From: morri@cs.su.oz.au (Maurice Pagnucco)
Subject: Re: Europe vs Australia 20:0
Organization: Basser Dept of Computer Science, University of Sydney, Australia
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 00:05:59 GMT
Summary: Mr. Black thicky Adder thicky
Keywords: DOOSH europe oz australia INL ENL

In article <Bz9E57.1oG@cs.bham.ac.uk> jwh@cs.bham.ac.uk writes:
>
>Europe 20:0 Australia DOOSH!!!
>
:-(

<game summary deleted>

>Their MVP has to be talkie toaster for not only having a cool

Oh, shucks! Thanks.
While we're on the subject of cool names, I must say that yours - Wibble -
is pretty cool too (especially if you get the pronunciation right).
I can imagine this guy sitting behind a screen with a pencil up each
nostril and a pair of underpants on his head uttering the "word" wibble! [*]

[*] ObBlackadder

(Nb: If you haven't seen this show you are really missing out!)

>name but also managing to scum 4 planets and ogg lab 4 times when carrying! lab
>I think had a bit of an off day being ogged 9 times when carrying, a total
>of 20 armies burnt! However he did manage to get Matty carrying 4 and 
>ICMP Redirect with 8.
>
>I would like to thank, as I am sure we all do ZZnew guy for the use of the

Yes, we definitely would like to thank ZZ even though he didn't seem
to be able to arrange suitable lag or packet loss along the Eur-US link :)

>server, very dedicated staying up the night to watch .) the server gave me
>a nice steady 200ms lag quite playable really!

Ok, now what we would like to know is whose *brilliant* [note sarcasm
for those that missed it] idea it was to upgrade the Eur-US link about
a week or so before this match!

ObConspiracyTheory: Prior to this reduction of lag on the Eur-US link
the Europeans were playing with artificially induced lag along the link
(yes, in both directions Eur->US and US->Eur) in order to give us a false
sense of hope and lure us into making a challange.
Once this objective had been achieved European net operatives powered
down the artificial lag generators thus revealing the true
state of this link.

Anyway, congratulations to the European team for ending the match with
a few more planets than our team.
Ok, Ok, I'll say it - congratulations on the win.

>
<stats deleted>

>Thanks Guys for the best game of netrek I have had, perhaps someone from Oz
>can tell their side.

Yes, thanks for the match guys. It was a quite amicable and enjoyable game
even though we did come second (It hurts too much to use that "L" word).
Here's hoping that we get that fibre optic link to the US early next year
so that response times improve!
Hope to see you guys again on the field of battle.

>			James.
>Commodore wibble
>
>Euro - Minister for Reinformation.

	Maurice.
	(morri@cs.su.oz.au)

Talkie Toaster

Aus - Chief Minister for Toasted Bread Products and
      Minister for Cunning Plans


PS: I thought there was a touch of irony at the end of the match
because one of our players had just picked up a few armies from Earth
to take another planet. Quite a few of our players went
off to escort this guy leaving Earth relatively undefended (IMHO).
Anyway, shortly after the opposition managed to take Earth
(saw the cloaker, now where did the torps I launched get to?!)
and we were "genocided" (didn't own any planets) even though
we had enough armies to retake a planet!! (I'm fairly sure
he hadn't been killed before the actual genocide.)
(Now, I'm not saying that we shouldn't have been genocided 
( ... though maybe I should - an attempt to save some face :) )
just that I found the situation a bit ironical.)
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