On 6/6/2020 7:54 PM, Aris Merchant wrote: > On Sat, Jun 6, 2020 at 6:59 PM Publius Scribonius Scholasticus wrote: >>> On Jun 6, 2020, at 21:51, Reuben Staley wrote: >>> >>> I believe it's time to discuss this year's Birthday Tournament. We can >> either do the FRC tournament as we have done in years past, or something >> completely different. I made a proto-Tournament for an Arcadia-style game >> about a year ago. Don't know if the Agoran Community would be interested in >> something like that, but it's a possibility. >>> >>> There's been a lot of list traffic recently, so I apologize for bringing >> yet another thing up. If the H. Herald does not have time to coordinate a >> Birthday Tournament, I, as the Speaker, would be fine setting things up. >>> >>> To the rest of the public, what do you think? What sounds fun? Let's >> talk. >>> >>> -- >>> Trigon >> >> Thanks for the offer, but I am happy to handle it as usual. I’ve been >> knocking around a few ideas, but I don’t have any particularly good ones >> yet, so I’m very open to ideas. The only thought that I’ve had that I >> thought was even worth sharing was some sort of academic tournament either >> as a NaNoWriMo-style event for writing scholarship about Agora or as a >> strai competition for producing the best scholarship. >> >> >> I see that R. Lee has proposed Flabby Bird. I don’t plan to run any >> tournament in that format because it would require significant activity >> off-list. > > > FRCs are always popular. I mention them because they and blitz nomic (that > was before my time) are the only birthday tournaments that I know of that > haven't totally flopped. It seems that Agorans like nomic, and the way to > get them involved is to create more nomic rather than something else. We've > done FRCs the last two years; maybe a blitz nomic? > > -Aris >
Diplonomic (a combination of Diplomacy and nomic - backstabby!)
