Diplomacy Variant Hall of Fame committee...

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tom Reinecker"
Sent: Monday, January 05, 2004 7:25 PM
Subject: Diplomacy Variant Hall of Fame committee...


> Talk is under way to form a Hall of fame for Dip Variants, this "Hall"
would be located in the Diplomatic Pouch. I have been speaking to the
"keeper" of the variant Bank at the Pouch, Stephen Agar and he is excited by
the idea but we NEED representation from the ENTIRE online Diplomacy
community. I happen to play at Redscape and we have several people willing
to help out from that community but we need more, this is to be an entire
community project, not a Redscape one..far from it!
>
> Would you please pass along this information to your community and have
anyone interested please contact me (Tom Reinecker) at

tomahaha <at> rochester <dot> rr <dot> com

(please "spamproof" the address if you post it in any forums). I am trying
to put together a coalition of people willing to work on this project. if
the interest is significant, I will start a yahoo discussion thread of some
sort...we can keep this neutral as I am not trying to "steal" any community
players away to my community. I think this would also be an excellent way
for each community to get to know the other in a more formal way.
>
> The idea is simple,
> We will get a group of volunteers together who will first review all the
variants we can find...most are on the pouch but some communities may have
"secret" gems that only they have played, this is also a great opportunity
for all the variant designers among us to make our standouts more well
known! We will assign each person a group of variants to review, we will be
sure to include plenty of overlapping reviews to best balance individual
opinions. from there each reviewer will nominate those games they deem
"worthy" of at least some sort of "seal of approval". We will as a large
group discuss the pros and cons of each game, eliminating some and finally
voting on the best of the bunch that will be the first inductees to the
"Hall of Fame". Our discussions will be boiled down into reviews for each of
these games and we, as a community. will have a great bank of variants and
information to aid us in deciding what games to play if we wish to host a
variant in one of our sites.
>
> I look forward to your help,
>
> Thanks very much (and I hope to stab you soon)
>
> Tom Reinecker