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(Message started by: UruramTururam on Feb 15^th, 2011, 3:31pm)

Title: BGG "Arimaa awards" badges proposal
Post by UruramTururam on Feb 15^th, 2011, 3:31pm

On BoardGameGeek Rad80 proposed introducing non-buyable Arimaa award badges for world championship participants and world champions. The topic is here: http://boardgamegeek.com/thread/600304/tournament-signup.

I think it's a good idea!

Since the golden elephant is reserved for the buyable "Arimaa fan" badge I used silver pieces for the design of a set of "Arimaa awards" badges.

Here is my proposal:

Quote:

http://arimaa.strony.pl/ar1.gif - Arimaa World Championship participant (awarded to every BGG member who participated in AWC at least once)
http://arimaa.strony.pl/ar2.gif - Arimaa Bot Championship developer (awarded to developers of bots that participate in ACC)
http://arimaa.strony.pl/ar3.gif - Arimaa Challenge defender (awarded to human players who participate in the Challenge playing against the world champion bot)
http://arimaa.strony.pl/ar4.gif - Arimaa Challenge bot developer (awarded to developers of the world champion bots)
http://arimaa.strony.pl/ar5.gif - Arimaa World Champion (at least once, not necessarily the current one)
http://arimaa.strony.pl/ar6.gif - Arimaa Challenge Winner (will it ever be awarded?...)

Again you can find the proposal on BGG here: http://boardgamegeek.com/thread/600304/tournament-signup.

How about it?
If you like these badges I will submit the them for BGG admins acceptance.

Title: Re: BGG "Arimaa awards" badges proposal
Post by omar on Feb 15^th, 2011, 5:26pm

Good idea. Go ahead and submit it to the BGG admin.

Title: Re: BGG "Arimaa awards" badges proposal
Post by UruramTururam on Feb 15^th, 2011, 5:32pm

Well, if Omar himself says so, I'll proceed with the BGG approval procedure. ;D

I will have to check how to do that, I've submitted ~60 badges before but never an award one.
I'll keep informing about the progress here. Meanwhile - any feedback is welcome.

Title: Re: BGG "Arimaa awards" badges proposal
Post by UruramTururam on Feb 17^th, 2011, 6:01am

Submitted for BGG processing. :)

While waiting I propose the following rules clarifications:

http://arimaa.strony.pl/ar6.gif - BGG has a strong policy against ownerless badges. Thus I propose for it the name: "Arimaa Challenge Grand Prize" as well as assigning it to Omar as he is holding the prize as long as the challenge stands still. It may be switched later - if the need arises.

http://arimaa.strony.pl/ar4.gif - As the challenge bot is not necessarily the world champion bot, in the case the champion and the challenger are different both developers should be awarded. This did not happen till now but...

http://arimaa.strony.pl/ar3.gif - I am not sure here: should it be awarded for:

Just playing in the challenge?
Winning at least once in the challenge? [the case of naveed 2007]
Achieving more than a half of wins in any year? [the case of Arimabuff 2010]

http://arimaa.strony.pl/ar1.gif - I think that players who participated in the preliminary phase of the championship (Open Classic) should also be awarded, but only if they played to the natural end no resigning during the game or withdrawals from the tournament, (a single walkower may happen).

Thoughts?

Title: Re: BGG "Arimaa awards" badges proposal
Post by novacat on Feb 17^th, 2011, 6:55am

I don't think you should exclude people from the rabbit badge for resigning. ArifSyed resigned to The_Jeh in round 6 this year when the next move was goal for silver. I suggest it be awarded to any participant that plays the whole tournament regardless of the way they win or lose.

Title: Re: BGG "Arimaa awards" badges proposal
Post by UruramTururam on Feb 17^th, 2011, 7:49am

Well, that's why I post my proposals early for discussion - just not to change the rules when the badges are finally established. And I want to keep the rules simple - with no exceptions if possible.

This issue needs to be considered.

To start with: for resigning I used the championship guideline:

Quote:

resigning is discouraged and completing a game to the end is highly encouraged

Of course we can allow resigning. But if so, it should be done consequently. A rule "resigning in obviously lost games is allowed" is not good - because it's hard to define what is an obviously lost game. Goal in 1? Forced goal in 5? Huge material loss with no forced goal?... Too unclear. Moreover it needs inspecting every game ended with an "r". :-/

The options as I see them now are:

Allow resigning and withdrawing (may be abused).
Allow resigning but not withdrawing (may be abused as well).
Allow one resigning/walkover in OC (with no such restrictions in finals as finalists proved they are worthy players by qualifying).
Don't allow any resigning or withdrawal (really strict but anyone would have next chance next year).
Maybe other?

Title: Re: BGG "Arimaa awards" badges proposal
Post by omar on Feb 17^th, 2011, 10:11am

Resigning is discouraged, but generally not penalized. Not being awarded the badge for resigning would lean towards penalizing. Not completing the tournament and dropping out is very bad (although I understand that sometimes it's unavoidable). So I would suggest the second option.

Title: Re: BGG "Arimaa awards" badges proposal
Post by UruramTururam on Feb 17^th, 2011, 1:24pm

OK, so for the rabbit: awarded to participants of Open Classic, unless 1) they dropped more than one game or 2) they were resigning repetitively. (To prevent abusing the rule). We want a few badge-hunting BGG members in the OC, but we want them to play there, not to mess around... Perhaps I'll play next year too to get the rabbit?

Omar, and what's your opinion regarding Challenge defenders? We have three options here. I opt for the last one (to make this badge more valuable), but I was always very strict.

Currently we'd have the following number of badges to give (of course if appropriate people have accounts on BGG):

Elephant - 1 (I'd prefer 0, but BGG would delete an unowned badge)

Camel - 4

Horse - 3 (Bomb dominated early years)

Dog - 8, 9 or 10 depending on the rule version

Cat & Rabbit - not counted yet.

Title: Re: BGG "Arimaa awards" badges proposal
Post by omar on Feb 20^th, 2011, 6:23pm

on 02/17/11 at 13:24:40, UruramTururam wrote:

Omar, and what's your opinion regarding Challenge defenders? We have three options here. I opt for the last one (to make this badge more valuable), but I was always very strict.

Yes, I prefer that also. The defender should win their series against the challenge bot. Games which the backup defender had to play are considered losses. Thus, you have to win two of the three games. If the backup defender played one of the games and won, the victory does not help the defenders record. Backup defender is also eligible for the badge if the backup defender had to play two or three game and won at least two.

You don't have to assign the badges to me. I would prefer you administering the awards.

Title: Re: BGG "Arimaa awards" badges proposal
Post by UruramTururam on Feb 21^st, 2011, 2:27am

OK.

So for obtaining a horse badge a given player should win more than a half of the number of games the human players are expected to play in a given year (at least once). This should cover all the past and current challenge rules and - I hope - it should survive any future changes in them. If I count correctly, we have 9 players who fulfilled this condition.

As for the progress on BGG: the microbadge admin was on a convention, and he returned yesterday. He may be a little overloaded now, I'm waiting for his answer regarding our issue.

Title: Re: BGG "Arimaa awards" badges proposal
Post by omar on Feb 21^st, 2011, 1:48pm

on 02/21/11 at 02:27:18, UruramTururam wrote:

So for obtaining a horse badge a given player should win more than a half of the number of games the human players are expected to play in a given year (at least once). This should cover all the past and current challenge rules and - I hope - it should survive any future changes in them. If I count correctly, we have 9 players who fulfilled this condition.

Yes, the defenders eligible for the silver horse award are:

omar, Belbo, Fritzlein, Adanac, PMertens, Brendan, chessandgo, arimaa_master, and Tuks

Keep us posted on how the review process goes.

Title: Re: BGG "Arimaa awards" badges proposal
Post by UruramTururam on Feb 22^nd, 2011, 8:38am

It seems that the queue to the BGG microbadge admin is really long. I have no answer even for my submission that I made 10 days before the Arimaa ones. Thus we have to wait.

Meanwhile I fiddled a little bit with the badges. I's quite funny to work with 16x16 images... I hope the new versions are better than old ones, compare them both on a light and dark bacgkrounds:

http://arimaa.strony.pl/ar1.gif - http://arimaa.strony.pl/ambr.png
http://arimaa.strony.pl/ar2.gif - http://arimaa.strony.pl/ambc.png
http://arimaa.strony.pl/ar3.gif - http://arimaa.strony.pl/ambd.png
http://arimaa.strony.pl/ar4.gif - http://arimaa.strony.pl/ambh.png
http://arimaa.strony.pl/ar5.gif - http://arimaa.strony.pl/ambm.png
http://arimaa.strony.pl/ar6.gif - http://arimaa.strony.pl/ambe.png

Quote:

http://arimaa.strony.pl/ar1.gif - http://arimaa.strony.pl/ambr.png
http://arimaa.strony.pl/ar2.gif - http://arimaa.strony.pl/ambc.png
http://arimaa.strony.pl/ar3.gif - http://arimaa.strony.pl/ambd.png
http://arimaa.strony.pl/ar4.gif - http://arimaa.strony.pl/ambh.png
http://arimaa.strony.pl/ar5.gif - http://arimaa.strony.pl/ambm.png
http://arimaa.strony.pl/ar6.gif - http://arimaa.strony.pl/ambe.png

Now as for the rules...
It seems we have them. Let's review them then. (Please review the language nuances too, as I'm obviously not a native English speaker.)

Elephant - "Arimaa Grand Prize". Currently held by the founder of Arimaa Challenge. It will be awarded to the developer of the very computer program that wins the challenge when such a fact occurs.
Camel - "Arimaa World Champion". Awarded to human players who won Arimaa World Championship at least once.
Horse - "Arimaa Challenge program developer". Awarded to developers of Arimaa playing programs that won either Arimaa Computer Championship or the Arimaa Challenge Qualification.
Dog - "Arimaa Challenge defender". Awarded to human players who played at least once in the Arimaa Challenge winning more than a half of the number of games the human players are expected to play that year.
Cat - "Arimaa Computer Championship developer". Awarded to developers of bots that played in Arima Computer Championship tournaments (including qualification tournaments). Note: the Arimaa microbadge manager may decide not to award this badge to a developer of a bot that malfunctioned repetitively (submitting bad moves, hanging, etc.).
Rabbit - "Arimaa World Championship player". Awarded to players who participated in World Championship tournaments including qualification ones. Note: the Arimaa microbadge manager may decide not to award this badge to a player who dropped from the tournament or resigned repetitively.

Title: Re: BGG "Arimaa awards" badges proposal
Post by omar on Feb 23^rd, 2011, 10:45pm

Yes, the rules look good.

For the badge images; I like the ones on the right.

Title: Re: BGG "Arimaa awards" badges proposal
Post by UruramTururam on Feb 24^th, 2011, 8:14am

Good news!

The look and the general concept of the badges are both approved; that means it's about 90% chance that the microbadges will be available.

What am I to do now is to provide the appropriate BGG admin lists of eligible people, with as many names on them as possible. I've prepared preliminary lists, and I'll put them down in the next post. As you'll noticed there's not many identified BGG users eligible; matching Arimaa community users and BGG users is not easy in some cases...
???

The general idea is to award as many badges as possible at the very start and then update the badges once a year, when the challenge is over, and a bunch of new people fulfilled their criteria during the WC/CC/AC period.

What makes me especially sad - I have no BGG ID for the horse badge.

So now there's a time for you, players and developers to uncover your BGG nicknames if you have them. If not - maybe it's a good idea to register on boardgamegeek.com - if we are numerous enough we could promote Arimaa better!

To Omar: I was thinking about sending e-mails to eligible people. Not all of them read this forum frequently, and you have the e-mail database of all registered people. Maybe even some of them, absent for several months, will be lured back?..

Title: Re: BGG "Arimaa awards" badges proposal
Post by UruramTururam on Feb 24^th, 2011, 8:14am

Lists of people eligible for Arimaa award microbadges on BGG.

If someone is omitted or misplaced please inform me.

* http://geekdo-images.com/images/geekmbs/mb_20037_0.png Elephant:

"Arimaa Grand Prize". Currently held by the founder of Arimaa Challenge. It will be awarded to the developer of the very computer program that wins the challenge when such a fact occurs.

Omar Syed - (omar) - BGG osyed

Eligible: 1
Awarded: 1

* http://geekdo-images.com/images/geekmbs/mb_20038_0.png Camel:

"Arimaa World Champion". Awarded to human players who won Arimaa World Championship at least once.

Frank Heinemann - (Belbo) -
Karl Juhnke - (Fritzlein) - BGG Fritzlein
Till Wiechers - (robinson) -
Jean Daligault - (chessandgo) - BGG Jeaan
Tarou Asou - (hanzack) -

Eligible: 5
Awarded: 2

* http://geekdo-images.com/images/geekmbs/mb_20039_0.png Horse:

"Arimaa Challenge program developer". Awarded to developers of Arimaa playing programs that won either Arimaa Computer Championship or the Arimaa Challenge Qualification.

Bomb - David Fotland - (fotland) -
Clueless - Jeff Bacher - (jdb) -
Marwin - Mattias Hultgren - (tize) -
Sharp - David Wu - (lightvector) - BGG lightvector
Briareus, Ziltoid - Ricardo Barreira - (rbarreira) - BGG rbarreira

Eligible: 5
Waiting: 1
Awarded: 1

* http://geekdo-images.com/images/geekmbs/mb_20040_0.png Dog:

"Arimaa Challenge defender". Awarded to human players who played at least once in the Arimaa Challenge winning more than a half of the number of games the human players are expected to play that year.

Omar Syed - (omar) - BGG osyed
Frank Heinemann - (Belbo) -
Karl Juhnke - (Fritzlein) - BGG Fritzlein
Greg Magne - (Adanac) - BGG grmagne
Paul Mertens - (PMertens) -
Brendan M - (Brendan) -
Jean Daligault - (chessandgo) - BGG Jeaan
Jan Macura - (arimaa_master) -
Daniel Scott - (Tuks) - BGG Tuks
Toby Hudson - (99of9) - BGG 99of9
Gregory Clark - (rabbits) -
Tarou Asou - (hanzack) -
Mathew Brown - (brownie3141) -
Matthew Craven - (clyring) -

Eligible: 14
Awarded: 6

* http://geekdo-images.com/images/geekmbs/mb_20041_0.png Cat:

"Arimaa Computer Championship developer". Awarded to developers of bots that played in Arima Computer Championship tournaments (including qualification tournaments). Note: the Arimaa microbadge manager may decide not to award this badge to a developer of a bot that malfunctioned repetitively (submitting bad moves, hanging, etc.).

Bomb - David Fotland - (fotland) -
Occam - Don Dailey - (gern) -
GnoBot - Toby Hudson (99of9) - BGG 99of9
Clueless - Jeff Bacher - (jdb) -
Loc, Rat - Gerhard Trippen - (BlackKnight) -
Aamira, Badger - Paul Pogonyshev - (doublep) -
Faerie, Zombie - Evan Dorn - (IdahoEv) - BGG IdahoEv
Sharp - David Wu - (lightvector) - BGG lightvector
OpFor - Brian Haskin - (Janzert) - BGG Janzert
Marwin - Mattias Hultgren - (tize) -
PragmaticTheory - Martin Piotte & Martin Chabbert - (mpiotte) & (chavVez) -
Briareus, Ziltoid - Ricardo Barreira - (rbarreira) - BGG rbarreira
Lucy - N B - (Beowulf) -

Eligible: 14
Waiting: 1
Awarded: 4

* http://geekdo-images.com/images/geekmbs/mb_20042_0.png Rabbit:

"Arimaa World Championship player". Awarded to players who participated in World Championship tournaments including qualification ones. Note: the Arimaa microbadge manager may decide not to award this badge to a player who dropped from the tournament or resigned repetitively.

Alfredo Alfredo - (Alfred) - 2103 -
Junaid Ali - (junaid) - 2005 -
Osman Ali - (oali) - 2011 -
Tarou Asou - (hanzack) - 2011 -
Ramazan Aydin - (RmznA) - 2013 -
Jeff Bacher - (jdb) - 2006 -
Lev Borovoi - (LevB) - 2009 -
Christopher Bovee - (ChrisB) - 2008 -
Mathew Brown - (brownie3141) - 2013 -
Valdas Bucinskas - (Boo) - 1013 -
Ryan Alexander Cable - (Ryan_Cable) - 2006 -
Claude Chaunier - (clauchau) - 2004 -
Tholkappian Chidambaram - (camelback) - 2008 - BGG camelback
Gregory Clark - (rabbits) - 2011 -
Matthew Craven - (clyring) - 2013 -
Jean Daligault - (chessandgo) - 2007 - BGG Jeaan
Maurizio De Leo - (megamau) - 2006 - BGG megamau
Herve Dhondt - ( woh) - 2007 - BGG woh
Evan Dorn - (IdahoEv) - 2007 - BGG IdahoEv
Kenneth Dreyer - (kenny_dee) - 2013 - BGG kenny_dee
Dave Dyer - (ddyer) - 2011 - BGG ddyer
Aurelian Florea - (Aurelian) - 2013 -
David Fotland - (fotland) - 2004 -
Thomas Foy - (ocmiente) - 2011 - BGG ocmiente
Leung Yu Fung - (alien1020hk) - 2013 -
Brian Galebach - (MrBrain) - 2004 -
Ulrich Galster - (Alfons) - 2013 -
Daniel Goodhew - (novacat) - 2013 -
Jacob Gray - (crazyharry) - 2013 -
Isaac Grosof - (722caasi) - 2011 -
Rui Guimaraes - (whiteKnight) - 2004 -
Frank Heinemann - (Belbo) - 2004 -
John Herr - (The_Jeh) - 2009 - BGG The_Jeh
John Hoody - (fritzlforpresident) - 2007 -
Nick Harlson - (seanick) - 2007 -
Ken Herold - (Herima) - 2013 -
John Hoody - (fritzlforpresident) - 2013 -
Toby Hudson - (99of9) - 2004 - BGG 99of9
Josh Hull - (hull) - 2013 -
Karl Juhnke - (Fritzlein) - 2005 - BGG Fritzlein
Antti Laine - (Nevermind) - 2010 -
Simon Lambert - (Simon) - 2010 -
Benjamin Leitner - (bleitner) - 2004 -
Chris Lusena - (grey_0x2A) - 2006 -
Brendan M - (brendan) - 2007 -
James Mabry - (beancrisp) - 2011 - BGG beancrisp
Jan Macura - (arimaa_master) - 2007 -
Greg Magne - (Adanac) - 2006 - BGG grmagne
Vladan Majerech - (Hippo) - 2010 -
Max Manual - (Max) - 2013 -
Charles Daniel Martin - (Belteshazzar) - 2011 -
John Mcarthur - (Fisma) - 2008 -
Paul Mertens - (PMertens) - 2007 -
Ye Minlei - (ytri) - 2005 -
Mark Mistretta - (mistre) - 2008 - BGG markmist
Eric Momsen - (Nombril) - 2010 - BGG Wily Jeneric
Michele Nesci - (Rad) - 2011 - BGG rad80
Trevor Page - (Sconibulus) - 2011 -
Pedro Paredes - (gangsterveggies) - 2013 -
David Paris - (acheron) - 2006 -
Lefert Paul - (Paul) - 2006 -
Ford Prefect - (froody) - 2008 - BGG froody
Heikki Rantalaiho - (Heyckie) - 2011 - BGG Heyckie
Dominick Riesland - (Rabbitball) - 2004 - BGG Rabbitball
Christian S - (odin73) - 2013 -
Jack Sayers - (Jacka) - 2013 - BGG Jacka315
Vincent Severin - (VinceS) - 2013 - BGG VinceS
Samuel Schueler - (supersamu) - 2013 -
Daniel Scott - (Tuks) - 2009 - BGG Tuks
Peter Shively - (KingElephant) - 2103 -
Naveed Siddiqui - (naveed) - 2004 - BGG naveed
Neil Stephens - (knarl) - 2011 - BGG Knarl
Aamir Syed - (Aamir) - 2008 -
Amina Syed - (Amina) - 2008 -
Arifuddin Syed - (ArifSyed) - 2008 -
Danyal Syed - (soldier) - 2008 -
Ghousuddin Syed - (gsyed) - 2004 -
Omar Syed - (omar) - 2004 - BGG osyed
Saba Syed - (subs2000) - 2008 -
Sana F Syed - (Sana) - 2009 -
Mikhail Tkach - (Chegorimaa) - 2007 -
Chase Todd - (ginrunner) - 2011 -
Gerhard Trippen - (BlackKnight) - 2005 -
Peter U - (Thiagor) - 2013 -
Till Wiechers - (robinson) - 2006 -
Tore Wiechers - (Tore) - 2007 -
Daniel Worm - (Harren) - 2011 - BGG Harren
? ? - (b599) - 2011 -

Eligible: 88
Waiting: 3
Awarded: 23

Title: Re: BGG "Arimaa awards" badges proposal
Post by novacat on Feb 25^th, 2011, 5:24pm

on 02/24/11 at 08:14:17, UruramTururam wrote:

To Omar: I was thinking about sending e-mails to eligible people. Not all of them read this forum frequently, and you have the e-mail database of all registered people. Maybe even some of them, absent for several months, will be lured back?..

If you look at a person's profile, there is a "Message" link that leads to an e-mail messaging window.

Title: Re: BGG "Arimaa awards" badges proposal
Post by Janzert on Feb 25^th, 2011, 7:33pm

on 02/24/11 at 08:14:42, UruramTururam wrote:

OpFor - Brian Haskin - (Janzert)

Should be Janzert on BGG as well. Although I visit only rarely, usually to find a new game that looks worthy of a try.

Janzert

Title: Re: BGG "Arimaa awards" badges proposal
Post by omar on Feb 25^th, 2011, 7:34pm

on 02/24/11 at 08:14:17, UruramTururam wrote:

Yes, I can help with this. I can send an email to all the eligible users that they can claim their badges on BGG. Also next time I sent an announcement to everyone, I can mention that you can now earn Arimaa related badges for BGG.

Title: Re: BGG "Arimaa awards" badges proposal
Post by omar on Feb 25^th, 2011, 7:36pm

on 02/25/11 at 17:24:08, novacat wrote:

If you look at a person's profile, there is a "Message" link that leads to an e-mail messaging window.

Yes, but it might be quite tedious to do it this way. Since a list of the Arimaa usernames has been compiled already, I should be able to work from this and do it with less effort.

Title: Re: BGG "Arimaa awards" badges proposal
Post by UruramTururam on Feb 26^th, 2011, 2:30am

Badges are pending final approval on BGG: http://boardgamegeek.com/microbadges/list/pending

At the very beginning they will be assigned to people I identified on the list above. Then it depends - if the admins give me the rights to assign them manually I could assign them fairly quickly, but I don't count on this. Probably I'll have to send the update lists to the admnis from time to time. In that case I guess the best time for the first update is just after the Challenge is over - we could feed the system with names of people who achieved something this year and those who are identified later than the first list was posted (starting with Janzert). These nicknames - identified but not yet submitted - will be underlined on the list.

Title: Re: BGG "Arimaa awards" badges proposal
Post by omar on Mar 2^nd, 2011, 10:47am

What instructions should I give the people in the list you have compiled for claiming their award badge on BGG?

Title: Re: BGG "Arimaa awards" badges proposal
Post by UruramTururam on Mar 2^nd, 2011, 12:24pm

The badges are still in the pending queue... :-X

When they are on (let's wait with fingers crossed) I'll check the conditions BGG admins put on the technical update rules. This may alter what I think is OK by now.

Yet the general instructions I suggest are as follows:

1) If they have accounts on BGG, let them get me know what are their nicknames there. Just like Janzert did above.

2) If they don't have accounts on BGG, I think it's a good idea to encourage them to make accounts at http://boardgamegeek.com/register . Then they may follow step 1. ;) Note that even their account will never be used then, the badges would be awarded, and they will contribute to the general number of the badges (that may encourage other people on BGG to get interested in Arimaa).

3) This is something I'm not yet sure, but probably the time the badges will be awarded to every next group of people would be slightly after the Challenge matches are finished. So in order to get badges this year I should know BGG nicknames before then. But this may well be changed by any info I get from BGG.

Title: Re: BGG "Arimaa awards" badges proposal
Post by chessandgo on Mar 6^th, 2011, 7:35am

Cool :) I've registered to BGG as "Jeaan".

Title: Re: BGG "Arimaa awards" badges proposal
Post by UruramTururam on Mar 10^th, 2011, 8:59am

You are added Jean!

Meanwhile:
Something strange is going on on BGG regarding the microbadges. ??? I guess we should wait for the situation to clarify.

Title: Re: BGG "Arimaa awards" badges proposal
Post by Adanac on Mar 10^th, 2011, 9:12am

on 03/10/11 at 08:59:29, UruramTururam wrote:

You are added Jean!

Meanwhile:
Something strange is going on on BGG regarding the microbadges. ??? I guess we should wait for the situation to clarify.

My user ID is "grmagne". I wasn't sure if I was missing the badges because of technical difficulties or if you didn't know why user ID. Thanks!

Title: Re: BGG "Arimaa awards" badges proposal
Post by UruramTururam on Mar 10^th, 2011, 9:32am

I've added you to the list, Greg. :)

Currently the badges are not online. When they are the first group of people will receive them. Currently I'm collecting BGG nicknames for the second group (first update, underlined on the general list a few posts above, I have 4 players on that list now).

It seems that a BGG admin made a mistake during the badge approval procedure so I can see the process half (or in fact 1/3) done. I'll keep informing you all about the progress.

Title: Re: BGG "Arimaa awards" badges proposal
Post by UruramTururam on Mar 13^th, 2011, 2:09pm

Good news: badges are accepted.
Bad news: things are still messed up.

I'm writing a letter to a higher level BGG admin to make all the necessary corrections. When they are made I'll write here more.

Title: Re: BGG "Arimaa awards" badges proposalJ
Post by UruramTururam on Mar 15^th, 2011, 3:00pm

There are still issues to be solved (for example there are problems with assigning a badge to woh as his BGG nickname starts with a space), but I hope they will be solved one after another.

Generally:

The BGG Arimaa Award microbadges are on!

They are awarded to the first group of people, the next list of BGG nicknames will be submitted after Challenge is over (late April - early May).

Guidelines for eligible people (to send to them by e-mail, perhaps):

Eligible people who have BGG accounts but they are not in the first group are asked to send their BGG nicknames to me, or post them here in this topic. Currently for the second group I have the following nicknames registered: Jeaan, grmagne, Janzert, Wily Jeneric.
Eligible people who don't have accounts on BGG are encouraged to make ones here: http://boardgamegeek.com/register . A special encouragement goes to horse badge winners: fotland, jdb, tize and lightvector!

Guidelines for everyone who has a BGG account and want to promote Arimaa there (could be sent to everyone as an add-on to another info):

If you are not registered on BGG - register here: http://boardgamegeek.com/register .
Register as an Arimaa Fan! Go here: http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/4616/arimaa and near the top right corner of the page find the heart icon and the "Become a fan" text. Click it!
Submit your ranking for Arimaa. Go here: http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/4616/arimaa scroll this page to the left and go the following way: user information -> add a copy to your collection -> rating. Click on N/A and submit your rating. If you find that Arimaa is the best game ever submit 10, if you think it's just great submit 9.
Write a review. Use this link: http://boardgamegeek.com/article/create/thing/4616/63 .
Buy the "Arimaa fan" microbadge. If you have 8 GeekGold (the BGG currency) you can buy this badge here: http://www.boardgamegeek.com/geekmicrobadge.php?action=view&badgeid=3072 .
Display your BGG Arimaa badges. If you have either the fan badge or any of the award badges - put them on display! Use this link: http://www.boardgamegeek.com/microbadge/edit and set appropriate display slots for your badges.

Title: Re: BGG "Arimaa awards" badges proposal
Post by mistre on Mar 18^th, 2011, 11:11pm

Thanks for the BGG badge - I got my Rabbit. I actually am not sure if I should get a Dog one too. I played in the Arimaa Challenge in 2008 and won my one and only game.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arimaa

Title: Re: BGG "Arimaa awards" badges proposal
Post by UruramTururam on Mar 19^th, 2011, 11:44am

As proposed by Omar and generalized as a rule by myself in order to get a dog badge a player should win more than a half of the number of games the human players are expected to play that year. So if it was normally three games to play, two of them needed to be won. This applies to both primary and auxiliary defenders. So playing just one game and winning it places you in quite an unlucky state where you are 100% winning but not eligible for the badge.

Title: Re: BGG "Arimaa awards" badges proposal
Post by mistre on Mar 19^th, 2011, 1:07pm

Oh well - I figured that was the case.

Just a footnote - I decided to have Omar fill in for my final 2 games because my game vs. Bomb took 4 hours and 23 minutes to complete. I regret that decision and wish I would have finished at least one more game...

Title: Re: BGG "Arimaa awards" badges proposal
Post by omar on Mar 19^th, 2011, 8:02pm

Glad to hear that badges have been accepted. I've setup a wiki page for the BGG badge program.

http://arimaa.com/arimaa/mwiki/index.php/BGG_Badges

I will post an announcement with a link to this page.

Title: Re: BGG "Arimaa awards" badges proposal
Post by UruramTururam on Mar 20^th, 2011, 3:19am

Great! :)

Meanwhile I've added camelback to the list of people to get a badge during the next update.

Title: Re: BGG "Arimaa awards" badges proposal
Post by UruramTururam on Mar 20^th, 2011, 8:45am

UPS! Something went wrong! ???

I tried to send myself a message using the contact link provided on the wiki page and I received nothing...

Maybe it's better to use this link instead:
http://arimaa.com/arimaa/forum/cgi/YaBB.cgi?board=;action=imsend;to=UruramTururam

Title: Re: BGG "Arimaa awards" badges proposal
Post by omar on Mar 23^rd, 2011, 11:30pm

on 03/20/11 at 08:45:35, UruramTururam wrote:

I was able to send myself a message, just now. Sometimes they go to the spam folder, so you might want to check that. Added the forum message link to the wiki page also.

Title: Re: BGG "Arimaa awards" badges proposal
Post by omar on Mar 24^th, 2011, 12:06am

I just noticed that Arimaa moved up to #27 in list of abstract strategy games on BGG. It was around #30 for the last few months. I guess the recent sale on Tanga helped more BGG folks notice the game. Maybe the Arimaa badges will also help it get noticed more.

Title: Re: BGG "Arimaa awards" badges proposal
Post by UruramTururam on Mar 24^th, 2011, 2:00am

on 03/23/11 at 23:30:31, omar wrote:

Sometimes they go to the spam folder, so you might want to check that. Added the forum message link to the wiki page also.

I'll try again to check it.

In fact I don't use a spam folder at all on my main public e-mail account to avoid losing important messages from unexpected sources, so that's surely not an issue there.

Edit: Checked - and unfortunately the message system does not work for me. :(

Title: Re: BGG "Arimaa awards" badges proposal
Post by UruramTururam on Mar 29^th, 2011, 7:06am

Keep your fingers crossed. I've just written Scot "Aldie" Alden, the big boss of BGG himself about a few still unsolved issues regarding the Arimaa award microbadges.

Meanwhile I've re-checked the contact link on the Wiki page: it does not work for me and I don't know why: I don't receive anything and no spam filters are on. So I guess it's a good idea to remove that link to avoid confusion and leave only the forum instant message link there.

Title: Re: BGG "Arimaa awards" badges proposal
Post by UruramTururam on Mar 29^th, 2011, 2:16pm

Sorry for triple-posting :-[ yet my intervention at the very top finally paid out. The badges are finally established as they should be.

What could I do more now? I just want to invite again all the top bot developers: fotland, jdb, tize and lightvector to register on BGG.
The poor horse http://geekdo-images.com/images/geekmbs/mb_20039_0.png looks for an owner!

Edit: Badges have been awarded to the people whose nicknames I had collected up to March 15th. The next update will be in May and for now I have one player on the waiting list - camelback.

Title: Re: BGG "Arimaa awards" badges proposal
Post by Fritzlein on Mar 30^th, 2011, 2:56pm

on 03/29/11 at 14:16:35, UruramTururam wrote:

Sorry for triple-posting :-[ yet my intervention at the very top finally paid out. The badges are finally established as they should be.

I am now proudly displaying the silver camel. Thanks!

Title: Re: BGG "Arimaa awards" badges proposal
Post by omar on Apr 1^st, 2011, 10:10am

on 03/29/11 at 14:16:35, UruramTururam wrote:

Sorry for triple-posting :-[ yet my intervention at the very top finally paid out. The badges are finally established as they should be.

Thanks for spearheading this UT; glad to hear everything is setup with the badges now. The next step is to educated the Arimaa community about it and encourage everyone to claim their badge and display it with their icon. I'm displaying my badges now on BGG.

I've posted an announcement in the gameroom about the badge program. I will also mention it next time I send out an announcement email to the community.

Title: Re: BGG "Arimaa awards" badges proposal
Post by UruramTururam on May 12^th, 2011, 8:11am

The 2011 yearly update of the microbadges has been made. The next one is planned in a year after the next round of WC/CC/AC. You can see the full list of eligible people here (http://arimaa.com/arimaa/forum/cgi/YaBB.cgi?board=talk;action=display;num=1297805501;start=0#14).

A short summary follows:

Badge	eligible	awarded
Grand Prize	1	1
World Champion	4	2
Computer Champion	4	0
Defender	11	6
Developer	13	3
Player	66	20

Title: Re: BGG "Arimaa awards" badges proposal
Post by omar on May 14^th, 2011, 11:49am

Thanks for updating this. I've updated the announcement in the gameroom to mention the list has been updated.

Title: Re: BGG "Arimaa awards" badges proposal
Post by UruramTururam on Mar 18^th, 2012, 3:12pm

BGG microbadge update coming soon(TM). :D

Well, not so soon, the yearly update time is the first half of May.

Current update status:

Rabbit:

No new players in World Championship this year. I have three update requests from froody, Knarl and Heyckie.

Cat:

N B can obtain the badge for bot Lucy. Yet I have no data whether N B has a BGG account.

Dog:

Nombril and Hanzack both have chance to be awarded. For nombril I have the BGG account name: Wily Jeneric. I have no data for Hanzack.

Horse:

No change. It's somewhat sad that none of the champion developers has an account on BGG...

Camel:

Hanzack can obtain the badge.

Elephant:

There is a chance for tize!

As usual I ask all the eligible people who have BGG accounts and who are not assigned the badges yet to contact me to add their BGG nicks to the list. I also encourage all other eligible people to create accounts on BoardGameGeek to promote our game there. In fact the existence of such accounts alone would promote the game no other special activity is required...

Title: Re: BGG "Arimaa awards" badges proposal
Post by Eltripas on Mar 18^th, 2012, 3:50pm

on 03/18/12 at 15:12:31, UruramTururam wrote:

Elephant:

There is a chance for tize!

Or rbarreira.

Title: Re: BGG "Arimaa awards" badges proposal
Post by UruramTururam on Apr 23^rd, 2012, 2:31am

OK, so everything is clear for this year:

The elephant stays with Omar.

Rbarreira wins a horse.

Hanzack wins a dog.

I'll wait up to May 15th for any additional data. If you are eligible for any of these badges and you have a BGG account but the badge in question hasn't been assigned to you, please contact me before the half of May. I'll do an update on BGG shortly after that.

Title: Re: BGG "Arimaa awards" badges proposal
Post by rbarreira on Apr 23^rd, 2012, 2:50am

I now have an account at BGG, the username is the same as here.

Thanks for all your work on this, UT!

Title: Re: BGG "Arimaa awards" badges proposal
Post by UruramTururam on Apr 23^rd, 2012, 4:50pm

Added to the list.
Well, yo will be the first to display the horse! ;)

Title: Re: BGG "Arimaa awards" badges proposal
Post by UruramTururam on May 17^th, 2012, 8:46am

The 2012 yearly update of the microbadges has been made. The next one is planned in a year after the next round of WC/CC/AC. You can see the full list of eligible people here (http://arimaa.com/arimaa/forum/cgi/YaBB.cgi?board=talk;action=display;num=1297805501;start=0#14).

A short summary follows:

Badge	eligible	awarded
Grand Prize	1	1
World Champion	5	2
Computer Champion	5	1
Defender	12	6
Developer	14	4
Player	66	23

Title: Re: BGG "Arimaa awards" badges proposal
Post by UruramTururam on Apr 26^th, 2013, 6:26am

Hi there, I'm less visible this year, but I am still around. It's time to look at the changes of the BoardGameGeek Arimaa Awards microbadges for this year.

Elephant:

The challenge still holds, the badge stays with Omar.

Camel

Boo has still a chance to win. Chessango already has this badge.

Horse

No changes. Both rbarreira and tize won this badge previously (however tize hasn't claimed it).

Dog

Adanac already had the badge.
Brownie3141 won it.
Clyring still has a chance.

Cat

No changes. No new competitors this year...

Rabbit

New eligible players:

Boo
Thiagor
browni3141
Alfons
supersamu
clyring
RmznA
Max
hull
odin73
crazyharry
novacat
kenny_dee
herima
gangsterveggies
alien1020hk
aurelian
VinceS
Jacka
KingElephant
fritzlforpresident
Alfred

I will be thankful for remarks and corrections.

The list of players eligible for various badges earned during previous seasons is here:
http://arimaa.com/arimaa/forum/cgi/YaBB.cgi?board=talk;action=display;num=1297805501;start=0#14

This list will be modified soon(TM) by adding new players who earned their badges this year.

All the listed players who have their accounts on boardgamegeek.com are encouraged to send me private messages with their BGG nicknames so I can assign the earned microbadges to their profiles. The update will take place around May 20th.

That's enough for today, more info after the last gamest of WC and AC. ;)

Title: Re: BGG "Arimaa awards" badges proposal
Post by aaaa on Apr 26^th, 2013, 9:32am

I don't see why UMDRevan and Skrypt should be treated differently when it comes to their eligibility of getting a rabbit badge; they both forfeited their fifth-round game and then dropped out.

Title: Re: BGG "Arimaa awards" badges proposal
Post by UruramTururam on Apr 26^th, 2013, 2:57pm

Corrected.

Title: Re: BGG "Arimaa awards" badges proposal
Post by UruramTururam on May 8^th, 2013, 2:22am

OK, I have updated the list at the end of the first page of this thread. I managed to identify a few players on BGG, they are marked as "waiting".

If there is someone eligible who wants to have their Arimaa Awards microbadges appear on the BoardGameGeek profile, please send me a private message up to May 20th 2013. I will proceed with the yearly update then.