furbster:  Awesome!  I'm in the next round.  :)

furbster: Of course of the 33 moving on to Round 2, 13 don't seem to come to Brainking anymore.

rod03801: i'm still here .. and also in the next round ... :)

Hrqls: Only 7 1/2 years for round one? That is awesome! It is also why I won't play a backgammon tournament here. Ever.

happyjuggler0: 13 Point match, and two of them per player? The creator definitely should have used the Fischer Clock for timing it. Even so, that's a lot of games.

happyjuggler0: most tournaments are a lot quicker .. less players, shorter matches, faster time control ...

in the 8 years that i am here i won 32 backgammon tournaments, and lots a lot more ... so its quite doable to play a nice quick tournament :)

Hrqls: I am here 18 months only, and I have already won 32 backgammon tournaments (and 159 in total). One of them was a 21-point round-robin.

It really depends a lot on which tournaments, and who is in there. There are about a dozen players you should avoid, without them this tournament would have been done in two to three months; but a single one of them is enough to drag it to 5 years.

What are people's thoughts on how long a tournament should last? Just curious.

Hrqls: Haha. Me too.(Still here and in next round) But how many of us will still be around for rounds 3 and 4?

rod03801: lol! i will (there, and retired i guess ;))

rod03801:  It's pretty bad when you need both a match equity table and a mortality table to compute your match winning chances.