1998 RussCon Reports

• 1/21 -- Evan's last Austin gaming session
• 1/28 -- visiting dignitaries from Chicago
• 2/4 -- my birthday, and lots of ratings philosophizing
• 2/11 -- we foolishly start a Titan game...
• 2/18 -- ...and we finish the Titan game
• 2/25 -- 14 gamers, 3 simultaneous games for first time
• 3/4 -- cumulative rank ratings
• 3/11 -- first appearance of win ratings; more ratings philosophizing
• 3/18 -- ratings philosophizing; cumulative statistics
• 3/25 -- good Rio Grande customer support; cumulative statistics
• 4/1 -- April Fool's RussCon
• 4/8 -- the first partial order diagram of player ratings
• 4/15 -- Tax day, and introduction of dining table rights for the Devil!
• 4/22 -- an attempt to collapse ratings partial order into total order
• 4/29 -- ratings from Sunday gaming as well as Wednesday
• 5/6 -- no RussCon
• 5/13 -- further ratings complications in the quest for a total order; William brings Nunzilla
• 5/20 -- absolutely nothing interesting happens
• 5/27 -- James brings a new lamp
• 6/3 -- Jay gloriously destroys a sheet of glass! Brendan becomes a dad
• 6/10 -- Jay & Tim keep me supplied in plexiglass; first mention of KODT
• 6/17 -- only 7 people, a record low! Randy moves to the middle east
• 6/24 -- 18 people; my CD player was repaired, but speakers still fritzy
• 7/1 -- why the 1812 Overture is associated with July 4; JeffW becomes a dad
• 7/8 -- first mention of RussCon Nomic, and Fight AI Tournament
• 7/15 -- a crucial development: first appearance of Evening's Soundtrack!
• 7/22 -- first Gobelin playtest; first cumulative ratings; more Nomic & Fight AI news
• 7/29 -- RussD moves to Dallas
• 8/5 -- no RussCon
• 8/12 -- I'm back from a week in Santa Fe at the Go Congress
• 8/19 -- more Fight AI
• 8/26 -- philosophical discussion about Guillotine
• 9/2 -- first themed soundtrack; ArmadilloCon; Sea Biscuit is christened
• 9/9 -- Squeaky is christened
• 9/16 -- second themed soundtrack
• 9/23 -- discussion and sample calculations for win ratings
• 9/30 -- the dangers of not having email
• 10/7 -- pre-Halloween ramp-up, costumes urged
• 10/14 -- my AC breaks; Mike married; "Tittie bars are to sex as pro wrestling is to sports."
• 10/21 -- Jay leaves for China to become a dad
• 10/28 -- Halloween; I'm a French maid; Jonobie's a belly dancer; everyone else is a loser
• 11/4 -- discussion of tie victories in Settlers of Catan
• 11/11 -- Sea Biscuit & Dawn take a shower; Settlers ties are not possible
• 11/18 -- first international visitor (Andy from England); "This could very well be a Flash Gordon book."
• 11/25 -- introduction of short notation for game results
• 12/2 -- is Loewenherz flawed? Bryan threatens a visit
• 12/9 -- Dawn's artichoke dip of the gods; go humor
• 12/16 -- warm fuzzies; Bryan the Ovum does not actually visit
• 12/23 -- hey man, it's Xmas!
• 12/30 -- astronomer Mike discovers galaxy-sized fart gas cloud, or something like that

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