http://www.dipsters.org/forum/tags/f2f First please read the post, "Welcome! Using the Forum". en-US Fri, 10 Sep 2010 09:37:43 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q http://www.dipsters.org/forum/search.php http://www.dipsters.org/forum/topic/feed-the-face-to-face-hobby#post-13 Mon, 10 Aug 2009 09:18:17 +0000 Chris Babcock 13@http://www.dipsters.org/forum/ <p>I would really like to start seeing the online Diplomacy leading to more face to face games. Right now there's a couple obstacles to this. The biggest are these:</p> <p>On play-by-email servers, in which category I include DPjudge and the nJudge wrappers on USAK because neither platform allows you to play without a valid email address, people don't network because there is no social structure set up around the games... yet.</p> <p>On play-by-web servers, the social networks exist, but conversion to face to face play is restricted by a misguided notion of privacy that asks people to use names like "HellR@zor" and "swift2plunder" as opposed to real names.</p> <p>I'm hoping that efforts like my own on USAK and Alan's here will lead to a new best of breed of Diplomacy communications - a social network for the hobby that uses real names and where privacy is best served by not behaving regrettably. It's not that far off, really.</p> <p>I'm hoping that one outcome of this might be the ability to get together some face to face games.</p> <p>Chris </p> http://www.dipsters.org/forum/topic/a-story-a-question-and-invitation-and-a-challenge#post-143 Wed, 27 Jan 2010 10:16:21 +0000 Jonathan Powles 143@http://www.dipsters.org/forum/ <p>Those of you who are playing in or watching 'balance'will know the story:</p> <p>Last Saturday, after six years playing online, I finally took the plunge and played my first game of face-to-face Diplomacy. I went to Sydney and entered the Australian Diplomacy Championships. I had lots of fun, lots of luck, quite a wrestle with the current Australian and [cough] World Champion, and ended up finishing second in the tournament.</p> <p>Even better, even though I finished second, I won the first prize ... ?!? ... The tounament director, Thorin Munro, ended up winning with the only solo of the tournament, even though he was technically filling up the numbers. So, according to the rules that say the TD can't win the prizes, while he is new and deserved Australian Champion, I win the prize - a free trip to the World Diplomacy Championships in Den Haag, Holland, in August. How come we don't have these sort of prizes for Dipsters games, Alan? ;-)</p> <p>So, now the question: are any of you going to the WDC in The Hague, August 19-22?</p> <p>If the answer is yes, then here comes the invitation. As many of you who have played with me in Dipsters press games will know, I have often made rash promises to buy my opponents a beer in return for a favour - a good stab; support to Munich ... I have made these promises safe in the knowledge that we are a hemisphere apart. :-)</p> <p>Well, August 22 is my birthday, and Dutch beer is the best, so anyone from Dipsters who is going to the WDC who wants to turn up to the pub in Holland and who can make a case that I owe them a beer, will get one. If not, I'll buy them one anyway for reading this far. :-)</p> <p>And now the challenge. I have posted this on the dipsters.org forum and on the yahoo forum, with one crucial difference. The challange is to spot the difference. It's in your interest!</p> <p>Proost!</p> <p>Jonathan </p> http://www.dipsters.org/forum/topic/uk-f2f-dip#post-6 Fri, 07 Aug 2009 00:03:19 +0000 Dave Simpson 6@http://www.dipsters.org/forum/ <p>I know that this might be a cheely post this early in an online Dip forum, but please hear me out! </p> <p>I played in the UK NDC (at ManorCon) last month and we had a grand total of 8 players over the three days. One Board, for the UK Championship! I spoke to a few people after that and have decided to try to get things going F2F in the UK, before it is too late. </p> <p>So, if you are a UK resident or even if you just plan to visit the UK and would like to have a go at Dip F2F, competitively or not so competitively, then there's a new group just for you...<br /> <a href="http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/ukf2fdip/" rel="nofollow">http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/ukf2fdip/</a></p> <p>Hope to see you there. </p> <p>Cheers,</p> <p>Dave. </p>