On Sun, Jun 7, 2020 at 1:04 PM Kerim Aydin via agora-discussion < agora-discussion@agoranomic.org> wrote:
> > On 6/6/2020 7:54 PM, Aris Merchant wrote: > > On Sat, Jun 6, 2020 at 6:59 PM Publius Scribonius Scholasticus wrote: > >>> On Jun 6, 2020, at 21:51, Reuben Staley 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 > > > > Diplonomic (a combination of Diplomacy and nomic - backstabby!) > > Yeah I'd love to see a version of nomic combined with another game, as can easily be done with nomic -- >From R. Lee
