LMAO I thought summerdays were bright though LOL

LongJohn: 'Prize' tournaments without a prize will not be started. (see Fencer's post about 40 posts down the page.)

IM- sorry but most of BBW tourney that I sign up for does not have him playing. Most of the time it got the PRO arpa. So that is y I feel they r good tourneys to play. Cause, it only make me a better player but playin better people at a kind of game. Yes, we play them for fun but, winning them is fun to. And from time to time I get my behide spanked bad in some games. But it's all in learning. Again SORRY if I misread ur post. TYVM for ur time.
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IMCK - Um, first I don't have the most moves. Second, I don't have the most tournament wins. Third, there is not a game which I have the highest BKR. Forth, most of the tournament I create I do not sign up for myself! I would guess I sign up for less the 20% of the own tournaments I make!

Someone made a great milestone of 100 wins which I congradulated them for.... with the comment that I was right behind them. I'm sorry that you feel so inferior about it all, but that is all it was.

I guess that I am just not as impressed by being at or near the top of statistics lists as some...

I simply thought some perspective about your tournament win total was helpful.

... and I did some "quick" stats for you.

I have created 1,363 fast start tournaments to date. I have joined only 113 of them, that is about 8% - so I joined very few of them.

And personally I have joined a total of 548 tournaments - so only about 20% are made up of my own "fast start" tournaments!

You are helping to make my point BBW.....

Out of your 94 (or however many) tournament wins 43 (or so, almost half) have come from the 113 five person tournaments you have joined, while the other half of your win total comes from the other 435 tournament s that you have entered.

Ih other words.... You win about 40% of the five person tournaments you enter, and only about 10% of all the rest. Its simply misleading to brag about having 94 tournament wins when half of them come from tournaments with only four other competitors. It would be curious to find out how many of those competitors you beat actually had a higher bkr than yourself? (I am obviously bored, maybe I will check it out myself)

You are jealous because all you can boast of Upchuck is a dip[loma in BS LOL

Who cares

Didnt take long.... the first tournament I looked at that BBW won... only 4 persons, including BBW. BBW BKR... 2060. Other 3 players BKRs 1413,1478,1021. Average 1304.

Now I dont know if that represents most of the other 'five' person tournaments that he has won, but that doesnt sound to me like a list of "top players"

You know it's sad when no one else cares, and IMCK starts to debate himself! LOL

IMCK - usually when I sign up for one of my own fast start tournament, I'm usually the first one signed up, so I have no control on who else signs on. I know you think I have a lot of control of this site, but I'm just a normal user here. Also, this site does not keep track of what ratings are when the tournament starts or when it was played - just what they are now, so things could have changed a lot since there.

Fast start Amazons #1 tounamnet won by BBW. He beat 3 other strong players whos combined average BKR is 1000... BBW current BKR 2060. Thats quite an impressive tournament win, must say.

Anywho, you got my point. Truce now.
Maybe next time BBW, you could wait for someone else to do your bragging for you :)

sigh

Still debating yourself.

As you may not know, the #1 of the fast tournament of new games were intruduced when players had no ratings - so at the time that tournament started, I was playing against all equal players!

What is funny is that next month, IMCK will complain about people who will not play lower ranking players since the higher player has more to lose against lower ranked players. Truce? If you would just keep your mouth to yourself in the first place, we wouldn't have a problem!

Are you suggesting a limit on my freedom of speach BBW? Your mouth started it. You found it necessary to 'let it slip out' how many tournaments you have won. I felt it necessary to point out that all you had to do was win 2 out of 3 total games in some whole tournaments to get a win.... just to help put your staggering total in perspective for many who might be overly impressed.

Anywho, if you dont think I have a right to post my opinion on these boards, then put me on hide :)

Truce again?

Um, I'm not sure what you were reading but apparently it's not this board.

My post was to congratulate someone who hit a milestone - 100 wins. I posted that I was right behind them, but by no means was it meant to brag on myself and my win total - which is less then 1/2 the #1 tournament winner. PLUS maybe you did not know, this is not a hidden stat or anything - you can see who has what tournament wins HERE

Then you start to say how I enter all my fast start tournament, which I corrected you to say it was only about 8% of them that I enter. You then try to say how I only play lower ranked players, but again corrected you to let you know that I almost always enter my own fast start tournament as the first person signed up.

Then you keep on debating how some of the tournaments I have won was against lower ranked players. While no one is debating this fact with you, you keep debating it. Are you upset I got tired of all your political lies and won't debate politics with you anymore? So you just have to find something else?

Truce? I will defend myself anytimg I feel I need to. If you want a truce, then shut up and quit talking about me. very simple, but i'm sure you can't do that.

I never did say anything about you starting in all your fast start tournaments. I only wanted to point out that about half of your tournament win total is from tournaments where you only had to win 2 or 3 total games to win the tournament, and how you were heavily favored in many as well. I mean how impressive is it to win 2 out of 3 games against people rated under 1000?

I think it was nice of you to point out Mr loupcitys' milestone. It is a cool acheivement, that he didnt have to announce himself... maybe you could take a lesson from him?

Quote from IMCK below: "...and since BBW signs up when he creates them, there are only 4 other slots open..."

That to me sound like you thought I sign up for most of my own tournanemnts - which is wrong, like I said, about 8%.

About 33% of my tournament wins are from my own fast start tournaments. That is a fact, and I'm happy to tell people that. Again, I was not brafing about myself, still don't know how you see that. I have no intention to say anything when I get to 100 tournament wins, or 2000 games won, or any of those milestones.

I mean I know you are unsecure with yourself and it makes you feel beter by trying to put other peoples acheivements down, but it only makes yourself look bad. Please don't take this the wrong way, but have you even seen profesional help? I can help set something up if you want - of course you can contact me in private to help you save a little face with your fellow gamers.

I have won 2 tournaments out of 100 tries because my opponents timed out. LOL

if it's not one pot, it's another....always stirring

sigh

*I dont know who MR L C is, but i know AD & IMCK, no personal attacks on public boards*

This is a milestone for MR L C,DON'T rain on his parade,this is a great accomplishment seeing as i've played for 2 yrs now,not winning 1,yes hard to believe.once again thanks for teaching,on your way to your victory milestone MR L C.Second of all,LJ not all people make false tourny's and pull them in the end lol.You should be the last to ask for money lol.BBW is one of many that make the site better.How do i know,He won my brothers paid for tourny thanks for asking LJ,and turned it into another.IMCK you have just as much chance of winning as the next person!!! the trick is to sign up.We dont mind,just send private invites ONLY!!!Thanks for your time.Alx

I agree with all you have to say Smt Alx :)
But there are some that have to rain on someones parade and others that have to make life a misery.

BTW....love you sense of humour...AD..send the invites LOLOLOL

500 Fast Start Backgammon Tournaments
500 Fast Start Backgammon Tournaments
500 Fast Start Backgammon Tournaments

To celebrate the 500th "Fast Start" Backgammon tournament, I've created a special #500 tournament which will have signups available for 2 days, and UNLIMITED number of players.

I did this with the 300th Backgammon tournament, and 23 people signed up. Lets see if we can get more then that for the 500th Fast Start Backgammon tournament. (and don't worry, #501 will be back to normal. :-)

Signup's open for less then 2 days

Unlimited amount of players

SIGN UP HERE - SIGN UP HERE - SIGN UP HERE

In your profile, you can show "all" tournaments that you have entered (by clicking more, you will see them all)

Then I just simple copy the list of all the tournaments and paste it into an Excel spreadsheet which then I can quickly look how many rows/tournaments I have entered.

Looking at yours ughaibu, I see you have entered 148 tournaments! :-)

I gave up trying to figure out how many tournaments I've entered myself...I usually play against players I have games w/ in other tournament(s). I'm wondering, to determine the winner of a tournament w/ 2 section winners only, I know that you would have to play 3 games. Are they played in a 3 game match or at the same time?

It's a standard 3- wins match. Played one after the other.

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First, just about 8 hours to go until the Fast Start Backgammon #500 will start, with NO LIMIT on the number of people. Already 41 people signed up, so it will be a GREAT backgammon tournament.

SIGN UP HERE


All games for dummies will start in about 6 days. This includes almost every game that in on this site. It is limited to players rated 1500 or below - which is GREAT for learning new games, or playing in games you like - but just not an expert at. UNRATED PLAYERS are also welcomed - great way to learn a new game, plus earn rating points. Each game needs at least 4 players in it to start. ALSO, before the tournament starts - I will be remove any players who are now way over the limit of 1500 - so if you sign up and see a player with a high rating in there, don't worry, I will remove them before the start of the game.

Original Game signup HERE

9 New games signup HERE

Good luck to all

BBW congrats for your 500th!

Subtle, Fencer, subtle... :Þ

team members needed for battleboats + , also nackgammon , if you are available and would like to play please join Jasons Games Room
if you are not a member already .

For Knights & Rooks, there are currently 8 team tournaments to sign up for.

Those games are:

Battleboats Plus

Jungle

Nackgammon

Parachute Checkers

Tablut

Cylinder Chess

Gothic Chess

Expionage

If you are a player and you would like to play in one of these tournaments, take a look & Post that you want to play on the Fellowships Discussion board - Where there are many fellowships currently looking for players to play in these tournaments.

If you don't know how to play one of these games, but possible would like to try? Then check out the current tournaments I have which are for players rated 1500 or under, or UNRATED or NEW to the game! Almost all the team tournament games can be found there:

Link to Tournament #1 (original games)

Link to Tournament #2 (9 New Games)

As a side note about those tournament, a game type has to have AT LEAST 4 players to start - and a few including some of the current team tournament games do not have enought. So PLEASE take a look if you are interested in some more practice, or want to try a new game!

~*Come and join my Ice Cream Party*~ (Spider Line4 ***Started a few months back*** Today the finals started.. Godspeed to Hannelore, Grade1teacher and Kevin!!

I'm in a tournament in the second round and the person I'm playing against will time out after 6 more hours but she only made one move in second the game...... I already won the first game and I think the second round is only two games, does anyone know if my BKR will not go up because she is timing out and only made one move? I checked and the last time she was on was October 8

It's a 3 win match, so if that is timed out, a third game will start. No BKR/ratings are calculated until someone gets the 3 win's.

Thank you BBW

All tournament games that you win even if the opponent doesnt make a move will give you a change in bkr , normal games however wouldnt give you a change in bkr if the minimun moves hasnt been made , but it would still give you the win . ;)

Talking about that game again the 6 hours has come and gone along time ago, now she has 17 hours and she still never moved or even been online... I do not understand how she got 17 more hours to make her move?____ and the same thing happend to about three of my other games

my games did that as well.

I assume that the times are correct now and yesterday there was some problems that are corrected.

I had that happen too. Are the times correct now?

I'm happy it did not just happen to me, I got another game that is going to time out in 22 minutes... I'll let you know what happens

No timeout can happen if the player has a day off (vacation, weekend, public holiday). Some games are not synchronized yet, that's why the timeout script adds 24 hours to such games.

Plus, they may have chosen the automatic vacation in settings.

Fencer gave lots of warning in advance as to the time being off and when it was going to be turned on.Everyone should have played there (lowest time games) first) just prior to the date specified on his post or could have changed there weekends to that date and the day after if not coresponding to your weekend or an interuption to a prior engagement then holidays should have been talken to compensate,until the one week change of weekends rule has passed, then switch back to your regular dates.

uh? LMAO

i'm trying to get on an espionage team, does anyone need a player?

Well said Mike