A Member of the IWF:

	ULSTER		LEINSTER		MUNSTER
Seed	Name	Paid?	Name	Paid?	Name	Paid?
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12	David Taylor David Houston Stephen Brittain Seamus McKenna Mark Gibson Brian Bull John Lavery David Brown Daniel Taylor	Y Y N Y Y Y Y Y Y	Tony Walsh Rob Brennan Donal Coghlan Jan van Embden Mick Hessian Rory Meehan Neil Blanchflower Derek O'Callaghan Dave Clifford Martin Kenny Phil Waldron Brian Roynane	N Y Y Y Y N N Y Y N Y Y	Richard Aynsley Padraig Bracken Willie Coughlan James Aynsley Tony Bergin Tom Worden Mikey Aynsley	Y Y Y Y Y Y Y
Click on a player name to find out full details (army, etc)

16 Apr 2007:

Well the league has now started and the final pools are published above. Please be sure to check your paid/not paid status above. I've also published a page with full data on all the players here.

22 Mar 2007:

Added Tony Bergin to the Munster pool. The rules are now frozen for this year. Can all players who have not yet done so send me a mail with army choice in terms of List, date, Nationality, dynasty, tribal grouping, geographic, regional and political sub-division (including the same general or leader if this affects troop choice). Eg Seljuk Turk, 1000AD Hamidids of Aleppo.

21 Mar 2007:

Added Phil Waldron to the Leinster pool and Padraig Bracken to the Munster pool. Also updated the rules to fix a bug in the handling of 5-player round robin tournaments.

18 Mar 2007:

Added Brian Roynane and Derek O'Callaghan to the Leinster pool.

13 Mar 2007:

Updated league registrations (above). Slight revision to the draft rules here- I've made it so every group can play 6 gamesby effectively adding a couple of rounds of swiss to the end of the round robins for 5 and 6 player pools and I've also made it so the umpire cannot nominate himself in the case where we need extra players for the finals.

4 Mar 2007:

Please note that all players must submit their army choice in terms of List, date, Nationality, dynasty, tribal grouping, geographic, regional and political sub-division (including the same general or leader if this affects troop choice) to me by the 21st of March.

I have been assured that Munster will also have a pool.

25 Feb 2007:

Draft league rules are now available here. Please provide me with feedback by the 21st of March as the rules will be frozen then.

24 Feb 2007:

2007 league registrations so far:

ULSTER:
David Houston
Mark Gibson
David Brown
David Taylor

LEINSTER:
Jan van Embden
Rob Brennan
Mick Hessian
Donal Coghlan

20 Feb 2007:

2007 league registrations so far:

ULSTER:
David Houston
Mark Gibson

LEINSTER:
Rob Brennan
Mick Hessian
Donal Coghlan

17 Feb 2007:

2007 League announced with the following email to iwargames@iworg.com:

Hi All,

this year I will take over from David Taylor as the administrator of the league. I'm sure you will all join me in saying many thanks to David for all the work in previous years.

There will be a new format this year but the basic requirements on players are that:
a) They can play approx 1 game per month from April 2007-Oct 2007 ie approx 6 games.
b) They have email access (or a friend who does)
c) They can field an army from this year's theme -
"Armies and Enemies of Islam from the Hejira to Hattin, 622AD-1187AD" (see below for list of armies + theme restrictions)

Please contact me ASAP if you want to participate (and spread the word to people who aren't on the iwargames mailing list.).

Some More Details on Competition Format:

1. There will be 4 pools of players, ideally one each for Ulster, Munster, Connacht and Leinster. If a province can't participate then the largest other province will be split to form 2 pools. **The minimum size of a pool is 4 players.***

2. Players in each pool will play a 6-round tournament. For pools of 4 players this will be a double round-robin, for pools of 7+ players this will be swiss pairings. For pools of 5-6 players it will be a single round robin with only 4 or 5 games respectively.

3. Each month I will generate pairings for the games to be played in that month and email them out to everyone. Games that don't happen will be scored 0-0 (and unrated) unless the failure to play is down to one player in which case a walkover will be awarded. Players know they are going to be too busy to play in a given month can let me know before the pairings are generated and receive a 5VP reward. Byes will score 110.

4. On the 1st of December there will be a 1-day finals in Dublin consisting of a 4-player, 2-round swiss. The winning player from each pool will be invited and if they can't make it then the invitation will cascade down their pool until we have 4 finalists. This event will have a 12euro entry fee to contribute to the costs of hiring a room.

5. Entry fee is £2 or 3euro. This will go towards: - A prize for the highest Top Dog score in each pool (pool winner is not eligible) - A prize for the winner of each pool - A prize for the winner/runner-up of the comp finals.

6. When picking a theme army please note that you can change your list composition from game to game (except at the finals) *but* that you must pick one "date and Nationality,dynasty, tribal grouping, geographic, regional and political sub-division (including the same general or leader if this affects troop choice)" ie super-flexible lists are slightly penalised.

7. The full rules will soon be on the competition web-site which is: http://www.iworg.com/league (fairly empty at the moment)

The main purpose of this change in format is to ensure that games are played and reported in a timely manner. There is still a lot of flexibility for players and we used something similar in the DGG winter league this year, it worked well - even for many occasional DBM players who participated.

rgds
rob

RINIWA League 2007 Theme Armies:

2:23      Later Pre-Islamic Arab		622AD-633AD
2:55      Nobades and Blemmye or Beja   	640AD-1187AD
2:57      Later Moorish             		640AD-696AD
2:58      Alan               			638AD-1187AD
2:62      Abyssinian                     	640AD-1187AD
2:69      Sassanid Persian                	632AD-637AD
2:82      Later Visigoth                    	711AD-720AD
3:8       Central Asian City States       	638AD-1000AD
3:10      Hindu Indian                     	751AD-1187AD
3:11      Central Asian Turkish             	638AD-1187AD
3:12      Christian Nubian                    	640AD-1187AD
3:14      Early Bulgar                         	638AD-1065AD
3:16      Khazar                            	638AD-1083AD
3:17      Maurikian Byzantine                	632AD-650AD
3:20      Sui and Early T’ang Chinese        	730AD-755AD
3:21      Italian Lombard                     	827AD-1076AD
3:25      Arab Conquest                   	622AD-660AD
3:27      Rshtuni Armenian                 	639AD-717AD
3:28      Carolingian Frankish               	711AD-888AD
3:29      Thematic Byzantine                 	650AD-963AD
3:31      Umayyad Arab                       	661AD-750AD
3:32      Volga Bulgar                      	900AD-1237AD
3:33      Early Muslim North African + Sicilian	696AD-1160AD
3:34      Andalusian                        	710AD-1172AD
3:35      Feudal Spanish                     	718AD-1187AD
3:37      Abbasid Arab                       	747AD-945AD
3:38      Arab Indian                         	751AD-1206AD
3:39      Late T’ang and 5 Dynasties Chinese  	755AD-757AD
3:40      Norse Viking and Leidang           	790AD-850AD
            	(Vikings only)
3:43      Khurusanian                          	821AD-1003AD
3:47      Pecheneg                           	900AD-1122AD
3:48      Rus                                 	900AD-1054AD
3:49      Tulunid or Iqshidid Egyptian         	868AD-905AD and 935AD-969AD
3:50      Bagratid Armenian                  	885AD-1045AD
3:51      West Frankish or Norman            	1041AD-1072AD 
		(Normans in Sicily only)
3:53      Dynastic Bedouin                    	890AD-1150AD
3:57      Buyid or other Dailami Dynasties    	927AD-1090AD
3:60      Dynastic Kurdish                 	950AD-1085AD
3:63      Ghaznavid                           	962AD-1186AD
3:64      Nikephorian Byzantine             	963AD-1042AD
3:65      Fatimid Egyptian                   	969AD-1171AD
3:68      West Sudanese                       	1000AD-1187AD
3:69      Tuareg                               	1000AD-1187AD
3:70      Georgian                             	1008AD-1187AD
3:72      Communal Italian                    	1029AD-1091AD
3:73      Seljuq Turk                        	1037AD-1187AD
3:74      Fanatic Berber                      	1039AD-1187AD
3:75      Konstantinian Byzantine             	1042AD-1071AD
3:76      Papal Italian                       	1049AD-1091AD
3:78      Early Russian                       	1054AD-1246AD
3:79      Cuman (Kipchak)                   	1054AD-1187AD                        
4:1       Komnenan Byzantine                 	1071AD-1187AD
4:2       Cilician Armenian                  	1071AD-1187AD
4:5       Sicilian                            	1072AD-1187AD
4:6       Syrian                              	1092AD-1187AD
4:7       Early Crusader                      	1096AD-1128AD
4:8       Ghurid                             	1100AD-1187AD
4:15      Qara Khitan                          	1114AD-1187AD
4:17      Later Crusader                      	1128AD-1187AD
4:20      Ayyubid Egyptian                  	1171AD-1187AD
4.24      Khwarismians 			 	1186-1187AD