What happened with this tournament Dice Poker Tournament # 4
It appears that some of the qualified players were not considered when creating "next rounds" and the tournament is now blocked...

Hrqls: Yes, this is what happens when I do it manually in the database.
Btw, there was really an issue with cron jobs and they were stuck for 16 hours. Timeouts should be slowly resolved (as I restarted the server several hours ago).

Fencer: Thanks!!

when i logged in this morn ing i saw the 2 games waiting for me with a remaining time of -16582 dagen 2 uren :)

I have played them without problem, and it seems fine now :)

Aganju: Yes, I'm thinking the same thing.

rod03801: I think he just forgot to switch it back on. He probably switched it off so it does not continuously kill the games he was typing into the database, and then forgot.
But that's all idle guesswork...

rod03801: 16581 days 23 hours

How much is that in dog years? Heck, how much is that in human years?

I suggest having Fencer email Czuch and ask him to log in, otherwise this negative time left thing could go on for a while.

ThunderGr: Well, it may be a long time before they all move. Czuch hasn't logged in since December 2014.

Perhaps one of those players could get Fencer to email Czuch so that he logs in....

rod03801: It could be that :). I guess he will turn it back on when those players move.

Royal__Flush: I wonder if it's connected to him working on that tournament problem. I just looked at my game sheet, and I now have games in that tourney, that are my opponents' turns and it says " -16581 days 23 hours"

It's happened quite a few times, but usually when there was a site problem and Fencer turned it off on purpose so people wouldn't time out

Royal__Flush: I have opponents at -8+ hours. Something appears to be wrong. I do not recall that to have happened before.

I guess it is happy time for those slow players :p.

I was just wondering because instead of my games rolling over it said I had -4:30, etc left

Royal__Flush: I know it was working yesterday but the only way I can see if its working for you would be to wait 15 mins and see if Beaupol times out as he has no more vacation time left.

Is it just me or has the time-out clock stopped working?

Fencer: Never? Well I have seen it a few times before:

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furbster: A misclick. It should be gone now.

Fencer: Not sure if you've finished doing everything yet or not but my game against Pedro just says 'null'

ACtually i have two games one is the tournament one and the other is a 'normal game' but i can't even open it! Can you delete this one?

Hrqls: Hey guys, I've never seen anything like this before too, so I have no idea how it could happen.
So, to fix it, I must create missing 9 games manually, one by one. I can take some time because all parameters must be correct.

ThunderGr: i sent a pm to fencer as well

I just thought I'd put my ten pence worth in...

I've never seen this happen in any of my tournaments. The only two examples I've seen of this happening have been in tournaments that started a number of years ago. I wonder if it's been sorted now but might be difficult to put right in tournaments that commenced before a particular date.

Anybody's thoughts?

Hrqls: I hope you have also sent a message to him. It is my opinion that you will multiply your chances of him seeing it.

I agree : Rod, Pedro and I should have moved on to the next round as we won the same, and evenly won against another

Fencer : can you please fix this and make Rod and Pedro also join the last round ?

The first doubling cube tournament

rod03801: So you get a point for each win that an opponent of yours scored if you defeated that opponent? I see the totals now from your explanation. Thank you. And this explains the half point for draws, which for this particular tournament cannot happen. Yes, this tie breaking method is a great one for the computer to solve. Tedious and time consuming to do by hand.

As ThunderGr posts, Fencer should be told so he can restart the tournament with the correct people in it.

Who cares. I open the bets for this round, My estimate for the results is12 Feb 2021, early afternoon. Avanti, Cardinal!

ThunderGr: Seems a little late since the next section has started

OK guys. Obviously, there was a problem in the S-B calculation. If you just message Fencer, you might have the problem corrected.

Walter Montego: It's every win from the section.
just for ME. I won against players #1 #2 #4 #6 and #7
so thats 5 + 2 + 3 + 0 + 1 = 11

For Hqrls . HE won against players #2, #4, #5, #6 and #7
so that's 2 + 3 + 5 + 0 + 1 = 11

For Pedro. HE won against players #2, #3, #4, #6 and #7
so that's 2 + 5 + 3 + 0 + 1 = 11

Obviously the results are WRONG

And instead it's 8-0-0?
There's a ghost in the machine.
I was thinking you should all have 9 of those S-B points 2 × 4 + 1, but I am not sure how it works. Maybe I'll read the explanation again. After reading it, I am confused and think you should all have 5 points, but that's not right since you all have 5 from wins alone. So I'm going to try to apply what I read and see if I can come up with 11 each. I do know that I am right about you three being equal no matter what it is if each of you defeated the other in a rotation as you have done.

I can't figure it out for 11 points. I'll stick with 9 each, but when I look at the Section 2 score my 2 × 3 + 1 = 7 works, but that could just be a coincidence that matches the correct score. I cannot see how player 4 Faith got only 1 S-B point though she won two games.

Walter Montego: In that section, all 3 of us, Pedro, Hrqls and I should have had 11 S-B points.

Player 1 lost to player 5
Player 5 lost to player 3
Player 3 lost to player 1
These three players won all their other games.
I do not know how the S-B is figured, but it is my understanding of it when the conditions I just stated happen, it is a tie in S-B no matter how many players are in a section. A perfect example of it is section 2 right under it on the page you linked Pedro.

Pedro Martínez: i saw this earlier and found it strange!

Pedro Martínez: I noticed the same thing

Pedro Martínez: It looks to me like you, and rod and hrqls should all have advanced to the next round based on what S-B would be if it had been calculated correctly.

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Why is my S-B score 0? Have I been disqualified from proceeding into next rounds where the deciding factor is the S-B?

happyjuggler0: Ah i see, i thought it may be something i was missing. Thanks for the quick reply!

furbster: It is called en passant in chess.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/En_passant

I just moved my pawn in this game to C5 (i know you can't see it) Dark Chess (AndreiAM vs. furbster) but somehow he has moved his which was on D5 to C6 and and has somehow captured my pawn which was on C5!

I'm not very chess orientated but am i missing something here?

JerNYC: to make that accurate you have to do it per game type

personally i play my gammon types several times per day, but i sometimes postpone my moves to the next day in tougher games which require more tought like chess or froglet or pente

also the day of the week might be important as i sometimes dont make a move at all on fri-sun (my weekend/family time)

JerNYC: Seeing as this has been proposed several times over the 1 and something year I am here, it seems that the answer is no.

Would it ever be possible to include an "average activity" of moves in each player's profile? The thought hit me since there's one for the day and the top overall. A daily average, I think, would be nice to know when considering someone for a game invite.

Aganju: mine didn't change

Aganju: mine didn't change

All my settings are suddenly gone, and BK reverted to the defaults. Was there a general reset or data loss?

Aganju: thanks....I just wondered if it was at all uncommon but you have pointed out it isnt :)

Bernice: at me it happened a lot of times, but in relation to the amount of games i played it happened rarely... it can happen sometimes i just guess... in real life i rolled 5 times in a row double-1 and i through the dices in different ways, very funny but only one time...

Bernice: Math: Chances for a triple sequence of x-y, x-y, x-y is (1:18)^2 = 1:384 = 0.3% [first roll is anything, second roll has a chance of 1 in 18 to match (as you wouldn't see a difference between 1-5 and 5-1), third roll another 1 in 18].
That means that you should see that about every 384 sequences of three rolls. If you play only 10 games in parallel and make four moves in each per day, you should see that every 9.5 days.
It doesn't matter if the identical rolls are in the same game or different ones, as the assumption is that they are random anyway.

On the other hand, there were many discussions about the bad randomness on BrainKing (and no, we do not want to hear it all over again, please). But your experience is hardly uncommon.

Even *four* times the same roll in sequence should happen twice a year. And *five* times the same roll in sequence about once every 9 years.

ThunderGr: yes this is the first time it has happened to me - 3 times....I have had many 2 times but this is first time for 3 times :)

Bernice: Is this the first time in the 13 years you are a member that this happens? As I have quite a few dice games running, I have noticed it happen on occasions and if you couple that with the selective memory we humans have, it makes quite an impression when it does.

I just played 3 games and each die read a 5 and a 1...on all 3 games...strange>/?

Bernice: I never thought I'd get to use this useless tidbit of info, but if you are referring to the TDP game (triple yahtzee,/boatzee by other names), I've gotten 7 5K in one game on three occasions on another site. However, I've played over 10,000 games of it there. I saw an opponent do it at least once (7x5K).