The Extra Large Tournament

Scott Hardie | August 26, 2009
The tournament to decide the winner of Round XL (forty of these things we've done? wow) has begun. Good luck, players! We almost had a 14th competitor, but she was pushed out of the standings at the last minute, so this thing is apparently already fierce. :-)

I had planned to alter the rules a little for this tournament to force one or more eliminations daily, but I've been thinking about the game a lot in recent days, and I want to take this in a different direction. Rather than reprogram the game just for one tournament, I'll leave the rules as they have been for the last few rounds. I'll share more details about the future of the game after the tournament.

I need a break from the game, and I think you players need a break from the game, so I plan to go back to having a hiatus between rounds, at least for now. The point was to retain players who forgot to come back after a round ended, but I don't really think that's happening. If anything, the super-hard goos at the end of each round are driving players away more than any hiatus.

More details to come. Enjoy the competition!

Scott Hardie | August 29, 2009
Congrats, Russ! Your fifth victory makes you the second-winningest player overall and a force to be reckoned with in this game. You've now won four tournaments within the last two years, which earns you a lot of bragging rights. Cheers. :-)

As I mentioned above, let's take a break from goos. I have some plans for the game that I want to enact by the time we start again. No, it won't be anything radical like the failed ajax version of the game last September; I learned my lesson from that.

I'm glad I didn't program in all of my planned rule tweaks for the tournament, since they would not have mattered; other than eliminating one player yesterday from the six, the exact same outcome would have happened today.

Richard Slominsky | August 30, 2009
Russ.. Congrats!

I was hoping that no one was going to get that one. I wanted another day... You deserve the tournament and the bragging rights!!

Again......CONGRATS!!