Results final (points within each game shown after the players name, with tournament points in brackets):

Bus
A: WHATEVER 14 (100), bspittles 10 (66), kizkiz 4 (26), fancy dan 4 (26)
B: WHATEVER 7 (100), bspittles 6 (75), kizkiz 4 (50), Ashers 2 (25)
C: WHATEVER 12 (100), fancy dan 11 (84), bspittles 10 (76), Ashers 4 (30)
D: fancy dan 13 (100), bspittles 9 (64), kizkiz 6 (42), Ashers 3 (21)
E: WHATEVER 11 (100), fancy dan 7 (58), kizkiz 2 (16), Ashers 1 (8)

Hacienda
A: WHATEVER 89 (100), jeffersdn 76 (84), kizkiz 70 (77), fancy dan 65 (72)
B: WHATEVER 78 (100), kizkiz 69 (87), fancy dan 68 (86), Ashers 66 (83)
C: WHATEVER 83 (100), kizkiz 83 (98), jefferdn 73 (86), Ashers 52 (61) - WHATEVER won on a tiebreak by having the most cash
D: WHATEVER 92 (100), jeffersdn 79 (84), fancy dan 67 (72), Ashers 65 (69)
E: fancy dan 74 (100), jeffersdn 70 (93), kizkiz 67 (89), Ashers 54 (72)

Hoity Toity
A: fancy dan 31 (100), jefferdn 27 (84), kizkiz 26 (81), bspittles 21 (65), WHATEVER 17 (53)
B: Ashers 30 (100), WHATEVER 29 (93), bspittles 27 (87), kizkiz 22 (70), fancy dan 21 (67)
C: jeffersdn 36 (100), Ashers 30 (81), WHATEVER 26 (70), kizkiz 23 (62), bspittles 19 (51)
D: WHATEVER 36 (100), fancy dan 30 (81), bspittles 28 (75), jeffersdn 26 (70), Ashers 19 (51)
E: bspittles 34 (100), fancy dan 29 (82), Ashers 29 (82), kizkiz 24 (68), jeffersdn 23 (65)
F: fancy dan 34 (100), jeffersdn 29 (82), WHATEVER 25 (71), Ashers 14 (40), kizkiz 13 (37)

Santiago
A: WHATEVER 86 (100), bspittles 69 (79), kizkiz 67 (77)
B: WHATEVER 136 (100), bspittles 73 (53), jeffersdn 65 (47)
C: kizkiz 109 (100), bspittles 92 (83), jeffersdn 58 (52)
D: WHATEVER 55 (100), kizkiz 49 (87), Ashers 47 (83)

Tikal
A: fancy dan 127 (100), bspittles 120 (93), jeffersdn 62 (48)
B: fancy dan 134 (100), bspittles 116 (85), Ashers 80 (59)
C: bspittles 106 (100), jeffersdn 98 (91), Ashers 82 (76)
D: fancy dan 133 (100), jeffersdn 107 (79), Ashers 102 (76)

Wallenstein
A: kizkiz 49 (100), WHATEVER 43 (86), fancy dan 33 (66), bspittles 27 (54), jeffersdn 22 (44)
B: fancy dan 52 (100), WHATEVER 39 (73), bspittles 38 (71), kizkiz 25 (47), Ashers 24 (45)
C: WHATEVER 48 (100), kizkiz 43 (87), jeffersdn 32 (65), bspittles 27 (55), Ashers 24 (48)
D: WHATEVER 53 (100), fancy dan 40 (74), jeffersdn 34 (62), bspittles 20 (53), Ashers 13 (24)
E: fancy dan 43 (100), kizkiz 38 (86), jeffersdn 36 (81), bspittles 31 (70), Ashers 24 (54)
F: fancy dan 49 (100), jeffersdn 48 (96), WHATEVER 37 (74), kizkiz 30 (60), Ashers 15 (30)

I'm in:

1. bspittles
2. fancy dan

1. bspittles
2. fancy dan
3. WHATEVER

1. bspittles
2. fancy dan
3. WHATEVER
4. jeffersdn

1. bspittles
2. fancy dan
3. WHATEVER
4. jeffersdn
5. ashers

1. bspittles
2. fancy dan
3. WHATEVER
4. jeffersdn
5. ashers
6. kiz

Bump!

Anyone else? Scoot?

This is how I'd like it to run, but everything open for discussion! I've been trying to think of a way of ensuring that luck plays as little part as possible, but that can only be achieved by playing more games!

SBW Playable games:
Bus
Hacienda (map 001, score as you go)
Hoity Toity
Santiago (basic spring layout, no palm trees)
Tikal (no auction, end-to-end worker movement)
Wallenstein (advanced province set up)

I think these are pretty much the vanilla versions of each game.

Each player chooses one SBW game to avoid, so each player will play five different SBW games.

If any SBW game has fewer than 3 players wishing to play it, the game will be removed from the list, and so each player will play four different SBW games.

For each SBW game, a number of matches will be created with one player sitting out of each. For example, if five players wish to play Bus then five 4-player matches will be contested.

If all six wish to play Tikal, 3 x 4-player matches will be contested with two players sitting out of each (you can't have a five player Tikal).

Championship Points (CP) for each game will be calculated as follows:
* Winner receives 100 CP
* All other receive a percentage (rounded down) of their points compared to the winner's points plus 1.
This will mean those finishing second on a tie-breaker will receive 99 CP.

For each SBW game, the number of CP is averaged for each player. e.g. bspittles played 4 games of Tikal scoring 100, 25, 37 and 61 CP, so his final Tikal score is 223/4 = 55 CP.

The total number of CP from each of the 5 (or 4) SBW games is calculated, and the winner declared.

All thoughts very much appreciated. There will have to be a slight rethink if more than six want to take part. It would be great if we could get another couple

That looks excellent. Can we have Reef Encounter as one of the playable games though. It's so much more strategic than Tikal or Hoity Toity.

Sounds great to me too b-spit, I'm happy with adding Reef Encounter as it will give me an easy choice of which one to avoid .

We can add Reef Encounter, but it would be an additional game rather than a replacement. I'll have a think about how that will effect the dynamic.

I think at least two others need to support the proposal... anyone like to second and third it?

(I've never played it, so will abstain)

Played a couple of reef games. Still none the wiser

I have no idea how Reef works.

Hate reef and bus.

No support for Reef, sorry WHATEVER.

I'll try and set up the games this lunchtime.

OK, I guess I need to know which game everyone wants to avoid...

1. bspittles - HACIENDA
2. fancy dan
3. WHATEVER
4. jeffersdn
5. ashers
6. kiz

Please add yours to the list.

OK, I guess I need to know which game everyone wants to avoid...

1. bspittles - HACIENDA
2. fancy dan
3. WHATEVER
4. jeffersdn
5. ashers
6. kiz - tikal

Please add yours to the list.

OK, I guess I need to know which game everyone wants to avoid...

1. bspittles - HACIENDA
2. fancy dan
3. WHATEVER - Tikal
4. jeffersdn
5. ashers
6. kiz - tikal

Please add yours to the list.

Reef encounter is worth persevering with. I didn't get it at all in my first game because I could not work out how the different actions combined to gether but now I realise it's much more tactical than most of the other games on the site.

I think one of the problems with SBW is that nothing on the board is labelled, and the rules never contain images of what the board looks like. It took me AGES to work out was was going on in tikal! I have a game of REEF going on at the moment, and even with the rules in front of me, I don't have a clue.

1. bspittles - HACIENDA
2. fancy dan - Santiago
3. WHATEVER - Tikal
4. jeffersdn
5. ashers
6. kiz - tikal

Interesting, I expected most players to go for Bus.

1. bspittles - HACIENDA
2. fancy dan - Santiago
3. WHATEVER - Tikal
4. jeffersdn - Bus
5. ashers
6. kiz - tikal

Ashes has selected Santiago. Game details will be up early next week, unless I can get an hour on the laptop over the weekend!

Just one thing about the Wally games, I've noticed I put Advanced province set up. I meant the version where players select their settlements before the fighting/gathering of resources/building starts.

I suspect I should have said Basic set up. Can someone confirm my mistake?

OK, ignore that - Advanced was correct!

OK, all the games I'll be playing have been created and WHATEVER and fancy dan have been asked to create the others.

The password to each is peaches, and the comment on the game says who should be playing in it.

Let me know if you spot any problems, or can't join a game you should be in.

Well i've joined everything i could see with my name on

Same

Just created a couple more, for Jeffers, Ashers and kizkiz.

I can only see E. What happened to A-D?