August Assortment

All welcome to join in.

Jason: better, i think, would it be to group them by game type or time per move

hmm .. i think you already had that in your suggestion as the waiting games are split among the game types as well :)

so you can just ignore this message :)

rod03801: or group them to the person that created them ,like in the waiting games area , you would have to click the link to open all the tournaments a person has created

rod03801: Or possibly each person can only place a maximum of 5 tournaments in waiting tournaments at the same time.

rod03801: I agree. I think it would be easier to just show the (let say) 50 tourtnaments/ponds on one page (and still let people see the tournaments/ponds which start later.

rod03801: yeah. I know there are Tournies there that are not going to start for nearly 2 years. Maybe we sholud ask fencer to put a sensible time limit on it.

How many people may sign up now, and be pawns, or maybe even leave the site by then, that would wreck the tournies too.

Why is it necessary to create tournaments not set to start until the end of 2006???? 557 tournaments??? The whole page won't even load for me. (And what does load takes quite a while to do so..) Thank goodness only a few people have done this, or we could have thousands of tournaments on that page.

Just curious what the answer is.. My first thought is they just like seeing their tournament featured in the little green box on the main page that advertises tournaments to sign up for.. The more you have, the higher the odds of it being yours listed there..

or is there an actual reasonable reason??

your opponent is most likely using auto-vacation

http://brainking.com/en/Help?ht=9

whenever the time runs out it re-sets itself again and my opponent won't play so we can't finish the game! help!!!

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http://brainking.com/game/Tournaments?trg=10365&u=367&trnst=0

bobwhoosta: On the sign up page [of a tournament] there is a warning containing the information about the required number of slots [5 or 10].

I have 5 slots available and would like to know about how many I should have before I run off and take the tournament world by storm. Does it depend on the tourney?

Bry:

Czuch : Most people "really" do not need 21 days, and most people move every day.

It's 21 days because that is "my" choice. There's no need to make issue over the length of the time limit.

If you do not want to join, fine. It will not make any difference. It will still be started.

Czuch Chuckers: 2* 21 ? i wish :)

i get 5*5+13 days per year .... 5 weeks holiday, and 13 special days .. most specials days are fixed already .. but some are left for me to spend, the 5 weeks can be taken in parts as well :)

on holiday i wont be on the internet at all .. even when i can i wont .. it wont be a holiday that way :) .. i often track around in holidays in other countries

again .. i thought i was on the chat board .. end of the week .. i see numbers everywhere :)

Hrqls: I want your life.... taking 2, 21+ day holidays/year! I am lucky to get 5 days together. And rarely am I lucky enough to be somewhere where I cant get internet access to play one move in a backgammon game.

Czuch Chuckers: i like the long time on it so i can still join the tournament although i will be on holiday soon

(i didnt join the last though as 21 days is just too little .. with the weekend days added i could barely make it .. but i dont want to be forced right back to the computer when i get back :))

for rooks it shouldnt matter how long the time limit is .. it isnt a minimum time per move .. so most games are rather fast

there are more tournaments with faster times so they can be used as well ... but there might be more people who cant join such a tournament because of the fast timeouts .. a real championship should give everyone the opportunity to join .. thats why i like the long time per move as well :)

Bry: Does anyone "really" need 21 days to play amove in backgammon? I mean, really? I think you are only encouraging someone to join just to play head games and see how long they can drag the tournament out.....

SilentBob for winning the Pond Finger Pond.

Czuch Chuckers: I cant satisfy everyone. Other than Pawns, I would expect that the majority of top players have been involved at some point.

Bry: Ah, no vacation, that helps some, but its not really a championship without all the best players :) I understand that it doesnt really matter how long it takes, but it is just too frustrating when 1 or 2 people take the full limits to make a move, and its just not worth it.

Czuch Chuckers: All 50 of them have been 21 days - since the changes there are no vacation days allowed either, plus it's my preference.

Bry: Why 21 days? Way too long!

Only..... 7 Days to sign up for the 50th Backgammon Championships.

Click the link below to sign up and view winners of past tournaments.

The biggest and best Backgammon Tournament on Brainking.Com.

Backgammon Championships-No.50

bumble: *nod* sorry forgot on which board i was :)

Hrqls:
Take it to General Chat or personal message please.

galpal: de nada :)

hmm .. what does 'cuentas' mean ?

(did you know the end of the spanish 'occupation' started in alkmaar, my home town! ;))

Pedro Martínez: Aaahhh - hay la vida inteligente aqui a fin de cuentas :)

galpal: Hey, the Netherlands doesn't belong to Spain any more...LOL

mrloupcity: Thanks but I think I will let it ride. And in the future will look at the time limits better. (will make sure I have my glasses on. )

Hrqls: gracias :)

TarantinoFan: There are now tournaments that are set up without those annoying vacation days, and even possible for total time for the whole game.... so as a pawn with limited games and tournaments, I would suggest you only play in tournaments set up like those, or buy a membership :)

diogenes for winning the Fast Hyper Backgammon Tournament

galpal: when you resign that game you will have finished all your games in the tournament .. the tournament itself hasnt finished yet though so you would have to wait for that until you are 'released'

when you resign you wont be able to win the tournament or continue to a next round, so you can ask fencer (politely) in a pm to manually remove you from the tournament so you can join another tournament

(if there is a possibility to move on to a next round or win the tournament, then i dont think you can be removed)

Yea, the automatic vacations can be a great feature - for people who may lose internet access or some other emergancy keeps them from their games, but it does seem that it gets abused more then not.

At some point Fencer plans on putting a limit on how many auto-vacation days can be taken at one time (so for example - only 5 auto-vacations at one time) can be taken - but this is NOT IN PLACE YET since Fencer has had other issues to take care of, but I do believe it is on his 2-do-list.

rod03801: Thanks Rod, I figured as much because there is a limit on how many vacation days you can have and this guy would have had heaps of timeouts and his vacation days would have disappeared in an instant if it was 1 day per game timeout. I guess all I can do is wait and hope that he comes back some time in the next 23 days. :)

No, one day is NOT taken away for each game that would have timed out.

I'm not sure I have the best way to explain how it works though. (I understand, but not sure I would put it into the best words.) BBW is good at explaining this stuff..

Basically it saves any game from timing out, 24 hours from the time the first one would have... 24 hours from then, if you are still timing out, another day is taken to cover the next day.

So, if I have 100 games going.. and i have 10 of those games about to time out today, all 10 games will remain safe, and I will lose 1 vacation day.

Feels GOOD to know I don't stand here ALL alone - thanks !!

galpal: .....when they do it's as if they have given me a gift or something...

I know exactly how you feel!!!!!!!

Purple: baddessi
Thankyou both for your help. I just had a browse through their started games and it seems that everyone in the whole tournament has been left hanging as well. They haven't logged on to the site for 5 days so I guess we will just have to wait and see.

TarantinoFan: Happy waiting, and waiting, and waiting.....zzzzzzzzz.....I know I am but a lowly pawn but I, too, am in my first tournie and don't even expect certain players to move anymore and when they do it's as if they have given me a gift or something...Does anyone know if I resign from my present (pretty much stagnant) tournie, can I get off the tournie-players list and go find one that people may actually move more than once a week? Much thanks :o)

Purple: I understand your frustruation. I like it for the times like when I was unable to log on due to cable access trouble in my area because of some construction going on, so it did enable me to keep some of my games going. But I know some people abuse it, and that's frustruating for everyone, especially a pawn who had limits on tournaments.
But as a result of my using autovacation to prevent timeouts, my vacation days are used up- so I have to think that it's one vacation day for every game it's used on. So opponents shouldn't be able to keep prolonging the games with it. They will time out if they don't move the game I think.

I hope this answers your question Tarantino Fan, you can read the section about autovaction in the help menu

baddessi: Not really but I have had a person get a new 24 hours up to three times. Never more than that but it doesn't mean it's not possible. Three is three too many. LOL

Purple: hi purple- can you explain how it works better than me? Any help would be greatly appriciated : )

TarantinoFan: To me that's the most hideous feature on Brainking.

TarantinoFan: hmmmmmmmmmmm......good question. I believe it uses a day for every game missed, but I could be wrong about that- anyone else out there know how to explain this better?
Sometimes, paying members have many games going at once, and it's hard to keep up, but if you send them a PM and ask them to move, most times they will. It certainly can't hurt to ask.

baddessi: I don't understand exactly how that works but I went and had a look. They have 23 days left so does that mean that I could be waiting for the next 23 days or should I divide that by four or more ie: does he lose a day for every game he misses or does he only lose one day at a time?

TarantinoFan: they are using a feature called "automatic vacation"

I am in my first ever tourney

ALL games for dummies (under 1500 & unrated) #10

and one player has not made a single move. My main page keeps telling me that they will run out of time but every time they do it resets and gives them another day! Why??

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