Welcome the 2008 Diplomatic Corp Invitational. The diplomaticcorp invitiational is an invitation only diplomacy game that only the best of the best in DC are invited too. This year's invitiation line up will include:-

The winner of the 2007 DCI.
A top ranked player from the Winter Blitz
The top 6 ranked players as calculated by the DCI ranking system
The top ranked new player in DC
A player chosen to be invited by the 3 moderators.

Some rules for the DCI
1. This is a 2 game commitment. (game 2 wil start after game 1 finishes).
2. No player will attempt to contact another player in the game, until after game 1 finishes.
3. No player will make public posts about the DCI or their involvment until after game 1 finishes.

Game 1
1. a 10 player GUNBOAT game with press on the Stonehenge IV map.
2. PRESS can be submitted with moves for Spring, Fall or Winter. Press may be edited by the GM to hide player's identities.
3. The top 7 players in game 1 will be invited to game 2.
4. Country assignments will be random.

Game 2.
1. a 7 player standard game.
2. country assignments will be random, except that players from the 2007 DCI will not play a country that they played in the 2007 DCI.

Scoring
The games would count towards the ranking system at DC. In addition to that, over the 2 games - a basic point system would be
adopted.

Placement
1st - 7 points, 2nd - 6 points, 3rd - 5 points, 4th - 4 points, 5th - 3 points, 6th - 2 points, 7th + 8th + 9th + 10th - 1 point.
Joint position means average points eg joint 1st between two players = 6.5
point each

PLUS
SOLO + 3 points.