On Sat, Jun 6, 2020 at 10:54 PM Aris Merchant via agora-discussion <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Sat, Jun 6, 2020 at 6:59 PM Publius Scribonius Scholasticus via > agora-discussion <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > On Jun 6, 2020, at 21:51, Reuben Staley via agora-discussion < > > [email protected]> 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
I like FRCs, and I have really enjoyed that in the past, but I also think that we should try to be experimental with tournaments given the limited frequency with which they occur. Diplonomic seems interesting, and rules already exist for it, which we could modify to suit our needs. At BlogNomic, we've also recently been playing a side game of Rumble (https://kevan.org/rumble.cgi?genre=hero&mode=rules), which could also be an interesting choice although that does use more private information than we tend to like over here at Agora.
