PERSONAL HISTORY
How did each of you get involved with GameLeague? What was your previous experience in the Civ community "on and offline"?
I was "Technical Advisor" to the Ultimate Civilization II Site (before it merged to create Apolyton). During the summer my fevered mind concoted this thing called "CivLeague". Then Frank ["Dangime" Johnson] comes along with his Civilization Internet Ladder and Tournament Page, or something like that (the name was really long). I had recently read a biography about Bill Gates so decided that we should merge. The rest is history.

THE LEAGUE
What is GameLeague's "philosophy": its goals etc.?
Well, my personal philosophy is that I'm a socialist programmer. Although I'm a hardcore capitalist in real life, I feel that everything I create on the internet should be offered without cost. If we ever get revenue from GL, I want to funnel it back into the League to pay for prizes, etc. But as for goals, I guess it's to monopolize the entire market. :)

GameLeague covers a variety of games within the Civilization genre. What is the basis/reasoning behind this, and to date have you found it to be a workable lineup?
At first we had CivLeague (only for Civ2), and our plan was to create new leagues for each game. We also had an AlphaLeague for SMAC. Then we decided coming up with new names for new games was too hard (plus managing mulitple sites was hard work). Since we're all lazy Americans we decided to merge the whole shebang together. It seems to work quite well, but unfortunately activity in our SMAC and CTP ladders lag behind the Civ2 ladder. We hope to change this in the future.

The "forumula" by which scores are calculated/recorded is always an issue at the top of the agenda for any multiplayer league... how did GameLeagues' forumula come about, and where do you see room for improvement?
Frank will explain this...

FUTURE CHALLENGES
Where do you see as the challenges facing GameLeague going into 2000 and beyond? Is there anything else you would like to comment on in regards to GameLeague's operations?
Getting our tribes system up. There's already a lot of rivalry going on in our forum and it would be great to see these guys finally unleash their intense hatred for each other in a game. :)

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