NewsThanks to various folks who sent me test suites or implementations for the Triangle Classification problem (posted to the mailing list recently). So far there have been about 10 RussCon participants and only 2 from my office. Which makes me happy about RussCon people and sad about my coworkers. I'll write up a report of the results; there were a few interesting lessons to be learned! Stay tuned. Someone (I think Dudley) suggested I might make a semiregular software exercise like that, which sounds like a potentially fun idea. I already have some ideas for future events.I also noticed that there is such a thing on Kuro5hin, with the current one (an interesting little compression problem) moderated by Thad (with whom I've played email go). The deadline for that has been extended to Monday July 15, should you wish to participate. I've been restoring my computer this week after wiping the drive to replace Win98 with Win2K. What a long tedious hassle! I'm keeping better notes this time of what all I installed and where it came from and any nonobvious info needed to install it. We'll see how long that process lasts... |
| MammaMia | 5 | Daniel 4 Dan 2 William -1 Allen -1 Dudley -4 |
| Cosmic | 4 | Dudley 2 Allen 2 JonathanC -1 William -3 |
| TrainsportSwitzerland | 5 | JeffF 4 RussW 2 MarkH 0 Steve -2 JP -4 |
| Carcassonne | 5 | Daniel 4 Clayton 2 Fred 0 Dan -2 MarkY -4 |
| Settlers | 4 | Clayton 3 MarkY 1 Dan -1 JimG -3 |
| Tichu | 2 | ( Daniel Fred ) 1 ( Whindy Deborah ) -1 |
| Drakon | 2 | JonathanC 1 Dudley -1 |
| Cosmic | 6 | Dudley 3 RussD 3 PJ 3 JonathanC -3 Allen -3 William -3 |
| Exxtra | 4 | Allen 3 PJ 1 RussD -1 William -3 |
| Carcassonne | 4 | JP 3 RussW 1 MarkH -1 Steve -3 |
| Samarkand | 5 | Deborah 4 Daniel 2 Whindy 0 Fina -2 Fred -4 |
| Tichu | 2 | ( Dan JimG ) 1 ( MarkY JeffF ) -1 |
| Babel | 2 | Allen 1 Deborah -1 |
| WebOfPower | 4 | Steve 3 PJ 1 RussW -1 Fina -3 |
| Ra | 3 | JonathanC 2 Dudley 0 JP -2 |
It had been a while since I'd played Trainsport. Early on I think I did too many turns of building more than 2 tracks (which costs more money), and worried I was going to finish with less money than I started and end up in last place (as used to happen to me all the time in Trainsport). However, JeffF espoused a theory that whoever's balance reaches the lowest point deserves to win (some kind of rebound effect, or you have to spend money to make money)... as it happens, JeffF and I both managed to hit $0 at one point, and we finished 1st and 2nd. Coincidence? You be the judge.
I see 2-player Drakon happened again. I want to do more of that; it was fun. And another game of Babel... 2-player games are on a roll lately!
Meta Party GameDudley was the Meta Devil. Here is the Meta Party Game he mailed out:Here was the handy little card Dudley made: Daniel brought a variety of foods including cupcakes. JimG prepared some tasty oven-melted cheese and tortillas, and I made some guacamole. Various other foods were supplied and consumed as well. Due to his food and his superior loud proclaiming, Daniel earned a whopping 85 meta points and easily achieved Meta Devilhood. So Daniel will design next week's Meta Game! |
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Antietam, Burgoo
King Crimson, Larks' Tongues in Aspic
Lard, Pure Chewing Satisfaction
Red Hot Chili Peppers, One Hot Minute
The Smiths, Meat is Murder
It's another of those pesky meta soundtracks!
New Multiplicative Rank Ratings: 4.6052 100.0000 Daniel (4 games played) 2.0794 8.0000 Clayton (2) 1.7918 6.0000 Allen (5) 1.5041 4.5000 PJ (3) 0.9163 2.5000 JeffF (2) 0.6931 2.0000 JonathanC (4) 0.6931 2.0000 RussW (3) 0.2877 1.3333 Dan (4) 0.2877 1.3333 RussD (2) 0.2231 1.2500 Deborah (3) -0.4055 0.6667 MarkH (2) -0.6931 0.5000 JimG (2) -0.6931 0.5000 Steve (3) -0.6931 0.5000 Whindy (2) -0.9163 0.4000 Dudley (5) -0.9163 0.4000 Fred (3) -1.3218 0.2667 JP (3) -1.8971 0.1500 MarkY (3) -2.0794 0.1250 Fina (2) -3.7534 0.0234 William (4) |
New Multiplicative Win Ratings: 3.6889 40.0000 Daniel won 3 of 4 1.8563 6.4000 Allen won 3 of 5 1.1632 3.2000 Clayton won 1 of 2 0.9163 2.5000 JeffF won 1 of 2 0.8755 2.4000 Steve won 1 of 3 0.7577 2.1333 JP won 1 of 3 0.4055 1.5000 JimG won 1 of 2 0.4055 1.5000 JonathanC won 2 of 4 0.4055 1.5000 RussD won 1 of 2 0.2469 1.2800 Fred won 1 of 3 0.2231 1.2500 Deborah won 1 of 3 0.1178 1.1250 PJ won 1 of 3 0.0645 1.0667 Dudley won 2 of 5 -0.0408 0.9600 Dan won 1 of 4 -0.5108 0.6000 Fina won 0 of 2 -0.5108 0.6000 MarkH won 0 of 2 -0.7985 0.4500 RussW won 0 of 3 -0.9163 0.4000 Whindy won 0 of 2 -1.2040 0.3000 MarkY won 0 of 3 -1.8971 0.1500 William won 0 of 4 |
Daniel is the Devil! Allen is Vice-Devil. Clayton is Vice-Vice-Devil. William is the Generous Angel.
For those curious about overall game stats, here are the current most-played RussCon games over the last 4.5 years:
10 58 Brawl 9 71 Euphrates 8 71 Vampire 7 87 Can'tStop 6 90 Guillotine 5 94 ZirkusFlohcati 4 117 Settlers 3 122 Tichu 2 150 Carcassonne 1 180 Bluff
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