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Can someone explain to me why I would get this message a day before my tournament was scheduled to begin? A glitch? Date and time: 30. May 2011, 17:05:12
Subject: Your tournament has been deleted
Tournament: Salute to all the heroes..... Your tournament has been deleted because minimum number of players had not signed up.
coan.net: I just had a quick scan down the list and apart from some of the Chess & Checker variants that we have not had in a while came up with a few...
Hyper Backgammon Dark Chess Anti Froglet Cheshire Cat Chess Scrambled Eggs Behemoth Chess Spider Linetris Ataxx or Assimilation
New message(back to the list of messages) Date and time: 30. May 2011, 17:05:08 Subject: Your tournament has been deleted Archive
Tournament: Misc games :)
Your tournament has been deleted because minimum number of players had not signed up.
But: Some of the sections have already started because I set the parameters to start if 4 were in a section. Here's the tourney: Misc games :)
some sections have more than 4 because I changed the parameters after the tourney posted. I suspect that the message had to do with those sections that were in fact deleted :)
Artful Dodger: Yes, I get a message like this if not all my games I had listed to choose from are filled by the deadline.......but this is a Random game tournament not schedules to begin til 31. May 2011, 17:00:00.
Ok, I was not involved in this section. However, I stumbled across it because I am in a different game section and I happened to notice that it had two winners.
My question is this: why was there no round 2?
Please note that I am not complaining, since I have no stake in this "fight". I am merely trying to understand what appears to me to be an anomaly in the tournament rules.
Resher: I still don't understand. The rules specified a playoff format for a 2-player section, so I am still confused as to why there is no round 2.
Is it the case that in all BK tournaments that if it is tied (including S-B tiebreaks of course) with one section left, that there is no longer another round? I just assumed that all ties keep progressing to another round until you reach that 2 player playoff or until there is a clear winner, whichever comes first.
Clandestine 1: Not a lot fall into that category. There's only 39 people above 2300. And 22 of them are pawns, and could already be in tournaments. (They can only be in 1 at a time)
I won't play in 1 point backgammon tournaments either; there is simply too much luck involved for my taste.
Between the two problems with x-gammon tournaments, I won't play in any x-gammon turn-based tournaments, despite my inherent love of tournaments in general.
My apologies to any gammon tourney organizers for saying so publicly, but I think prospective players in such tournaments should be aware of the inherent problems in them....
happyjuggler0: I agree, but thats the beast when it comes to playing here. I dont expect to get more then 2 divisions of players (maybe even one). I suspect this tournament will go faster then predicted.
Clandestine 1: I'd love to play, but I'm ashamed to say I've dipped below 2300 for the first time in ages. Desperately trying to gain another 17 points in time, but probably won't make it