Team Diplomatic Corpse The Team was formed to play in the World Masters 2002 Tournament and consists of players who have gamed on this site. The name of the team was chosen by a vote, and indicates that our enemies are dead meat! The pun on "Corps" suggests we are a humorous bunch of jolly old boys who know how to have a good time, and get an agreement allowing us into Trieste to boot! Both current and former players are listed on this page, with the current team listed at the top. Although the site is South African, our players are from all over the World, which currently includes Australia. Or rather it did until they won the World Cup cricket!
Battle Honours
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- Current Team -
The Team is currently playing the Diplomacy National World Cup 2007
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Harry Parker
Harry has played many games on the Embassy site and has become a regular player for the Corpse. Winner of the Wits University DipCon I, Harry has shown he has the right stuff. Harry is Captain for the World Cup Team.
- World Masters 2002
- Diplomatic World 2003 - captain
- DipWorld 2006
- Diplomacy National World Cup 2007 -captain
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Dorian Love
Dorian learned his Diplomacy at the Wits Wargames Club in the early 1980s, and runs the Embassy site. Gauteng Champion in 2004, he has played more than any other player in Souh Africa at the moment. He is Lieutenant for the World Cup Team.
- World Masters 2002 Rounds 1 & 2
- Diplomatic World 2003 GM (& Reserve)
- World Masters 2004 Rounds 1 & 2
- DipWorld 2006 - captain
- Diplomacy National World Cup 2007
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Nick Smuts
Nick Smuts played a lot of Diplomacy in the 1980s in Pretoria, and has been a regular on the Embassy site in recent years.
- DipWorld 2006
- Diplomacy National World Cup 2007
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Alasdair Watson
Twenty years ago Alasdair Watson was another of the Diplomacy vetreans from the Wits Wragames Club, although remembered chiefly for his portrayal of the Vogon captain in Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy, and for his laugh, Alasdair has been known to play a mean game of Diplomacy.
- DipWorld 2006
- Diplomacy National World Cup 2007
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Keith Krut
Keith was chairman of the Wits Wargames Club during the golden years of Diplomacy at the club in the early 1980s when bullets were flying around the campus and the club room provided a haven for fleeing activists and strange role play gamers. Keith curently lives in the UK. He makes a welcome return to the game in this tournament.
- Diplomacy National World Cup 2007
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Eugene Burger
Eugene used to play Diplomacy regularly with mates during school, College and in the Military (under bunk beds). He Introduced Diplomacy as a teaching tool once he'd started a wargames clubs at the school where he teaches. He is currently living in the UK, but will most likely be back in SA once the UK school year ends.
- Diplomacy National World Cup 2007
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Thato Ntema
One of the top schools players in South Africa, Thato has been growing in confidence and form. He attends St Enda's Secondary School in Johannesburg, and has been a regular in school tournaments.
- Diplomacy National World Cup 2007
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Katlego Maaba
Katlego is another of the St Enda's Eagles who have been making such a mark on the Diplomacy scene in South Africa.
- Diplomacy National World Cup 2007
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Rudolph Kekana
Rudolph, also from St Enda's, has played in many school tournaments and plays his first email tournament here.
- Diplomacy National World Cup 2007
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Tamlin Love
Tamlin is the youngest Diplomacy player in South Africa. He attends St John's Prep School in Johannesburg, where he is an A+ student with enough ambition to fill a bath-tub. This is his first Internet tournament.
- Diplomacy National World Cup 2007
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- Past Players -
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Grant Casey
Grant hails from Cape Town is married and has a son who is 2 years old. Every now and then his son and wife allow him to play diplomacy. In his spare time he works for a business consultancy which is a B to B portal for companies in Europe and in Southern Africa. This is not a prison pic. Grant has neeer fallen foul of the law, has no traffic citations, and has never lied about supporting anybody into Tunis!
- Diplomatic World 2003
- World Masters 2004
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Pavel Rabiner
Pavel Rabiner was born in Kiev, has lived in Israel, South Africa, and the UK and is currently in the US. Any apparent links between his presence in these countries and any political or economic turmoil experienced there are purely coincidental. Suggestions that he is a sleeper agent for remnant espionage agencies are libellous and will be pursued to the full extent of the law. His diplomacy was learnt as a young tag along to the older players at Wits Wargames Club in the mid eighties and was honed through eight years of working in the corporate world.
- Diplomatic World 2003
- World Masters 2004 - Captain
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Dominic Aphane
Dominic brings youth and enthusiasm to the team. This youngster from St Enda's Secondary School has consistently topped the school averages since he took up the game.
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Musa Mnisi
Gauteng and Gauteng Schools champion, Musa has the pedigree.
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Pumla Mpili
Pumla has performed well at Face to Face tournaments in Gauteng and in school tournaments.
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Scott Sutherland
Scott is a veteran of the Wits Wargames Club glory days where he GMed and played his way to many solos! He now has a wife and two-year old daughter, and specialises in getting eliminated by 1902! Will the old Scott Sutherland please stand up!!!
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Johan Steyn
Johan burst onto the Diplomacy scene two years ago, but remains an enigmatic figure. Cummon, Johan, tell us something about yourself!
- World Masters 2004
- DipWorld 2006
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Kevin Hoyle
Kevin has GMed many games on the Embassy site, and has one of the most consistent track records. He captained the team at World Masters 2002 and reached top table at the DipWorld 2004 Individual Tournament.
- World Masters 2002 Captain
- Diplomatic World 2003
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Matthew Harms
Little is known of Matthew, except that he is a newbie, playing in his first game. He has made a good start to his Diplomacy career, and in the words of one of his opponents, "he's a keeper!"
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Matt Gross
No-one knows anything about the enigmatic Matt Gross, apart from his winning ways!
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Roger Lambert
Roger is the black sheep of the Diplomatic Corpse being an Aussie not a
South African. Coming from a small country town where Dippers are thin on
the ground, most of his experience has been PBEM. He is Assets Manager at
the Swan Hill Rural City Council, is married and has 2 teenage children.
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Greg Glynn
Greg's mother is a Malaysian Born Muslim Extremist and his Russian father
is a retired member of the Polit Bureau. Playing Diplomacy was only way he
could understand why she was throwing saucepans at him. Greg resides in
Sydney Australia with his wife and four children.
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Thomas Huang
Thomas has been a faithful stalwart on the Embassy site, a promising youngster.
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Savvas Themistocleous
Savvas has an uneven record on the Ebassy site, having abandoned games he was leading. We hope he will return to the fold one day.
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Reid Rasmussen
Reid lives in Singapore and has gamed often on the Embassy site - becoming an adopted South African in the process!
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