Do you miss something on BrainKing.com and would you like to see it here? Post your request into this board! If there is a more specific board for the request, (i.e. game rule changes etc) then it should be posted and discussed on that specific board.
Sometimes it's helpful to be able to look at the board from the opponent's point of view. It would be nice to be able to click on something that said opponent's view, or some such thing, and be able to see the board from the other side.
It used to be on this site or another one (I don't remember) you could go to the other person's profile, go to their current games, click on their game with you, and you would see the game from their perspective. But that's not the case here, or no longer the case.
I would like to see two features which would aid tournament searches. 1. I would like to have a filter that would allow me to generate a list of tournament sections that need just one more player to start. 2. Along the same lines it would be nice to be able to generate a list of all tournaments that have already reached the minimum number players needed to start on time. There are so many tournaments available that it can be a lot of work to find ones that will start soon without such a feature.
Snoopy: Our fellowship (Společenství přátel) actually did that in that tourney after I had stopped playing here, and nominated Mrsx (aka Tajny) to play instead of me.
nodnarbo: so in other words my fellowship could of done exactly the same in this tournament E-mu Proteus has 4 of the team had left the site wish i known this
nodnarbo: but even so the rules are rules why are one team being favoured above the rest of the teams were the other teams in the tournamet consulted about the changes did they agree?
There is nothing too obviously changed, but if you look at the teams in the finals there are quite a few players with too few games completed to have been in the tournament since round one.
Cyna: If you go to "Game rules" and select Backgammon, there is an explanation of the cube on that page. There is also a Backgammon discussion board, where I'm sure you could get lots of questions answered.
El Cid: ah right i misunderstood you there then i thought you meant having it like a sports team and just putting a sub in if a player wasnt playing well
Snoopy: Since tournament second rounds are taking sooo long to start, I doubt anyone would leave the site just for that (unless a specific account would be created and payed for with that purpose), since he would have to be more than a month (maybe 2 or 3) without playing ANY game in the site, or even logging in...
coan.net: A way of making it easier to implement, would be to make thing like on a sports team game, where at the beginning of a game you choose the players and the possible substitutes. Then the substitution would only be possible if a player would leave the site (something like an injury).
Snoopy: I also don't like the idea of being able to switch out players in middle of a site team tournament. IF it were allowed, I would like to see:
1. The replacement player can not have played for another team in the same tournament (Oh, that team is out - lets grab their best player and put them on our team.)
2. The person being replaced would have to had been off the site for (lets say) at least 30 days.
3. The replacement can not be more then 300 points higher in their rating then the person they are replacing. (of course if someone leaves the site, their rating can drop as games time out - so maybe their rating at the time the tournament started.) (again, to stop a team from grabbing "ringers" / great players to help their team.
So with those rules, I think it would almost be easier to not allow replacements.
NOW having said that, I agree with I think EVERYONE that all tournaments including team tournaments should continue on the next rounds once it is known which players/teams will continue on to the next round. (THIS would also help solve many - not all - of the cases where players leave the site between the time a tournament starts and the next round.)
nodnarbo: IMO is it shouldnt happen if Fencer changes it on the new BK thats cool for new tournaments but tournaments already runing should run has they are
my fellowship lost out on a final cause 3 at already left the team so why should it be different for anyone else
El Cid: I can think of one case where Fencer made a special case and allowed a team to swap out members for the next round of a tournament, but I wouldn't count on being able to do that very often.
Resher: Unfortunately it is not possible to replace players at the beginning of a new round, though it would make much sense since a round may take too much time to start
SO it will be over 2 years before we get to the next round
As for the 3 players, i think they are still on BrainKing, just not in the Team anymore. As they were in the Team at the start of the Tournament they will play in the next round anyway...........whenever that may be
MadMonkey: The outcome of the final game of Round 1 is fairly certain, but the losing offender has got most of the next 2 months set as vacation, so you'll be in for a bit more of a wait yet!
Are you able to replace your missing players at the end of a Round?
Snoopy: Just noticed, we are playing a Team wiv Fencer in it, in the Final........... he scared i think, hopeing we will forget about the Tournament lol
Why we need next rounds of Tournaments to start once the winners (Qualifiers) have been decided and not when all games have finished
Jan 2008 Clone Wars started 2 years ago in January. Section 1 is finished & decided, Section 2 is decided, BUT we still wait for one game, that will not effect anything .......... WHY ???
3 of the Madhouse players are no longer in the Team that qualified
SO if i am watching it correctly, at any time during the game, you can poke a piece of you own colour out from the FIRST row, and all disks above fall down one place ?
grenv: Or if I'm losing for 2 points and there are only 3 games left, I might decide to risk more to try and get a win, since most likely I will lose the match (whereas with all the games in a match played simultaneously I wouldn't do it)
AbigailII: very legitimate in chess. For example, If you're winning by a point with a game to play you may decide to simplify quickly and get a draw. This is part of the game even at world championship level. What's wrong with that??
El Cid: I probably would not know exactly how many games I would get (for instance on a 21 points match with doubling cube) That would be a single game.
Note that for round robin tournaments, you don't know exactly how many games you get now-a-days either - it will depend on the number of people that are in your section. For elimination tournaments, you will know exactly how many games you get. If it's a 3-game match, you will get 3 games. Not 2. Not 4.
I would end up (at least on what concerns to my plays only) slowing up the games. Your games might become slower, but your matches will be faster. And the tournament itself as well.
Note also that if we have a tournament "2 games for each 2 players", the games are now already played in parallel.
MadMonkey: If a game in a Tournaemt was first to 5 points for example, at present they get one game at a time, you are suggesting they get 5 at once Yes.
AbigailII: Although I agree that it would make tournaments go faster, I don't think I would like to join such tournaments, if multiple games (instead of a single match) were mandatory, because I probably would not know exactly how many games I would get (for instance on a 21 points match with doubling cube), and so I would end up (at least on what concerns to my plays only) slowing up the games. Besides I like to maintain my game number at a low level, so if it was a 3 match game I probably wouldn't mind, but on a 10 win match I (and maybe a lot more people) most likely would not join the tournament, so make this as an option seems to me as the best option
AbigailII: Well, yes, but in a different sense. If a game in a Tournaemt was first to 5 points for example, at present they get one game at a time, you are suggesting they get 5 at once ? or am i missing something.
BugCafe have a similar thing, when you sign for a Tournament it asks you how many games you would like at once from the Tournament.
(ascunde) Pentru un joc rapid care se poate tremina în două ore,crează un joc setând Timpul pe 0 zile /1 oră,Bonus la 0 zile / 0 ore şi Limita la 0 zile / 1 oră. (TeamBundy) (arată toate sfaturile)