Treeburst155

Nidan1, Your allied "Beast" briefings and password have been re-sent to you. Replacements: I will group email all of you at once concerning possible overflow sections. I think we should wait at least a week before setting up the sections. There's a good chance we may have several early withdrawals. It has happened before. So, if you're on the replacement list, hang loose. Any overflow sections would not be subject to the deadlines anyway. Lindan, Send me an email, please. Make the subject, "Signup". In the body type your forum name and the email address you would like to use for tourney related mail. I need to get you on my master list. To all participants, Fight On!! Treeburst155 out.

Attention Tuomas!, Your ISP is rejecting my emails. I'm getting something about "over quota" from your ISP. This is the address I am using: tnummela@cc.hut.fi Ace Pilot, Nobody loses their place on the replacement list until briefings and gamefiles are passed out to the overflow section, thereby blowing FOW. Holien, Get out of bed, and get back to work! Nidan1, Hmmmm.....I'll resend. Hopefully this isn't an ISP problem; but if it is, Kingfish will get the files to you. Lindan, Everybody makes the replacement list. I either never received, or accidently deleted your email. I delete lots of spam every day. Every once in awhile I delete something I shouldn't have, especially if it's from an unknown email address. I try to be careful, but it's entirely possible I messed up. I'm truly sorry if I did this to you. I will add you to the end of the replacement list. Gunnersman, Yes, it is accurate to say you are being "scored on a curve". To All, Every file for every game has been sent out. So far I know of only two problems, Nidan1 and Tuomas. If you did not receive FIVE emails from me with an attachment, let me know ASAP. Thanks!! Treeburst155 out.

Lots to address here.... Nidan1, You should have received briefings and a password ONLY for "The Beast" because you are the Allies in that one. Your German opponent will start the game. You should have received briefings AND a saved game file for "Hosszupalyi", along with a password to open the file. Because you are the Germans in this one, you start the game. You will find yourself in the setup phase. Lindan, 1) JAT 2) Grog Dorosh 3) Redwolf 4) Frunze 5) Cpl Carrot 6) Combined Arms 7) mPisi 8) Bimmer 9) a1steaks 10) Spanish Bombs 11) Thumpre 12) Tuomas 13) TABPUB 14) Mikeydz 15) Holien 16) Juha A 17) Pixelmaster 18) jjelinek 19) Tero 20) The_Capt 21) Ted 22) Bertram 23) Zealotburner 24) Fate 25) Jon_L 26) Mick_OZ 27) John Kettler 28) Kanonier Reichmann 29) MrSpkr 30) TexasToast 31) U8led 32) Cpt T 33) Kunstler 34) Enoch 35) Jeb 36) Scheer 37) Vadr 38) Heavy Drop 39) JPS 40) Sgt_Gold 41) Gunnersman 42) WadePM 43) Lord Dragon 44) Ron A 45) endit 46) Matt Green ROW Newbies admitted: 47) Nidan1 48) Frontovik 49) Red 6 50) Frenchy 51) Legend42 52) Cyrano 53) Jaws 54) Shocktrooper 55) Sgt CDAT 56) Seahawk 57) Lt Bull 58) Space Hamster 59) Sripe 60) Joakim Ruud 61) James Crowley 62) SlicerW 63) Nolloff 64) Steve Fielding 65) StoneAge 66) Joe Cz 67) Deadly 88 68) SuperSlug 69) Ryddle 70) Major Victory 71) Flammenwerfer 72) Wellsonian Replacement List: 1) sgtabell 2) Beckman 3) Ace Pilot 4) Cuzn 5) Mark Gallear 6) White4 7) Diceman 8) Ivan_RU 9) Knaust 10) NotreDame89 11) Tanaka 12) Ratman 13) Liken sgtabell, Chances are you will get in if you pass on an overflow section; but, you never know for sure. Also, there is a good chance you would have to take up games in progress if you get in. They won't be very far along, but you can't get a restart unless your opponent agrees to it. Some of my previous replacements actually LIKE taking over for fallen commanders. It's a tough job though. If I were #1 on the list, I would wait. If I were #3 on the list I would go for the overflow option. If I were #2 on the list, I wouldn't be able to make up my mind. Sign up earlier next time to avoid the dilemma! Scheer, LOL! Fat chance. Holien, Get back to work! I'm off to secure the last three scenarios and begin sending them out. I'm hoping to get two more out today before burnout sets in. Barring some unforseen catastrophe, all files will be delivered by late tomorrow (GMT -6). This will make the Official Game Completion Deadline be Easter Sunday, April 20th!! Treeburst155 out.

Pool table flat maps yield hull-down status to firing vehicles when they are targeting a unit in grain, brush, and rough terrain if the LOS is traced through enough of this terrain. The same applies to area fire. I disagree with hull-down status being granted to vehicles simply because the target unit/point is in these types of terrain for two reasons: 1) A concealed hull (vegetation) is not a hull-down hull to me. The hull is still vulnerable. 2) Hull-down units have trouble doing area fire with HE. The rounds often hit the ground right in front of them. I therefore try to avoid hull-down status when doing area fire with HE. That's how I noticed all this. I will admit I've never seen gross inaccuracy with HE on pool table flat maps however. Perhaps the firing problem only occurs when units are TRULY hull down. On a related point, it is becoming apparent to me that area fire with HE might tend to fire short (low) in ANY situation. I seem to have better luck targetting 7-10 meters or so beyond where I really want the rounds to hit. More testing is needed to be sure about this. If HE IS firing short in general, that might explain why being truly hull down often results in the unit's rounds hitting the ground immediately in front of him. Testing is needed. I hope to get to it soon. Treeburst155 out.

Wait until he bogs his StuG IIIs in scattered trees in DRY conditions! You think he's upset now? You ain't seen nuthin' yet. Still, it would be nice if both players in a QB had the same exact info available at the time they purchase their forces. Am I to understand this is not the case? Treeburst155 out.

All players should have their files for two scenarios at this time. I just received two more scenarios from Kingfish. I will send these out tomorrow. It's a tedious job. I must be very careful that the correct files and passwords go to each player. One slip-up and FOW is trashed for a lot of people. For this reason, I will only send out files when I am fresh. Attention Replacements! This means: 1) sgtabell 2) Beckman 3) Ace Pilot 4) Cuzn 5) Mark Gallear 6) White4 7) Diceman 8) Ivan_RU 9) Knaust 10) NotreDame89 11) Tanaka 12) Ratman 13) Liken Post here if you would like to play in an "overflow section". You should consider the following first: 1)The overflow section(s) would not be eligible for the prizes. 2) You would not be eligible to replace people who withdraw from the main event. We are likely to lose a few over the next 30 days. Most of the games will be in the early stages or not started at all when you take over. Even if underway, your opponent MAY agree to a restart if you want one. You would be passing up this opportunity. 3) If you complete your games in the overflow section(s) in a timely manner you will be an ROW veteran in good standing for future tournaments (if you aren't already). 4) The overflow section(s) will be scored just like the main event, with the section winners announced. You can play in the Finals just like the non-section winners from the main event if you wish. In short, the only difference is that there are no prizes for the overflow section(s). Everything else is the same. Post here if you want to see overflow sections! Treeburst155 out. [ January 07, 2003, 08:57 PM: Message edited by: Treeburst155 ]

This is the new thread for the tournament. As is now customary, and for players' convenience, the first post to the thread contains the tourney manual. If you have a question, the answer is probably here. Treeburst155 out. THE TOURNAMENT MANUAL Once I have 72 players signed up, I will divide them in a random manner (out of a hat) into three separate tourneys of 24 players each. I will then divide each tourney into 4 sections of 6 players each. This will also be done in a random manner. Your section is where the "regular season" action is. You will play one game against each of the people in your section. You will also play each scenario one time. This means you will play five games in the "regular season". The sides you play, and your attack/defend duties could very well come out lopsided. You may play the Germans four times, or you may find yourself defending four times. The only guarantee regarding your matches is that you will play each scenario once, and each member of your section once. The scenarios will be provided by the "Boots & Tracks" design team headed up by Scott Boston. They will be historical/semi-historical scenarios for the most part, and never before seen by the community. The scenarios may or may not be balanced. Don't count on a fair fight! The scoring system will determine balance. It is possible to "lose" the battle, and still win if you perform better than the standard deviation from the median established for that side of the scenario. I will explain how this works later. You do not need to understand the nitty-gritty of the scoring system. You need only be aware of the following: 1) Points for contested VL's will be split down the middle. This means final game scores will always total to 100. There is a very good reason for this I'll not get into now. If you think "gamey" you can probably figure it out. 2) Voluntary surrender is ALWAYS bad. Your opponent gets too many points for all the people he captures. You should always withdraw your people from a hopeless situation. This way you deprive your opponent of capture points. The game will auto-surrender you once your global morale drops to a certain point. Every unit that you successfully withdraw off the map will lower this global morale. Try to have all your people step off the map together once you are near the auto-surrender point. This prevents capture of units who would have made it off, but didn't, due to the auto-surrender. If you score very poorly in relation to the standard deviation from the median for a scenario you will suffer a penalty (your score will be made even worse). This is to discourage surrender and careless play just to get the game over with. If your score is that low compared to others', we assume you surrendered or got purposely stupid. WITHDRAW YOUR TROOPS IF POSSIBLE when faced with a bad situation!! I'm telling you all this because it is quite possible you will find yourself in a very bad situation due to deliberate scenario imbalance. Do not give up!! Withdraw!! The median score for your side of that scenario may only be 20 points. IOW you can "lose" and still win if you get your people to safety so they can fight again another day. 3) Your goal with each scenario is not so much to beat your opponent (could be impossible), but to get the highest score of the 36 people (three tourneys) who play that side of the particular scenario. Again, winning the game (in CM terms) may be virtually impossible due to imbalance. You never know what hand you may be dealt. LAUNCHING THE TOURNEY Each player will receive the schedule for his section only. Where your name is on the LEFT you will play the Allied side for that scenario. Along with the schedule of games you will receive a contact list with all the email addresses of your five opponents. When you receive these, the tourney is officially underway. After this, over the course of the next several days, you will receive an email for each of the five scenarios. For games where you are the Allies you will find two briefing files attached, a general briefing and your Allied briefing. This email will also contain your password for that scenario. Your German opponent will start the game. To open the first file from him you will need to use the password I provide you. This will put you in the Allied setup phase. If you are playing the German side you will also receive a secured saved game file in addition to the two briefings and password. By 'secured' I mean that the briefings have been stripped out, the game begun, and the passwords entered. This is the file you will use to start the PBEM game. It will be a .cme file, not a .txt file. Start the game just as you would any other new PBEM game. The only difference is that you will have to enter the password I provide you. You will find yourself in the Axis setup phase. DEADLINES AND GAME RESULTS REPORTING You will have 100 days to complete your games, starting on the day I send out the last file. This deadline will be strictly enforced! The LOSER reports game results. If you end up being on the weak side of a few unbalanced scenarios you will find yourself having to report most of your games. This is, as they say, tough luck. Game Report email needs to have the subject, "Game Report". The body of the email must contain the following information: Tourney Number (1-3), Scenario Title, Your username on this forum, the side you played, your score, your opponent's username and his score. The body of the email should then look like this if you are Fred: Tourney 1, The Ambush, Fred (Axis) 37, Joe 43 Reporting games in this manner will save me a great deal of time. With 72 people I NEED to have games reported this way. Do not send me final game files. Keep these in a safe place in case of disputes. FOG OF WAR No discussion of scenarios is allowed on the forum until ALL players in all three tourneys have completed a scenario. I will let you know when it is alright to talk about a scenario. It won't happen until near the end of the tourney. No game results are to be revealed on the forum. You won't know who beat who until all is revealed at the end. Think before you post, and remember, no game scores, no blow by blow descriptions of the last movie, no general discussion about the scenarios, etc.. THE NABLA SCORING SYSTEM Your game scores will be recorded on an input file for the Nabla Scoring Program, created by Jarmo Hurri (Nabla). The Nabla program will crunch the scores and spit out your Nabla Score, also called your "Tourney Score", for each scenario. Below is what the program does: 1) It first looks for scores that do not add up to 100 due to contested/unoccupied VLs, and splits the difference between the players equally. For example, a final score of 70-20 would be converted to 75-25. Scores will always add up to 100 after this adjustment. There is a VERY good reason for doing this involving agreements between players designed to maximize their scores. Perhaps you can figure it out? 2) The median score for each side of all the scenarios is determined. 3) The difference between a player's score and the median score for the side he played will be determined for all scenarios. 4) The standard deviations from the median scores are determined for all scenarios. This value will always be the same for both sides of a given scenario due to #1 above. 5) The difference from the median will then be divided by the standard deviation resulting in the "normalized difference from the median". 6) The normalized difference from the median is then assigned a Nabla score for the scenario. This is done with a formula created by Nabla that is at work inside the scoring program. 7) The average of all a player's Nabla scores (one for each scenario) is then determined, resulting in the player's final tourney score. The high score in each section is the winner of the section. Nabla is currently working on an excellent manual for his scoring system (in pdf format) that gets into the principles behind the system and the math involved. It will also contain a section for tourney managers explaining how to organize and run competitions with the system. The work is about 80% complete at this time. AARs Bonus points will be added to your final Tourney Score if you submit AARs. Each full credit AAR will be worth 4% of the highest player's tourney score (before adding his AARs). If you write five full credit AARs you will receive additional tourney points equal to 20% of the highest player's tourney score. AARs will receive either full credit or half credit. You must write more than just a few short paragraphs for full credit. I will let you know if an AAR is too short soon after you send it to me. You don't have to write a book either. Just give us a fairly good description of how the game played out. You could choose to write a piece on a scenario that is more of a scenario review than an AAR if you want. The main thing we're looking for is constructive feedback. You are not required to write AARs. You just get a few extra points if you do. This could put you ahead if you're in a tight race in your section. The primary purpose of the AARs is to provide the scenario designers with feedback on their work. If you've ever designed a scenario for the community, you know how rare it is to get this feedback. Writing AARs is one way to express your thanks to the designers. Even negative feedback is welcome as long as it's constructive and not mean spirited. Another thing AARs do is help people learn to improve their tactics. Every scenario is played 36 times in a tourney such as this. There are 36 other people who had to deal with the same tactical situations you did. It can be very instructive to learn how others handled things, especially if you did worse than most. (BTW, all the AARs will be sent to you upon request once you have completed your games.) Lastly, by writing an AAR (or review) you are doing the community a small favor. This is because the designer can tweak the scenario based on feedback before releasing it to the community. Having a scenario played 36 times by 72 different people is a great test of a scenario. I think it's safe to say that very few, if any, scenarios get that degree of testing before they are put out to the public. Those of us who enjoy these tournaments need new scenarios (security). In return for these scenarios the designers should get the feedback they like. IMPORTANT! Submitting AARs 1)AARs should never be sent in with game results. Send them in a separate email. 2)AARs can be .txt, .doc, or .pdf files. Do not write them in the body of an email. 3)AARs should not be more than 4 MB UNcompressed. Screenshots can cause you to go over this limit easily. I would recommend the .pdf format if you want to include several screenshots. 4)In the subject line of emails containing attached AARs, write your username and the scenario name. For example: Madmatt, The Ambush THE PLAYOFFS Everybody makes it to the playoffs if they want! However, only the four section winners from each tourney of 24 will be eligible for the prizes. The section winners of each tourney will do battle among themselves in a 3 game round robin using new Boots & Tracks scenarios. This means that, in the end, there will be one winner for each of the 24-player tourneys. All non-section winners who want to play the Finals scenarios will be separated into groups of 4 for the same 3 game round robin. The sections will be determined at random. These non-prize eligible sections are still important to the tourney. Their scores will be used to give us an accurate median with which to score the prize eligible players. Players in these sections can consider the Finals to be a mini-tourney. Their scores will be crunched and the section winners announced. Bonus points will be awarded to the prize eligible finalists for AARs as described above. THE PRIZES Charl Theron (WineCape), of South Africa, will send each of the three tourney champs six different bottles of fine South African wine, shipping paid by him. NOTE: Since the 9/11 nightmare, laws concerning the importing of wine have been tightened, especially in the US. For example, in Arkansas, you cannot receive wine from abroad unless you are an official importer. So far, only one prize has been undeliverable. That involved a shipment to Brazil that occurred BEFORE 9/11. Still, it is quite possible that your state (or country) will not let you receive the wines. If this is the case, your prize can be shipped to a friend or relative somewhere else where the laws are not so strict. WineCape is familiar with the import laws and can help you find a place if there is a problem. That is the best we can do. DROPOUTS, WITHDRAWALS,and MIAs Incomplete games are the one thing the Nabla Scoring System does not tolerate well. However, considering the new improvements to the scoring system (Standard Deviation), and the sheer size of the tourney, this problem is alleviated some with regard to the tourney as a whole. Below is how MIAs and withdrawals will be handled: For the first 30 days of the tournament, replacements will be recruited who will take over the games in progress, just as we've done in the past. After 30 days, no replacements. This will result in unfinished games at the end. These games will be scored by me, based on correspondence with the players involved, and possibly game files. If you have an incomplete game at the tourney deadline for ANY reason, you can count on one of three outcomes: 1) You win at the level of the standard deviation from the median 2) You are assigned the median score 3) You lose at the level of the standard deviation from the median If your opponent withdraws from the tourney, or is determined to be the cause of the game not getting finished on time, you get #1 above for that game. If I cannot determine who caused a game to go unfinished (both players?), the game will be scored at the median (#2). If you withdraw, or have caused a game to go unfinished (slow turnaround) you will get #3 above. If #2 or #3 is applied to even ONE of your games for ANY reason, you are ineligible to win your section! If you're getting a slow turn rate from an opponent, you need to keep me informed (weekly notes on progress). This way, if the game goes unfinished, I have a history to go by which will likely keep me from assigning the #2 outcome above in questionable situations. I will also email you at the end requesting "your side of the story". The 100 day deadline for game completion will be strictly enforced!! This is because the tourney is big enough that I can get accurate medians even if 1/3 of the games go incomplete. Do your section a favor. Finish your games. If you are losing badly, keep in mind that your opponent is winning and probably enjoying himself immensely. Let him have his fun, and do your best anyway. Dropping out of sight when you are losing is desertion under fire! [ January 07, 2003, 07:53 PM: Message edited by: Treeburst155 ]

It is good to see our sponsor, WineCape, wishing the troops well. He will be riding out the war at his remote villa somewhere in South Africa, attending to his vineyards so the victors (survivors?)can receive their hard-earned reward. I now have two scenarios in hand. They are secured and ready to send. The German player will receive the scenario file and start the PBEM. Both players will receive their briefings. Before I begin sending out files I need to send sections 3-3 and 3-4 an updated schedule and contact list. This will be done within the hour. The scenarios will take some time to send out. I will be doing that for the rest of the day, maybe longer. I will be passing out two scenarios, "The Beast" and "Hosszupalyi". The official beginning of the tourney (The 100 day countdown) will not happen until ALL FIVE scenarios have been sent to ALL players. This will just give you a jump on things while B&T fine tunes the rest of the scenarios. Now then, as you all know, John "Katyusha" Kettler is getting a new computer. This machine is far too expensive to be allowed to fall into enemy hands. Therefore, John will have on call an abundance of rocket artillery should he need it. If you are doing battle with him, I advise you to dig DEEP foxholes, and for gosh sakes stay out of the trees! Treeburst155 out.

I just completed "Our Backs To The Volga" from the Stalingrad Pack by Boots & Tracks. I lost badly as the Russians (78-22) against a human opponent, but I made several mistakes. I made poor decisions concerning my arty, and generally got a little too unorthodoxed with my initial setup. My opponent also played well IMO. Still, it was a very entertaining scenario I would recommend to anyone who has a fairly fast computer. Even the Soviet defender has critical decisions to make after his initial setup. It's not just "setup and wait". An interesting thing I learned about CMBB as a result of this scenario is that having men in the sewers at the time of your surrender is the same as having exited them off the map. They don't get captured! Try "Our Backs To The Volga". You will like it! Treeburst155 out.

Ok, Shocktrooper has taken Determinant's slot in Section 3-3. It's good to hear John "Katyusha" Kettler (nice ring to it, eh?) is getting a new computer. Get on the train, John. You're shipping to the front. High Command will forward your computer to you once you are in your foxhole. Treeburst155 out.

My understanding is that the player's side will only experience an INVOLUNTARY cease fire if ammo is too low or morale is too low. This means ANY other situation where an INVOLUNTARY ceasefire is encountered is a bug. Plain and simple. Treeburst155 out.

Kingfish, I will take any scenarios that have received the Boots & Tracks stamp of approval. Thanks! It looks like the train for the Eastern Front has arrived, gentlemen! All aboard!! Treeburst155 out. [ January 06, 2003, 04:24 PM: Message edited by: Treeburst155 ]

That's a rather excellent suggestion, TexasToast. I'll see if Boots & Tracks will release one or more scenarios while we wait for the last of them to get the B&T stamp of approval. It will take me several days to send out all the files anyway. Tourney 3-3, Determinant has been forced to withdraw due to his work schedule. Shocktrooper has been offerred the slot. You will receive an updated schedule of games and contact list when the slot is filled. The replacement list currently looks like this: *) Shocktrooper(slot offerred) 1) sgtabell 2) White4 3) Ace Pilot 4) Cuzn 5) Mark Gallear 6) Beckman 7) Diceman 8) Ivan_RU 9) Knaust 10) NotreDame89 11) Tanaka 12) Ratman 13) Liken Treeburst155 out.

The Capt, You're on my list. As long as you can receive we're OK for now. Tourney III, Section 4, Deadly 88 will take over for Souljah1 in your section. You will receive an updated schedule and contact list soon. SpineRipper, You do not become a "member" of ROW. You become a veteran of Rumblings Of War Tournaments when you complete your first tournament. Veterans have first shot at filling open slots in new tournaments. Still, approximately 1/3 of the players are newbies in each tournament. Treeburst155 out.

Yeah, I think something is not quite right with the hull down stuff. We have HE rounds hitting right in front of hull down firing vehicles, and we have hull down status of firing vehicles achievable on flat maps. Treeburst155 out.

Get that new computer, John. You will REALLY be glad you did. You will not regret spending the money one bit. Treeburst155 out.

Correction, you CAN see this in the editor. Simply trace LOS across brush on a clear night on a flat map. About 90 meters or so into the brush you will see the "hull down" message appear by the VEHICLE. What you can't do in the editor is target. This "hull down" message appears when sighting through brush, grain, or rough, to a point inside the terrain feature. The AFV is in clear terrain not too far from the edge of the terrain. This is on a dead flat map. Treeburst155 out. [ January 05, 2003, 09:37 PM: Message edited by: Treeburst155 ]

I've noticed that AREA targetting into brush and trees with at least SOME AFVs often results in the firing unit being hull down to the target point. This is true even on a pool table flat map. It is easily seen by setting parameters to a clear night (vis 198m) and area targetting through a large patch of brush. I'm using an SU-122 for the test. Now, the unit CANNOT be physically hull down. It could however have it's lower portions hidden by the vegetation. IOW, the hull is concealed, but not really protected (cover) by something solid. Is this why we see the hull down indication under the targetting unit? This is of some concern for two reasons. One, it's difficult to come up with a reasonable explanation of the hull down status (pool table map). Two, hull down HE throwers don't do too well, as has been mentioned in previous threads. If anyone would like to investigate this phenomenon it's easy to set up in the editor. You will have to play the scenario however; because it only happens when you are targetting, not simply checking LOS. Treeburst155 out. [ January 05, 2003, 08:27 PM: Message edited by: Treeburst155 ]

mPisi, No need to confirm through email. I know you have your schedule. I'll put you down on my list of people I can't receive from. If we need to communicate we will go through Kingfish. Thanks, Kingfish! Section 3-4, Souljah1 has indeed withdrawn from the tourney. Deadly 88 has been offerred his slot. You will receive an updated schedule and contact list when the slot is filled. Everything will remain the same except the replacement will be listed wherever you currently see Souljah1. To the Replacement List, This is how things look at this time: *) Deadly 88 (slot offerred) 1) Shocktrooper 2) sgtabell 3) White4 4) Ace Pilot 5) Cuzn 6) Mark Gallear 7) Beckman 8) Diceman 9) Ivan_RU 10) Knaust 11) NotreDame89 12) Tanaka 13) Ratman 14) Liken Treeburst155 out.

Mikeydz, Yeah, my ISP is rejecting some emails AGAIN. The problem had stopped for awhile. This could be an issue when players try to send me game results and AARs. Let's hope they straighten it out before then. I will start a list of people I have email problems with, be it sending, receiving, or both. You, Mikeydz, are the first one on the list. Aren't you proud?! Treeburst155 out.

Tourney III, Section 2, Lt Bull will be taking Dave Turner's slot. To all those on the replacement list, I have emailed Souljah1 to find out if he is withdrawing. I will do this several times over several days. If he does not respond, I will replace him. Also, once the tourney begins (I send out the files) there is a good chance that a few will drop out, having "forgot all about it and don't have the time, etc.". To All, Sometime within the next 24 hours you will receive a schedule of games along with a contact list of all your opponents. We are that close now. It would be good if everyone would "reply all" to this email, just to make sure everyone is still on board. I would like to identify as many MIAs as possible, as early as possible. Treeburst155 out.

DaveT, Congratulations on your new job! There will be more tourneys later. Lt. Bull is next on the replacement list and will be offerred DaveT's slot via email. If you are in Tourney III, Section 2 you will be notified when the new player is in place. Tourney III, Section 4, It was reported several days ago that Souljah1 was withdrawing. I have not heard from him on this. Has anyone in Tourney III, Section 4 heard from Souljah1 in the last couple days? The up-to-date replacement list looks like this: Replacement List: 1) Lt Bull (slot offerred) 2) Deadly 88 3) Shocktrooper 4) sgtabell 5) White4 6) Ace Pilot 7) Cuzn 8) Mark Gallear 9) Beckman 10) Diceman 11) Ivan_RU 12) Knaust 13) NotreDame89 14) Tanaka 15) Ratman 16) Liken As Kingfish has reported, it won't be long now. Treeburst155 out.

New Year's Eve....hehe....avoided being there and doing that at least 40 times now. What's the attraction? Do you play the same scenario 40+ times, or even 10 times? Sheesh! Gimme a break. Besides, you will still be the same miserable excuses for human beings next year as you were last year and the year before, and the year before that, etc.. Losers and pillocks of the first order, all of you. I'll bet you clowns even celebrated your 79th birthdays, probably with Joe Shawtoo. I mean how many birthdays are you going to celebrate? We only have 365 days per year to work with here. Does one of them absolutely have to be YOUR stinkin' birthday every bleedin' year?! Give the world a break. I mean drop dead or somefink. Well, there is one bright spot on the horizon for me. I only have to wait six weeks for Valentine's Day. I like that one. I really do. That's the day you neanderthals will forget to buy your wives something nice, thereby causing any semblance of domestic bliss to fly right out the window with YOU right behind it. Hehe...yeah....I like that one. Squire Treeburst155 out. [ December 31, 2002, 10:02 PM: Message edited by: Treeburst155 ]

Javaslinger, Understood. Your concern over being a reliable player is appreciated. Please sign up for the next tournament this summer if you can. We like reliable people. Liken, I'm sorry. I forgot to update the replacement list. Your email has been received. You are on the list. Yours is the only new addition to the list since I last posted it somewhere not too far above. ryddle, Thanks for the info on Souljah1. I haven't heard from him yet however. Souljah1, please confirm! To All, The Boots & Tracks guys are hard at it. Our scenarios are well along in the testing phase now. Have a Happy New Year because you are heading to the front very soon. Also, don't forget to inform your employers that you will be unavailable for the next several months due to this tournament. Priorities, gentlemen. It's all about priorities. Treeburst155 out.

LOL! You really crack me up, John. You really do. Tell us what side of "North Of Epron" you are playing. I doubt there are many other games actually being played at this point. Treeburst155 out.