...aside from the fact that all team members should be auto-released anyway when a fellowship is deleted... but no software is bug free.

Marshmud: ok - what about trying to 'leave' that team by creating the respective link manually?
You would need to know the deleted fellowship's ID, but maybe there is a way to find it, and then insert the ID for the ### and the game ID for ***:
https://brainking.com/en/DoFellowMember?a=212&fid=###&tp=***

If the fellowship ID cannot be found, you could use Excel or something to generate a whole list of links with "...fid=1..." to "...fid=999..", and open them all.
I did something similar a while ago, and it worked perfectly - I saved the list of links in a file, loaded them as bookmarks into my browser, and then right-click 'open all'. it opens a gazillion windows, and one of them works as it should. just wait a bit and then close all.

Mousetrap: you can always 'leave' a team and then join another in another fellowship.
Check here: The International Friendship Club and use the "leave" button: should be
https://brainking.com/en/DoFellowMember?a=212&fid=403&tp=255

Mélusine: i know about that... unfortunate, but that's how it is. I have won mine in tournaments, but that's a long proof, so I just don't use them for buying anything. I just wanted to pay forward the gift that was given to me.

Mélusine: i just saw there is no way to transfer brains... I was considering giving you 500 or 1000. When I was in the no-brain situation, I got a 1000 gift from someone (and I had a lot of fun with them and increased them some). If you know how to do that, I'll transfer you 1000.

Mélusine: would you join if you had more? Or do you mean you don't want to play brain tourneys?

_Road Runner___: Fall begins. On Sep 24, I mean.

MadMonkey: personally, I love to play any game as a team, but it seems there are not many others....

beach: it *is* a single tournament with all game types. that's exactly my point; the list breaks it automatically out into separate lines. But yes, overall there are too many in parallel open.

And not everybody cheats for his brains. I find it interesting to play for them, and worked hard to get to where I am.

MadMonkey: maybe I misunderstand. I was talking about the 'Tournaments' main link, not the discussion board here. When you click https://brainking.com/en/Tournaments, you get a two-mile-long list of tournaments with prices, which I am interested in, but not for two miles.
As I mentioned, the issue is that they are 'unrolled', so if someone sets up a tournament for all game types, there will be 128 lines showing for it - which makes for a *long* list. Right now there are 379 entries you have to scroll by until you get to the other tournaments.

To be clear, there is nothing wrong (in my eyes) with the Tournament Discussion Board.

beach: I think it's unfortunate; all tournaments with brains are 'unrolled', which means each game type is listed separately. That makes it a very long list currently, which, yes, is a bit annoying. When this was developed, tournaments with brains to win were probably much rarer; I remember eagerly checking when new ones appeared.
Would be cool if only the first 10 are a shown, maybe with setting 'show all'/'show only 10'.

But in the overall view on life, I think I can take scrolling down ever so often. There are worse things on the site that I'd see as more important to be fixed.

misterned: use the button on your profile 'send message'! Enter "Fencer", and don't choose any of the similarly named jokers

There are a lot of tournaments offered right now, but I prefer to play *with the doubling cube*.
If you do too, and you like a fast game, please join here!

rod03801: My opinion: for many serious Backgammon players, you need to allow the doubling cube. It is a different (and less interesting) game without it; I would 't want to play.

long: this was not a standard tournament where the participants put up the Brains - those get automatically distributed. The creator put up his own Brains, and Fencer has to manually distribute them. Send a nice message to fencer, with a link to the tournament, and - my experience - you get them same day.

_Road Runner___: I am afraid there are no further players around... 114 could well be all the active ones. :-/

DeaD man WalkiN: that was 2003 - maybe there were bugs in the code that were fixed afterwards.

pitchblack: either they alternate, or they are randomly chosen each time. For sure they are not simply repeated.

IDamian: you can set that in your setting:
Settings/General/at the very bottom left: choose by game group or by game name - don't forget to save.

_Road Runner___:
just a tip: Most serious backgammon players consider the game incomplete without the doubling cube, and so are a lot less wiling to sign up.
I think you would get more participation if you add the doubling cube and play to 3 or so (of course, if you don't like it, that's fine too)

Marshmud: there are only 40 players.

Hannelore: could it be because the only legal move is 6-3-2, which is very bad for you, so you didn't try it? All others will not allow you to move the 1, so they are illegal.

There is still time! Many games need only one more player!

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crosseyed: i think you got the concept wrong. The creator of the tournament doesn’t get the entry fee, he has no advantage from creating the tournament. The Tournament itself collects the entry fees, and when it gets cancelled, they get returned to everybody. That has worked automatically for years, and never was an issue.
So it doesn’t matter at all who leaves and when.

Carnie: on first glance, it looks like a funny idea, but consider that:
In the final game, both players will of course immediately resign; so it’s purely random whoever gets the first move = first chance to resign.

long: you might not have had enough free game slots or tournament participation slots, which results in you getting dropped from the tournament automatically.

MadMonkey: For some reason, we cannot sign up for the Backgammon team Tournament (Knights); it says: "Your team does not have enough players eligible to play team tournaments (Brain Knight or higher level)." which is untrue - we have six players, five rooks and one Knight.
Any idea, anyone?

Sept 2017 Backgammon XXIII

(not sure if you can see this) The Knights

LeoChessNut: There is a filter. Try for example http://brainking.com/en/Tournaments?utf=&tp=1&submit=Show&trt=-1&trp=-1&dom=-1&trnst=0 to see the result.

Doris: This tournament is only for members of that Fellowship.

Backgammon to 9 - for Brains - FAST - only one more player needed for some games

Justaminute: I see 1487 tournaments. Do you use this link? http://brainking.com/en/Tournaments
Maybe you have set personal filters, i don't remember what is possible.

Justaminute: There are tons of each, for example All games; 5 players; fast start. It must be your settings.

ketchuplover: there is no 'official' site championships.For some years, there were inofficial 'World Championships', for all games, but I think whoever did those stopped doing them - I haven't seen any in awhile.
If you think we should have them - like for 2016 - I like the idea - the search for that tournament and check how it was setup (maybe message with the creator if you want to be nice) and set them up. I would participate.
Make sure the timing settings are so they appeal to a broad audience, to get maximum participation, and chose a style that doesn't drag the tournaments out forever.

coan.net: ok, thanks!
I would have never guessed that it was about a team tournament - after all, I did not win it, we did....

So it seems that the captain of the team gets this event send, but it contains no details or links.

Today I got an event (evid=5723373): "You are the tournament winner", and when I open it, it says: "You are the winner of this tournament."

No links or details... how do I know which tournament I won? Anyone any idea?

The event came at 17. December 2015, 21:05:01 (EST), that's all info I have. I tried to look through the list of won tournaments in my profile, but there is nothing listed that finished this month...

furbster: I always wonder why many people make Backgammon tournaments with no doubling cube. Backgammon has a certain percentage of luck in it, which gets reduced significantly by playing for a higher game count, and the doubling cube is a critical part of the game logic.
Personally, I avoid tournaments where there is only a match to one point, because the game is too much chance under those circumstances.
Don't get me wrong - I am not criticizing you, furbster, and it's of course your right to make any tournament you like. I just see many of those, and I don't join them for that reason, and it makes me wonder why even strong players create them this way. Do you care to explain?

coan.net: I agree. Sounds like a good idea.
Or what about this: if the Pawn has finished all his game(s) in the tournament, he can join another one? It is not his fault that the others have not yet finished?

Doris: There is a minimum of 2000 on the BKR on the tournament, that might be the reason. The message is not too clear.

happyjuggler0: good point.
But then the next-page buttons shouldn't go up to the twenties, right?

When I check the open tournaments, it shows a total of 1472. But when I page through, there are only 65!

What happened to the other 1407? I understand that the tournament creator can ban me from his tournaments, but a) I thought I would still see it, just can't join; and b) am I that much hated, so 96% of all tournaments are blocked for me?

Justaminute: It's still unclear who is included in that 10%.

- without provisional and without inactive players? http://brainking.com/en/Ratings?tp=23 - there are 553, so the cutoff is at 55th position which is (right now) 2302.

- with provisional but without inactive players? http://brainking.com/en/Ratings?tp=23&ap=1 - there are 590, so the cutoff is at 59th position which is (right now) 2296.

- with provisional and with inactive players? http://brainking.com/en/Ratings?tp=23&ap=1&eg=1 - there are 6263, so the cutoff is at 626th position which is (right now) 2165.

- without provisional but with inactive players? http://brainking.com/en/Ratings?tp=23&eg=1 - there are 3627, so the cutoff is at 326th position which is (right now) 2212.

If you say 'clearly, the first', what if I am inactive or my rating is provisional (or both)?

Also, nobody can know if you made the cut at any given time between now and the tournament start; someone would need to continuously check. Therefore, I assume he would check about at the tournament start, which is slightly different than at the moment you signed up. So - better let you losing games sit around a bit, or you might not make the cut anymore on that day?

ThunderGr: I find it also too cumbersome to check each discipline, especially as it is a moving target - I might be in today, and out tomorrow.
In addition, and I mentioned that before, the top 10% are mostly people that do not play anymore, so effectively this limits it to 2 or 3 % of active players. Which is to small a pool I think.

And finally, I am simply not good enough to make it into the top 10% of most games, so I stopped checking.

Resher: No, I am waiting for the creator - joshitm - to make one.

Adventure XI is finally finished! Started in early Dec2012, it took nearly 23 months.

TC: As I mentioned the previous time he started this tourney, the primary problem I see (aside from the fact that it is obnoxious to check the 10% for each game) is that most of the people in the top 10% are not playing anymore or not since a long time. That way, only 1% really are effectively eligible.

DeaD man WalkiN: we cannot read your events, even with the link - they are private. So I have no idea what you are trying to point out.

This tourney is coming up: The Big Prize Tournament 2014
I wonder if I should join, it seems like it gives me around 1200 games !? [128 games * 9 opponents in the group, minus a bit for smaller groups]

Did I miss something?

rod03801: First, only active players? Or inactive too? Only established BKRs? or provisional too? That leaves four combinations to pick from.
Second, for me this page very often shows (incorrectly, of course) "Your current position is 1 of 1", which result in me having to do many clicks to even find my position.