Announcing the 2005 PBW Open Tournament

[Will]

Damn, all these games finishing before turn 100... I don't think my game is going to end that soon. I would estimate that I'm about double the size of landorl's empire, but it seems every time I try to attack in his territory, I succeed, but have a crippled fleet that has to limp back home. He's got pretty good defenses. Add to that, I hardly defended the outer colonies at all... playing against AI all these years has given me very bad habits

Been really fun though. Makes me think I should join in on KOTH or the SEIV rankings.

--edit: And perhaps I spoke too soon... landorl is offering surrender after 99 turns. He put up a really good fight, considering that I have yet to see a Rock or Ice colony in his territory, and I am in control of about 2/3rds of the systems on the map, and most of those are completely colonized. Huge economic advantage leads to having bigger fleets, and I guess he just put a decent dent in one of my attacking fleets with his last trained fleet.

So, I guess we're the first to finish in the second bracket?