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megajester
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AWLS League Co-ordinator Change
« on: Sep 15th, 2010, 1:08pm » |
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Dear League members,
I will not be available for the final two rounds of the AWLS so Fritzlein will take over as League Co-ordinator.
Thank you.
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Re: AWLS League Co-ordinator Change
« Reply #1 on: Sep 16th, 2010, 12:28am » |
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OK, I'll try to do it pretty much like megajester did. There may be a slight conflict of interest if I am a player as well, but I will ask ChrisB not to field me unless he absolutely can't get three other volunteers. Note to anyone who is thinking about joining a team: on the Rockies you get guaranteed playing time! 
As per the rules, rosters are due to me by 00:00 GMT Tuesday. That's Monday night for me, so I will run the scheduler immediately. There will be no e-mail to participants telling them to set preferences. Captains, please tell your players to set their time preferences before you submit the roster to me.
I really, really dislike the rule that allows any player to unilaterally get a new time if he doesn't like his time. That's not only a hassle, it is unfair unless the other player can then redo his preferences to get a new, new, time. Nor due the rules limit the number of appeals per player; by the letter of the rule, it appears that the League Coordinator is obliged to keep rerunning the scheduler until 00:00 GMT Thursday. But even limiting it to one per player is a can of worms.
I advocate that for future leagues there be no unilateral rescheduling, just as there is no unilateral rescheduling for the World Championship. After the scheduler runs once, the game time should only be changed by mutual agreement of the two players. However, the rules are as they are for this League, so I will abide by the inherited headache. Hopefully nobody will abuse the loophole. 
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Re: AWLS League Co-ordinator Change
« Reply #2 on: Sep 20th, 2010, 7:49pm » |
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The Round 5 pairings are up on the Wiki but I can't yet schedule the games because I don't have access to the TD page. I have a call in to Omar for help. Thank you for your patience.
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Re: AWLS League Co-ordinator Change
« Reply #3 on: Sep 21st, 2010, 12:06am » |
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Round 5 games have been scheduled. Thanks, Omar, for access to the tournament director page. If anyone does not like his scheduled game time, I strongly encourage him to work out a mutually agreeable time with his opponent.
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Re: AWLS League Co-ordinator Change
« Reply #4 on: Sep 21st, 2010, 11:33am » |
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Will you have any time for commentary this weekend, Fritz?
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Re: AWLS League Co-ordinator Change
« Reply #5 on: Sep 21st, 2010, 1:46pm » |
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Ngerhart: I'll send a message also, just in case you don't check the forum board. Is it OK if we re-schedule our game either:
(a) delay the start time by 24 hours to Thursday evening.
(b) delay the start time by 2 hours to later on Wednesday?
If you can't do either of those changes, I'll still play anyway (but I'd have to skip volleyball in the current time slot  )
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Greg
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Re: AWLS League Co-ordinator Change
« Reply #6 on: Sep 21st, 2010, 7:09pm » |
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on Sep 21st, 2010, 11:33am, ocmiente wrote:| Will you have any time for commentary this weekend, Fritz? |
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I was intending to give commentary on at least one game on Saturday, but I just acquired a nebulous commitment for the weekend, so I'm afraid I can't yet commit to commentating any specific game.
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Re: AWLS League Co-ordinator Change
« Reply #7 on: Sep 22nd, 2010, 7:05am » |
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on Sep 21st, 2010, 1:46pm, Adanac wrote:Ngerhart: I'll send a message also, just in case you don't check the forum board. Is it OK if we re-schedule our game either:
(a) delay the start time by 24 hours to Thursday evening.
(b) delay the start time by 2 hours to later on Wednesday?
If you can't do either of those changes, I'll still play anyway (but I'd have to skip volleyball in the current time slot )
Thanks!
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Fritzlein: I received a PM from Ngerhart stating that we can delay our game by 24 hours. I'll ask him to confirm this with you also.
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Re: AWLS League Co-ordinator Change
« Reply #8 on: Sep 23rd, 2010, 3:02am » |
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on Sep 22nd, 2010, 7:05am, Adanac wrote:| Fritzlein: I received a PM from Ngerhart stating that we can delay our game by 24 hours. I'll ask him to confirm this with you also. |
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I received the confirmation message from ngerhart. I have attempted to use the tournament director tool to recreate the game 24 hours later. I can't be present at the start of the game, but I will check up on the result later Thursday night. If something goes wrong with that, never mind, just play a game at the agreed time.
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Re: AWLS League Co-ordinator Change
« Reply #9 on: Sep 24th, 2010, 11:55am » |
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on Sep 21st, 2010, 11:33am, ocmiente wrote:| Will you have any time for commentary this weekend, Fritz? |
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OK, I will give commentary tomorrow on Hirocon vs. Nombril. I hope that's enough advance warning for would-be spectators to plan ahead.
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Re: AWLS League Co-ordinator Change
« Reply #10 on: Sep 26th, 2010, 4:09pm » |
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Thanks to everyone who played in Round 5! I'm thrilled that we were able to fill out the rosters and have everyone show up to play.
The championship now comes down to a climactic final-round battle between the Ring of Fire and the Atlantics. Ring of Fire has a two point lead, but the Atlantics own the budget tiebreaker, so whichever team can win two out of three games will take the crown.
Europa can no longer win the league even with a sweep of the Rockies, unless the leaders combine for several forfeits. If the Rockies sweep Europa, however, they can crawl out of the cellar to eke ahead of Europa for third place. The first league finished Ring of Fire, Atlantics, Rockies, Europa; will we see a repeat?
I will make myself available to play in Round 6, but will not communicate privately with ChrisB about the roster decision. In particular, he will have to decide who to field for the Rockies without the unfair advantage of seeing Europa's roster (which I will see). This kind of "trust me" situation with a conflict of interest is the reason why a player should not generally also be league coordinator, but I hope the other teams can forgive a cellar-dweller for wanting his team to at least be able to fill out the roster. 
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Re: AWLS League Co-ordinator Change
« Reply #11 on: Oct 4th, 2010, 7:59pm » |
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The pairings for the sixth and final round of the league are up. In the decisive duel between Ring of Fire and the Atlantics, the former has a ratings edge on the top board, whereas the latter has the advantage on board three. If those two games hold true to rating, the championship of the universe will rest entirely on the outcome of rabbits vs. Nombril. No pressure, guys.  Spectators mark your calendars! (also because two other games directly follow the critical one)
The season-long budget mechanism is working in at least one respect: every team except the Atlantics nailed their budget, which implies that three teams would have gone way over budget if permitted.
As usual, if anyone received a time slot that he can't play, the best way to resolve it is by contacting the opponent to negotiate a mutually acceptable alternate time. My position as coordinator means that I could have abused my power to give myself a better time slot versus chessandgo, but I didn't. Trust me. (Actually I got a "3" preference .) Thanks to the captains and players for making this league great!
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Re: AWLS League Co-ordinator Change
« Reply #12 on: Oct 12th, 2010, 12:05am » |
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The final standings are up. Congratulations to Nombril for pulling out a victory from the jaws of defeat in the final, thrilling, decisive game. Congratulations to Ring of Fire on a well-deserved league triumph! Congratulations to Europa for eking into second place by virtue of a final-round sweep. Congratulations to the Atlantics for doing the most with the fewest rating points. (11 wins actually tied for first with over 900 to spare in the budget.) Congratulations to the Rockies for never forfeiting or timing out the whole season. (You knew I was going to find a way to compliment us too! )
Thanks to the megajester and the captains for organizing, and thanks to all the players for taking part. We now have the Arimaa Festival coming up, and then tournament season around the corner, but I hope that when summer 2011 rolls around, the Arimaa World League will be back and better than ever!
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