King of the Mountain: Timothy Sweeney
For the 7th year of 7 possible years, Timothy Sweeney was at 1st place on the Eagle Rating. In 2007 he finished one game, a game called “Hampton Court”, where he got a 3-way-draw. He gained around 1.2 EPs and he was more than 20 EPs ahead of 2nd place. He still had total control by the end of 2007. Timothy Sweeney had 4 solos and 5 draws in his last 10 games. Totally, he had 7 solos and 7 draws in 15 games. Timothy had 6 Player of the Month-awards at the end of 2007… He is impossible to stop.
At 2nd place we find Brian Koon with 40.92 EPs. He had 2 solos and 5 draws in his last 10 games. Totally, he had 3 solos and 7 draws in 16 games at the site. Brian climbed from 3rd to 2nd place in 2007. Jim O`Neil climbed in an impressive way from 13th to 3rd place. He had 1 solo and 11 draws in his 13 games. Karl Georg Øhrn climbed from 5th to 4th place. Chris Andrews climbed from 8th to 5th place. Lars Topholm stayed at 6th place in 2007, and Steve Demant climbed from 20th to 7th place. Eduard van Dijk climbed from 9th to 8th place in 2007. Anders Granås Kjøstvedt fell from 5th to 9th place, and Eelco van Duijnhoven climbed from 22nd to 10th place.
Runner of the Year: Jim O`Neil
This important award, which could have been called “Player of the Year”, is given to the player that gets most points in a year. Earlier, Tim Sweeney had got three Runner of the Year-awards and Patrick D`Hyon, Jonathan Langman and Duncan Proffitt one award each. In 2007 Jim O`Neil got as much as 22.50 EPs so he got the award for his good results. He had 1 solo and 8 draws in his last 10 games. Jim has played 13 games at the site – 4 of them in 2007. At 2nd place we find Lawrence McDonald, who got 18.92 EPs in 2007. Manfred Pade got 3rd place with 12.39 EPs.
Most Valuable Victory: Jim O`Neil
The most valuable solo in 2007 was Jim O`Neil`s solo in the game Roll of the Dice with 11.25 EPs. Jim was clearly the Player of the Year at Dip2000, since he received so many awards and moved to 3rd place at the rating in 2007. Jim was at 3rd place in Premier League at the end of 2007 (98 Hall of Fame-points), received the Runner of the Year-award (50 Hall of Fame-points), received the Most Valuable Victory-award (20 Hall of Fame-points) and he also got one Player of the Month-award (10 Hall of Fame-points). In total, he got 178 Hall of Fame-points in 2007, which for instance is 78 points more than Timothy Sweeney received in 2007. So Jim O`Neil was the big name in 2007.
Dip2000 Open Tournament
No tournaments finished in 2007.
Rookie of the Year: Andrew Livsey
Andrew Livsey finished his first game with a solo in September 2007. He got 6.25 EPs for his solo in Romeo. He hadn`t finished any more games during 2007. A well deserved Rookie of the Year-award to Andrew Livsey.
Players of the Month
January: Chris Keenan, Charlie Simmons, Lyle Youngblood and Pete Younger (4-way-draw in Ariel)
February: Lawrence McDonald (Solo in Playing Nice)
March: Aron Bryce (Solo in Iago)
April: Manfred Pade and Michael Whelan (2-way-draw in Born to the Purple)
May: Chris Andrews (Solo in Capitoline)
June: Martin Styler, Eduard van Dijk and Morgan Phillips (3-way-draw in Zebra Pleco)
July: Eelco van Duijnhoven (Solo in Soul Hunter)
August: Brian Koon (Solo in Infection)
September: Ken Navarro (Solo in Bicycle Race)
October: Morten Anstorp (Solo in Adama)
November: Jim O`Neil (Solo in Roll of the Dice)
December: Charlie Thorogood, James Barrington-Brown and Mike Calcutt (3-way-draw in Parliament of Dreams)
Hall of Fame
Timothy Sweeney still had the lead – and it is increasing since some of his nearest competitors retire. In 2007 he was more than 300 points ahead of 2nd place, around 100 points more than in 2006. It is almost impossible to overtake him as long as he is at first place in the Eagle Rating each year. And since almost all his nearest challengers retire these days, Tim will be sure to hold on to 1st place on this rating for almost as long as he wants. But, as on the Eagle Points, the 2nd place on the Hall of Fame-rating is volatile. Kester Bearne climbed from 4th to 2nd, while Karl Georg Øhrn climbed from 5th to 3rd place. Jim O`Neil moved from 82nd to 38th place since he more than doubled his score in 2007 (160 to 338 Hall of Fame-points).
Below is Premier League at the end of 2007.
| Premier Diplomats |
| Ranking | Name | Points | Date of last finished game | Games | Points to "defend" |
| 1 | Timothy Sweeney | 62,17 | 22.03.2007 | 10+ | 5,73 |
| 2 | Brian Koon | 40,92 | 15.08.2007 | 10+ | 2,38 |
| 3 | Jim O`Neil | 39,64 | 11.11.2007 | 10+ | 4,00 |
| 4 | Karl Georg Øhrn | 36,73 | 22.10.2007 | 9 | - |
| 5 | Chris Andrews | 35,46 | 01.05.2007 | 10+ | 1,29 |
| 6 | Lars Topholm | 31,29 | 31.07.2007 | 10+ | 2,40 |
| 7 | Steve Demant | 30,90 | 19.07.2007 | 9 | - |
| 8 | Eduard van Dijk | 30,27 | 09.06.2007 | 8 | - |
| 9 | Anders Granås Kjøstvedt | 29,91 | 26.11.2007 | 10+ | 3,42 |
| 10 | Eelco van Duijnhoven | 28,65 | 27.06.2007 | 10+ | 2,22 |
| 11 | Andy Jamieson | 26,46 | 29.06.2007 | 10 | 1,55 |
| 12 | Lee Simpson | 26,25 | 27.07.2006 | 7 | - |
| 13 | Nigel Phillips | 26,21 | 19.09.2006 | 8 | - |
| 14 | Lawrence McDonald | 25,92 | 09.08.2007 | 4 | - |
| 15 | Mark Porter | 23,90 | 23.03.2007 | 10+ | 6,00 |
| 16 | Peter Evans | 23,25 | 19.08.2006 | 9 | - |
| 17 | Richard Hucknall | 23,06 | 28.10.2007 | 10+ | 0,01 |
| 18 | Brian Frew | 22,51 | 29.05.2007 | 10+ | 0,01 |
| 19 | Jonathan Langman | 22,45 | 22.03.2007 | 10+ | 0,01 |
| 20 | Martin Sanders | 21,77 | 22.03.2007 | 8 | - |
| 21 | Ron Snyder | 21,68 | 31.07.2007 | 10+ | 3,63 |
| 22 | Jon Hucknall | 21,66 | 19.07.2007 | 10+ | 0,11 |
| 23 | Colin Borman | 21,64 | 06.10.2006 | 10+ | 2,37 |
| 24 | Lloyd Mitchell | 21,63 | 03.07.2006 | 10+ | 0,18 |
| 25 | Harvey Jones | 21,07 | 09.11.2006 | 10 | 5,00 |
| 26 | Kester Bearne | 20,72 | 21.05.2006 | 10+ | 0,12 |
| 27 | James Barrington-Brown | 20,56 | 04.12.2007 | 7 | - |
| 28 | Carl Hanich | 19,85 | 28.08.2006 | 8 | - |
| 29 | Morgan Phillips | 19,43 | 09.06.2007 | 10+ | 7,00 |
| 30 | Matthew Myatt | 19,19 | 03.07.2006 | 10 | 7,00 |
| 31 | Charles Robinson | 19,07 | 28.10.2007 | 10+ | 4,00 |
| 32 | Patrick D`Hyon | 18,94 | 31.07.2007 | 10+ | 0,01 |
| 33 | Manfred Pade | 18,89 | 04.09.2007 | 5 | - |
| 34 | Wayne Read | 18,48 | 20.12.2006 | 10+ | 1,60 |
| 35 | Chris Barnham | 18,44 | 31.07.2007 | 8 | - |
| 36 | Jos Van Acker | 17,98 | 12.04.2006 | 9 | - |
| 37 | Pieter de Wilde | 17,92 | 13.10.2007 | 6 | - |
| 38 | Ally Bain | 17,76 | 31.05.2007 | 10 | 3,42 |
| 39 | Gary Boyes | 17,55 | 04.09.2007 | 4 | - |
| 40 | Yousuf Shaikh | 17,33 | 14.05.2007 | 3 | - |
| 41 | Graham Pearce | 17,16 | 29.08.2007 | 4 | - |
| 42 | Sebastian Egerton-Read | 16,71 | 15.08.2007 | 10+ | 1,55 |
| 43 | Jan Willem Omlo | 16,65 | 14.05.2007 | 10+ | 4,17 |
| 44 | Rye Braune | 16,65 | 12.04.2006 | 10+ | 2,31 |
| 45 | Richard Powell | 16,63 | 13.10.2007 | 8 | - |
| 46 | Jim Ramp | 16,51 | 31.05.2007 | 9 | - |
| 47 | Julian Musgrove | 16,48 | 13.05.2007 | 7 | - |
| 48 | David Freer | 15,59 | 01.03.2007 | 10+ | 2,75 |
| 49 | Randy Goldring | 15,18 | 06.05.2007 | 4 | - |
| 50 | Robert Dane | 15,15 | 28.10.2006 | 10+ | 2,06 |
Some statistics for games finished in 2007
70 games finished in 2007. 89 games finished in 2006, 87 games finished in 2005, 117 games finished in 2004, 111 games finished in 2003 and 98 games finished in 2002. Around 6 games start and finish each month (plus variants). That is somewhat less than earlier years. But the amount of games finished each month is still huge at the site.
Country-ranking
Below is the ranking for the 7 nations. 100 points is average, that is, a country with 100 points has 1/7-part of all Eagle Points given. 140 means 40 pct. more than average, and 75 means 25 pct. below average.
1) 140.09 Russia
2) 125.88 Germany
3) 109.99 Austria
4) 107.14 France
5) 85.14 England
6) 74.55 Italy
7) 57.20 Turkey
Another good year for Russia and Germany. Austria surprised in a positive way with a healthy 3rd place. Turkey was very weak in 2007.
Anarchies
There were 1.07 dropouts pr. game in 2007. This was somewhat better than the average for all years at the site (1.13), but higher than the last few years.
Solos and draws
Just 16 games ended with a solo (22.9 pct.) while 54 games ended with a draw (77.1 pct) in 2006. Very few solos in 2007, but all 7 countries had at least 1 solo each. The draws in 2007 are distributed like this:
2-way: 33 pct.
3-way: 46 pct.
4-way: 17 pct.
5-way: 04 pct.
6-way: No games
7-way: No games
Solo-table
The distribution of solos in 2007 were this:
1-3) 4 Germany
1-3) 4 Russia
1-3) 4 Austria
4-7) 1 France
4-7) 1 Turkey
4-7) 1 Italy
4-7) 1 England
A strange table. 3 countries had 4 solos and 4 countries had 1 solo.
Players` results overall
15.3 pct. Anarchy
23.7 pct. Elimination
25.7 pct. Survival
32.0 pct. Part of a draw
03.3 pct. Solo
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