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Salkkuman: on closer inspection it gives a list of a few types of games, does that mean the creator gets to choose a list and the game will be one of the games on the list?
SafariGal: It's all about the perception of fairness. I posted about this subject on the BrainKing discussion board around the first or second week of February. It all got lost in a big brouhaha caused by an unrelated subject on February 14th.
I proposed letting the tournament organizer keep the profit and giving Fencer a cut of it. I also said to let the organizer be able to set the profit at whatever level he wanted, including no profit at all or even letting him put extra in for a larger purse.
You presently can sponsor a prize tournament yourself without a fee. And notice, these tournaments are widely attended. The fee-to-enter tournaments with a 30% cut seems too high for just about everyone. Fencer did propose adding month extensions for every ten positions filled in the tournament.
I would change the current set up and let the tournament creator set the percentages to whatever levels he likes and for more places. If the total is less than 100%, he shares it with Fencer, say 75%/25% Creator to Fencer. All types of percentages would be tried, but eventually people would enter those tournaments they thought were fair for themselves. I personally would not enter one that took more than 10% out unless I figured my chances of winning a placing prize were very good.
Then there's the problem of the Brains themselves. Not everyone has them yet. This causes the fee-to-enter tournaments to not get started because of lack of people joining. The pool of people with Brains is small. I have 50 Brains. What am I supposed to do with them?
Rose: yes I saw all the overdue tournies and I thought why are they just not deleted? Some looked like parts had started but other parts of it were still open to signing up but maybe I was imagining that
SafariGal: I think if the tourney organizer got the remaining brains you would see such an influx of brain prize tournies that there would be too many and not many folks would join up to them. As it is now there are many tournies 20 or 30 days over do from starting because not enough folks have signed up, some brain prize tournies as well.
Fencer: so even the tournament owner does not get the profits? Or is this more like an admin fee because I assume there is a lot of manual work on your part to dish out the winnings
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. (May 15, 2006).
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).
Still a few hours to sign up for this tournament. This is a great way to learn a game you don't play, and great to play games you like without worry about being "killed" by expert players.
Random Gammon #4 single elimination for 16 players, open to all.
1 day moves, NO DAYS OFF!
Random game types: Backgammon, Nackgammon, Crowded Backgammon, Hyper Backgammon
CRY ME A RIVER: apparently it is a small problem and Fencer is looking into it....I notice that some ponds games are 5-6 DAYS over so he obviously isnt in a hurry to fix it or it is a bigger problem than he originally thought....I wouldnt bother him with it, just let him fix it at his own pace :)
Thad: i had this problem wich probably will never be solved but you tell Fencer to look at the game ( my concern is only checkers and if i have a minimum doubt of cheating i will go compare the moves of my opponents with the softwares around and then report the player) :)
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