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We are having a boys Tournament to coincide with Cariads GIRLY one LOL. Then there will be a playoff between the Tournaments. This will be decided on a basis of how many players enter and therefore how many section winners etc.. there are & will be by Private invite.

'Boys Night Out'

P.S. All entrants we be checked, as far as we can.There are some i would not class as either LOL

Whew, thanks BBW, had me a little worried there.

Una

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The whole tournament would not start if for example:

Tournament has 4 players in it.

One of the players is a pawn and does not have enought room for the games (so pawn is removed)

Tournament only has 3 players left - not enough to run tournament, so tournament is actually canceled!

Thanks MM, I had read that the whole tournament wouldn't start or something like that.
Thanks,
Una

unacanta: The pawn will be removed from the tournament.

So, if a pawn does not have enough room to start the 6 games for example, will the system start the games it can for the pawn? For example will it start 4 games and wait until he can play the other two?

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It is less work to screen coming in but thanks for the tip. There is also the issue of one of our ladies who is trying to avoid someone so we don't want his name to appear on our tournament list even for the short time it takes me to get there. I will change my post to read "almost" all are invited so everyone can have a comfort zone. Thanks for your interest and help.

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Tournament will start in just a few days. For players rated BELOW 1500. Unrated players are also allowed as long as they are not "too" good.

Games need at least 4 players to start, and there are a few that still only have 2-3 players. So if you are looking for more games & you don't like to play against the "expert" players - here is the tournament for you!

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BBW (BIG BAD WOLF)

Thats the reason a remove option was introduced in the first place. That way who ever is the tournament creator has the final choice anyway.

I should have said "almost everyone" is welcome because we still have a stalker that enters tournaments and either just sits there to drag it out, makes inflammatory remarks with his games, or uses multiple nics to fill up all the slots. We had one experience with him and that is enough. So if your are not him you are welcome.

New idea BBW lol :-) lol

lol - yes, i was wondering the same thing BBW :-)

This may be a stupid question, but why do you have an "Invitational" tournament that everyone is welcome to?

..... maybe I'm just missing something... :-)

BBW (BIG BAD WOLF)

Almost everyone is welcome. Message me for an invite. Closes Sept 7.

It is up and running! You should see your games on your Main Page. Good luck everyone!!! 57 entered so this is a biggie. Looking forward to the outcome. :o)

to sue q for winning the under 1500 line 4 comp. well done

well played and congrats to lone outlaw for winning the beginners 1500 and under spider line 4 tourn and also keeneyedswede for the 1500+ five in a line tourn. well done.

Zucan - The Mercenaries are on red alert!

Yes. If you set it to two-game matches, it will start two games against each person. So with 4-player sections, each player will get 6 new games (2 with each of the other three in the section).

I would believe it would start all the games that is is designed to play at once... It would be up to the pawns to make sure they have enough room to play in such a tournament before signing up...you may want to message them and see if they made enough space available before you decide when to start the tournament...

I have a tournament with 12 players. It should start with 3 groups of 4.
My questions is for the pawns will it only start one game per player in the group or start both games as black and white.

I have set the minimum to 4, maximum to 5 with the 2 game option.

I don't want to start it if some of the pawns won't be able to start the tournament.

Thanks for the help.

I think those that are determined not to pay will be satisfied with the milk...

So they can see the steak?

i think it will only let them have more benefits and still not pay...I knew after being here one day ....that it was well worth the price....

why should they buy the cow when they can have the milk for free...

That's a very good idea, BIG BAD WOLF! They could see for themselves what fun it is to be a member and could well sway them to upgrade.
Good thinking!

Our team on gameknot has grown to 16 people 4 of whom are paid members. The others are limited to a certain amount of games. As it is here paid subscribers do have more benefits. The point I suppose is you have to have a certain amount of stuff for non subscribers or there just isn't a large enough pool of players to enjoy the activities of which are offered to paid membership. The Secret Hiding Place Fellowship consist of myself and one other person. Kind of tough to put a team together with just two people.
Kind of like being the only member of a club and seeing the other member every tuesday night. Pretty soon the club isn't a club because one or the other person goes and finds a club where there is more intereaction.
Doesn't really matter to me. When it gets to the point where I can not participate and have tournaments with members of the 65thsquare club here, then I will spend my chess money where I can. Pretty simple I think LOL.

Una

I think that a pawn should be able to enter 1 fellowship as a "guest" - and that is he can NOT join the team, and he can NOT enter a Fellowship tournament. (basicly all the pawn can do is read/post in the message area - but once he see's some "cool" tournament and soon inter-fellowship tournament, it might be something that will encourage a pawn to upgrade!

.... just my thoughts... :-)

I'm sorry, unacanta, I can't agree. Joining fellowships is one of the benefits of membership.

Pawns have a more than fair deal as it is.

One of the ways to perk intereste in Fellowships is by allowing non-paying subscribers to join. On gameknot they allow so many non-subscribers to be on your team. Fellowships and team play is great but if only a couple people belong then the option is of little value. I am not saying the system should allow every nonsubscriber to join a fellowship, I am saying a fellowship should have the option of having a few nonsubscribers. Just an idea...
Una

The tournament is set to start 9-22-03, it looks like everyone that is interested has joined. I will give it a few more days and then close it.
Una

Zucan, Rabbitoid is captain for HOME team so I've messaged him about it. But I only have 3 members, as one member did not renew his membership so cannot be considered for this tournament. But I'm sure we can find another player in time if this is to go ahead :o)

I'd be up for that! I'm not sure how many atomic chess players are in HOME though! (rushes over to check!!)
Give me a shout when you want to get this started and I'll see which players want to join in :o)

:-)

Ahh, I'm seeing what you mean now, Zucan! 4 separate fellowships, one member from each fellowship in each tournament... is that right? That would work :o)

Ideally, it would be nice to have one tournament with 4 sections and that I can populate the sections in a controlled way. I may have to ask Fencer about it... maybe he can do some shuffling for me... If not, then yeah, 4 seperate tournaments is about the only way to really do it. I am always open to ideas though!

Zucan

Zucan - you mean, run 4 separate tournaments for the 4 team members? Like you have all the first boards in one tourn, all the 2nd boards in another and so on?

Zucan,I like that idea...anyone else?

Wet blankets are okay, Harley :)

I figured an invite only tourney of 4 players maximum and I would invite one person from each team to that tourney... wouldn't that work?

Zucan

That is right Harley. The KM would love to play other teams but in the tournaments we wind up playing ourselves which most of us would like to avoid. A series of one on one games with members of other fellowships can be arranged but you cant really call that a tournament. So we are waiting for Fencer to implement some official Fellowship challenges.

I don't want to be a wet blanket, Zucan, but I don't see how you can make sure players from opposite teams end up against each other? What if players from the same team end up as opponents!

A couple things... first, I want this first one to be Atomic Chess related... It should be labeled "First Atomic Team Fellowship Tournament!".

Secondly, Fencer does not yet have support for playing team fellowship games on here, so I am doing it by hand, which means making the tournaments invite only and manually populating the sections, if I can manage to do it.

If you have any questions, just ask!

Zucan

I am going to run the first ever Fellowship Team Tournament. So, a couple things need to be considered... I found 14 teams that support Atomic Chess. Out of those 14, only 8 teams have people in them. Out of those 8, only 5 teams have more than 2 people in them.

The question is how can we run a tournament with such a wide variance on the number of players currently signed up for Fellowship teams. Maybe we should just say that only 4 player teams are allowed to play. The tourney would then have 4 sections, one for each board. The highest rated player of each team would be in the first section, the second highest rated player of each team would be in the second section, etc.

Do we want this to be the only round? Or should we then take the winners of each section and run the tournament again with just them? We could keep doing this until only one team stands and we have a team champion.

Anyways, I need suggestions on what you all would like to see... I think I would like to start it by the end of September. That way, we can get the word out to all the atomic team players and maybe we can get more people to sign up on the teams. It will also give a chance for players to move around to the teams they want to be on before the tournament starts.

Zucan

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