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The strongest Gothic Chess tournament of all time is currently underway. All of the top 25 players on this site were invited, of which 16 accepted, and 1 was ineligible to play as a BrainPawn without enough vacancies.
Previously there were posts in this section from a certain player who indicated his own superior play as the reason for being barred from another event.
This player was given multiple invitations to the King of the Hill, none of which were accepted. The tournament is starting without him.
There is no need to reply to this post. It is provided here for informational purposes only.
I'd like to point out that the Rest of the World section of 'Bumble's World Tour' - backgammon, is for players not included in the other categories (UK, Europe and USA).
Players from Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South America etc etc are especially welcome to join the fun in the Rest of the World section.
I have finished my tourniments and tried to join another one.. It tells me I can't because there are some that aren't finished.So is there anyway that I can join another one?
NO GIRLLLLIES ALLOWED !!!!
We are having a boys Tournament to coincide with Cariads GIRLY one LOL. Then there will be a playoff between the Tournaments. This will be decided on a basis of how many players enter and therefore how many section winners etc.. there are & will be by Private invite.
So, if a pawn does not have enough room to start the 6 games for example, will the system start the games it can for the pawn? For example will it start 4 games and wait until he can play the other two?
It is less work to screen coming in but thanks for the tip. There is also the issue of one of our ladies who is trying to avoid someone so we don't want his name to appear on our tournament list even for the short time it takes me to get there. I will change my post to read "almost" all are invited so everyone can have a comfort zone. Thanks for your interest and help.
► ALL games for dummies (under 1500 & unrated) #2◄
Tournament will start in just a few days. For players rated BELOW 1500. Unrated players are also allowed as long as they are not "too" good.
Games need at least 4 players to start, and there are a few that still only have 2-3 players. So if you are looking for more games & you don't like to play against the "expert" players - here is the tournament for you!
I should have said "almost everyone" is welcome because we still have a stalker that enters tournaments and either just sits there to drag it out, makes inflammatory remarks with his games, or uses multiple nics to fill up all the slots. We had one experience with him and that is enough. So if your are not him you are welcome.
It is up and running! You should see your games on your Main Page. Good luck everyone!!! 57 entered so this is a biggie. Looking forward to the outcome. :o)
well played and congrats to lone outlaw for winning the beginners 1500 and under spider line 4 tourn and also keeneyedswede for the 1500+ five in a line tourn. well done.
Yes. If you set it to two-game matches, it will start two games against each person. So with 4-player sections, each player will get 6 new games (2 with each of the other three in the section).
I would believe it would start all the games that is is designed to play at once... It would be up to the pawns to make sure they have enough room to play in such a tournament before signing up...you may want to message them and see if they made enough space available before you decide when to start the tournament...
I have a tournament with 12 players. It should start with 3 groups of 4.
My questions is for the pawns will it only start one game per player in the group or start both games as black and white.
I have set the minimum to 4, maximum to 5 with the 2 game option.
I don't want to start it if some of the pawns won't be able to start the tournament.
Our team on gameknot has grown to 16 people 4 of whom are paid members. The others are limited to a certain amount of games. As it is here paid subscribers do have more benefits. The point I suppose is you have to have a certain amount of stuff for non subscribers or there just isn't a large enough pool of players to enjoy the activities of which are offered to paid membership. The Secret Hiding Place Fellowship consist of myself and one other person. Kind of tough to put a team together with just two people.
Kind of like being the only member of a club and seeing the other member every tuesday night. Pretty soon the club isn't a club because one or the other person goes and finds a club where there is more intereaction.
Doesn't really matter to me. When it gets to the point where I can not participate and have tournaments with members of the 65thsquare club here, then I will spend my chess money where I can. Pretty simple I think LOL.
I think that a pawn should be able to enter 1 fellowship as a "guest" - and that is he can NOT join the team, and he can NOT enter a Fellowship tournament. (basicly all the pawn can do is read/post in the message area - but once he see's some "cool" tournament and soon inter-fellowship tournament, it might be something that will encourage a pawn to upgrade!
One of the ways to perk intereste in Fellowships is by allowing non-paying subscribers to join. On gameknot they allow so many non-subscribers to be on your team. Fellowships and team play is great but if only a couple people belong then the option is of little value. I am not saying the system should allow every nonsubscriber to join a fellowship, I am saying a fellowship should have the option of having a few nonsubscribers. Just an idea...
Una
Zucan, Rabbitoid is captain for HOME team so I've messaged him about it. But I only have 3 members, as one member did not renew his membership so cannot be considered for this tournament. But I'm sure we can find another player in time if this is to go ahead :o)
I'd be up for that! I'm not sure how many atomic chess players are in HOME though! (rushes over to check!!)
Give me a shout when you want to get this started and I'll see which players want to join in :o)
Ahh, I'm seeing what you mean now, Zucan! 4 separate fellowships, one member from each fellowship in each tournament... is that right? That would work :o)
Ideally, it would be nice to have one tournament with 4 sections and that I can populate the sections in a controlled way. I may have to ask Fencer about it... maybe he can do some shuffling for me... If not, then yeah, 4 seperate tournaments is about the only way to really do it. I am always open to ideas though!