Well, Jason - my Bud - had to laugh at ur 1day/30 day Jibe at LongJohn - class.

Re: Time limits..... I play here everyday (other than when I am not at home) and have usually 250+ games on the go. I only choose to play long-timed games so there is no effect if I lose my service on AOL for a bit, or BK crashes. When BK1.0 crashed a few times last year, did loads of you lose games on Timeout???? and have to apply for them to be re-instated??? I didn't.....

If you ask other regular players who enter the tournaments (usually Rooks - so they have the capacity to play enough games without having to waiting for others to move), such as Arpa, Jason, Ms Delete, Hannelore, Vikings etc,,,,,, they regularily enter long timed games (such as the ones I create) and they are finished well within 3 years or so like others calculate. I have ran 30+ Five in a Line tourneys with the time limits as 21 days and if you look at the last one that is running, (where the winners are stated) there have been loads completed so far.

Anyway, what I am trying to say is that if you have enough games going, and you are not making moves on here for 8 hours + per day, you have enough moves to make before you log off without worrying about anyone on vacation or has not moved for a while.....

Comments welcome..... ;0)

Got anything for those of us that get crushed by 1200 players? :o)

lol, well us 2000-2250ish players are getting crushed by the 2300-2600 players so just made something up for us :)

2300 is mid-level? Good grief. I humbly decline. Oh, wait I have no choice, I'm too low.
:)

Tired of getting down by the big guys ??? This tournament is for those of us rated between 1800 and 2300 to practice vs people of our own level !!! Small sections , 3 days per move. Good luck !!!!

Re cariad's problem earlier.
If you look at A WHAM BAM's results in the team tournament backgammon you'll notice that they're still not registering in the total score.
One player timed-out on 4 of his 5 games. 3 of these are still to register on the score.

I like: "Fangs a lot" :)

maybe for the next one hehehe

Hi everyone, in order to celebrate my new rook status, I created an Atomic tournament called the Inaugural Atomic Tourney..i know, i know, it's not original or iconoclastic...anyway, I hope you can join if interested.

How about arachnid 4?

I don't know about this site but on another site I have a game that will be 3 yrs old in October
Would be interesting to see what is the longest running game here :-)

Oops, a small bug in timeout checker.
It should be okay now.

Sir! Please Fencer Sir!

A player from A WHAM BAM has timed out in all his backgammon games in the first team tourney but they're not registering either in the grid table or in the total.

What is the record here for the longest overall time to play a game ?

ha, i tried that on one of longjohns 1 day ...oops change that to 30 days , tournament and lost loads of bkr ,only works for normal games .

You cannot cancel a tournament game.

Under two moves total or two moves each?
Didnt there used to be a cancel link too, for games under so many moves?

Fencer.... how about Spider Line 4 1st team tournament? :)

just resign them.
If they are under 2 moves the bkr is unaffected I think.
You are now a rook, so once your games are ended, you dont necesarily need to be removed because you are not restricted by knight type restrictions

Ha! That's a nice one :-) Thanks bumble.

Spider Line 4.

How about Arachnophobia? The quality of some of the players here have made me scared to play it. :o)

Yes, if you resign all games or if it's obvious you cannot continue to the next round, I can release you.

Thanks Red Dragon....
I just found another person in my draw, Cardinal, who has played one move, and he is on vacation, and is due to time out on September 2nd!!!! Thats 2 months from the start date of the tournament.


What are the consequences for resigning these games? Do I lose BKR? Since so moves made already?

If I resign them can I be removed Fencer?

Also please hurry up and impliment the no vacation rule for tournaments, thanks :)

IMupChucKing, Stinger has just returned from a vacation.
He is probably catching up with his games now and I presume your game with him is way down on his game sheet due to the length of time per move.
I have played him many times and he is a fast player.

Does anybody have a good name for Spider Line4 team tournament? :-D

IMupChucKing: You cannot be removed from a running tournament.

Thanks for the help Kevin...
But the last move was already 20 days ago, and now is at 36 left, thats 56 days, and I looked at his profile and he is not on vacation either!!

21 days = 3 weeks. Each week has 2 days off, which really makes it 27 days. It is possible to have 10 days off (5 weeks of days off) during that 21 days, which will take it to 31. The only way it should be at 36 should be either site holidays or vacation days.

But I dont even see any vacation days... I dont know why or how there are so many days ...

First: 21 days is too long. What were you thinking joining the tournament? lol. Mind you I did once as well without thinking.

Second: I think we have too many 'vacation' days. Surely we don't need to take vacation from the site every time we want to take some time off work. In fact I would often play more during that time. I only use vacation days in extreme cases where I am going somewhere with no internet connection.

Now I am really confused.... LOL no comments BBW... :)

I just looked again, and of the two games with Stinger, the one with zero moves is at 26 plus days, and the other one, which has only had me make the initial pass of the dice, which i did on the first day, is at over 36 days left to move!!!!!

Why the differences? 56 days with only a pass of the dice as a move? How does it happen? I do not see any vacation days for Stinger either... What am I missing here?

It is a backgammon championship tournament with a 21 day limit.

It started in July 2nd. almost 20 days ago.

I have one game with Stinger who has not made one move yet, and still has 26 days 10 hours before a time out!

How does a 21 day tournament turn into a 48 day tournament?

At this pace it will take 8 years for a 30 move game!!!!!

How realistic is it to play a tournament where one game can last 8 years?

I guess if you are young, and you make it to the third round, you can count on your competition to die for your win. Plus look at the potential for Fencer to gaurantee no one ever leaves :)

I know it doesnt matter to many, the slow pace, and I should simply not worry about it, and play when my turn comes around.

But this is silly to the extreme... What would a 30 day tournament be like?

please fencer, for my sanity, remove me from this tournament. Thank you very much!

I think it is going to be difficult to find 8 players for a team in 5 in line tournament, with so many already playing in the backgammon tournament, if knights cannot play in more than one tourney at a time.


Is there any limit planned for rooks too?

thanks ;)

You can change the date to a time that has already past, then wait an hour (or longer if server is busy) (no more then 2-3 hours I have every waited) - then the script will start it.

Manual starts used to cause many problems in BK 1.0 :-) Now is the emergency button available for me and Liquid only, in case of automatic start malfunction.

And is there no way to start it myself? (I'm guessing no) :)

thanks in advance

All tournaments start automatically in all rounds.
The script is performed once an hour. However, due to overloaded servers, it refuses to run sometimes.

Do tournaments now automatically start (in the first round) or does the creator of the tourney have to push the 'go' button??

;) Thanks

Tournament. Not team tournament. I will have to update that page.

As I said, it was only my interpretation.

The player is limited by max. 50 started games at once and 20 vacation days per year, can make unlimited number of moves per day, can join only one tournament of each kind of game, can become a member of BrainKing fellowships, can participate in Brain Knight referral program (see Brains page).

Contrary to what rules? Team tournaments are new to this site, they have nothing to do with normal tournaments.

By the way is it true knights can only play one team tournament? This seems a little restrictive and contrary to the rules as stated.

I would interpret the rules to mean that knights can play in more than one team tournament if the game types are different.

Relaxing this constraint would get more teams into the tournaments I think.

Why not set up a bunch of them and see which ones get filled?

Sounds like a good Polls question - "What team tournament would you like to see next?"

That's a good one..maybe Dark Battleboats or Battleboats Plus could be next???

Okay, let's try Spider Line4.

Spider Line4 would be good. So would Battleboats Plus.

Amazons would be good (for me), but their are still many people trying to learn the game and turn out for that team tournament would probable be low (which I would wait awhile before having an Amazons team tournament) - But if you did make one, I would be sure to play! :-)

Thanks for the reply Fencer!

Yes if it's a Brain Rook or higher.