A new set of Team Tournaments that are set to start in January are now up!

3 of the 5 never had a team tournament before, and the other 2 had only 1 before.... but both have been completed.

Hopefully I got a nice mix of small team size, and faster times including a couple with no vacations allowed.

As always - I take suggestions (which is where a few of those team tournaments came from)..... and if you could, PLEASE send me a quick message. (I then can easily save all the messages in one place so when I get ready to make new ones, I can see all the suggestions & ideas in one place - posting them here.... well is nice, but I might forget about it when the time comes.)

I've temporarily taken over the Ponds Plus fellowship and will be setting up ponds on a regular basis shortly after Thanksgiving, so if you like to play ponds, please feel free to ask for an invite
PONDS PLUS

Monkeys Cyber Cafe

Are you a Computer OR Internet addict ........ OR maybe even both

Well this is the Fellowship for you

Monkeys Cyber Cafe

Come and hang out with us, and discuss, help others and hopefully learn all sorts of useful stuff from Megabyte Land

We have boards already dedicated for:

Firefox, Thunderbird & Other Mozilla News - the awesome Browser & E-mail client

PC Maintenance & Safety - Firewalls, Viruses, Worms etc...

Social Networking - Facebook, Myspace, Hi5, Beebo etc..

and more will be added, its up to you

Monkeys Cyber Cafe

So if you feel you could help others with problems, or just pass your knowledge on about PC's or the World Wide Web..... This is the place for you

OR

If you would like a place to maybe ask for advice on websites, programs, hardware etc.. This place is still for you

If you are interested, pop along to -

Monkeys Cyber Cafe -

and ask to join

The Good, The Bad and The Ugly

Ask for invite.

Tuesday: LMBO!

Tuesday: LMBO! Yes!

Come join :-

Queer and Proud

We need all the help we can get lmbo!

Jim Dandy: I think its a good idea

For someone like me who runs lots of Tournaments, i get lots of messages telling me who has won what, so every day i put these messages in a folder, then every couple of weeks go through them all and post them on the Madhouse DB to Congratulate them all as one, rather than lots & lots of posts every day.

A filter would help that out as well lol

MadMonkey: I like your idea,I have 1188 messeges that I have yet to delete

Jim Dandy: I did put a Feature request in ALONG time ago, either have a way to turn those messages off OR filter them straight to Trash (or separate Folder if you wish)

I still think it a good idea

tinksbell: Other than feeling a little uncomfortable saying no,my initial reaction is to feel flattered when invited to a fellowship.My only spam issue here is having to delete all the "you won,you lost" messeges.

coan.net: I tried that. It seems that a couple of fellowship owners go around the system because I still got invites from them.

tinksbell: Here is the trick that I use to get that to stop.

Don't do anything. Don't accept - don't decline - just delete the message.

If the Fellowship owner tried to send another invite, the system will stop them saying that you already have an open invite to the fellowship.

Marshmud: What bothers me the most is the repeated SPAMMING I get from other fellowship owners. I think that if I decline once, that should be enough, I should not have to decline every month if not more often, it takes the enjoyment out of playing here. I should also not have to turn off the fellowship invites.

tinksbell: Again I'm sorry I disturbed you. I only gave you the offer to win free memberships and brains, and since you have played hundreds of boat and gammon games, thought you'd be interested in those games. I did not check your fellowship team play. Gosh tinksbell its only a game site, and I've never been attacked for offering a prize.

Marshmud: You invited me to a FELLOWSHIP that is not focused on the games I play, it is just a general fellowship...

tinksbell: This is what you requested on your profile: Please do not invite me to fellowships that are not focused on the games that I play.....Each of the 5 tournaments I have are the games you play. So where is it I misread? Sorry I disturbed you.

I am of the opinion, that Fellowship owners don't know how to read!

I have started an Obama Vs. McCain board in the debate club, if anyone is interested in joining, just ask for an invitation Debate Club

WE are looking for people to join Brian's 1971 pub. People who enjoy playing tournaments. Currently we have 4 line game tournaments open. People who like voicing their opinions with our poll questions and discussion boards. People who like being part of teams. WE are looking to expand our teams and continue our success. If this sounds like you please join the fellowship today. Click link on my previous post to check us out.

Thanks,

Brian

16th Aug in The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

If anyone is interested in having fun and being part of teams. We have the top rated battleboats plus team at Brainking. WE also have just opened up 4 new tournaments to join and a new opinion poll. Just looking for players who want to be part of something and have fun doing it. Games and more is what we have to offer at Brian's 1971 Pub. Click the link and join us.

Brian's 1971 Pub

Triple dice 6D?
Join
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

A prize line tournie starting in this Fellowship also soon.

☼☼ Ŧħε Saltεrηs ☼☼ (anyone who wants to)

and


¶GAME-☼-HOLICS¶ (over 18s only please)

regular tournaments and active teams in both.

FIRST: The Turkish Checkers Team Tournaments needs 1 more team to start. I like to mix it up with different game types, so I would love to see some get together to get one more team signed up so this can start.

There is a team with 4 players, a team with 3 players, and a few teams with 2 players. Lets see one of you try to recruit from these players to see if you can get a team of 5 to join this tournament!

SECOND: A suggestion was made to spread out the tournaments a little - instead of having them all start on 1 day - so for September's group, I have them starting about a week apart from each other.

FEEDBACK WANTED: How do you like that? Do you like them spread out like that, or all starting at the same time? Hopefully being spread out a little will help get more to join since they know they won't be bombarded with a lot of new games all at once.

As always, I'm always open to suggestions & ideas. (In private message the best since I can organize it and look at them when I start to make new site team tournaments..... but in here to discuss them with others would probable be OK also.)

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

We need more team players and Captains.

This is a very friendly Fellowship so come join in and have some fun. It is just me that is Bad and Ugly Cross of course is the good one

Anyone fancy joining an Ice age chess team? Plenty of room in this Fellowship.

I private messaged you, Fencer about this. I see no notations saying "hidden users" either here or in fellowships I am in with this player so not sure what to do next.

TheONLYPegasus: chcek above this box where you type and see if it says hidden users. If you have hidden that user you can unhide them there.

on fellowship boards. I have a player in my friends list but when I am in fellowships with this player, I can see where people have replied to this player but not their posts. Apparently, this user's posts are being hidden from me but not necessarily from others and I am wondering how to get this user's posts so that they will be visible to me.

Come dance with us! We're working on it but I believe LET"S DANCE will be lots of fun.

Laugh It Up 

http://brainking.com/pl/Board?bc=2639
We still need 3 S. Eggs' players.

ALL L.I.N.E.S.
We need 3 Scrambled Eggs' players.

feel free to join Mike's Backgammon Club

coan.net: I would like to see a nice fast fischer clock team tourney once in a while.

I've created 6 new team tournaments for fellowships to compete in. Fencer has allowed the "time per game" time control, and also allowed for us to make them with hours in the standard time (since 2/3 days seemed too short for some, 4 days seemed too long - a good 3 day, 12 hour is nice)

Anyway, I have heard 2 main complaints/suggestions. (1) team size for the popular games is too high for smaller fellowships to get teams and (2) Team Tournaments last too long.

Well I've tried to mix things up to hopefully help those 2 things. There are 2 backgammon TT's that have a small team size - plus 3 of the 6 use the Fischer Clock time control which have NO DAYS OFF - no vacations - no weekends. (SO CAPTAINS - Make sure your team understand how these time controls work - have them check out this article if needed: http://brainrook.com/archives/54-Time-limit-for-games-on-BrainKing.html )

The other 3 TT's use standard vacations, two with 3 days, 12 hours - and one with a little quicker 2 days, 12 hours time limit.

2 of the games (Open pente & Fevga) never had a TT before
2 of the games (Turkish Checkers & Logik) have not had a TT for awhile - both pretty popular (31st and 21st most popular according to current games)

So hopefully this was a good mix. As always, suggestions and ideas are always welcomed.

Nothingness: A player can turn both of those drop box options off from there Settings --> General Tab
They have 2 options there:

Allow other users to send fellowship invitation
Allow other users to send tournament invitations

And if the set them you will see:
XXXXXX does not wish to be invited to tournaments.
XXXXXX does not wish to be invited to fellowships.

On the first page of there Profile

Nothingness: not that I know of, however, if you have previously invited them and they didn't respond, then it would be missing

there are no options for that! is it possible they have something blocking them from my inviting them?

Nothingness: Goto the person profile you wish to invite. On the first page of it you will see a little drop box to invite them

Nothingness: go to the persons profile, there you will see a message "Invite so and so to ..."