Hey everyone:
I am copying Garry and Mike the tournament directors. Garry has
played with me as GM before so should have a little understanding of
how I GM. As a personal preference, I don't like how RealPolitik
colors the maps, so I color them by hand. This has led to a bit of a
problem.
Just to bring everyone up to date. DancingQueen, feel free to correct
me if I leave anything out. Over the course of the game, I have made
several mistakes with my adjudications and when they were brought to
my attention, I made the corrections quickly and believe they were
resolved to everyone's satisfaction, up until Winter 1908. When I
published the Winter 1908 map, I mis-colored Rumania as belonging to
Turkey rather than Austria, the SC counts however were correct,
Austria and Turkey each had the correct # of SCs and builds/removals.
No one including myself caught the mistake until After Fall 1909
adjudication. For the Fall 1909 Adjudication, I published the
builds/removals and DancingQueen questioned why he had 3 builds rather
than the 2 he was expecting when he moved to Rumania (thinking he was
moving to a territory he already owned). It was at this point that I
realized my mistake, and sent a message to everyone. Also in the Fall
1909 Adjudication, I incorrectly pubished the next deadline as Monday,
May 23rd, rather than Friday May 27th.
After the Winter 1909 Adjudication, I received a message from Dancing
Queen complaining about the incorrect deadline date. I apologized for
the mistake, but pointed out that the dates are always Spring on
Monday, Retreats on Tuesday, Fall on Thursday, and Retreat/Builds on
Friday.
Dancing Queen responded this morning expressing his displeasure with
how I have been GMing the game. All of which can be seen here as
posted to the Forum:
http://www.diplomaticcorp.com/forumPost.php?post=20782.
So that all said, I understand I made a mistake and said as much on
Friday, but really it should have been caught. As far as the deadline
goes, I would think that everyone should know by now, especially in
Year 1909 of the second game of the tournament that the deadlines are
set in stone. I have no control over them and include them as a
courtesy in my emails. If Mike and Garry would like to replace me as
GM, I will respect their opinion and gladly hand over the reins. I
will be publishing the results of Spring 1910 shortly and await the
decision of the Tournament Directors.
-- TrustMe