Post by Mal Arky on Mar 20, 2022 11:50:19 GMT
Yep - me. The Administrator for Diplomacy Watch.
I've been around Diplomacy for a while now. I'm mostly an Extended Deadline (XD) player, usually on Playdiplomacy, but also on webDiplomacy and Backstabbr.
I publish The Diplomaticon, my Diplomacy blog, and Notes on a Napkin, my Dip zine.
I've written a book on Diplomacy, called "50 Tips for Playing Better Diplomacy", published through LeanPub, that you can buy for as little as $4.99 (although you'll want to pay more, of course
).
I run the Tournament_Diplomacy Reddit and I'm the current Tournament Director for the 2022 Online Diplomacy Championship (ODC IV).
I started this forum, Diplomacy Watch, to collect all the information people might need to participate in championship Diplomacy - events, tournaments, leagues, etc. Don't get me wrong, I love regular games too, but there's something a little more about playing more competitively. By the way, I've called this "championship" Diplomacy because nothing fits better: I once called it "professional" Dip but, as someone pointed out, nobody gets paid; and you can't call it "competitive" Dip because every game of Dip should be competitive, even the friendly ones!
Am I any good? I'm OK. I'm not going to set the world alight, I have to say. But I enjoy it and I can be pretty ruthless, which means I take risks... and we're back to being adequate rather than good.
If you want to, I'm on Twitter as @thediplomaticon. I waffle about a lot there.
I hope you find Diplomacy Watch useful and, if you read the blog and zine that you enjoy them. I'm always looking for new writers for Napkin!
I've been around Diplomacy for a while now. I'm mostly an Extended Deadline (XD) player, usually on Playdiplomacy, but also on webDiplomacy and Backstabbr.
I publish The Diplomaticon, my Diplomacy blog, and Notes on a Napkin, my Dip zine.
I've written a book on Diplomacy, called "50 Tips for Playing Better Diplomacy", published through LeanPub, that you can buy for as little as $4.99 (although you'll want to pay more, of course
). I run the Tournament_Diplomacy Reddit and I'm the current Tournament Director for the 2022 Online Diplomacy Championship (ODC IV).
I started this forum, Diplomacy Watch, to collect all the information people might need to participate in championship Diplomacy - events, tournaments, leagues, etc. Don't get me wrong, I love regular games too, but there's something a little more about playing more competitively. By the way, I've called this "championship" Diplomacy because nothing fits better: I once called it "professional" Dip but, as someone pointed out, nobody gets paid; and you can't call it "competitive" Dip because every game of Dip should be competitive, even the friendly ones!
Am I any good? I'm OK. I'm not going to set the world alight, I have to say. But I enjoy it and I can be pretty ruthless, which means I take risks... and we're back to being adequate rather than good.
If you want to, I'm on Twitter as @thediplomaticon. I waffle about a lot there.
I hope you find Diplomacy Watch useful and, if you read the blog and zine that you enjoy them. I'm always looking for new writers for Napkin!