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(Message started by: frostlad on Apr 19^th, 2006, 3:51pm)

Title: North America Vs The rest match?
Post by frostlad on Apr 19^th, 2006, 3:51pm

I keep seeing the EU vs US link on the side and I was wondering if anything like that was ever going to happen again?

Unless my counting is off, out of the 20 top human players, 10 of the top human players are from north america, and the other 10 are from other parts of the world. I think it would be interesting to see.
And is there really much for tournaments between now and the world championship? If not it might be something neat for the summer months to see.

Title: Re: North America Vs The rest match?
Post by Fritzlein on Apr 19^th, 2006, 4:51pm

Yeah, it would be great if the summer months had a tournament other than the tail end of the postal tournament winding down. EU vs. US was the autumn before last. Also, last summer I tried semi-successfully to organize a Blitz tournament. A revival of either of those in some form this summer would be great, although I don't want to place too many demands on Omar's time. Summer could also be a time for Omar to have a break and/or work on infrastructure.

What format would you propose for North America versus the Rest of the World? Four players on each team, all play all, for a total of sixteen games? How would you handle alternates if some people couldn't play the full schedule?

Maybe a better idea is to try to recruit 8 players for each team, and have only two rounds. First round would be 1v2, 2v1, 3v4, 4v3, 5v6, 6v5, 7v8, 8v7 and the second round would be 1v1, 2v2, ... 8v8.

Title: Re: North America Vs The rest match?
Post by IdahoEv on Apr 19^th, 2006, 5:50pm

I would be interested to see a BotBashers competition: see who can defeat certain bots with the largest handicap, in the fewest turns, etc.

Title: Re: North America Vs The rest match?
Post by frostlad on Apr 19^th, 2006, 7:53pm

I haven't really thought of anything yet. Currently I've been very busy with school, but I just wanted to see what people thought would be interesting for the summer. Summer is when I'll have time to play a lot.
Maybe I'll take a shot at swynndla's PotM record then ;)

I noticed an earlier thread too about bot bashing challenge of the month. We could bring something like that back especially since we have the new 2006 bots and most people have been concentrating on the ladder instead of botbashing.

Title: Re: North America Vs The rest match?
Post by 99of9 on Apr 19^th, 2006, 10:12pm

on 04/19/06 at 19:53:14, frostlad wrote:

I noticed an earlier thread too about bot bashing challenge of the month. We could bring something like that back...

Yes, feel free to post a new challenge to that thread. Try to be creative :-).

Title: Re: North America Vs The rest match?
Post by omar on May 5^th, 2006, 9:53pm

I hope I get some time this summer to focus on Arimaa. But I was thinking of using the time to work on the site.

Title: Re: North America Vs The rest match?
Post by Fritzlein on May 6^th, 2006, 9:01am

on 05/05/06 at 21:53:28, omar wrote:

I hope I get some time this summer to focus on Arimaa. But I was thinking of using the time to work on the site.

I vote that increasing the capacity and robustness of the site is a higher priority than promotion at the moment. It's no good doing fun things to attract people if the newcomers are then driven away by poor performance and frequent crashes from the server. It seems that just with the features that exists now, and with only half a year of events, the playing pool is growing steadily. Too much growth is a greater danger than too little, given the current server's lack of stability.