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Re: 1st Arimaa Online Festival
« Reply #90 on: Aug 26th, 2010, 3:33pm » |
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Moving it into October, sounds like a good idea. Any weekend that month should work for me.
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Re: 1st Arimaa Online Festival
« Reply #91 on: Aug 26th, 2010, 4:39pm » |
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I've made a 1-question survey to work out which weekend will be best. Thanks for your help and understanding.
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Re: 1st Arimaa Online Festival
« Reply #92 on: Aug 28th, 2010, 3:24am » |
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I think october is better than september for this kind of events generally - in the northern hemisphere anyway.
Plus it leaves me more time to have a logo done 
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Re: 1st Arimaa Online Festival
« Reply #93 on: Aug 29th, 2010, 4:36pm » |
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All right, after today's planning meeting, we have agreed on October 30th, because that was the date which met the least opposition in the survey. If there's anybody who seriously doesn't like this date for whatever reason, "speak now or forever hold your peace." 
We also need some feedback on the Blitz Tournament. I got my wires crossed a bit with this; what I meant was similar time controls to the WC and AWL, but of course everybody thought I meant 15 seconds per move!
We need quick-fire rounds with games that are pretty much guaranteed to finish in 40 minutes. So here's the question, would you prefer:
- 15 seconds per move, or
- 20 minutes on the clock, with a 1 minute limit on each move?
So, thank you for all your feedback so far! This week we'll be working out who'll be doing or playing what, so watch this space!
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Re: 1st Arimaa Online Festival
« Reply #94 on: Aug 29th, 2010, 5:38pm » |
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on Aug 29th, 2010, 4:36pm, megajester wrote:We need quick-fire rounds with games that are pretty much guaranteed to finish in 40 minutes. So here's the question, would you prefer:
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I will play in the tournament either way, but I dislike sudden-death time controls in any form, so I vote for 15 seconds per move.
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Re: 1st Arimaa Online Festival
« Reply #95 on: Aug 29th, 2010, 6:20pm » |
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on Aug 29th, 2010, 4:36pm, megajester wrote:
We need quick-fire rounds with games that are pretty much guaranteed to finish in 40 minutes. So here's the question, would you prefer:
- 15 seconds per move, or
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Since my bot can't handle the latter time control, I would prefer the first alternative.
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Re: 1st Arimaa Online Festival
« Reply #96 on: Aug 30th, 2010, 5:53am » |
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Yeah, x sec per move is more in touch with usual arimaa time controls. And Oct 30 is fine with me.
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Re: 1st Arimaa Online Festival
« Reply #97 on: Sep 6th, 2010, 12:29am » |
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OK, here we go!
Get out your diary and a pen, because Saturday October 30th it is!
On the basis of the survey data I've divvied out all the slots between people on the basis of enthusiasm and number of events applied for and updated the wiki accordingly. I hope everybody got plenty of what they wanted if not everything. You will need to confirm your availability for the events you're down for by sending a message to arimaaonlinefestival@gmail.com. If you have any suggestions or gripes please don't hesitate to message me or email the festival address.
It's not long to go actually. For the organizers and the commentators we'll be organizing some training. And everybody can get involved in publicity! Tell everybody you can about the Festival, and tell us all your ideas about how to spread the word...
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Re: 1st Arimaa Online Festival
« Reply #98 on: Sep 6th, 2010, 10:24am » |
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Thanks megajester. As for my participation, I think I'll pass on the American collaborative match. It would do me in to participate in every event; I will need time to catch my breath before giving the simul. The game I will be analyzing for the strategy workshop is the 2009 Postal Mixer game between Adanac and myself: http://arimaa.com/arimaa/games/showGame.cgi?gid=115864
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Re: 1st Arimaa Online Festival
« Reply #99 on: Sep 7th, 2010, 5:11am » |
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I wouldn't want to be the gold captain in the European Collaborative Match either (same excuse) 
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Re: 1st Arimaa Online Festival
« Reply #100 on: Sep 7th, 2010, 6:41pm » |
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Picking October 30th happens to have the additional advantage that for most Europeans the clock will go back one hour the following night, potentially enlarging their window of participation.
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Re: 1st Arimaa Online Festival
« Reply #101 on: Sep 8th, 2010, 8:15am » |
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on Sep 7th, 2010, 6:41pm, aaaa wrote:| Picking October 30th happens to have the additional advantage that for most Europeans the clock will go back one hour the following night, potentially enlarging their window of participation. |
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OK I've updated the wiki accordingly.
I hope everybody "down under" is happy with AEST. I've looked it up on Wikipedia, and I've concluded it's best to let people work it out for themselves instead of try to adjust the times for the end of Summer Time.
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Re: 1st Arimaa Online Festival
« Reply #102 on: Sep 10th, 2010, 5:04pm » |
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Doh, clock shift in the middle of the festival, urh!!!
I've been trying more side view for the festival logo (I like it more, just as you do, Megajester). But I'm envisioning a problem: when the picture is reduced to -well- logo size, it's just an elephant, and it could be replaced with the picture of the actual game piece which looks better. Moreover there's nothing particularly festival in it, it's more like a generic Arimaa logo. What do we do?
Here's the thing:
And with thicker lines to see how it goes in reduced size:
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Re: 1st Arimaa Online Festival
« Reply #103 on: Sep 11th, 2010, 4:21am » |
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Re: 1st Arimaa Online Festival
« Reply #104 on: Sep 11th, 2010, 11:44am » |
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Really nice!
I like the non-bold version better; although bold on the elephant seems pretty striking...
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