me?

who is going to win the $100

Im taking bets lOLOL
$100 cash - AUS...conditions apply

"Snoopy": ok....well then it looks as tho it will have to be closed.....I wish Fencer would take the minimum 16 off it....

Bernice:
its a fellowship pond so only members of your fellowship can sign for it

^i^ IRONHORSE SALOON ^i^ (8. June 2007, 13:36:25)

anyone interested in this pond....
please sign up

I have already deleted 2 people from the tourney because no address has been supplied...I will be checking this regularly...

$100 AUS = $83.23 at todays rate.

Vikings: Maybe she meant to say biggest PRIZE?
I wonder what $100 Australian is in US dollars... I'm too lazy to go look. lol

Bernice: just 2 things, 1st, here's a link to your pond $100 cash...conditions apply
2nd it will only be as big as 16 players because of the limits

let see how many people we get to enter this pond???

there a 2 conditions...1st...your address and name must be supplied before the competition starts...;

2nd condition...you have to be a player in my competition.....

How about a way for players to simply drop out of the pond.

The system would probably have to send all the remaining players a message saying who dropped out.

I suppose it wold be unfair to have players drop out last minute right before the end of a round, so maybe limit it so that players can only drop out when more than 25% of the time per turn is remaining. This would be way better than the way it is now!

rod03801: thanks ROd...didnt know how to do that :)

******** but I do now *********** hehehe

Here is a link to that pond. :-)

On Golden Pond #3

anyone interested in winning an Australian t-shirt, then sign up for my pond ;)

Universal ♫Eyes: Excuse me, but wouldn't you please put fellowships tournaments on public boards anymore?

A WHAM BAMS (Run Around The Pond) & New Pond from the Pond Board A WHAM BAMS (Run Around The Pond)</b>

there are 5 ponds on the Ponds tournament page that are overdue to start but only need 1 or 2 players to start, hint hint.

Thad: Yes, he can. Sure.

Thad: I believe so. I've seen a few bishops who are currently playing and making active bids in ponds.

My membership is about to expire. I am thinking about renewing as a bishop for a few months. Can a bishop play in ponds? I am in a pond now with 99 players and would hate to drop out so soon!

OOps! Wrong board sorry folks lol!

Thad: you may want to put that request on the feature request board, I'm not sure how much fencer would read this board

Fencer,

Could you please put a colored background (a nice light blue would look good) behind the bonus winner in the list of pond participants on any pond page just like you put a grey background around me in any pond I'm in? Please? ;-)

Vikings: Then just remove all the pawns when it starts. It stinks to have them floating around anyway.

Are pawns in the game? Or are they out? Seems to me they're half in/half out. Kinda stupid way to play a game if you ask me.

Sorting out the starting issue, sorting out the pawns issue, and allowing different starting point totals and bonus would make this good game a great game!

Thad: personally, I think that may not be the best idea. This particular pond is a great example as to why. There are 5 pawns entered as of now, that would mean that there would be frozen bids for the first 5 rounds at least.Add to that that these huge ponds don't occur very often, those 5 pawns could easily affect bidding for 10-25 rounds.
I think the way it is now is best. the pawns bids don't matter, play the pond as if they aren't there

Vikings: Yup, I don´t have to.

I'd like to see the way Ponds work changed. I think a player should make his (or her) first move when he signs up. Thta way, everyone's first move would be made and all the confusion about players falling with a zero bid and the lowest other bid also falling in round one could be eliminated. Not much else would change. The pond would still appear on your list of ponds once it has started and you could edit your first bid just like any other bid. I see no drawbacks to this change.

"Snoopy": they don't matter because they will all fall in with a bid of zero along with the next lowest bid

joshi tm: just wondering are you going to be removing the pawns before it starts?

Joshi TM's treasure Chest! It isn't that difficult, just enter a number and look waht happens :). I need 4 more players to make 100.

Cougar727: yes, last man afloat wins

What happens to the people who fall in the pond.
Are they out of the game?

This game would be better of you were required to make your opening bid when you signed up. That way, there wouldn't be any confusion over how the first round bids differ from all the other rounds. Of course you could still change your opening bid once the game starts. Essentially, the game would start as soon as you sign up, but the timer would not start until the minimum number of players signed up or the starting deadline was reached.

WellyWales: It should be pointed out that if a pawn falls in with zero in the first round, there will also be someone else fall in with the next lowest bid, but thats the first round only

joshi tm: I see what you mean, there are people that bid higher in the first round and then lower in later rounds., and there are people who will bid smaller toward the end but not nessecarrily with less than 2000 points left, pawns cause some of this bidding also. I guess that I don't see being observant the same as cheating.

joshi tm & BIG BAD WOLF: Thanks for that

WellyWales: nope, they will not be able to play.

What will happen if they do not remove themselves from the pond, and starts as they are a pawn - they will just not bid in the first turn and fall out of the game.

If they are already playing a pond then turn into a pawn, then their last bid will just be repeated until they fall out (or win - which I think has happened once)

WellyWales: No they can't and their first bid is 0.

What is the ruling if a paying member signs up for a pond then becomes a pawn before the pond starts....are they able to play it??

Vikings: Sorry for confusing you, but I meant the lowest bid of round 21 (enderme's 441). Backoff's lowest bid was 595, that's above the criterium of 200.

I don't know how I did that

Vikings: No, because FANTAS had the lowest bid of 53 (after bidding everything he has), and in that round he has the lowest inside the criteria. so 200 under the last bid of FANTAS would be -147, and is all fair again.

Thad: Fencer seemed to like that idea while back, but never did turn into anything.

POST: Run around the Pond (Fencer, 2005-01-12 09:09:26)

The other suggestions I would like to add is to lower the limit from 16 player minimum to like 10 players minimum to play.

joshi tm: under your criterea, AlanP's bid in this pond http://brainking.com/en/Pond?bms=21&g=2875 would be considered cheating when in fact it was a good and gutsy bid,there was a logic to the bid that only he followed, yet you would have him punnished by falling in? these bids happen in many games

How different do you thing these Pond games would be with different starting values and bonus amounts? It seems to me that if the number of players is fairly small (under 20) that running out of points rarely becomes an issue. If we started with only 1000 instead of 20,000 then play would be different.

I'd like to see changes made to BK so that the creator of teh Pond can set the initial number of points and the value of the bonus.