at present there is no provision to create a tournament for certain members only. It would be much better for the original tournaments to play to a final outcome.

bring on the single elimination tournys ...least that way you get a clear winner

I setup this tourny, but alas it gives me no provision to go to another round, but yes I agree it should go to round 3, guess its up to Fencer now.

I agree, there are so many tournaments now, it is cumbersome to go through to find the right games, it would be great to have them grouped into game types.

Ellie you will need to ask Fencer, I have no idea, sorry, he should be able to restart the tourny game if it was a blooper.

Can all these game specific comments be posted on the relevant boards please?
Its just that posts here about tournaments are getting lost in amongst all these other messages. :-)

I have just opened 4 new Fast Tournaments. They are backgammon, nackgammon, backgammon race and crowded backgammon and are open to members Brain Knight and above. Games to start on the 18th!

Guess you will have to find a rook who feels like spending their money for the prize :-)

Kevin: Sorry I don't agree but have to say this.
I think its wise to look towards the sites with the most success and emulate their good points, especially for a new site with quite a bit of competition out there for membership money.
The most successful tournament systems I have seen is Cases leagues (which offers a variety of formats and is used by most of the online gaming sites for all games) and IYT neither of them use S-B, both have over 1,000,000 members.
If players don't like something then they won't support it in the long term. And it is finding what makes people the happiest which brings in the money. :-)

I have never struck SB before, when playing tournaments on other sites. I can see how it will upset people (and perhaps already has) With the current tournament format the rounds will rarely go beyond 3. I would prefer to see players with equal points go into the next round, ir makes for more competition that way. In other tournament formats the SB would be totally uncalled for anyway, not needed in single or double elimination or swiss, and IYT has run round robins very successfully without it. This current format is one I have never seen, I am not sure if it is common in other game types ie: chess, perhaps this will sort itself out when Fencer introduces new tournament types and players can choose their preference?

Is this like a count back situation, which is used in some sporting competition?

Signups are open for Fast Backgammon (3) and Fast Nackgammon (2). Games in both are 1 day moves. start Feb 20th and are open to all players!

LOL...its ok, we appreciate what you are doing! and thanks for the quick response :-)

lol...ok I just found it...simply by clicking everything clickable on the page..now I know its there it will be easy...and hopefully everyone else will read this..thanks for your help :-)

i did that Fencer. I just went and checked, I went to the fellowship, clicked on the tournament and it shows me a grid with all the players names layed out, like a regular tournament which has started would, there is nothing else to click.

Fencer, I just started our first fellowship tournament. It all went ok, just like a regular tournament, and shows the standings like a regular tournament would...only problem is there are no games? It should have generated 8 backgammon games, but there are none at all on my game sheet. Can you help please?

Just a suggestion.
I have a few members in my fellowship who are brainknights, thus can only play in 1 tournament of a kind, at a time. This means that if they are in an open backgammon tournament then they cannot enter a fellowship backgammon one. This is a little disappointing for them. It will be even more so when inter fellowship tournaments begin. (and make it harder for fellowships to make up a team)
May I suggest that perhaps instead of limiting them to participating in only one tournament game type at a time that instead they can play whatever game type they like to say a total of 30 games (that number is off the top of my head) This offers much more flexibility especially for those players who only play 1 or 2 game types.

It answers mine too..thanks!

kevin: sure peple could cheat like this, I would think Fencer would notice something like this don't you?

Fencer: its not quite clear who pays for the membership prize, would I pay for it or does the site provide the prize?

The Fast Backgammon (2) that I am running is open to paid or not...but I believer you can only play in 1 at a time if you are not a member, someone may be able to clarify this

What exactly do you mean by "Open" Spoker?

For fast Backgammon (2) and Its a Race (2) (backgammon race) signups close in a few hours. Games will be 1 day moves, get in for some quick play fun!!!

Fencer what are the prizes in these special prize tournaments? And if it is membership are we supposed to limit players signing up to brainpawns?

I think so, after all isn't the prize a membership? It should go to someone who doesn't already have one I think :-)

Dont forget its the last day to sign up for fast nack (1). Quick games with 1 day moves, while you are there, have a look at fast Backgammon (2) and Its a race (2) for the lovers of fast play backgammon!!! :-)

Dont forget to get your names in for the Fast Nack (1) Tournament, games are 1 day quickies and start on the 8th!

yes I wondered at that, but my first couple of tournys were fine, perhaps its part of the bug

I just started another tournament, and set the date as the 7th for start, when i created it, it said signups close on the 8th, i checked it and also tried to change the signup to the 8th, then when saved it said signups closed on the 9th....any ideas??

how about the option to have a personalised message to send to all players in your tournament when it starts?

Hi everyone. I have set up a backgammon Race tournament, sign up and have some fun! :-)