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Greg Strong wrote on Tue, May 16, 2017 12:33 AM UTC:

Ok, I think we're up to 8 players.  Erik expressed interest during one of our games, and John Davis emailed me.

Regarding format, I thought allowing each pair of players to decide on games without requiring everyone to play the same thing would increase the chances of players playing games that they liked.  But two people have spoken against this idea, and none have spoken in favor, so scratch that.  We will still play one game from each category, but everyone will be playing the same games.  Also, I think this change basically means there's no fair way to do category 8, so that's gone also.  But since we have 8 players, I think 7 categories works out well - each player plays one game in each category and plays against every other player in exactly one game.

Now, to select the game from each category ...  I'd like everyone to rank the games in each category from most preferred to least preferred.  I will assign points accordingly, and add up the results.  You can post here, or you can email me if you prefer not to rank them publicly (mageofmaple@gmail.com.)

Here are my rankings (starting with game I'd most like to the game I'd least like):

1. FRC, Switching, Berolina, Extinction, Marseillais

2. Shogi, Xiangqi, Makruk, Jangii

3. Victorian, Embassy, Grotesque, Capablanca, Janus

4. Opulent, Unicorn Great, Eurasian, Grand, Omega

5. Cylindrical, Glinski's, McCooey's, Diamond, Circular

6. Grande Acedrex, Courier Chess, Shatranj, Chu Shogi, Los Alamos

7. Pocket Mutation, CwDA, Wildebeest, Alice, Ultima


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