One more thing that I forgot to mention if you want to be on the team "diplomacy geeks" you can e-mail me or contact Jeremie LeFrancois directly at jeremie.lefrancois(at)gmail.com ([email]jeremie.lefrancois(at)gmail.com[/email]) and let Jeremie know that you want to be on the team by name, as there are several teams. You should also go the website in Jeremie's' announcement below and sign up for the tournament before you write him and let him know you want to be on the team (I'm not sure if he can assign you to a team if you're not already signed up for the tournament.)

On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 12:24 PM, Jack McHugh <jwmchughjr(at)gmail.com ([email]jwmchughjr(at)gmail.com[/email])> wrote:

Hi all,

I'm playing in Jeremie LeFrancois "Wonderful Mansions" Tournament on the website he runs www.stabbeurfou.org (I basically play on three sites, diplomaticcorop, stabbeurfou and DP judge) and I need a few more players for my team "diplomacy geeks" so far Bruce Quinn (California) and Doug Kent (the editor of Diplomacy World) are on my team---i need 4 more players. Even if you don't want to play with me you can still sign up to play alone or you can join or start your own team...below is the annoucement Jeremie sent out on the tournament on aug 26:

As you probably know by now, the "Stabbeurfou" site is organizing a big tournament to start September 2008. All information about this tournament is to be found on the site at:
http://www.stabbeurfou.org

Basically, it is an extremely close adaptation of the World Masters but with several enhancements from the Diplomacy National World Cup that is currently on the site. So World Mansion is a team based tournament for the first round, for quality play. The use of a Web interface and human supervision is the best compromise between the warmth of human and the adjudication precision of judge adjudication. A huge effort was put into the interface, as in other major web based sites world widely available at present time.

Everything is 100% ready on the site and some players have already pre-registered. As usual, the critical resource is... more players !

This tournament is one of the few chances left to gather the community to the traditions of high activity gaming ways, with long conversations about the game or other topics (especially with foreign players - this is an opportunity to broaden one's mind while preparing at the same time the stab of a Russian player with the help of a Chinese one, with the help of a Brazilian one).

If you want to join the fun, come to this page:
http://www.stabbeurfou.org/MonInscription.php
to register for the site, and to register for the tournament as well (or reply to this email)

There are plenty of world wide players familiar with the site and able to answer any of your questions or you could write to me to this email address.

Join the fun, because life is short!

Regards
Jeremie