[Deptheads] Catan Tournament

[Eric Burgess]

Neil,

I think your solution works. I am thinking we should add a third session on
Friday and give people the opportunity to qualify with their four games any
of the three days. Thus, a player could play once Friday, twice Saturday and
once Sunday so they don't feel like they are doing nothing but Settlers all
con (maybe some like that but most modern eurogamers like to switch it up).

I'm inclined to think that six hours of preliminary play will mean a lot
fewer people will play in this event. I can reach out to Mayfair if you'd
like me to ask about it. Days was pretty willing to bend rules but then,
their event was being established and the Settlers thing has been going for
a while. Even if they agreed to let us call games after an hour (90 min
Settlers games means people are playing SLOWLY) so as to cut the commitment
down to four hours instead of six. Let me know.

...ERB
www.boardgamebabylon.com
www.strategicon.net


On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 12:34 PM, Neil Figuracion <fad23 at hotmail.com> wrote:

> Hey y'all,
>
> Due to my likely misinterpretation of the rules for the Settlers of Catan
> pre-qualifier, I may have to make some adjustments to what we will be doing.
> What we have on the calendar so far are two scheduled preliminary rounds
> scheduled for Saturday at Noon and Sunday morning at 11am. The idea behind
> this was to allow for more participants to enter the event.
>
> After a diligent player contacted Mayfair (upon my advice) I realized that
> what I was imagining and what Mayfair had intended were somewhat different.
> Apparently by the rules all players are to play in four rounds, each round
> at 1.5 hours. After the four rounds are over the final sixteen go on to a
> semi-final round, with the winners of each of those games moving on to a
> final.
>
> The main disparity here is my organizing of the first round, and I hope it
> is not too late to change what we are presenting to the public. What I'd
> like to present now are four rounds of play conducted over two days. Each
> participant will have to play two rounds on Saturday and two rounds on
> Sunday, with all the players competing in the same pool for their chance at
> the semi-final round. This also eliminates any confusion that players should
> think they can enter the event twice in order to increase their chances of
> making it to the final round.
>
> Also, I think it will be important to post the rules for the event on our
> site publicly. At least posting a cut-and-paste of the documents linked
> above would be very helpful.
>
> Before I go ahead and make changes to the plans, I wanted to put this
> before you. Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns. Thanks
> for your patience and I will work hard to make sure this is settled (no pun
> intended) as soon as possible.
>
> twenty-three-skidoo,
>
> Neil Figuracion
> Fad23 <http://ideasthatglow.blogspot.com/>
>
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