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Grantland article on the World Diplomacy Championship

Lol, at all the people getting mad. If they lost because of only two players then perhaps they should have played their own hand better.

Seems fairly interesting but not something I would ever play.
 
Stoked said:
Lol, at all the people getting mad. If they lost because of only two players then perhaps they should have played their own hand better.

Seems fairly interesting but not something I would ever play.
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I'm not sure you understand the game of Diplomacy. Have you ever played it?
It has much less to do with "your hand" as it does working with other people and hoping they don't screw you over.

It's probably a lot like the social aspect of Survivor tbh.
 
Triangle Man said:
I'm not sure you understand the game of Diplomacy. Have you ever played it?
It has much less to do with "your hand" as it does working with other people and hoping they don't screw you over.

It's probably a lot like the social aspect of Survivor tbh.
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No I have not played it and my point was that the article makes it seem like this one guy won because he played one ally, a rookie. The other players complain that this rookie is taking them all down with him. If it is that easy to beat them all then they need to get better was my point.
 
I think it is closer to those liar game shows, you know where they people can split the money if they both vote to, so they spend the whole show trying to convince the others they are trustworthy, just for each and every one of them to try to take the whole tamale for themselves and end up with nothing.

I played diplomacy for a while, kind of went through a phase that I outgrew. It's not for me.
 
Stoked said:
No I have not played it and my point was that the article makes it seem like this one guy won because he played one ally, a rookie. The other players complain that this rookie is taking them all down with him. If it is that easy to beat them all then they need to get better was my point.
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It's not that they were being taken down, it's that they scored fewer points for a six-way draw than for a five-way draw, and a person with one unit left has little business being part of a draw, against competent opponents.
 
One Brow said:
It's not that they were being taken down, it's that they scored fewer points for a six-way draw than for a five-way draw, and a person with one unit left has little business being part of a draw, against competent opponents.
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Fair enough. The article just does a very poor job of showing this.
 
One Brow said:
I did, back when I was able to spend hours on a game. Do you? Think we could get a game going around here?
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At one point years ago I looked into "Diplomacy servers", which were basically ways to play by email. That way you can spend days on a game instead of hours. :-)

I'm sure online mechanisms still exist.
 
I can't even get a decent chess game going, this game is WAY more time-intensive.

I might consider it though if there were enough interest.
 
One Brow said:
I did, back when I was able to spend hours on a game. Do you? Think we could get a game going around here?
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colton said:
Count me in if you want to start a jazzfanz game! Haven't played in years, though.
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LogGrad98 said:
I can't even get a decent chess game going, this game is WAY more time-intensive.

I might consider it though if there were enough interest.
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I haven't played in a long time and I'm not sure it's for me any more, but I'd do it if there was a group and the key factor, I had time.

I was way more interested in Axis & Allies but had the same issues of not being able to find enough people to play for hours and hours.
Risk is much shorter and still had difficulty finding people to play that.

These days I don't have time to play much of anything, let alone something that will take hours.

I wish, it would be fun.
 
Triangle Man said:
I haven't played in a long time and I'm not sure it's for me any more, but I'd do it if there was a group and the key factor, I had time.

I was way more interested in Axis & Allies but had the same issues of not being able to find enough people to play for hours and hours.
Risk is much shorter and still had difficulty finding people to play that.

These days I don't have time to play much of anything, let alone something that will take hours.

I wish, it would be fun.
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Let's just all agree to a 4-way draw right now and it will go down as the fastest game of Diplomacy of all-time.
 
Stoked said:
No I have not played it and my point was that the article makes it seem like this one guy won because he played one ally, a rookie. The other players complain that this rookie is taking them all down with him. If it is that easy to beat them all then they need to get better was my point.
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Contrary to Darkwing's opinion I don't think the article was very clear. I know the game a bit and I think the only reason I got as much out of the article as I did is because of that.
 
Triangle Man said:
Contrary to Darkwing's opinion I don't think the article was very clear. I know the game a bit and I think the only reason I got as much out of the article as I did is because of that.
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Toby and Buffalo were not interested in any six-way draw. Their proposal? Kill Chris Martin and split it up five ways instead. More points for everyone!
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Then footnote 11 is a long one about scoring systems in the game. Seemed pretty obvious to me.
 
LogGrad98 said:
Let's just all agree to a 4-way draw right now and it will go down as the fastest game of Diplomacy of all-time.
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I knew someone that liked to play Risk like that. Get the whole board set up, then try to attempt World Peace. We would kill her off, then enjoy our game of Risk in "peace".
 
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