This in from Dave Simpson:

Yep, you heard it here first (probably!)

After a whole 8 players made it to ManorCon in 2009, UK Diplomacy players had a bit of a wake up call as we faced the possible extinction of organised UK F2F Dip.

Some action has already been taken and we made it back to MidCon in 2009 (first Diplomacy tournament there since 2005). Now we're planning to run a proper "Tour of Britain" in 2010, just like you guys do over there on the continent.

The plan so far is...

Feb 2010, Edinburgh - most likely Feb 26-28.
May 2010, Brighton
Jul 2010, ManorCon (already well known, of course)
TBC 2010, London
Nov 2010, MidCon (equally well known)

I'm going to do it properly (when we have proper dates) and publish everything via the tournament calendar etc. but this is my first European notification.

This is also an invitation (or plea!)for any help and support that any of you guys are prepared to offer, after all, I'm new at the whole Con organisation thing. We already have some serious organisational muscle involved, namely David Norman, Toby Harris and Gwen Maggi, so I'm far from being alone (and David Wigglesworth deseves extra special mention for organising Edinburgh) but the more the merrier eh?

The Group page for ukf2fdip is at http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/ukf2fdip/

Anyone with advice or plans to visit the UK to play Diplomacy is most welcome!

I hope to see some of you in 2010...

Cheers,

Dave.