Melankolia No-press Tournament

News

Final round and the whole tournament is over!

See some fancy statistics from round one.

Information

Read the rules for more detailed description, but in short: MNPT is a small e-mail Diplomacy-tournament. All the games are no-press gunboat ie. players' identities are concealed and there will be no communication between players.

See the scoreboard which also lists all players who are currently registered.

Games

If you want to take a look at the games, I have made a custom login at Observer which includes all tournament games. You can see the maps easily there. Some information will probably appear here as well, but I'll think about that later.

Games will be played on USEF Judge and they will be quick: 24h deadlines each weekday. They are gunboat no-press. If you are not familiar with Judge syntax, go to Diplomatic Pouch where you can learn more. I expect that you will have no problems with Judge when you start the games.

Rules

Officials

Main tournament director is Mikko Saari. All tournament-related correspondence should be directed to diplomacy@melankolia.net.

Rounds

Tournament consists of three rounds. First two rounds are played three games at the same time. The last round is only single game. Scores from the best four games are used to determine the final results. Players are allowed to participate in one, two or three rounds. However, if player participates in rounds one or two, they must play in all three games.

All games are gunboat no-press. All games will end after Fall 1908, when the scores will be calculated.

Final

After two rounds, the seven best players (counting their three best games) will play in final table, which will determine the top three of the tournament. Rest of the positions will be determined by the amount of points.

Scoring

Points will be given according to the C-Diplo scoring system.

1 point from playing.
1 point per supply center.
38 points for the table-topper.
14 points for second place.
7 points for third place.

Winning with 18+ centers gives player 100 points while other players get nothing, tied places share the points. Four players sharing the second place each gain one quarter of 14+7. Scores are rounded to closest half points.

Prizes

Unfortunately, there will be no prizes for winner or for anyone else. If I figure out something, things might change, but I don't promise anything.

Extensions

This is a quick tournament, with 24h deadlines. In theory, one game year should pass in a week if players are reliable and play quickly. Extensions are allowed and given, but for longer times (over week or so) you should get a temporary replacement.

Dropping out of games

If you abandon a game, you will be removed immediately from the tournament and replaced with another player.

Scoreboard

Name Game 1 Game 2 Game 3 Game 4 Game 5 Game 6 Game 7 Total*
Ziethén, Andreas 5 2 3 14 0 1 50 72
Steinhardt, Charles 1 54 1 1 100 1 24 178
Isaksson, Roland 1 26 24 48 22 0 10,5 120
Bradaric, Aleksandar 23 56 4 4 55 1 1 138
Reynolds, C. Warren 18,5 52 10,5 2 0 25 1 106
Mann, Christopher 9,5 8,5 32 4 53 4 10,5 105
Costantino, Gian Paolo 1 1 51 19,5 14 4 - 88,5
Kotlár, Jozef 18,5 13 4 1 14 50 3 95,5
Babinsack, Joe 32 1 4 2 50 0 - 88
Jacques, Romain - - - 3 52 24 - 79
Carlsson, Patrik 20 32 10,5 5 5 2 - 67,5
Yocum, Timothy 1 35 13 1 9,5 9,5 - 67
Siirtola, Aleksi 5 1 2 2 0 50 - 59
Durec, Nathan 2 29 4 19,5 1 5 - 57,5
Velovic, Dusan 5 1 2 0 3 46 - 56
Pillie, Derek 2 1 14 1 16 21 - 53
Weiss, Roger 4 1 26 3 9,5 9,5 - 49
Smith-Erb, Stephen - - - 1 23 4 - 28
Sundin, Lars - - - 4 3 4 - 11
Wolff, Larry 4 1 2 - - - - 7
See, Paul 4 2 1 - - - - 7
Restitutti, Cristiano Corte - 1 4 - - - - 5
Mehaffey, Mike 1 3 1 - - - - 5
Hunton, Matthew 11 ab. ab. - - - - 0
Shave, Edward 48 52 8,5 3 24 12 ab. 0
Charlebois, Christian 1 55 35 26 4 5 ab. 0

* Total is the scores from the three best games before the final and four best games after it. "-" means that the player didn't participate in that round. ab. = abandoned.

Game results

Game name Supply center count in '08 Top three players
mnpt0001 A:0 E:4 F:7 G:0 I:3 R:13 T:7 Edward Shave, Jozef Kotlar, C. Warren Reynolds
mnpt0002 A:0 E:0 F:11 G:1 I:11 R:11 T:0 Patrik Carlsson, Joe Babinsack, Christopher Mann
mnpt0003 A:0 E:14 F:0 G:3 I:0 R:0 T:17 Aleksandar Bradaric, Nathan Durec, Matthew Hunton
mnpt0004 A:5 E:8 F:9 G:1 I:3 R:3 T:5 Edward Shave, Aleksandar Bradaric, Christopher Mann
mnpt0005 A:2 E:15 F:0 G:0 I:6 R:2 T:9 Charles Steinhardt, Roland Isaksson, Derek Pillie
mnpt0006 A:3 E:6 F:3 G:8 I:6 R:0 T:8 Timothy Yocum, Christian Charlebois, C. Warren Reynolds+Patrik Carlsson
mnpt0007 A:0 E:11 F:5 G:0 I:3 R:3 T:12 Gian Paolo Costantino, Roger K. Weiss, Timothy D. Yocum
mnpt0008 A:4 E:1 F:1 G:16 I:4 R:3 T:5 Christian Charlebois, Patrik Carlsson, Christopher Mann+Edward Shave
mnpt0009 A:13 E:11 F:3 G:1 I:5 R:0 T:1 C. Warren Reynolds, Roland Isaksson, Jozef Kotlar
mnpt0010 A:2 E:1 F:9 G:3 I:3 R:8 T:8 Roland Isaksson, Gian Paolo Costantino, Nathan Durec
mnpt0011 A:5 E:11 F:0 G:3 I:10 R:0 T:5 Aleksi Siirtola, C. Warren Reynolds, Timothy Yocum+Roger Weiss
mnpt0012 A:0 E:1 F:8 G:9 I:3 R:2 T:11 Jozef Kotlár, Romain Jacques, Derek Pillie
mnpt0013 A:16 E:6 F:3 G:7 I:1 R:1 T:0 Aleksandar Bradaric, Roland Isaksson, Jozef Kotlár
mnpt0014 A:4 E:3 F:5 G:6 I:4 R:5 T:7 Dusan Velovic, Derek Pillie, Roger K. Weiss+Timothy D. Yocum
mnpt0015 A:2 E:9 F:6 G:4 I:2 R:0 T:11 Joe Babinsack, Edward Shave, Andreas Ziethén
mnpt0016 A:7 E:0 F:0 G:19 I:7 R:0 T:1 Charles Steinhardt, Joe Babinsack+Roland Isaksson
mnpt0017 A:4 E:6 F:14 G:0 I:0 R:2 T:8 Christopher Mann, Stephen Smith-Erb, Gian Paolo Costantino
mnpt0018 A:13 E:11 F:0 G:4 I:3 R:0 T:3 Romain Jacques, Christian Charlebois, Edward Shave
mnpt00tt A:0 E:0 F:9 G:6 I:2 R:6 T:11 Andreas Ziethén, Charles Steinhardt, Roland Isaksson+Christopher Mann

Best country -awards

Country Player Points Game
Austria-Hungary Aleksandar Bradaric 55 mnpt0013
England Charles Steinhardt 54 mnpt0005
France Christopher Mann 53 mnpt0017
Germany Charles Steinhardt 100 mnpt0016
Italy Joe Babinsack 32 mnpt0002
Russia Christopher Mann 32 mnpt0002
Turkey Aleksandar Bradaric 56 mnpt0003

Average scores of powers

  A E F G I R T
SC's 4,44 6,56 4,67 4,72 4,11 2,94 6,67
Points 11,92 17,36 15,00 16,83 7,72 7,89 23,33

German solo victory in mnpt0016 shook this table. Germany got nice boost in the average point score. Austria-Hungary has two good victories, England has one, but lots of good second places, France has three victories, Germany has one good and one excellent victory, Italy has absolutely nothing, Russia has one victory and maybe two second places and finally, Turkey has three victories and lots of good second places. I'd still like to see an Italian victory, currently the best Italia -award is going a bit too cheaply, only 32 points.


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