Its ok. Geo, monkey and myself jump to other teams to fill them up. Glad you said something as I had no idea. Enjoy the games Mel.

Mélusine: It will start Mel. Its still over 2 months away. If you want to play join the IFC team and Ill sign you up. Geo and I can sit out or play for another team. :)

MadMonkey: With Assimilation it has only been played 3 times. Last was 2014 so not many players. The knights played the last tournament but Aganju now only has 2 assimilation players.

MadMonkey: Ill join Republic of Uganda if labbeda will have me. ( then a full team) The Pub has the only other team. But I can make Beach capt of the IFC and Ill play for Republic of Uganda. That is if Labbeda is up to it.

Aganju: Mouse is stuck on a spider team in a deleted fellowship. The team and game you selected is not the game. Fencer must manually remove mousetrap from the deleted fellowship then the mouse can join any team. Until fencer addresses the issue mouse cant play.

Random 'Xmas' PRIZE Team Game

Congrats to the swingers of
Monkeys Swinging Madhouse

Congrats to LEGENDA for winning the 6 month pond tourney prize. Rod was a close 2nd. Another prize pond will be coming soon.

Tuesday: want to play a game and see how it works? Its simple...goes 2, 4., 8, and doubles each time its used. If your playing a game, and your doing well and in the lead, you can offer a "double." If your opponent excepts, the die goes to your side and the board and game is now worth double points. ( game goes from normal to 2x point value) As the game goes on and the lead changes, you can offer the double back and now if your opponent excepts the game is now worth 4 times the point value. If you dont want to except the 4x game you can decline the double and you loose 2 points ( the original double amount of 2) So in a 9 point game the first to 9 points wins.

9 point w/cube backgammon prize tournament

1 year rook prize. Starts tomorrow and available for any member

6 MONTH BRAIN ROOK PRIZE POND #1
6 MONTH BRAIN ROOK PRIZE DARK POND #2
6 MONTH BRAIN ROOK PRIZE RAIN POND #3

6 month brain rook for best combined placement total in all 3 ponds. Join 1 or join all 3 for a better chance to win.

Starts today

Clandestine 1: Thanks for the sponsorship.

Clandestine 1: 9 point w/cube backgammon prize tournament

Available for all Brainking members.

Clandestine 1: Since you mention a prize donation, do you want to run the one you suggested with the cube and 9 point game? That is a good idea many have suggested the cube.

also we haven't decided on the site team game but it will be a 1 year rook for the team.

A 6 month rook prize for all 3 ponds. Best combined placement in all 3 to win.

and a 6 month rook tourney for the whole site including pawns.

Also Rodney mentioned a prize. Any ideas folks?

Does Conrad want to run the ponds?

The pond prize and the site team prize I had to ask fencer to do for us. So I did ask his permission. I send him a link to the tournament with info on the winner(s) when completed. The rest of the prize tournaments we pay when we implement them as they are automated.

BGBedlam: Since you hosted the pond tournament all year, I think you should have the honor of running this tournament. How about all 3 ponds played. 2 day limit and to start in 7 to 10 days? We will take the first 3 placements, combine all 3 and select a winner. What do you think? You will have to list it as a prize event. List this as a 6 month rook and the team site prize is at a 1 year rook prize and we still have two more membership donations. One from Rodney and one from Clandestine.

Thanks guys.

MadMonkey: I think a new tourny is fine. If its gammon releated, 6 players is great. We can also send a xtra player to a team that maybe needs one player. Ill ask mousetrap to get a team together at the black rooks assembly f/s. I think we could get 6 teams with 6 on each team..

Since we have several members making donations, should we offer several in one tournament? Or how about the pond prize, a team site prize for the whole team, and another for everyone including the pawns.

rod03801: Short is great with the holidays around the corner. Make it a holiday prize tournament. I have a couple planned. Had to get a ok from fencer, ( cant be done manually) but one of my ideas is all 3 ponds, and the average placement ( with points for the top 5 places in each pond) and the highest ranking player ( of all 3 ponds combined) receives a 6 month rook. A two day pond would be completed by end of this year. Maybe BGBedlam and the Multigammon Mayhem gang would like to run it? We did have near 30 contestants in the last one.

I think a prize tournament to play randomly of our most popular games would be nice. we could even run a poll to see what the top 5 games are. So for now its open for discussion, but lets get them ready to sign up this week if possible.

not sure, waiting for mad monkey but the DEC 2021 site backgammon tournament may be converted to a prize tournament, but after we all talk about it, we may change and just start a whole new game type for around xmas to start.

any ideas for a site team game prize tournament. If we have 4 man teams, 3 months membership to each player. If we have a 6 player team, 2 months to each team member.

any ideas on the game or style?

Tournaments with 1000 brain entrance fees? Players with over 50,000 brains? The cheating is insane here.

_Road Runner___: Your going to have to depend on the pawns to get this to play.

Clandestine 1: s/e 128 players
128
64
32
16
8
4
2
How is it win 4 games?

Join in on the rook prize tournament. Any paid member can join. Starts on Nov 1
The International Friendship Club

MadMonkey: Ive asked him, he comes by a few times a month. He is going to do next years games also.

Marshmud: also Ian, the last team tournament of 2020 is listed as ludo, but it is a random game tourney. We may have to tell the big bosses because so far your the only one to catch that mistake.

MadMonkey: Mouse and I could try to get a team in the black rooks assembly fellowship. Also you have 5 players maybe one of your black rooks could play on another team? Might be hard to get a total of 16 players, 4 teams of 4. Ill see what I can do Ian.

The International Friendship Club
Tournament located on fellowship chat page. Top 5 games of f/s played random.

coan.net: I have the same problem as I did a year ago. I only have 4 players on 90% of my teams. So with 4 players I can sign near any team up. gammons and dice may have a better turnout however but the player pool is down to the lowest then its been for a decade

Backgammon players, team tourney gammon players needed. Tourny starts in a week.
The International Friendship Club

50 brain prize tournament

Send a request if necessary. Random gammons and dice games.

coan.net: It was just a bit odd. Makes for a mess of games at once but then the tournament ends sooner.

Is there a reason that the last 4 team tournaments as well as the new team games just listed are single bracket games? maximum group of 20.

Skeeky: If this is the tournament you speak of I forgot to name the tourney just purchase the 1 month bishop then send fencer this link and ask him to mark it paid. Include your payment invoice number as well.

Mousetrap: He died in 1997, at 84, but was known best for his tv show in the 70's. He was a very gentle, loving man who spent his life making people laugh.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czZKiitvIZY

MrWCF: It has to be completed

"GERRY":
Who are the 2 people you speak of who help support the site with prize tournaments? I know many more then 2.

Ian, what are the chances of fencer implementing a brain entry Pond?

coan.net: Thanks for your reply, and I will follow your directions. I enjoyed the "no days off" as I played in that tournament and was so surprised of the time spent on that tournament. Many players complain about the times, and some are playing games that started 2 years ago. I can't speak for others, but can suggest from players at the friendship club 2 that they don't like long limit games, and since I make them 3 days or less, many more are playing. I guess if we had "shorter" team tornaments, we could enjoy more team events, Nobody complained to me about the no days off backgammon tournament as well.

coan.net:

Is there any reason why we can't get some spider variants or other line game team tournaments? I know others have requested the same in the past, and many line players ask me as well. I don't understand why the same team tournament games are being played again so soon as well.