Back in the bar

After three episodes recorded online, the guys at last get the tech working offsite at the bar again. They discuss WDC 2025, their upcoming tournament plans and their latest online games.

Intro and Diplomacy chat

• The guys introduce the venue and their drinks (0 mins 10 secs)
• They talk about the 2025 World Diplomacy Championship and congratulate Noam Brown (who we interviewed about Cicero) (2 mins)
• We talk about the upcoming WDC's planned for 2026 (Athens) and 2027 (Chicago) and whether there will be another Asia-Pacific WDC in 2028 (7 mins)
• They get back to how their beers would be as Diplomacy openings (9 mins 30 secs)
• A little admin update on the podcast (15 mins)
• They talk about the challenge of getting 7 players for a local game (16 mins 30 secs)
• Gavin discusses trying to *maybe* get a family game of Diplomacy happening in Christmas-New Years (19 mins)
• Gavin gives an update on the Cane Toad Classic for 2025 - that said, since recording we have finalised details. The tournment will be run Saturday 30 and Sunday 31 August, with social activities starting Friday night. Check out the details at the Cane Toad Classic web page (21 mins)
• Ken talks about visiting webDiplomacy and saw they had a new forum. They talk about vDiplomacy being spam-bombed with Ken dropping the ball on his Mod responsibilities (32 mins)

Around the grounds

• Gavin is in just one game, with Ken joining some new games (36 mins)
• Gavin goes on to talk about the Magic Hour at vDip and how he's smashing Ken in the Best vDip player rankings (38 mins)
• He discussed drawing in a 6 way Imperial game as Holland (42 mins)
• Ken is playing another Zeus game (43 mins)
• The guys then wrap up the show (46 mins)

Venue: Caxton Street Brewing Company, Brisbane

Drinks for the interview:

Gavin: Caxton Street Brewing IPA

Ken: Caxton Street Brewing IPA

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Thanks as always to Dr Dan aka "The General" for his rockin' intro tune.