Re: Gencon UK 2000 Results

In message <00cc01c01835$f7d468c0$037ba8c0@paulradford.innotts.co.uk>
	  "Paul Radford" <paulradford@innotts.co.uk> wrote:

> >From: agoodall@canada.com
> 
> >Paul, good results page!
> 
> Thank you :)
> 
> >
> >I had a question about the Circle of Death tournament. It sounds like
it
> didn't go all that smoothly. Any comments on that?
> 
[snip COD problem]
> 
> It has been suggested that a GM allocates the target and the hunter of
each
> ship. That would solve the problem.

I got the same suggestion from Adam - I think a problem may just still
happen occassionally.

Adam suggested an assortment of balanced ships in COD - but no
expandable munitions (SMLs, SMPs, Scatterguns, etc.).
> 
> >We actually turned two people away from our FT tournament because
they had
> never played before. With only 2 judges and 15 players, we didn't have
> enough time to teach them the rules. It also wouldn't be fair to other
> players to have someone go up against a novice in a double elimination
> tournament. Did you find many novices asking to get into the
tournaments?
> 
> We had a mixed bag really and it was a little unusual. Of the ten
players
> who entered, 3 of them had not played before (The Andy's, Dave ??, and
John
> Ballard), and one had played for the first time during the Deathmatch
game
> the previous day (Richard May). The rest had various experience. I
would say
> myself, Oerjan, Paul Grogan and Bryan Ash were the most experience
based on
> what i knew about the players. We didn't turn them away as we wanted
numbers
> to make a better tournament. Nobody seemed to mind that they were
novices
> and that some of us could get an easy ride so to speak. It was
necessary for
> Charles only to really keep an eye on any games where both sides were
> novices. That only happened once (during round 2). Everyone was in
high
> spirits and willing to help out their opponents if they were a novice,
> giving them truely helpful hints and tips up to a point to be fair. I
would
> truely say that everyone who had to face a novice player didn't really
take
> advantage of them. Everyone was more interested in having a good game.
Its
> an interesting point that all the novice's got through the first
round.

Note that John Balard actually got the highest score in round one, and
the Andy's made it to round three!
> 
> On the way to winning the Fleet Action, i certainly didn't have an
easy
> path. Round 1 Oerjan, Round 2 Paul Grogan, Round 3 The Andy's
(novice's) and
> finally Bryan Ash in the final!
> 
> On the miniatures front, only 5 people Charles (2 fleets), Oerjan (2
> fleets), Paul (3 fleets), Bryan (1 fleet) and myself (2 fleets) had
> miniatures. Thus, unless anymore players came along with miniatures,
we were
> literally restricted to 10 fleets.

Err.. make that "a pile of assorted blobby things that could make 2-3
fleets" - I should have more (and better ships) by next year, I managed
to find a pile of old CMD "Future Wars" figures on one of the trade
stands - including a lot that would make KV cruisers (how long ago _was_
CMD?) - plus a handful of SFB and B5W ships.

Now for shameless plug

<Plug>
Battlemasters 2001

April 21-22

Loughborough University

There _will_ be some sort of Full Thrust tormanent there!

See www.eurolog.org for details (eventually).

</plug>

> 
> >I noticed that the KV fleet didn't do that well in the tournament.
Any
> comments on that?
> 
> Best to see Oerjan's comments on this.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Paul

Charles

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