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Subiectul: Open Invite: Top 10% Faster Backgammoners for 2014 11-12
Open Invite: Top 10% Faster Backgammoners for 2014 11-12
Hi, to 'The Best and The Fast Backgammon Players',
This is an opportunity, check your weight against to other best and fast backgammon players if you inside the top 10% any type of Backgammon Games.
Don't be afraid of endless games and tournaments! If you don't like to join to the Backammon Tournaments without end (related with the move time of the tournament or players), our games finish to the next coming tournament.
We choosed publicly announce this in past popular Tournaments here, in the tournaments discussion and some fellowship groups to all the best and fast players who are inside the top 10% of any type Backgammon Games.
Inside the top 10% any type Backgammon player (Back, Nack, Crowded, Race, Hyper, Anti, Cloning Backgammon, Grasshopper, Plakoto, Fevga), is eligible to join to all other games in this Tournaments before the begin time.
To check where you are in the ratings click to the related links:
Others, outside of top 10% players, will be deleted before the tournaments begin without excuse...
Match type: 5 points match with doubling cube Tournament type: one match for each two players Maximum number of players per section: 20 Final match type for two players section: 5 points match with doubling cube Time control: Time: 3 days, Bonus: 3hours, Limit: 10 days, no days off (red signed)
(That means after beginning you have 3 days (72 hours) for your first move. Per your another move, you'll have 3 hours bonus for your other move time. 10 days is limit time for the opponents, after the move of other side.)
Please click to the Tournament addresse and 'feel free to join to any type of Gammon Games'. You are eligible to join, to all Gammon games without restriction, only if you inside of top 10% in any Gammon Games';(for now we have only ten types of Gammon games).
Subiectul: Re: Open Invite: Top 10% Faster Backgammoners for 2014 11-12
TC: Do you mean : a) the 10% in move speed, or b) the 10% in BKR?
If a) then how do I know if I am in this top 10%? If b) then all the people that have already signed up for the Backgammon tournament are ineligible to play. (564 active backgammon players * 10% = player 56 who has a BKR of 2310). So if I don't have a BKR > 2310, then are you saying I can't play?
Subiectul: Re: Open Invite: Top 10% Faster Backgammoners for 2014 11-12
SL-Mark: It's not speed, it is BKR. I don't know if he goes by active players or inactive players to determine the top 10% cutoff.
I personally think he should just have a rating cutoff where you can't even sign up if your BKR is too low. That way no one gets booted from the tournament just before it begins.
Subiectul: Re: Open Invite: Top 10% Faster Backgammoners for 2014 11-12
happyjuggler0: Thanks. If BKR only, then I don't understand why he equates players who have a high BKR with speed. This is just not the case and therefore we should be afraid of endless games!
Subiectul: Re: Open Invite: Top 10% Faster Backgammoners for 2014 11-12
SL-Mark: I am also puzzled by that. Maybe I am wrong?
He does have a time control that punishes slow players though. It is a red dot time control of 3 days with a bonus of 3 hours per move made, with a limit of 10 days. Woe to anyone who lets his time left roll down to a low number, then moves, then logs out for the night!
Subiectul: Re: Open Invite: Top 10% Faster Backgammoners for 2014 11-12
SL-Mark: If you're in the top 10% by BKR for any of the listed games, then you can play in any of the tournaments. So you could be top in Grasshopper, but bottom 1% in BG and still enter the BG tourney.
They're great tourneys. I used to love playing them when I was a more active Rook.
Subiectul: Re: Open Invite: Top 10% Faster Backgammoners for 2014 11-12
TC: As I mentioned the previous time he started this tourney, the primary problem I see (aside from the fact that it is obnoxious to check the 10% for each game) is that most of the people in the top 10% are not playing anymore or not since a long time. That way, only 1% really are effectively eligible.