ICBA: Play College Basketball By E-Mail

From: godot22@earthlink.net (PJ Killian)

Date: Sun, 19 Jul 1998 00:00:00 +0000

ICBA (Internet Collegiate Basketball League) is a free college basketball
game played via e-mail. Players take on the role of the head of a college
basketball program. Your school can be large or small, scrupulous about the
rules or a cesspool of corruption, a bastion of academe or a diploma mill.
If you like, you can represent your favorite real-life university, or you
can make up your own--we have a little of both already, so the Georgia
Bulldogs and the Long Beach State 49ers rub shoulders with the Boggstown
Fighting Shar-Peis and the Miskatonic Cephalopods.

First, you try and recruit a new batch of freshmen to replenish your
team--a tricky business, especially if they expect to be paid top dollar
<g>. Then you send your starting five into games coached by other real
Internet users. If everything goes according to schedule, we play a new
season about every six weeks.

ICBA is a totally free game. I run it as a hobby, and I originally designed
the program I use to produce the results as a learning activity. The game
is a little rough around the edges--OK, a LOT rough around the edges--but
it's improving as quickly as my programming skills, and your suggestions
can only make it better. If it thrives and survives...well, years from now,
you can say you were a part of the inaugural season.

We are looking for up to thirteen dedicated people with a love (or at least
a strong like) for college basketball to help us make this happen. If
you're interested, please point your web browser to
http://home.earthlink.net/~godot22/ICBA/ for the complete instructions and
the signup form.