Official FOFC Tournament Brackets

Kodos · 03-26-2003, 06:15 PM

The brackets for our 5 selected games are as follows. Each bracket has been randomly picked out of a hat by me.

Chess

Kodos
Butter_of_69

Airhog
TheLionKing

Shorty3281
henry296

MattJones
KWhit

Marmel
SplitPersonality

SkyDog
Travis

Radii
tucker342

cthomer5000
primelord

Kodos · 03-26-2003, 06:19 PM

Battleship

MattJones
Radii

primelord
Kodos

TheLionKing
Butter_of_69

Airhog
Shorty3281

KWhit
cthomer5000

SkyDog
henry296

SplitPersonality
Travis

Marmel
tucker342

Note: I edited this so that Travis and SkyDog don't go head to head twice to start off.

Travis · 03-26-2003, 06:19 PM

Oh crap

Kodos · 03-26-2003, 06:22 PM

Poker

For poker, how do we want to work it? We could have four 4-player games, or two eight-player games. However we decide to go, we could just lump them together using this order. So if we go for four groups of 4, the first group would be Marmel, Travis, Butter, and Radii.

Marmel
Travis

Butter_of_69
Radii

cthomer5000
MattJones

SplitPersonality
Shorty3281

SkyDog
tucker342

KWhit
Airhog

primelord
TheLionKing

Kodos
henry296

henry296 · 03-26-2003, 06:28 PM

how do we play head to head Poker?

Do we use pogo.com to play the games?

Todd

Kodos · 03-26-2003, 06:32 PM

I'm slightly behind you henry. Please see my edited note above.

Kodos · 03-26-2003, 06:34 PM

Hearts

Ahhh, Hearts. A game that I've never played. Whoever is in my part of the bracket gets an easy win. It's 4-player, right? (Evidence of just how little I know about Hearts).

SkyDog
Marmel
Butter_of_69
MattJones

KWhit
Radii
Shorty3281
Travis

henry296
tucker342
cthomer5000
Kodos

SplitPersonality
TheLionKing
Airhog
primelord

Kodos · 03-26-2003, 06:39 PM

Scrabble

Radii
Marmel

Butter_of_69
cthomer5000

henry296
MattJones

Airhog
SkyDog

KWhit
Kodos

SplitPersonality
primelord

tucker342
Shorty3281

TheLionKing
Travis

Kodos · 03-26-2003, 06:42 PM

If anyone plays somebody twice in the opening round, let me know, and we can rearrange a little. I'd prefer that everybody plays a new person in the opening round of each game.

We also need to figure out ground rules, like how long a person has to move in Chess and Scrabble. Probably Hearts and Poker need some rules too. Like which Poker games we will play. Just 5-card draw and other basic games, or less common variations (I think that we should stay simple).

If there are issues I haven't brought up, please feel free to present them. I was thinking we could run 1 tournament a week.

henry296 · 03-26-2003, 06:47 PM

For Poker, I think 4 groups of 4 would work.

Todd

tucker342 · 03-26-2003, 10:51 PM

Oh man! I suck at scrabble

This is going to be interesting

Marmel · 03-26-2003, 11:05 PM

splits, do you know how to play chess?

SplitPersonality1 · 03-26-2003, 11:12 PM

yes, played a lot as a kid, but maybe 3 games in the last 20 years.

Kodos · 03-26-2003, 11:46 PM

I think that 6th-grade Kodos would seriously kick 32-year old Kodos' ass in chess.

I think it'd be fun to see what people think they will do best in. I suspect Scrabble will prove to be my strongest game. What do you guys think you will do well in?

On the other hand, Hearts will not be pretty for me.

AgPete · 03-26-2003, 11:52 PM

If you need a mean hearts player to sub in, just let me know.

Travis · 03-27-2003, 12:23 AM

Well, considering I've played maybe all of 3 games of chess in my life, SkyDog is going to have some easy early points. Course if we switch it to crib I'd be quite happy

Airhog · 03-27-2003, 12:29 AM

okay, well those people I play, please pm me

we should also set a time limit for chess...and you should decide whos white

henry296 · 03-27-2003, 08:04 AM

Top player is white in Chess.

I will do best in the card games.

Todd

Butter · 03-27-2003, 08:15 AM

To those I am matched against, I am going out of town this weekend, leaving today around 5 PM ET, and won't be back until late Sunday night. Hope this won't be a problem. But we can get to my serious beatings next week.

I think chess will probably be my weakest game, as I tried to get my wife to start playing with me, but she didn't understand the rules all that well. And my attempts to start playing at an online site didn't go well. I mopped the floor with my wife in chess, but she didn't even know how pawns captured pieces, so that tells you something right there.

I'll be mediocre in cards, I'm always a weak hearts player, but a decent poker player. Scrabble will probably be high for me, I played my friend every day, several times a day one summer. My wife won't let me play her anymore.

Butter · 03-27-2003, 08:19 AM

Dola

Has it been decided at which website to play these games? Or is that to be worked out with your competition in each game/round?

Marmel · 03-27-2003, 08:40 AM

splits, I would be happy to forfeit our game of chess to you. I have no clue on how to play.

Travis · 03-27-2003, 09:35 AM

Suppose I should also mention to those that I play, this weekend is going to be one where I hopefully won't know what's going on until at least 3pm on Sunday. That said, hopefully by about that time I'll be somewhat coherent and able to knock off a few games if any of you are around.

Airhog · 03-27-2003, 01:36 PM

If we were to play on one of those poker sites. we could play for free there, and they have tournaments you can setup. so we could play tournament style, 2 eight man tournaments. It would be much faster playing here, because the blinds double every 8 hands, just like in most real tournaments.

Airhog · 03-27-2003, 01:37 PM

dola here, chess, battleship hearts, and scrabble can all be played on yahoo.

Kodos · 03-27-2003, 01:41 PM

I will leave it to those who have played on online sites to decide. I have never played any games online, so my input would be worthless.

I say we don't start the tourneys until next week. Also, would we like to go in the order that they are shown above?

Marmel · 03-27-2003, 01:48 PM

I've seen prison riots more organized than this Kodos.

Kodos · 03-27-2003, 02:30 PM

Hey - cut me some slack, Jack! People seem to be busy this weekend, so it seemed like a good idea to postpone the start until next week. And I could make an uninformed decision about the game sites, but I foolishly thought it would be better to go with what people who have actually played thought. Ya bastard.

Did you notice what being bossy got Roger last night on Survivor? I'm no Roger!

Kodos · 03-27-2003, 02:32 PM

Here you go. We are playing in the order the games appear above!

That felt good. More power trips to follow...

Airhog · 03-27-2003, 02:41 PM

I would rather not play poker on yahoo, even though it is possible too, but non tournament game would take some time to play, and just isnt as fun

Marmel · 03-27-2003, 02:47 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Kodos
Hey - cut me some slack, Jack! People seem to be busy this weekend, so it seemed like a good idea to postpone the start until next week. And I could make an uninformed decision about the game sites, but I foolishly thought it would be better to go with what people who have actually played thought. Ya bastard. Did you notice what being bossy got Roger last night on Survivor? I'm no Roger!

My name is not Jack.

Kodos · 03-27-2003, 03:02 PM

I guess I don't know Jack.

MJ4H · 03-27-2003, 03:15 PM

scrabble cannot be played on yahoo (literati is NOT scrabble). i recommend www.isc.ro for scrabble

Kodos · 03-27-2003, 03:49 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by MattJones4Heisman
scrabble cannot be played on yahoo (literati is NOT scrabble). i recommend www.isc.ro for scrabble

Okay, we'll go with this for Scabble. Is Yahoo okay for the other games, or Pogo.com (I think that is the other one people have mentioned.)

Marmel · 03-27-2003, 03:58 PM

hoyle is good too.

Kodos · 03-28-2003, 10:44 AM

So is next Monday good for folks to start up on the Chess tournament? I think 3 minutes a turn is a reasonable amount of time.

henry296 · 03-28-2003, 11:06 AM

It looks like my match with Shorty might slow things down, since he is goine for a week.

Todd

Kodos · 03-28-2003, 11:57 AM

Shorty may have to forfeit for the sake of moving the tourney along.

Kodos · 03-30-2003, 09:49 AM

It looks like I will be taking a forfeit as well. A family thing has come up and I will be heading out of town. Please feel free to start the chess tourney without me (I suck at chess anyhow). Just go by the brackets, and that should be good enough. I'll let you guys worry about when to play and which game site to run things on. Sorry to have to bow out of this round, but sometimes life gets in the way of fun.

- Kodos

Kodos · 04-07-2003, 01:20 PM

Okay, another victim of my unexpected weeklong trip out of state and away from computers. If you guys want to give this a try now that I'm back in action, we can give it a go. If you've lost interest, please let me know. Anyhow, please check in if you are still aboard and want to start our chess tournament this week.

Thanks,
Kodos

TLK · 04-07-2003, 01:21 PM

-check-

Butter · 04-07-2003, 01:34 PM

I was wondering what happened to this. Everything falls apart without you, Kodos.

I'd still be down.

Marmel · 04-07-2003, 01:44 PM

i'm in.

primelord · 04-07-2003, 02:08 PM

I'm in too.

SplitPersonality1 · 04-07-2003, 02:14 PM

I'm still in

henry296 · 04-07-2003, 03:22 PM

still interested.

tucker342 · 04-07-2003, 03:55 PM

I'm still up for it

Kodos · 04-08-2003, 11:10 AM

Okay, half of us are still in so far.

1. Kodos
2. TheLionKing
3. Butter
4. Marmel
5. primelord
6. splitpersonality
7. henry
8. tucker

What about you other guys?

MJ4H · 04-08-2003, 12:16 PM

Airhog · 04-08-2003, 12:43 PM

Kodos · 04-08-2003, 06:59 PM

What about the other 6? I have a sense of doom here...

1. Kodos
2. TheLionKing
3. Butter
4. Marmel
5. primelord
6. splitpersonality
7. henry
8. tucker
9. MattJones
10. Airhog

03-26-2003, 06:19 PM	#2
Kodos Resident Alien Join Date: Jun 2001	Battleship MattJones Radii primelord Kodos TheLionKing Butter_of_69 Airhog Shorty3281 KWhit cthomer5000 SkyDog henry296 SplitPersonality Travis Marmel tucker342 Note: I edited this so that Travis and SkyDog don't go head to head twice to start off. Last edited by Kodos : 03-26-2003 at 06:24 PM.

03-26-2003, 06:19 PM	#3
Travis Pro Rookie Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: Canada eh	Oh crap __________________ "I don't want to play golf. When I hit a ball, I want someone else to go chase it." - Rogers Hornsby

03-26-2003, 06:22 PM	#4
Kodos Resident Alien Join Date: Jun 2001	Poker For poker, how do we want to work it? We could have four 4-player games, or two eight-player games. However we decide to go, we could just lump them together using this order. So if we go for four groups of 4, the first group would be Marmel, Travis, Butter, and Radii. Marmel Travis Butter_of_69 Radii cthomer5000 MattJones SplitPersonality Shorty3281 SkyDog tucker342 KWhit Airhog primelord TheLionKing Kodos henry296 Last edited by Kodos : 03-26-2003 at 06:31 PM.

03-26-2003, 06:28 PM	#5
henry296 College Starter Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: Pittsburgh, PA	how do we play head to head Poker? Do we use pogo.com to play the games? Todd __________________ "It's a great day for hockey" - "Badger" Bob Johnson

03-26-2003, 06:42 PM	#9
Kodos Resident Alien Join Date: Jun 2001	If anyone plays somebody twice in the opening round, let me know, and we can rearrange a little. I'd prefer that everybody plays a new person in the opening round of each game. We also need to figure out ground rules, like how long a person has to move in Chess and Scrabble. Probably Hearts and Poker need some rules too. Like which Poker games we will play. Just 5-card draw and other basic games, or less common variations (I think that we should stay simple). If there are issues I haven't brought up, please feel free to present them. I was thinking we could run 1 tournament a week. Last edited by Kodos : 03-26-2003 at 06:46 PM.

03-26-2003, 06:32 PM	#6
Kodos Resident Alien Join Date: Jun 2001	I'm slightly behind you henry. Please see my edited note above.

03-26-2003, 06:34 PM	#7
Kodos Resident Alien Join Date: Jun 2001	Hearts Ahhh, Hearts. A game that I've never played. Whoever is in my part of the bracket gets an easy win. It's 4-player, right? (Evidence of just how little I know about Hearts). SkyDog Marmel Butter_of_69 MattJones KWhit Radii Shorty3281 Travis henry296 tucker342 cthomer5000 Kodos SplitPersonality TheLionKing Airhog primelord

03-26-2003, 06:39 PM	#8
Kodos Resident Alien Join Date: Jun 2001	Scrabble Radii Marmel Butter_of_69 cthomer5000 henry296 MattJones Airhog SkyDog KWhit Kodos SplitPersonality primelord tucker342 Shorty3281 TheLionKing Travis

03-26-2003, 06:47 PM	#10
henry296 College Starter Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: Pittsburgh, PA	For Poker, I think 4 groups of 4 would work. Todd __________________ "It's a great day for hockey" - "Badger" Bob Johnson

03-26-2003, 10:51 PM	#11
tucker342 Pro Starter Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Iowa City, IA	Oh man! I suck at scrabble This is going to be interesting

03-26-2003, 11:05 PM	#12
Marmel Grizzled Veteran Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: Manchester, CT	splits, do you know how to play chess? __________________ 81-78 Cincinnati basketball writer P. Daugherty, "Connor Barwin playing several minutes against Syracuse is like kids with slingshots taking down Caesar's legions."

03-26-2003, 11:12 PM	#13
SplitPersonality1 College Benchwarmer Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: Grafton, WI	yes, played a lot as a kid, but maybe 3 games in the last 20 years.

03-26-2003, 11:46 PM	#14
Kodos Resident Alien Join Date: Jun 2001	I think that 6th-grade Kodos would seriously kick 32-year old Kodos' ass in chess. I think it'd be fun to see what people think they will do best in. I suspect Scrabble will prove to be my strongest game. What do you guys think you will do well in? On the other hand, Hearts will not be pretty for me.

03-26-2003, 11:52 PM	#15
AgPete College Prospect Join Date: Jan 2001	If you need a mean hearts player to sub in, just let me know. __________________ Click here for the FOF2004 World Football League Dynasty (WFL) - Football Goes Global! OOTP5 Psychology Experiment (Incomplete but fun read for MLB fans.) The FOFC All-Time NFL Team - Voted on by FOFC members.

03-27-2003, 12:23 AM	#16
Travis Pro Rookie Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: Canada eh	Well, considering I've played maybe all of 3 games of chess in my life, SkyDog is going to have some easy early points. Course if we switch it to crib I'd be quite happy __________________ "I don't want to play golf. When I hit a ball, I want someone else to go chase it." - Rogers Hornsby

03-27-2003, 12:29 AM	#17
Airhog Captain Obvious Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: Norman, Oklahoma	okay, well those people I play, please pm me we should also set a time limit for chess...and you should decide whos white __________________ Thread Killer extraordinaire Yay! its football season once again! Last edited by Airhog : 03-27-2003 at 01:13 AM.

03-27-2003, 08:04 AM	#18
henry296 College Starter Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: Pittsburgh, PA	Top player is white in Chess. I will do best in the card games. Todd __________________ "It's a great day for hockey" - "Badger" Bob Johnson

03-27-2003, 08:15 AM	#19
Butter Coordinator Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Dayton, OH	To those I am matched against, I am going out of town this weekend, leaving today around 5 PM ET, and won't be back until late Sunday night. Hope this won't be a problem. But we can get to my serious beatings next week. I think chess will probably be my weakest game, as I tried to get my wife to start playing with me, but she didn't understand the rules all that well. And my attempts to start playing at an online site didn't go well. I mopped the floor with my wife in chess, but she didn't even know how pawns captured pieces, so that tells you something right there. I'll be mediocre in cards, I'm always a weak hearts player, but a decent poker player. Scrabble will probably be high for me, I played my friend every day, several times a day one summer. My wife won't let me play her anymore. __________________ My listening habits

03-27-2003, 08:19 AM	#20
Butter Coordinator Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Dayton, OH	Dola Has it been decided at which website to play these games? Or is that to be worked out with your competition in each game/round? __________________ My listening habits

03-27-2003, 08:40 AM	#21
Marmel Grizzled Veteran Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: Manchester, CT	splits, I would be happy to forfeit our game of chess to you. I have no clue on how to play. __________________ 81-78 Cincinnati basketball writer P. Daugherty, "Connor Barwin playing several minutes against Syracuse is like kids with slingshots taking down Caesar's legions."

03-27-2003, 09:35 AM	#22
Travis Pro Rookie Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: Canada eh	Suppose I should also mention to those that I play, this weekend is going to be one where I hopefully won't know what's going on until at least 3pm on Sunday. That said, hopefully by about that time I'll be somewhat coherent and able to knock off a few games if any of you are around. __________________ "I don't want to play golf. When I hit a ball, I want someone else to go chase it." - Rogers Hornsby

03-27-2003, 01:36 PM	#23
Airhog Captain Obvious Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: Norman, Oklahoma	If we were to play on one of those poker sites. we could play for free there, and they have tournaments you can setup. so we could play tournament style, 2 eight man tournaments. It would be much faster playing here, because the blinds double every 8 hands, just like in most real tournaments. __________________ Thread Killer extraordinaire Yay! its football season once again!

03-27-2003, 01:37 PM	#24
Airhog Captain Obvious Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: Norman, Oklahoma	dola here, chess, battleship hearts, and scrabble can all be played on yahoo. __________________ Thread Killer extraordinaire Yay! its football season once again!

03-27-2003, 01:41 PM	#25
Kodos Resident Alien Join Date: Jun 2001	I will leave it to those who have played on online sites to decide. I have never played any games online, so my input would be worthless. I say we don't start the tourneys until next week. Also, would we like to go in the order that they are shown above?

03-27-2003, 01:48 PM	#26
Marmel Grizzled Veteran Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: Manchester, CT	I've seen prison riots more organized than this Kodos. __________________ 81-78 Cincinnati basketball writer P. Daugherty, "Connor Barwin playing several minutes against Syracuse is like kids with slingshots taking down Caesar's legions."

03-27-2003, 02:30 PM	#27
Kodos Resident Alien Join Date: Jun 2001	Hey - cut me some slack, Jack! People seem to be busy this weekend, so it seemed like a good idea to postpone the start until next week. And I could make an uninformed decision about the game sites, but I foolishly thought it would be better to go with what people who have actually played thought. Ya bastard. Did you notice what being bossy got Roger last night on Survivor? I'm no Roger!

03-27-2003, 02:32 PM	#28
Kodos Resident Alien Join Date: Jun 2001	Here you go. We are playing in the order the games appear above! That felt good. More power trips to follow...

03-27-2003, 02:41 PM	#29
Airhog Captain Obvious Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: Norman, Oklahoma	I would rather not play poker on yahoo, even though it is possible too, but non tournament game would take some time to play, and just isnt as fun __________________ Thread Killer extraordinaire Yay! its football season once again!

03-27-2003, 03:02 PM	#31
Kodos Resident Alien Join Date: Jun 2001	I guess I don't know Jack.

03-27-2003, 03:15 PM	#32
MJ4H Coordinator Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Hog Country	scrabble cannot be played on yahoo (literati is NOT scrabble). i recommend www.isc.ro for scrabble

03-27-2003, 03:58 PM	#34
Marmel Grizzled Veteran Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: Manchester, CT	hoyle is good too. __________________ 81-78 Cincinnati basketball writer P. Daugherty, "Connor Barwin playing several minutes against Syracuse is like kids with slingshots taking down Caesar's legions."

03-28-2003, 10:44 AM	#35
Kodos Resident Alien Join Date: Jun 2001	So is next Monday good for folks to start up on the Chess tournament? I think 3 minutes a turn is a reasonable amount of time.

03-28-2003, 11:06 AM	#36
henry296 College Starter Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: Pittsburgh, PA	It looks like my match with Shorty might slow things down, since he is goine for a week. Todd __________________ "It's a great day for hockey" - "Badger" Bob Johnson

03-28-2003, 11:57 AM	#37
Kodos Resident Alien Join Date: Jun 2001	Shorty may have to forfeit for the sake of moving the tourney along.

03-30-2003, 09:49 AM	#38
Kodos Resident Alien Join Date: Jun 2001	It looks like I will be taking a forfeit as well. A family thing has come up and I will be heading out of town. Please feel free to start the chess tourney without me (I suck at chess anyhow). Just go by the brackets, and that should be good enough. I'll let you guys worry about when to play and which game site to run things on. Sorry to have to bow out of this round, but sometimes life gets in the way of fun. - Kodos