OOps! Wrong board sorry folks lol!

My membership is about to expire. I am thinking about renewing as a bishop for a few months. Can a bishop play in ponds? I am in a pond now with 99 players and would hate to drop out so soon!

Thad: I believe so. I've seen a few bishops who are currently playing and making active bids in ponds.

Thad: Yes, he can. Sure.

there are 5 ponds on the Ponds tournament page that are overdue to start but only need 1 or 2 players to start, hint hint.

A WHAM BAMS (Run Around The Pond) & New Pond from the Pond Board A WHAM BAMS (Run Around The Pond)</b>

Universal ♫Eyes: Excuse me, but wouldn't you please put fellowships tournaments on public boards anymore?

anyone interested in winning an Australian t-shirt, then sign up for my pond ;)

Here is a link to that pond. :-)

On Golden Pond #3

rod03801: thanks ROd...didnt know how to do that :)

******** but I do now *********** hehehe

How about a way for players to simply drop out of the pond.

The system would probably have to send all the remaining players a message saying who dropped out.

I suppose it wold be unfair to have players drop out last minute right before the end of a round, so maybe limit it so that players can only drop out when more than 25% of the time per turn is remaining. This would be way better than the way it is now!

let see how many people we get to enter this pond???

there a 2 conditions...1st...your address and name must be supplied before the competition starts...;

2nd condition...you have to be a player in my competition.....

Bernice: just 2 things, 1st, here's a link to your pond $100 cash...conditions apply
2nd it will only be as big as 16 players because of the limits

Vikings: Maybe she meant to say biggest PRIZE?
I wonder what $100 Australian is in US dollars... I'm too lazy to go look. lol

I have already deleted 2 people from the tourney because no address has been supplied...I will be checking this regularly...

$100 AUS = $83.23 at todays rate.

^i^ IRONHORSE SALOON ^i^ (8. June 2007, 13:36:25)

anyone interested in this pond....
please sign up

Bernice:
its a fellowship pond so only members of your fellowship can sign for it

"Snoopy": ok....well then it looks as tho it will have to be closed.....I wish Fencer would take the minimum 16 off it....

who is going to win the $100

Im taking bets lOLOL
$100 cash - AUS...conditions apply

me?

Codypup: that's a given

congratulation will go to Codypup for winning my $100 AUS pond....the money will be in the post on Monday (my time)

I've just noticed that I've made a slight mistake
all my onedayponds have been defined as 2 days per turn
I tried to edit, but the system won't let me modify this parameter. so I did what I could... the next bunch, until end of September, are now labelled as twodaypond. Oh well

rabbitoid: That does not matter, one day, two days, will still be fast enough.

we need 19 players to start this pond
Ponds Plus Open Large Pond

Vikings: now only 5 more are needed
Ponds Plus Open Large Pond

LOL The Champs Run in the rain (BKR >=2000) had a 17 way tie for first place!

I guess all the top rated players play about the same.

rod03801: you could see that coming in the previous round, it is probably a record

Vikings: Yeah, after round 2 I figured something of the sort would happen. I really didn't think it would be a 17 way tie though! LOL

players sign up for ponds then dont make moves or finish them and I lose points....cause it ends up no winner

BadBoy7: The higher you end up, the most ratings you will win. So if someone signs up, and then falls in by either not playing or something, the higher you end up and the better you do. Sometimes there is a tie and there is no winner - happens a lot with Rain Ponds, but rarely in the others.

BadBoy7: my advice is to pay attention to who those people are, learn their habits and then use that information to your benefit

lol, an unrated pawns wins a pond, lol
http://brainking.com/en/Pond?bms=13&g=4000

Any pond player interested in a ponds fellowship, here is your chance.....

To entice new members, we have a 6 month rook membership on the line in a fellowship pond.

Come join us before its too late!

PONDS PLUS

congratulations to Bernice for winning the Save The Whale pond!!!  woooo hooooo

Everyone should check out the new feature that Fencer just implemented on the pond page, you might just be sup prized to see how many fellowship ponds are over due to start due to lack of players, I found one that only needed one player to start but was 586 days over due

I somehow removed a player from one of my fellowship ponds. (Had to be a clicking mistake of some sort, because it was definitely not intentional.. I have to BEG people to sign up for the pond, lol) They tried to sign back up to the pond, but it won't let them. Does anyone know how I can let that person back into the Pond? Or is this something only Fencer can do?

rod03801: Only me.

my first pond game that I try, in round one I pick 79 and I fall out of the pond when 3 others pick 80...
And then there were none...

I feel dumb... : (
Or does this usually happen to people on their first try?

Kunoichi: It happens.

My personal opinion - for the first few rounds, to possible save 10-20 points - there is no point in bidding too low. That is if I think the low bids will be between 70-80, I will bid probable closer to 100. Again, 10-20 points in my opinion is not that important. Much more important to be around at the end. (That is in later rounds, there will be bids with over 1,000 between them - so what is 10-20 points? not much)

For new users, some general tips (everyone plays different so feel free to follow or ignore):

Check recent ponds - see what bids fell in the first few rounds - make sure you are higher then that.

Keep an eye out for players whose membership drops to pawn status. After they chance to a pawn, they can no longer bid - so their last bid will continue until they fall.

Keep an eye out for the lowest player. If they only have 1 point left, it is funny to still see people bid 1,000+, since they would just need to bid 2 to stay in.

The 500 point bonus can be good - BUT if you have to bid more then 500 points higher then what you normally bid - they it is not really very good. (Except for the times when your goal is to keep others from getting it.)