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4th August 2000

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HELLO, good evening and welcome to issue 49 of Octopus's Garden, the subzeen with its very own pre-semi-century special issue. An html version of this subzeen is available on the Web at http://www.manorcon.demon.co.uk/octopus/index.html. It's also sent to the TAP mailing list, which you can join automatically by sending the message 'subscribe tap' to majordomo@diplom.org. The message 'unsubscribe tap' sent to the same address will get you off the mailing list.

Round 10 -- "William Rufus de Vane King" -- RR 1701 TT

Railway Rivals Map TT (Leapfrog)

22) (12-31) Amble - Gateshead: TURN 20-1+1 ; PEAT 10-1-1-1 ; GOOCH +1+1+1.
23) (23-62) Alston - West Hartlepool: GOOCH 20.
24) (33-@6) Newcastle - Cumbria: GOOCH 20 (to A11).
25) (41-52) St. John's Chapel - Annfield Plain: TURN 20-2-2 ; BLUES 10+2 ; PEAT +2
26) (51-16) Consett - Blyth: GOOCH 20-2-2-2+2 ; TURN 10-2-2+2+2 ; BLUES 0-2-2+2 ; PEAT +2+2+2.
27) (63-43) Eaglescliffe - Barnard Castle: BLUES 20-1-1 ; GOOCH +1 ; PEAT +1.
28) (@5-21) Scotland - Bellingham: TURN 20-3-3 ; PEAT +3 ; GOOCH +3.

Builds:

GOOCH, brown: Conrad von Metzke: (H55) - H52 [-1 T] ; (I53) - H53. =-8-1
BLUES, blue: W. Andrew York: no builds.
TURN, green: Rip Gooch: (F57) - Wylam - B55 ; (D69) - C69 =-7-1
PEAT, pink: Richard Weiss.: (Ashington) - I49 [-1 T] ; (G58) - Wylam [-8 T]. =-8-9

	b/f	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	builds	c/f
GOOCH	210	3	20	20	-	16	1	3	-09+00	264
BLUES	198	-	-	-	12	-2	18	-	-00+01	227
TURN	156	20	-	-	16	10	-	14	-08+10	218
PEAT	153	7	-	-	2	6	1	3	-17+00	155
	717	30	20	20	30	30	20	20	-34+11	864

For Round 11, you may enter up to 4 races and build up to 6 physical points of track (i.e. payments to rivals do not count against the limit, although of course you still pay them.) Please specify known payments to others in both races and builds! Could you all let me have Round Eleven orders by FRIDAY, 25th AUGUST, 2000 to Peter Sullivan, octopus@manorcon.demon.co.uk

Races for Round Eleven:

29) (13-25) Rothbury - Hexham
30) (26-54) Wylam - South Shields
31) (32-66) Newcastle - Redcar
32) (42-36) Middleton - Tynemouth
33) (56-@3) Seaham - Rest of England
34) (65-14) Middlesbrough - Ashington
35) (@4-46) Rest of England - Durham

PRESS:

MIKE BARNO to G.O.O.C.H. AND OTHERS: Right, I just switched into a fantasy football league that Doug Brown's in, and we already made an interesting offseason trade. He's fine, it seems.

TURN: Done in a hurry and fighting tiredeness. Recovering from the Brian Wilson Orchestral Pet Sounds concert last night! If you get the chance- DON'T MISS IT!

PEAT - PLAYERS: Rip and I and Geneva have had much communiction. I apologize to all for press which created a false sense of animosity and the needless disruption to our game. The effect was quite minimal however, sort of as if I NMR'd this turn with my measley ability to enter two races.

PEAT - CONRAD: Building the spur to Allendale with thoughts of extending to Alston was effectively blocked by your builds, giving you many solo runs and creating a huge number of pips wasted building out there. Way to go.

Round 9 -- "John C. Breckinridge" -- RR 1702 TK

Railway Rivals Map TK

15) (13-@1) Dyersburg - Missouri/Kansas: TSR 10-2+1+1 (to Memphis) ; BLUES 10-6-1+2 (to Cairo) ; REDNECK 10-2-1+6+2 (to Cairo) ; BOURBON 0 (to Memphis).
16) (24-11) Owensboro - Cairo: TSR 20-2-1+3 ; CUDZU 10-3-3 ; REDNECK +3+2+1
17) (34-55) Nashville - Cincinnati: TSR 20-23 (XRP race 21) ; REDNECK 10-4 ; BOURBON +23+4
18) (46-32) Chattanooga - Columbia: BLUES 20 ; TSR 10-3-1 ; BOURBON +3+1.
19) (54-23) Maysville - Hopkinsville: REDNECK 20 ; CUDZU 10.
20) (65-45) Johnson City - Chattanooga: BLUES 20.
21) (@5-61) North Carolina/Georgia - Somerset: CUDZU 20-2 (from J39) ; BOURBON 10-21+2 (XRP race 17) (from Chattanooga) ; TSR +21

Builds:

BOURBON, violet : Mike Barno: no builds
BLUES, blue : Eric Brosius: (U17) - Owensboro ; (B88) - C89 - Ashland; (R11) - Paducah. =-9
REDNECK, red : Neil Hopkins: (Ashland) - B90 - A91 [-6 C] - X39 - W40 - Pikeville. =-7-6
CUDZU, green : Richard Weiss: (Q15) - P14 - O15 - O18 [-3 Bo] [-1 Bl] - M19 - M20 [-1 Bo] ; (U29) - Somerset. =-9-5
TSR, orange : Andrew Glynn: no builds

	b/f	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	builds	c/f
BOURBON	82	0	-	27	4	-	-	-9	-00+04	108
BLUES	111	5	-		20	-	20	-	-09+01	148
REDNECK	107	15	6	6	-	20	-	-	-13+00	141
CUDZU	161	-	4	-	-	10	-	18	-14+06	185
TSR	106	10	20	-3	6	-	-	21	-00+00	160
	567	30	30	30	30	30	20	30	-36+11	742

Race 15 was a three-way tie for first place, and was very nearly a four-way tie! For Round 10, you may enter up to 4 races and build up to 8 physical points of track (i.e. payments to rivals do not count against the limit, although of course you still pay them.) Could you all let me have Round Ten orders by FRIDAY, 25th AUGUST , 2000 to Peter Sullivan, octopus@manorcon.demon.co.uk

Races for Round Ten:

22) (12-@5) Paducah - North Carolina/Georgia
23) (21-54) Evansville - Maysville
24) (32-64) Columbia - Hazard
25) (43-15) Knoxville - Memphis
26) (55-36) Cincinnati - Tullahoma
27) (61-41) Somerset - Rockwood
28) (@1-25) Missouri/Arkansas - Louisville

PRESS:

BOURBON: It's a little embarrassing to enter only three races after I've quit building.

MIKE: Anyone else here going to World DipCon? It'll be my first since number two in 1990. (It was biennial at first, thus the numbering is at ten now rather than twelve.) For more info on the Diplomacy part of the con (one of a hundred games playing their world championships there) and a better map than the one on the host group's website, see the one I built at www.DiplomaticCorps.org/ComingEvents/ComingEventList.html.