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Diplomacy (game)
Diplomacy is a strategic board game created by Allan B. Calhamer in 1954 and released commercially in 1959. Its main distinctions from most board wargames are its negotiation phases and the absence of dice or other game elements that produce random effects...

 board game have been conducted around the world for decades.

WorldDipCon

During the 1970s, there were very few Diplomacy
Diplomacy (game)
Diplomacy is a strategic board game created by Allan B. Calhamer in 1954 and released commercially in 1959. Its main distinctions from most board wargames are its negotiation phases and the absence of dice or other game elements that produce random effects...

 tournaments outside North America. At that time, the winner of the tournament held at American DipCon was considered by the North American players as a world champion of Diplomacy
Diplomacy (game)
Diplomacy is a strategic board game created by Allan B. Calhamer in 1954 and released commercially in 1959. Its main distinctions from most board wargames are its negotiation phases and the absence of dice or other game elements that produce random effects...

.

The WorldDipCon (World Diplomacy Convention) was created in 1988 and the winner of the tournament held at this convention becomes the world champion of Diplomacy
Diplomacy (game)
Diplomacy is a strategic board game created by Allan B. Calhamer in 1954 and released commercially in 1959. Its main distinctions from most board wargames are its negotiation phases and the absence of dice or other game elements that produce random effects...

.

The players taking the top three places in each WorldDipCon tournament are listed below:
Year Host City Host Country World Champion Second Third
1988 Birmingham
Birmingham
Birmingham is a city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands of England. It is the most populous British city outside the capital London, with a population of 1,036,900 , and lies at the heart of the West Midlands conurbation, the second most populous urban area in the United Kingdom with a...

 
 United Kingdom   Phil Day   Matt MacVeigh   Jim Mills
1990 Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Chapel Hill is a town in Orange County, North Carolina, United States and the home of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and UNC Health Care...

 
 United States   Jason Bergmann   Jeff Bohner   Steve Cooley
1992 Canberra
Canberra
Canberra is the capital city of Australia. With a population of over 345,000, it is Australia's largest inland city and the eighth-largest city overall. The city is located at the northern end of the Australian Capital Territory , south-west of Sydney, and north-east of Melbourne...

 
 Australia   Steve Gould   Eric Roche   Bruno-André Giraudon
1994 Birmingham
Birmingham
Birmingham is a city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands of England. It is the most populous British city outside the capital London, with a population of 1,036,900 , and lies at the heart of the West Midlands conurbation, the second most populous urban area in the United Kingdom with a...

 
 United Kingdom   Pascal Montagna   Stéphane Gentric   Bruno-André Giraudon
1995 Paris
Paris
Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...

 
 France   Bruno-André Giraudon   Antonio Ribeiro da Silva   Thomas Sebeyran
1996 Columbus
Columbus, Ohio
Columbus is the capital of and the largest city in the U.S. state of Ohio. The broader metropolitan area encompasses several counties and is the third largest in Ohio behind those of Cleveland and Cincinnati. Columbus is the third largest city in the American Midwest, and the fifteenth largest city...

 
 United States   Pitt Crandlemire   Leif Bergman   Björn von Knorring
1997 Gothenburg
Gothenburg
Gothenburg is the second-largest city in Sweden and the fifth-largest in the Nordic countries. Situated on the west coast of Sweden, the city proper has a population of 519,399, with 549,839 in the urban area and total of 937,015 inhabitants in the metropolitan area...

 
 Sweden   Cyrille Sevin   Roger Edblom   Borger Borgersen
1998 Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Chapel Hill is a town in Orange County, North Carolina, United States and the home of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and UNC Health Care...

 
 United States  United States Chris Martin  United States John Quarto-von-Tivadar  United States Mark Fassio
1999 Namur
Namur (city)
Namur is a city and municipality in Wallonia, in southern Belgium. It is both the capital of the province of Namur and of Wallonia....

 
 Belgium  Sweden Christian Dreyer  Sweden Leif Bergman  United Kingdom Ivan Woodward
2000 Hunt Valley   United States  United Kingdom Simon Bouton  Republic of Ireland Brian Dennehy  United States Matthew Shields
2001 Paris
Paris
Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...

 
 France  France Cyrille Sevin  Republic of Ireland Brian Dennehy  United Kingdom Chetan Radia
2002 Canberra
Canberra
Canberra is the capital city of Australia. With a population of over 345,000, it is Australia's largest inland city and the eighth-largest city overall. The city is located at the northern end of the Australian Capital Territory , south-west of Sydney, and north-east of Melbourne...

 
 Australia  Australia Rob Stephenson  New Zealand Grant Steel  France Yann Clouet
2003 Denver   United States  France Vincent Carry  United States Edward Hawthorne  Norway Frank Johansen
2004 Birmingham
Birmingham
Birmingham is a city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands of England. It is the most populous British city outside the capital London, with a population of 1,036,900 , and lies at the heart of the West Midlands conurbation, the second most populous urban area in the United Kingdom with a...

 
 United Kingdom  France Yann Clouet  Netherlands André Kooy  France Cyrille Sevin
2005 Washington
Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, "the District", or simply D.C., is the capital of the United States. On July 16, 1790, the United States Congress approved the creation of a permanent national capital as permitted by the U.S. Constitution....

 
 United States  Norway Frank Johansen  United States Tom Kobrin  United States Edi Birsan
Edi Birsan
Edi Ersalesi Birsan is a game designer and an independent business owner in the Maritime Container Inspection industry, and one of the best-known American players of the game Diplomacy...

2006 Berlin
Berlin
Berlin is the capital city of Germany and is one of the 16 states of Germany. With a population of 3.45 million people, Berlin is Germany's largest city. It is the second most populous city proper and the seventh most populous urban area in the European Union...

 
 Germany  France Nicolas Sahuguet  France Cyrille Sevin  France Yann Clouet
2007 Vancouver
Vancouver
Vancouver is a coastal seaport city on the mainland of British Columbia, Canada. It is the hub of Greater Vancouver, which, with over 2.3 million residents, is the third most populous metropolitan area in the country,...

 
 Canada  United States Doug Moore  United States Jake Mannix  United States Mark Zoffel
2008 Lockenhaus
Lockenhaus
Lockenhaus is a town in the district of Oberpullendorf in Burgenland in Austria.- History :The town was part of Hungary since the foundation of the kingdom in the year 1000. Since 1898 the name Léka had to be used because of the Magyarization by the government in Budapest...

 
 Austria   Julian Ziesing  France Cyrille Sevin   Daniel Leinich
2009 Columbus   United States   Andrew Goff   Daniel Lester   Jim O’Kelley
2010 The Hague
The Hague
The Hague is the capital city of the province of South Holland in the Netherlands. With a population of 500,000 inhabitants , it is the third largest city of the Netherlands, after Amsterdam and Rotterdam...

 
 Netherlands  France Gwen Maggi  Germany Igor Kurt  France Xavier Blanchot
2011 Sydney
Sydney
Sydney is the most populous city in Australia and the state capital of New South Wales. Sydney is located on Australia's south-east coast of the Tasman Sea. As of June 2010, the greater metropolitan area had an approximate population of 4.6 million people...

 
 Australia   Andrew Goff Grant Steel   Liam Cosgrave
2012 Chicago
Chicago
Chicago is the largest city in the US state of Illinois. With nearly 2.7 million residents, it is the most populous city in the Midwestern United States and the third most populous in the US, after New York City and Los Angeles...

 
 United States - - -
2013 Paris
Paris
Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...

 
 France - - -

DipCon

The winner of the DipCon (Diplomacy Convention) tournament is the North American champion. The title of North American champion was not given at the beginning, but since 1972 has been awarded to each winner of the convention tournament. DipCon was created in 1966 and occurred each year (except in 1967 and 1968). There was no tournament in 1966, 1969 and 1971.

The winner of each DipCon North American Championship tournament:
Year Host City Host Country North American Champion Notes
1970 Oklahoma City
Oklahoma city
Oklahoma City is the capital and largest city of the U.S. state of Oklahoma.Oklahoma City may also refer to:*Oklahoma City metropolitan area*Downtown Oklahoma City*Uptown Oklahoma City*Oklahoma City bombing*Oklahoma City National Memorial...

 
 United States  United States John Smythe
1972 Chicago
Chicago
Chicago is the largest city in the US state of Illinois. With nearly 2.7 million residents, it is the most populous city in the Midwestern United States and the third most populous in the US, after New York City and Los Angeles...

 
 United States  United States Richard Ackerlay
1973 Chicago
Chicago
Chicago is the largest city in the US state of Illinois. With nearly 2.7 million residents, it is the most populous city in the Midwestern United States and the third most populous in the US, after New York City and Los Angeles...

 
 United States  United States Conrad von Metzke and
 United States John Smythe tie
1974 Chicago
Chicago
Chicago is the largest city in the US state of Illinois. With nearly 2.7 million residents, it is the most populous city in the Midwestern United States and the third most populous in the US, after New York City and Los Angeles...

 
 United States  United States Mike Rocamora
1975 Chicago
Chicago
Chicago is the largest city in the US state of Illinois. With nearly 2.7 million residents, it is the most populous city in the Midwestern United States and the third most populous in the US, after New York City and Los Angeles...

 
 United States  United States Walter Blank and
 United States Bob Wartenberg tie
1976 Baltimore
Baltimore
Baltimore is the largest independent city in the United States and the largest city and cultural center of the US state of Maryland. The city is located in central Maryland along the tidal portion of the Patapsco River, an arm of the Chesapeake Bay. Baltimore is sometimes referred to as Baltimore...

 
 United States  United States Thomas Reape
1977 Lake Geneva
Lake Geneva, Wisconsin
Lake Geneva is a city in Walworth County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 7,148 at the 2000 census. A resort city located on Geneva Lake, it is southwest of Milwaukee and popular with tourists from metropolitan Chicago and Milwaukee.-History:...

 
 United States  United States Mike Rocamora
1978 Los Angeles
Los Ángeles
Los Ángeles is the capital of the province of Biobío, in the commune of the same name, in Region VIII , in the center-south of Chile. It is located between the Laja and Biobío rivers. The population is 123,445 inhabitants...

 
 United States  United States David Lagerson
1979 Chester
Chester, Pennsylvania
Chester is a city in Delaware County, Pennsylvania, United States, with a population of 33,972 at the 2010 census. Chester is situated on the Delaware River, between the cities of Philadelphia and Wilmington, Delaware.- History :...

 
 United States  United States Ben Zablocki
1980 Detroit   United States  United States Carl Echelberger
1981 Burlingame
Burlingame, California
Burlingame is a city in San Mateo County, California. It is located on the San Francisco Peninsula and has a significant shoreline on San Francisco Bay. The city is named after diplomat Anson Burlingame. It is renowned for its many surviving examples of Victorian architecture, its affluence, and...

 
 United States  United States Ron Brown
1982 Baltimore
Baltimore
Baltimore is the largest independent city in the United States and the largest city and cultural center of the US state of Maryland. The city is located in central Maryland along the tidal portion of the Patapsco River, an arm of the Chesapeake Bay. Baltimore is sometimes referred to as Baltimore...

 
 United States  United States Konrad Baumeister
1983 Detroit   United States  United States Joyce Singer
1984 Dallas   United States  United States Jeff Key
1985 Seattle   United States  United States J.R. Baker
1986 Fredericksburg
Fredericksburg, Virginia
Fredericksburg is an independent city in the Commonwealth of Virginia located south of Washington, D.C., and north of Richmond. As of the 2010 census, the city had a population of 24,286...

 
 United States  United Kingdom Malcolm Smith
1987 Madison
Madison, Wisconsin
Madison is the capital of the U.S. state of Wisconsin and the county seat of Dane County. It is also home to the University of Wisconsin–Madison....

 
 United States  United States David Hood
1988 San Antonio   United States  United States Dan Sellers
1989 San Diego   United States  United States Edi Birsan
Edi Birsan
Edi Ersalesi Birsan is a game designer and an independent business owner in the Maritime Container Inspection industry, and one of the best-known American players of the game Diplomacy...

 
1990 Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Chapel Hill is a town in Orange County, North Carolina, United States and the home of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and UNC Health Care...

 
 United States  United States Jason Bergmann
1991 Scarborough
Scarborough, Ontario
Scarborough is a dissolved municipality within the city of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Geographically, it comprises the eastern part of Toronto. It is bordered on the south by Lake Ontario, on the west by Victoria Park Avenue, on the north by Steeles Avenue East, and on the east by the Rouge River...

 
 Canada  United States Gary Behnen
1992 Lenexa   United States  United States Marc Peters
1993 San Mateo
San Mateo, California
San Mateo is a city in San Mateo County, California, United States, in the San Francisco Bay Area. With a population of approximately 100,000 , it is one of the larger suburbs on the San Francisco Peninsula, located between Burlingame to the north, Foster City to the east, Belmont to the south,...

 
 United States  United States Hohn Cho
1994 Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Chapel Hill is a town in Orange County, North Carolina, United States and the home of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and UNC Health Care...

 
 United States  United States Bruce Reiff
1995 Baltimore
Baltimore
Baltimore is the largest independent city in the United States and the largest city and cultural center of the US state of Maryland. The city is located in central Maryland along the tidal portion of the Patapsco River, an arm of the Chesapeake Bay. Baltimore is sometimes referred to as Baltimore...

 
 United States  United States Sylvain Larose
1996 Columbus
Columbus, Ohio
Columbus is the capital of and the largest city in the U.S. state of Ohio. The broader metropolitan area encompasses several counties and is the third largest in Ohio behind those of Cleveland and Cincinnati. Columbus is the third largest city in the American Midwest, and the fifteenth largest city...

 
 United States  United States Pitt Crandlemire
1997 Seattle   United States  United States Chris Mazza
1998 Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Chapel Hill is a town in Orange County, North Carolina, United States and the home of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and UNC Health Care...

 
 United States  United States Chris Martin
1999 Columbus
Columbus, Ohio
Columbus is the capital of and the largest city in the U.S. state of Ohio. The broader metropolitan area encompasses several counties and is the third largest in Ohio behind those of Cleveland and Cincinnati. Columbus is the third largest city in the American Midwest, and the fifteenth largest city...

 
 United States  United States Chris Mazza
2000 Hunt Valley   United States  United Kingdom Simon Bouton
2001 Denver   United States  United States David Hood
2002 Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Chapel Hill is a town in Orange County, North Carolina, United States and the home of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and UNC Health Care...

 
 United States  United States Morgan Gurley
2003 Washington
Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, "the District", or simply D.C., is the capital of the United States. On July 16, 1790, the United States Congress approved the creation of a permanent national capital as permitted by the U.S. Constitution....

 
 United States  United States Edward Hawthorne
2004 Portland
Portland, Oregon
Portland is a city located in the Pacific Northwest, near the confluence of the Willamette and Columbia rivers in the U.S. state of Oregon. As of the 2010 Census, it had a population of 583,776, making it the 29th most populous city in the United States...

 
 United States  United States Ken Lemere
2005 At Sea  United States
 Mexico
 Belize
 United States Rick Desper
2006 Charlottesville   United States  United States Hohn Cho
2007 Vancouver
Vancouver
Vancouver is a coastal seaport city on the mainland of British Columbia, Canada. It is the hub of Greater Vancouver, which, with over 2.3 million residents, is the third most populous metropolitan area in the country,...

 
 United States Doug Moore
2008 Tysons Corner   United States  United States Chris Martin
2009 Columbus
Columbus, Ohio
Columbus is the capital of and the largest city in the U.S. state of Ohio. The broader metropolitan area encompasses several counties and is the third largest in Ohio behind those of Cleveland and Cincinnati. Columbus is the third largest city in the American Midwest, and the fifteenth largest city...

 
 Australia Andrew Goff
2010 San Francisco   United States Eric Mead
2011 Fairlee
Fairlee, Vermont
-Notable people:* Milton Friedman, economist, former resident of Ely* Richard W. Mallary, congressman* Samuel Morey, inventor* George W. Morrison, congressman* Nathaniel Niles, politician* Stephen Thomas, politician and brigadier generalHelen Gahagan Douglas...

 
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North American Grand Prix

The winner of each Grand Prix:
Year Nbr of steps Nbr of players Winner
1999 7 58  United States Chris Martin
2000 14 125  United States Matt Shields
2001 34 166  United States Jerry Fest
2002 17 171  United States Andy Bartalone
2003 16 213  United States Edward Hawthorne
2004 14 305  United States Doug Moore
2005 13 234  United States Andrew Neumann
2006 12 200  United States Jim O'Kelley
2007 12 270  United States Doug Moore
2008 15 275  United States Thomas Haver
2009 10 182  United States Adam Sigal
2010 10 220  United States Peter Yeargin

European DipCon

The winner of each European DipCon tournament:
Year Host City Host Country European Champion Notes
1993 Paris
Paris
Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...

 
 France  France Samy Malki
1994 Linköping
Linköping
Linköping is a city in southern middle Sweden, with 104 232 inhabitants in 2010. It is the seat of Linköping Municipality with 146 736 inhabitants and the capital of Östergötland County...

 
 Sweden  France Xavier Blanchot
1995 Cirencester
Cirencester
Cirencester is a market town in east Gloucestershire, England, 93 miles west northwest of London. Cirencester lies on the River Churn, a tributary of the River Thames, and is the largest town in the Cotswold District. It is the home of the Royal Agricultural College, the oldest agricultural...

 
 United Kingdom  Norway Inge Kjøl
1996 Oslo
Oslo
Oslo is a municipality, as well as the capital and most populous city in Norway. As a municipality , it was established on 1 January 1838. Founded around 1048 by King Harald III of Norway, the city was largely destroyed by fire in 1624. The city was moved under the reign of Denmark–Norway's King...

 
 Norway  Norway Inge Kjøl
1997 Namur
Namur (city)
Namur is a city and municipality in Wallonia, in southern Belgium. It is both the capital of the province of Namur and of Wallonia....

 
 Belgium  France Cyrille Sevin
1998 Bedford
Bedford
Bedford is the county town of Bedfordshire, in the East of England. It is a large town and the administrative centre for the wider Borough of Bedford. According to the former Bedfordshire County Council's estimates, the town had a population of 79,190 in mid 2005, with 19,720 in the adjacent town...

 
 United Kingdom  United Kingdom Toby Harris
1999 Turku
Turku
Turku is a city situated on the southwest coast of Finland at the mouth of the Aura River. It is located in the region of Finland Proper. It is believed that Turku came into existence during the end of the 13th century which makes it the oldest city in Finland...

 
 Finland  United Kingdom Simon Bouton
2000 Paris
Paris
Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...

 
 France  Sweden Leif Bergman
2001 Dublin   Republic of Ireland  Republic of Ireland Paraic Reddington
2002 Malmö
Malmö
Malmö , in the southernmost province of Scania, is the third most populous city in Sweden, after Stockholm and Gothenburg.Malmö is the seat of Malmö Municipality and the capital of Skåne County...

 
 Sweden  Norway Frank Johansen
2003 City of San Marino   San Marino  France Yann Clouet
2004 Darmstadt
Darmstadt
Darmstadt is a city in the Bundesland of Hesse in Germany, located in the southern part of the Rhine Main Area.The sandy soils in the Darmstadt area, ill-suited for agriculture in times before industrial fertilisation, prevented any larger settlement from developing, until the city became the seat...

 
 Germany  United States Edi Birsan
Edi Birsan
Edi Ersalesi Birsan is a game designer and an independent business owner in the Maritime Container Inspection industry, and one of the best-known American players of the game Diplomacy...

 
2005 Utrecht
Utrecht (city)
Utrecht city and municipality is the capital and most populous city of the Dutch province of Utrecht. It is located in the eastern corner of the Randstad conurbation, and is the fourth largest city of the Netherlands with a population of 312,634 on 1 Jan 2011.Utrecht's ancient city centre features...

 
 Netherlands  United Kingdom Simon Bouton
2006 Cheshunt
Cheshunt
Cheshunt is a town in Hertfordshire, England with a population of around 52,000 according to the United Kingdom's 2001 Census. It is a dormitory town and part of the Greater London Urban Area and London commuter belt served by Cheshunt railway station...

 
 United Kingdom  France Benjamin Pouillès-Duplaix
2007 Marseille
Marseille
Marseille , known in antiquity as Massalia , is the second largest city in France, after Paris, with a population of 852,395 within its administrative limits on a land area of . The urban area of Marseille extends beyond the city limits with a population of over 1,420,000 on an area of...

 
 France Fabien Grellier
2008 Brunate
Brunate
Brunate is an Italian town and comune, part of the province of Como, near Lake Como . It has 1,770 residents, but is much more populated in summer, when tourists rent houses and apartments...

 
 Italy  Italy Luca Pazzaglia
2009 Bonn
Bonn
Bonn is the 19th largest city in Germany. Located in the Cologne/Bonn Region, about 25 kilometres south of Cologne on the river Rhine in the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, it was the capital of West Germany from 1949 to 1990 and the official seat of government of united Germany from 1990 to 1999....

 
 Germany André Ilievics
2010 Paris
Paris
Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...

 
 France  Germany Fabian Straub
2011 Derby
Derby
Derby , is a city and unitary authority in the East Midlands region of England. It lies upon the banks of the River Derwent and is located in the south of the ceremonial county of Derbyshire. In the 2001 census, the population of the city was 233,700, whilst that of the Derby Urban Area was 229,407...

 United Kingdom

European Grand Prix

The winner of each Grand Prix:
Year Nb of steps Nb of players Winner
2002 10 283  France William Attia
2003 11 349  France Yann Clouet
2004 15 472  France Yann Clouet
2005 13 364  France Gwen Maggi
2006 14 340  France Gwen Maggi
2007 14 272  France Gwen Maggi
2008 11 207  France Emmanuel du Pontavice
2009 11 175  France Gwen Maggi
2010 8 172  France Gwen Maggi

Bismark Cup

The National Tournaments Championship - comprising the perpetual trophy known as the Bismark Cup - is awarded for the best aggregate tournament results at Diplomacy tournaments held during the calendar year. It is an annual (short term) ranking. The exact number of points depends on the size of the tournament and the person's placing in that tournament.

The winner of each Bismark Cup:
Year Nbr of steps Nbr of players Winner
1989  Australia Robert Wessels
1990  Australia Harry Kolotas
1991 3 75  Australia Robert Wessels
1992 5 123  Australia Steve Gould
1993 6 93  Australia Harry Kolotas
1994  Australia Craig Sedgwick
1995  Australia Rob Stephenson
1996 5 65  Australia Craig Sedgwick
1997 5 74  Australia Bill Brown
1998 7 92  Australia Rob Stephenson
1999 8 117  New Zealand Brandon Clarke
2000 9 111  Australia Rob Stephenson
2001 10 104  Australia Tristan Lee
2002 7 84  New Zealand Rob Schone
2003 6 52  Australia Geoff Kerr
2004 8 56  New Zealand Grant Steel
2005 8 65  Australia Tony Collins
2006 10 76  Australia Sean Colman
2007 - - Not organised
2008 7 58  Australia Andrew Goff
2009 7 69  Australia Shane Cubis
2010 7 69  Australia Thorin Munro

Origins of the Bismark Cup

In the early 1980s the Diplomacy scene in Australia was built around several PBM Diplomacy magazines, of which the most significant titles were Rumplestiltskin, The Go Between, Beowulf, Victoriana, The Journal of Australian Diplomacy, and The Envoy. Most of the tournament players were subscribers, players and editors of these magazines. The Envoy, which was published between 1986 and 1991, ran a series of articles which were both popular and influential. Purportedly written by Arthur von Bismark and styled as lecture transcripts, the character of Arthur von Bismark became celebrated among the contemporary Diplomacy subculture in Australia.

The articles were popular at a time when tournament play in Australia had become more organized, with well-attended tournaments in Adelaide, Canberra, Melbourne and Sydney. Rating systems at the time were being hotly debated and many players desired a way to assess the best player in the tournament scene for a calendar year, as a way of overcoming the perceived inconsistencies of rating systems within one event. The annual trophy concept was accepted among the then-principle organizers of these tournaments and the title Arthur Bismark Cup was suggested by The Envoy's then-editor Mathew Gibson.

The real author of these Arthur von Bismark articles was never announced publicly, but was suspected as being either Harry Kolotas, Marion Ashworth, Neil Ashworth or Luke Clutterbuck.

External links

EDA - The World Diplomacy Database stored all the results known of competition in face-to-face. The international calendar of tournaments in face-to-face.
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