Boards.ie 2nd Annual Codenames WC July 2019

Green&Red

Following on from the massive success of Baggly's inaugural Codenames World Cup the second annual Codenames World Cup will take place across this July.

It would be standard double elimination tournament structure (so each team would get at least 2 shots to progress), based on 8 teams (we can increase or decrease this as needed), based on 2 people per team (1 cap, 1 guesser).

The 2 players in each team can take turns to captain and guess, or not - its up to each team who captains each of their games.

The structure and an idea of how it would work is below.



There is no need to hold the games in each phase one after the other. Like in the above chart, games 1 to 4 can be played in any order and any (reasonable) speed, and this can be sorted between the players in each game.

Its only after a team moves forward to the next round that we would need to set 'play your game by X date' dates.

The 4 players in each match can arrange when to play their games, to suit all 4 players.

Final and possibly semi-final will be best of three

Sign up form here: https://forms.gle/Zioagj2X9W459sK26

If you sign up and indicate your preference for being a captain or not, i will assign you to a team.

Ill announce the teams and first round of games once we have enough players. 8 is the minimum. 16 would be preferred. We can roll with anything in between however.

For anyone new who happens across this thread, please feel free to sign up!

Some info on the game can be found in the below thread.

https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057841052

Its well worth your while giving a game a trial run, it looks a lot more complicated and daunting than it actually is
You can sign up for a single game here

Sign-ups will remain open until June 30th

sKeith

In.
Google form does not allow anytime, and i dont care for cap or no.

so,

sKeith

weekdays, yes
weekends, yes

will captain, i dont care.

willing to team with anybody, yes.

osh

Yeah i put down weekdays but can play weekends too

Baggly

sKeith wrote:

willing to team with anybody, yes.

Even me?

sKeith

Baggly wrote: »

Even me?

of course.

Baggly

But I'm a terrible teammate! I wouldn't team with me.

Green&Red

Five sign-ups so far, come on guys

Kolido

Signed up, need to defend my half of the title. What are the chances of Team Kosh reuniting

Green&Red

As reigning champions I think its only fair you'd be paired together again

tusk

Fine then!

Green&Red

Have you played tusk?

tusk

only the real game. not on fg

Green&Red

For those of you coming from the sheep reveal, welcome

Green&Red

We have seven so far, one more needed at least


Ahem, SKeith, ahem

Digital Solitude

In

My schedule changes every week so every day is equally good/bad for me, during the week probably works best.

Don't mind being cap or guesser

sKeith

Green&Red wrote: »

We have seven so far, one more needed at least


Ahem, SKeith, ahem

if my name is not down alrweady, sign me up, i thought i already signed up.
i recall saying i'd play weekdays or weekends, on any team.

was that not for this?

sKeith

sKeith wrote: »

if my name is not down alrweady, sign me up, i thought i already signed up.
i recall saying i'd play weekdays or weekends, on any team.

was that not for this?

yeah, see post #2

duffman13

Can I have someone who is terrible at the game be my partner with no expectation to win please? That would be ideal:)

Ectoplasm

duffman13 wrote: »

Can I have someone who is terrible at the game be my partner with no expectation to win please? That would be ideal:)

If that's an option, how about someone like me who has never actually played?

Green&Red

Ectoplasm wrote: »

If that's an option, how about someone like me who has never actually played?

We’ll have a game tomorrow Ecto, it’ll help with the WW DTs

sKeith

Green&Red wrote: »

We’ll have a game tomorrow Ecto, it’ll help with the WW DTs

count me in.

Green&Red

sKeith wrote: »

count me in.

What time can we expect you?

sKeith

post 10 am, posssibly closer to 11am

tusk

I'm in too if there's space

Green&Red

So looks like we have 11 so far - wonder would Necro or Molly be interested in playing again? 12 would give us two groups of three with the top two going through the semis.

We'll pair Kolido and Osh together as reigning champions and do an open draw for the other teams

Kitten
Osh
Sixtoes aka Dessie
Baggly
Kolido
Ecto
Skeith
Tusk
Digi
G&R
Duffman

duffman13

Ectoplasm wrote: »

If that's an option, how about someone like me who has never actually played?

I'm in so, stick me with Ecto!

Edit: just seen open draw! Still in

Green&Red

Can we get one more guys, bring us up to 12?

Green&Red

Are people for or against pairing Osh and Kolido together again?

Baggly

Let them defend their title.

Green&Red

So LadySkunk has agreed to help us out and be player No. 12

Team A: Osh & Kolido

I've PM'd Baggly a list with numbers beside each of the 10 names, could someone please give me two pairs of numbers to go in the group of death, followed by three pairs of numbers to go in the group of life

Thanks

Baggly

Am i the (non)independent adjudicator from KPMG?

Kolido

Like a dice, 6/1 & 3/4

Green&Red

So the group of death is

Team A: Kolido and Osh
Team B: Baggly & Digi
Team C:Lady Skunk & Duffman

Can I get three more pairs for the Group of Life

kitten_k

2/8, 10/7, 5/9

Green&Red

Group of Life

Team Ecto & Tusk
Team E: Kitten & Skeith
Team F: G&R & Sixtoes

tusk

Woop ecto

tusk

Team d ftw

Green&Red

So you play each in your group once.

If you win while the other team has three words left that will be your score difference and in the event of a tie that will be used to separate teams.

Top two go through to the semi-finals 1v2 from each group, best of three

Final will be best of three also


So feel free to organise a time that suits each other

Green&Red

And catchier team names would be great

Kolido

We will probably stick with team kosh?

Baggly

Team solitary plastic bag from the film American Beauty.

Nice ring to it.

osh

I think we have to now that we have the added pressure of defending our title!

Necro

Green&Red wrote:

Team A: Kolido and Osh Team B: Baggly & Digi Team C:Lady Skunk & Duffman

Team Kosh
Team Digibags
Team Skunkman

Green&Red wrote:

Team Ecto & Tusk Team E: Kitten & Skeith Team F: G&R & Sixtoes

Team Tuskplasm
Team Sneaky kittens
Team SixGreen&SixRedtoes

sKeith

Green&Red wrote: »

So you play each in your group once.

If you win while the other team has three words left that will be your score difference and in the event of a tie that will be used to separate teams.

Top two go through to the semi-finals 1v2 from each group, best of three

Final will be best of three also


So feel free to organise a time that suits each other

Don't remember WC having a group stage last time.


Sort of a mix between LOL and WC

Kolido

Will this be a non Google tournament?

Reason I ask is that up until about 6-12 months ago we were using Google. Both can have different strategies involved. I dont mind either way.

Baggly

Tunkplasm

Ectoplasm

I was thinking Tusk O'Plasm myself but either works for me

Green&Red

Matches do not need to be played in order


Group of Death

Matchday 1
Team Kosh v Team Digibags

Matchday 2
Team Digibags v Team Skunkman

Matchday 3
Team Skunkman v Team Kosh


Group of Life

Matchday 1
Team Tusk'O'Plasm v Team Sneaky kittens

Matchday 2
Team Sneaky kittens v Team SixGreen&SixRedtoes

Matchday 3
Team SixGreen&SixRedtoes v Team Tusk'O'Plasm

tusk

Ectoplasm wrote: »

I was thinking Tusk O'Plasm myself but either works for me

Tusk'O'Plasm it is!

Green&Red

Kolido wrote: »

Will this be a non Google tournament?

Reason I ask is that up until about 6-12 months ago we were using Google. Both can have different strategies involved. I dont mind either way.

Non google

osh

Kolido, Digibags - let me know when suits for our game. I'm good whenever.