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I am preparing two games for the contest, but the ZRF's are not ready yet.
May be in two or three weeks, more or less. I´ll send my games once I have
finished the ZRF´s and tested the games, making the final adjusts and
re-testing, if necessary.
The prizes?. Well, if someone offers prizes, it is expected that winners
can get the prizes, but I have not read WHEN.

Dear Editors,

Should I send you another copy of my submission?  I only ask, because most
of my day I'm at work, and I don't get home until a little before
midnight.  Sorry, to be a pest, I understand you too are busy with work.
Thank you gentlemen.

Sincerely Peter Leyva

Epsilon Eridani, a game played on a 44 squares board that I sent a few days
ago, is  a NON-competing entry to the Contest. The main reason is because
I have Hexetera competing and Antoine and me are the authors of 
Symmetron!44. Epsilon Eridani is based basically on Achernar, with some
differences (Achernar is the name of the blue star Alpha of Eridani,
Epsilon Eridani is a yellow star in the same constellation. Epsilon
Eridani is an interesting star, it is almost sure that at least one planet
orbits the star), although the game play is very different. The board size
adds clarity to the game, so calculations are easy, this is not the case
in Achernar. Nevertheless, the E.E. game play is nice and very
interesting, at least I think so, and I hope that the community can enjoy
this out-of-competence game.

Pete,

I'll send it to you.  I have been sending it to
[email protected].  I don't believe it has a big attachment, just
simple instructions.

Sincerely Pete

Pete, 

I just sent it to you, did you receive it?


Peter Leyva

Peter,

Thank you, for your time and help.  I got my submission to David Howe.

Sincerely Pete Leyva

Hi David H. ,

Have you currently had a chance to go over my submission for the 44 square
contest.


Pete Leyva

I hope you will allow my entry into the contest, even though technically
I submitted it about a week after the posted deadline. Since you haven't
finished posting the other entries, polling isn't going to be able to
start on time anyway, so what harm does it do to let mine in right
under the wire?

I want to thank Jeff Rients for making the OblongChess44 PBM preset. It's
quite unnerving now that I have two variants in the main category, but I
wish them both well.

When can we start voting, btw?

Should we accept an entry that was a few days late?

   Hans

Yes, please accept a late entry.

(Last night while engaged in a lengthy car drive I came up with an idea
for a 45 piece variant that is a combination of Hnefatafl and Chaturanga.)

Doug,

I assume this was lost due to a mailing problem. There were a few files
that didn't arrive at a certain time...

Please, send the file again.

 Hans

I don't know what the wide-spread tardiness is about!  The 44 sq-contest
was open for over 4+ months, (after being announced well in advance).  A
couple of just-late entries the week after ... yeah fine - of course,
slip
them in.

BUT now it's a whole month past the original due date.  Should a REVISED
firm (tough, no exceptions) CUTOFF and a NEW RESTART VOTING period date
to
follow be set?

'If there is only one, and also if there are two entries in the extra
category, the judge (that is me) can decide to award no prize in this
category.'

Not even a li'l coffee mug for not following the crowd? ;)

In all honesty, I would think that this decision would not be fair, as it
would undercut the work I did on the game.  I started designing this game
months before the contest, and I would think that it should be possible
for that work to pay off somehow, even if it is only a coffee mug.  (Of
course, if it is moved to the main category, I won't have any reason to
complain, but I doubt that a preset could be easily constructed, and I am
incapable of programming a computer version myself, for ZoG or
otherwise.)

Just my 2 cents.  I'll shut up now.

Hans,

This site has PHP scripts I wrote for conducting an automated Condorcet
poll. The files are in /public_html/cgi-bin/rankedpoll/. The main file to
include is runpoll.php. It includes extensive comments documenting how to
use it. If you want to enforce some rules it wasn't designed to handle,
such as a contestant not voting for his own game, then you could use it at
the end to calculate the results, entering the results in yourself instead
of using it to also collect the votes.

Congratulations to the winners. This had been a fun competition.
Can you elaborate on who got disqualified? There was a bit of trouble with
the mail previously, and could be that there are those who sent their votes
but didn't get through.

All the same, it would be nice to see who did.  If you don't wish to
disclose the information, though, why not just come out and say so?

I would assume BWII wasn't disqualified and was in fact not voted for
well, due to a bad case of rehash disease.  I honestly don't know what
came over me.

I'll leave the disqualified issue alone then :)

I have to say that although the finalists and the winners very much
reflect my votes in the contest, I'm very disappointed that Inside-out
chess didn't get more votes and that Hole Chess wasn't named among the
winners. I found both games to be quite entertaining in playtesting. I
have also played Hole Chess a couple of times on the Game Courier since my
original votes and it is still quite enjoyable.

So, if I (Leap Chess) failed to make the top eight out of 20 (2nd round),
and there were multiple disqualified entries for non-voting, and also
rehashed pre-existing variants adapted for 44 squares, ...
Let's just move ahead to 2005.