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Broadcasts for Fall of 1910 in goofy
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Movement
Broadcast from England:
Aha! EXCELLENT goofiness by Italy, proxying the forces in others' capitals.
MAXIMUM points. WISH I had been bright enough to see it coming! (Take my
capital--please!--next time.)
French orders were somewhat goofy; Germany proxying his last unit is pretty
much the best he could do (and why didn't Russia?), but order your own next
time and let's get that French army to Norway!
Turkish and Italian tripledribbles were fun.
Last chance, and I'm out of ideas... let's see goof one last time, friends!
--The Silly English K-nnnn-ighit!
Broadcast from Austria:
Well, we've found out one thing: the judge won't accept proxy orders
from a defunct power. I entered orders for every unit on the board,
and the judge didn't give me an error message either.
Broadcast from Austria:
Goofy vote for Austria:
France 3 points!
Broadcast from Austria:
Oops, what am I talking about? All those "no order processed" were
other people's missed proxies. So, once again, I make the same offer:
proxy me your units. Whoever gives me the most proxies will get my
three points.
Broadcast from Master:
GM votes
Spring 1910: A0, E2, F1, G0, I2, R1, T1
Austria: Nice to see you still influence the game somehow. Nice runaway
moves for those units, too. Too bad the rules say you can't get
points any more.
England: Seems your army still thinks it's convoy time, while your navy
doesn't. Are you trying to get a fleet into the Med finally?
France: 1 point for the Austria proxies.
Germany: Will Germany survive? Watch out for the next move!
Italy: The proxies to the various SC owners were amusing, though Rum
isn't exactly Turkish.
Russia: They just don't let you get home. Sigh.
Turkey: I wonder why Austria didn't give you 3 GP. At least you performed
his idea of head butting in Bla.
Broadcast from Turkey:
Votes for Spring 1910
A: 0 (sorry)
E: 1 (the missed convoyes were somewhat amusing)
F: 0
G: 1 (surviving 3 years with one fleet is pretty goofy)
I: 3 (if only I had known about the Rumania proxy)
R: 2 (just click your heels and repeat after me...)
McCrae
Broadcast from Russia:
rusky votes .... so sorry so late, evens all round bar Germs.
I:1 G:3 F:1 E:1 T:1
Broadcast from Germany:
I thought that the capitals proxies were good... I also owe Russia
a lot of back points. Therefore, I: 3 R: 3 E: 1 (that last point
would have gone to Austria. For the good work with the proxies).
Sincerely,
Broadcast from France:
E: 1 Moving the fleet away in face of impending convoys has been done
before, but since I thought of it first, I'll have to give you
a point.
G: 1 Poor baby.
I: 1 Hum, the capital proxies were nice, but where was mine? And I didn't
realize Rumania was part of Turkey.
R: 2 Poor baby.
T: 2 An incomplete 'headbutt' is better than none.
It's a lot easier to assign votes with only 5 other players to give them
to. We should have done this a long time ago :-)
GeneralDomo (I'm in France now, it is time to give myself a promotion)
PS. Chant: one more turn! one more turn! I think we can! I think we can!
Anonymous Broadcast:
Freeze Frame!
Anonymous Broadcast:
Who's "Frame"?
Anonymous Broadcast:
Who's "Frame"? Do you have to ask? It/she/he is, um, well, uh, I forget
the name of the rock'n'roll group that sang the song (REM comes to mind, but
I'm sure that is wrong. Eurythmics? Nah. Beatles? Hah. Hah!). Anyway, it
is a song where the audience freezes every once in a while. A freeze-frame.
A snapshot. A holding pattern. Now that's goofy. Hope everyone will join
in.
Click. Flash. Snap.
Anonymous Broadcast:
The J. Geils Band
Anonymous Broadcast:
Oh yeah, right. I knew that!
I guess the old 'grey' cells (there ought to be a pun there to go along
with 'grey' broadcasts) just aren't functioning anymore.
Smile.
Broadcast from Germany:
I like the idea of a final snapshot for our game. Everyone submit HOLD
orders!
Better yet, proxy ALL of your units to either Austria or me, and we will
issue the holds.
Sincerely,
Broadcast from Austria:
Don't proxy anything to the German! I was the one who was eliminated,
so I deserve the proxies.
Retreats
Broadcast from Germany:
BRILLIANT, Austria!!!!!
Are you SURE we can't give him points?????????
Sincerely,
Broadcast from Germany:
3 points for Italy and France for participating in the group photo,
1 to Russia for finally making it back home...
Sincerely,
Broadcast from Austria:
Since noone gave me a proxy, I'll give one point to each of the
freezers, France, Germany and Italy.
Broadcast from Observer:
>BRILLIANT, Austria!!!!!
>Are you SURE we can't give him points?????????
>Sincerely,
Well, what if you resign, and allow him to take over Germany in time
to accure the points?
Broadcast from England:
phase W1910B
wave!
broadcast
Once again, Austria would earn big points if possible. I didn't have time to
Freeze Frame but found that goofy enough to earn points for F and I (Germany
needed to be more creative with his *last* unit). One final point for
pointlessness to a persistant Russia.
--The Silly English K-nnnn-ighit!
Broadcast from Turkey:
Why are only powers which participated in the Freeze Frame getting goofy
points? Wouldn't it be more goofy to go against the flow? Oh, well, I
thought it would be.
Point assignments forthcoming...
McCrae
Broadcast from Turkey:
Point assignments for Fall 1910
A: 0, but I wish I could give 'em all to you
E: 3, for not taking part in the FF
F: 0
G: 1, because I had one to spare
I: 0
R: 3
McCrae
Broadcast from Germany:
>Broadcast message from Observer in 'goofy':
>
>>BRILLIANT, Austria!!!!!
>
>>Are you SURE we can't give him points?????????
>
>>Sincerely,
>
>Well, what if you resign, and allow him to take over Germany in time
>to accure the points?
I think that is an excellent idea.
I hereby resign my position in Germany. Please allow Austria to
take over.
Sincerely,
Broadcast from Germany:
Oh no you don't. *I'm* the one who gets to take over abandoned powers. Never-
the-less, I loved the Austrian move.
Broadcast from Germany:
E: 0
G: 1
I: 3 Snap!
R: 0
T: 0
A: 3 If possible, else one each to E, R, T
Der Fuhrer Domo
>> Why not give myself the highest title possible?
Anonymous Broadcast:
Date: Mon, 9 May 1994 16:27:29 -0400
From: Diplomacy Adjudicator
This Diplomacy Adjudicator sponsored by
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Any unmoderated games on this judge will be removed.
Broadcast message from Germany in 'goofy':
I like the idea of a final snapshot for our game. Everyone submit HOLD
orders!
Better yet, proxy ALL of your units to either Austria or me, and we will
issue the holds.
Sincerely,
*sigh*
Actually, I submitted hold orders for everybody on the board, two
years ago.
Now it won't seem so original. :(
Broadcast from Italy:
Bwa hah!
This is very funny. I had entered phase orders to hold all the units
on the board long before the "Freeze Frame" idea was mentioned.
Thus, I should not be penalized for going with the flow, but
certainly should get some credit for participating presciently.
In other words, I want it both ways.
I've entered my retreat, and my goofy votes for both seasons shall be
here soon.
Freddie
Broadcast from Italy:
S1910 votes
A - E 1 F 1 G 2 I - R 2 T 1
Points to Germany and Russia for long-term goofiness.
My "capital proxies" would have included France, but I ran out of
armies. And he did not let me into France :( I'm glad they were
appreciated.
Broadcast from Italy:
Goofy votes, fall
A - E 2 F 2 G 2 I - R 1 T 0
Points to fellow freeze framers, France and Germany.
Points to England for trying to allow me into London. A late effort,
but still appreciated.
Leftover point for Russia.
Austria deserves points for showing up so many times, after being
eliminated.
Freddie
Broadcast from England:
Thanks for letting me back in the game!
Broadcast from France:
Snicker, snicker, snicker...
--The Silly English K-nnnn-ighit!
Adjustments
Broadcast from Master:
> Broadcast message from Italy in 'goofy':
>
> S1910 votes
> A - E 1 F 1 G 2 I - R 2 T 1
Sorry to say that, but votes received after the results of the next
move are not considered, but instead replaced by the GM's vote. That's
what you get from phased orders for every unit including yonkers :-)
Robert
Broadcast from Russia:
rusky votes .... so sorry so late, don't forget i'm in Europe (somewhere)
G:3 for ending with 0 at the right moment
E:2 for not having phased hold orders
I:2 for phased hold orders (though Austria desrves these points really)
T:0 I already had a proxy order Mos s Sil-War
F:0 Too many units to think of anything to do with them?
I have not contributed to the press during this game because I was
playing a simple one track minded Russian Robot trying to tor Europe.
My goal was simply to get my original 4 units around switzerland & end
up back in Russia with Stp/Sev & Mos/War reversed. When I lost one of
the original units I lost interest for a year or so ..... so I have
truely forgotten whether my last army was from Moscow or Warsaw.
I enjoyed the trip and always thought I would make it (especially
when I had 7 or so sc's which gave me some units to support my
advances ... for which i always got 'bad' press & 0-1 point).
Thanks 4 the gee emm in Ronald | 9/10 points (lose 1 pt for sinking
to the gutter press level around year 2 or 3).
Broadcast from Russia:
rusky votes .... so sorry so late, don't forget i'm in Europe (somewhere)
G:3 for ending with 0 at the right moment
E:2 for not having phased hold orders
I:2 for phased hold orders (though Austria desrves these points really)
T:0 I already had a proxy order Mos s Sil-War
F:0 Too many units to think of anything to do with them?
I have not contributed to the press during this game because I was
playing a simple one track minded Russian Robot trying to tor Europe.
My goal was simply to get my original 4 units around switzerland & end
up back in Russia with Stp/Sev & Mos/War reversed. When I lost one of
the original units I lost interest for a year or so ..... so I have
truely forgotten whether my last army was from Moscow or Warsaw.
I enjoyed the trip and always thought I would make it (especially
when I had 7 or so sc's which gave me some units to support my
advances ... for which i always got 'bad' press & 0-1 point).
Thanks 4 the gee emm in Ronald | 9/10 points (lose 1 pt for sinking
to the gutter press level around year 2 or 3).
Broadcast from Master:
Folks,
I terminated the game and -presto- the very next message from Russia
resumed it again. What can I do to permanently terminate the game so
that identities become revealed etc. etc.? Of course I can set the game
non-gunboat or become every power agreeing to some made up draw, but
there should be an easy way for the GM to terminate a game so that
no player can resume it.
Robert
Broadcast from Observer:
Aawwwww! I wanna keep playing!
Broadcast from Master:
GM's goofy points
fall 1910: A0, E0, F1, G2, I1, R3, T0
Austria: It's really a pity that I can't give you points.
England: So you remained in the convoy business until the bitter end.
France: Snapshot. Nice.
Germany: Eliminated just in time. Plus snapshot.
Italy: See France.
Russia: You made it! So at least one of your units made the grand tour
around Switzerland. I've followed its moves and it visited quite
a number of places: Mos-StP-Fin-Nwy-Swe-Ber-Mun-Bur-Mar-Pie-
Tyr-Mun-Ber-Sil-War. Too bad your fleets were stopped within sight
of their home ports.
Turkey: Sorry for not having any more points to spare.
Broadcast from Master:
Well, now everybody should be able to retrieve the names of the players
by sending a summary command to the judge. For reasons unknown to me
the list command however still says 'someone@somewhere' despite the reveal
flag set.
Any ideas?
Robert
Broadcast from Master:
Hope you don't mind my assuming your identities, but it seemed like
the only way to terminate the game permanently (with all these nasty
observers around :-).
I will prepare the final score list, but it may take a few days as I'll
have other things to do first and as your mass switchings don't make
things easier.
I will not consider the switchings after fall 1910. For the switchings
that were performed during the game (A <--> I in before f1907; A <--> F
between s1909(1) and s1909(2)) the following rule will be applied:
All points will be switched with the player. I.e. Risk Westerman gets
GP and SC points for Italy from S1901 to S1907, for Austria from F1907
to S1909(1) and for France from S1909(2) to the end.
Robert
P.S.: EoG statements welcome! I will try to make up one myself when
my schedule allows me to.
Broadcast from Observer:
Great, I get a judge mod in place, to automatically get notified of
game terminations and draws, and the first thing in my mailbox?
2 terminations, and 1 draw in goofy. Until I read the history I thought
I screwed up my programming.
Nice game guys, as a tribute, I have resumed it again. :-)
Someone give me a shout, when there is a winner declared?
Nick
Broadcast from Master:
> Broadcast message from [[email protected] as] Observer in 'goofy':
>
> Great, I get a judge mod in place, to automatically get notified of
> game terminations and draws, and the first thing in my mailbox?
>
> 2 terminations, and 1 draw in goofy. Until I read the history I thought
> I screwed up my programming.
>
> Nice game guys, as a tribute, I have resumed it again. :-)
>
> Someone give me a shout, when there is a winner declared?
>
> Nick
Well, we're the goofy guys, aren't we? The winner will be declared
as soon as I find the time to calculate through things.
Robert
Broadcast from Germany:
>
> Someone give me a shout, when there is a winner declared?
>
> Nick
I think everyone was a winner. The game interest was kept high even through
several years of missed turns, the press was interesting, and the moves ...
well, they were of the highest caliber goofiness. We did things to the
Judge that the Judge didn't even know it could do.
My only regret is not being able to do a 7-way "headbutt". Sigh.
Major - General - Fuhrer Domo
Broadcast from Italy:
Geez, GM, the fall results followed within 24 hours of the Spring.
You could cut me a little slack.
And, did you notice that the Judge parsed the yonkers order correctly?
Yonkers is an acceptable abbreviation for Yorkshire! :P
Freddie
Broadcast from Italy:
Could the bleeding observers please quit it! I want to know who was
playing!
Austria/Italy
Freddie the Forger
Rick Desper
Broadcast from Italy:
Incidentally, even after a game is terminated, the list does not
reveal names. Only the summary does.
Broadcast from France:
Aw poor Rick! Isn't it goofy to play on when nobody else wants to?
--The Silly English K-nnnn-ighit!
Anonymous Broadcast:
> Aw poor Rick! Isn't it goofy to play on when nobody else wants to?
You could also make the time honored and time worn jokes about his
last name and how he is desp...
I can't go on.
Broadcast from Observer:
Hullo again...
Sincerely,
P.S. - Did Austria pop into my place so that s/he could get goofy points
for last turn?
Broadcast from Observer:
But Austria didn't pop into your place.
Broadcast from England:
> Broadcast message from [email protected] as Master in 'goofy':
>
> Austria: It's really a pity that I can't give you points.
It's your game. You want to give me points, just change the rules.
Broadcast from England:
Get your build orders in, everyone...
Broadcast from Master:
I have already received the first EOG statement for this game.
I'd love to hear from you others (players and observers) how you
experienced this "variant". I myself will scribe something up too,
but most probably I won't have time to do so before monday or tuesday
next week, as I will not be available after this afternoon for the
rest of the week.
Robert
Broadcast from Turkey:
Why don't we do this....
Turkey, from 1904, was Michael H. Ross ([email protected])
Broadcast from Master:
It might be easier to look at the summary:
> Summary of game 'goofy' through F1910R.
>
> Master: Robert Rehbold [email protected]
> Austria: Rick Desper [email protected]
> from F1907M: Rick Westerman [email protected]
> from S1909M: Avi Pfeffer [email protected]
> England: Pete Gaughan [email protected]
> from F1910R: Avi Pfeffer [email protected]
> France: Tom Barringer [email protected]
> from S1903M: Avi Pfeffer [email protected]
> from S1909M: Rick Westerman [email protected]
> from F1910R: Pete Gaughan [email protected]
> Germany: Daniel N. Percival [email protected]
> from F1910R: Rick Westerman [email protected]
> Italy: Rick Westerman [email protected]
> from F1907M: Rick Desper [email protected]
> Russia: Dave Bax [email protected]
> Turkey: Del [email protected]
> from F1903B: Michael H. Ross [email protected]
Broadcast from Italy:
Freddie's EOG:
I viewed the goofy format basically as a chance to goof off.
Never during the game was I concerned with winning so much as trying
to pull off a few goofy stunts which I hoped would be appreciated.
I chose Austria, because I think Austria is an inherently
goofy country. My next two decision were to use grey press as much as
possible, and to become a naval power.
I noticed that both grey and white press were enabled.
Usually this means that nobody ever uses grey press, except to make an
occasional sarcastic comment. I decidedd to use grey press to conduct
all of my negotiations, thereby making it easy for other players to
pretend they were me! Unfortunately, I had to broadcast my votes with
white press. Also, toward the end of the game, I did start including
policy announcements with my votes, so I strayed from this policy a
little.
The Freddie persona was born of this line of thought. My
original idea was that I was Freddie the Forger, pretending to be
Austria. I was impersonating myself! Later, this name was useful as
a nickname for Francis Ferdinand, and in "Freddie's Dead."
So, I started my naval policy. In 1901, I bypassed Serbia and
took Greece, so I could build a secon fleet. In 1902, I took Tunis,
and convoyed both armies to Africa. I built a third fleet. I thought
I was in great shape, as Austria was completely vulnerable. Sure
enough, Italy took the bait, taking half of my SC's, and knocking me
down to a puny size.
At this point, I have to comment about the voting. I feel
that voting ought to reward players who are pursuing
long-term goofy strategies. In my mind, throughout the first half of
the game, only Germany, Russia, and Austria were doing so. England
and France would come up with interesting judge quirks from time to
time. Turkey and esp. Italy seemed merley expansionist.
The definition of goofy I was using was taken from the
dictionary: inept, clumsy. (Also, the part about having proutruding
teeth REALLY was in there!) But I saw that voting was not precisely
folowing those lines. And, since Italy had stolen all of my actors, I
thought I'd do something about it. I came very close to taking over
France when France went CD once. I figured such a move would be
appropriate for this game. But when Italy, that SC thief, went CD, I
could not resist. Freddie was Dead, but Derffie was born.
For a while, I could not quite figure out what to do with
Italy. I wanted to get the fleet into the Channel, and convoy myself
to England. I thought cruising into Scandanavia would be interesting.
Thus was born the "grab all the capitals" campaign. I was never
looking to win 18 SC's so much as give other players an oppurtunity to
goofily hand over their capitals. Also, at about this time I took on
a new job, which involved my access to Internet being reduced
somewhat. I totally missed the time warp, and the last three years
were largely done via phase orders.
Some unnoticed goofiness: with phase orders, you can write
basically whatever you want. After my phase order NMR, I looked into
other possibilities. I declared war upon the GM, by entering
something like
phase s1907m
I declare war upon our Game Master.
Secretly, anonymously.
Only Robert knew about this, which he could read every time he logged
in. Also, at the end of the game (F1910M) I had phased hold orders
for each of the 64 provinces on the board. I'm sure Robert enjoyed
seeing that every time he logged in. This list included the famous
Yonkers H. Sadly, nobody was in Yorkshire.
On the whole, I enjoyed the game. I thought Germany was the most fun,
but the rest of you were fairly decent also. It was interesting to
seee what kinds of pathological judge quirks we could turn up. I
think the voting could be tweaked a little. I don't see the purpose
of SC points. I am more inclined against them than I was at the
beginning of the game.
One final point. This was the second time I impersonated a vampire in
a gunboat game. The first was in Guns, which also included Rick
Westerman. Rick, did you ever think it was me?
CU all in the funny papers.
Freddie/Rick
Broadcast from Italy:
Excuse my typos. This keyboard is not very sensitive.
Rick
(please fix if every publishing)
Anonymous Broadcast:
You know, this game *could* end if the moderator would put a stop to it. Or
this the moderator's chance to be goofy? In any case, my moves are in for S'11.
P.S. If the game ends, then we could see a summary with names in it.
Broadcast from Germany:
> One final point. This was the second time I impersonated a vampire in
> a gunboat game. The first was in Guns, which also included Rick
> Westerman. Rick, did you ever think it was me?
Not quite. The press had a familiar 'feel' to it but it wasn't until
the end of the game when I saw who you were that I thought to my, "should
have know it was Desper!"
I'm glad to know you had as hard of a time playing Italy as I did. After
I realized that having no units was getting me nowhere, I decided to expand
and try my "headbutt" idea -- too bad you never did this, btw. Either that or
win with 18 centers which would have also been meta-goofy. Too bad I got
zapped by not having net access for a week or so.
-- Rick Westerman
Broadcast from Master:
> You know, this game *could* end if the moderator would put a stop to it. Or
> this the moderator's chance to be goofy? In any case, my moves are in for S'11.
Would you mind letting me know how? I terminated the game, and I finished
it by forcing a draw, yet there is no end. Instead of making vague statements
tell me how to do it...
Robert
Anonymous Broadcast:
I suggest re-terminating the game. I think the termination was undone by
one of not-so-helpful observers.
Broadcast from Master:
> I suggest re-terminating the game. I think the termination was undone by
> one of not-so-helpful observers.
Ok, so I just did that. Now how can I prevent somebody to resume the game
again?
Robert
Broadcast from Observer:
>Why don't we do this....
>
>Turkey, from 1904, was Michael H. Ross ([email protected])
Germany from S1901M was Dan Percival ([email protected]),
as was this particular Observer from after F1910M.
Now... could someone please tell me what happened? :)
I resigned my post as Germany so that whichever Austria it was who
entered that huge list of proxies in F1910M could signon and get the
goofy points s/he deserved. I gave h/h a day or two to take over my
position, and then tried to signon as Austria. I was brutally rejected
by a heartless machine (*grin*). Assuming that Austria had not yet
taken over Germany, I attempted to come back to my German position.
Again, no such luck. Therefore, I am now sitting in the Observer
position, idly wondering who won and such...
Sincerely,
Broadcast from Observer:
> Summary of game 'goofy' through F1910R.
>
> Austria: Rick Desper [email protected]
> from S1909M: Avi Pfeffer [email protected]
> England:
> from F1910R: Avi Pfeffer [email protected]
> France:
> from S1903M: Avi Pfeffer [email protected]
> Italy:
> from F1907M: Rick Desper [email protected]
*wave* Hello, Rick and Avi! Fancy meeting you here.... *grin*
Sincerely,
Dan Percival.
Broadcast from Italy:
There is no way to terminate the game which prevents obnoxious
observers from restarting it. However, if you terminate it again,
maybe they'll behave better now :)
Also, you could set the deadline to next Januaray (or April). This
would at least make sure nobody started the game up while you were
away, and forced us to lose ded. points for this silly thing.
Rick
Broadcast from Italy:
Robert, did you ever tally the Goofy votes? I'm wondering who won.
Rick
Broadcast from Observer:
Wouldn't it be goofiest not to bother with the points after all?
Broadcast from Master:
Dear players,
I'm still underway to work on the results. Please stay patient; I hope
to complete it within the next 36 hours. Sorry for being quite busy
elsewhere at the moment.
Robert
Broadcast from Master:
----- Begin Included Message -----
>From [email protected] Tue May 10 19:56:16 1994
From: [email protected]
Sender: "irishpete"
To: [email protected]
Date: Tue, 10 May 94 13:56:43 EDT
Subject: goofy EOG
End of Game statement from England, 'goofy'
I had a blast. I didn't keep the turn records so I won't write a detailed,
move-by-move report, but I was consistently surprised at the inventiveness of
the other players. My unfamiliarity with the Judge meant that most of the
time I was trying out possibilities which had occured to everyone else a turn
or turn before!
I pride myself on maintaining certain accomplishments for England: not
entering the Mid-Atlantic until the final year of the game; repeatedly
attempting to allow occupation of my home centers; never taking two centers
from one power and never fighting over neutrals; and, as befits the finest
navy in Europe, having more failed convoys than any other power.
But I certainly learned more than I taught. Thanks to everyone for the fun,
especially to Freddie and to GM Robert.
Pete Gaughan, The Silly English (and later French) K-nnnn-ighit!
----- End Included Message -----
Broadcast from Master:
Well, here it comes: The results of the first (and perhaps only :-)
game of the goofy variant. And the winner is (ta-dah, drum roll):
Rick Desper
Congratulations, Rick! According to my rules you may call yourself
"Goofy of the Year".
A special goofiness beauty award goes to Dan Percival who achieved the
most pure goofiness points (more than 90% of his total).
Details can be read in the appendix.
As the GM I want to thank all of you for a very entertaining game that
showed twists in the judge never worked out before. I will try and
collect a list of goofy things that happened and broadcast it soon.
Thanks again for participating,
Robert
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Appendix:
Now for the technical stuff (long live Excel :-) and how I assigned the
points to players:
Replacements are considered together with the player they replaced unless
there was a switching between two players. Two switchings occurred during
the game (and are the reason why the GP table contains two entries for
1907 and 1909):
1) Between the moves of spring 1907 and fall 1907 Rick Desper and Rick
Westerman switched Austria and Italy.
2) Between the first move for spring 1909 and the second move for spring
1909 Rick Westerman and Avi Pfeffer switched Italy and France.
Goofy points are assigned to the player ordering the move; SC points are
assigned to the player controlling that country during the winter of that
year.
| Supply Centers |
| Austria | England | France | Germany | Italy | Russia | Turkey |
| 1901 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
| 1902 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 4 |
| 1903 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 3 |
| 1904 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 4 |
| 1905 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 7 | 5 |
| 1906 | 3 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 9 | 3 | 5 |
| 1907 | 3 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 9 | 3 | 7 |
| 1908 | 1 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 9 | 4 | 7 |
| 1909 | 0 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 12 | 1 | 7 |
| 910 | 0 | 8 | 5 | 0 | 10 | 2 | 9 |
| Goofiness Points |
| Austria | England | France | Germany | Italy | Russia | Turkey |
| 1901 | 13 | 21 | 12 | 26 | 16 | 18 | 6 |
| 1902 | 24 | 10 | 16 | 27 | 10 | 12 | 11 |
| 1903 | 24 | 19 | 12 | 17 | 19 | 2 | 19 |
| 1904 | 18 | 11 | 25 | 16 | 16 | 6 | 16 |
| 1905 | 13 | 24 | 10 | 25 | 13 | 11 | 16 |
| 1906 | 6 | 9 | 12 | 24 | 7 | 21 | 23 |
| 1907a | 5 | 30 | 16 | 13 | 4 | 15 | 18 |
| 1907b | 4 | | | | 7 | | |
| 1908 | 17 | 10 | 21 | 15 | 16 | 20 | 13 |
| 1909a | 10 | 27 | 11 | 20 | 15 | 21 | 20 |
| 1909b | 28 | | 16 | | | | |
| 1910 | 0 | 16 | 16 | 16 | 20 | 23 | 9 |
| Point Totals |
| Who | Rick Desper | Pete Gaughan | Tom Barringter/
Avi Pfeffer | Daniel N. Percival | Rick Westerman | Dave Bax | Del Michael H. Ross |
| GP | 171 | 177 | 163 | 199 | 48 | 149 | 151 |
| SC | 99 | 90 | 55.5 | 33 | 63 | 67.5 | 84 |
| Total | 270 | 267 | 218.5 | 232 | 211 | 216.5 | 235 |
| Rank | 1 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 7 | 6 | 3 |
| Just as an information: The results if each owned SC would have been worth 0, 1 or 2 points |
| Who | Rick Desper | Pete Gaughan | Tom Barringter/
Avi Pfeffer | Daniel N. Percival | Rick Westerman | Dave Bax | Del Michael H. Ross |
| SC 1 | 66 | 60 | 37 | 22 | 42 | 45 | 56 |
| SC 2 | 132 | 120 | 74 | 44 | 84 | 90 | 112 |
| Sum 1 | 237 | 237 | 200 | 221 | 190 | 194 | 207 |
| Sum 2 | 303 | 297 | 237 | 243 | 232 | 239 | 263 |
| Rank 0 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 7 | 6 | 5 |
| Rank 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 7 | 6 | 4 |
| Rank 2 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 4 | 7 | 5 | 3 |
Broadcast from Germany:
Ha-ha. I lose the game. That is goofy in anybody's book and thus makes me
the winner and "Goofy of the Year". But then, because I won I really lose
and thus ...
-- Rick Westerman
Broadcast from Master:
Actions that struck me as very goofy during this game (in random order
just as they come to my mind):
Russia's idea of traveling around Switzerland with all his units and
trying to return home just in time. He succeeded with one army, but
could have almost succeeded with his two fleets as well!
Surprise proxies to others as a way to have a NMR in a non-NMR game.
Helping others into one's own SC.
Supporting yourself in a move (like in A Bur S A Bur-Mun).
Missed supports or convoys from your own units.
Austria having the most fleets around at one time.
Austria having his armies all in Africa.
Having your units move away from home as fast as possible, desperately
trying to make it to the corners.
The "You first" syndrome (e.g. A Vie S A Gal-Bud, A Gal S A Vie-Bud).
Entering proxy orders, then going CD on purpose but having the judge
process the proxy orders just because they were there. (Quite a compli-
cated task to come up with, to perform and obviously also to describe :-)
Switching nations in a game (an absolute NoNo in normal games).
Replaying a move as soon as the chance arose, also an absolute NoNo in
normal games (a nice judge programmer proved helpful with providing
the chance :-)
Annoying the GM by endless lists of proxy orders that he gets every
time he gets some acknowledgement from the judge (I'm very happy that
Rick came up with that idea that late in the game. Probably it annoyed
him as much as me, since he got all his proxies listed in every ack'
just like me :-).
Certainly you remember other goofy stuff; please feel free to add to
my list.
Robert
Broadcast from Germany:
Other goofy items:
Supporting oneself to another province (paris s paris - bur)
Didn't someone successfully write a support order to move a unit
to Switzerland?
Trying to occupy all 7 capitals. Although I still think a 'headbutt'
would have been better.
-- Rick Westerman
Broadcast from Italy:
I liked the convoy to Switzerland. Very inventive. After I saw it
used here, I used a variation in the game Shuppan, where I ordered my
fleets to convoy forces both to Switzerland and the Himalayas. (I am
fairly sure this is the only time the word "Himalayas" has ever
appeared in a Judge report.)
I liked the war against the GM, the Jeep Jackrobert, the French Civil
War, the Turkish convoy of my army into his capital (which was erased
in the Time Warp!), the Turkish army in England, the Russian fleets
moving through the MAO, the German signature...
I'm a bit embarrassed, after having spent half the game whining about
SC points, to end up winning because of them. *blush* I had felt Dan
was a lock to win this game, and I think he deserves recognition for
getting the most goofy points. A valiant finish by the Pete should
also be recognized.
So, *snicker*, Nick, do I get HoF points for this? I think it would
be hilarious if I were to get into Hall94 based on this game. :)
Seriously, I think I will try to content myself with the title "The
Goofball of Internet Diplomacy."
Rick
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Broadcast from Observer:
>Broadcast message from Germany in 'goofy':
HEY! That's MY country....*grin*
>Other goofy items:
> Didn't someone successfully write a support order to move a unit
>to Switzerland?
Yep, that would be me. In 1901 or 1902, I convoyed a French army to
Switzerland. Too bad the silly guy didn't write the corresponding
order.... :)
Sincerely,
Dan Percival.
Broadcast from France:
> I'm a bit embarrassed, after having spent half the game whining
> about SC points, to end up winning because of them. *blush*
You should be! I was quite relieved to see that my position would have been
first or second no matter what value was laid on SCs. I felt I was pretty
ungoofy several turns and would never recover in other players' eyes.
Excellent work by the little guys (Austria, Germany) and I wish more of the
press had been white so that could have been recognized also.
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