ANNOUNCEMENT: T-Party

[naturalistic phallacy]

Do you know when Stanford's mirror is going to be?

I believe Stanford has said that they want to discuss this with West Coast teams and figure out the best date.

[Mechanical Beasts]

Packet from Illinois is in, hooray!

[Papa's in the House]

Packet from Illinois is in, hooray!

I'm assuming this means that "Illinois" is really "Illinois A" and "UIUC" is really "Illinois B" based on the packets received post.

[Mechanical Beasts]

Packet from Illinois is in, hooray!

I'm assuming this means that "Illinois" is really "Illinois A" and "UIUC" is really "Illinois B" based on the packets received post.

You expect me to be consistent? Daaaaaamn.

[Mechanical Beasts]

Dartmouth A has submitted; with this first packet of deadline night I remind you that you have less than four hours left.

[Mechanical Beasts]

We're waiting on a Brown packet (and I've heard that Maryland will maybe be playing at VCU, and I'm betting Chris Ray has played a couple tournaments before), but I should note the complete set of submitted packets so far:

Yale A
UMN
Brandeis
Dunbar
OSU
Adam Liem et al (Georgia Tech, likely)
Michigan A
Eden Prairie
Carleton A
UIUC A
UIUC B
USC

This is a great picture. Also, I should note that science is very close to completion, and that anyone interested in playtesting is more than welcome to email me; we'll set something up in IRC.

[Mechanical Beasts]

I have gotten no word from prospective playtesters! This is a shame. Let me let you in on a secret: some TESTAMONIALS from satisfied former playtesters!

"Never have I had so much fun as when I playtested Andy Watkins science!"
--Mikey L., Tuscaloosa

"Never have I ever had fun at all."
--Mikey L., Tuscaloosa

[Golran]

I'd be interested in playtesting, though I'm not that great a player so it might not be worth your time. I'm not going to any mirrors since nobody else at UCLA wants to drive up to Stanford. What time/date works for you? Maybe Sunday morning/early afternoon?

[Marble-faced Bristle Tyrant]

Adam Liem et al (Georgia Tech, likely)

For the record, this is from an open team and not the real GT.

[Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)]

I have gotten no word from prospective playtesters! This is a shame. Let me let you in on a secret: some TESTAMONIALS from satisfied former playtesters!

"Never have I had so much fun as when I playtested Andy Watkins science!"
--Mikey L., Tuscaloosa

"Never have I ever had fun at all."
--Mikey L., Tuscaloosa

You think you're amusing, but you really are not.

[Cheynem]

Bad Andy. Good T-Party.

[Mechanical Beasts]

You think you're amusing, but you really are not.

I'm crushed!

Bad Andy. Good T-Party.

True!

[Auks Ran Ova]

You think you're amusing, but you really are not.

I'm crushed!

Bad Andy. Good T-Party.

True!

Hopefully we'll have time to proofread it so we don't have any "testamonials" floating around.

[Auroni]

I can playtest stuff.

[Skepticism and Animal Feed]

I'll probably be on IRC tonight with dozens of history tossups to playtest.

[MicroEStudent]

What would be involved in play testing? I consider myself to be around an average physics player and could help out there.

[Mechanical Beasts]

What would be involved in play testing? I consider myself to be around an average physics player and could help out there.

I read questions in the IRC; people play them and have great fun; people comment as to what should change.

[MicroEStudent]

What would be involved in play testing? I consider myself to be around an average physics player and could help out there.

I read questions in the IRC; people play them and have great fun; people comment as to what should change.

Sounds like a blast. I will have to get set up with an IRC client and find the channel at some point after this weekend.

[at your pleasure]

I'm up for it.

[Mechanical Beasts]

I should mention that this is seven days after the +50 deadline, meaning that you have to submit by tonight at 4:00am CST for your entry to be penalized no more than $120.

[Mechanical Beasts]

Science is finished and I've re-edited it a bit (save packets I'm still waiting on, but that's neither here nor there) and so playtesting begins tonight at 6pm Eastern. Meet me in #tpartyplaytest.

[Mechanical Beasts]

Libo showed, but no one else did: I'll reschedule for 9:00pm.

[MicroEStudent]

Libo showed, but no one else did: I'll reschedule for 9:00pm.

I'll try to be there. 6 PM is travel time home from RIT for me.

[Cheynem]

I'll probably be there around that time too, with history/trash, if people are interested.

[Mechanical Beasts]

Thank you, everyone who just playtested with me for three and a half hours. We got through six packets, and I can't overemphasize how helpful it was to have input from real, live people on these questions. Tomorrow we'll probably start a little bit earlier--I'd liked to have started closer to six tonight--and we'll try to get through the rest of the set.

[Mechanical Beasts]

We're going to try 6:00pm again for playtesting; if people aren't there, we're going to defer until 9:00 again.

[millionwaves]

I've just set up a hidden forum for the discussion of T-Party. TO ENTER:

From your user control panel, select usergroups. Find T-Party at the bottom of the list, then click the radio button and submit as "join selected." Andy, Rob, and Bernadette will be in charge of approving people to join the T-Party discussion, so if you think they might not recognize your username, let them know who you are.