Players sitting in at the Tutorial table would have to see a quick flash movie on the basic game components (sitting in after lagging, using the surrender flag, etc.) Then players on the Tutorial table can practice what they learned without any adding of points. That might help (slightly) with the amount of "HEY GUYS HOW DO I DO THIS" from the new players (like I was...)

The game isn't that hard to pick up. I don't think we need an extra table.

There should be a help page that goes over the basics and some of the strategies.

The big problem with the setup we have now is that if I had 1800 points, and I went into a table with 6 new guys, and openly helped them, there would be very little chance that I would end up 1st, and I'd take at least a 100 point hit. An non-scoring Tutorial Table would solve that.

i agree beacause i just joined and a barely got by just becuse of an older games that was the same type as the game

i think a FAQ page would be a good foundation.

Rather a better help page then extra tables. Instead of tutorial tables I support the no-ranking tables!

Agreed: as someone who just joined, I picked the game up pretty fast, but in my first couple of games I had no idea what was happening.

I agree with triplehelix that an FAQ page would be a good start: almost as good, and probably much easier to implement.

No tutorial needed, just link them to a few games of Dicewars.