the following simple process... ;)

Firstly, I removed the 4 highest-ranking players according to Elo at the end of the Princess & Dragon league, and separated them into the 4 different groups (A – D) so that no two competitors would be in the same group (thus avoiding a “group of death” situation as far as possible). The remaining 16 names were written down on identical scraps of paper, folded up and dropped into my daughters cycling helmet. After a thorough mix around I numbered all of the bits of paper from 1 – 16 without unfolding any of them. I then unfolded everything and made a list of all names and their associated numbers which I emailed to Jere...
 
Meanwhile, it seemed appropriate to ask MrNumbers to allocate a letter (A – D) to the numbers 1 to 16 since numbers are his speciality! As requested, he split the 16 numbers evenly between the four groups and then sent his list to Jere too, the outcome of which was that he had no idea which numbers were linked to which people, and I had no idea which numbers were linked to which groups. Jere however was the only person with both sets of information so he was able to decode which players were in which groups according to the doubly-randomised information MrNumbers and I had sent to him individually. Jere then sent the group information back to me along with MrNumbers’ information to prove that he’d hadn’t made the groups up himself!
 
So after this fairly long and convoluted but impartial, fair and randomised process, I’m happy to share the initial groups for the Tower league below:
 
GROUP A
Chooselife
Decar
khalidqasrawi
Merlin_89
MrNumbers
 
GROUP B
Chuck
danisthirty
Halfling
monwil
ny1050220
 
GROUP C
Andrew the Ambo
Hounk
Leven
Rosco
zone2
 
GROUP D
Jéré
jma03
Valheru
Rich_The_Fish
rfielder

I wanted to explain this process in full detail as I think it will be used again in future and I wanted everyone to know that I try hard to keep things as fair as possible for everyone.

So for the time being, please start contacting each other and look out for the official group posts that I will start soon.

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Re: Expansion League #5: The Tower - SIGN UP HERE!
« Reply #40 on: May 31, 2016, 03:24:48 PM »
Group threads have now been created:

Group A
Group B
Group C
Group D


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Re: Expansion League #5: The Tower - SIGN UP HERE!
« Reply #41 on: June 10, 2016, 01:16:31 PM »
Hi, there are two League Games, which could be played now, monwil vs. Chuck and zone2 vs. me, but we have no host, and online server is down. Is anybody available to help out?

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Re: Expansion League #5: The Tower - SIGN UP HERE!
« Reply #42 on: June 12, 2016, 02:23:19 PM »
Here's an updated on progress so far...

Group A: 3 games played/ 7 remaining
Group B: finished! 8) :(y)
Group C: 8 games played/ 2 remaining
Group D: 3 games played/ 7 remaining

TOTAL: 24 games played/ 16 remaining

Well done everyone, thanks for making the effort to play all the games that have been played so far! C:-)

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« Reply #43 on: June 13, 2016, 07:50:54 AM »
Is Group B qualified for a prize for finishing all games so fast? ;)

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Re: Expansion League #5: The Tower - SIGN UP HERE!
« Reply #44 on: June 13, 2016, 01:29:18 PM »
How about a 5-way game on Thursday evening for the Group B players?  Could there be a better prize?
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