[Icehouse] Pikeman

[Avri Klemer]

As I discovered at Noncon in March, the best way to learn to play Icehouse, 
is to play with veterans - thanks again, Marc and co!

Having watched the videos and read all the strategy / commentary helped me 
be prepared to play, however . . .

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Elliott C. Evans" <eeyore at ee0r.com>
To: "Icehouse Discussion List" <icehouse at lists.looneylabs.com>
Sent: Tuesday, April 15, 2008 3:45 PM
Subject: Re: [Icehouse] Pikeman


> On Tue, 15 Apr 2008, Carlton Noles wrote:
>
>> Did someone post something about a video of the icehouse
>> championship or an icehouse game being played? I seem to
>> recall something of that nature. (Perhaps I am delusional).
>
> Yeah, that was me. Here's a playlist of the three finals of the
> 12th International Icehouse Tournament in 2001 -
>
> http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=2C670CCF0F90DFE7
>
> You can't really learn how to play from watching those, though.
> The video is sped up to mee the ten minute limit, and the camera
> is too far overhead to see many details.
>
> I've tried a few times to make an instructional Icehouse video,
> but it takes me at least 20 minutes just to cover all the rules.
>
> At this summer's Origins I might try to convince some experienced
> players to play a short game while I tape and blather commentary.
>
> --
> Elliott C. "Eeyore" Evans
> eeyore at ee0r.com
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