Guys, it looks to me like the main issue here is the miscoloration of
Rumania. Brian is human, errors are inevitable. Even tho it was
miscolored, it did not change the builds due at the time. (all the text
results were correct). Since nobody noticed it then, I guess ppl just
didn't look closely at the map. Maybe Turkey would have ordered
differently (not to Rumania?) if he knew Rumania was not his, but really
it is the players' responsibility to assess the results and correct
anything wrong w/in 24 hours. If that didn't happen, we move on. This
is the Blitz -- We roll w the punches and the tournament keeps moving.
You can't report something was wrong in a map from over a week ago in a
tournament and have time be rewound.
Note the Mon/23 due date was obviously wrong, builds have been due on
every Friday since January - builds are clearly not due on a Monday --
in the past even.
Regarding the GM, there is no change. Brian has done an awesome job as
a first-time Blitz GM, and his efforts are hugely appreciated! If
anyone else would like to volunteer to be part of our team for next
year, let Garry or myself know.
No doubt there are definite preferences out there regarding human GMs vs
Judge systems. Some like one, some like the other. Our group has been
a play-by-email community for 10 years and I don't think we'll ever go
to judge play.
Let's move on. Results as Brian has posted them. Next turn is due
Thursday! If you all want to vote for a draw, you can propose such w/in
the normal confines of the game, per the WB rules page... that is, you
can vote on a draw with your fall orders, but be sure to send orders too
since if the draw doesn't pass then the orders submitted are processed
with no extra time.
-mike
Co-TD,
4th Annual Winter Blitz.

-----Original Message-----
From: Trust Me [mailto:trustmedpl(at)gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, May 30, 2011 3:26 PM
To: Dancing Queen; Gareth Griffiths; Jim Tapp; Mathew Power; Philip
King; Stuart Winch; Thomas Fletcher; blitz
Cc: Michael Sims; Garry Bledsoe
Subject: DC379 - Winter Blitz - Airring the Issues
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