Like yours??
Probably cos he got noone sign up for it, he may off if it wasnt so close to Linda s one being up

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Why do you keep deleting UNIVERSAL EYES and my Father MASTERMIND from the Tournament.I think i deserve an explanation,I will send Rose the Money ahead of time to create the biggest Prize Tournament on BK AND WILL MAKE SURE THERE IS NO DONATIONS FOR THE TOURNAMENT,Because as i explained it will be paid for by me in advance,regard less how many People join it will be a Garanted Prize.Money up front to Fencer,that is how you help the best Game site on the net.I deserve an explanation,and am waiting for it!!!

i think you have the two tournaments mixed up universal , the two year rook membership one is free to enter (i do believe )

Hi Jason, I think his point is he keeps entering himself an his dad in to it but LJ keeps removing him from it. He just wants to know why

Hi Jason and Rose.Rose has it correct,Thanks Rose for clearifying that point for me!

I too had signed up.. but then my name vanished.... (i am sure?)

Hmmmm Must be a pick an chose tourney. Only wants a certain select few. If that IS the case he shoulda just sent out special invites to the ones he wants in it!

Aw, chattyrats! I'd hold a prize tournament just for you if I could. Only you would be allowed to enter.

Knowing you, you'd still manage to lose though! lol

LJ: 2 years ROOK membership is a very generous prize to donate, BUT a couple of questions.

You have it set the tourny for a minimum of 16, but state it will only be a Prize tourny if you get 200 plus players, then it will return to a normal tourny. Personally i think that the only reason there are 71 at present is because it is such a good prize, and alot would lose interest if it was only a normal one (being 2 games switched as well). Players need more time, as there is so much going on at present.

Also you have set it for closing date March 31st.
You are on vacation at the end of March and all of April.
Is there a reason for March 31st ??
Why not give players (pawns & Knights) that extra time (a month) to make room to join ??

Note: There is a chance that BK 2.0 may be ready by then, in which case Fencer will of course inform everyone and all Tournaments will have to be started a.s.a.p.

Longjohn It has been asked many times. Why are you taking certain players out of the tourney? Do you have your favs or dont want high rated players or what? You've taken out lots of ppl with no explanation as to why you are doing this.

I did not mention there was anything wrong with it at all LJ, i asked a couple of questions.

For this i have been put on LJ's enemy list (like i am worried) AND i have removed myself from your tournament LJ.
The way i see it Rose is LJ has no intention of giving the prize or running it as a prize tournament, why else keep removing people who want to play ?
He will not let it get anywhere near 200, not that it has a hope the way its going LOL.

As for BK 2.0, i wont comment on it :o)

long john ... as i belive its not a nice thing to do , to use your position as tournament creator to remove people you dont seem to like for one reason or another ....i have removed myself from your tournament . another reason for this is the fact that you have edited the description WHICH I THINK SHOULD NOT HAPPEN ..

Fencer has always said it is up to the tournament creator to remove and run their own tournament how they like.

your right!LOL:)
Jason has the right idea...just drop out..it probably wont happen anyway.

WELL AS I BELIEVE ONCE ITS A PRIZE ONE IT SHOULD STAY A PRIZE ONE , NOT TO DECIDE AT A LATER DATE TO CHANGE THE RULES

... but I also agree with you Jason that such an IMPORTANT edit to the tournament description is wrong - not this late into the tournament.

There are probable already knights & pawns entered in the tournament, and now that they are signed up will not look at the description again. Then there are going to be stuck in a long tournament (2 games per player) without the prize they thought would be there.

good point! they can only be in one tourny.

LJ NO IDEA why you refer to someone as my HUBBY as My husband does not play here AND FYI To anyone I never DID JOIN YOUR TOURNEY AND NEVER WANTED TO. it isnt ME you are deleting its other innocents.
If you even understood the question put to you, you wouldnt have said I was trying to cause trouble. PUT in your tourneys that it is for certain ppl only. DONT let people think it is an open tourney when it clearly isnt. IT is a tourney put on by you for a select group only. Perhaps your reasoning is you dont want certain ppl to win and get the membership. Be more specific on your tourneys but by removing innocent ppl you are only making your self look worse then you already do the a vast majority of the site now.

that kinda looks like an attack...cant we play nice together? hmmmmmmmm? there are children watching you know! what ever will they think? LMAO

bwild you should change your name to "The last dig"

LOL muah!!

If you would like to be in a Prize Tournament where the only games being played are backgammon and prizes are guaranteed
You still have time to enter this tournament. There is a $5 donation which will go to brainking to enter. Prizes are $50 to the overall tournament winner and a 6 month brain knight membership to each section winner(s).
You can enter the BK Fund Raiser Prize Tournament and make your donation HERE
Thanks to all that enter and lots "O" luck.

Calling all Gammon players, its time for the next Madmonkeys 'Gammon' Stakes (3) tourny :o)

ALSO

For all the sailors out there, join in Madmonkeys 'Boat Battle' (2) tourny :o)

Removed me as well I see. Oh well I will not lose sleep over it.

I hope I don't offend anyone with my decision to remove LJ from this tournament. I'm really bothered by what I've read below with people being removed from his tournament. It might seem inconsistent then that I've removed him from mine but, I tried to PM him about my concerns and see that I am on his enemy's list. Odd. I've not said anything to him to warrent that. So, since he has prevented me from discussing this with him, and since there are some who have entered my tournament with whom he has ongoing issues, I have to question his motive in entering the tournament in the first place. Therefore in the interest of others and in the interest of keeping this tournament fun for all, I have removed him. I hope in doing so, and by stating my reasons, I have not offended anyone.

Bumble, if this post is innappropriate for this forum, let me know and I'll delete it. But I wanted others to know what I did so there can be no spin on my motives.

Dano has died, was reincarnated, and came back speaking English.

My friend,Danoschek...is alive and well and speaks English bettr than I speak German!

wheres yours?

calling all reversi players #2 fast games for fast players :)

but... My take is this. MadMonkey hit it on the head with 'no intentions of offering prize', and when the roar came to drop out, it was started before the snowball hit. (I knew it was no longer up for signup before his post, as I had just gone to remove myself. A wasted effort, it appears, as I seem to have been among those spared the need -- probably because I'm 'just too slow') Now those pawns and knights previously mentioned are henceforth stuck, with the only means of removal being Fencer. Whether or not in the end he decides to do so, Fencer really doesn't have time for all that, so the utlimate goal of harm to the site has been reached, regardless.

WOW....what a lots of posts have been deleted....makes the posts read like nonsense...Isnt there something you can do bumble?

Molly just asked me about lots of backgammon games that have appeared on her main page and the games have NO TOURNAMENT name...she asked did i have anything running....I told her no and I would check for her....
if you look very closely there is a teeny weeny live spot link....the Organiser of all these games appears to be someone we all know.

did someone speak??

Which one, children?

Bernice: ..'there seem to be a lot of posts deleted...'

Not by me, Bernice. I haven't deleted anything for a while. A quick look at the posts here and it seems to me that there's nothing that needs deleting.
Some of you have a problem with one of LongJohn's tournaments.
The fact remains, whatever the morality of the situation, it is LongJohn's tournament - he is the creator and can control it as he likes.

AD: it's not necessary to remove your post. :-)

Edited...deleted...waste of time :)

*** i was going to edit/delete this and decided against it because i believe (maybe wrongly)that this is absolutely ON TOPIC*** and should be addressed by management:)
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you say they are (his) tournaments...of course they are....
but to offer prizes, get people in under false pretenses and then launch it with no offer of a prize is surely unethical.

4 tournaments that I know of have offered prizes and if you look at them running or whatever you wont see too much...
(1) backgammon race - prize offered 50 brains
(2) backgammon 6 months membership
(3) backgammon THE LARGEST PRIZE etc etc
(4) the $10,000 that never got past the first day

this is false advertising and very unethical, and should be controlled.....

When prizes are offered (by ANYONE) they should be paid up front before the tournament is even opened to the public....that way people can see that it is genuine.

This is happeneing far too much on here and it is giving a bad name on other game sites...all are talking :(

Has Backgammon PRIZE TOURNEY (2 YEAR ROOK MEMBERSHIP)started or was it deleted?

mrloupcity: A Clint Eastwood-type tournament has just started - ie the tournament with no name. I think that may well be it.

Bernice: Why should I delete that? It's on topic and you express an honest opinion.

I happen to agree with you that Prize tournaments should be paid for 'up front'.

yes he has started it also changed the time limit to 30 days .

now the problem is that there may be some people who went into this tournament because of the (SUPPOZED) two year rook membership offerd . now the re are people stuck in there without anything offerd in a tournament that will last forever . .......
if there are some of you stuck in the tournament (pawns or nights ) and would like to go into lindas tournament message me and im willing to pay a few of you in .. just delete your games in that tournament before you do any moves and your ratings wont be affected ....
BY THE WAY THIS IS A GENUINE OFFER TO ANY ONE THAT HAS BEEN AFFECTED by the running of this so called tournament . (obvoisly i will have to limit the amount of people i can pay for)

I think something has to be done about the posting of Prize tournaments.
That is 2 tournaments in 1 week that have been advertised as offering prizes and deleted.
One of the tournaments by GI offering a large ammount money, but had no one sign up, AND also LJ's 2 year Rook membership one, which was causing enough problems anyway as it was intended to do (mainly for pawns & Knights).

My thoughts are that if someone wants to organise a Prize one they should write to Fencer first to get permission OR when a Prize tounament is set (by ticking the box in the set up page) then that tournament should have to approved by Fencer before it will post (could be incorperated in BK 2.0).

Until this situation is sorted i suggest removing the Prize box from the set up page. This way, only Fencer himself can make it show as a Prize tournament by manually hi-lighting it himself, after being asked to do so. I can not see many more being set at the moment anyway and hopefully a better solution can be found in the future and stop all this hassle.

Fencer has stated that the only official BK Prize tournaments will be created by himself anyway (or have his backing).

Jason, you can't delete tournament games, but pawns can still enter Linda's tourney even if they're in others. All they need to do is message Linda and say they want to join.

Thanks Jason that's very generous of you. Thanks

why cant you , there will be a delete button before two moves are made i do believe , if they deleted all games in thier section it would not harn anyone still playing .
(edit) unless im wrong that is .

Jason, I don't think you can delete tournament games.

I think Jason means resign them not delete