■ 🕑 1. The Giko Backgammon Tournament
│ Just a fun idea I had. We should collect a list of interested parties
│ for an April tournament, best of 10 (permitting use of doubling cube)
│ per match, maybe with a $5 buy-in per person
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│ (winner gets 90% of funds, 10% of money goes toward paying VPS bill)
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│ Playing for nothing is also fine but $5 feels like enough to stake
│ that the games would be a little more interesting but nothing to get
│ upset over.
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│ Best of 10 may sound like a lot but incorporating the doubling cube,
│ 1 game becomes 2 becomes 4 becomes 8 potentially very quickly... playing
│ with a small number of games per "match" gives RNG an advantage over
│ skill, which is something to be avoided
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└─■ 🕑 2.
│ that would be cool but i don't know how to play backgammon.
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└─■ 🕑 3.
Just grab my attention someday and I'm happy to teach you!