March 28 2001 RussCon Report


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Meta Party Game Results
Evening's Soundtrack
Ratings
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I have acquired a digital camera finally! So maybe I'll remember to take some pictures of RussCon.


Game Results

6Nimmt10BobR 9 JP 7 RussW 5 Marty 3 Clay 1 Tim -1 MattF -3 WendyWhe -5 Dan -7 JeffF -9
Carcassonne4Bob 2 Jeffles 2 Clayton -1 Brady -3
Vampire3Clayton 2 WendyWhi 0 Carly -2
Fishy5Bob 4 Jeffles 2 Brady 0 Matt -2 Marty -4
Fishy4Bob 3 Clay 1 Matt -1 Brady -3
Carcassonne5RussW 4 JP 2 WendyWhe 0 BobR -2 Clay -4
Hearts4Tim 3 Dan 1 MattF -1 JeffF -3
Vampire3RussW 2 Marty 0 Clayton -2
Fishy4Clay 3 Bob 0 Brady 0 Matt -3
Guillotine3Bob 2 Brady 0 Clayton -2
Rainbows4RussW 3 Matt 0 Clay 0 Dan -3
Andromeda5Jeffles 4 Bob 2 Carly 0 JP -2 WendyWhi -4
Mu4JeffF 3 Tim 1 Marty -1 MattF -3
Knights3Brady 2 Daniel -1 Dan -1
DragonMaster4Daniel 3 Kara 1 RussD -1 JonathanB -3
6Nimmt4Daniel 3 JP 1 Brady -1 Marty -3
HookOrCrook5Dan 4 Jeffles 2 WendyWhi 0 Carly -3 BobR -3
AufHellerUndPfennig3Matt 2 RussW 0 Bob -2
LostCities2JP 1 Brady -1
Exxtra4Carly 3 Dan 1 Jeffles -1 WendyWhi -3
6Nimmt5Matt 4 Dan 2 RussW 0 Carly -2 WendyWhi -4
Spades2( MattF Tim ) 1 ( JeffF RussD ) -1
Bluff5WendyWhi 4 Matt 2 Carly 0 RussW -2 Marty -4

Again 6 Nimmt is popular, perhaps because we discovered it can be pronounced "Sex Nymph".

carcassonneCarcassonne of course continues its reign of popularity.

There was some cheesy repeated playing of Fishy, an Alan Moon White Wolf game. I heard various specific titles from the Fishy box were played, so if anyone can tell me which ones instead of just "Fishy" I will update the database.

Auf Heller und Pfennig is a good tile placement game, even if Matt did kick me and Bob's butts.

Oddly, Spades had never been played at RussCon until now. For some reason it was a heavy night for trick-taking games with Spades, Hearts, Dragon Master, and Mu. Too bad Marty didn't bring Tricks (the Alan Moon White Wolf trick-taking game).


Meta Party Game Results

Marty was the Meta Party Devil. Here is the Meta Party Game he emailed out:

Today's Meta Game is based on a weighted point system. You get 1 point for every game played, except Knizia games which are worth 2 points, Alan R. Moon games which are worth 3 points, and finally White Wind Alan Moon games which are worth 5 points each. Whoever has the most points is the Meta Devil. Ties are broken by # of Alan Moon games, then Knizia games. If it's still a tie, then I guess we have a joint Meta Devilhood.
Trained RussCon technicians computed the scores (and wished they'd made Marty compute the scores):
24 Matt 22 Bob 20 Brady 17 Clay 13 RussW 12 Dan 12 Jeffles 11 Marty 10 Carly 10 WendyWhi 7 JP 6 Clayton 4 JeffF 4 MattF 4 Tim 3 BobR 3 Daniel 2 RussD 2 WendyWhe 1 JonathanB 1 Kara
So Matt is the Meta Party Devil and will email out next week's Meta Party Game!

Evening's Soundtrack

The Doors, The Doors
The Doors, Morrison Hotel
The Doors, L.A. Woman
The Doors, The Best of
The Doors, In Concert

If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.
--William Blake


Ratings

Rank ratings:
 0.6250 Daniel (3 games played)
 0.5238 Bob (7)
 0.5000 Jeffles (5)
 0.4286 RussW (7)
 0.4286 JP (5)
 0.3333 Kara (1)
 0.2500 Tim (4)
 0.2353 BobR (3)
 0.0870 Matt (7)
 0.0455 Clay (5)
-0.1071 Dan (7)
-0.1905 Carly (6)
-0.2857 Brady (8)
-0.3333 WendyWhi (6)
-0.3333 Clayton (4)
-0.3600 Marty (6)
-0.3750 MattF (4)
-0.3846 WendyWhe (2)
-0.5000 RussD (2)
-0.6250 JeffF (4)
-1.0000 JonathanB (1)

New Win ratings:
 0.6250 Daniel (3)
 0.4118 BobR (3)
 0.3810 Bob (7)
 0.1786 RussW (7)
 0.1667 Jeffles (5)
 0.1250 Tim (4)
 0.0435 Matt (7)
 0.0000 JeffF (4)
-0.0455 Clay (5)
-0.0476 WendyWhi (6)
-0.0714 Dan (7)
-0.0952 Carly (6)
-0.1250 MattF (4)
-0.1429 JP (5)
-0.1538 WendyWhe (2)
-0.2222 Clayton (4)
-0.2400 Marty (6)
-0.2857 Brady (8)
-0.3333 Kara (1)
-0.3333 JonathanB (1)
-0.5000 RussD (2)
Daniel is the Devil! Bob is Vice-Devil. I am Vice-Vice-Devil. Squeaky appears to have pulled off the rare and dangerous Reverse Brady Maneuver! And speaking of Brady, he wins the Dedicated Award.

BTW thanks to Marty for pointing out last week that WendyWhi not Jeffles was a Co-Vice-Devil.


Links

Screenshots has cool art: "A series of drawings from an isometric perspective, in the style of a computer game".

Starting your own dotcom? eNormicon will help you establish your unique corporate brand.

An interesting New Scientist article about Gregory Chaitin and the foundations of mathematics.

Fart music egreeting cards.


Ask and it shall be given...
thanks, Dan!

Russ

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