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Welcome
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to /dev/null/nethack
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/dev/null/network hosts, in addition to a free NetHack game server, a yearly Tournament for NetHack players. The Tournament is hosted on our server here and by volunteers on servers around the Net. The Tournament runs the entire month of November (starting on midnight Halloween). The time remaining until the 2004 Tournament begins is:
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Site News
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News Archive
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Generally, news or announcements would simply be posted to the Bragging Board. We put important things here as well.
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2003-12-01
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The final tally is done, and the scoreboard and rankings pages will be moved onto the archive shortly. Thank you all for participating, and congratulations. Especially thanks to Matt, Craig, Kevin, Joe, Barkley and the Modeemi Ry computer club for hosting game servers. and especially congratulations to eit_brad, for having overflowed NetHack's scoring variable and forcing us into a full re-think of what a NetHack Tournment trophy should be for. ;-)
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2003-11-30
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Final Day! Remember, we stop collecting scores from the game servers at midnight though most of the servers will stay online for a week or so to let you finish any games in progress. The Colorado server will not, as that machine needs to be re-purposed immediately after the Tournament.
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Table of Contents
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to /dev/null/nethack
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This site, mostly because of the random growth in the Tournament software (with all sorts of strange features like game recording being added) and the predictable annual growth in the archives as each Tournament completes, has outgrown it's old one-page layout. Sort of like that last sentence outgrew its conceptual base. So now we have a table of contents:
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Archives
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(These are archives of whatever retained material from each year we have made presentation-ready, so the archives do change whenever we have time to fiddle with them.)
- the 1999 tournament archive
- the 2000 tournament archive
- the 2001 tournament archive
- the 2002 tournament archive
- the 2003 tournament archive
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Game Server Software
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Tournament
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(This section, and its links, will activate only during the annual Tournament. Outside that time, this directory is inaccessible.)
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Sponsors & Support
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for /dev/null/nethack
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While the annual Tournament doesn't generate a lot of expense, it does cost some to put on (mostly in materials for the trophies and occasionally in printing fees when we decide to do t-shirts or stickers). More than that, it takes a lot of time, both from us and from the wonderful folks who volunteer to host game servers each year. So, for that reason, below is a link to the Internet Service Provider I work for (which lets me take much of November off from more than system maintenance to do this) and to a PayPal donation form (the donations to which will be used in whatever way the game server admins decide).
If you're interested in sponsoring this Tournament (in an appropriate way, of course), please email us. If we're up for however you're interested in sponsoring, your graphic and description of how you're helping will go in the table below.
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donate to /dev/null/nethack
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CLIQ Services Cooperative
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Curious how much has been donated so far in 2003?
That would be
$55US. ;-)
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The Tournament is, and always will be, a free contribution from us to the online NetHack community. It does, however, cost us a bit to put it on each year and we've been asked about whether we accept donations. Well, now we do. Exactly what to do with any donations we get over and above covering our normal out-of-pocket expenses for the Tournament (such as buying the supplies to make each year's trophies) will be at the discretion of the game server admins. The favorite suggestion so far is doing another run of t-shirts and stickers (which we haven't done since 1999).
Please note that this PayPal account cannot accept credit card-funded donations; if you can only do credit card-funded PayPal transactions, please use this link to donate through CLIQ, who provide time and bandwidth for the Tournament every year.
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CLIQ is a small worker-owned ISP and consulting company based in Oakland, California. Robin is the network administrator for CLIQ, who kindly let him disappear for much of November to put on the /dev/null/nethack Tournament. If you're in need of geek consulting or Bay-Area Internet service, give them a call.
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