BrainKing - Discussion boards (Espionage)

Subject: Resigning

I get alot more resigning on this site without even a polite gg or thx

14. January 2010, 12:06:53

Subject: Re: tournament

Chaos: I sent him a special invitation yesterday.

14. January 2010, 11:02:56

Subject: Re: tournament

Styleone: Tony (creepingdoom) said he would join.

14. January 2010, 03:52:11

Subject: great tourney...

right now its looking like 8 sections. Yowzer!

13. January 2010, 21:01:15

Styleone

Subject: Re: tournament

Nice, 36 players at the moment.
Hope for more players like Pedro Martinez, Lightning Bolt, tenuki, creepingdoom or Nuno Miguel.

12. January 2010, 14:11:42

Subject: Re: tournament

OneEyedJack: Welcome Jack :) Good to see you here!

Here's the link to the tournament:

Small Fast Espionage #2

Scroll down to the link 'Small Fast Espionage' and click on 'signn up for this tournament'.

It's going to be a tough competition :)

12. January 2010, 04:35:11

OneEyedJack

Subject: Re: tournament

Chaos: Hi Chaos, Got your message from ItsYourTurn. I'd love to play in the tournmament. What's my next step.

OneEyedJack

11. January 2010, 08:21:22

Subject: Re: Small Fast #2

Dark Prince: It will be the 20th of January. This is due to a little delay in setting up the tournament.

11. January 2010, 08:16:51

Dark Prince

Subject: Re: Small Fast #2

SL-Bosse:
You questioned whether 15 January should be your start date. Since 20 January (2am I believe for the Pacific time zone) is the deadline for signing up, is that also the date the games begin?

10. January 2010, 19:23:47

Already 30 players!!! in Small Fast Espionage #2

9. January 2010, 08:13:29

Here is "my" tournament Small Fast Espionage #2

Come on sign up!

8. January 2010, 03:58:18

Subject: Re: Brain tourney

Nothingness: There will be plenty of time to register for this tourney do not rush to enter i will change the date if needed. The start date isnt till march.

8. January 2010, 03:57:07

Open Espionage League Brain prize Tourney

Subject: Brain tourney

7. January 2010, 23:22:07

Subject: Tourneys

sounds good to me..! as for the variant that i will create for brains i'm not sure yet but more than likely it will NOT be a volcano variant.

7. January 2010, 13:26:50

Subject: tournament

So Bosse creates small fast #2, and Nothingness creates a different (volcano?) type with Brain Prize afterwards?

Let's get the small fast rolling :)

4. January 2010, 00:53:36

i was thinking if perhaps we should wait until the rookies tourney is over. This way they too can be eligible for the Brain Prize tourney. So i would suggest for you to just start the tourney and ill hold off on the prize tourney till later in the year.

3. January 2010, 19:46:31

Subject: Re: prize

Nothingness: I have only 10 brains, so I can not offer so big prize. So you can start it if you want.

3. January 2010, 18:23:53

Subject: prize

is there a prize being offered? This will attract more people. if I start the tourney i will offer up my 200 brains.

3. January 2010, 13:44:22

Subject: Re: Small Fast #2

SL-Bosse: sounds good :) 3 days is probably better to avoid too much time outs.

3. January 2010, 13:22:43

Subject: Small Fast #2

I will set up the tournament today. 2 or 3 days + weekends? Start at 15 of January?

3. January 2010, 12:12:02

Subject: Re: tourney

Nothingness: Maybe you could set up small fast #2? I've got a few new players who are interested in playing in an espioinage tournament who don't qualify for the beginner's tournament. Would be good to have an alternative for them as well.

1. January 2010, 16:54:53

Subject: tourney

if there is anyone who has any ideas for a new tourney i would be willing to put up some of my brains to the winner. Probably all 200 of them. i have lifetime membership and virtually no restrictions and can create any tourney.

1. January 2010, 16:54:21

Subject: tourney

29. December 2009, 12:14:17

Subject: Teamtournament? Small Fast tournament?

Hi Nothingness, still want to set up a team for the teamtournament?

Bosse, still planing to create the Small fast #2?

23. December 2009, 16:44:11

rod03801

Subject: Re: teamtournament

Modified by rod03801 (23. December 2009, 16:45:15)

dAGGER: Yes, as long as you are on a team in a fellowship, and are in the tournament when it starts up, you will continue on until the end of the tournament, regardless of your membership level.

Also, right now is a good time to join. I believe the "Christmas action" is still going on. Depending on the color circle that appears, you can get extra time, up to 100%, if you do it at the right time. (Keep checking back until the best color is there)

EDIT: Oh, this extra bonus only applies for purchases of a year, sorry.

23. December 2009, 15:12:35

happy hermit

Subject: Re: teamtournament

Chaos:

I'm not sure that I have ever made it through a team tournament without timing out.

I have nothing agaist trying again thouhgh. :)

23. December 2009, 14:50:12

Nothingness: Do you want me in your team or should I try to get another team from "Espoinage League" including myself?

23. December 2009, 14:40:04

dAGGER

Subject: Re: teamtournament

Chaos:
maybe I will think about a paid membership.
If I purchase a membership for -let's say- 3 months and the team tournament lasts for more, what will happen later?
Can I go on with my games until they are completed?

23. December 2009, 14:34:44

Subject: Re: teamtournament

dAGGER: Maybe you can consider a membership? It's not that expensive.

Maybe Eric wants to play in a team as well?

23. December 2009, 14:28:46

Subject: Re: teamtournament

SL-Bosse: I just saw that there can only be 4 player's in the team, so I guess it's a good idea if you have a fellowship as well to create another team, because now there are 6 player's in nothingness' team, already 2 too many. I can join your team if you want, then Nothingness has 4 players left. I saw Mark already signed up for another team as well. The Leaguers will play against eachother!

23. December 2009, 14:22:55

Celticjim

Subject: Re: teamtournament

Chaos: thx Chaos,I sent a msg to untouchables last night before knowing about Freaks so they just accepted me and can only be in one --looks like we'll be competitors

23. December 2009, 14:19:15

Espionage Freaks! Fellowship

Subject: Re: teamtournament

Nothingness: How many people can join a team? Maybe Bosse is right, if there are more player's interested than there are places in the team, it would be great if he'd made another espionage fellowship. Maybe first wait if it's necessary.

Jim, here's the link:

23. December 2009, 14:13:21

Subject: Re: teamtournament

dAGGER: You have to be a member of a fellowship first, which you can't if you are a pawn. :(

I think than that the boss/captain then pick up intrested players for his team.

23. December 2009, 14:08:06

dAGGER

Subject: Re: teamtournament

I never joined a team tournament.
Can I enter only if a captain invites me in his team?

23. December 2009, 14:00:37

Subject: Re: teamtournament

Chaos: I think a fellowship only can have one team in the tournament, it was due to that I mentioned "my" fellowship.. But I hope that Nothingness wants me in his team.

23. December 2009, 14:00:09

Celticjim

Subject: Re:

Nothingness:
a link would be sweet,i see there are many many pages of fellowships and when I searched for espionage games none showed up

23. December 2009, 13:53:11

Subject: Re: teamtournament

SL-Bosse: One espionage fellowship should be enough or not? Or can't all players who want to all join the same team from 1 fellowship?

Indeed it's too bad pawns can't join.

23. December 2009, 12:03:07

Subject: Re: teamtournament

Chaos: The boss of the team (Nothingless) has to but us up in the tournament, and then he has to deciede which team we should have.

If anyone are intrested, I have earlier created a fellowship called "Espionage League", but then I found out that you have to be a member, and not a pawn, I never started it up. I think also that this discussion board is working fine as a fellowship. But, if anyone wants to join that fellowship to be able to play in the team tournament I can hopefully fix that.

23. December 2009, 10:33:27

Subject: Re: teamtournament

Nothingness: I'm in the Freak group, how can I join the teamtournament?

23. December 2009, 04:25:10

i suggest that anyone who wants to join the espionage Freaks fellowship should do so. this way we can join the team tourney.

23. December 2009, 01:16:01

rod03801

Subject: Site Team Tournament

Are you league folks aware of the Site wide espionage team tournament coming up? (It's only available for paid members in fellowships). See the Team Tournament link in the left side bar.

21. December 2009, 13:41:04

happy hermit

Subject: Re: Resher

Pedro Martínez:

Hopefully, by the tournament rolls around at the end of January a number of the players will be well past beginner.

Espionage/Sabotage is a game without a lot of theory behind it and there's no reason a suitably clever person couldn't be one of the top 10 players on this site within a month and a handful of practice games of learning the rules.

21. December 2009, 12:16:30

Subject: Re: tournament postings

Nothingness: ah, we had a little misunderstanding :) Thx Eric for clearing that up and thx Mark for posting here.

21. December 2009, 12:12:32

Subject: Re: Resher

Modified by Chaos (21. December 2009, 18:10:55)

Pedro Martínez: Both Nothingness and I checked Resher's stats thoroughly. His wins by time-outs were games not even half played against the same 2 absolute beginner opponents in every variant. The rating was based on 4 games, 1 more than an unrated status. Based on those data I call someone a beginner. If trained by Nothingness I'm not surprised Resher is improving rapidly. I have no doubt Nothingness takes this job very seriously and Resher seems eager to learn, as can be seen by the large amount of espionage games of all sorts he has taken up since he signed up for the tournament, quite some of them against you. I'm sure he's learning a lot from you as well.We encourage the beginners to train themselves for the tournament, so it's only likely some will get above the beginner's level before the tournament.

Maybe that clarifies things?

21. December 2009, 11:07:42

Pedro Martínez

Subject: Re: Resher

Resher: You will definitely not upset me if you stay in the tournament. Having the experience of a number of ongoing espionage games against you and having seen your finished games (and knowing you would have won them easily even if completed “normally”), I was just surprised when I saw you listed as a beginner. That's it. No hard feelings.

21. December 2009, 09:33:58

Resher

Subject: Re: Resher

Pedro Martínez: ... and since then, I have finished one more game against a fellow beginner (puupia), which I won, so that makes 2 proper wins across all 5 variants ever.

21. December 2009, 09:29:05

Resher

Subject: Re: Resher

Pedro Martínez: Thank you for your concern over doing things properly. When I saw this tournament, I had only finished 1 Espionage variant game properly. The following is the query I sent:

"I'm interested in Espionage and have been reading the posts on the
board for a while. My rating is above 1500 in all variants, but out of
the total of 22 games across all variants, Indriel has
timed out in 10, Snoopy got overwhelmed by games and resigned 10,
MadMonkey timed out in 1, so that only leaves 1 game I've ever played
properly! Would I still be disqualified as a newbie, based on these
unearned ratings, do you think?"

I was told I was eligible, but if the organisers now think otherwise, I'll pull out as I don't wish to upset anyone.

21. December 2009, 08:24:24

Pedro Martínez

Subject: Re:

Nothingness: OK.

Obviously you haven't seen any of his games.

21. December 2009, 04:33:01

yes resher is a beginner almost all of his games are time outs. I don't think he has any "WON" games. i am mentoring him at the moment.

21. December 2009, 03:36:36

Pedro Martínez