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Fritzlein
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2013 World Championship
« on: Dec 1st, 2012, 10:33am » |
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http://arimaa.com/arimaa/wc/2013/
Registration is open! Seven players have already signed up! As you can tell by my exclamation points, I'm getting excited!! 
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UMDRevan
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Re: 2013 World Championship
« Reply #1 on: Dec 1st, 2012, 11:45am » |
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Registered. My goals for the tournament:
1) play some educational games
2) per game, make it beyond 20 moves
As a new player, I expect to be thoroughly dismantled (like in this game here, have a good laugh over it http://arimaa.com/arimaa/gameroom/comments.cgi?gid=250824), but I expect this will be a great experience, so if there are other newbies out there, be sure to sign up!
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Fritzlein
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Re: 2013 World Championship
« Reply #2 on: Dec 1st, 2012, 12:13pm » |
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on Dec 1st, 2012, 11:45am, UMDRevan wrote:
Yay!
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As the rounds progress, you will get paired closer and closer to your strength, so don't completely despair. You have a 300-point rating edge over the guy who registered after you (ddyer), so you might even get a chance to give a lesson. 
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mistre
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Re: 2013 World Championship
« Reply #3 on: Dec 3rd, 2012, 10:16pm » |
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Info posted on our Arimaa Facebook page. We have 52 registered members over there, so hopefully it will drum up some interest and get a few more people to sign up.
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Fritzlein
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Re: 2013 World Championship
« Reply #4 on: Dec 4th, 2012, 9:32pm » |
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on Dec 3rd, 2012, 10:16pm, mistre wrote:| Info posted on our Arimaa Facebook page. We have 52 registered members over there, so hopefully it will drum up some interest and get a few more people to sign up. |
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Thanks for doing that. Please, everyone feel free to announce the tournament in other venues and/or forward the announcement e-mail. When I am done with school in a week, I will see where all I can think of to post about it.
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Fritzlein
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Re: 2013 World Championship
« Reply #5 on: Dec 14th, 2012, 10:55am » |
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on Dec 4th, 2012, 9:32pm, Fritzlein wrote:| When I am done with school in a week, I will see where all I can think of to post about it. |
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OK, I posted to boardgamegeek.com, chess.com, and boardspace.net. Mistre posted to the Facebook group. Other possibilities where I don't have an account and am not sure whether posting is appropriate would include the Google circle and goldtoken.com. Does anyone who is a participant in those forums have an opinion on whether those would be good places to announce the torunament? Also, any further suggestions?
I don't exactly remember how it went in 2011, but I'm pretty sure that the early signups are ahead of the pace from then, so I'm jazzed that we're probably going to break the participation record.
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mistre
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Re: 2013 World Championship
« Reply #6 on: Dec 14th, 2012, 11:11am » |
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The big question is.... will either Chessandgo or hanzack be signing up?
If not, we are guaranteed a brand new Arimaa champion this year!
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Fritzlein
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Re: 2013 World Championship
« Reply #7 on: Dec 14th, 2012, 12:32pm » |
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Hehe, if neither of them signed up, I would have a shot. I should start preparing my backup plan now, where I pass off the role of TD at the last minute so that I can play for the glory! 
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Harren
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Re: 2013 World Championship
« Reply #8 on: Dec 16th, 2012, 8:51am » |
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Hey all, on the main page I now see only an announcement for the computer championship, not the world championship. However, the register button for the computer championship does send me to the register page for the world championship (with already 24 players: nice !)
Perhaps this needs to be fixed. We wouldn't want people to think registration for world championship is no longer possible
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Fritzlein
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Re: 2013 World Championship
« Reply #9 on: Dec 16th, 2012, 10:14am » |
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on Dec 16th, 2012, 8:51am, Harren wrote:| Hey all, on the main page I now see only an announcement for the computer championship, not the world championship. |
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I think this is a feature of the announcements rather than a bug. The gameroom doesn't bug you with announcements that you have already seen, based (I believe) on the timestamp of the announcement. If you collapse and re-expand the announcements, the World Championship announcement should still be there.
Anyway, I changed the timestamp on the WC announcement to the present in hopes that it would fool the gameroom into thinking it was a new announcement that nobody has seen yet. Does it now display for you?
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Yes, in 2011 (the year we set the record with 33 participants) I don't think we had 24 registered until December 28 or 29. That's why I'm so optimistic that the present year will be a record.
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Harren
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Re: 2013 World Championship
« Reply #10 on: Dec 16th, 2012, 1:28pm » |
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Yes, now they both display for me, Fritz.
Your explanation makes sense, so maybe the missing world championship announcement was not a bug, but the fact that clicking on the Register button of the Computer Championship leads to the register page of the World Championship is a bug, I guess (not that I want to register for the computer championship )
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Re: 2013 World Championship
« Reply #11 on: Jan 2nd, 2013, 12:29pm » |
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on Dec 16th, 2012, 10:14am, Fritzlein wrote:| ...in 2011 (the year we set the record with 33 participants)... |
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Yay, tied now and two days to go.
Janzert
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Re: 2013 World Championship
« Reply #12 on: Jan 2nd, 2013, 3:09pm » |
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on Jan 2nd, 2013, 12:29pm, Janzert wrote:
Yay, tied now and two days to go.
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34 now
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Fritzlein
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Re: 2013 World Championship
« Reply #13 on: Jan 4th, 2013, 6:12pm » |
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Final registration is an even forty. I'm so excited I can hardly see straight!
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Re: 2013 World Championship
« Reply #14 on: Jan 5th, 2013, 6:32am » |
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I think it was a great idea to lower the entrance fee significantly. This should be kept for the future. 
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