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buzman
Veteran
Joined: 12 Aug 2005 Posts: 109 Location: Kingston Upon Thames, UK
[Confirmed site] http://www.perplexcityacademygames.com/ The email address aylen.piperSPLAT perplexcityacademygames.com is printed in the new Firebox winter catalogue. It's an autoresponder, that gets you this reply :
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Registration for this year's PCAG championship is currently closed, as the competition is already well under way. Please visit http://www.perplexcityacademygames.com for information on the Academy Games, including how to to train and qualify for next year. Stay sharp!
As of 08:30 BST, the site is serving up '403 - Access forbidden', so it's either the next step on the puzzle trail, or they've forgotten to put the index.html file in place!
Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2005 4:30 am
giggsey
Guest
Its the permissions, because no pages on it gives a 404 error.
Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2005 4:37 am
quaint
Boot
Joined: 20 Sep 2005 Posts: 17 Location: Tooting, SW London
It's working now!!
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Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2005 5:43 am
sequoya
Unfettered
Joined: 27 Jul 2004 Posts: 548 Location: Land of haggis, kilts, neds and Irn-Bru
Well, it's up now for me.. lots to read!
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Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2005 5:43 am
BoardBloke
Boot
Joined: 07 Oct 2005 Posts: 12
All very interesting...
Do we know anybody in the games? Maybe getting biodata from a competitor might b einteresting
Be good to take part, but I guess its too late now...
Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2005 5:53 am
Juxta
Unfettered
Joined: 28 Aug 2005 Posts: 675
Plenty to read, anything leaping out at anyone else as being relevant to us at this moment in time? So far, it looks like we may have a potential date for...well, "something" from the following passage.
"The hiatus in celebration of the midwinter festivals and games from 0BC to 22AD did not disrupt this steady trend.
The Cube was discovered in 7AD according to the timeline , 0BC/1AD being the "birth of the modern age". The War is listed as being 67BC, but clearly something occurred at this point which interrupted the centuries old Midwinter traditions.
J
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Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2005 9:02 am
ZoomZoom
Boot
Joined: 12 Nov 2004 Posts: 21 Location: Cambridge, UK
Courtesy of google, I found a set of rules for a game called Clash.
http://www.pagat.com/invented/clash.html
Im not sure it is the same game though.
M
Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2005 9:20 am
tanner
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Joined: 21 May 2003 Posts: 875 Location: (x,y,z,t,i, ...)+
seems more like a game of "brag" than "poker" to me
but nevertheless it might be connected
EDIT ok -- looking again its not poker or brag --- just strange
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Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2005 9:58 am
doublecross
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Joined: 25 Jul 2005 Posts: 588 Location: London, UK
The dates for this year's tournament are given using our years rather than theirs - whoops!
http://www.perplexcityacademygames.com/keyevents.html
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Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2005 10:53 am
frankieroberto
Boot
Joined: 07 Oct 2005 Posts: 69 Location: London, UK
According to this page , the games should be in the third round of the knockout stages by now...
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Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2005 10:59 am
Wowbagger
Boot
Joined: 22 Aug 2005 Posts: 69 Location: Leafy Surrey, UK
A few more clues as to the Perplexian population size?
PCAG site wrote:
the one-on-one Clash final is one of the most watched sporting events of the year.........the final contest of the games is a day-long set of Clash games played between the two remaining competitors; this match is usually particularly exciting and is often close-fought, with an average of more than 3m viewers across the city and surrounding area.
Compare this to one of our most watched sporting events, the football world cup, which in 2002 was watched by an average of 314.1 million viewers per match, despite the games being on at 7am European time and the middle of the night in the US and South America.
Seems pretty low is what I'm saying. I appreciate that it only says "the surrounding area" but you'd think others might take an interest.
Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2005 11:05 am
sledgecallier
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Joined: 19 May 2005 Posts: 414 Location: Behind the Sofa...
Almost certainly not important but the formatting of the pages in IE is off, with large white spaces above all of the main text elements. Looks ok in Firefox though...
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Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2005 12:33 pm
vortex-5
Boot
Joined: 23 Jan 2005 Posts: 56
Guess PC beat our world in W3C
Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2005 1:18 pm
Scott
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Joined: 11 Sep 2004 Posts: 1140 Location: 390 Chestnut Ridge Rd, Rochester NY, 14624, USA
oh neat they (vaguely) used my idea (kinda) fFor logo (roughly).
Like, remember that thing on Open-design soliciting fFor sentinel ads? here's one I submitted. Then I also sent a copy of the logo itself at a higher, more useful res. Of course, they never really used anyone's ads, and eventually added some entirely different ones. Still, I'm going to take this is a nod in my direction. Also I have no life.
whee
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Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2005 1:45 pm
tanner
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Joined: 21 May 2003 Posts: 875 Location: (x,y,z,t,i, ...)+
the logo is Rodin's sculpture of "Man Having a Crap" isn't it?
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Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2005 2:16 pm
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