Fencer: ridiculous micro management

BerniceC: It doesn't apply to ponds because nothing like prize ponds had been officially defined. Moreover, ponds are usually finished much faster than tournaments so there is a less chance the prize provider would disappear before the winner is determined :-)

Fencer: Does that mean that I can't run anymore of my prize tournaments for the ponds?
I have a fathers day one due to start in august, please let me know so I can cancel it if necessary :(
I might add that I have run about 6-7 prizes tourneys and have honoured all promises :)

EdTrice: Then I cannot guarantee the key would be really sent after the winner is determined. Due to past experiences with some prize tournaments where the prize was not provided, I must have the prize prepared before the tourney starts. I mean, a fully working copy of Vortex which I'll be able to send to the winner and he'll be able to install it and use it with no further problems. Of course, I must be granted a right to do such things with a licenced software.

oh well, just aint gonna happen then is it. what a shame

I cant send the key until the winner sends me info from his hardware where the program is running

EdTrice: Maybe it is because Fencer cannot guarantee the prize so he therefore cannot allow it to start?

I would suggest the easiest solution is to send Fencer the key and he can then send it to the winner and therefore your tournament can officially start as a "Prize Tournament" That way everyone would be happy.

I have a question. I am running a prize tournament, but the prize is a copy of my software program which is available here:

http://www.GothicChess.org/vortex.zip

Given that the prize is easily bestowed, why will the tournament still not start?

I have emailed Fencer but have no reply. There is no "cash" for this event, just a software key, which will only work on one machine, the machine of the winner.

How does one get the tournament started?

THE PAWNS OF PENTE

6 month Brain Rook!!!

OK - So I didnt win even one section of my own tourny - check out the final round of Partica's second win...

Congrats Partica for winning... Pente and more Pente - and then some more (Small Keryo Pente)

Congratulations to arpa for winning this tourny!!

Thank you to all players who signed up!!! Well done everyone

http://brainking.com/en/Tournaments?trg=8679&trnst=0

By definition (must play at least ten different games), pawns are excluded. Pawns are only allowed one tournament game at a time (can't play in two tournaments or even two different games within the same tournament). If you want to have an all rooks tourney, that's fine. Getting DQ'd by a rule that was added after I had successfully entered is pretty bush league, though.

Well - She did it. She won at least one of my tournaments. Awesome job Partica on winning the tourny and only losing one game total in the final round.

Check it out BK - Congrats to Partica for winning...

Pente and more Pente - and then some more (Small Pente)

that's what I ment. pawns can only enter one tournament at a time and only play one kind of game.

Backoff: I thought Knights were allowed one tournament per game type and that Pawns were allowed only one single tournament at a time.

pawns were allowed. but you can only play in one tournament game type (i.e. chess, backgammon).

THE HIT MAN: Didn't know this was a 'no pawns allowed' tournament. My mistake.

May Mayhem Tournaments

Congratulations to Gror, winner of http://brainking.com/game/Tournaments?tri=34099

Thanks Jo

Need more participants for the Beginners Tablut #3, due to start on Monday! My BKR has risen above 1500, although I registered when it was much lower. As the system will not automatically kick me I think it only fair that I remove myself - I will do this if more than the minimum people are registered.

Best of luck!

Polygonal Alien Killers have just won the Battleboats Plus team tournament :-)

THE HIT MAN: IF YOU HAVE BEEN REMOVED
NO PROBLEM
JUST ENTER AGAIN
Sorry to all that I missed notifying
10 or more GAMES

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The Campfire, a brand new fellowship, is holding it's first tournament, Raingutter Regatta #1. Since it's difficult to get us all together on such short notice (much less taking time to build all those little boats), we are simply including all BrainKing naval tactics games in our tournament. So if you like playing Battleboats, Dark Battle Boats, or Battle Boats Plus, please stop by The Campfire and sign up!

ClayNashvilleTn: not impossible when you are a new player at the game on here .. i somehow won my first 4 games of swap five in line .. placing me at #1 ... i could have joined a low level tournament .. then play my first 4 games .. and be way out of limit

(dont worry i am down to earth again i lost my other 2 games :))

Jason: If you look at everyones graph showing BKRs it would be almost an impossibility to do that. Alot of people are up and down constantly.

i think the hitmans main point was that unrated people maybe signing up and then before the tournaments starts they might have won all four games and have a very high rating ...because the system will not then boot them out for being over the limit

Hrqls: I kept reading all the post and couldn't figure out what all the beef was about.

yes it does .. but i was around 2100 at that time ... so as soon as i was above 2100 i signed up ... i would finish some more games before the tournament started .. and drop below 2100

so i would be below the minimum when the tournament started

i think thats what the hitman talks about ?

Hrqls: When you set a high and a low then doesn't that automatically stop those people outside the boundaries from signing up?

i think i dropped below the bkr minimum some times (bg 2100+ tournaments) and nothing happened .. dont know for sure though .. but it guess i did :)

hi all. me also i signed up for a game with max-bkr. the problem were that during the tournament i got 200 points over the BKR-maximum. so........ :-))))

Hrqls: Nothing & no.

furbster: i thought tournaments already kicked players out who are too high ?

i couldnt join some tournaments because my bkr was either too high or too low

i am not sure though if thats just at the moment when i sign up .. or also when the tournament actually starts

what happens if a players raises above (or drops below) the set bkr limits during the tournament ? should the player be removed as well ? ;)

THE HIT MAN: the tournaments starting time arent checcked every minute, so it can show minus a couple of minutes before it starts .. i think this wont be longer than 10 minutes though (i think the starting times are checked every 10 minutes)

Sorry.But in my Tournaments if you don;t enter in 10 games or more you are going to be removed.Because they are most games WON TOURNAMENTS with prizes.Hopefully this is going to resolve the problems.Due to all BKR ratings

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harley: Yes The jobs yours.send out 100 invites,and kick out the ones that are over BKR at start of tournament ok

yeh but that would take him ages, especially if he has all games, + players could still go above the suggested rating

THE HIT MAN: You could make it invitation only, so only people you invite can join.

but if they are over your maximum limit then they cant join the tournament

Sence I have had tournaments, I:ve been watching them.I"ve seen ppl sigh in when there is minus time showing left on them.That is going to be very hard for me to control my next tournament.

furbster: I agree, the system should not let you sign up if you are over 1500 (or whatever the limit is) and it should check again when it starts. This should be done automatically.

furbster: yes I"ve seen that to ,but I can"t sigh up

BIG BAD WOLF: I like that way of handling it. If a player is normally just under 1500 and happens to win three games in a row right before the tournament, an automatic system would knock him out even though he may be back under 1500 after three more games.

Bry: Thanks Bry.

I know for any of my "tournament for dummies" for players rated 1500 or below, about a day or so before the tournament starts, I actually go through manually and kick out anyone who is way above 1500. (If someone now has 1525 or something close I usually let them stay - but if it's like 1700, then they are gone.)

But even then, some are unrated and even within hours of it starting they can shot from unrated to 2100.

Bry: Dang..............all this time I thought they just kept you around for your quick finger! You be too smart!

yeh i dont know if it'd be possible, but what about autokicking people out of tourneys who are to high at sign ups? obviosuly not teh unrated players