Re: DIS: Hall of Fame

2007-11-03 Thread Ed Murphy
OscarMeyr wrote: On Oct 31, 2007, at 2:45 AM, Ed Murphy wrote: For the record, here is as much history of winners as I've been able to construct (mostly from the AWJ archives): 10/08/97 Steve (thrice), Andre (thrice), Morendil [proposal] 03/18/98 Blob, elJefe, General Chaos, Steve, Swann 05

Re: DIS: Hall of Fame

2007-11-03 Thread Benjamin Schultz
On Oct 31, 2007, at 2:45 AM, Ed Murphy wrote: For the record, here is as much history of winners as I've been able to construct (mostly from the AWJ archives): 10/08/97 Steve (thrice), Andre (thrice), Morendil [proposal] 03/18/98 Blob, elJefe, General Chaos, Steve, Swann 05/12/98 Murphy [poi

DIS: Hall of Fame

2007-10-31 Thread Kerim Aydin
Zefram wrote: > Player shall instead receive the Patent Title "Champion*X Ah, so these are distinct patent titles and must be reported as such, not just the title "champion" with a lost *'d explanatory footnote and score. Thanks. -Goethe

Re: DIS: Hall of Fame

2007-10-31 Thread Ian Kelly
On 10/31/07, Kerim Aydin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Murphy wrote: > > 02/24/06 root, Goethe, Eris [hands of cards] > > 03/18/07 Murphy [hand of cards] > > 05/22/07 HP2 [proposal] > > 08/21/07 Levi [points] > > 10/28/07 AFO [points] > > A pair of paradoxes is permissible to purport during t

Re: DIS: Hall of Fame

2007-10-31 Thread Zefram
Addendum: here's the actual text implementing handicap factors, from rule 724/0: The Winner is the first Voter to achieve sufficiently many Points. The minimum number of Points required for Player X to win is 10*N*(1+G/6), where N is the number of Players currently registe

Re: DIS: Hall of Fame

2007-10-31 Thread Zefram
Kerim Aydin wrote: >Side note: Anyone have insights into the weird stars and fractions >reported for these ancient champions: Yes. In the early days, when wins were primarily by points, people who had previously won received a handicap to make it more difficult to win again. Someone who had won

DIS: Hall of Fame

2007-10-31 Thread Kerim Aydin
Murphy wrote: > 02/24/06 root, Goethe, Eris [hands of cards] > 03/18/07 Murphy [hand of cards] > 05/22/07 HP2 [proposal] > 08/21/07 Levi [points] > 10/28/07 AFO [points] A pair of paradoxes is permissible to purport during this period. Or is that your "hand of cards" win that you cite well

Re: DIS: Hall of Fame

2007-10-31 Thread Ian Kelly
On 10/31/07, Zefram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ed Murphy wrote: > >03/18/07 Murphy [hand of cards] > > This date has to be wrong. Cards were repealed last year. Indeed, it was 3/18/06. -root

Re: DIS: Hall of Fame

2007-10-31 Thread Zefram
Ed Murphy wrote: >03/18/07 Murphy [hand of cards] This date has to be wrong. Cards were repealed last year. -zefram

DIS: Hall of Fame

2007-10-30 Thread Ed Murphy
For the record, here is as much history of winners as I've been able to construct (mostly from the AWJ archives): 10/08/97 Steve (thrice), Andre (thrice), Morendil [proposal] 03/18/98 Blob, elJefe, General Chaos, Steve, Swann 05/12/98 Murphy [points] 07/08/01 Elysion [points] 02/18/02 Goethe