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Re: A Welcome Tournament for New Members
« Reply #270 on: October 13, 2015, 03:42:45 PM »
Final game from our group  Halfling 177 - 99 LOMDR

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Re: A Welcome Tournament for New Members
« Reply #271 on: October 13, 2015, 03:44:57 PM »
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Re: A Welcome Tournament for New Members
« Reply #272 on: October 14, 2015, 02:54:24 AM »
62 points for 2 farms!  Incredible.

Thank you so much for everyone who has managed to play their games in such short notice.

I'm going to update the tables tonight and show the final rankings taking the Round 1 and Round 2 results into consideration.

Well done everyone!

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Re: A Welcome Tournament for New Members
« Reply #273 on: October 14, 2015, 06:17:46 AM »
Gotta win somehow and the besiegers help the farm totals.

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Re: A Welcome Tournament for New Members
« Reply #274 on: October 14, 2015, 03:12:06 PM »
Final Group A,B,C Tables:

Group A:

Group B:

Group C:


The Position Table after Round 2:


I have added together the group and PPD scores from Round 1 and Round 2 and ranked by Group Point and then PPD.

Please review and let me know quickly if there are any mistakes.

The Third and Final Rounds are:

Group Yellow: Merlin_89 , Rich The Fish, Halfling
Group Salmon: Curt 194, Joansinmiedo, franks
Group Green: Safari, Ailurus, toastytoast
Group Blue: Piklach, LOMDR, Lukey-Dukey.

As I said Before Round 3 is a single three player game consisting of:

The Phantom
Traders & Builders
The Tower
Corn Circles II

It is only required that Group Yellow attend their games.  There are a small pool of prizes for everyone who manages to play their last game though  :D  It would be wonderful if those people based in the UK can finish their games before 31st October, so I can give prizes at the UK Meetup Event, if they are attending.

I think ToastyToast must complete his game before Saturday - good luck.

I now declare Round 3 started.

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Re: A Welcome Tournament for New Members
« Reply #275 on: October 15, 2015, 05:31:49 AM »
Elo ratings after first 2 rounds:



If you're not sure what Elo is, there is a nice wiki page about it with way too much detail! It simply indicates how well you did in your recent matches (your score, initially set to 1200, went up or maybe down). It is also used to predict the outcome of your future games. It says that you have better chances to win against an opponent with a lower rating but also the opposite: players with greater ratings are supposed to be tough to beat. Amount of points you win or lose after each match depends on the difference between the rating of your opponent and yours.

Note that I will not calculate Elo ratings for Round 3 as the games will be multiplayer.
« Last Edit: October 15, 2015, 05:41:52 AM by Jéré »

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Re: A Welcome Tournament for New Members
« Reply #276 on: October 15, 2015, 06:58:40 AM »
To be honest, I can read that wikipedia page all day and I still wont understand it.  But it looks like the Welcome Tournament has shuffled things up quite a bit  :(y)

It's safe to say you've all played enough games online to get some real experience at it now.  I hope you've all managed to enjoy at least one game and maybe learn a new trick or two.

Thanks for the table Jéré!

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Re: A Welcome Tournament for New Members
« Reply #277 on: October 15, 2015, 01:34:50 PM »
Thanks for the update Decar - it's good to see how we all stack up after the first couple of rounds. I for one am really looking forward to playing the next round - it's going to be a hectic game for the final round with all those expansions! I'll contact Merlin_89 and Halfling to see if we can schedule the game for sometime next week. The boys are both keen to play their game too, but with lomdr's time difference being -8 hours it's probably going to be a bit tricky, especially before the UK meet up in just over a fortnight.

By the way, it looks like the screenshot for Group C is missing the result from the final game, but I can see that the scores have been included in the leaderboard which made it very close for 3rd and 4th place.


Cheers for the Elo table Jéré, it looks interesting. I'd not heard about this ranking system before. I guess the values will be more accurate / representative of our ability once we've played a few more games to make it more statistically significant.

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Re: A Welcome Tournament for New Members
« Reply #278 on: October 15, 2015, 02:23:17 PM »
I'm on now, if any Green Group are about :)

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Re: A Welcome Tournament for New Members
« Reply #279 on: October 19, 2015, 04:56:38 PM »
Quite interesting Elo thing. Still, I have to agree with Decar that I never would understand that Wikipedia article. Is there any short way to explain how one gains (or looses) points and how much?

BTW: We greens are trying to find a date for our game. Just that you know. ;)
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Re: A Welcome Tournament for New Members
« Reply #280 on: October 19, 2015, 10:16:09 PM »
Quite interesting Elo thing. Still, I have to agree with Decar that I never would understand that Wikipedia article. Is there any short way to explain how one gains (or looses) points and how much?

I believe that if you win a game your Elo rating will increase. If you lose a game it will decrease. The scale of the increase/ decrease depends on the Elo rating difference between you and your opponent immediately before your game. So, if your rating was 1400 and you beat someone with a rating of 1200 then the idea is that you are the better player and so a win is expected. For this reason, the increase would be much smaller than if your rating was 1200 and you beat someone with a rating of 1400! :(y)

Exact amounts are more difficult to explain (and I don't understand them either)...

Hope this helps! :)

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Re: A Welcome Tournament for New Members
« Reply #281 on: October 20, 2015, 08:14:30 AM »
I've prepared a table to help you visualise how your Elo rating is adjusted after a match. Hope this helps!


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Re: A Welcome Tournament for New Members
« Reply #282 on: October 22, 2015, 11:09:55 AM »
Hi Merlin_89. Just to let you know that Halfling and I are in the chatroom hoping to play our third round (and final) game. Are you free?

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Re: A Welcome Tournament for New Members
« Reply #283 on: October 26, 2015, 12:24:17 PM »
Hi Merlin_89. Just to let you know that Halfling and I are in the chatroom hoping to play our third round (and final) game. I see that you're online - are you free to play?

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Re: A Welcome Tournament for New Members
« Reply #284 on: October 26, 2015, 01:52:10 PM »
For those that are interested, we've arranged to play the final tomorrow night at 7pm (GMT). Good luck guys, let's hope it's a great game.


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