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HELLO, good evening and welcome to issue 45 of Octopus's Garden, the subzeen with its very own colophon with the word "wibble" in it. Wibble. 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 7 -- "William Rufus de Vane King" -- RR 1701 TT

Railway Rivals Map TT (Leapfrog)

1) (15-26) Morpeth - Wylam: TURN 20-4+6 ; GOOCH 10-6+4
2) (24-53) Allendale - Chester-le-Street: no entries
3) (36-64) Tynemouth - Stockton: GOOCH 20-3-2 ; PEAT 10-3+2+2 ; BLUES 0-3+3 ; TURN 0-3-2+3+3+3.
4) (43-32) Barnard Castle - Newcastle: BLUES 20.
5) (52-42) Annfield Plain - Middleton: no entries
6) (61-@5) Darlington - Scotland: BLUES/TURN 20-3 ; PEAT +3
7) (@3-13) Rest of England - Rothbury: no entries

Builds:

GOOCH, brown: Conrad von Metzke: (Eaglescliffe) - D71 - Darlington ; (D12) - A14 - A17 - Alston [+6] ; (E15) - E16 - Allendale [+3] =-14+9
BLUES, blue: Berry Renken: (Chester-le-Street) - H60 ; (G49) - G45 - Rothbury [+6] ; (I28) - H27 - H26 - Middleton [+6]. =-14+12+2[T]
TURN, green: Rip Gooch: (M24) - K25 [-1 B] - K29 [-1 B]. =-14-2
PEAT, pink: Richard Weiss.: (I20) - F18 - F19 ; (F18) - Allendale [+3]. =-14+3

	b/f	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	builds	c/f
GOOCH	64	8		15					-5	82
BLUES	56			0	20		9		-2+2	85
TURN	80	22		4			8		-16	98
PEAT	60			11			3		-11	63
	260	30	00	30	20	00	20	00	-34+2	328

Note that at least one proposed joint run failed just because the prospective partners wanted to go different routes. Note also that you must pay to rent track you leaped over during building - you don't get to use it for free! For Round 8, you may enter up to 6 races and build up to 12 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 Eight orders by FRIDAY, 4th FEBRUARY, 2000 to Peter Sullivan, octopus@manorcon.demon.co.uk

Races for Round Eight (including carry-overs from Round Seven) :

2) (24-53) Allendale - Chester-le-Street
5) (52-42) Annfield Plain - Middleton
7) (@3-13) Rest of England - Rothbury
8) (16-65) Blyth - Middlesbrough
9) (21-@2) Bellingham - Any Port
10) (31-12) Gateshead - Amble
11) (46-23) Durham - Alston
12) (55-33) Sunderland - Newcastle
13) (66-51) Redcar - Consett
14) (@1-41) Any Port - St. John's Chapel

PRESS:

TURN - GOOCH: You have my response to Round 6 press via private e-mail. No need to repeat it here as actions speak louder, etc.

TURN - All: With all these voided runs things will be interesting later on. Perhaps BLUES does not have an unassailable advantage after all.

TURN - PEAT: All's fair in love, war and e-gaming. Besides, my builds were calculated, not vindictive. At game end I'll let you know the builds I decided against because they might have looked too devillish. K48 - Ashington earned me easy points. Come now, wouldn't you have done the same in my position?

Round 6 -- "John C. Breckinridge" -- RR 1702 TK

Railway Rivals Map TK

BOURBON, violet : Mike Barno: 6a) (X24) - X28 ; 6b) (X28) - U30 [-1 C] - Somerset [+6] ; (I5) - G4 ; 6c) (G4) - Memphis ; (C75) - G77. =41+6-1[C]+1[Bl]=47
BLUES, blue : Berry Renken: 6a) (T38) - T39 - Pikeville [+6] ; (E23) - Tullahoma ; 6b) (D26) - C27 ; (Johnson City) - Bristol [+6] ; (X35) - X34 - Z33 ; 6c) (Z33) - Z30 [-1 C] - Frankfort [-1 Bo] ; (R16) - Hopkinsville. =33+12-1[C]-1[Bo]+1[T]=44
REDNECK, red : Neil Hopkins: 6a) (C82) - E83 ; 6b) (E83) - Maysville - E89 ; 6c) (E89) - Ashland ; (E83) - H82 ; (P8) - Q9. =51+2[T]=53
CUDZU, green : Richard Weiss: 6a) (W32) - W30 - V29 - U29 ; 6b) (J38) - J39; (Ashland) - Kenova; (B72) - B71 - A71 ; 6c) (A71) - Z20 - Evansville. =78+1[Bo]+1[Bl]=80
TSR, orange, Andrew Glynn: 6a) (W15) - X16 [-1 R] ; (J9) - J7 - K7 ; 6b) (K7) - Dyersburg; (J7) - E5 [-1 R] ; 6c) (Knoxville) - K36 - L36 [-1 Bl] ; E28 - Chatanooga. =37-2[R]-1[Bl]=34

For Round 7, you may enter up to 5 races and build up to 14 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 Seven orders by FRIDAY, 4th FEBRUARY, 2000 to Peter Sullivan, octopus@manorcon.demon.co.uk

Races for Round Seven :

1) (15-56) Memphis - Cincinnati
2) (26-63) Louisville - Middlesboro
3) (35-12) Bowling Green - Paducah
4) (44-21) Morristown - Evansville
5) (52-@2) Lexington - Illinois/Indiana
6) (66-33) Bristol - Nashville
7) (@3-42) Ohio - Knoxville

PRESS:

BOURBON to ALL: I welcomed the turn of 1999 to 2000 at a friend's house playing Titan. Any other Millenium Gamers here?