Tournaments have come to be a big part of Diplomacy, whether face-to-face or online. If you're running a tournament you need to be able to find a winner, and so a scoring system has to be introduced. In this series of posts I'm going to look at different types of scoring systems and discuss the pros and cons of each one. And I'll end the series by discussing my own, as yet, prototype system. The first thing to be aware of is that a scoring system will change the way people play the game. It has to do. If you're playing and you need to do well then you need to play to the system. This means that the way the system affects the way Diplomacy is played. Tournament games are already a variant of Dip. Ideally, they wouldn't be. Players would be able to play x number of games and play them as they would any other game. In FTF play, you'd expect the game to run until they're finished or time runs out. Online, there should ...
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