Octopus's Garden

Issue Eighty-One

12th July 2013

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Sub-editorial

HELLO, good evening and welcome to Octopus's Garden, the subzeen with its very own Railway Rivals end-game report. It's a subzeen to Jim Burgess' The Abyssinian Prince, which is now a subzeen to Douglas Kent's Eternal Sunshine. Produced by Peter Sullivan peter@burdonvale.co.uk. It's also available on the web at http://www.burdonvale.co.uk/octopus/.

IT"S GETTING VERY NEAR THE END

RR Number: RR ???? FR	Round 0: OG 67	Date: Sept 2010
Game Name: "Hannibal Hamlin"	Round 1: OG 69	Date: Dec 2010
Game: Railway Rivals Map FR (France)	Round 12: OG 80	Date: May 2013
g.m.: Peter Sullivan	Game-end: OG 81	Date: July 2013

NERTZ (Nearly Efficient Railway Transport Zystem): William Whyte, USA. [purple]
LOSER (Legendary, Original Straight & Economical Railways): Geoff Challinger, UK. [blue]
FRAK IT (Falaise, Rheims And Kalhausen - Intercity Trains): W. Andrew York, USA. [black]
FWOGGIE (French Wagons Of Goods Generate Importation Expenditures): Brendan Whyte, Aus. [green]
RENAISSANCE (Robin Enjoying Newly Acquired Interests Since Sighting A Novel Cultural Event): Robin ap Cynan, UK. [yellow]

All start Paris

Round	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12
NERTZ	20	20	31	44	63	66	65	69	79	131	186	221	275
LOSER	20	23	38	15	12	25	16	-9	48	86	108	155	193
FRAK IT	20	23	41	47	49	54	56	111	131	153	180	228	271
FWOGGIE	20	23	45	51	51	57	73	125	145	193	213	269	291
RENAISSANCE	20	23	-1	13	31	46	50	96	129	157	223	257	300

Brendan Whyte: Congrats to Robin... though in true Frenchie worlddipcon style, I throw a hissy fit about being pipped at the post.

William Whyte: Good round for me, but I knew I wasn't going to make it. Congratulations to Robin and thanks to Pete for running it. That was fun!

W. Andrew York: Well, about what I expected from my track - maybe a bit better. Congrats Robin on the win and thanks to Peter for running a fine game (as always!).

Peter Sullivan: It all came down to race 40 in the end, where all three players entered had similar track lengths, and Brendan came third. Second place would have given him overall victory by one point (and triggered an orgy of score-checking on my part) whilst a win would have given him a clear margin. This map always seems to lead to close games, both postally and face-to-face.

That was Octopus's Garden #81, Startling Press production number 368.