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rbarreira
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2013 Postal Mixer
« on: Mar 20th, 2013, 11:02am » |
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In this year's postal mixer, there are only 10 players registered so far (3 bots and 7 humans). The registration ends this month.
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ChrisB
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Re: 2013 Postal Mixer
« Reply #1 on: Mar 20th, 2013, 11:06am » |
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on Mar 20th, 2013, 11:02am, rbarreira wrote:| In this year's postal mixer, there are only 10 players registered so far (3 bots and 7 humans). The registration ends this month. |
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The link to register is: http://arimaa.com/arimaa/tourn/postal/2013/
You can choose the number of games you play and it looks like it's free! 
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odin73
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Re: 2013 Postal Mixer
« Reply #2 on: Mar 20th, 2013, 12:10pm » |
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I didn´t know that the registration is already open, more players may be non-informed either.
Anybody can put a hint to the announcement menue of the gameroom?
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Fritzlein
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Re: 2013 Postal Mixer
« Reply #3 on: Mar 21st, 2013, 8:44am » |
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I linked registration from the announcements.
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robinz
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Re: 2013 Postal Mixer
« Reply #4 on: Mar 23rd, 2013, 6:29am » |
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Excellent - glad there is no entry fee. Thanks for letting me know via this thread - I have now signed up 
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Re: 2013 Postal Mixer
« Reply #5 on: Mar 26th, 2013, 9:14pm » |
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Looks like we are on track to beat our 42 participants from 2010, making this year the biggest tournament ever, although I never updated my table for 2012. Note that 2010 was the other year that we didn't have a registration fee, and the percentage of unfinished games that year was not too bad.
Year . . 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011
Players . . 16 19 20 15 14 42 29
Games . . 80 95 85 84 70 147 141
Mismatches . 9 5 3 21 19 23 16
Not Finished . 20 31 18 8 4 31 49
% Mismatches . 11 5 4 25 27 16 11
% Not Finished 25 33 21 10 6 21 35
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Re: 2013 Postal Mixer
« Reply #6 on: Mar 26th, 2013, 9:17pm » |
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By the way, Omar, don't forget to do the pairing by WHRP this year. If players don't have a WHRP, you can fall back on game room rating or something else, but it seems like obviously most sensible to pair a postal tournament primarily by postal rating.
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Re: 2013 Postal Mixer
« Reply #7 on: Mar 31st, 2013, 7:38pm » |
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I had meant to register, I thought I had until the end of the month. But I guess I had until 37 minutes ago. Serves me right for waiting until the last minute, I guess.
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thomastanck
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Re: 2013 Postal Mixer
« Reply #8 on: Apr 1st, 2013, 1:10am » |
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on Mar 26th, 2013, 9:14pm, Fritzlein wrote:Looks like we are on track to beat our 42 participants from 2010, making this year the biggest tournament ever, although I never updated my table for 2012. Note that 2010 was the other year that we didn't have a registration fee, and the percentage of unfinished games that year was not too bad.
Year . . 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011
Players . . 16 19 20 15 14 42 29
Games . . 80 95 85 84 70 147 141
Mismatches . 9 5 3 21 19 23 16
Not Finished . 20 31 18 8 4 31 49
% Mismatches . 11 5 4 25 27 16 11
% Not Finished 25 33 21 10 6 21 35
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With 45 (possibly 46 if Nombril becomes an exception) players this year, three of which are bots, we just beat the record!
Can't wait to see how trash fails. Trash's gameroom rating is very inaccurate because he's either played by people who can easily beat him or people who can't play lightning.
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browni3141
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Re: 2013 Postal Mixer
« Reply #9 on: Apr 1st, 2013, 3:13am » |
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Come on, let Nombril in!
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Re: 2013 Postal Mixer
« Reply #10 on: Apr 1st, 2013, 3:17am » |
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on Mar 26th, 2013, 9:14pm, Fritzlein wrote:Looks like we are on track to beat our 42 participants from 2010, making this year the biggest tournament ever, although I never updated my table for 2012. Note that 2010 was the other year that we didn't have a registration fee, and the percentage of unfinished games that year was not too bad.
Year . . 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011
Players . . 16 19 20 15 14 42 29
Games . . 80 95 85 84 70 147 141
Mismatches . 9 5 3 21 19 23 16
Not Finished . 20 31 18 8 4 31 49
% Mismatches . 11 5 4 25 27 16 11
% Not Finished 25 33 21 10 6 21 35
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Would it not be better to consider the number of players that didn't finish at least one of their games due to their own time-out if you're trying to assess how an entry fee affects player commitment? One player playing a lot of games and timing them all out would mess up the data if this is what you're concerned with.
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rbarreira
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Re: 2013 Postal Mixer
« Reply #11 on: Apr 1st, 2013, 3:27am » |
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on Apr 1st, 2013, 3:13am, browni3141 wrote:| Come on, let Nombril in! |
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I don't know if Nombril wants to ask for an exception, but if he does it's probably best to contact Omar directly, as Omar does not always keep tabs on the forum.
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Re: 2013 Postal Mixer
« Reply #12 on: Apr 1st, 2013, 9:36am » |
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on Apr 1st, 2013, 3:27am, rbarreira wrote:
I don't know if Nombril wants to ask for an exception, but if he does it's probably best to contact Omar directly, as Omar does not always keep tabs on the forum. |
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No tournament director is listed as a contact, so I decided not to email anyone directly.
on Apr 1st, 2013, 3:17am, browni3141 wrote:
Would it not be better to consider the number of players that didn't finish at least one of their games due to their own time-out if you're trying to assess how an entry fee affects player commitment? One player playing a lot of games and timing them all out would mess up the data if this is what you're concerned with. |
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If we are trying to accurately measure "commitment", would you rather want to measure how how many players abandoned the tournament (% players abandoned), as indicated by timing out for the last game(s) finished by the player? (This would specifically exclude those games timed out when the player just missed one game out of many, but was still continuing to play others.)
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Fritzlein
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Re: 2013 Postal Mixer
« Reply #13 on: Apr 1st, 2013, 4:18pm » |
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on Apr 1st, 2013, 9:36am, Nombril wrote:| If we are trying to accurately measure "commitment", would you rather want to measure how how many players abandoned the tournament (% players abandoned), as indicated by timing out for the last game(s) finished by the player? (This would specifically exclude those games timed out when the player just missed one game out of many, but was still continuing to play others.) |
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Yes, I was trying to measure commitment, and this seems like a better measure than I was using. The case it misses, however, was when MrBrain quit by resigning all of his games rather than timing out.
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Re: 2013 Postal Mixer
« Reply #14 on: Apr 2nd, 2013, 12:40pm » |
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And this year the fastest loser is bot_trash. Finishing 23 turns during a day.
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