crosseyed: I'm not sure what you are trying to acomplish by keeping this up on the tournaments board. I mean Fencer has already introduced Fischer clock games which basicly reward fast movers, plus he has introduced no vacation/weekends, and fixed weekend only games which also help keep the pace up. Heck, you can even make the time limit of a game down to 1 hour. These are all good solutions to people who want to play fast, along with just staying out of tournaments/games which do not have time limits which fit your need. (You don't see slow movers comin on here complaining about fast movers moving too fast and making their games time out.) Simple solution for everyon - just join tournaments that fit your time needs.

Now lets try to get back to talking about tournament:

►ALL games for dummies (under 1500 & unrated) #15

This tournament is for players rated 1500 or below - or unrated.

This is a great way to try out a new game, or play a game which you like but might not be the best at.... all without being "killed" by experts.

Tournament starts: Sept 30th

►ALL games for dummies (under 1500 & unrated) #15

crosseyed: I guess being called a slow mover is new form of name calling lol!
BigBagWolf I would have though that this was included in (discussion of tournies)
My solution to this problem was easy. I just stopped playing in tournies.

BIG BAD WOLF: I am talking about tournament games. I can't help it if someone response to my post a week later or more. If you don't like it don't read it. I already know about fisher clock etc now. And from now on I will only play fast tournament games. But I will not play any fisher clock ones as I was once time-out with several games through no fault of mine because this site was not accessable to me.
As for this comment "You don't see slow movers comin on here complaining about fast movers moving too fast and making their games time out"
You have totally lost me??? 'time-outs'???
I might not like some of your posts but I don't say it.

Mousetrap: Mouse when I get the hang of this site and how to set up tournament games I will create some very fast games.

hello, GANDHI´S TOURNAMENT 4 players ludo and checkers

Could some people who have brains take a look at some of these? Otherwise, none of them will ever start.

Tried this yesterday on BK board, guess I'll try here...On my "Tournaments" page in my profile I've got a couple listed as "Open" that have already come to completion and are now dead in the water...How do I remove them so I don't keep checking to see if I need spaces for future rounds?...anybody?

srnity: Yes, I guess this small bug should be fixed.

TOURNAMENT WITH INTERESTING PRIZE: LUKECŮV Velký vyřazovací pavouk o zajímavou cenu

Good game!

Steik.

A Universal Eyes winner.

Tournament: Backgammon 1700+10 players by the duck

Winner of the tournament: Binabik

Looking for players for team tournaments, most urgent is Lines in Action and Ambiguous Chess, in others are slots free too.

http://brainking.com/en/ShowFellowship?fid=598

Hi i would like to play in a battleboats tournament but not sure where to look and how to find out how many spaces i need . Can someone please help me

juls31: All tournaments are listed under the tournaments link on the left side of the main page. You can set parameters and search for a certain type of tournament. When you find one, look at the number of games. If it is single elimination, you need 1. If it is one game for each 2 players, you need 5. If it is two games for each 2 players, you need 10.

We need 2 more players for Ludo for the tournament set up by CryMeARiver. Please join if you have brains.

gambler104: ok thanks

please tell me if a pawn signs up for a single elimination tournament and has to many games will they not be included and also would that mean the tournament wouldnt take place

imsoaddicted: I am almost positive of this. You might want to check all pawns and knights to see if they have 1 slot free.

imsoaddicted: the tourney would still run but only if there is enough players so for example, if only 4 people sign up and 1 of them gets removed the tourney would not run, but if 17 signed up and 3 were removed it would still run just with 14 players.

Edited after reading previous post properly lol... Not sure if it's the same for single eliminations you'd have to ask Fencer.

the team of the plente o pente fellowship can use (needs) some extra players for the connect 6 team

who can help us ? ;)

I can if You will buy me a membership.

& me!

Chaosu: lol :) buy a small membreship, join the team, win the tournament, earn 200 brains, use it for further membership :)

Sorry, not possible.

Chaosu: Of course it is possible if you have a credit/debit card. Furthermore, beginning 14th September, you'll be eligible to have a full-featured PayPal account.

Unlocking international wire transfers cost me same as premium account, but we already talked about it. Also, I am under 18 and I do not own any credit/debt cards. Sorry, not possible.
However I am glad to hear that PayPal is going to care more for (about?) Poland, I will tunr 18 in this month so we will see if I will be able to purchase membership then.

Well, I didnt see many one day move tourneys so I set a couple up.

Fast Small Backgammons #9

Fast Small Backgammons #10

1 day move, 5 players per section, NO DAYS OFF

RandomGammdon #2
all gammon type games are in the mix.
1 day moves. NO days off. 16 people needed~

Ludo for 4 - single elimination #15

Walter Montego: The seeding should be correct now. For new tournaments. This is an example: JoshiTM's all open Single game Eliminator 8 #2

Fencer: Unless your ratings changed after this seeding was made, it is not correct. Also, it is customary to list the ranking with the person.

Top bracket as 1-8
next------- as 4-5
next------- as 3-6
next------- as 2-7

If done in this manner it will makes it possible to have the top seeds meet in the semi final and the number 1 and 2 meet in the final. It is easier to follow using the numbers this way too. If the ranking were done with the top four seeds and the rest assigned randomly, then I suppose it's fine and doesn't matter. It certainly is an improvement. How did you do it?

Walter Montego: Fencer's way is one possible way to do it. Your's is another. Another is 1-5 2-6 3-7 4-8, 1-3 2-4. It would be a combination of those 2.

gambler104: You are right about that, but the method I was using lends itself to higher powers of 2 more easily. It also depends on how much importance is placed on the ratings, their accuracy, and the goals of the tournament organizer.

I like to think that the ratings are accurate with the goal to have the best players play each other for the championship and not knock each other out in the early rounds. I'st easy to group the people by adding one to the power of 2 for the number of rounds and then pairing them that way.
8 people is three rounds 2 × 2 × 2 + 1 = 9. 1-8, 2-7, 3-6, and 4-5 should be the first round pairings. If the rounds will not be reseeded each round, which is the normal procedure, the winner of 1-8 should play the winner of 4-5, and the winner of 2-7 plays the winner of 3-6. It's fairly straight forward to draw the tree graph using the numbers and keeping them like that. A few months ago some peole posted some good links for tournament organizers and also discussion various formats of it. Perhaps someone can remember where it is and maybe add the link to this page's title. I'm willing to bet Fencer made a note of it.

For sixteen players you use 17 as the number, thirty-two uses 33.

Walter Montego: I've got the seeding tables from Pedro Martínez, they might be a little different to yours but I guess it is correct too.

jopie2002 is the Number "1", between 4 good players of the tournament 'Top 10% Faster Backgammoners for 2006-07 (Backgammon Race)'

Top 10% Faster Backgammoners for 2006-07

Congratulations jopie2002!

Thanks to all other players!

Top 10% Faster Backgammoners for 2006-07

Hi, to 'The Best and The Fast Gammon Players',

This is an opportunity, check your weight against to other best players if you inside the top 10% any of Gammon Games.

Don't be afraid of endless games and tournaments! If you don't like to join to the Gammon Tournaments without end (related with the move time of the opponents), our games finish before the next month tournament generally.

We choosed publicly announce this Traditional but popular Tournaments here, in the tournaments discussion group and some fellowship groups to all the best and fast players who are inside the top 10% of any type Gammon Games.

Inside the top 10% any type Gammon player (Back, Nack, Crowded, Race, Hyper, Anti), is eligible to join to all other games in this Tournaments before the begin time. (September 15, 2006).

To check where you are in the ratings click to the related links:

Backgammon
Nackgammon
Anti Backgammon
Backgammon Race
Crowded Backgammon
Hyper Backgammon

Others, outside of top 10% players, will be deleted before the tournaments begin without excuse...

Match type: 3 points match with doubling cube
Tournament type: one match for each two players
Maximum number of players per section: 8
Final match type for two players section: 5 points match with doubling cube
Time control: Time: 2 days, Bonus: 3 hours, Limit: 9 days, no days off (red signed)

(That means after beginning you have 2 days (48 hours) for your first move. Per your another move, you'll have 3 hours bonus for your other move time. 9 days is limit time for the opponents, after the move of other side.)

Please click to the Tournament addresse and 'feel free to join to any type of Gammon Games'. You are eligible to join, to all Gammon games without restriction, only if you inside of top 10% in any Gammon Games';(for now we have only six type of Gammon games).

2006 September: Top 10% - Fast Backgammoners 2006-09

With your join to this Tournament, hope to play good matches and enjoy!

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If you interested who were the best and fast in the previous Gammon Tournaments, please click to following addresse:

2006 July : Top 10% - Fast Backgammoners 2006-07
2006 June : Top 10% - Fast Backgammoners 2006-06
2006 May : Top 10% - Fast Backgammoners 2006-05
2006 April : Top 10% - Fast Backgammoners 2006-04
2006 March : Top 10% - Fast Backgammoners 2006-03
2006 February: Top 10% - Fast Backgammoners 2006-02
2006 January : Top 10% - Fast Backgammoners (Invited)

Thank you!

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