Roll up, guys - Skyking has backgammon among the games in his Game Closet party!

http://brainking.com/game/Tournaments?trg=6706&trnst=0

LightningBolt ~ winner of Nothingness's Small Espionage Tournament ~ Small Espionage.

Pente Special 2005

when does a tournament show up in my profile when i filter to show only 'finished' tournaments ?

i only have 2 in there while more have finished (i have won 4, so i guess those are finished arent they?)

Well, I didn't expect somebody would delete a fellowship which is already playing a team tournament. I'll have a look who did it.

Red Squirrel History Group's Pente Tournament 2 ~Pente - TRaGeDy


Nooks and Crannies Box of Delights. ~ Open Keryo Pente: Joint winners: arpa, nickchanger, fxdirect

It may have been immortals I think

That is weired - What fellowship was that?

It may be related to THIS BUG

http://brainking.com/game/TeamTournaments?tri=5&trnst=10
Whats happened to the top fellowship in section 1?
And you cant open the game tables in the round table either

If a fellowship has been deleted????? will it stop the tournament progressing?

Nooks and Crannies Old Fort Special ~ Nackgammon :

Congratulations Hrqls ~ winner.

LOL ... You guys are complaing about karpa ???
Look at klokan ...
I played both but did I complain ? Nah ... they have the right to move as their please within the rule.
To be fair, I think arpa moves pretty fast before ... :-)

The dice gods have been known to accept a bribe :)

Is help from the spirit world allowed?

Well I guess it was beter to have someone to enter the tournament then to not be able to enter the tournament at all.

An idea would be to possible allow teams to enter with less players, and just enter a "ghost" player that will just take 2 game loses for the team - BUT would allow the rest of the team to enter.

I see one of the teams in the crowded gammon tourny managed to pick a player who hasnt been on brainking since June LOL

Nooks and Crannies Old Fort Special ~Backgammon : The Big O

Red Squirrel's Assorted Nuts ~Pente : nickchanger

Stevie??? not from 2004 surely LOLOL...please tell me....dont want no LOOOOOOOOONG running tourneys :(

LOL

Sorry Stevie I just seen it so I took my post away

wher did your post go sunfire?

There is one already running and still in first round

LOL @ Bernice.. yes.. should have said before: dress up accordingly ;-) Cheers!

me in....first in - best dressed LOLOL

Happy Holidays - super fast - Happy 2005

Happy Holidays - fast - Happy 2005

Thanks Fencer - that should solve a lot of problems, and offer new options to faster players.

The next round is up and going in case you missed the little red number.

Thanks Fencer and BBW!

Yes, both proposals listed by BBW are to be implemented.

1) My tournaments: I'll start them back up soon - I've just been behind in many of my games & other stuff I decided to take a short break in making them. I should be making them by the first of the year.

2) Auto-vacation - This is a good rule which may get abused by a few people. The only 2 rules I would like to see applied to auto-vacations are:

• Some tournament set to allow no vacation days
  
• Limit to 5 autovacation days at one time (giving a player a week to be able to get back on-line to set normal vacation days if needed)
  

Madmonkeys 'Gammon' Stakes (4) tournament

Congratulation to:

lovelysharon on winning Crowded Backgammon

ellieoop winning the Nackgammon

Red Squirrel's Hungover Nuts

Have u put ur tourney set up on hold tell next year? Or can we look for some soon?

at least :)

does that make 259 wins for Arpa now? LOL

Red Squirrel Bunched Nuts ~ Alquerque : Bobes

Red Squirrel Grouped Nuts ~ Anti Reversi : Sarok

Red Squirrel Smashed Nuts ~ Halma 8x8 :arpa

Some good points pgt....

something that hasnt been brought up, as far as I know, is that in a true emergency for anyone, any games that they do happen to time out in, because they couldnt get on to set a vacation or whatevr, I am sure these games can be restored. It is not something that happens so frequently that it would be a burden to restore those games at no penalty to anyone. And I am sure that any reasonable player would not have a problem waiting to play a move for someone who has had a true emergency, or having that game reinstated because it timed out for some emergency.

There was never any suggestion that the rules had been broken - just that the rules were ridiculous. If somebody wants to play 700 games concurrently that's fine, but by my calculations that's about 11 1/2 hours per day to make one move in each game - if it takes 1 minute per move. I agree with Grenv - I'm happy playing 20-30 games, remembering the thread of the game and any accompanying chat, and maintaining some semblence of "interactive sociability."

When I sign up for a tournament I like to feel that it will be played reasonably quickly - which is why I sign up for "fast start - 3 day" tournaments. I'd like to know that when a tournament starts it has a chance of finishing within a reasonable time.

I have no particular axe to grind about Arpa's general play, and have found him to play quickly - when we are both on line simultaneously. I suspect that he orders his VAST array of games to be played by selecting "next game with an on-line player", which means that should he be playing somebody on the other side of the world who only logs on for an hour a day, the chances of finding the opponent on line are very slim, and so the game never gets started.

I'd be more than happy to sign up for tournaments with the following characteristics, and wonder whether there are others out there in BK land who think these suggestions might have merit:

1. 1 or 2, or perhaps a maximum of 3 days per move. (excluding vacation and weekend)
2. No automatic vacation days.
3. No vacation days of any type allowed in the first 30 running days of ANY tournament.
4. Vacation days Cancelled for tournaments if the player has played ANY move in ANY game on the day in question.
5. No vacation days AT ALL in some tournaments - such as those limited to 5 players.

(Exceptions for BK breakdown, family emergency, ISP problems, Power cut etc to be granted by the game-owner on a case by case basis.)

People who want to play in a zillion tournaments concurrently can still do so under the existing tournament structure.

Ok enough please! Take feature suggestions (auto-vaca etc) to the feature request board. It seems that a dead horse is being beaten here ok? Thanks :)

Being on vacation is fine. I dont think anyone has a problem with that. It is using auto vacation to keep you from timing out on games that you do not want to play, even though you are on site, that upsets people.

I think if you are on site then auto vacation should not be activated for you that day. You should have to set a vacation day if you want to. Since those will be used up even if you decide to play and have nothing that is to time out on you.

Lets all just pray.... thats what we do when we have no control over our own destiny.

what next, so and so this blocking me in 4 or 5 of my games and I can't move in them. And the auto vac, if u lived where the power went out because of storms this year u would be glad that this site has it. Or if u or some1 in ur family had to go into hospital out of town and u had no way of finding a put again u would like it. Y over and over again this goes on an on. With no end in site. So guess now u can put me on the list cause I have put the rest of the year on vacation. So lets play some games and try an have fun doing it.
:o{P

well..now there is auto-vac ..and even if there werent i dont think he should time out..he is too smart for that :)

if there was no auto-vac then he would time out.

Here is how it should work in my opinion: If you play a move that day then auto-vac does not kick in. Only if you play no moves at all. How can you be on vacation for some games and not others?

And further, some of us only want to play 20-30 games at a time. That way we actully remember what the hell we were doing last time we moved. I don't think joining more tournaments is the answer.

I just checked Arpa's profile. He has 258 tournament wins so i dont think he has timed out in so many games :)
The only problem i've had with him is that he wins most of the times :)

To "attack" him doesnt seem fair to me.

i dont think Arpa has done anything wrong. as he stated he is playing within the guidelines of the tournament, and if he times out then its your win. if its only a 2 day tourney as you say pgt, he will time out! I say sign up for more tourneys then you wont notice one or two that are waiting!

Nice one Grenv.

<Joke>DO we need "Drug" (addiction) tests like the Olympics? Say, if you can't name all the Tournaments you're currently playing, you get banned!!</Joke>

Arpa, can you at least answer why you joined a tournament then chose not to play? I think the question is not one of rules but courtesy. After all if you're playing 700 games, why play more when you clearly don't have time to play them? Sounds like an addiction to me.