Updated: September 1st 2025
Flipamies is a friendly league that took birth in 1995. Throughout the years, players have come, some have gone and others have stayed. I have always tried to keep everyone happy but, unfortunately, it is impossible to do...you just cannot please everyone! Nevertheless, Flipamies still exists so I must be doing something right! The venture begun on Flipside a long time ago, then when flipside decided to end their multiplayer games because of costs, I moved the league to Sierra which eventually closed their multiplayer games because of the arrival of Beta and the fact that everyone was pirating "facemaker" (their major source of revenu); it just would have been too costly to reprogam all the games. So, now we are on silvercrk's hardwood hearts and I do not plan to end it anytime soon.
First, let me explain the games we play...
7:30pm, sunday through thursday..... Playing picked options are; spothearts (face value of the cards), jack of diamonds (-40 points), queen of spades (50 points), moon (150 points), sun or eclipse (300 points). The game ends when one of the players (including bots) reaches 500 points or more. The lowest of the human players wins the game once it ends. There is a 2 round qualification (2 games) after which the game winners continue into the finals; finals are always played in DUEL mode...1 vs 1, face to face with a bot on each side...the lowest human wins the game...bots do not win. So, be tricky, be mean, it's like a cat fight, use the bots to your advantage...it's a very competitive game.
For those interested, I offer a monthly standings to motivate players beyond winning 1 tourney. Nobody needs to pay attention to the standings but if you wish to have more than a tourney, the standibgs are rather motivating...just remember, if you don't care about standings, take note that you might be playing against someone who does care and might be playing in a way to climb that ladder and push away their closest followers.
Now I am going to explain how the tourneys are run...UGH!
All participants gets 1 point for participating. The ones who finish fourth gets 2+1 points. The one who finishes third gets 5+1 points. The one who finishes second gets 8+1 points and the one who wins the tourney gets 11+1 points. Now, be aware that I do not permit anyone to have more than a 3 point lead over his immediate follower; should there be more than a 3 point difference, the difference will go into his her residual value column. The residual value is used to break a tie ...the highest residual value takes the lead. This way, no one could run away with the lead, it is always accessible.
Round 1...
Once the tourney has STARTED, the server scrambles the order of the players registered. Then, I take the top 3 in the standings and sit them at differents tables so they don't get to play against each other in that first round. Why?...Because if they are at the same table, the odds are that one of them will win that game so I make it tough on them...earn it!
Round 2...
The winners of round 1 all go to different tables and, if possible, don't get to play against the same players as they did in round 1....Example; John won the game followed by Jenny, Jojo and Jake so John goes to table 1, Jenny table 2, Jojo table 3 and Jake table 4 and I do the same for all the other games ...Andrew won his game so he goes to table 2 and down the list I go...Sandra won her game so off she goes to table 3...etc...
Finals...
The scores from the first 2 rounds (qualification rounds) are used in the finals. Of course, no one could do better than winning both games. When I display the finalits, they are in the order of best to worst. Finals are always played in DUEL mode, 1 vs 1, face to face, a bot on each side. Bots DO NOT win games but they certainly could end them...it is the lowest of the two humans who wins those games. So, the best plays the worst, the second best plays the second worst, etc... Should there be an odd number of finalists, the best gets a bye to the next game which means an automatic win...And on we go until a winner emerges from the final game.
Standings...
The only thing left is to update the standings.
1- I give everyone their earned points
2- I re-order all the players according to their total points
3- I make sure no one has more than a 3 point lead over the closest follower and put the difference in he residual column
4- I attribute the winner star and adjust the numbers for first place
5- I adjust colors and change the date
Okay so, that's it? Once the month is over we start again? Well, yes but I do award military ranks to the top 3 at the end of the month. First place gets 2 promotions while second and third place each gets 1 promotion....let's see you try to become a five star general !
GOT IT? Hope so lol!
**The tournament director reserves the right to void the participation and rights acquired of any player for whatever reason that he or she judges proper or not. Cheating, repeated misbehaviors, insults, name calling are all things that will not be endured!
ONE PARTICIPATION PER HOUSEHOLD
Best of luck to you all !
Larryboy