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1. February 2006, 11:58:12
Fencer 
Subject: Re: Single Elimination Tournament pairings
playBunny: It will be added.

1. February 2006, 11:56:33
playBunny 
Subject: Re: Single Elimination Tournament pairings
Fencer: "The latter (two halfs and pairing)."

Excellent.

(Perhaps that snippet of info could be added to the Help text, just for completeness?)

1. February 2006, 11:52:50
Fencer 
Subject: Re: Find tournaments:
Eriisa: Nope. It's my fault, a small bug in the counter table.
But if you search the keyword "single", your tournament will be found.

1. February 2006, 11:49:35
Eriisa 
Subject: Find tournaments:
When I try to find tourney of 'Single Elimination' It says there are none.

I created 'Single Elimination Back' and that does not show on the search. (trg=13429)

Are we doing something wrong in the creation?

1. February 2006, 11:46:33
Luke Skywalker 
Subject: brains
combining data from the brains and the paid membership pages:
- I could pay 18 euro for a year brain knight
or
- I pay 18 euro to get 540 brains, 500 of which I use for a year of brain knight and still have 40 brains

1. February 2006, 11:45:22
Chicago Bulls 
Modified by Chicago Bulls (1. February 2006, 11:47:33)
Now i'm not confused and here is how it is:


Probability of getting nothing for free = 25%
Probability of getting EXACTLY 6 months for free = 50%
Probability of getting 1 year for free = 25%


Probability of getting nothing for free = 25%
Probability of getting AT LEAST 6 months for free = 50%
Probability of getting 1 year for free = 25%

I was refering to AT LEAST while you at EXACTLY 6 months....

1. February 2006, 11:43:01
Chicago Bulls 
Actually you might be right and i'm a bit confused right now....

1. February 2006, 11:40:55
Fencer 
Subject: Re:
playBunny: The latter (two halfs and pairing).

1. February 2006, 11:40:45
Chicago Bulls 
Subject: Re:
pauloaguia: Nope.....

1. February 2006, 11:37:51
pauloaguia 
Subject: Re:
Pythagoras: I believe on your second method the odds are more like:
Probability of getting nothing for free = 25%
Probability of getting 6 months for free = 50%
Probability of getting 1 year for free = 25%

1. February 2006, 11:33:33
Chicago Bulls 
Modified by Chicago Bulls (1. February 2006, 11:49:51)
Also what do you mean there by: "a two year membership payment makes a good change to get the whole year for free"?

I don't mean that you should have changed the "change" with "chance" (a thing that you should do) i mean the following question:

There is not any 2 year membership available as i see! Only for ½ year or 1 year!
If you mean buying 2 one year memberships at the same time, then i have another strategy:

1)Buying 2 one year memberships at the same time:
Current COST = 2·28 = 56 €
New COST = 2·30 = 60 €
Probability of getting 1 year for free = 50 %
Probability of getting AT LEAST 6 months for free = 50 %
Probability of getting EXACTLY 6 months for free = 0 %


2)Buying 1 one year membership now and the other day another one:
Current COST = 2·28 = 56 €
New COST = 2·30 = 60 €
Probability of getting AT LEAST 6 months for free = 75%
Probability of getting 1 year for free = 25%
Probability of getting EXACTLY 6 months for free = 50%


So what we have is that buying with the second method 2 years, you get 75% of having at least 6 months for free or even 25% for 1 year for free. While with "your" proposed way we have 50% for 1 year for free but if we don't suceed we get nothing more....

I would choose my proposed way as i prefer better chances than better prizes, if actually you will allow the BONUS to be valid this way....According to the aforementioned rules for the bonus, my way is 100% legal.....

1. February 2006, 11:26:37
playBunny 
Fencer: In the Single Elimination Tournaments are the pairings done by taking every two BKRs (ie the top and 2nd, the 3rd and 4th, etc..) or by folding the top half onto the bottom half (eg, in a 8-player tourney, the 1st and 5th, 2nd and 6th, etc)?

1. February 2006, 11:25:43
oldhamgirl 
I have just renewed my membership and got 6 extra months, thanks

1. February 2006, 11:22:41
Fencer 
Subject: Re:
Pythagoras: Precisely.

1. February 2006, 11:17:34
Chicago Bulls 
I did just now..... So Plaintiger renewed his membership for 1 year and been lucky enough to be at the good-50% winning another 6 months, right.....?

1. February 2006, 11:10:54
Fencer 
Subject: Re: First winner
Pythagoras: RTSN!
Which means "Read The Server News".

1. February 2006, 11:08:09
Chicago Bulls 
Subject: Re: First winner
Fencer: What is "membership bonus".....? And how Plaintiger won it....?

1. February 2006, 10:10:42
plaintiger 
Subject: Re: First winner
Fencer: yay, me! thanks, Filip! :)

i will say that now that i understand the new prize with an entry fee tournament model, i discover i would have liked winning those 200 brains as well! that kind of tournament sounds like fun! :)

very cool improvements about the place, sir. and thanks again for the bonus! :)

1. February 2006, 09:44:27
Fencer 
Subject: First winner
Congratulations to plaintiger for being the first one who won the membership bonus. He's been given 6 free months of the Brain Rook level.

30. January 2006, 05:40:47
Vikings 
Subject: Re:
Salkkuman: Pond games with negative numbers will cycle at aprox. 5 mins. after the hour

29. January 2006, 23:55:56
Czuch 
not more than 1 hour, i think.

29. January 2006, 23:49:56
dameningen 
Modified by dameningen (29. January 2006, 23:55:43)
How big can the time out or pond time be in negative, normally? I got now -42 min in Pond. I would like to go sleep put i have to move in that first .

29. January 2006, 21:11:31
playBunny 
Subject: Re: Strange action reporting
Stevie: It does look something like that - the profile info's fallen behind again...

Profile: JMDLOVESNirvana
Last action: 29. January 2006, 20:05:25 - viewing profile (Andre Faria)

Posted in the Flame Pit:
JMDLOVESNirvana (hide) Re: [something or other] 29. January 2006, 20:08:50
Blah, blah...

29. January 2006, 21:05:43
Stevie 
Subject: Re: Strange action reporting
Stevie: and then after it turns an hour,, he shows oonline again now... was it the site hourly catchup script that put it right?

29. January 2006, 21:03:57
Stevie 
Subject: Re: Strange action reporting
playBunny: and he has made at least 6 posts in between 19:39 and 20:00

this is what i see with many players at times

29. January 2006, 21:02:36
playBunny 
Subject: Re: Strange action reporting
Stevie: Yes, I can confirm that.

Profile: JMDLOVESNirvana
Last action: 29. January 2006, 19:39:33 - browsing main page

Posted in the Flame Pit:
JMDLOVESNirvana (hide) Re: 29. January 2006, 19:56:00
"Blah, blah..."

Both of the above were copied at 20:00 and the profile information is clearly out of synch.

29. January 2006, 19:21:15
Stevie 
Subject: Re:
harley: what ive seen is even after that Harley,, they will go to another board and post and still not show..

But anyways.. as soon as the person submits th epost, then surely at that point, it should then update the list?

29. January 2006, 17:01:57
harley 
If they're writing a long post on a board, it might show them as being offline (they drop off the list) because they haven't changed a page for a while, they've been incative, even though they may be typing or doing something else. But as soon as they hit 'send' it should show them as being on that board again. I haven't noticed anything wrong with my friends list lately.

29. January 2006, 15:27:56
Stevie 
Subject: Re:
Tuesday: I know, thats after about 10 or 15 minutes.. That should then correct if they come back on or move etc etc..

When it does this,, i will look at a new post on a board and find someone is online.. and th efriend list etc will still say they are no etc

29. January 2006, 14:16:43
Stevie 
Subject: Re:
Fencer: yeah that page and the list on main page..
Youll think your friend has signed out or just shut window.. then they will post on a board fo rexample, and if you check th efriend page or list, they still say something they were doing a whiole ago, or the main page list still doesnt even show them online as if the 1o or 15 minutes time has passed that says they have been inactive..
Im not the only person who has had this

29. January 2006, 14:08:41
Fencer 
Subject: Re:
Stevie: If you mean the Friends page, it is correct. It simply shows last actions of your friends, no matter when it happened.

29. January 2006, 14:03:47
Stevie 
Subject: Re:
Fencer: the friends list is all out of sync a lot of times,, you can have someone post on a board etc and it will still be showing them as doing something 5, 10 , 12, 15 minutes ago sort of thing.. I havent noticed any common factor yet cos when it happens, its as if all the friends list freezes compared to what they are doing on the site.. it gets back into shape by itself.. i dont know if that corresponds with the hourly site cathup script etc that checks tournys ready to start etc etc

29. January 2006, 13:59:19
Fencer 
Subject: Re:
Stevie: What is not working right?

29. January 2006, 13:56:14
Stevie 
so I take it that the fact the friends list isnt working right doesnt matter then?
Either that or Plaintiger has a knack of asking questions etc in a better way than some of us lol

29. January 2006, 11:10:53
plaintiger 
Subject: Re:
Tuesday: right - that's what i mean about being idle.

Fencer: cool. i like that. you really think of a lot of great little touches. :)

29. January 2006, 08:22:42
Fencer 
Subject: Re:
plaintiger: Yes, it's exactly as you write.

29. January 2006, 04:58:57
plaintiger 
i notice the order in which people appear in my "friends online" list changes from one page refresh to the next. this correlates with their activity, huh? people are moved to the top of the list every time they perform an action on the site?

it seems that way because people always seem to move to the bottom of the list just before they disappear, which i figure is the five minutes between the time they perform their last action and the time they show having logged off or gone idle.

28. January 2006, 17:04:13
harley 
You could get some tips at the chess variants board for anti-chess (among others);

http://brainking.com/en/Board?bc=6

and the chess discussion board;

http://brainking.com/en/Board?bc=5

28. January 2006, 14:14:50
furbster 
i suck at both Tuesday lol

28. January 2006, 11:59:48
Expired 
Subject: Re:
Matarilevich: Now that's some logical point of view ....

28. January 2006, 11:28:47
Kili 
Subject: Re:
Tuesday: You can excel at anti-chess (and chess too, why not) but having not knowledge about chess is not a help for playing well antichess. There isn´t a logic relation between "i am bad at <gameX>" -> "i am good at "anti<gameX>" This implication is false (generally) It´s just a matter of practice. I´m sure you could play very well, play and learn.

26. January 2006, 19:17:00
Stevie 
Subject: whats wrong with the friends list
for months now, ive noticed the friends list on main page etc, and friends list will show people doing something 10 minutes or so ago, or even show they are not online, and still says that even though they may have just posted on a board etc....
I did bring this up ages ago, but nowt was said.. others have noticed this recently also

26. January 2006, 18:18:35
Fencer 
Subject: Re: Statistics
estanto: Not a bad idea.

26. January 2006, 18:16:01
ghardh 
Subject: Statistics
I've noticed, that the list of the best players regarding the sum of their established ratings is calculated including games in which the player has been inactive during the last 6 months.
Is that really intended? Wouldn't it be better to exclude such games (as done for the game specific lists of best players)?

I would also wonder, whether Pools should count for this list.

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