Napoleonic Wargame Club (NWC)

Clausewitz would disagree with you on this point sir.

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Général David Guegan

3ème Régiment de Grenadiers - Bataillon d'élite du 3ème Légère
2ème Brigade
Grenadiers de la Réserve
Réserve
La Grande Armée
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OK fellows, both the Junior Officer and General Membership Categories of the Single Player Division have nearly 16 officers participating in each of them. We may not be able to place any additional players in these two categories unless we get as many as 16 more in each one. The reason for this lies in the progression of the elimination. 16-8-4-2-1 works. 32-16-8-4-2-1 also works, but nothing in between those numbers works. This means that we cannot exceed 16 officers in a category, unless we can make the next leap up to 32 officers in a category. I believe that I am correct in this unless someone out there knows another way to do it. If anyone can show us a fair structure that works for, say, 23 officers using byes or some other method, we will gladly listen to your idea.

We now have nearly 8 officers signed up for the Guards Category of the Single Player Division as well. Again, we will need to limit the number to 8 unless we can get 8 more to make the total number of participants equal 16. Same story here. If you know a fair way to make the category work with 11 officers, please let me know.

Now by my count, we currently have 23 Coalition officers signed up for the Multi-Player Division. However, we only have 13 French officers at present. As only one scenario will be played in this Division to determine which side of the club will have 'bragging rights', the only criteria we have to meet is to have an even number of officers per side, and that the total number of officers on each side are equal. Right now, we need a minimum of 1 more Coalition officer and 11 French officers to make this work as it really should. Remember that the Coalition currently holds the title which it earned in the last Austerlitz Tournament. Personally, if I were a French officer, I would step up to this challenge in a heartbeat to earn it back. I cannot say what any of you might want to do.

Keep sending your requests for participation in either, or both, Divisions. We will do the best we can to accomodate everyone, but the nature of the Single Player Division will mathematically limit the number of participants that can effectively enter. The Multi-Player Division is much more wide open, as long as we can balance both sides of the club.

Mark,

suppose you have 24 officers in general membership and 8 in guards categories. After the first round they will be divided into 12s and 4s of loosers and winners. The second round in guards category is played between these 4 officers. The second round in general membership category is played between 12 winners of the 1st round and 4 loosers of the guards first round.

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That would work for a specific case of 24 and 8, or any combination totalling 32 players actually, but I would prefer not to mix the players in the varous categories if at all possible. The purpose of the categories is to assemble officers of relatively the equal skill together.

Yours is, however, a most creative, matematical example.

Also, I actually made a mistake in posting to this particular thread. I had started a new one as an 'Announcement' at the top of this forum page once I emailed the official message to all members concerning the start of this tournament. We should all post to that one in the future, as this one has grown extremely long.