For new team tournaments, here are some tournaments I would like to see:

Crowded Backgammon - A popular Gammon game, maybe 5-7 players per team. Need to get this one going since after this starts, we should be ready for out 2nd regular Backgammon team tournament (with 1 game left to complete) [name suggestion: Don't stand so close gammon]

Halma 8x8 - Not to popular, would not make it more then 4-5 players per team.

Anti Froglet - Some-what popular, could probable get enough team even with 5-6 players per team. [name suggestion: The Croaking Frog]

Halma 10x10 - Would stick with 4-5 players per team.

Line4 - It's an easy game which more "non-regular" players may play - probable could handle 5-6 players per team.

Again, just a few of my suggestions! :-)

It's a way to spread out the highest ranked players. I'll explain it this way which should make a little more since. (Example using 4 sections)

So first put the highest ranked player in section #1,
2nd highest in Section #2,
3rd highest in Section #3
4th highest in Section #4

At this point you start to go backwards.

5th highest in Section #4,
6th highest in Section #3,
7th highest in Section #2,
8th highest in Section #1,

... and again, in the other direction.

9th highest in Section #1
10th highest in Section #2
11th highest in Section #3
12th highest in Section #4
... and so on.

Hopefully that will make more since seeing it when it applies to more section. With only 2 sections, it does look a little strange.

First group:
highest ranked
4th highest
5th higest
8th highest

Second Group:
2nd highest ranked
3rd highest
6th highest
7th highest

Fencer - for the 3 or so Team Tournament which do not have enough teams, what will happen to those?

I was looking through the team tournaments, and I seen 3 tournaments which will not have enough teams to start.

Those tournaments of less-popular games are:

Gothic Chess

Cylinder Chess

Parachute Checkers

If you are able to play in team tournaments, and any of those games look interesting to you - Check with your fellowships to teams to join, or join a new fellowship looking for team members.

Here are a few fellowships that I know of that are looking for players for these tournaments:

HOME Fellowship - I know looking for both Cylinder Chess & Gothic Chess

Monkey Madhouse - Looking for players for all 3 games

The Zoo - Also looking for players for all 3 games.

If other fellowship are looking, please let us know. If you are a player, feel free to join. Hopefully we can get enough teams to start these tournaments!

but the thing is, even without auto vacation, that same person can hold up the tournament for over a month.

Steve - you can keep on complaing about an option which is abused by a few, but the truth is that it can help the majority. If we get rid of everything that can be abused by a few, then why even have a game site if people are just going to abuse it? Maybe we should just get rid of BrainKing.com?

It's only hurting you if you let it bother you.

grenv - well he is only hurting himself - if you have a choice to lose now or lose later, it is much beter for your ratings to lose now, then to wait until later. (At least that is what I have been told - have not done the math yet) :-)

But Stevie - if they did not have the auto vacation set up, they could as easly set the days manually.

It's not like the system adds more vacation days, just uses the ones currently given to all users.

exactly Stevie - and with auto vacations set, it will be a welcome result once things do settle down that when they get back on-line, their games will still be here waiting for them.

I like the idea of auto vacations since they can be great when emergencies arrise. Brothers in the hostpital, wife goes into labor, house burns down and takes computer with it, etc.... When things like this comes up, it is nice to not have to think "oh no, I beter got to an internet game site and set vacations".

Of course some users will abuse it, but people also abused the last way also - so I like this new feature.

It's a 3 win match, so if that is timed out, a third game will start. No BKR/ratings are calculated until someone gets the 3 win's.

For Knights & Rooks, there are currently 8 team tournaments to sign up for.

Those games are:

Battleboats Plus

Jungle

Nackgammon

Parachute Checkers

Tablut

Cylinder Chess

Gothic Chess

Expionage

If you are a player and you would like to play in one of these tournaments, take a look & Post that you want to play on the Fellowships Discussion board - Where there are many fellowships currently looking for players to play in these tournaments.

If you don't know how to play one of these games, but possible would like to try? Then check out the current tournaments I have which are for players rated 1500 or under, or UNRATED or NEW to the game! Almost all the team tournament games can be found there:

Link to Tournament #1 (original games)

Link to Tournament #2 (9 New Games)

As a side note about those tournament, a game type has to have AT LEAST 4 players to start - and a few including some of the current team tournament games do not have enought. So PLEASE take a look if you are interested in some more practice, or want to try a new game!

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First, just about 8 hours to go until the Fast Start Backgammon #500 will start, with NO LIMIT on the number of people. Already 41 people signed up, so it will be a GREAT backgammon tournament.

SIGN UP HERE


All games for dummies will start in about 6 days. This includes almost every game that in on this site. It is limited to players rated 1500 or below - which is GREAT for learning new games, or playing in games you like - but just not an expert at. UNRATED PLAYERS are also welcomed - great way to learn a new game, plus earn rating points. Each game needs at least 4 players in it to start. ALSO, before the tournament starts - I will be remove any players who are now way over the limit of 1500 - so if you sign up and see a player with a high rating in there, don't worry, I will remove them before the start of the game.

Original Game signup HERE

9 New games signup HERE

Good luck to all

In your profile, you can show "all" tournaments that you have entered (by clicking more, you will see them all)

Then I just simple copy the list of all the tournaments and paste it into an Excel spreadsheet which then I can quickly look how many rows/tournaments I have entered.

Looking at yours ughaibu, I see you have entered 148 tournaments! :-)

500 Fast Start Backgammon Tournaments
500 Fast Start Backgammon Tournaments
500 Fast Start Backgammon Tournaments

To celebrate the 500th "Fast Start" Backgammon tournament, I've created a special #500 tournament which will have signups available for 2 days, and UNLIMITED number of players.

I did this with the 300th Backgammon tournament, and 23 people signed up. Lets see if we can get more then that for the 500th Fast Start Backgammon tournament. (and don't worry, #501 will be back to normal. :-)

Signup's open for less then 2 days

Unlimited amount of players

SIGN UP HERE - SIGN UP HERE - SIGN UP HERE

Quote from IMCK below: "...and since BBW signs up when he creates them, there are only 4 other slots open..."

That to me sound like you thought I sign up for most of my own tournanemnts - which is wrong, like I said, about 8%.

About 33% of my tournament wins are from my own fast start tournaments. That is a fact, and I'm happy to tell people that. Again, I was not brafing about myself, still don't know how you see that. I have no intention to say anything when I get to 100 tournament wins, or 2000 games won, or any of those milestones.

I mean I know you are unsecure with yourself and it makes you feel beter by trying to put other peoples acheivements down, but it only makes yourself look bad. Please don't take this the wrong way, but have you even seen profesional help? I can help set something up if you want - of course you can contact me in private to help you save a little face with your fellow gamers.

Um, I'm not sure what you were reading but apparently it's not this board.

My post was to congratulate someone who hit a milestone - 100 wins. I posted that I was right behind them, but by no means was it meant to brag on myself and my win total - which is less then 1/2 the #1 tournament winner. PLUS maybe you did not know, this is not a hidden stat or anything - you can see who has what tournament wins HERE

Then you start to say how I enter all my fast start tournament, which I corrected you to say it was only about 8% of them that I enter. You then try to say how I only play lower ranked players, but again corrected you to let you know that I almost always enter my own fast start tournament as the first person signed up.

Then you keep on debating how some of the tournaments I have won was against lower ranked players. While no one is debating this fact with you, you keep debating it. Are you upset I got tired of all your political lies and won't debate politics with you anymore? So you just have to find something else?

Truce? I will defend myself anytimg I feel I need to. If you want a truce, then shut up and quit talking about me. very simple, but i'm sure you can't do that.

Still debating yourself.

As you may not know, the #1 of the fast tournament of new games were intruduced when players had no ratings - so at the time that tournament started, I was playing against all equal players!

What is funny is that next month, IMCK will complain about people who will not play lower ranking players since the higher player has more to lose against lower ranked players. Truce? If you would just keep your mouth to yourself in the first place, we wouldn't have a problem!

You know it's sad when no one else cares, and IMCK starts to debate himself! LOL

IMCK - usually when I sign up for one of my own fast start tournament, I'm usually the first one signed up, so I have no control on who else signs on. I know you think I have a lot of control of this site, but I'm just a normal user here. Also, this site does not keep track of what ratings are when the tournament starts or when it was played - just what they are now, so things could have changed a lot since there.

... and I did some "quick" stats for you.

I have created 1,363 fast start tournaments to date. I have joined only 113 of them, that is about 8% - so I joined very few of them.

And personally I have joined a total of 548 tournaments - so only about 20% are made up of my own "fast start" tournaments!

IMCK - Um, first I don't have the most moves. Second, I don't have the most tournament wins. Third, there is not a game which I have the highest BKR. Forth, most of the tournament I create I do not sign up for myself! I would guess I sign up for less the 20% of the own tournaments I make!

Someone made a great milestone of 100 wins which I congradulated them for.... with the comment that I was right behind them. I'm sorry that you feel so inferior about it all, but that is all it was.

Congrats to mrloupcity for his 100th tournament win!

.... but watch out, I'm right behind you with 97 tournament wins! (What is sad is he won more of my own tournament then I have!) :-)

Invite only would be the only way to do that - or wait until the tournament is about to start and remove who you do not want to play.... or depending on the person, ask them in private message nicely to not join your tournament.

LINK to UE's Tournament

Also as a side note, pawns will need 10 empty slots to start (even though only 8 may be used) [which is how the system is currently set up] :-)

Since 9 new games have been added to this site, I really wanted to include those in the Dummies (rated 1500 & under) tournament. So I've created a second tournament which will start at the same time as the original tournament - so now you can sign up for almost all the games on this site!

Original Dummines #6 Tournament

New 9 games dummies #6b Tournament

IMPORTANT NOTE: Since they are new games, most player are unrated and can sign up. When the time comes to start the tournament, I will remove players which are way over the 1500 BKR limit to make it far to everyone.
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below is the rest of the information:
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Starting October 19th (MY BIRTHDAY!), is the popular "All games for dummies" tournament!

Most all available games are here!

All games for players rated UNDER 1500

Unrated also can join (but don't join if you are an expert at the game)

Great way to learn a new game

Great way to play a game without being "killed" by high ranked experts

NOTE - Since ratings do change, before the tournament starts, i will remove anyone who is way over the 1500 limit.

NOTE #2 - Pawns & Knights need 5 free game slots for each game.

S I G N - U P - H E R E ! for orignal games

S I G N - U P - H E R E ! for the 9 new games

... and have fun!

Want to try one or more of the 9 new games?

THIS TOURNAMENT includes all new 9 games, and will start in less then a day.

SIGN UP NOW and try a new game with everyone else!

Good Luck

Starting October 19th (MY BIRTHDAY!), is the popular "All games for dummies" tournament!

Most all available games are here!

All games for players rated UNDER 1500

Unrated also can join (but don't join if you are an expert at the game)

Great way to learn a new game

Great way to play a game without being "killed" by high ranked experts

NOTE - Since ratings do change, before the tournament starts, i will remove anyone who is way over the 1500 limit.

NOTE #2 - Pawns & Knights need 5 free game slots for each game.

S I G N - U P - H E R E !

... and have fun!

... plus these tournaments were created with 15 days to sign up (which is plenty) - but the previous had about 30 days or so (which is too many) - so it is also looking like it's comming down to the last minute which it really isn't (Yet)

Well you also have to consider that by now, all knights can not play (probable already in other tournaments), plus there are the rooks who are probable already playing at their own "game limit" and don't really want to join more tournaments, etc....

Well I ended up almost not being in a couple of team tournaments because I joined, then with a couple days to go there would still be 1 or 2 spots open - and I really want to play in all the team tournament so I worry.

I'm sure there will be at least 4 teams by the time it starts.

For myself, that is the only one I haven't entered yet basicly because none of the fellowships have more then 1 player in that team - and if I join a team, I want to make sure that we will be able to join. :-)

But more can be added!

Hints to a Battleboats Plus tournament and runs off.

To sign up for the Team Tournament, Do that HERE

It starts in about 3 days.

Over 60 players have already signed up for this tournament, it's going to be good!

Tournament: Battleboat Plus

Prize: 6 month knight membership (Fencer already has waiting for winner)

Format: 2 games per player since white does have an advantage

Pawns & Knights: Make sure you have 10 game slots available.

Time: 4 days per move

Start Time: September 15, 2004

Where to signup: SIGN UP HERE!

Other rules: have fun!

It is a 2 way tie.

First, the team with the most points is the winner.

If there is a tie between point, then it moves to which has the most game wins.

It's probable not "yellowed" yet for the winners because Fencer not programed it to determin the winners yet - but that is just my guess since this is something new.

The other 2 sections still have games (even though we already know 2 teams from section 1, 2 teams from section 2, and 1 team from section 3 will move on.)

Those teams are:

The Gammon Cube

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!Bry's Backgammon Fellowship

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I don't think he changed that.

One things that was changed (from BK1.0 to BK2.0) was the ability to add multiply game types to a fellowship tournament, but you would have to have a team for that gamy type to add it.

Of corse if I BIG BOSS wanted to get around that, they could add a team, create a tournament, then remove the team and let the tournament go on. (Up to the 4th Backgammon tournament in my Battleboat fellowship!) :-)

But it is up to the tournament creator to pick either 5-max-per-section or up to 8-max-per-section.

By defualt, it is 8-max per section, so if the section is full of 8 people, 7 games will start for each player, but it still will only check if 5 are free.

I guess my point is why make it more dificult to program then just pick a middle ground like "5".

Plus Fencer has his point. If unhappy about how it is programmed, they they can always upgrade! :-)

.... because it is easier to tell the computer to "Check for 5 free game slots" then to say:

Figure out sections, then see how many games will be created, then check to see if free spaces is availabel, then once players are kicked out figure out new section, then see how many games will be created, then start tournament.

It can actually work in your favor also. Since it is hard coded to only look for 5 free game slots (10 free game slots for 2-game tournaments), you could end up with as many as 7 games (or 14 games) started and will let you play over your 20 game limit!

Since many team tournaments are currently on their way, why not create some more!

BBW's Team Tournament Wish List:

Battleboats Plus

Backgammon Race

Crowded Backgammon

Nackgammon

Crazy Screen Chess (LOW TEAM SIZE please!)

The above is MY wish list! :-)

because it was the "last day to sign up" - it is now started.

*shameless plug*

But if anyone else is looking for a prize tournament, check out This BattleBoat Plus Prize tournament - already almost 50 players signed up! It will be good. (And if you don't need a prize, sign up anyway to have more players in the tournament and then give the prize away if you win!) :-)

I'm sure it was a mistake - since by default when you create a new tournament, "All Games" is the choice. (I can't tell you how many of my "Fast Start" tournament I had first made as "all games" by accident)

BUT NOW (As of BK2.0) when you create a new tournament, it does not take you back to what you just created - but takes you back to the main tournament page, so it is easy to not see the mistake until it is too late and people have started to sign up.

And the only way to fix the mistake is to remove the whole tournament, and create a new tournament.

Don't trust those Canadians Fencer! After the exchange rate, that equal about a pack of gum and a flying squirl! :-)

3 ways to get games

1) Visit the Waiting Games area and pick out some games.

2) Go to New Game to put your own game in the waiting room for someone else to pick up.

3) Go to the Tournaments Area - Find a tournament which looks interesting. Inside there, it will list all the game types. (If just one type, it will just list the one game.) You will have to click on THAT game name to open up where you actually "sign up" for a tournament.

Plus other ways to get games is to invite players from their profile, or accept game invites from other players.

Just let us know if you need more help

IMCK - Yes, invite only tournaments are still visable.

(But it is actually called "Private" when you sign up - which means invite only, and not "hidden" game.)

All tournaments are for all the public to see - Currently there is not a way to make a tournament "private" (Other then Private meaning invite only)

Is looking at past Battleboat games cheating?

Lets take this conversation to the Battleboats Board - I'll go post my opinion there next. :-)

Cheating in Battleboats:

1) Creating multiply accounts to play themselfs in a tournament

2) Have your wife play on her account, and look over her shoulder to see her boats, then play her and beat her! :-)