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Dobbie
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Dobbie
Wrapping up. Went from promotions and marketing to how we get a camera positioning directly over the king to the final game. Perhaps a quad copter…
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Dobbie
I assume all that are online but not participating are just stealing all our great ideas, right?
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Eric Anderson
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Dobbie
take care. thanks for the awesome feedback.
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Dobbie
Registration opens June 20th for the 2013 Fall Kubb Klassic.
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Dobbie
Discussing Friday night social. What makes a good social? Pros/Cons last year at Raccoon River.
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Eric Anderson
We liked being downtown in the big city.
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Dobbie
Thoughts on T-3. No 3rd place game. What do you think?
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ringer
I think we need a third place..
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Eric Anderson
If I come from far away and am fortunate enough to make it to semifinals. I like two more matches. Tough to play for third sometimes, but it is an opportunity to play Kubb.
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Dobbie
Discussing trophies. Any thoughts out there on prior years’ trophies.
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Eric Anderson
I love my two.
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Dobbie
What if your trophy was the KING you killed to win it? A little battle-scar in the king to take home. Thoughts?
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Eric Anderson
I’m answering too much. Answer away others.
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Dobbie
Another Silent Auction this year. What things do travelers look for?
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Dobbie
That was a question? Is there interest in Silent Auction for travelers? Most of our winners were local and in the DMK club.
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Eric Anderson
From experience, the Rockford silent auction slowed down enough to stop, same as EC. I loved the Scandinavian shop basket before. I would go in on that again. Perhaps local beer?
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Eric Anderson
End of year, folks might be looking to get a new tournament set. Not sure if you are using JP or OTG, but people might start bidding each other up.
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Eric Anderson
Chocolate shop in town? How about a 5×7 or something for the players on a team from Becca of your team like last year or a picture of your team playing. She takes great pictures, and I would love a 5×7 of the team I travel down there with.
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Dobbie
5×7 is a good idea.
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Eric Anderson
I would bid for it.
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Eric Anderson
Sorry. Sneaking away from Erin, sweeping floor, and kids getting ready for bed.
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ringer
If it raises needed funds and/or spreads goodwill and unity, just do it.. I also know they can be a lot of work ..
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Dobbie
Decision point: putting 8 meters between baselines, and 4 meters between sidelines.
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Eric Anderson
Can we chime in hear? Would like the more room between baselines, for what it is worth.
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ericgoplin
Hey guys. I usually don’t get the chance to jump in on this kind of thing live, but I’m happy to be here and nerd-out on kubb a bit!
Having only been to one DMK tournament, the spacing seems less relevant because there aren’t groups. One thing I love about the DMK format is that pitches 1-16 are essentially a realtime scoreboard. Pitch #1 is the top two teams and so on. If space changes between pitches for other tournaments, I hope the two pitches for each group stay close together so the 4 teams can feel like they’re a group.
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Dobbie
Initially we were going to cap at 40 teams (I know that is positive thinking), but we decided we can go more.
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Dobbie
Guaranteed 5 matches. 55 minute rounds. FKK
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Dano
I think you should relocate the Klassic to Trumansburg NY. Just Saying
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Eric Anderson
What happens if you get a lot more teams? Does that change the number of games needed to determine top eight?
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Dobbie
Positive that our system will find the right top 8 in 6 rounds. In our testing, we can theoretically support 128 teams….that is when you start finding little variance between 6 and 9.
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Eric Anderson
Wow. That is impressive.
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Dobbie
Who likes Chili, hot dogs and chili dogs? Me too!
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Dobbie
So begins the 2013 Fall Kubb Klassic brainstorming. 1st topic. What beer to drink for the meeting.
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Dobbie
Today at 6:00 p.m. (CST) Des Moines Kubb will open our annual brainstorming session to the world. On Pitch you can provide feedback, ask questions, follow the conversation, and participate in planning the 2013 Fall Kubb Klassic held in Des Moines, IA on Sept. 21st.
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Jamie Thingelstad
Team TrueSkill Ratings
There will be a longer, more complete blog post coming on the Planet Kubb blog about this soon. But, here is a sneak peek on the pitch.
The Planet Kubb wiki now has 1,091 tournament matches in it and 357 teams. Holy crap right? Yeah. Special hat tip to @dobbie, @chrishodges and @garrick for doing a ton of work entering match information.
Well, there is more. I wrote a bot that walks through every match in date order (see the code) and calculates a TrueSkill rating (TrueSkill was developed by Microsoft for Xbox Live, it’s like a modern version of ELO rating system). Each team starts with a μ score of 25.
So, who is the top ranked team in Planet Kubb? They have a μ score of 42.948. Hint: It’s not the Kubbchucks, we have a score of 28.205.
See the top 50 active teams scores.
Also, if you haven’t checked out the event pages, club pages and team pages in a while. You should, they are much better. Like I said, more to come, this is a sneak peek.
Disclaimer: Both TrueSkill and ELO scores are based on a series of games played and the various skill levels of those matches. The TrueSkill value is recalculated weekly. As more matches from the past are added, these values will update and change to reflect the additional data. So, beware that these are dynamic and updating values.
Oh, and if you haven’t tried the Group X-Ray, give it a try. You’ll want to go here immediately when tournament groups are declared in the future. :-)
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Chris Hodges
1,344 international matches now, with 808 teams from around the U.S. & Europe.
…and counting…
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jakefreeberg
Yeah, it was a fun read, even after the fact. Great use of “The Pitch”. We’re practicing for in Mpls today for this “outsider” tournament next weekend. I’ll try and put together a blog post before and after about it. I’m pretty excited about it.
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Eric Anderson
Very intrigued. Hopefully you can get some of them interested in coming to EC. Less than 2 hours down the I-94 Kubbidor.
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Chad B
I agree with Dobs, if we can swing it, we should shoot for a monthly event.
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Jamie Thingelstad
Great profile pic Chad!
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Chad B
Thanks Jamie. Just changed it this morning.
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Dobbie
This should be a scheduled event every month or so. Kubb anonymous.
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Jamie Thingelstad
Beaming with excitement at the conversation that I wasn’t able to be part of earlier tonight. How great!
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Eric Anderson
This was a blast. We should do it more often.
Eric Anderson are discussing. 
ericgoplin, 
Dano are discussing. 
I put my two cents in while juggling a few things. Have a great night everyone. This was fun.