Head games.... yeah I can see the scheme-ing look in his face in his piccy now too LOL

LOL Stevie...

Well Harley, there may be no rules against it, yet, but I think by purposly not moving in games that would have normally timed out had it not been for the timer to be defused is no example for anyones game playing (except maybe 'head games')

Yeah, awkard bugger those rules eh, and those that use it to be awkward buggers too LOL

LOL Steve!! BUT what?! BUT, he plays within the rules?! ;oD

captains should lead by example, gawd help us if they follow suit LMAO

I know that, IMupChucKing! I'm just saying his speed of play is unimportant to me. I only commented at all because Steve started with "Kevin as captain...". Since I made him captain I felt obliged to reply!

Yes upchuck thats what I menat, he may be a good captain with motivation etc ....BUT

LOL @ BRY.... ver here, to 'plug' someone is a sexual inuendo :)

Harley... I think Steve was commenting on his speed of play, not his suitability as a captain....

Anyone wishing to join a team for 5-in-line, we need players in Monkeys Swinging Madhouse! I'll join the tournament as soon as I have the numbers.

Sorry Stevie, I didn't see anywhere that said captains must play at least X amount of moves per day! Kevin is an excellent captain, he motivates people to play and is a very polite and kind person. Thats all that matters to me.

LOL Stevie....

Kevin is captain......if he plays , that tourny will be one of those 3 year ones :o(

i'd plug Musiclover too.... she's a lot better than her BKR suggests...... I know from the old IYT days..... and here.. believe me!!

Thanks IMupChucKing for the plug.

I know musiclover, who mostly plays 5 inline, is interested in playing as well, if anybody want another player...

Cheers, Harley......

If you're interested, Bry, just contact Kevin, the captain :oD

We do we do!!! HOME team needs another player!

I'm not in a Five-in-a-Line team in the up-coming "Team" tourney. If anyone out there needs an Average player to make the numbers up, i'd be happy to join... please let me know.....

How about crushed by 1000 players?!

Well, Jason - my Bud - had to laugh at ur 1day/30 day Jibe at LongJohn - class.

Re: Time limits..... I play here everyday (other than when I am not at home) and have usually 250+ games on the go. I only choose to play long-timed games so there is no effect if I lose my service on AOL for a bit, or BK crashes. When BK1.0 crashed a few times last year, did loads of you lose games on Timeout???? and have to apply for them to be re-instated??? I didn't.....

If you ask other regular players who enter the tournaments (usually Rooks - so they have the capacity to play enough games without having to waiting for others to move), such as Arpa, Jason, Ms Delete, Hannelore, Vikings etc,,,,,, they regularily enter long timed games (such as the ones I create) and they are finished well within 3 years or so like others calculate. I have ran 30+ Five in a Line tourneys with the time limits as 21 days and if you look at the last one that is running, (where the winners are stated) there have been loads completed so far.

Anyway, what I am trying to say is that if you have enough games going, and you are not making moves on here for 8 hours + per day, you have enough moves to make before you log off without worrying about anyone on vacation or has not moved for a while.....

Comments welcome..... ;0)

Got anything for those of us that get crushed by 1200 players? :o)

lol, well us 2000-2250ish players are getting crushed by the 2300-2600 players so just made something up for us :)

2300 is mid-level? Good grief. I humbly decline. Oh, wait I have no choice, I'm too low.
:)

Tired of getting down by the big guys ??? This tournament is for those of us rated between 1800 and 2300 to practice vs people of our own level !!! Small sections , 3 days per move. Good luck !!!!

Re cariad's problem earlier.
If you look at A WHAM BAM's results in the team tournament backgammon you'll notice that they're still not registering in the total score.
One player timed-out on 4 of his 5 games. 3 of these are still to register on the score.

I like: "Fangs a lot" :)

maybe for the next one hehehe

Hi everyone, in order to celebrate my new rook status, I created an Atomic tournament called the Inaugural Atomic Tourney..i know, i know, it's not original or iconoclastic...anyway, I hope you can join if interested.

How about arachnid 4?

I don't know about this site but on another site I have a game that will be 3 yrs old in October
Would be interesting to see what is the longest running game here :-)

Oops, a small bug in timeout checker.
It should be okay now.

Sir! Please Fencer Sir!

A player from A WHAM BAM has timed out in all his backgammon games in the first team tourney but they're not registering either in the grid table or in the total.

What is the record here for the longest overall time to play a game ?

ha, i tried that on one of longjohns 1 day ...oops change that to 30 days , tournament and lost loads of bkr ,only works for normal games .

You cannot cancel a tournament game.

Under two moves total or two moves each?
Didnt there used to be a cancel link too, for games under so many moves?

Fencer.... how about Spider Line 4 1st team tournament? :)

just resign them.
If they are under 2 moves the bkr is unaffected I think.
You are now a rook, so once your games are ended, you dont necesarily need to be removed because you are not restricted by knight type restrictions

Ha! That's a nice one :-) Thanks bumble.

Spider Line 4.

How about Arachnophobia? The quality of some of the players here have made me scared to play it. :o)

Yes, if you resign all games or if it's obvious you cannot continue to the next round, I can release you.

Thanks Red Dragon....
I just found another person in my draw, Cardinal, who has played one move, and he is on vacation, and is due to time out on September 2nd!!!! Thats 2 months from the start date of the tournament.


What are the consequences for resigning these games? Do I lose BKR? Since so moves made already?

If I resign them can I be removed Fencer?

Also please hurry up and impliment the no vacation rule for tournaments, thanks :)

IMupChucKing, Stinger has just returned from a vacation.
He is probably catching up with his games now and I presume your game with him is way down on his game sheet due to the length of time per move.
I have played him many times and he is a fast player.

Does anybody have a good name for Spider Line4 team tournament? :-D

IMupChucKing: You cannot be removed from a running tournament.

Thanks for the help Kevin...
But the last move was already 20 days ago, and now is at 36 left, thats 56 days, and I looked at his profile and he is not on vacation either!!

21 days = 3 weeks. Each week has 2 days off, which really makes it 27 days. It is possible to have 10 days off (5 weeks of days off) during that 21 days, which will take it to 31. The only way it should be at 36 should be either site holidays or vacation days.

But I dont even see any vacation days... I dont know why or how there are so many days ...

First: 21 days is too long. What were you thinking joining the tournament? lol. Mind you I did once as well without thinking.

Second: I think we have too many 'vacation' days. Surely we don't need to take vacation from the site every time we want to take some time off work. In fact I would often play more during that time. I only use vacation days in extreme cases where I am going somewhere with no internet connection.

Now I am really confused.... LOL no comments BBW... :)

I just looked again, and of the two games with Stinger, the one with zero moves is at 26 plus days, and the other one, which has only had me make the initial pass of the dice, which i did on the first day, is at over 36 days left to move!!!!!

Why the differences? 56 days with only a pass of the dice as a move? How does it happen? I do not see any vacation days for Stinger either... What am I missing here?