Post by Mal_Arky on Nov 29, 2022 12:46:29 GMT
In 2022 I had decided I'd run a tournament on Playdiplomacy.com, calling it the 'Playdiplomacy Classic Open'. Before I got very far with it, I was contacted about making it the 2022 Online Diplomacy Championship, an event run on both Playdip and webDiplomacy.net. So I did.
However, as Round 1 got under way, I suffered a stroke that took me out of everything - in life - and didn't give me the chance to see the tournament through.
In some ways, that was a blessing. The first round was full of difficulties. People who'd signed-up to play didn't confirm when it came time; people who'd confirmed then didn't join the games they'd been placed in. A Tournament Director's nightmare.
Now, as I'm almost back to normal (albeit the slightly twisted version of normal I'm left with) I've been considering what I want to do in 2023 in this type of thing. I might try to run the ODC again (but that depends on how webDip feel about it - it should be their year) but I was also thinking about running a slightly different kind of tournament.
Playing Diplomacy by email (Play-By-Email or PBEM) has been around for years. There have been tournaments before, of course, including the Diplomacy World Cup (a team event played without teams). But, with websites and virtual Diplomacy events, as well as the established face-to-face tournaments, PBEM has faded somewhat. There are certainly some organisations out there running email games; these tend to be one-off affairs, played for fun.
Well, let's take that fun a notch or two further, I thought. Perhaps that isn't something everyone would agree with; making any game part of a tournament could remove some of the fun, I guess. If that's the case, you're probably not going to join in anyway, though.
The initial idea was to run a PBEM tournament, and I decided to call it the PBEM Diplomacy World Championship. How would I organise it? It isn't ideal to run it from another site, such as Playdip, because members of other sites don't spend enough time on those sites. So I decided to start this forum.
And then I thought about running a League for PBEM games... and even a team tournament (although this latter will need to wait a while, maybe until next year - team tournaments need a lot of consideration!).
Quickly, my original idea was sprouting new ones. This is a common problem for me, I have to say; I regularly have to reign in my enthusiasm (it just occurred to me that an E-Dip Gunboat event would work pretty well!). I'd need a site, and I'd need to get things moving quickly if I wanted to run the PBEM DWC and EDL next year.
Now all I needed was a nifty name for the site. I was originally going to call it 'PBEM Diplomacy' but that's a little on the nose. Then, because I'd shortened PBEM (Play-By-Email) Diplomacy to just 'E-Dip' (Email Diplomacy), perhaps calling the site 'E-DIPLOMACY' would work? Well, I'm not convinced but it's all I've got, so there you go.
However, as Round 1 got under way, I suffered a stroke that took me out of everything - in life - and didn't give me the chance to see the tournament through.
In some ways, that was a blessing. The first round was full of difficulties. People who'd signed-up to play didn't confirm when it came time; people who'd confirmed then didn't join the games they'd been placed in. A Tournament Director's nightmare.
Now, as I'm almost back to normal (albeit the slightly twisted version of normal I'm left with) I've been considering what I want to do in 2023 in this type of thing. I might try to run the ODC again (but that depends on how webDip feel about it - it should be their year) but I was also thinking about running a slightly different kind of tournament.
Playing Diplomacy by email (Play-By-Email or PBEM) has been around for years. There have been tournaments before, of course, including the Diplomacy World Cup (a team event played without teams). But, with websites and virtual Diplomacy events, as well as the established face-to-face tournaments, PBEM has faded somewhat. There are certainly some organisations out there running email games; these tend to be one-off affairs, played for fun.
Well, let's take that fun a notch or two further, I thought. Perhaps that isn't something everyone would agree with; making any game part of a tournament could remove some of the fun, I guess. If that's the case, you're probably not going to join in anyway, though.
The initial idea was to run a PBEM tournament, and I decided to call it the PBEM Diplomacy World Championship. How would I organise it? It isn't ideal to run it from another site, such as Playdip, because members of other sites don't spend enough time on those sites. So I decided to start this forum.
And then I thought about running a League for PBEM games... and even a team tournament (although this latter will need to wait a while, maybe until next year - team tournaments need a lot of consideration!).
Quickly, my original idea was sprouting new ones. This is a common problem for me, I have to say; I regularly have to reign in my enthusiasm (it just occurred to me that an E-Dip Gunboat event would work pretty well!). I'd need a site, and I'd need to get things moving quickly if I wanted to run the PBEM DWC and EDL next year.
Now all I needed was a nifty name for the site. I was originally going to call it 'PBEM Diplomacy' but that's a little on the nose. Then, because I'd shortened PBEM (Play-By-Email) Diplomacy to just 'E-Dip' (Email Diplomacy), perhaps calling the site 'E-DIPLOMACY' would work? Well, I'm not convinced but it's all I've got, so there you go.