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HELLO, good evening and welcome to issue 29 of Octopus's Garden, the subzeen with its very own games-only 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@igo.org. The message 'unsubscribe tap' sent to the same address will get you off the mailing list.

Round 9 (RR 1549 FR)

"MILLARD FILLMORE"

Railway Rivals (France)

12) (66-24) Nice -- Nantes (re-offer): 1st TBNS 20-8-5 ; 2nd RAVEL 10-3+8 ; CANCAN +5+3.
15) (26-56) La Rochelle -- Lourdes: 1st CANCAN 20-1 ; 2nd TBNS 10 ; LFffCC +1.
16) (53-@3) Toulouse -- Germany: 1st FREAK 20-7+1 ; 2nd LFffCC 10-1 ; TBNS +7.
17) (64-44) Marseille -- Lyon: 1st RAVEL 20+2 ; 2nd FREAK 10-2-2 ; TBNS +2.
18) (16-63) Le Harvre -- Marseille: 1st RAVEL 20-7+3 ; 2nd LFffCC 10-3+7.
19) (36-11) Nancy -- Paris: 1st RAVEL 20-4 ; 2nd LFffCC 10+4 ; CANCAN 0-1 ; FREAK 0+1.
20) (45-35) Lyon -- Metz: 1st FREAK 20.
21) (@4-21) Switzerland -- Brest: no entry

Builds:

Little Froggy FooFoo ChooChoo (LFFfCc) [orange] (Neil Hopkins, England): no builds.
French Rail Emperors And Kings (FREAK) [purple] (W. Andrew York, TX): no builds.
Conrad's Absurd Names Create Acronymic Nausea (CAN CAN) [green] (Conrad von Metzke, CA): no builds.
The Blue Nosed Special (TBNS) [blue] (John Colledge, Scotland): (Q25) - X28 [-1 yellow] [-5 purple] - X29 - Z30 [-1 purple].; =-10-1-6.
Railways Asserting Very Egalitarian Lines (RAVEL) [yellow] (Berry Renken, Netherlands): (A67) - A69 - Z29 [-1 purple] ; (A69) - C70 [-1 green] ; (I60) - M62 [-1 purple] ; (Z19) - Z18 [-1 purple].; =-10-3-1.

Scores on the Doors

       b/fwd  12  15  16  17  18  19  20  21 builds c/fwd 
       -----  --  --  --  --  --  --  --  -- ------ -----
LFffCC    65       1   9      14  14                  103
FREAK    100          14   6       1  20         +9   150
CANCAN    96   8  19              -1             +1   123
TBNS     124   7  10   7   2                 -17      133
RAVEL    104  15          22  16  16         -14 +1   160
       -----  --  --  --  --  --  --  --  -- ------ -----
         489  30  30  30  30  30  30  20   0 -31+11   669

Races for Round Ten

21) (@4-21) Switzerland -- Brest (re-offer)
22) (21-@4) Brest -- Switzerland
23) (@3-66) Germany -- Nice
24) (44-12) Lyon -- Paris
25) (15-36) Rouen -- Nancy
26) (63-54) Marseille -- Bordeux
27) (35-25) Metz -- Orleans
28) (56-45) Lourdes -- Lyon

For Round Ten, you may enter four of the above races, then build up to 8 physical points (i.e. excluding all payments to others, known and unknown). Orders for Round Ten by 23:59:59 Greenwich Mean Time on FRIDAY, 25th SEPTEMBER, 1998, to Peter Sullivan. E-mail : octopus@manorcon.demon.co.uk PGP key available for the paranoid.