This is an excellent solution to bring back some fairness to the pre-set terrain situation. Bob beattie@... On Feb 28, 2005, at 8:33 PM, jlogan2ia wrote:...
Howdy All, Man, all these different styles of tournaments for a game of DBA. . .WHEW! Yall have waaay too much time on your hands to come up with all these...
... -- You know, Blake, what you do is not wrong. You have structured your tournaments for your unique audience (school kids) and time frame (12 hours!). So,...
... scoring system ... fine, but I ... Hey Mike, this one sounds good. So if you destrory my General is it worth 3 points or just 2 points? I like it cause it...
... -- Well, honestly, I'm not crazy about the "official" NASAMW scoring system --for ordinary, 12-element DBA. I think the BBDBA one works fine, but I ...
Shouldn't there be a big difference between winning and losing, and even a tie? ... same as the systems I remember being in place before we went to the current...
... Then Mike and Terry's system is more complicated than the NASAMW one -- with the NASAMW one you just use the points system. It isn't the tiebreaker, it is...
We have now created a simple web site containing details of the Battle Day including directions on how to get to the venue. Additional information will be...
This is a really great idea -- the same battle with different rules. If our schedule for Cold Wars had not been set months ago, I would have it in the DBA...
Hi David and David (why wasn't there an 80's band named this?), As Ptom said, we use Win-Loss as our first determinant, with points only used to break ties...
In a message dated 3/2/2005 5:41:47 AM Pacific Standard Time, ... Here in our California cons we use the following scoring: 1 pt per element destroyed....an...
If only life were so simple, exactly 8 players want to be in each theme. However, as it turns out 10 want to play in the classical Roman and 6 in the Pacific...
... Exactly. It takes a lot of flexibility to even get every group to end up with an even number of players, much less exactly 8! And as Bob points out, some...
This is an excellent argument for using wins and losses as the major factor and relegating points earned to the role of tie breaker. That's what I do, and...
So who wins when two players have exactly the same number of wins and losses, and in all the games but one had the same scores and in the one game, one player...
... Yes. So what? Suppose you say: "OK, play it out until 4 elements are killed" and the guy who killed the General kills off four elements. Now he will win...
... Alexander, If you go into the Fanaticus directory and search for Houston as a location there are 11 other Houston Fanaticus members besides yourself. ...
Well, who wins if the convention roof collapses during the tournament? ... The hypothetical situation you set up has yet to occur. If it did the player who won...
Hi all Last call for this event - I have two places left up for grabs, if anyone is interested then please get in touch asap. Cheers P. ... places ... 5...
... Alexander, My apologies, I left off a link. At the top right of the Fanaticus page are several menu links. One is search, click on it. It will open a new...
... tournament? ... tear. All, I suggest we institute a D-BCS system, get the AP and DBAOL mentors to vote for the tourney winners, then get 9 programers to...
I enjoy humor and try not to take a hobby too seriously. However, people come to cons to play in tournaments. Those who put on the events can at least have...
... determine ... with ... Bob, All kidding aside, if everyone in the tourney is playing by the same rules, then it is fair. The players know up front what...
In honor of my 2mm Irregular ancients arriving from the lads in the UK, and really quick I might add. I made a 2mm DBA range tool and ruler for using my...
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